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How you manage makes a difference

Sales and Marketing Management

A 20-year study was conducted with residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, to understand how happiness and heart attacks connect in the real world. The research, completed in 2003, details how happiness extends up to three degrees of separation (for example, to the friends of one’s friends’ friends). 1 Fowler, J. and Christakis, N.,

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Best time to ask for a referral? Listen for warm words from your buyer

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

A study into the habits of business-to-business buyers sheds more light on the question. Sales and marketing professors at Western Carolina University and Georgia State University surveyed 406 customers of a B2B service to see under what conditions they were most open to giving referrals. The post Best time to ask for a referral?

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4 Ways to Use Insights for More Effective ABM

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Fowler Buzzwords don’t get much buzzier than account-based marketing. Marketers in the B2B space are all about it, and there’s data to back that assertion up. That’s why, as a marketer, you'll get more mileage from your materials by employing ABM to court many similar accounts rather than just one.

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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

Score More Sales

I opened my LinkedIn account on October 3, 2003. Ongoing use is a big issue in the SaaS marketplace – studies show that people who do not engage with their software-as-a-service don’t renew it. Listen and engage with their market and industry to offer insight to their buyers. It is professional.

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Metrics to Drive Lead Generation Performance

Pointclear

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). Jim has published articles and presented internationally on the topics of marketing ROI, marketing strategies and business growth strategies.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Scott Jeffrey, PhD, was in graduate school at the University of Chicago when he decided to figure out how academic studies applied to real sales reps in the field. He began a lifelong journey of studying reps’ behaviors in real working conditions. In another study, Jeffrey asked sales reps what rewards or incentives they preferred5.

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Marine Instruments: Optimizing Customer Service

SugarCRM

Established in 2003, Marine Instruments is an industry leading company in the development of electronic equipment for the marine environment. With such efforts, it is no wonder the company secured a powerful position in the market. Download our case study here.