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6 Reasons Why Blogs Produce More Leads

SBI Growth

They own a DVR to skip television advertising, often ignore print advertising, and now have become so adept at online "surfing" that they can take in online information while ignoring banners or buttons (making them irrelevant). The point is that buyers prefer to be self-educated well before speaking to a sales rep.

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Think Robots Will Replace B2B Sales Reps?

No More Cold Calling

The article included a marketing expert’s explanation for why societal changes would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete: “Advertising is producing better results than the old method of personal solicitation.”. Buyers want an educated salesperson for big spends or new products. .

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Delicious Sales

Advertising (694). Education (917). Advertising (694). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? MORE >> THE SALES INSIDER AUGUST 13, 2013 What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics and Shakespeare have more in common than you think.

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Technology was limited, so we, as salespeople, had more control around educating our clients and winning the business so long as our activity levels and product knowledge was on point. From 4 people in 2013 according to CSO Insights to an average of 7 people in 2016 according to the Gartner Group.

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Realtors – Your Marketing Message Sucks – Part 05

Increase Sales

Educated buyers are now the driving force. No longer are they using their fingers to flip the yellow pages, classified advertisements or even monthly publications. In 2013, listings on For Sale By Owner jumped 14%. Now is the time to educate their potential customers.

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Deliver Targeted Ads to Ideal Prospects with ZoomInfo Data

Zoominfo

Recently, I was trying to understand how we could venture into the advertising space. There must be a way that we can activate it in the advertising space to drive value for our customers.”. If ZoomInfo’s business data “belonged” in the advertising audience world back in 2008, why wouldn’t it belong there now? The results?

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Sales CRM for Small Businesses with BIG Ambition

Velocify

Small business expert Rieva Lesonsky recently wrote that 2013 will be a year that small businesses “go for it” with small business optimism rising. Big players have extensive marketing and advertising budgets, and technology to respond quickly and effectively to prospective buyers.