Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Speaking of efficiency, one-to-one sales conversations are valuable, but they’re not scalable. The key to successful conversational selling is to make sure the interactions are relevant and contextual by providing your prospects and customers with the most helpful information in real time. Video soars.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like a number of our clients, they are moving towards a stronger sales-led oriented culture, recognizing the benefit of higher growth rates across all parts of the organization. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach. Who owns a client?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Consider these points: Key metrics : Customer churn and attrition rate, customer retention rate, lifetime value of a buyer (how much revenue a customer brings in the long term), and Net Promoter Score (a range that measures a customer’s experience with a product). Technology : Sales intelligence platforms and buyer intent software.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Simply put, a go-to-market strategy is a plan outlining how a company introduces and promotes its products or services to their ideal customer, considering factors like the best marketing channels, sales methodologies , and pricing strategies to guarantee the product’s ongoing success. Ensures consistent messaging across all touchpoints.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

The post Sales Strategy: What’s Most Effective? When you think about it, an effective sales strategy is all about making sure that your reps hit their quota, right? A Forrester Research study revealed that only 15 percent of sales calls add enough value, according to executives surveyed. A Great Message!

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Gone is the view that marketers are harbingers of brand only; now, they’re responsible for revenue, profits, growth, and the customer experience – a paradigm shift that calls for a newer, high-performance plan capable of addressing modern marketing holistically across awareness, acquisition and retention objectives. Here’s where you start.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. Here’s some of the top ways we see marketing and sales teams using CRM data to move the needle on pipeline and revenue.  . Customer Retention and Expansion. Alignment Around Unified Data.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

All sales organizations are masters of sales tactics. . And while tactics are important, a sound sales strategy is critical to improving your closed/won ratio. Here is the 7-step framework for crafting a bullet-proof sales strategy in 2021. Here is the 7-step framework for crafting a bullet-proof sales strategy in 2021.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Through these channels, you gain more valuable first-party data about customers and prospects to inform content and product decisions. Owned media generates first-party customer data. Austin’s F1 track.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Consider these points: Key metrics : Customer churn and attrition rate, customer retention rate, lifetime value of a buyer (how much revenue a customer brings in the long term), and Net Promoter Score (a range that measures a customer’s experience with a product). Technology : Sales intelligence platforms and buyer intent software.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Make your 2019 sales meeting kickoff theme about maximizing profitability throughout the entire customer relationship, not just during the initial deal. The 3 Moments Of Truth To Address At Your 2019 Sales Kickoff Meeting. For salespeople in negotiations, that means introducing unconsidered needs—i.e. As for keeping current ones?

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Doing sales process mapping can be fast and easy with these seven sales process steps. RELATED: 7 Most Common Mistakes In Sales Process Mapping And How To Avoid Them. In this article: A Business Needs to Have a Sales Process Map. What Is a Sales Process? Sales Process vs Sales Methodology.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. But the sale isn’t over just because your prospect becomes a customer. Yet, the majority of companies allot only 10-20 percent of their sales and marketing budgets toward customer expansion.

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

When it comes to your sales organization that means ensuring you have all the necessary rigors in place from your sales process to culture. There are six areas that we suggest focusing on when considering how to enable and prepare your sales organization to be ready to IPO. This group of black belts then certified the full team.

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

When it comes to your sales organization that means ensuring you have all the necessary rigors in place from your sales process to culture. There are six areas that we suggest focusing on when considering how to enable and prepare your sales organization to be ready to IPO. This group of black belts then certified the full team.

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Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 29, 2010

Inside sales seems to be like that, growth and replenishment. How do you train your inside sales recruits? It's focused on skills, performance and retention. Demand Gen Basics - Yes, we specialize in appointment setting, but we are in the industry of Demand Gen and appointment setting isn't just about dialing the phone any more.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration. Gamification.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Hanging Out with @GlobeSmallBiz : How to develop a Winning Sales strategy. As the title suggests, we discussed a number of topics relating to sales, and sales challenges important for small business owners.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It aligns product, marketing, sales and customer success teams around outcomes that have the greatest strategic value to customers – things that make them better at their business. Customers and prospects love you even more when your product goals mirror their business goals! Sales Training on Customers vs. Products.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ultimately, you want to create a plan that sets the product apart from the competition and generates leads and customer retention. That list is narrowed down by talking to sales teams from the solution provider and by testing product use cases until a decision is made. Identify the buying center and personas.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

One of the key elements of any successful relationship is communication — and that happens to be a huge factor in successful sales and marketing interactions, too. Sales and marketing usually want to be friends. When there isn’t a communication cadence in place between sales and marketing, a lot can get lost in translation.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

If only sales and marketing were that swashbuckling in real life, right? Every crew member on a ship has a duty to perform, and it’s the same when your sales and marketing teams are aligned. Secondly, did you notice that marketing was sales’ secret weapon? ABM improves alignment between sales and marketing.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. Did the Alinean Business Value Tools drive incremental sales, reduce sales cycles, increase deal size, generate more demand, and improve sales / consulting productivity as anticipated?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Here are the notes from this compelling and important interview: One of the biggest issues for Sales is that according to several research firms, over 1/2 of a typical prospect’s purchase decision is already complete before your sales reps are even being invited to the table. Are more buyers really paralyzed by inaction and why?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” ” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. This is the most common mistake, especially if your SDR organization falls within the sales department. Let me tell you.

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