Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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Highspot

MAY 20, 2021

Highspot equips reps for the world in which they live today, trains them to face the challenges of tomorrow, coaches them to perform at their best and analyze the impact on your bottom line. Highspot’s end-to-end platform brings together your courses and lessons in the same place as your sales plays and marketing content.

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Eyeful Presentations

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Aaah, the power of those clever advertisers… Now a lot older, greyer and (at a stretch) wiser, advertising still plays an important part in parting me from my cash. Damn, those advertisers are good… Great advertising grabs hold of us, no matter how old we are. From advertising to presentations.

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Increase Sales

JULY 1, 2017

Sales and marketing research can be interesting and provide some insight as what not to do. The CMO Council and Dow Jones surveyed over 2,000 consumers from North America and the United Kingdom which revealed the importance of feelings in sales and marketing messages. Stupid or irritating TV commercials/videos.

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Increase Sales

JULY 14, 2014

Years ago I read “marketing is not selling.” ” With the impact of technology, this statement can be easily revised to “social marketing is not social selling.” Also if we engage in effective marketing, then selling (purchase) can be effortless as noted by Peter Drucker. Engage first; sell second.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The truth behind failed sales training coaching is the curriculum, the process, the methodology call it what you will has been designed for the 1.8% Most, probably 95% of all sales training coaching has been developed to work with these three presumptions: Strategic plan exists. Marketing is separate from sales department.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Today we’re closing out this three-part series with a post for our marketing audience. So, if you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. 1. Marketing 360. The Marketing 360 YouTube channel offers a wide variety of high-quality video content. 2. Duct Tape Marketing. Go check it out!

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2013

As I have written countless times, the purpose of marketing is to attract attention and begin to build relationships. When marketing is memorable, meaning you have created an emotional connection with your target audience, you will make money. The question is how do I make my marketing memorable for my small business?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Marketing has evolved to at least two new animals: social media and mobility. Yet all this evolution has made marketing engagement even more illusive. Marketing engagement is still very illusive for many small business owners not to mention the big marketers (advertising firms). Is that marketing engagement?

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Yesterday, Sherpa Coaching released its 7th Annual Executive Coaching Survey to address this part if not all of this question of “Got a Coach?” Over the years, executive coaching and business coaching have grown in numbers and acceptance. Coaching has many definitions and will continue to evolve.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. The philosophy behind this channel reads as follows: Smart entrepreneurs who want to thrive in today’s marketplace must master the fields of psychology, marketing, and human behavior. Billy Gene is Marketing Inc. Today’s blog post is for you! Go check it out!

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I’m John, your host, and today I’m excited to share with you a fascinating conversation I had with Matt Phillips , a leadership coach and host of the Matt Phillips podcast. We discussed the importance of coaching in sales leadership and how it differs from coaching in other fields.

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AUGUST 24, 2013

In social media, content marketing is becoming quite common place. Sales Training Coaching Tip: “Post and Run” behavior is a strong indicator of a Captain Wing It small business mentality. Your misguided goal is to use content marketing within social media to promote yourself or your company. Share on Facebook.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Word of mouth marketing is one of the best strategies to attract positive or negative attention. The reason is simple people believe other people usually family or friends before any advertising or other marketing activities no matter how good those actions are. The Power of Community Marketing.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In today's Sales Brief we cover a variety of articles including the smartest way to approach content marketing , sales compensation plans that'll motivate your team , Zoom's rocketing success , and much more. Content marketing can be a powerful tool to attract and drive potential customers to your business. RANK TO THE BANK ?.

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Pipeliner

JULY 13, 2018

The way that consumers interact with marketing advances has changed in the last few years. One of the primary goals of the sales and marketing teams are to find new prospects and convert them into customers. People are becoming very savvy in their tactics for getting away from advertising. How to Market on a Budget.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

A recent posting over at Harvard Business Review caught my eye because the authors articulated how I see social media changing the small business marketing landscape and more important hierarchy. For these small businesses, marketing is becoming more and more all hands on deck. One of the key reasons for this change is 97.7%

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The professional business person stated unequivocally “I believe in old school marketing.” As I listened to his old school marketing beliefs I realized he truly did not understand marketing and wondered how much more successful his former business could have been. What Is Marketing? Credit: Gratisography.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Have you ever wondered why so many marketing plans fail? In most instances, small business owners do not realize their possibly very expensive marketing plan is already set up to fail before they execute their first action steps. Here are five possible answers as to why marketing plans fail. #1 All three phases work together.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 22, 2012

Many sales leaders fear that engaging an outside sales coaching expert will show that they can’t do their job. The Marketing Executive Gets It. In comparison, when faced with the same challenges, marketers will bring in an outside advertising agency. You’ll ask, isn’t this the responsibility of the marketing executive?

