Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Covid-19 and subsequent office closures forced every sales team to use virtual channels in situations they never would have considered before the pandemic: complex buying cycles requiring careful orchestration by veteran sellers. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

How to sell and engage buyers in the digital, remote, and noisy world is definitely a challenge we all face. The spray and pray days of contacting buyers with little more than a sales pitch to hit our sales targets have long since passed. The modern buyer demands more and expects a more personalized, tailored experience.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. So, if you’re in need of some new sales motivation , keep reading.

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Allego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s B2B buyers are the same. They research independently, engage across multiple channels, and expect a personalized, frictionless buying experience. Buyers are bombarded with information, making it difficult to capture their attention and build trust. Until you get the point where you must talk with a salesperson.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2021

This piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today. Chances are you’ve probably encountered your fair share of chatbots as a buyer. It’s the very thing you need between your sales team and future prospects. But you don’t want to exhaust these valuable channels.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JULY 14, 2016

It is becoming more and more common for companies to do their own research about new products and alternatives without any one-on-one communication between buyer and seller. Visibility into your sales channel will help you find the RFPs sitting in the sales inbox before the rep even knows they are there. The trout are no longer safe.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Simply put, a go-to-market strategy is a plan outlining how a company introduces and promotes its products or services to their ideal customer, considering factors like the best marketing channels, sales methodologies , and pricing strategies to guarantee the product’s ongoing success. Ensures consistent messaging across all touchpoints.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 8, 2016

I’ve previously talked about how some of our customers decided what was the best channel partner strategy for their business. While each had different issues, the overriding theme was how important it was to make sure their channel partners were supported from the get-go. Communication was a key issue that was raised by most.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 7, 2016

I’ve previously talked about how some of our customers decided what was the best channel partner strategy for their business. While each had different issues, the overriding theme was how important it was to make sure their channel partners were supported from the get-go. Communication was a key issue that was raised by most.

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Channels Collateral Sales Qualified Lead Objections 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Get our research report: 30 Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Target Buyer. This is in spite of the fact that most of it is created for sales and channel enablement purposes. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. Streamlining the sales process.

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Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking services to identify prospects, build relationships, and close more deals. Social selling may sound optional — sales people already leverage so many channels — but it’s an essential cross-selling motion in the modern sales toolkit. How do we know?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In Step #1 you should prioritize the opportunity that exists inside your prospect universe for the new product. The team should include stakeholders from sales, marketing, channel partners, product development, customer service and operations. Target Buyer Persona Profiles. Channel Strategy & Sales Goals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets 288

Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

That piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today, and it may make you wonder: Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chances are you’ve probably encountered your fair share of chatbots as a buyer yourself. It’s the very thing you need between your sales team and future prospects.

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Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Engineering Top of Funnel 100

Allego

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The seller interacts with buyers live through a videoconference tool, phone call, Facetime, or in-person meeting. The seller interacts with buyers through text message, email, video, voice mail, or a digital sales room. B2B buyers want Amazon-like experiences: virtual, fast, accurate, transparent, and personalized.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 16, 2020

It is safe to say most companies understand the need for an evolution in sales practices to best serve buyers’ ever-growing expectations. Companies that leverage and provide channel partners with the same sales enablement technology available to internal sellers will see higher success rates. Put Your Buyer First. And Why renew?

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Why Is a Digital Sales Room Necessary How Digital Sales Room Aligns With the Buyer Journey Key Features of a Digital Sales Room Digital Sales Room Best Practices Close Deals Faster With Digital Sales Rooms From Highspot What Is a Digital Sales Room (DSR)? This ensures that all sales materials are current and consistent across the sales team.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoids wasted efforts on marketing channels or strategies that do not align with the target market. Deals specifically with lead generation activities such as creating awareness, generating interest, and driving demand for the product through various marketing channels.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoids wasted efforts on marketing channels or strategies that do not align with the target market. Deals specifically with lead generation activities such as creating awareness, generating interest, and driving demand for the product through various marketing channels.

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Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Allego

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I think we can all agree that the best use of a salesperson’s time is not creating collateral. Cutting and pasting a deck together or editing a product sheet on the fly means less time prospecting and closing deals. Your sellers may not know how to use these documents in conversations with customers or prospects.

