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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Stop Doing Stupid Sh*t: 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Abandon in 2018

Hubspot Sales

I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. But being a salesperson in 2018 is very different than being a salesperson in 1987.

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The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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The Definitive Prospecting Guide for Sales Management to Grow Pipeline

Vengreso

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. Sales Prospecting Techniques. Why is this so?

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A Look Back at the Top 15 Sales Stories from 2019

Miller Heiman Group

Over the course of this year, our blog took sales and services on a journey, with stories about practical challenges in growing prospects, advice for sales leaders anticipating a recession, conversations with major sales influencers like Neil Rackham and much more. 2020 starts tomorrow—and that’s got us feeling reflective.

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Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I reread an article by Brian Halligan, Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel. It appeared in HBR in November, 2018, I keep coming back to it–something about it is disturbing to me. I’ve finally been able to put together some thoughts about it. I will focus on B2B.

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The MEDDPICC Leverage

MEDDIC

I have always been fascinated by the magic of LEVERAGE and want to share my view about how leverage applies to learning, particularly to MEDDPICC ® sales training. The MEDDPICC leverage is about using the MEDDPICC ® Sales Methodology and Training to achieve extraordinary results in a sales team, often unimaginable.