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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? I’ve got bills to pay! Don’t do it.

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Frank Cespedes: How to Build and Manage Your Multi-Channel Marketing

Cience

His next book is Rethinking Sales: What’s Changing, What’s Not, And Why Knowing the Difference Matters (Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming). . The most important thing about any go-to-market approach is the buyer and the buying process. But aren’t ecommerce and digital marketing growing and becoming dominant channels? .

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Is It Time for B2B Sales Teams to Ignore Speed-to-Lead?

Chili Piper

This stat comes from a Harvard Business Review study and for today’s B2B sales and marketing teams, it has several problems…. Speed-to-lead is typically measured as the length of time between a demo request form submission and the first contact attempt from a sales rep. First, it was published in 2011. I don’t think so.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

It was sales. So going through the recession, but just in general, sales was not talked about in the curriculum in school. Maybe we had marketing. We wanted to do this for PR, kind of thinking about the marketing attribution. I know you have product market fit. This is not the sales team that I want to run.”

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Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey

SBI

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Due to rapid changes in buyer behavior and expectations, non-personalized content is now an unacceptable marketing practice.