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Growth Is a Team Sport: Why You Should Be Team Selling Today

Hubspot Sales

people in 2017. Problem solving is a team sport. First, buying cycles continue to involve more people. Harvard Business Review reported that the number of people involved in B2B purchasing decisions climbed from 5.4 people in 2015, to 6.8 That’s a 25% increase in the size of a buying committee in just two years.

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23 Motivational Songs to Get You Pumped in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Growth is a team sport, but prospecting isn’t. What’s a pump-up playlist without at least one song that recognizes how tough it is to stay pumped? Enter Green Day. 16) “Welcome to the Jungle” -- Guns N’ Roses. It’s every salesperson for themselves in the jungle of leads. unless you find one that’s not in your territory.

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Odds & Sods

The Pipeline

In sports, it could be measures like goals against, team batting average, or in our favourite sport, average deal size, time to recover cost of acquisition or leads to opportunities converted. 2017 The Year Of Sales Enablement. Seems the marketing cooks in Salesland are whipping up something “new” for 2017.

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Why Product-Agnostic Content Wins in B2B Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

In DemandWave’s 2017 State of B2B Digital Marketing study , respondents indicated that Webinars drove 37 percent of their company’s revenue (side note: putting out proprietary research such as “State of the Industry” reports is another great product-agnostic marketing tactic). weather results, sports scores, definitions, etc.).

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TSE 502: 3 Things I Learned From The Super Bowl That Can Help Any Seller Succeed

Sales Evangelist

Football is an awesome sport from which you can learn many tactics and strategies that you can apply to sales and even your personal life. Football is an awesome sport from which you can learn many tactics and strategies that you can apply to sales and even your personal life.

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The Downside of a Lone Wolf Sales Culture

SBI Growth

As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Today in this post we will demonstrate how to build high performance sales cultures where sales talent thrives. Turn to the sales strategy.

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Culture: The Sales Organization’s Secret Weapon

Janek Performance Group

Same Culture, Same Results Professional sports teams can provide great examples. New Culture, New Results An example of a professional sports team that underwent a culture change and experienced rapid improvement is the Golden State Warriors in the NBA. They have been consistently mediocre for decades.

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