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Bridging the SDR-to-AE Promotion Gap (Two Leaders' Perspectives)

The Bridge Group

I wanted real practitioners to share advice so I reached out to Kevin Dorsey , Head of Sales Development and Enablement at ServiceTitan, and Natasha Miller Sekkat , VP of Demand Generation at ClickSoftware. What’s a gatekeeper? Rather than post the full transcript, I’ve grouped their thoughts below. What’s Salesforce?

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Career Advice from the Pros: Starting a Sales Career in 2020? Do This

Sales Hacker Training

Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva. I Identify a challenge (getting through gatekeepers, dealing with a pricing objection, getting to power), and then I identify two different approaches to solving that challenge. Then I go through the numbers and figure out which one yielded a more positive outcome.

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The Proven Process for Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy [+Templates]

Hubspot Sales

To aid you in this process, we have free go-to-market strategy templates that can help you build a strategy that positions your product in front of your target audience. Build brand awareness and demand generation with inbound and/or outbound methods. Those entering demos will make contact with a direct sales/support person.

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

Sales Hacker

BASHO Email is a customer engagement sequence using voicemail and email messaging aimed at increase the likelihood of a positive response from prospects. Demand Generation. Gatekeeper. General Manager. Gatekeeper is a person (e.g., Deal Closing. Decision Maker. Direct Mail. Direct Sales. Onboarding.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

In this book, Thull shares a value-based approach that positions you as the most credible solution and removes customers’ internal barriers to moving forward. This book will help you position yourself for success by staying top of mind. Jeff Thull. When the stakes are high, you need a way to stand out and win. Stu Heinecke. Simplified.:

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31 Simple, Yet Brilliant Lead Generation Techniques to Supercharge Your Sales Pipeline

Sales Hacker

What are your biggest demand generation challenges? The positioning of your solution will be different for each persona. This “lumpy mail” technique bypasses the gatekeeper and straight into the hands of the decision maker, eager to know what’s inside. The easiest way to automate this is by segmenting your outreach list.

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Top 25 Incendiary Social Selling Secrets

Tony Hughes

Understand each others' pain and come to the center with insight generation which leads to demand generation rather than reactive servicing of demand. In the book Shift, they posit that 'changes and transitions' are the strongest trigger event. Go ballistic in LinkedIn Groups. Track and harness trigger events.