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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies. Quite simply, today’s enterprises are facing a talent shortage, and it’s taking longer and longer to fill open posts. According to the U.S.

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From the Switchboard to Social Media: A Brief History of Customer Service

Sales and Marketing Management

Being able to contact a commercial enterprise for free was therefore a pretty big deal.). Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. Press One for the Main Menu.

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21 Salespeople Reveal the Worst Sales Advice They Ever Got

Hubspot Sales

Bad sales advice is shockingly common -- and you don’t want to find out you’ve been misdirected the hard way. After all, every mistake means it’s harder to achieve your sales goals. I once worked for a manager who put a great deal of emphasis on activity metrics rather than actual sales results. 1) “Focus solely on activity.”.

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To Build a Sales Culture

The Brooks Group

Part of our mission statement at The Brooks Group is to help our clients build Sales Cultures. What’s a sales culture.” The sales department must be or have the potential to be profitable. If there's no profit derived from the sales department, it's hard to justify its existence. Aggressiveness is rewarded in sales.

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

Companies that prepare for and embrace the changes AI brings will thrive. Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. The need for automation in sales. The potential future of AI for sales.

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Seven Sales Leaders on the Challenges They Overcame in 2020 & Their 2021 Predictions

Hubspot Sales

From the sales floor to the makeshift home office set up, salespeople of all kinds in all industries have faced a myriad of challenges and roadblocks this year. Mintis Hankerson is a Senior Sales Manager at HubSpot. For Mintis, 2020 has been all about balancing empathy with sales achievement.

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Need to Fill Your Pipeline? It’s Time to Reconsider Your Partner Ecosystem

Sales Hacker

Smart companies, and sales professionals, are leveraging their integration ecosystems to create more sales deals and attract higher valuations. Notice this part of the Axios article: “The two companies first began talking prior to the pandemic, although that was more about a partnership than an acquisition.”.