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New ReferenceEdge Release Completes the “Final Mile” by Coordinating Sales Reference Calls

SBI

Since 2003, Point of Reference has been powering B2B customer reference programs that fuel business growth and fortify brands. After the parties agree on a date and time, both receive confirmation messages, as does the salesperson. This new feature is included with ReferenceEdge’s many other capabilities at no additional cost. Linkedin.

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

Sales and Marketing Management

A lot of variables impact the sales cycle. It may be clear that a deal isn’t likely or they may be obviously leaning in another direction, but a sales rep needs to know when to do their due diligence anyway. It’s an act of mercy for the players and fans. The company operates 16 data center facilities around the U.S.

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Expand Selling: The Requirement to Prove Realized Value

The ROI Guy

Splunk Realized Value Success At our Business Value Summit last Spring, David Caradonna and Doug May from Splunk discussed the importance of renewals to Splunk’s amazing growth success, from its founding in 2003 to a $1B+ annual revenue generator today.

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Ranking the top email marketing platforms by their CRM features

Nutshell

Founded by Jason VandeBoom in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps 120,000 customers with its “customer experience automation platform.” From automatically updating deals and creating tasks to sending automated one-on-one sales sequences, Active Campaign offers robust automation capabilities to its customers. ActiveCampaign.

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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. Advocates smooth out hitches in the sales cycle, avert discount discussions, and boost win rates. David : Customer references come in many forms.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

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%. According to Selling Power in a survey of sales executives this March, the sentiment is that in 2006 it will take more time to close each sale and more calls get to a decision.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools. Did the Alinean Business Value Tools drive incremental sales, reduce sales cycles, increase deal size, generate more demand, and improve sales / consulting productivity as anticipated?

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