Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 26, 2018

Your sales team knows this, and they spend the majority of their time nurturing the best accounts, following the classic 80/20 rule. Now, imagine if you could influence that complex internal buying journey much earlier - reaching everyone who could influence your project. Why shouldn’t marketing do the same?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Craft educational content for each of those stages.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 11, 2023

There’s a lot of excitement from sellers about the power of AI tools like ChatGPT, we can inflict infinite amounts of content on unsuspecting prospects. Sellers of all types are foaming at the mouth about how we leverage this tool to expand our outreach. ” I was pleasantly surprised by the responses provided by the tool.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

Did you know you’re missing out on sales opportunities by having a poor mobile company website? B2C has been much more adopted and understood – we are learning more about B2B and know at least this: Buyers need a level of trust before buying. Have personalized interaction - have content for each stage of the buying process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant. No more, no less.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

As a sales enablement leader, sales content is a big part of your job. Whether it’s creating it, training reps on it, monitoring its performance, or updating it, simplifying sales content management lets sales enablement leaders focus on other programs that help sellers actually sell. It went from 3.5

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many sales reps and sales managers commented and shared about the previous post on How Salespeople Goof Up on LinkedIn so we were compelled to share more ideas to help sellers do better. First, I wanted to share that our blog is up for an AWARD – as one of the top Sales Blogs at Top Sales World. Close More Deals.

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LeadFuze

JULY 3, 2023

This ability not only enhances the perceived worth of your product or service offers but also facilitates customer engagement and boosts sales success. Furthermore, educating customers serves as an effective differentiation strategy while facilitating their buyer journey. You need to understand their needs better than they do.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

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Allego

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One big takeaway for Allego: Sales enablement’s moment has arrived. That’s because in 2020, the business of sales was completely disrupted. Equipping sales teams with the content, skills training, knowledge, coaching, and tools to effectively sell your product or service is essential to survive and, hopefully, grow.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, RevOps teams play an active role in supporting every function that drives revenue growth, from sales to marketing to finance to customer success. They require collaboration platforms or channels that your sales, marketing, and customer success teams understand and consistently engage with.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2019

We know that best-in-class sales organizations use a consultative sales process. A sales process is consultative when the stages and actions align with the customer’s buying experience and are defined in terms of the customer relationship. Consultative Sales Process. But what does that really look like?

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

You’ve worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. So how do you get the much needed sales tool adoption to occur in 20012. Is there a way to get sales to overcome this status-quo bias?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here, I spoke with Mike about how the software buyer's journey has changed, according to new data from G2's 2022 Buyer's Behavior Report — plus, how your sales strategy should pivot in 2023 to meet new buyers' expectations. How to Shift Your Sales Strategy to Match the New Buyer's Journey in 2023. Let's dive in.

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Your company reaches out and contacts prospects, giving them the opportunity to reply back, and so on, until, hopefully, that conversation escalates into a sale. Thus, having the right tools to facilitate nurture creation makes a significant difference. For example: What challenges are they facing?

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There is no denying that 2020 has had an impact on the way by which sales professionals engage with their customers and prospects. Sales professionals and buyers alike have quickly accepted and adopted this new reality. Cited reasons are safety due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ease of scheduling, and expediting the buying experience.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you work in sales and marketing, I’ll bet you think a company’s employee count on LinkedIn is the absolute best way to determine how many employees work at that company. Why is employee count important for sales? Sales and marketing professionals use employee counts to understand a company’s size. I would know.

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SBI

JANUARY 29, 2019

The Number 1 Question Everyone Working in Sales Enablement Should Be Able to Answer. There are a number of considerations to weigh when deciding to implement a Sales Enablement platform. Often times, an investment in Sales Enablement can only come with the blessing of a senior executive, often C-Suite.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Marketing automation serves as the ultimate middleman between your consumer-facing website and your sales-facing CRM. Your visitors’ actions get pushed back to your CRM CRM to provide sales with in-depth knowledge of their buying experience. How Changes in B2B Buying Behavior Impact Website Strategy.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 1, 2022

Alternatively, eCommerce can be when a customer adds something to their cart or completes a sale. . And varying stages of the buying cycle exist within your prospective clientele. Many tools exist to help you create email marketing campaigns, segment users, and automate campaigns. Nurturing the effort takes time.

