The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Have You Read The Sales Book About? Sometime ago I wrote a piece describing one of my favourite interview questions for potential sales recruits : “What was the last sales book you read?” Some companies are buying multiple copies of multiple books, and creating in house libraries. Book Notice. Book Review.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

As a lifelong learner, I turn to books whenever I want to expand my thinking or improve my performance. And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Books that made the cut: Are on my own bookshelf. The Challenger Customer.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started.

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MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

Demand Generation: B2B demand generation is a form of marketing that creates interest in a product or service. The thing is, lead generation is more than just sending out cold emails to a list of names in an address book. It’s also a great idea to avoid using generic language in your marketing messages.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here is what you’ll hear in my conversation with Sydney about why putting the customer first is a significant business advantage. One of SalesLoft’s core values is customer first. We discussed how Sydney and her team keep the value of customer first at the center of their marketing and sales efforts.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Pipeline : How much revenue your emails have sourced through bookings. Set your own benchmarks,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Intent lift.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Customer Hot Potato – Sales eXchange – 117. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Customer Care , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

The post How to Drive More Growth from Customer Expansion Conversations by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. Not customer expansion.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting! Unfortunately for many demand generation professionals today, their inability to write a compelling, cohesive story is no exaggeration.

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The Pipeline

MAY 6, 2011

Sales in a New World – Choosing your Customer. We used to go far and wide looking for customers. Choose your customers. In addition to the marketing strategies outlined above, list out the 10-12 ideal customers your company would like to win. You really can pick your customers. About Jeff Ogden. Best, Tibor.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 12, 2017

If Sales talks to more buyers, they will book more meetings, deliver more demos, and close deals faster. The study was orchestrated by Intelemark, a leading B2B demand generation services provider with over 50 years of combined experience driving results through custom calling campaigns. 300% more meetings booked.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2011

When the customer can’t be consoled, console the employee. “I can hear the frustration in your voice,” said Sarah, to an upset customer. ” Sarah, a sales representative who worked for me, plopped down in my office to relate a frustrating phone call she had just concluded with one of our customers, Darren. .”

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

We asked Jake Shaffren, DiscoverOrg’s Director of Sales, and Nina Wooten, our Director of Demand Generation, about their favorite tips for generating sales leads at trade shows and events. Nina Wooten, Director of Demand Generation. To generate leads at trade shows, you have to start strategizing in advance.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The book''s premise is simple: the most successful reps are not relationship builders, but “Challengers”. They want their customer interactions to deliver more value. But changing this behavior requires more than just an Oprah Book club mass-reading. Some reps are calling on so many customers they can’t remember names.

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Sales Methodology Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Face-to-face 308

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2017

How could the customer want that when you offer so much more? Here’s the thing: Customers don’t actually care about features. It focuses on understanding customers’ motivations. Customers Don’t Care. Jobs Theory was first widely popularized in Clayton Christensen’s classic business book “The Innovator's Dilemma.”

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But just a few years ago they—and for that matter, the whole customer success function—were the new kid on the block. These days, customer success motions benefit from better, and more plentiful, data, from more sophisticated customer success platforms and from past lessons learned. And they were difficult to pull off.

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Exercises Demand Generation Agencies How To ROI 245

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. February 2008.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. He’s the author of a really important new book called, The Death of the SDR: And the Birth of Buyer Centric Revenue.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

This includes roles that are complementary to sales like renewals, customer success, and solution engineering. The mandate of a VP of Sales is to maximize the organization’s revenue bookings, renewals, and retention by maintaining control of the entire deal pipeline, from SQL to proposal to negotiation, to commit, to close.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Evaluation of client needs: constantly assess customer data to stay on top of changing customer needs. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer. Improve your content marketing with valuable and informative blogs, white papers, and e-books.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen. The right way to think about demand generation and what data to use to make decisions. 3) Managing Customer Success as a marketing leader [3:25].

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. January 2008. December 2007.

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Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

The Pipeline

JANUARY 24, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , EDGE Sales Process , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Productivity , e-book , execution. 99 cents, you can grab the ultra portable and shareable Kindle version of the book. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Cold Calling 203

SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

TL; DR. SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . Patrick Lencioni’s fundamental business book, The Advantage , says, “Not finance. When COVID-19 hit, our reps were booking fewer meetings. Not strategy.

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The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

Ah, the poor 21st century sales professionals, if he/she is not getting it from their manager, they are being squeezed by what he thought was a “loyal” customer, wringing yet another concession to ensure they keep the business. conference, relating to acquiring books from Amazon.com, and interaction with Amazon.com staff. A Guide [.].

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 267

The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , Price , Proactive , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. Get your copy now and gain instant access to dozens of e-books, special reports and audio programs from some of the sales world’s leading experts! Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Imagine this scenario: a potential customer visits your web site with the express intention of initiating a purchase. Given the growing importance of customer experience in today’s marketplace, as well as the increased complexity of many B2B purchase cycles, these numbers are a significant red flag for B2B seller companies.

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B2B Demand Generation Agencies Survey Remedy 126

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Appointments. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Dependability. Don't Wait. EDGE Sales Process. EDGE Selling. Emotional Intelligence(EQ).

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Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Hiring 245

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , HR Management , Sales Management , e-book , execution. I have just received an advance copy of an unusual book on managing people by the business author and speaker called Peter Cook. It’s absolutely OK to do this as the book is copyright free. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A collection of three top sales books, including my award winning book on Trigger Events. A copy of the award winning book on Trigger Events. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. Prizes: First Prize. Second Prize. What you need to Win. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Compensation 220

InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

What I’ve seen happen is a siloing in data structure and processes for marketing, customer, services, and sales teams. Gupta noted, “A revenue operations team helps SaaS organizations achieve their KPIs by optimizing and solidifying cross-department processes throughout the customer lifecycle.”.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2012

Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Appointments. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Dependability. Don't Wait. EDGE Sales Process. EDGE Selling. Emotional Intelligence(EQ).

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 253

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Appointments. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Dependability. Don't Wait. EDGE Sales Process. EDGE Selling. Emotional Intelligence(EQ).

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 240

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Appointments. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Dependability. Don't Wait. EDGE Sales Process. EDGE Selling. Emotional Intelligence(EQ).

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cold Calling 240

The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

Start by downloading our new book: Sales & Consequences. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation. On the list with me are some old friends and some new friends, including Mike Weinberg, S. Anthony Iannarino, Elinor Stutz, Jonathan Farrington, and Kenrad Lee. Tibor Shanto. Appointments.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Demand Generation , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Next Steps , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution , qualifying. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 6, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Price , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Sell Better , Selling to Executives , Success , e-book , execution. Book Notice. Book Review. Customer Care. Demand Generation.

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