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

All small businesses and sales professionals should have their own marketing action plan. Small Business Coaching Tip: The keyword here is ACTION. These misdirected activities derail the action with any marketing plan. 6 Key Marketing Activities. Paid Advertising. Check out this one page Marketing Action Plan.

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MARCH 9, 2015

Marketing continues to be the number one barrier to strategic business growth. The problem with marketing is it is an ongoing decision making process because if other firms and people do not know about you, your company or your solution, you will remain pocket poor. Marketing Channel of Paid Advertising.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Mention the M word (marketing) to salespeople and immediately see negative body language to verbal denial to even actual fear. Last week when I questioned a vendor about his product being more about marketing than actually selling, he said “No, it provides the opportunity to gather sales leads.” ” ( Jeb Blount ).

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 15, 2023

From Salesperson to Sales Leader Hello everyone, I’m John, your host, and today I’m excited to share with you a fascinating conversation I had with Matt Phillips, a leadership coach and host of the Matt Phillips podcast. We discussed the importance of coaching in sales leadership and how it differs from coaching in other fields.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Marketing strategy can begin very well such as great headline be it on a website, a printed advertisement, a 10 second elevator pitch or even an email subject line. Then what was initially a good marketing strategy can very quickly turn bad and ultimately can become very ugly. The cracks are starting to show.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As they say “timing is everything” and that is true even in social media marketing when looking to: Credit www.sxc.hu. When compared to a study conducted in October of 2012 by GetResponse , there is a dramatic drop off between Facebook social media marketing and email marketing. Attract attention. Increase sales.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Role of Advisors and Coaches We also discussed the importance of having a team of advisors and coaches to support business owners. Investing in the Right Things As we concluded our conversation, we touched on the importance of investing in the right things for a bigger return rather than wasting money on ineffective advertising.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Once again another email entered my In Box from someone I did not know who had subscribed me to her email marketing list without permission. Worse yet this was someone who claimed to be a social media marketing expert. Email marketing works with permission based marketing! How often does this message require repeating?

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

For most to overcome this sales challenge of “I need prospects,” begins with marketing. Yet there still is so much confusion about what is marketing; how to define marketing and what marketing actions deliver the best results especially with the influence of social media. Building relationships.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 22, 2020

And while it’s true there’s no real historic precedent for teams being suddenly told to work from home , this also isn’t the first down market we’ve ever seen. When markets constrict, people’s emotions generally follow. Turn your customers into walking advertisements by giving them extraordinary customer service. #3:

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Increase Sales

AUGUST 4, 2011

You open it and may be surprised by reading an advertisement about a special offer. This appears to be a common marketing strategy for some retail businesses including car dealerships. An effective (think good) marketing message can increase the want or desire to pull the trigger on that buying decision. CoachLee Recommends.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Elite Athletes have excellent coaches, understanding the discipline their athletes compete in. So, I extended my obsession to help Leaders of the Business World understanding and accepting their important role in Coaching Sales Professionals. For customer premises equipment, we focused on the national market with a direct seller.

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SalesforLife

AUGUST 12, 2019

You need to consider developing strategic frameworks and coaching guides. Here at Sales For Life, we create coaching guides that include three components: a) Leaders: What do coaches (your front line sales managers and/or sales enablement leaders) look for using green flags and red flags? What questions do they ask?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 9, 2012

Whether your salespeople are under performing or doing well, are they responsible or is it your company, culture, advertising or offering that is responsible? When sales managers are ineffective at selecting the right salespeople, they compound the problem by being equally ineffective at coaching - the foundation of ongoing development.

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