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Persona Ecosystem – High Impact Exercise to Dial-in your 2013 Marketing Plan

SBI Growth

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. What is a Persona Ecosystem?

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The Biggest 2013 HR Challenge for Sales is 2014

SBI Growth

It is an example, not the whole story. This post will focus on a single example of HR’s positive impact for a sales organization. During the interview, I was surprised to hear the biggest HR challenge for 2013. It is to align the talent to where the market will be in 2014. Download the Sales Channel ROI Calculator here.

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5 Steps for HR to Develop 2013 Sales Leaders

SBI Growth

Our 2012 sales leader research finds it is still a big fear for 2013. Here are five steps for HR to build a sales leadership pipeline in 2013: 1. For example, if your company needs to be “social”, then Social Selling skills are a must. If your company uses channel partners, Channel Management is a needed skill.

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Top 10 Problems with Channel Sales - Don't be Held Hostage

Understanding the Sales Force

Ignored in all of these articles are those clients and companies that sell through channels. The channels are many, and include stocking distributors, brokers, retailers, VARs, agencies, partners, resellers, rep firms and more. Channel sales is quite different. In these cases, the channel salespeople function more like coaches.

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Email Prospecting: An Example of a Bad Email Transformed

The Sales Hunter

For years I’ve collected and saved examples of good and bad emails. The example below is an email a friend sent to me. (I’ve Bad Email Example: Subject Line: Recruiting Your Channel Partners. Good Email Example (Revised from above): Subject line: Amco. Dear Jim-.

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How to Bridge the Sales & Marketing Divide

SBI Growth

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. Reps wonder what marketing does and contributes; marketing complains reps ignore their efforts. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales.

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Three Examples Of Negotiating Failures

The Accidental Negotiator

Since they are the last major retail bookstore chain in the United States, Barnes & Noble has been using their market position to press publishers to make steep concessions to enable their survival against Amazon.com and other online retailers. On July 10, 2013, a U.S This is when things took a turn for the worse.