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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Seven Sales Leaders on the Challenges They Overcame in 2020 & Their 2021 Predictions

Hubspot Sales

Ask any salesperson if they’ve had a tough 2020, and you’ll get a resounding “ Yes.”. I interviewed seven sales leaders from across the country to better understand how they overcame the challenges of 2020, what challenges they expect to encounter in 2021, and how they recommend readers combat both. Building a customer community. “In

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New Study: 2020 Trends in Sales Management

Miller Heiman Group

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Hiring presents the biggest gap for sales managers in the 2020 Trends in Sales Management report. But it’s not too late to transform.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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Drawn-Out Sales Cycles: What to Do When Selling Stalls

Zoominfo

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020.

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How to Boost Your B2B Sales Quickly in 2020

MarketJoy

Here’s how to make the ask without looking desperate and pushy: Create marketing material for the referral. This way you don’t have to ask someone directly for the reference but only have to hand out your marketing material, and it will make it easier for them to remember it. Focus on the complete buying cycle.

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The Daily Briefing: April 22, 2020

Chorus.ai

They discussed data sourced from Chorus and TrustRadius about how segments and markets are behaving, and how companies are adjusting their spend in the current climate. Before they dove into the data, Vinay and Jim discussed their view on COVID-era markets. On the smaller end of the market, that’s drying up a little.”

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