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How Can I Tell If I Have a Qualified Prospect: Confidential Information

The Sales Hunter

Sales is a two-way street. You can have all the feelings you want, but the customer’s feelings are really what matter. First, it indicates that the prospect trusts in you. Every good sale is built on confidence and the ability for the two parties to trust one another. This is key for several reasons.

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“Will I Succeed as a Salesperson?”

The Sales Hunter

While packing up after conducting a sales training program recently, I found myself talking with one of the participants. The conversation centered around what are the signals a salesperson can use to indicate if they’re going to be successful long-term. Short-term success in sales is not that difficult.

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7 Ways to Align Marketing and Sales Teams

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The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Skillfully Combining Leading and Lagging Indicators

Pipeliner

The use of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure a sales team’s growth or contraction have been used for many years. Some examples include gross sales, net revenue, products sold, and others that demonstrate how a company has succeeded (or not) through a particular period (quarter or year). million for the quarter.

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How to Manage Expectations Around Marketing Vanity Metrics

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If you turn your attention to the metrics that matter, you can improve your marketing strategy and communicate the important insights to leadership. Think about it this way: You may have thousands of Twitter followers but if only one of them engages with your social content regularly, what is your following really worth?

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The Recruiter’s Guide to Candidate Database Management

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Although contact data is most commonly discussed in sales and marketing circles, data hygiene has a huge impact on recruiting and hiring. Now, you might be asking yourself—if a candidate has already applied to a job opening, why does it matter? It does matter. The solution to this problem? Not convinced? Let’s jump into it.

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Virtual Selling Is Not The Same Thing As Digital Buying

Partners in Excellence

Well yes, kind of, but we are really missing the point. Of course, they are engaging sales people through virtual channels, but that’s an increasingly small part of how and where they spend their time in their digital buying journey. ” Some in marketing and sales revel at this shift in buying behaviors.