Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Do you have a channel strategy in place? You may have channel partners as part of your go-to-market strategy, but do you have a strategy that includes how you will support your partners’ success? . I know our audience is excited to hear how to create or improve their channel program. Bruce Stuart, Partner at CHANNELCORP .

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2022

Channel partners are more likely to sell products when they are familiar with them and recognize their value. So to increase mindshare, you need to make it really easy for your channel partners to learn about your products as part of their daily workflow. The right channel partner training software can help with this.

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SBI

JUNE 22, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Would you engage with a sales rep if you didn’t have to?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

What is channel sales? In a channel sales model, a company sells through third partners -- affiliate partners (who get commission on each purchase), resellers, value-added providers (who typically bundle your product with their own), or another entity that doesn't work for it directly. The Definition of Channel Sales.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From sales processes to how we celebrate holidays, there has been no area left untouched by this pandemic. For ZoomInfo, one of the biggest challenges we are facing at EOY is how to keep motivation high and celebrations on par with the big achievements our sales teams are hitting day in and day out. Covid has changed everything.

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Channels Energy Motivation Face-to-face 246

Mindtickle

MAY 1, 2020

And for the foreseeable future, sales calls and product demos will be conducted from home, virtually. This means sales readiness and enablement leaders need to rethink how they can partner with pre-sales leaders of solutions consulting / solutions engineering (SC / SE) teams to upskill and reskill their teams for this new normal.

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Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2023

Every marketing team looks to leverage advertising channels to their fullest. It’s crucial that you also measure key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with sales. In doing so, your team can make better decisions around which channels, tactics, and campaigns will deliver the right results.

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Allbound

JUNE 26, 2019

When used correctly, market development funds (MDFs) can be an excellent way to grow your channel business. Market development funds are made available by a brand to help channel partners sell more of their products. On the flip side, when the right strategy is put in place, MDFs can be a successful way to grow your channel program.

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Nutshell

APRIL 18, 2024

Your customer data is the key to understanding your customers better so you can improve your marketing, sales, customer experience, and more. An SCV aggregates data from multiple sources, such as marketing platforms, sales interactions, support tickets, and more. That’s where a single customer view, or SCV, comes in.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Guidelines Government 77

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). Afterward, they’re either disqualified or passed onto sales teams. Some things need to be as automated as possible for sales teams to make the best decisions when acting on MQLs and leads.

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Allbound

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Even for the most channel-centric companies, partner conflict is inevitable. Conflict can occur for various reasons such as pricing, poor communication, or even deals poached by the direct sales team. To increase channel sales, it’s vital to keep your product top of mind with your partners. Let’s face it.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Get a Demo Performance Metrics by Channel Choosing B2B marketing KPIs for your team starts with analyzing your active campaigns. Let’s take a look at the primary channels to generate demand: email, paid social, content syndication, webinars and direct mail — and which KPIs you should track for each channel.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2020

And for the foreseeable future, sales calls and product demos will be conducted from home, virtually. This means sales readiness and enablement leaders need to rethink how they can partner with pre-sales leaders of solutions consulting / solutions engineering (SC / SE) teams to upskill and reskill their teams for this new normal.

Face-to-face 52

Face-to-face Engineering Maximizer Pivotal 52

Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. How is it different from outside sales?

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? What is sales productivity?

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In many ways, managing multiple sales channels is like climbing that mountain—it looks easy until you really get into the process, and then the challenges and difficulties become all too apparent. If you currently manage a multi-channel operation, you know how naïve this statement sounds. You Need Channel Management.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lead response time can make or break your sale. Embed scheduling into your contact and demo forms. Integrating your calendar with your contact and demo forms lets your leads move the process forward themselves. Automate Lead Processing and Increase Sales Productivity with Data Enrichment. Need proof?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion? Awareness Stage 2. Interest Stage 3.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

To be actionable, your content must make tactical use of calls to action, offers, promotions, demos, and free trials that move prospects along the buyer’s journey. A lead magnet can be anything from gated content like ebooks, whitepapers, e-newsletters or consultations, to free product trials, free tools, demos, or samples.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Are you thinking about increasing sales with a webinar? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. Now, as people get comfortable with the idea of running a sales webinar, we’ll likely see a continued uptick in these sales presentations. How Do I Create a Sales Webinar? Define Your Offer.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Funnel Social Media 208

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy. Prospecting. Negotiation.

