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Marketing strategies from the Grateful Dead

Sales and Marketing Management

Fellow Deadheads, Meerman is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” and Halligan is CEO and cofounder of marketing software behemoth HubSpot. Their rejection of core assumptions in their industry allowed them to really stand out from their competition and create a cascade of benefits for their customers. Free your content.

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How to Build a Sales Process: The Complete Guide

Nutshell

Examples of tasks for this stage: Collect recent customer referrals Attend trade show or networking event Gather recent leads from content offers on your website Search social media for companies/executives in target industry DOWNLOAD Which tasks should your sales reps be completing at each stage in the sales process?

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WHAT IS LIFECYCLE MARKETING AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT?

Apptivo

Look at the myriad software companies that give you free trial period to test and experience the product. Roadshows, participation in trade shows, door-to-door activities, providing free-samples, have helped traditional marketers for ages. Encourage social competitiveness by gamification of Product Experience.

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How to create an effective sales plan: Tips and examples

PandaDoc

Target market A company that specializes in customized software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses might create a sales plan to target businesses in major US metropolitan areas working in the technology, retail, and healthcare industries — with annual revenues of $1 million to $20 million.

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Taking Care Of Our People

Partners in Excellence

Look at your comp/incentive plans, think about adjustments you may have to make. Travel, event, trade-shows (these are all being stopped anyway). Some training will have to be deferred, many programs should be stopped or deferred, some software tools may be stopped. Reduce all discretionary spending that you can.

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

It’s equal parts party, celebration, inspiration, philanthrophy and industry trade-show. Act-On Software. See clearer and farther than your competition. Seismic Software ToolSkool. Dreamforce is the world’s largest gathering of Salesforce users, practitioners, and evangelists. ActonSoftware.

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Sales Team Gamification and the Virtual #SalesSummit

SBI

The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. SPIFs (Sales Performance Incentive Funds) are commonly used to incentivize salespeople to sell more of a particular product in a given period of time. SPIFs are an example of using contests to change behavior.

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