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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

Score More Sales

We included it because I’m crazy about LinkedIn as a sales tool, and because LinkedIn and I go way back – nine years, in fact. I opened my LinkedIn account on October 3, 2003. What I liked about LinkedIn then is what I continue to like about it as a tool for those in business -. Increase Opportunities.

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Is Net Promoter Score (NPS) still a relevant success metric?

SugarCRM

In simple terms, the NPS system creates an opportunity to ask customers whether they would recommend a business to others and then asks why or why not. One broad-based study yielded data suggesting that NPS may be no better at predicting success than other loyalty metrics. NPS Origins.

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Women in Sales: How and Why the Sales Industry Should Include More Saleswomen

Hubspot Sales

What’s more, studies show that despite women consistently hitting or even surpassing their sales quotas, they only earn 82% as much as their male counterparts. Compensation Disparities As I mentioned earlier, studies have shown that women in sales often face worse compensation compared to men in similar roles. But that’s not the case.

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Although it’s not time to Party Like its 1999, There is Plenty to Celebrate

The ROI Guy

of revenue 4) Overall IT spending, even though lagging revenue growth, is driving superior corporate performance in the majority of industries, and has improved 67% from 2003. of the average IT budget in 2003 to over 14.6% This represents a 10% improvement in ratios and reallocation of labor costs over 2003 spending levels.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with David Sroka of Point of Reference; a Customer Reference Management Platform

SBI

The primary goal of a customer reference program is to enable the use of highly relevant customer advocates in the vast majority of, in the case of sales, opportunities. Short form videos, written case studies, quotes and reviews (e.g., ROI studies), recorded presentations and industry composite case studies make sense in the middle.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Indeed, the growth presents some great opportunities for the savvy IT solution provider. For historical perspective, in 2005 technology marketing spending was up 6.4%, in 2004 spending was up 5.8%, while in 2003, tech marketing spending was down 1.7%. 1] This is the greatest year-on-year increase in spending in five years.

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Does the Vista view include ROI?

The ROI Guy

Vista as a key to Infrastructure Optimization In examining ways to achieve greater business value from IT, recent studies by IDC on Infrastructure Optimization strategies has demonstrated that implementing best practices can help to significantly reduce operating costs and boost service levels and agility.

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