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Marketers Just Want To Market: Here’s How

Sales and Marketing Management

The best marketing minds are like that – a marriage of seeming opposites that end up working together. Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically. Here tonight,” he said, “we have apple and orange.

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The No. 1 Thing Leadership Can Do to Align Marketing and Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jay Mitchell, Owner and Principal, Mereo LLC In order to learn how to align marketing and sales teams, we must understand how devastating a gap between these departments can be for an organization overall. Sales and marketing are both vital to a B2B organization. Sales and marketing both work to: Engage a buyer.

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Five Ways for Sales Leaders to Stay Inspired

Steven Rosen

He has been in the industry for the last ten years and has been a star in various sales and marketing roles. His leadership style has always been one of pace-setting and leading by example. As a result, organizations inadvertently sap the enthusiasm and energy of their top leaders, leaving them frustrated, burnt out and ready to go.

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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

Later as a global CMO at SAP, he was the catalyst for SAP’s brand value rising $2.8B, or 46% during his tenure. You might remember ‘The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP’ series of campaigns that repositioned SAP from an exotic solution to significant adoption. We do not create marketing for the sake of marketing.”.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Is Your Product Obviously Awesome? with Expert April Dunford (S5Ep13)

Alice Heiman

April Dunford, an authority on product positioning, discusses the critical role of positioning in sales and marketing. And describes in her second book, Sales Pitch, how to translate the marketing work done for positioning into sales speak. This podcast is a must listen and her books are both must reads.

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Corporate Diversity & Inclusion Trends of 2020

Zoominfo

“The pandemic is not agnostic to issues of power, privilege, or equity…This is a clear example of the very issues that diversity and inclusion initiatives are designed to address.” — Maxine Williams, Facebook’s Chief Diversity Officer This post is part of ZoomInfo’s 2020 Annual Report series.

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The Two Types of Tech Companies and How Each Should Sell

Sales and Marketing Management

Whether companies operate as innovators in their respective technology fields who drive the marketplace (technology leaders) or focus and develop in a specific niche market (focused players), tech organizations can get bogged down by these advantages without having defined sales processes, leading to struggles with conversion.

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