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Outbound Sales vs. Inbound Sales: How to Win Big With Each Strategy

Crunchbase

Outbound selling is a technique that involves pushing your message directly to your prospects. Inbound selling involves qualifying interested prospects. Typically, these prospects will discover you and be interested in learning more. It is a customer-focused strategy involving adapting to the buyer’s unique journey.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

and withstood the emergence of high-powered tech tools that promise to put so many aspects of engaging customers on automatic pilot. They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers. Salespeople have a wealth of information and feel the urge to educate prospects about all they’ve learned.

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. The CRM: A Key Customer Retention Tool. Make it easy for your customers to succeed by providing the tools they need to hit the ground running. Use Automation Tools.

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

The Salesforce State of Sales report notes that only 46% of sellers have access to client and prospect data insights (something that 85% of salespeople say helps them produce). Salespeople, especially on the enterprise level, need to understand their company, their product, their market, and their buyer exceptionally well.

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Seven Sales Leaders on the Challenges They Overcame in 2020 & Their 2021 Predictions

Hubspot Sales

The second layer is encouraging reps to balance empathy with prospects. “[To Instead, focus on the value, so your sales process is rooted in what's good for [the prospect].”. Zach shared a few of his favorite tools for remote training: Slack. Mintis questioned. Use Zoom Whiteboards during training to leverage visual learning.".

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Forget B2B vs. B2C – Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

In recent years, we’ve seen B2C companies embrace more grassroots-style branding through personalized messaging that zeroes in on the qualities of individual consumers. On the other hand, B2B companies still seem predicated on appealing to the over-generalized “prospective customer.”

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RIP: Sales Training

SBI Growth

Buyer Centric Content: Sales training content is written from a sales rep view and off the shelf. Content needs to be written with the buyer in mind. Train them how to use social media to prospect. Smart companies use delivery tools like: Pod casts. There is no quick fix to sales effectiveness problems.

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