Babette Ten Haken

APRIL 19, 2018

After all, how I (and you) think reflects how we both were trained. I am talking about straight-up professional overthink, a strong characteristic of STEM-trained design thinkers. Subscribe to my blog. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. So, are you a professional overthinker?

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Babette Ten Haken

MAY 28, 2018

In addition, STEM professionals are exposed to marketing and sales-based storytelling styles, when attending professional meetings featuring vendor exhibitors. For starters, non-technical storytelling soft skills are not structured according to the logic-based scientific methodology in which STEM professionals are trained. Contact me.

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SME Engineering Decision Maker Government 48

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 29, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 15, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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SME Hiring Retention Travel 59

Anthony Cole Training

MAY 3, 2010

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Leadership Training (2). sales management training (4). Sales Training (5). training sales (25). Expert Websites / Blog Roll. Tony Cole, Founder and CEO of Anthony Cole Training Group. Tony Cole on TV.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 22, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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Customer Epiphany Retention SME 59

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 20, 2018

Yet, these bold, splashy stories, which our marketing departments love, leave the customer’s biggest question unaddressed: “Will you forget about taking good care of me, once I sign the contract?”. Subscribe to my blog. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 16, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Contact me.

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Engineering Automotive SME Retention 55

Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2017

business analyst, subject matter expert (SME) or agile product owner more critical than it has ever been, yet many organizations still insist on combining it with the product manager role. They are the glue between product management and engineering that translate market needs into product solutions. Rarely do the two go hand in hand.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. The end result is products with lots of features for everyone and few closed-loop solutions for any one market segment. The Protective Pad: Surrogate Users (SME, Product Owner, Business Analyst). The Protective Pad: Solutions Marketing.

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Sports Demand Generation Agencies SME Engineering 40

Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 16, 2020

Your marketing department provides you with a slide deck outlining what is changing in your client’s world as a way to start a conversation with your dream client. Your marketing team’s depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen cannot exceed yours. But your responsibility doesn’t end when you download the deck to your laptop.

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Mindtickle

MAY 14, 2016

The differences in their channel partner strategies were not due to their industries but rather were influenced by the stage of their business was at, or very specific market factors. As your channel partner reps are already SMEs the onboarding program doesn’t need to be long or intensive.

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Mindtickle

MAY 14, 2016

The differences in their channel partner strategies were not due to their industries but rather were influenced by the stage of their business was at, or very specific market factors. As your channel partner reps are already SMEs the onboarding program doesn’t need to be long or intensive.

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Channels Strategy Lead Rank Retail 52

Allego

JULY 17, 2023

What’s the best training strategy? It includes everyone who plays a role in helping to generate revenue for the business: sales, marketing, enablement, HR, and customer success. Effective buyer enablement involves understanding the buyer’s journey and aligning sales and marketing efforts to support buyers at each stage.

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Costello

JANUARY 9, 2019

When we speak with marketing agencies about using our sales playbook software to sell their own services, one of the questions they always ask us is, “What questions should I ask my prospects?”. As we expected the most popular framework amongst marketing agencies was the Goals, Plans, Challenges, Timeline (GPCT) framework.

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Babette Ten Haken

APRIL 18, 2019

First, these teams are not hired, or trained, to sell. Also, if you are a small business, with limited resources, are employees essentially self-trained to serve customers? Or trained via tribal knowledge communicated by longer-term employees? Subscribe to my blog. We won’t even go into sales force churn rates.).

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sales enablement content optimizations & training tactics. ? This involves giving your sales team the processes, information, technology, and training they need to sell more effectively. Sales enablement also bridges the gap between sales and marketing to create a smoother experience for both the team and the customers.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 30, 2018

Clearly, a well-trained customer success and service wizard and well-integrated software interface are waving their magic wands in the background. Subscribe to my blog. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Then, all of these service tickets “magically” combine into one order. Contact me.

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Babette Ten Haken

JULY 30, 2018

Subscribe to my blog. She is a STEM-trained scientist, corporate catalyst and design thinker. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. Has what you read Today started you Thinking about tomorrow ?

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Guest post courtesy of Anece Ahn, Inbound Marketing Specialist, Repsly. Much so that Gartner projects that by 2017, CRM will be a $36 billion market. For instance, if you purchase Salesforce, you will quickly find that in addition to the price of the software, you will need to shell out even more in deployment and training costs.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. Early in my AE career, the company I worked for was acquired and we were all told we had to go to another state for an entire month of training.

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He was a marketing professor there and he said, “People don’t buy drills, they buy holes. Even though I know it’s scary for people if they haven’t been taught or trained or explained how to do these things. Anthony: I’ve written about this on the blog. And I love this quote from Theodore Levitt from Harvard Business School.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

These 25 solutions form the bedrock to proven sustainable results with advanced social selling injected as a force multiplier: Move from push to pull marketing. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script. May the 'first in' win!

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