Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-07-01. Author: Sean Erickson, EVP, Chief Marketing & Infrastructure Officer, Sitel. Teaser: With prices commoditized in many industries, today’s battleground is centered squarely on customer experiences. Customer experiences can be improved through a number of methods. read more

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Loyalty Customer Customer Service Report 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2019

Author: Chanan Greenberg The sales landscape is shifting – customer service is becoming the most important factor for buyers, expected to surpass both product and price within three years, according to the Customers 2020 report. In 2015, Google reported that mobile searches eclipsed desktop searches for the first time.

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Channels Social Media Consumer Lead Rank 259

Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Erik is completely rebuilding his marketing and sales strategy from the ground up – all based on what they are learning from their customers. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations? Learn how to shift to a customer-focused strategy in this episode of Sales Talk for #CEOs with Erik Frank of Tristate Amature.

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Hiring Strategy Customer Government 84

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Forrester analyst Andy Hoar didn’t mince words when he spoke at the 2015 Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. What’s more, it’s cheaper and more cost-effective to retain your customers than to acquire a new customer. . One way to keep your customers happy is to be their unofficial customer service rep.

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Sales Goal Meeting Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile 312

Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

What is interesting to note, the National Association of Realtors in its 2015 Danger Report stated the number one danger in residential real estate was the incompetence of real estate agents. ” He looked at me with a puzzled look and asked me to explain what are “internal customers.”

Real Estate 156

Real Estate Journal Loyalty Facebook 156

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. We each presented three things you can do to close the year strong. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto .

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Outsourcing Services Closing Hiring Social Selling 306

SBI

MARCH 17, 2020

Conversation Intelligence is a must-have solution for go-to-market teams. After being a customer of Chorus for the past year, I can’t imagine running a company without it. Conversations between a business and its market are the most human, valuable, yet ignored source of data. In 2019, Chorus.ai About Chorus. About Chorus.

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Scale Hiring Cold Calling Engineering 94

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. What impact or insights into the market are you hoping to uncover with this survey? Is it evolving like the marketing technology stacks have? Below are the highlights from that interview.

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Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

Janek Performance Group

JUNE 20, 2023

For struggling organizations, the following thought must be erased: “We are one ( new hire, new product, new marketing campaign, new customer ) away from success.” For example, when customer service employees know more about the company’s strategic plans, they respond better to client demands.

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Hiring Lead Rank Sports Influencer 62

Gong.io

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first half of 2021 produced 291 new unicorns — more than 2011-2015 combined. Software as a service (SaaS) companies, which represent more than a third of all unicorns , lead the trend. Verticalization — easy access to niche markets. ServiceTitan builds software for field service businesses — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Postal Service must reduce its operating costs by $20 billion by 2015 in order to return to profitability,” said David Williams, vice president of network operations at the US Postal Service, in a prepared statement. And you thought YOU had sales, customer service, and operations issues? What else should the P.O.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media Top of Funnel 153

Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Recently Ian Altman published a Forbes article entitled – Top 10 Business Trends that will Drive Success in 2015. In the article the author makes the following point when discussing trend Number 1: “customers don’t value old-school high pressure manipulative sales methods. Customers value subject-matter experts.

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Consultative Selling Trends Selling Skills Training 99

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

And when they do gear up and venture forth, their efforts on that front are increasingly erring towards customer service activities. They're not excited about working inside, so they are happy to be distracted from telephone sales by customer service and administrative activities — meaning not a lot of selling actually gets done.

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Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 111

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. Selling through customer service. A critical success factor for 2015. With our clients we discuss “tribal stories” or stories that can sell your services, Andy’s section on this is a home run.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Maximizer 82

Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2022

Replicant is a contact center automation software that helps companies automate their most common customer service requests. The company intends to use its fresh funds to make investments in product, sales and marketing, according to Finsmes , signaling a focus on product growth and growing its revenue-generating teams.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Company Sales Qualified Lead 105

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2022

You can use your communication skills to go into customer service, or your product knowledge to go into marketing. Editor's note: This post was originally published in October 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Transferable Skills: Once you land a job in sales, you can do anything.

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Sales Qualified Lead Scale Salary Commission 97

LeadBoxer

MARCH 28, 2021

Additionally, it involves an assessment of the industry, competitors, and other market variables. The process involves the following three elements : Customer Analysis : Understanding more about the needs and wants of the customer in order to provide relevant offerings. Furthermore, mobile messaging boosts customer loyalty.

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Strategy Customer Demographics Analysis 98

Pointclear

MARCH 17, 2015

Several weeks ago I sat in on the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff hosted by S. C-level executives aren’t likely to respond to marketing automation; however, if you approach them with something of interest to them they will talk to you almost every time. Anthony Iannarino and Jeb Blount. Simplified.: Mike is very pro-email and pro-voicemail.

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Handbook Face-to-face Outbound Inbound 100

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Pile on top of that, the New Year, which for many of us means to start planning for 2015 Kick-offs, programs, new quotas, new goals, looking forward with anticipation. We’re rushing to make those last minute numbers, perhaps get some of those year end dollars.

