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PowerViews with Tim Riesterer: Targeting Prospects via Status Quo Clusters

Pointclear

2012 Surprise: Getting the “At Bats” — But an Increase in “No Decisions”. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Tim notes that lead generation and sales activity are up—providers are getting the “at bats.”.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What metrics should customers of Sales Enablement solutions use to measure the impact or progress of their activities? Measuring what’s going on during live customer meetings is the last frontier in instrumenting the sales process and monitoring it the way most other business processes are tracked now. Likely not.

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Analyzing Sales Opportunities in Your Pipeline

Score More Sales

Are you part of a B2B sales organization proactively looking each week at what deals are in your sales funnel (or sales pipeline)? You have a robust, helpful CRM tool that gives you several helpful reports which you can review each week, and lists you can easily pull up on a just-in-time basis.

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PowerViews with Rich Vancil: Marketing Ops, Sales Ops & Mashups

Pointclear

2012: Transformational Change, the New Buyer & Big Data. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what is happening or not happening in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Rich notes there’s been more transformational change in the past eight to twelve months than he’s seen in the previous nine years.

Marketing 247
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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. Enablement ranked fifth in priorities for the incremental spend, with only 1 in 10 indicating that this would be their priority.

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A Conversation With Eric Pratt: Why Sales Playbooks are a Necessary Complement to Inbound Marketing Plans

Costello

For Eric Pratt, more than thirteen years in the sales and marketing industry taught him a few things about how these teams can work together. This understanding led him to found Revenue River in 2009, a digital marketing and sales innovation agency. How can sales enablement complement inbound marketing efforts?

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

A very well respected organization in the marketing and sales alignment business now reports that most companies have done all they can to help sales at the top of the funnel. Now what is needed, they say, is to provide support to sales people in the middle and late stages of the buying process. Sales Enablement.