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To Chatbot or Not to Chatbot for B2B Lead Generation?

Cience

Think for a moment about chatbots for B2B lead generation … What do you feel? In today’s article, we’ll examine the pros and cons of chatbots for B2B lead generation. By Purpose : For external use: Lead Generation . Lead scoring/qualification. Later they also added lead generation questions.

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Thank You

No More Cold Calling

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Then they write and tell me their sales organizations have been transformed, with a close rate of well more than 50 percent. Can your sales reps put a sentence together?

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12 Key Benefits CRM Systems Provide to a Business

Hubspot Sales

These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Excuses Don’t Count: December Referral Selling Insights

Pipeliner

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Based on what I’ve heard from sales leaders, 2017 wasn’t much better. There are many possible reasons that account based sales reps miss quota. Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads.

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6 sales metrics that managers should watch on a daily basis (and 4 more worth keeping an eye on)

Nutshell

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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Four personality traits to look for in a sales enablement manager

PandaDoc

Before we zero in on the important qualities of a sales enablement manager, we need to wrap our heads around the very definition of this role. We all seem to know what sales managers, account managers, and business development managers do — but who in the world is a sales enablement manager?

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[Part 3] Execute on Account-based Marketing: Value Selling to Stakeholders at Key Accounts

LeveragePoint

In 2016, according to Brent Adamson , the average number of stakeholders involved in a B2B purchasing decision had risen to 6.8. Understanding and connecting effectively with those stakeholders takes more than looking at their LinkedIn profiles. “We generate €3 million in savings over the life of the equipment.”. “An