Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Author: Steve Randazzo Once upon a time, trade shows were deemed the kings of B2B marketing events. Others, like the Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago, have disappeared entirely. an experiential marketing agency located in Missouri. . Attendees should never feel as if you’re marketing to them.

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Trade Show Decision Maker Travel Hotels 180

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2018

When I interviewed Wes, senior vice president of sales for a well-known marketing automation company, I expected to hear all about the advantages of using his technology. The two of them trust each other and value the relationship, so Wes didn’t need to shop the market. Boy, was I wrong! It’s not what you know,” he told me.

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Referrals Hotels Cold Calling Scale 176

InsightSquared

MAY 16, 2019

It really is a perfect match—Ramp is all about equipping revenue operations professionals with the foresight, skills, and connections required to become the strategic partner of today’s go-to-market teams demand. Ramp by InsightSquared will be held in Boston at the Revere Hotel on June 13-14, 2019. We really hope to see you in Boston!

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Account Based Marketing Hotels Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 89

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Westin Hotel in Boston houses students from Northeastern University as part of COVID-19 precautions. With COVID-19, B2B companies have a unique opportunity to innovate because customer needs are evolving so rapidly and moving in such unexpected directions,” management consulting firm McKinsey & Company wrote in July 2020.

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Loyalty Hubspot Hotels ROI 178

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 20, 2019

One 2015 Forrester article predicted that 95% of B2B sales jobs will be replaced by AI by 2020. . In the 24 years since, reviews and feedback have permeated every meaningful purchase we make, from the products we buy, the experiences we select (restaurants, hotels, even Uber rides) and the apps we download.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hotels Sales Qualified Lead 179

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Jake Miller Until the promising COVID-19 vaccines are produced, distributed and widely received by the public, virtual selling will continue to be the norm for B2B sales. In the pre-pandemic world, an in-person meeting was an event: It involved travel, hotel stays and client dinners.

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Face-to-face Conference Ideal Customer Profile Hotels 156

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. The B2B playbook is changing. So, owned media. What is it?

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Media Company Distribution How To 71

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 16, 2017

Sean Ellis, a seasoned marketing leader, entrepreneur, angel investor, originally defined a “growth hacker” as "a person whose true north is growth.”. Lesson #1 : To expand market share, use “what if” analysis to leave your comfort zone and create new opportunities. The most famous example? Airbnb penetrating Craigslist’s marketplace.

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Penetration Case Study Lead Rank Hotels 153

Markempa - Inside Sales

JUNE 27, 2019

About five years ago, someone sent me a video on a Tulsa, Oklahoma business that changed the entire way I approach sales and marketing. I thought if a collection agency can do this in an industry with terrible customer experience, what would happen if tried something like this in B2B? “ Wait,” I thought. Of course not.

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Top of Funnel Hotels Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 109

Hubspot Sales

JULY 18, 2023

This means hotels can generate significant revenue if they have a good strategy in place. In this post, we’re going to share 15 sales strategies for hotels to help you ensure your property stays fully booked for a big part of the year. Table of Contents What do hotel sales teams do? Create a hotel virtual tour.

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Hotels Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Commission 66

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. So this week’s breakdown on ELG has been a longtime coming.

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Lead Rank Referrals Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 93

SBI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I’ll be at the Sales Enablement Soiree at the Four Season’s hotel on Thursday the 27th all day. The Seismic lounge at the hotel Zetta and the Ops Stars event at the old Mint. Quickly deploy strategic sales and pricing plays based on changing market, cost and competitive dynamics. Come by and say “hi.”

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Vendor InsideView Hotels Hiring 106

Pipeliner

APRIL 19, 2021

The current commercial environment has trained people to be discount junkies, searching for the lowest price in every available opportunity, both in B2C and B2B commerce. For example, let’s look at business hotels. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist. Discount Junkies.

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Video Hotels Discount How To 52

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 9, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan When most sales bloggers write about selling, we almost always discuss direct B2B sales. Retailers are a great example of this channel and the work they do is marketing and display centric. This is more like traditional B2B sales. Channel sales is quite different.

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Channels Retail Hotels Territories 221

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Buyers have high expectations which are set by others in your industry – for example when front desk staff greet you buy name at leading hotel chains – you expect that everywhere. Also to get closer to your customer’s interests, consider Joe Pulizzi’s 42 Content Marketing Ideas for 2013. IT needs to be a partner in this.

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Customer Hotels Lead Rank Lead Scoring 196

Vengreso

JUNE 2, 2023

How to Convince your Boss to Let you Attend Dreamforce 2023 Everyone knows Dreamforce isn’t cheap, especially when it comes time to book a hotel. Don’t get me started on the cost of hotels and how opportunistic they become in terms of price gouging. per night for hotels this late in the game. You better believe it.

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SalesForce Hotels Conference Call-back 59

Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now. ” That was the beginning of our story.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Generation Targets 90

Nutshell

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Our event is virtual, which means you don’t have to waste money on expensive plane tickets and hotel rooms in order to attend. If you happen to work in B2B sales , you’ll especially appreciate the Sales 3.0 Conference as it’s completely geared toward B2B sales. The best part? Host: Sales 3.0 LeadsCon 2020.

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Conference Top of Funnel Networking Hotels 124

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

Although sales and marketing may have transitioned into the new era, there are a few key things that haven’t changed since the 1950s. It’s being defined by sales reps who use data and automation to surface a needle in a haystack—the ideal customer within the total addressable market. The New Era of Sales.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Inside Sales Outside Sales 147

InsideSales.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

13, 2020 / PRNewswire / — Today, XANT announced new speakers for its inaugural NEXT 2020 Revenue Acceleration conference to be held on February 25 – 28, 2020 at The Grand America Hotel located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. SILICON SLOPES, Utah , Feb. CEO and Founder at Vengreso. Sara Jones , CEO of InclusionPro.

