Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

Channel Strategy: Building a Sustaining Partner Community. -A What I would like to do in this blog is attempt to document and tell the story of one Worldwide channel focused software organization that did it the best– at building their channel. Marketing Planning. A Case Study-. Financial Planning.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Torrance Heart is CEO of Teak and Twine , a corporate gifting company that works with sales, marketing, and HR teams to use strategic gifting to accomplish goals. In addition, we discuss our favorite sales and entrepreneur-based podcasts and some hot business topics like EOS and account-based marketing. 38:08] Account-based marketing.

Account Based Marketing 88

Account Based Marketing Journal Microsoft Retail 88

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Customer Relationship Management needs to be a strategy that’s focused on creating the best possible customer experience, supported by well defined processes that are enabled by technology and with everything being driven by managers and staff committed to a customer-centric culture. Change management and executive commitment are essential.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Integrating sales and marketing is a key strategy to boost customer satisfaction in any business or industry. On this episode of Sales Talk for #CEOs, Bronwyn Allen of @HighProfileInc shares tips on unifying your #sales and #marketing team to improve the #customer experience! Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Customer Marketing 62

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. Systems/Processes/Tools.

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Fashion Face-to-face Analytics Social Media 90

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY decline from 2014 levels.

Decision Maker 80

Decision Maker ROI Forecasting Lead Rank 80

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

ZoomInfo CEO and co-founder Henry Schuck and Chief Marketing Officer Bryan Law led the discussions, along with Bain partner Rishi Dave. A recession can be a great opportunity to grow It’s easy to panic when the market is shaky — and many companies do. They implement aggressive cost-cutting strategies and initiate layoffs.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

If you are in IT sales and marketing, there are three significant challenges of which you should be well aware when setting up your budgets and plans for 2016. A predicted anemic increase in IT spending at the beginning of 2015 has now been replaced with a 5.5% IT Spending on the Decline? decline (compared to a paltry 1.6%

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Decision Maker Marketing Proposal Channels 74

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 24, 2016

As part of the sales and marketing engine, you put in serious effort to connect with your prospects. Because chances are, your next sale will undoubtedly have a mobile or cross-channel component. By the end of 2015, mobile had impacted over $1 trillion in retail sales. Don’t believe us? All in all, Forrester reports that U.S.

Retail 133

Retail Travel Call-back Engineering 133

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As Account-Based Marketing continues to rise in popularity among B2B companies, I decided to pick the brains of fellow industry experts and get their input on the matter. Today, in part 2, we hear from Adam New-Waterson , Chief Marketing Officer at LeanData. Account-Based Marketing is a philosophy, not a product. Buy more lists!

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Lead 100

The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. TS: You say that inside sales is going to overtake field sales by 2015. ecosystem – the customer, the talent, and the tools – and a working alignment with marketing. How can that be?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Recently, I lamented about the challenge I face with my email Inbox in Your Marketing Is Driving Me Away! I spoke of the ever increasing volume of email messages that are simply irrelevant, undifferentiated, or poorly executed. Coincidentally, I read a research report on The State Of Email Marketing 2015.

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Marketing Face-to-face Vendor Email Marketing 48

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. Angeley Mullins Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Growth Officer, Latana Brand Tracking Angeley Mullins began her sales career in the finance industry and then moved into leading commercial teams for technology companies across various international markets.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Cience

APRIL 2, 2020

In 2015, HubSpot published the result of their traffic research , stating that 46% of traffic that B2B companies across all the industries get to their websites is direct. Direct traffic remains an enigma for marketers. the email share) and marketing professionals are learning to set Google Analytics accordingly.

Outbound 85

Outbound Inbound Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 85

SugarCRM

JANUARY 2, 2020

A look at what’s fueling the growth of video in B2B marketing and how you can tap into this burgeoning field. What’s the next big thing in B2B content marketing? Why is Video Taking Off in B2B Marketing? 73% of B2B organizations say that video has positively impacted marketing results ( ReelSEO ). Magazine ).

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Video B2B Marketing SugarCRM 24

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2016

I’ve been in marketing doing just that for most of my professional career. Doesn’t he know what marketing is? Maybe we marketing geniuses are not getting the job done. Marketing spends a lot of time and effort crafting direct-selling product collateral, web pages, campaign support materials, white papers and blog posts.