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Quota Consumer Relationals Customer Service 92

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 10, 2020

As recently as 2015, a sales pipeline was a rudimentary look at your ability to meet or exceed your quota on an aggregate basis. Lead — a prospect that has taken an action or responded to a marketing or sales campaign and shows some level of interest in your product.

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Pipeline Lead Rank B2B Marketing Qualified Lead 105

Babette Ten Haken

MAY 21, 2018

When employees are more focused on meeting their own KPIs, than in best serving their customers in a proactive and anticipatory manner, things can go south in a hurry. Or, customer service is busy serving as many customers as possible. Last week, I spoke to a client about her plan for ISO 9001:2015 certification.

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Customer Pivotal Retention How To 51

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. Because of the broad scope of prospecting, it requires varying sales and marketing techniques. Both can result in new customers if nurtured the right way. Improve customer service.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The upcoming changes in the ISO 9001:2015 standard for Quality Management Systems mandate a more holistic perspective of how we work. Lead a more collaborative, engaged and profitable workforce relentlessly focused on customer success and customer retention. Her professional speaker profile appears on the espeakers platform.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face SME Hiring 73

Sales Training Connection

MAY 8, 2015

But technology spending is moving from IT to general managers and heads of functions like: marketing, finance, human resources, sales and customer service. So regardless of whether it is the technology or medical sales or some other market, what is to be done about this? ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Buyer Call-back Survey Coaching 50

LeadFuze

JULY 16, 2019

In short, B2B marketers can no longer ignore the importance of CX, dismissing it as a B2C marketing trend. . Thus, more than price or product quality, customer experience would soon be the biggest differentiator for businesses, even in the B2B space. CX Maturity of B2B Organisations. Source: Temkin Group.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

Consider adding a cash bounty for each additional new seat, new customer, or revenue sold beyond a certain target value. Improving customer service. Periodically survey your entire customer base. Set a quarter-to-date objective above your sales goal; that way, everyone on the team can win.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Incentives 52

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Instead of listing your previous job title as, “Account Representative,” they might write “Outstanding Account Representative who prides himself on providing detailed customer service and timely responses for a complete customer experience.” See the difference?

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Hiring Outbound How To Sales Qualified Lead 120

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Obsess over Customer Service. Obsess over Customer Service. However, according to a 2010 Customer Experience Report by RightNow (acquired by Oracle in 2011) and Harris Interactive, 82% of customers surveyed abandoned a company because of bad customer service.

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SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

From SDR in 2015, to enterprise AE in 2020–and she’s gathered quite the following on LinkedIn. And if you’re curious about how Stripe developed its go-to-market model and sales motions, Meka led a Hubspot lesson last year that you can still download for free here. Brooke Bachesta. SDR Manager at Outreach.io.

Top of Funnel 101

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 15, 2020

The goal of prospecting is not to sell your product/service. Approach prospects with a customer service mindset. Instead of focusing on “influencer marketing” they could have talked about the results they create for clients like me. The rep doesn’t address my content marketing challenges. You have a great solution.

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Outbound Cold Calling Case Study LinkedIn 80

Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Each partner must develop 5 “Business Eco-System partners”, these are organizations/salespeople that sell non-competitive but related products/services into the same marketplace. Moving into the cloud partners must increase pipeline values, increase marketing programs and increase leverage in their business.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 25, 2015

That adds expense, disrupts your sales team and, potentially, creates a customer service disaster. During the past 17 years, our consulting, advisory, and platform services have illuminated, motivated, and rejuvenated the sales efforts for organizations throughout the world.He

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 40

LeadBoxer

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This comprehensive guide will outline the fundamentals of intent data, including: What intent data is What you can use it for How to obtain it How to use it The challenges and pitfalls of using intent data By the end, you should know exactly how intent data fits into your marketing and sales processes. What is Intent Data?

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Intent Data Intent Ideal Customer Profile Data 45

Circleback

JANUARY 30, 2018

A robust data strategy can help businesses make more accurate decisions, enhance efficiency, improve customer service and determine new opportunities. The Marketing C-Suite Will Need to Be Both Tech & Data Savvy. Technological is advancing, and the market is becoming even more customer-centric.

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Trends Account Based Marketing Social Media Face-to-face 20

Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

According to AdStage , 68% of B2B marketers use in-person events for lead generation initiatives. CIENCE marketing managers are among that 68%. Senior Vice President and General Manager, American Express Meetings & Events, Issa Jouaneh predicted a boom in the event industry for 2019 after a tremendous slowdown as recently as 2015.

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 40

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

I've opined ad nauseam about the power of content marketing to create an octopus's garden to attract whales and that's an ongoing Challenge endeavor that Marketing and B2B salespeople should undertake together but that does not forego, the proactive whale hunting mentality each day. If we get there in my lifetime, I'll eat my shoe.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As Ezra Fishman, VP of Business Intelligence at Wistia says: When we let data drive our marketing, we all too often optimize for things that are easy to measure, not necessarily what matters most. This could be your sales CRM , an Excel doc, Google Sheets, customer service software, or some other sales management tool.

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Examples Top of Funnel Forecasting Lead Rank 82