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Pipeline Growth Best Practices

MarketJoy

Create lead magnets: Examples are guides, video demos, discounts, reports, etc. Employ an efficient sales team: A sales team that works together to coordinate different stages of your pipeline is a valuable asset to your company. If you need help building and growing your sales pipeline, look no further!

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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. Enablement ranked fifth in priorities for the incremental spend, with only 1 in 10 indicating that this would be their priority.

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Is Marketing Too Busy? The Forgotten Sales Professional

The ROI Guy

With so much to work on, its easy for marketers to forget a very important audience, sales professionals, and where marketing meets sales, sales enablement. The good news is that sales enablement programs have become more formalized, and investments in sales support have never been higher.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

According to SiriusDecisions, focusing on marketing costs per sales person indicates that on average companies invest a significant $43,011 / salesperson, an estimated 3%-7% of the opportunity value of the sales pipeline. Surveys reveal that buyers are not satisfied with the value sales professionals are delivering to engagements.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

For demand-gen marketing campaigns, compelling value oriented interactive tools is an absolute requirement for today’s frugal and skeptical IT buyers. Reduce discounting and increase deal size for direct sales by 20% or more by migrating sales from features, function and price selling to business value selling.

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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

Demand Generation. Direct Sales. Decision Maker in the context of sales, is a person who possesses the required expertise and authority in making purchase decisions. Discount means a promotional reduction in the cost of a product or service, commonly deployed to speed up sales. Sales Acceleration.

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PODCAST 100: Succeeding as the First Marketing Hire w/ Nicole Wojno Smith

Sales Hacker

There was a big shift of people moving to cloud marketplaces for these purchases and seeing organizations consolidate a lot of their IT spend to cloud providers because the more they purchase over time through something like AWS for example, the better their discount is and they’ll have less burden on the vendor management side of things.

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