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Marketing Demographics Collateral Discount 72

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2023

Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. Maximizing Referrals: Strategies for Turning Your Network Into a Powerful Revenue Generator It’s interesting how you meet people, and when you sell by referral, you meet a lot of interesting people. How do most companies ramp up their B2B lead generation strategies?

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Referrals Channels Cold Calling Scale 177

Pointclear

AUGUST 18, 2015

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2018

If you're an IT reseller, value-added reseller (VAR), or channel partner advising clients on any part of the front office (marketing, sales, or customer success) -- especially for businesses under 1,000 employees -- there are a few trends you should be aware of. And it’s not just happening across sales and marketing.

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

Going it alone may sound good, but the fact is there are not many businesses that can stick to a DIY strategy and survive. Missing the first wave of opportunity accompanying a new technology usually means greatly diminished market potential down the road. Great partnerships require more than marketing symbiosis.

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Government Enterprise Enterprise Fashion 77

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. This share spans across a variety of channels. Business websites lead at 84.3

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Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy.

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Forecasting ROI Proposal Decision Maker 87

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

While the study results provided detailed insights about sales organization trends, it also yielded a wide range of statistics that reflect the strategies sales leaders are employing to overcome their top challenges.   CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL SALES ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY REPORT.      '

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Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% We think there is a more systemic issue in the predictions: a major "sea change" in technology spending and purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy. YoY decline from 2014.

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Forecasting ROI Proposal Decision Maker 72

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

Not surprisingly, denial is not a winning strategy. They can interact with multiple people in our organization, via multiple channels. Increasingly, customers are as loyal to the channel as they are to the brand. Any organization intent on shifting from field to inside sales has to know if that transition will suit its market.

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Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 119

Pointclear

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management. Below are some highlights (a couple of minutes each).

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 185

LeadFuze

JULY 16, 2019

In the last few years, considerable attention has been paid to improving customer experience (CX) in the B2C world, however, research by Accenture Strategy makes it clear that CX is equally, if not more, important for B2B buyers as well. . Adopt a ‘Customer-Centric’ Business Strategy. CX Maturity of B2B Organisations.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

As you and your team kickoff the New Year, there are some important research findings you should factor into your 2017 sales enablement and content strategy. The good news, the research is crystal clear. Those that get Value “right” can overcome these challenges and reap significant rewards. What does a great “Value” program look like?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This change in the buyer process requires retailers to be agile in their go-to-market strategies. European Retailers will Embrace Experimentation in 2015 forecasted by the end of 2015, online retail sales will reach €153.8 Rachel Alexander is the Marketing Analyst at OpenSymmetry. Register today! About the Author.

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Retail Scale Consumer Forecasting 40

The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, with buyers becoming even more cautious and economic focused. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. 2) Central IT is Irrelevant?

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ROI Decision Maker Proposal Forecasting 53

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2015

I saw a fascinating graphic and post at the Marketing Technologies Site. The headline, is they have identified 1876 Marketing Technology Vendors in 43 Categories. The article suggest the spend on Marketing Technology Solutions in 2015 will exceed $22.6 How do we participate in those channels? Billion in 2018.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Vendor Case Study Analytics 48

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 7, 2021

seconds in 2015 (and additional research shows it at about 8 seconds in 2020). Some is to increase the channels through which we are trying to capture attention. I think we need to study those things that capture people’s attention, learning from them and leveraging them in our engagement strategies.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Microsoft Sports 58

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Apply the tips and strategies discussed in one chapter before you move on to the next one. The last update of the book came out in 2015, yet many of its research techniques remain relevant for finding information about your prospects on the web. Author : Jeb Blount Published : October 5, 2015. Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A look at what’s fueling the growth of video in B2B marketing and how you can tap into this burgeoning field. What’s the next big thing in B2B content marketing? Why is Video Taking Off in B2B Marketing? 73% of B2B organizations say that video has positively impacted marketing results ( ReelSEO ). Magazine ).

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B2B Video Marketing Decision Maker 20

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. For Millennials and others looking to leverage LinkedIn or Sales Navigator at the core of your strategy, I would highly recommend dropping everything and reading Neil Rackham 's books like SPIN Selling. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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