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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall. Software is eating the world,” stated Marc Andreessen in a 2011 Wall Street Journal article. If software was eating the world then, it is devouring it now without stopping to chew. Source: DDB Worldwide).

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4 Trends Putting the “Value” Back in Value-Added Resellers

Hubspot Sales

Value-added resellers often specialize in software, hardware, and other technologies. Front-office SaaS development is booming, software is getting cheaper and more intuitive, and CEOs are concerned more about growth than point solutions. Four Software Trends IT Resellers, VARs, and Channel Partners Should Watch.

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The Fastest Growing Companies in Boston Hiring For Sales

CloserIQ

ProfitWell is an emerging company, having completed a $10 million Series A funding round in 2017. Founded 2011. Founded 2011. HubSpot, a leader in inbound content marketing software, is perhaps Boston’s best-known startup. Their software provides a better way for bond issuers to communicate with investors.

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Bigtincan Takes Aim at Revenue Enablement with AsdeqLabs Acquisition

SBI

To help meet these elevated customer expectations, SiriusDecisions also predicts an increase in the adoption of customer engagement technologies and platforms – such as customer data platforms, customer success management technologies and customer advocacy software – that integrate into existing sales and marketing technologies and tools.

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Is It Time for B2B Sales Teams to Ignore Speed-to-Lead?

Chili Piper

First, it was published in 2011. Do you realize how much has changed since 2011? In a study of the top 100 SaaS companies , Drift discovered the number of mandatory fields are rising on demo request forms “from an average of 6 mandatory fields in 2017 to an average of 7 in 2018.”. That was almost 7 years ago!

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Study: Is Your Team Prepared for the Coming Wave of Sales Tech Innovation?

Velocify

As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting. Meet the Author: Jorge Jeffery joined Velocify in 2011 and is director of research and analytics.

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“How” You Sell Is As Important As “What” You Sell – Here’s Why

Gong.io

In 2011, the marketing technology landscape consisted of a total of 150 competitors in the space: Now, you’d think that 150 is already a lot to handle. Before you scroll down, can you guess how many are in the category today (2017)? Take marketing technology as one shining example of this…. Take a wild guess.