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5 Reasons Your Sales Reps Hate Their Jobs and What To Do About It

Openview

While sales processes, training, compensation plans, technology, marketing support, and product lines matter, sales reps who simply dislike – or hate – their jobs is one of the most understated and overlooked aspects impacting sales force performance today. The Compensation Plan is Below Market.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

How to Make Sales and Marketing Meetings More Effective and Impactful. Leah Bell is the Content Marketing Specialist for SalesLoft. While you’re there, you can also benefit from the other organized topics from marketing to productivity and more. . Sell) and marketing (Where Marketers Go to Grow) blogs on the site.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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Drive Budget Planning with the “IT Hierarchy of Needs”

The ROI Guy

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. This was not the case with many other groups like sales and marketing. The good news is that most analysts are predicting 4-5% growth for 2011.

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How to Start a Business: A Complete Guide for Startup Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

In order to build a successful company, you’ll need to create and fine-tune a business plan, assess your finances, complete all the legal paperwork, pick your partners, choose the best tools and systems to help you get your marketing and sales off the ground … and a whole lot more. Analyze your market's conditions. Keep it short.