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4 Reasons to Hire a Social Media Manager

Zoominfo

In a 2010 blog post, we state that in order to stay viable, B2B companies need to hire a social media manager. In 2010, a search for social media managers on Indeed.com returned 7,100 results. Through online interactions, customers and prospects form opinions about your organization – for better or for worse.

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The Hottest Trends in Inside Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems remain the most critical, enabling sales teams to collaborate, managers to stay on top of business, and customer-facing people in other departments to share one prospect or customer record.

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5 steps to sales prospecting (for higher quality leads) in 2019

Close.io

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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How I Work It – Social Selling with Tom Pick

Adaptive Business Services

But if one out of ten becomes a solid business prospect, or better yet a client, the process is working well. I started my first marketing blog in 2005, then sold it in 2010 and started the Webbiquity blog. I look at a lot of analytical metrics: website traffic from social media, follower growth, engagement on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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5 steps to sales prospecting (for higher quality leads) in 2019

Close.io

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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How to Craft a Winning B2B Sales Strategy

Pipeliner

What is surprising is that many B2B companies rely on cold outreach prospecting, just as if they were a door-to-door sales company! Pitch Warm Prospects. Pitching prospects? Nope – it’s always prospecting. Just like they did in the 2010 movie by Leonardo DiCaprio. Use Analytics. Office politics?

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How to Steer Clear of Bad Sales Data

Crunchbase

According to Forbes , data interactions, the creation, capturing, copying and consumption of data, increased by 5,000% between 2010 and 2020. Data collected from prospective clients is usually accurate when it’s first collected at touchpoints. Bad data can cause problems for your business, sales reps, customers and prospects.

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