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Should Your Company Hire a Fractional Sales Manager?

Anthony Cole Training

Many companies are struggling with finding talent in today’s environment, and it is particularly difficult to find top-notch sales management talent. Depending on the industry, this role can be a very expensive one to fill, and it is critical to get it right. The list of responsibilities is long.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. CEOs trust Sales Leaders to set and follow the strategy to achieve the company’s growth goals and CEOs get frustrated when Sales Leaders fail to meet forecasts. Companies don’t know what they don’t know.

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Software for Industrial Companies: What’s in Your Tech Stack?

Nutshell

For that reason, you may be looking to gather some of those tools together for your own company. But maybe you’re unsure which tools are most useful to an industrial company like yours. On this page, we’ll go over six types of software for industrial companies. If so, don’t worry—we’ve got answers for you.

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How to Manage a Sales Pipeline for an Industrial Company

Nutshell

When you’re running a business, no matter which industry it’s in, the endgame is always sales and revenue. Ultimately, your company’s success is measured by how many sales you drive and how great your return on investment (ROI) is. But how should an industrial company like yours go about that process?

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Basic search: Easily search using keywords, job title, location, industry, and more. Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies.

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How Business Services CEOs Are Responding to Industry Disruption

SBI Growth

While the Business Services industry saw comfortable growth preceding the pandemic, only a select few market leaders have been able to accelerate growth since the crisis began. Their secret lies in their ability to execute dynamic, cross-functional revenue plans. On today’s.

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The One Thing the Best Customer Experience Companies Do Differently

Sales and Marketing Management

The way to tell which companies are the pretenders and which are legit is by asking just one simple question: “Who is in charge of your company’s customer experience?” The majority of companies don’t have anyone who owns their customer experience or who loses sleep at night over how the company is treating customers.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Take the following stats into consideration: It takes 5 minutes to connect with a prospect via direct dials, but takes 22 minutes using company switchboard numbers. SDRs have a 46% higher likelihood of connecting to someone at the director level with the help of direct dials. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. Leveraging leading industry research from industry analysts, this eBook explores how your sales team can gain back valuable time with the following: Conquering the most difficult pain points in your CRM.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Promoting Customer Success with Diverse Learning Channels

Speaker: Chrissy Irvine, VP Customer Success, SmashFly, and Hannah Leary, Customer Success Operations Specialist, SmashFly

For recruitment marketing company, SmashFly, training related to the company’s product and industry are crucial for driving customer success and retention. Self-service options enable students to engage with training on their terms - at a time, location, and pace that works best for them.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment. The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape.