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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

Score More Sales

I opened my LinkedIn account on October 3, 2003. I’m an early adopter because I had moved 3000 miles and didn’t want to lose connections with the great friends I made at CCBN (my last corporate employer) so I reached out to hundreds of my former co-workers in 2003 to connect via LinkedIn. It is professional.

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Social Selling Via LinkedIn

Janek Performance Group

Since its launch in 2003, LinkedIn has grown to over 774 million users worldwide. Salespeople can connect with prospects, research customers, and get notified of job changes and company updates. In many instances a prospect will update their LinkedIn profile before the company updates the staff page on their website.

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4 Ways to Use Insights for More Effective ABM

Sales and Marketing Management

Sure, you may need to make a few tweaks here and there depending on the prospect, but most of a campaign remains intact. The goal is to create a back-and-forth between you and your prospects, in which you look for triggers, data, and insights from your accounts, then shape your messaging around that. In the Event of….

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How A Career In Umpiring Helped Me Develop My Sales Strike Zone

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Helping customers and prospects manage the shifting needs of their organizations in a world of rapid technological change is difficult. It will only help you to improve.

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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). Marketing increases both performance and credibility when maximizing positive ROI on marketing investments.

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12 Must-Read Sales Books For Beginners

Hubspot Sales

He teaches readers how to pick up on the small details to infer what prospects are thinking. Ziglar's advice for building strong relationships with prospects still hold true today. The book focuses on the principle that has become more prevalent than any other in sales: Build a strong relationship with the prospect.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

So many so-called lead generation companies are incapable of delivering work that elevates them to the position of partner (because of this, I am fond of saying, “we don’t get invited to the company Christmas party—but the ad agency does…”). D&B —since 2003. Are you looking for a vendor or a partner? Disqualified (21%).