Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. The short answer is no.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 18, 2024

The Importance of Building Credibility with Local Businesses Building credibility with local businesses is critical to the success of any digital marketing agency. In the competitive realm of digital marketing, focusing on building authenticity and trust gives you an edge.

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SalesFolk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Some of them are even downright boring… You can’t expect strangers to take the time to analyze a complicated chart your marketing team designed. Treats from my sold-out Cold Email Copywriting Workshop. I recently gave a virtual workshop on cold email copywriting to 100 eager participants.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Group Cooking Or DIY Workshops Getting hands-on can always be a fun activity for all, and it helps to get out of the “we need to bond” office mindset. Group cooking lessons can be a great place to begin, and DIY workshops or pottery crafting sessions can be fun, too. You might enjoy a wonderful time together in that space.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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SalesFolk

MARCH 2, 2021

Too often I see sales and marketing leaders defining their buyer personas as “Marketing” or “C-Suite.” Even more commonly, I see “Operations” getting lumped together with marketing and extremely different departments that manage different aspects of the business. More free Cold Email treats from my sold-out workshop .

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Increase Sales

JULY 26, 2017

These salespeople and probably some are marketing people spray these sales pitches all over the place through social selling and then pray something will eventually stick. The idea of actually knowing your ideal customer , your target market to the sales leads never enters the minds of these individuals. The Power of Social Selling.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. Market insights: Topical themes and drivers that can open conversations. Example job titles.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The techniques we discuss in today’s post will help you email any prospect, whether it’s a CEO, marketing VP, industry influencer, or your favorite podcast host. Here’s an example: Here’s the cold email copy we used: This email succeeded for two reasons. Cold Email Template Examples.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

You can send individuals to workshops or bring someone to you to provide a tailored program. . The chances are, if you have a small sales team, you have an even smaller marketing team. For example, you might have salespeople compete over qualifying leads or making calls to encourage an uptick in productivity. .

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. For example, as sales people, we know–without a doubt that: We’ve got to prospect and fill our funnels. I contribute my fair share to the clutter.)

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Sales Lead Management Association

JUNE 3, 2019

June 7: Account Based Marketing for Mid-Size Companies (Live Online) 10:00am–12:00pm PSTYou’re invited to expand your knowledge of ABM Best Practices that can dramatically improve your sales pipeline in the DMAnc.org's Live Online workshop, Account Based Marketing for Mid-Size Companies.We’ll share ABM go-to-market step-by-step tactics and sales pipeline (..)

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. As you may have noticed over to the right, we are presenting the Proactive Prospecting Workshop in Toronto/Markham, scheduled for April 13. When Sales Met Marketing. Second Prize.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2023

For example, an open, a response, a click-through, a conversation are examples of outputs. Sometimes we tend to think of these as interchangeable. but they are very different. Outputs tend to focus on the tangible results of an activity. They might be downloads of content, demonstrations, even proposals completed.

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Adaptive Business Services

JUNE 2, 2021

An Implementation Workshop addressing the following should be performed to define how Nimble will be set up and configured for your business. Sales, Marketing, and Business Processes to be supported. Understand that the configuration defined during the Workshop is not “set in stone”. Project Goals and Objectives.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Think of your portfolio vision as the ultimate “strategic goal/outcome” your target customers want from your portfolio of products.

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree! It would save a ton of work for product marketing, plus, your product positioning that opens doors for salespeople would be the same as the conversations they’re having with buyers. It’s completely conversational on both fronts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2018

For example, consider industries, such as medicine or education, that have strict regulations on personal data. Hold interactive workshops with a “there are no stupid questions” rule, emphasizing what’s exciting, fun, confusing, or special about what your team is selling. Let Knowledge and Excitement Lead.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

With LeanData and Salesloft as this year’s co-sponsors, the conference hosts 2,500 attendees with 25+ speakers sharing their knowledge and experience across 20+ sessions and workshops. Take for example, LeanData’s VP of Commercial Sales, Rob Simmons. Some of the best connections are made at OpsStars.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With the “foot in the door” method, you can reach any prospect — whether it’s a CEO, marketing VP, industry influencer, or your favorite podcast host. For example: Japan. Japan is one of many countries that regulate email marketing efforts and enforce heavy penalties on spammers. Books, courses, seminars, workshops, etc.?)

