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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers. Black, whose best-selling book “No More Cold Calling,” promotes revenue growth through referrals, says you won’t get introduced to prospective customers unless you have a solid business solution and a means to relay that. a story is the way to do it.”

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Outbound Sales vs. Inbound Sales: How to Win Big With Each Strategy

Crunchbase

Outbound selling is a technique that involves pushing your message directly to your prospects. Inbound selling involves qualifying interested prospects. Typically, these prospects will discover you and be interested in learning more. An inbound sale begins with the prospect reaching out to your company.

Inbound 52
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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. Educate New Customers about How to Use Your Product or Service. Education can be active or passive, synchronous or asynchronous, formal or informal. What Is Customer Retention?

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

” In other words, they understand that in addition to being in the business of selling whatever they sell—be it shovels or software—they also need to be producing content as a cornerstone of their marketing, both to engage and educate their would-be customers. But producing any old content isn’t enough.

Trends 180
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3 Facts About B2B Buyer Experience You’re Probably Ignoring

Sales Hacker

Given that the majority of salespeople are looking for easier engagement opportunities with prospective customers, making appointment scheduling easy for both parties seems a winning proposition. Likelihood to schedule appointments if offered by a company you may buy from. This includes programs like in-person workshops and classes.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Brian Leach, CEO of @unboxedtech

SBI

Brian: We use technology to help sales and service organizations educate and empower their employees so they can sell more and start selling sooner. Then, we arm your reps with Assistant, our mobile sales platform, to engage and educate customers and match their needs to solutions. Nancy: What does Unboxed do?

Up-Sell 50
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B2B is Dead – Long Live B2P

DiscoverOrg Sales

Bigger B2C companies have been trying break down corporate stereotypes in recent years by forming more grass-roots style messaging with personalized branding, social media, and connection to the consumer, compared to the pre-2000s. B2B, on the other hand, is generally dictated by a misguided understanding of prospective customers.

B2B 186