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Business Intelligence Has Changed – Welcome to the Age of Advanced Revenue Analytics

SugarCRM

It’s the devil you know; highly trained people are available for hire for excessive salaries, BI tools are all over the place, and everyone sings praises around their perceived virtues. My teams provided simple visualization tools from detect and alert to Big Data Analytics on Hadoop/NoSQL. The result? Does this sound familiar?

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Solutions Sales Reps are Born, Not Made

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-02-12. Author: Greta Roberts, CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp. When considering why sales reps struggle in a solution sales rep role, consider that it might be the person selling before spending time and money on training that will have little or no impact. read more

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I’m Speaking at the World’s Largest Online Sales Event

The Pipeline

We are sharing secrets in a rapid-fire series of online presentations on Wednesday, March 9th, 2016. Confirmed speakers for 2016 include: Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor at CEB. Grant Cardone , CEO of Cardone Training Technologies. Dave Mattson, CEO and President Sandler Training. And it’s completely free.

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What Do the IDC Predictions Mean for the B2B CMO?

SBI Growth

Only 20% of marketers will receive formal training on analytics and customer data management. Digital marketing investment will exceed 50% of total program budget by 2016. Turning your team into revenue machines will require their proficiency in metrics and analytics.

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Fueling Sales: What Helps Top Companies Grow

Pipeliner

Though no planning or training could have prepared any organization fully, those that could quickly adjust to their salespeople working remotely work had an advantage. Yet building sales capability involves more than just implementing training programs. 54% actively designed training programs. Invest in Technology.

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Artificial Intelligence for B2B Sales & Marketing: Reality vs. Hype in 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

But unless you’re directly working on AI, your ideas of AI likely come from watching IBM Watson beat the Jeopardy world champions in 2011 – or when, in 2016, Google’s AlphaGo defeated a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. The effectiveness of AI depends on the quality and quantity of data being ingested.

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How to Get Better Outcomes From Sales Enablement

Miller Heiman Group

According to the 2017 CSO Insights Sales Enablement Optimization Report , almost 60 percent of sales organizations currently have a person, program or function dedicated to sales enablement – almost double the number from 2016 (33 percent). Evaluate existing content and training services.