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How Account-Based Marketing and Sales Work Together

Sales and Marketing Management

Account-based marketing is a B2B strategy that focuses on select high-value accounts rather than trying to reach as much of your market as you can. These six proven ABM strategies can help increase sales at your company.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. CEOs trust Sales Leaders to set and follow the strategy to achieve the company’s growth goals and CEOs get frustrated when Sales Leaders fail to meet forecasts. Companies don’t know what they don’t know.

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Improving Sales Effectiveness with Account Segmentation

SBI Growth

Market trends are showing signs of accelerating demand, and for companies to take advantage of this, there needs to be robust account segmentation in place.

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Account Executive Inc.

Sales 2.0

You may also feel unsupported by your company and that you need to do everything yourself. I’ve got to put together proposals and update the CRM and make sure my current clients are taken care of and respond to emails from my bosses and other political stuff in my company”. Hey, but what if you had a team helping you? (No,

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information.

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Account-Based Success

The Pipeline

Like most in our profession, I am a big fan of account-based sales and marketing. According to the ITSMA, 87% of respondents agreed Account-Based methodologies deliver a higher ROI than other marketing activities. Account-based isn’t new – but it is en vogue. Identify the companies that would be ideal targets.

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Top 5 Keys to Hire Ideal Sales Candidates at Your Company

Understanding the Sales Force

There are five keys to improve your ability to consistently hiring salespeople who will be great selling for your company and in your particular selling roles. When companies follow the recommendation and hire candidates that were Recommended by the OMG Assessment, more than 90% rise to the top half of their sales teams within a year.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs.

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Maximizing Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training. Hold reps accountable for applying new skills. Still, many sales leaders report low ROIs from their sales training initiatives. So how can you ensure that your investment in sales training is producing excellent results. Measure training success.

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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

Leveraging a data provider to help identify and connect with qualified prospects supports company revenue goals by alleviating common headaches associated with prospecting research and empowers sales productivity. So what’s the problem? Many organizations fail to properly evaluate vendors during the selection process.

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Supercharge Your Sales Training ROI with eLearning

Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO, Sales Readiness Group, and David Jacoby, President, Sales Readiness Group

Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training, but many sales leaders report a low ROI from their sales training initiatives. Hold reps accountable for applying new skills. So how can you ensure that your investment in sales training is producing excellent - and lasting - results?

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

However, we can get so caught up in our ABM strategies, systems, tools, and investments that we lose sight of building deep empathy for the people in the accounts. Learn how a company increased sales opportunities by 303% by being uber helpful to buyers. But connecting with and converting buyers has never been more challenging.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.