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Allego

JUNE 23, 2022

A whopping 92% of B2B buyers prefer virtual sales interactions, research from Bain and Company shows. It is faster, is cost-effective, and allows reps to interact with more prospects. A critical aspect of this is differentiating yourself from the many other sellers trying to capture buyers’ attention and earn their business.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

If your organization is aiming to improve sales effectiveness, leverage marketing collateral and win deals faster than ever before, a sales enablement program is a productive place to start. Intelligent buyer interactions. Channel analytics. Prospect interest. What is sales enablement? You already paid for it, right?

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

A B2B sales funnel is a stage-by-stage model that depicts how B2B prospects move through the buying process. B2B sales teams use the funnel model to determine how best to engage with a given prospective customer, and to understand what types of questions to ask and information to provide in order to progress that buyer through the funnel.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As a salesperson, every last interaction you have with a customer or prospect matters — no matter how, when, why, or where you reach them. Every professional exchange a salesperson has with a potential buyer bears some weight. Any interaction a buyer has with a property a seller owns is considered an engagement.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In fact, 33 percent of buyers already expect a sales-free experience. With this, sales leaders must also enable e-commerce channels and digital tools, even in B2B sales environments. It’s a centralized location for all customer interactions across all channels. In 2022, B2B e-commerce sales in the US grew by 19 percent.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, there are several obstacles to achieving better strategic alignment, including: Trust: There is a long history of dysfunctional behavior between marketing and sales, resulting in siloed functions, divisions, groups, departments and channels. Without trust in the alignment process, don’t expect to get effective collaboration.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Foundational What is a sales enablement program How to align your sales enablement with sales process development How to align enablement efforts with the buyer’s journey How to align sales and marketing teams together Programmatic Onboarding and training Role-playing Content Coaching Analytics What is a sales enablement program?

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 25, 2021

And volume was not the problem; we were reaching out to prospects left and right. Our system had over 5,000 different messages going out to prospects. We needed a way to simplify how our sales team reached out to prospects—and we found it with Sequences and Snippets. Step 2: Nail Down Core Sequences with Buyer Personas.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Followers: The collective sum of followers across all social channels. Using the industry standard definition of the buyer funnel, here’s how certain types of content marketing collateral should fit in at each stage: Awareness. Sales collateral. No more leaving prospects hanging. Core metrics. Case studies.

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Top of Funnel ROI Cost per Lead Lead Rank 87

Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

CRM systems are useful in identifying specific prospects via demographic information. CPQ, along with your customer information system, will help you identify existing customers that represent possible buyers based on what products they already have and the problems they are trying to solve. Sales reps. Industry analyst community.

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Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

Sales engagement platforms are no longer “nice to have;” they are a requirement for mature sales organizations that provide personal experiences for their buyers. After all, the goal for both of these teams is to attract buyers and provide them with exceptional experiences. Leads to better buyer experiences. Boosts efficiency.

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Mereo

MARCH 1, 2023

Many B2B organizations already practice some form or another of value selling — because most organizations understand they need to be driving key outcomes for buyers to succeed for the long-haul. This unifying asset provides a basis to align all buyer-facing teams. marketing campaigns and sales prospecting are more targeted).

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 24, 2020

It's a way to ensure that your messaging, promotion, and outreach are in sync across the different facets of your organization — a means of keeping everyone on the same page to leverage a common, integrated approach internally and project cohesion to prospects. If sales deems the lead "qualified" for more contact, it becomes an SQL.

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Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 133

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This can include analyzing the effectiveness of sales collateral, presentations, emails, videos, case studies, whitepapers, blog posts, and any other content that is shared with potential or existing customers during the sales journey. Sales Pitching Metrics: Channels: The platforms or channels through which your content is pitched.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Sales, with their in-depth customer insights, suggest refinements that emphasize points that resonate most with potential buyers. A joint effort attracts the right kind of leads, with the sales team focusing its energy on prospects with the highest likelihood of conversion. Case studies.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 99

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

This includes more effective prospecting. These are what clients need and why prospects contact you. And today’s buyers care more about how products are made. This includes blogs, case studies, white papers, and other marketing collateral that positions organizations as leaders. Also, it’s a selling point.

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