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SMB sales playbook — tips, tools, and strategy to increase your wins

PandaDoc

Key takeaways With its specific business needs, budget restrictions, and customization requirements, the sales landscape for small- and medium-sized businesses requires a different strategy than enterprise and B2C sales. What are SMB sales? What is the difference between SMB vs B2C?

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Combining Sales & Marketing Automation: How Both Departments Benefit

Hubspot Sales

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The value of sales and marketing automation rests on your resources' ability to provide mutually beneficial intel between departments.

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6 Predictions for Sales Software in 2017

SalesLoft

Sales software changes as rapidly as the sales landscape , which is to say at light-speed. The best way to stay current with sales technology is to look to the future. Our insights there will help us understand the sales cycle, personalize outreach, and reduce the time to convert. Automation. Social Media.

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Why building a custom CRM is almost always a bad idea

Nutshell

By the end, you’ll know whether or not a custom CRM is the right choice for your business and which software options might be a better fit for your needs. Otherwise, you have to contract a software developer to create the application. As long as you can develop the software, you get complete say over its capabilities.

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

Analyzing your sales velocity helps identify pipeline bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity. Document workflow software like PandaDoc increases close rates and shortens sales cycle lengths. What is sales velocity?

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The Complete Guide to B2B Website Visitor Tracking (+ 10 Great Tools to Get You Started)

Nutshell

You can then access this information, usually in a spreadsheet or shared directly into your CRM software. Different tracking requirements: B2C vs B2B While visitor tracking and web analytics are both useful, one method may prove more helpful for you depending on your type of business.

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31+ Flavors of CRM – Got B2C Sales CRM?

Velocify

There are so many flavors of CRM from social CRM, sales CRM, call-centric CRM, lead management CRM, marketing CRM and the list goes on and on, tailored by vertical, B2C, B2B, and more. Some systems are focused on doing one thing very well and for Leads360 that one thing is a B2C sales. B2B vs. B2C CRM.

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