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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them. This runs the full gamut of revenue and customer lifecycle from marketing and demand generation, to sales, to customer success, to renewal.

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The Pipeline ? Win The Sale Without Compromising on Price

The Pipeline

In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Demand Generation. All sales aren’t created equal. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling.

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The Pipeline ? Shrink Your Way To Success

The Pipeline

One approach that intrepid leaders can look to is too shrink the size of territories, based on a number of factors driven by deal size, length of cycle, nature of the offering (new or mature), is the focus margin or market share, is there opportunity for organic growth, or strictly competitive account growth, and others. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline ? Put Price in its Place

The Pipeline

Demand Generation. As with all things worth doing in sales, there is some work involved, despite what some soothsayers will tell you, there is no silver bullet in sales. First, identify those things above price, and those item that help balance or neutralize price. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process.

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The Pipeline ? Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies

The Pipeline

Similarly in the market world, you have to entice a clientele base by promoting heavily without really striving for a high profit margin. Demand Generation. We started by building or repairing wells and bridges and offering education to anyone who was interested. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

By a wide margin, SiriusDecisions indicates that Marketing would rather spend the incremental 10% on their bread-and-butter, Demand Creation (35%), followed by Brand (17%). However, the story is quite different when Marketing is asked about their own priorities. It’s not on Enablement. 2013 - The Year for Sales Enablement?

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Are You Maximizing the Yield of All Leads that Enter Your Funnel?

InsightSquared

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. At better-aligned organizations, you’re likely having conversations about improving the conversion rate of your leads.