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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Where to Allocate Marketing Budgets in 2023/2024

Sales Hacker

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. The annual Gartner 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey was conducted in March and April 2023. So, what is ACTUALLY working?

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WHAT IS LIFECYCLE MARKETING AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT?

Apptivo

Lifecycle marketing is the holistic approach of getting new buyers and converting them to be customers. Marketing is as much an art as it is a science! A master marketer understands the nuances of customer behavior and establishes an emotional connection with them, therefore it is an art. What is Lifecycle marketing?

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Holistic Customer Service: Why Customer Experience Is a Shared Responsibility in the Company

Pipeliner

Yet, only 54 percent say it generally feels like sales, service, and marketing don’t share information. It’s built on the understanding that every department, from product development to marketing, contributes to customer’s brand perception and engagement. Technology is vital to this transformation.

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How to Plan a Virtual Event That Generates Leads in 4 Easy Steps

Sales Hacker

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. Just Google, “your niche + workshop + Eventbrite + big city” to get a list of workshops.

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3 Facts About B2B Buyer Experience You’re Probably Ignoring

Sales Hacker

This article outlines the results of a B2B Buyer Experience survey by TimeTrade. For many of us, that’s also the primary channel through which we make an increasing number of purchases. B2B Buyer Experience Survey Outline. Make no mistake: we live in a digital world. The bottom-line? Post-sale, the numbers were equally stark.

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To Get B2B Leads, Pick Up the Damn Phone!

No More Cold Calling

In a recent HubSpot survey , salespeople said it’s 40 percent harder to get a response from prospects than it was just two or three years ago, and 30 percent harder to close deals. That’s still true, but cold calling has evolved as sales channels have evolved. Learn more about my Virtual Referral Selling Workshop Series.