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Each post has had a slightly different approach, perhaps different examples. Ironically, the other day I was running a “coaching” workshop with an outstanding client. As part of that workshop, we talked about our shared propensity to focus on what’s wrong.

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Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. For example, a CEO’s concerns will be different than that of an HR manager. Messaging should be tailored to each one to address those unique concerns. Common buyer objections.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Yet, only 54 percent say it generally feels like sales, service, and marketing don’t share information. It’s built on the understanding that every department, from product development to marketing, contributes to customer’s brand perception and engagement. Technology is vital to this transformation.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 13, 2020

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. Just Google, “your niche + workshop + Eventbrite + big city” to get a list of workshops.

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Pipeliner

MAY 28, 2021

For marketers, the old approaches to brand and product promotion are no longer relevant, and marketing channels that were considered novelties in the past are already well-entrenched. However, the way you use inbound marketing channels will set you apart from your competitors and increase your brand recall and revenue.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, 84 percent of CSOs are satisfied with gender diversity. This includes how these cultivate innovation, expand market reach, enhance customer relationships, and, ultimately, drive organizational success. For example, buyers in Shanghai differ from those in Tokyo. Yet men still outnumber women at all levels.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Marketing also joins the sessions, because we all need to be cohesive and go to market the same way. “We We started our “Selling to Marketers” session by training our reps on what that persona cares about. Example: SKO Focus (Selling to Marketers). Example: SKO Location. Customer Success.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

” Example. Bryerton offers this example from our 2017 event. “Selling to Marketers” was the focus of the event. As marketing departments handle an increasing percentage of a company’s budget, one of our sales goals was to sell more to marketing buyers. It’s very development-oriented.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

70% of marketing content goes unused (Forrester). Surface key sales processes, methodologies, and channels Where is our market opportunity? Document details on your competition, target personas, and markets/verticals What do I need to win? Define how you sell. Make it clear who you sell to, and against.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Margie Agin is a Founder and Chief Strategist at Centerboard Marketing, content expert, speaker, and author. From the sales and marketing perspective, we have to be very careful not to act like the story is over once when we close the sale. for their marketing and sales purposes. Identifying the brand’s personality.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 24, 2022

Too often, I get asked to do a different version of the same speech, or a different version of the same workshop, or to write about the same issue, trying to get a new twist or slightly different approach. My dream is that we, as a professional community, solve these current issues of marketing, selling, value creation.

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Product Management University

MARCH 8, 2018

The most basic rule of marketing is so easy to forget. This is marketing in many retail and consumer product companies. It exemplifies how easy it is to forget the most basic rule of marketing: Understanding the ultimate aspirations of your target customers – and then messaging to those aspirations. Here’s a common scenario.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 23, 2020

Limited Attendance – It takes an awful lot of classroom workshops to train a globally-dispersed group of sellers, often just 20 people at a time. You don’t have to wait to schedule roadshows or classroom workshops across the country or globe to roll out situation-critical messages and skills.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2023

You can connect with millions of people globally for only a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing. We'll cover everything you need to know about starting an online business and digital entrepreneurship examples to help you along your journey. You can benefit from a rapidly growing market. Marketing costs are also lower.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Local Events in Selling to Small Businesses For those of you in the sales department of a digital marketing agency, selling to small businesses may seem intimidating. To learn how other industry leaders are effectively utilizing local events, check our blog post Networking Tips for Digital Marketers.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 19, 2013

For example, your sales team will almost always lead with two solutions: Sales compensation. For example, when asked for funds to train sales reps, ask for an objective. When evaluating sales problems brought to you by your team, objectives must be by: Market segment. An Example. Sales training. Root cause. A big problem.

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