The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re currently creating sales comp plans for the new year and are struggling to come up with compensation plans for your sales engineers, you’re not alone. The best sales engineers are technically-minded like an engineer, forward-thinking like a product manager, and have the selling chops of an AE.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Since then, rivals Google and Microsoft have poured billions (with a B) of dollars into generative AI tools, with mixed results. AI tools such as ChatGPT have many potential applications in sales , from creating marketing content to predicting customer behavior. How many new AI tools are there? How do you even use these things?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Author: Staff One of the surest ways to advertise your business online is through search engine optimization (SEO). Simply put, your site needs to rank among the top websites that Google or other search engines list on the search engine result pages (SERPs) for the keywords you’ve optimized in your web content. You name it.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Keyword research tools help simplify that process for you. This post will break down the best keyword research tools as well as the basics of keyword research for your business. You can go through the following sections to learn more: Table of Contents What is a keyword research tool? With this tool, you can access up to 1.25

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

In order for your car to run efficiently, you need every part of your engine firing on all cylinders. Everyone on your team must meet their specific goals in order for your engine to operate efficiently. Every part of your revenue engine serves a specific purpose, but each part supports the whole. Where your problem areas lie.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 16, 2017

However, while automation is delivering ROI for most teams – 86 percent report its been somewhat or very effective – the best marketing engine in the world won’t function without creative fuel. Automation might provide the marketing engine with more horsepower, but without enough creative “fuel,” it can’t accelerate the vehicle.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

That piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today, and it may make you wonder: Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chatbots are the perfect tool to amp up your website while seamlessly fitting into your demand generation engine. Can Your Team Handle Yet Another Tool?

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Guru

MARCH 9, 2021

All engineering teams rely on some kind of documentation tool to communicate important product information with their colleagues. For small teams just getting started, this could be as simple as a Google Doc, and for larger teams with complex products, this could be a hierarchical wiki.

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SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Inbound marketing, important part of digital marketing , focuses on attracting customers to your company or product through various online channels, such as search engines, social media, and blogs. You can use keyword research tools like Google AdWords Keyword Planner to help you find the right keywords for your business.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With Automatizer, we’re offering a supremely easy workflow tool—which is actually an automation growth engine. As we see in the World Economic Forum report, an increasing number of humans will be replaced by technology tools such as Automatizer, over the next 5 years. Helping us redefine real work are tools such as Automatizer.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2024

Here’s my forecast though: Prompt engineering will not be enough to give any business a lasting competitive edge. Prompt engineering will not be a key competitive advantage. Bloomberg just showed us the path with its new AI tool. This tool is based on Bloomberg’s huge store of financial data. This is the beginning.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Their goal is to build a cohesive revenue engine with ever-growing disjointed parts. That’s why I’ve built out the Revenue Engine Framework to help drive you to success. Revenue Engine Optimizers Focus on the Entire Customer Lifecycle. PEAS explains the what of the Revenue Engine. This is the how of the revenue engine.

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Nutshell

MARCH 1, 2024

Competitor monitoring tools give you the power to track your competition’s wins and losses, giving you a competitive advantage within the market. That said, different competitor tracking tools bring different features and benefits to the table. Table of Contents What is a competitor monitoring tool?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. From software that leverages your partner ecosystem to prospect databases, every tool on this list can help you fill your sales pipeline. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s smart fishing in the sea of search engines. The Advantages of Automating Keyword Discovery Evaluating Best AI-Powered Research Tools FAQs in Relation to Keyword Research Using Ai Can you use AI for keyword research? It stands true even when picking modern-day gadgets—choosing the best tool matters.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 12, 2018

NASA engineers huddled in a room under unbelievable time pressure to save their astronauts. Technology is an amazing tool, but humans make the final decisions. The post Why Productivity Tools Make You Less Productive … and Less Creative appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Failure is not an option.” The moral of the story?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” All of what I see from sellers leveraging ChatGPT and similar tools are well written, most are unimpressive. Before I dive into this discussion, I do recognize we are in the very early stages of learning how to exploit these tools for greatest value. But our customers struggled with using the tools.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Software Advice surveyed nearly 2000 sales professionals who use a mobile version of a CRM tool and found the following: Nearly all salespeople using mobile CRM (82 percent) say that accessing their system on smartphones and tablets greatly or moderately improves the quality of their CRM data. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 28, 2020

The modern engineering organization is tooled, skilled, and increasingly experienced in delivering products using Agile methodology. This hard-won transformation required fundamental shifts in the processes by which product is designed, developed, and maintained. Yet the business impact of all this.

