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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

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Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. The Rise of Cross-Functional Teams.

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The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel.

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Value-Added Services Can Provide a Pricing Advantage

Distribution Pricing Journal

This comes from what your marketing lead would call increased perceived value. The examples of value-added services in this article are from a variety of industries. Product Bundling Product bundling is a marketing strategy where multiple products are sold together as one combined package. Services help justify price levels.

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Thanks For Training Me Not To Answer My Phone!

Partners in Excellence

You can see the death spiral created by sloppy/lazy marketing and sales. While it is an unintended consequence (in fact quite the opposite of what people are trying to achieve), what this kind of marketing is doing is training customers not to answer their phones. Marketers and sales have trained me not to answer my phone.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 115 – Be Social

Score More Sales

If you haven’t already had amazing things happen by being online, you will see how you can be blown away by the prospects, former customers, and soon-to-be-strategic partners just waiting for you to define yourself, your market niche, and the value you add to doing business with others.

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What We’ve Learned Supporting Telecom Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

In the 1990s, I started my sales career selling telecom for one of the largest privately held telecommunications companies in North America. They provide examples of how it is happening now and what the risk is of doing nothing. The SMB market is one of the fastest-growing segments.