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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

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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COVID-19 Has Changed Everything About Selling. Here’s How We’re Handling It

Sales and Marketing Management

A profession that thrives on face-to-face communication with customers became shackled by travel restrictions. Even in today’s digital world, enterprise technology sales remains a largely in-person business. COVID-19 swept me and our company’s 50 salespeople into uncharted waters. A growing market suddenly became an uncertain one.

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Where to Allocate Marketing Budgets in 2023/2024

Sales Hacker

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?

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Innovating from the Top: How a Former CMO Revitalized a Company as CEO (Ep107)

Alice Heiman

This included optimizing the company’s website for SEO, engaging in social selling, and rebranding Challenger as an innovative tech company, thereby widening its appeal to include SMB and mid-market customers alongside its enterprise clientele. She is an avid traveler and loves to cook and be outdoors.

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Sales Process: Keep to the Script, or Take the Road Less Traveled?

Pipeliner

Channel partner sales. These engagements are often rules-bound and require the channel partner to document process activities such as account registration in order to receive payment from the vendor. In over thirty years of selling enterprise solutions, I can boast a paltry number of one-call closes. Go Tomas!”.

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Is B2B Buyer Confidence Stalling Your Deals?

Alice Heiman

My next guest on Sales Talk For CEOs is Brent Adamson and he’s got some revolutionary ideas about B2B enterprise selling. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. 11:59] Travel agents went out of business because I could do it all online. I need a travel agent. [13:15] And I realized, you know what I need?

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Evolved Selling: Keeping pace with shifting customer demand

SBI

By Devon Wellbrock, SVP of Americas, Enterprise Sales, MRP. Enterprises have been forced to take strategic steps to combat the economic consequences of the crisis and keep pace with constantly shifting customer demand. Devon Wellbrock SVP Americas, Enterprise Sales, MRP. The spread of COVID-19 shook up the B2B sales economy.

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