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SBI

APRIL 1, 2020

TechTarget Launches Verified MSP Targeting Powered by Priority Engine Purchase Intent Platform. Nasdaq: TTGT), the global leader in B2B technology purchase intent data and services, today announced the release of Verified MSP Targeting powered by Priority Engine TM , TechTarget’s SaaS-based purchase intent insight platform.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Most effective marketing plans in the digital age include a strategy around search engine optimization, including the use of Google AdWords and other keyword advertising tools. As part of these strategies, many companies consider purchasing keywords including a competitor’s trademarks.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2024

Don’t get me wrong, these tools are very powerful and helpful. I try some prompt engineering beyond what’s recommended (I’ve gotten pretty good at that) and the result is MEH. Undistinguished, absent of any insight, blah… In fairness, these tools tell us this. There, I said it, I got it off my chest.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 16, 2020

How To Build A Sales Engine That Will Land Massive Deals – Repeatedly Every sales person wants to build a sales engine that will land them improve their business, earn massive deals, and generate future sales. That’s how you build your sales engine. The focus should be to keep the dialogue going.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

When growing up on a farm, it is beneficial to learn how to use certain tools. Learning what the tools are at an early age was extremely helpful especially when dad (Ray) was working underneath a pickup truck or in the middle of a tractor engine and he said to his son (me), "Antny (Anthony), hand me the flat head screw driver."

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Mindtickle

MAY 8, 2018

Sales engineers play a crucial role in the sales process for complex products. When you’re in the discovery stage, customers don’t need an engineer’s level of expertise, they just need to qualify that your product may be right for them. So when should you involve a sales engineer? Tell reps when to get them involved.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

” Since then, he’s become a thought partner in helping me develop tools and models on driving sales performance. As of today, I am more then 20 years into my sales career, started as sales engineer and now sales director and have no intention to move away from my sales career for the foreseeable future.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

Accordingly, our collaborative blog outlines what you need to know about SEO. __ Need to Know About SEO What is Search Engine Optimization? SEO, or search engine optimization, improves the quality and quantity of website traffic from search engines to websites or web pages. Search engines are smart.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2020

An ending about which tools the man should use to fish? The soft skills of selling will always be the most important, but handing your team the proper tools will enhance their abilities and efficiencies. All this combines into sales teams needing the right tools so they can win more often. . Or the easiest method to teach?

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 24, 2017

Sales engineering mindset combines the best of many worlds. As a result, individuals with sales engineering mindset are tailor made to help clients address the challenges of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) business ecosystem. Do you under estimate the value of your sales engineering colleagues? Not only that. .

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 16, 2019

Traditionally, manufacturers have turned technical experts like engineers into sellers because of their in-depth product knowledge. Engineers come into sales with the advantage of in-depth technical knowledge. One reason? Manufacturing sales organizations often assume technical expertise is enough.

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SBI

JULY 29, 2020

Mediafly Launches JumpStart ROI, Empowers Sellers with Fast Access to Affordable, Usable, Scalable Value-Selling Assessment Tool. As value propositions evolve more quickly than ever before, sellers lack usable value tools they can rely on to proactively prove value for every deal, not just larger ones. CHICAGO – July 29, 2020 .

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Product Configurator – The Most Effective Product Management Tool to ensure that the Product Management Process Is Followed. This is the kind of story that makes product managers and engineers seethe. The post Product Management and Engineering: Your CPQ Project’s Greatest Assets? Product configuration is powered by data.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 17, 2013

It has been the case that many sales tools have been unapproachable for smaller and SMB sales teams due to the financial investment as well as the time and expertise to get some tools in place. The Good News – Tools Can be Easy to Try Out and Implement. Field Reps Needing Mobile Tools – Salespod.

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BrainShark

MARCH 29, 2022

However, most traditional tools for delivering training (called learning management systems or LMS) aren’t built specifically for customer-facing roles, which means: It’s difficult and time-consuming to create and deliver educational content. Here are the tools we’ll cover in this article: Brainshark. Articulate. Brainshark.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 25, 2024

Schema markup, a type of structured data, is code that you place on your website to help search engines provide more informative results for users. Incorporating local schema strategies lets search engines better comprehend your content, which translates to a more compelling presentation of your website on SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

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SBI

JANUARY 31, 2020

TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory. Priority Engine Email Alerts provide reps with quicker and easier access to this powerful intelligence and is the latest in a series of releases aimed at vastly increasing sales productivity and effectiveness. “The

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