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Conference Hotels Enterprise Enterprise 58

SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

She was frustrated and went on LinkedIn, ready to test the market. Hotels, flights and food. To survive in B2B selling in 2014 a new set of skills is required. When she went back into the field nothing had changed. The Need-Payoff that she had been trained on was thrown out the window. While there it dawned on her. Why Bother?

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Training Top of Funnel Hiring Hotels 293

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Consider this — most ( if not all) your B2B prospects or target accounts are tenants in commercial buildings where they occupy space. With access to intent data, you can search for prospects that meet specific criteria, such as: New York market. New Construction Data. Companies with 500 to 1,000 employees. Mortgage amount. Lender name.

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Intent Data Intent Real Estate Data 110

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

“Selling to Marketers” was the focus of the event. As marketing departments handle an increasing percentage of a company’s budget, one of our sales goals was to sell more to marketing buyers. Following the event, we had a higher win rate and a higher deal size for marketing buyers. I like that message.

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How To Follow-up Scale Up-Sell 182

Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

For example, sales research continues to affirm that today’s B2B buyers are far more educated. Even with the B2C buyers, they are looking to the Internet for reviews from hotels to restaurants to even healthcare professionals. Without our subdivision, I tracked the other homes being sold by list price and square footage.

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Real Estate Hotels Lead Rank Commission 70

Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

You can use our LIGHTHEARTED guide to test your own B2B Sales Knowledge and that of your sales colleagues. 6) Bids & Tenders  an opportunity for B2B Sales People to sit in a warm office and avoid prospecting. 21) Elevator Speech  a B2B Sales Persons opportunity to show up and verbally throw up.

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B2B Hiring Top of Funnel Social Media 51

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The way you do business today and how your marketing works is remarkably different than it was just one year ago. What kinds of changes do you need to implement to capture the market post-COVID-19? However, they’re facing a different market and changed consumer behavior. Current B2B Scenario for Sales Leaders.

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Pivotal Strategy Face-to-face How To 98

Score More Sales

JULY 5, 2012

Are you planning while your competitors are thinking about the next cookout or hotel stay? Lori Richardson writes, speaks, and trains on sales topics for B2B mid-market technology front-line sales teams. Have you set bold goals like Dr. Perry has? What is your plan? When will you start?

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Hotels Education Call-back Channels 181

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. Jake is a career marketer who served as the CMO at Pendo. After a career as a VP of Marketing and CMO, Jake now serves as president of MetaCX. And we’ve been in market for about six months.

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Marketing Scale Demand Generation Agencies Marketo 63

Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2020

In today’s hyper-connected, digital age, online reviews play a large role in the B2B sales cycle. 92% of B2B buyers are more likely to make a purchase after reading a trusted review. Google user’s review of a hotel. For example, forward complaints about a technical glitch to your product marketing or engineering team.

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Social Media Google Scale B2B 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Marketing also joins the sessions, because we all need to be cohesive and go to market the same way. “We We started our “Selling to Marketers” session by training our reps on what that persona cares about. Example: SKO Focus (Selling to Marketers). We don’t go to a corporate hotel, we don’t go to boardrooms.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Up-Sell Examples 202

Allego

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Virtual selling—working a deal remotely when you can’t be there in person—is the new normal for B2B salespeople. It involved travel, hotel stays, and client dinners. Sharing and tracking relevant content has always been a sales challenge, but it’s amplified when sellers are no longer in-person with their enablement and marketing teams.

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Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Conference Travel 98

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Recently, some of the world’s biggest brands–McDonald’s, Uber, and Hyatt Hotels, to name a few–have eliminated the position altogether. With markets at saturation , it’s no surprise that so many brands are treading water. With markets at saturation , it’s no surprise that so many brands are treading water.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale Customer 52

Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 8, 2019

In short, poor customer service affects both customer acquisition and, even more importantly, customer retention, which is the bread-and-butter of many B2B businesses. The definition of excellent customer service. Good customer service means more than keeping your existing customers happy. It can also be your most powerful growth strategy.

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Customer Service Hiring Customer Hotels 90

Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

The event was held at the Hotel Intercontinental in Buckhead and Cirrus Insight did a great job as a sponsor. Anthony Iannarino – Anthony has helped people in a wide variety of industries and markets think through and overcome their biggest business challenges. On April 13, 2017, I attended the #OutBound conference in Atlanta, GA.

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Conference Outbound Social Media PointClear 124

SugarCRM

AUGUST 19, 2020

Back in the 1960s or Mad Men era, you could use brilliant marketing to obscure any weakness—all the way up to convincing customers that Lucky Strikes were good for your throat. If you have tremendous marketing but a terrible product or customer experience, then your marketing will be ignored or worse—received ironically.

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Customer Webinar Metrics Customer Service SugarCRM 48

The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Although women make up just over half of the college educated workforce, they hold less than one third of B2B sales jobs ( source ). Confidence comes from doing your research and knowing the market value. Angela Donato, Director of Mid-Market Sales at Spiff “Be a sponge, listen, and be naturally curious.

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Negotiation Face-to-face Hiring Lead Rank 69

Anthony Cole Training

JULY 30, 2010

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. The husband checked into the hotel. Learn How to Drive Consistent Sales Results from Your B2B Sales Team. Tony Cole on TV. Alltop.com.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Hotels Sales Qualified Lead 141