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Sales Enablement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for 2013

The ROI Guy

The Good News: Much of the long decision cycle and poor close ratio could be reduced with better sales enablement – delivering the right in the right format and in the right time / place to move a specific sales opportunity forward. The Bad News: Most companies are not getting Sales Enablement right, and this is costly.

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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. It’s not on Enablement. 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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How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling

SBI Growth

Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. You can avoid commoditization and grow your margins. Corporate Communications sees inherent risk in mobilizing a social sales force. By participating, you will get our Social Selling Cheat Sheet to handle 2013’s Top Misconceptions of Social Selling.

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The July Edition of Top Sales Magazine is Published

Jonathan Farrington

As usual we also announce this month’s Top Sales Article and Top Sales Blog Post, and you will find all the details on nominating your favorites for the 2013 Top Sales & Marketing Awards . But when great sales leaders see change, they see more than that. Here is a taster for you . “We They see opportunity.

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Top 10 SalesTech Blog Posts of 2018

SBI

After surveying more than 300 marketing and sales leaders across North America, the answer was staggering : more than half of respondents estimated a revenue increase of 20 percent or more if the needed sales content was always available to their sellers at the right time and at each stage of the sales cycle. Continue Reading.

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2013 -The FIVE Critical Challenges ….

Jonathan Farrington

My intention is to produce a free new white paper, which will be ready for distribution on December 31st – “The FIVE Most Significant Challenges Facing Every Company Everywhere in 2013″ and today, I can give you a flavor … Challenge One: Finding the Opportunities. Challenge Two: Sales Enablement.

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Empower Your Mobile Sales Teams with New Value Selling App

The ROI Guy

We are excited to announce six live events to introduce our new ValueStory™ App, which is designed to change the way your sales teams leverage iPads to provocatively engage prospects with the unique value proposition of their solutions. Enabling sales to evolve from product to value selling has been a challenge,” says Randy Perry.