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Alice Heiman

JANUARY 31, 2023

EventMobi’s early sales model was classic founder led with Bob doing it all from mining his network for leads to closing deals. His decision to bootstrap versus take external investment meant that hiring an experienced sales leader was out of the question. Growth was great, annual sales revenue soared. How did he do it?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Teaser: Most channel marketers have a dysfunctional relationship with layered incentives. They know that incenting sales-driving behaviors, such as training and product demo, can make a partner feel more personally invested in selling their products. Issue Date: 2014-11-21. Author: Dan Hawtof, Parago Executive Vice President.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

For the last six years, I’ve been an avid user and champion of using async video in my day-to-day as a seller — well before joining Loom to lead its Sales and Customer Success teams. I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. The results?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

Nutshell

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Business insights: Insights gathered from survey data can also help you better understand the ins and outs of your sales process. Improves sales process: Finally, you can put your survey data to good use by using it to improve your sales process for customers and create a better customer experience. email, SMS, etc.).

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At Janek, we help many sales leaders plan and forecast. While no one predicted a global health emergency, sales trends did anticipate future needs. In the absence of foolproof magic, sales trends reveal what’s coming and how to prepare. However, more than half of high-performing sales organizations already leverage AI.

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Vainu

MARCH 1, 2021

The types of changes that lead to a sales opportunity are commonly known as trigger events. Trigger events are your sixth sense in sales prospecting, but how can you distinguish between meaningful company changes that create new sales opportunities and noise? How do you turn data into actionable insight? That's a good question.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 26, 2021

Long Sales Cycles: Enterprise companies are big, and they want to make sure they are getting best-in-class solutions. For that reason, they usually have longer sales cycles (6-18 months is typical), meaning you have to be on your game for an extended period of time in order to actually close the deal. Customize Your Demo And Solution.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 189

Mindtickle

MAY 14, 2016

Recently, I found myself having similar conversations about how to manage channel partners with several customers from very different industries. The differences in their channel partner strategies were not due to their industries but rather were influenced by the stage of their business was at, or very specific market factors.

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Channels Strategy Lead Rank Retail 52

Mindtickle

MAY 14, 2016

Recently, I found myself having similar conversations about how to manage channel partners with several customers from very different industries. The differences in their channel partner strategies were not due to their industries but rather were influenced by the stage of their business was at, or very specific market factors.

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Channels Strategy Lead Rank Retail 52

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From sales rep to managers to the C-suite, leaders embrace responsibility. Just as sales reps are responsible for their accounts, sales leaders assume all responsibility for their organizations. Our recent blog Sales Trends to Watch in 2024 examined what sales organizations should prepare for.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

eWebinar saves people from doing the same boring demo, onboarding, and training webinar over and over again by turning any video into an interactive webinar that they can set on a recurring schedule or make available on-demand. They’re amazing and people love them.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Overflowing the sales funnel with leads doesn’t necessarily guarantee more paying customers in the end. Abundant lead conversion can happen when sales reps practice meaningful engagement with them throughout the sales funnel. Leads transform into customers by stepping through a carefully curated sales funnel.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s break down the various channels for finding prospects and look at how effective each is at converting leads to opportunities, and ultimately, to customers. In fact, 41% of salespeople consider cold calling their most powerful tool for making a sale. Get a demo today to learn more. The bottom line? of the time.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 23, 2022

Having powerful software is an undeniably critical component of any strong sales strategy. Fortunately, we did some digging to determine which areas of the sales cycle leaders are investing in most heavily for 2022 and beyond. Product demos 33.50%. In sales, context is everything. Prospecting 34.75%. AI CRM Tools.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Not only has the economy provided an added challenge, but there has been a general drop in the effectiveness of most traditional marketing channels. This week we are peeling back the layers and digging into which marketing channels have been driving the strongest ROI. So, what is ACTUALLY working? There is no one-size-fits-all!

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