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Lessonly

APRIL 28, 2021

Sales competencies and sales readiness. We’re so glad you asked… What Are Sales Competencies? Sales competencies are the skills that successful sales reps need to use to impact the buying decision. Sales competencies are the skills that successful sales reps need to use to impact the buying decision.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If you’re in sales, you might think this is an odd question or you might have a stronger, more visceral reaction to the question—“Marketing doesn’t sell, we do!” The line between sales and marketing is becoming more blurred every day. Marketing now owns the top of the traditional sales funnel.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

Are you dependent on the top 20% of your sales force to ensure that you hit quota? 78% of the Sales VPs we speak with are worried about the disparity of their team’s talent. At SBI, we often see Sales Talent disparaged as the result of an ineffective Sales Training program. Sales Skills Overview/Best Practices.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2015

He’s been an ardent evangelist on the topic of Sales Acceleration (You need to read his latest book, AMP Up Your Sales.). I know we will be spending a lot of time discussing the topic, but I thought I’d use this post as a stalking horse to start thinking about the topic of Sales Acceleration.

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MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

I’m sure you’ve heard that buyers have more power now than ever before because of all the tools and information at the buyer’s disposal. The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. Long gone are the days where buyers relied on salespeople to be their sole education channel.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 28, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

But now that countless sales professionals are forced to make the transition for the first time, many face an entirely new set of challenges. There probably isn’t a more directly impacted area than the field sales rep. Key Challenges in Remote Sales: Connecting with prospects and coworkers. Delivering a great online demo.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There is no denying that 2020 has had an impact on the way by which sales professionals engage with their customers and prospects. Sales professionals and buyers alike have quickly accepted and adopted this new reality. Cited reasons are safety due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ease of scheduling, and expediting the buying experience.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

By this late stage in the buying cycle, it’s difficult for sellers to present new ideas or open buyers’ minds to alternative solutions. That is, unless their organization adopts a sales methodology designed to improve sellers’ conversational skills into its enterprise sales strategy. Take The Sales Conversation Metric.

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

JUNE 18, 2019

Recently, Seismic Co-Founder and President Ed Calnan and Seismic Go-To-Market Advisor John Boucher, spoke on this topic to the B2B Sales Show podcast, including how good sales leaders can cultivate a culture in which their sales teams act as consultants, rather than just sellers. Sales is the same way.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Incorporate these four tactics, based on proven sales training techniques that use perspective to engage key buying influences. Perspective provides your customers education and insight beyond products and services — and sets your sellers apart from the competition. Start with these four methodology-based sales practices.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

Each step of our sales process is optimized to maximize the results our sales people get. We recognize different skills and capabilities are needed in different stages of the sales process. We have our marketing and sales automation tools, to support the most efficient operation of our organization. There are 6.8

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

In modern sales automation , it’s easy to make your small team of five feel like an army of 50 reps. If you have email automation and dialing tasks queued up for your sales team -- but are wondering how to turn the corner with automated outreach, this post is for you. Dial analysis tools like Rambl answer this question for you.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 19, 2021

While MQLs are one indicator of success, it’s not the sales-ready lead that many marketers believe it to be. For example: In a 4-year study, our client Dynamis found that MQLs turn into sales meetings at 3x the rate that a cold lead does, and marketing-driven sales close at twice the rate. What is a marketing qualified lead?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2015

And these are the marketing emails from well established organizations, sent by marketing and sales professionals. We read about the importance of aligning our communications with the buyer’s journey–ideally providing content that is both persona and buying journey appropriate.

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