Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The post 5 Guidelines for Training Employees appeared first on Criteria for Success. Because it’s easy to get lost in “just-in-case” training scenarios that can end up wasting a lot of time. If you are able to cover a broad spectrum aspects that add up to your big picture, training your employees will be [.].

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 8, 2013

I bet that two vital pieces are missing from your sales strategy. If you formalize them into your sales process, training and measurement, revenue will grow. Otherwise, your sales team will be eaten up. As the sales operations leader, you develop the sales strategy and support team performance.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 17, 2017

It’s that time of the year again — the holiday season is coming upon us and your B2B sales reps are working longer hours to close last-minute deals. Gifting has long been a marketing strategy, but your company’s community is just as important as your clients and employees. It seems like there’s not enough time in the day.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

This process involves utilizing a linking strategy and the correct keywords, ensuring visibility when potential customers search for businesses or products like yours. Black Hat and White Hat Strategies Black hat SEO refers to unethical techniques some use to manipulate search engine rankings, violating search engine guidelines.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. Plus, insights from sales experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about using AI in sales ethically. Sales professionals can ask ChatSpot for a desired outcome.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Rotting and lower yields can be used to describe the strange pool of sales candidates from which you are trying to recruit as well. There’s no time like the present to hire salespeople as long your sales recruiting strategy includes considerations for the ever changing ebb and flow of the candidate pool.

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Allego

MAY 2, 2024

Companies that make software for sales, enablement, marketing, word processing, and more all proudly say they have genAI features. If your sales reps, marketers, or other employees use them, do they have to change their strategies? For sales reps and marketers, much of what is included in the EU Act is irrelevant, he said.

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Zoominfo

MAY 19, 2020

Good sales and marketing teams target specific people for specific reasons and with specific messages. Follow these five simple guidelines, and stay on the right side of the CAN-SPAM Act. If you are emailing more than a handful of prospects, you will likely need a marketing or sales automation tool to track these unsubscribes.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 26, 2020

Successful Sales Strategy Step 7 follows right along with our downloadable guide. Too often, sales strategies start with someone at the top coming up with an arbitrary growth number based on investor demands, new product development, operational capacity, or some other factor that has absolutely nothing to do with sales.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 2, 2019

Anyone in sales knows that it can be tough to get that first appointment with an ideal prospect. If you decide to use this as one way to get in front of prospects, here are some guidelines to follow. When trying to stand out , don’t overlook the option of sending a business letter. You know what we’re talking about right?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Maybe you have a sales development rep (SDR) who spends their days prospecting and qualifying leads before passing them along to an account executive (AE). What is a CRM strategy? Without a strategy, no tool in the world will be right for the job you need to do. So, what is a CRM strategy? Increase Teamwork.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Probably not your first response, but read on to see why you may want to rethink that response…and rework your RFP strategy. While the RFP Checklist isn’t exhaustive, it provides a good starting point for developing a winning sales strategy. This is where a savvy sales rep can differentiate from the “also rans.”.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 22, 2022

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Eight Actionable Strategies To Slash Your Fleet Costs. NOTE: Our collaborative Blog provides insights on ‘Eight Actionable Strategies to Slash Your Fleet Costs.’. Eight Actionable Strategies to. One excellent strategy is to teach them how to drive while at the same time preserving fuel.

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PandaDoc

MAY 26, 2022

Is my sales strategy clear? Without a clear and documented plan to help your sales team position your products and services directly to buyers, the risk of misinterpretation, miscommunication, and costly errors increases dramatically. Here’s a closer look at how to write a sales strategy that works.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Implementing an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy used to be a complex, tedious process. Getting started meant filtering through thousands of documents and creating formal policies, guidelines, and organizational procedures defining how those documents could be used.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Is your LinkedIn social selling strategy based on FOMO (the fear of missing out)? We all agree exposure on LinkedIn is important, but there can be a negative impact without a clear social selling strategy. Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, it has evolved into the go-to-platform for sales professionals.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 26, 2020

Successful Sales Strategy Step 2 follows right along with our downloadable guide. Too often, sales strategies start with someone at the top coming up with an arbitrary growth number based on investor demands, new product development, operational capacity, or some other factor that has absolutely nothing to do with sales.

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LeadFuze

JULY 5, 2023

Crafting a sales script is an essential skill for those in sales, marketing, and business ownership. In this post, we will delve into key aspects of creating highly effective sales scripts. Identifying Key Benefits for Customers To create a killer sales script, you need to know what your customers want.

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Tom Hopkins

MARCH 30, 2012

Three Guidelines for Asking Questions Because asking good questions is such an integral part of good selling I’ve given the matter a lot of study and thought over the years. I’ve boiled down all that knowledge into three basic guidelines. Guideline #1. Establish a bond before you attempt to control the process with questions.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 24, 2018

There’s nothing more discouraging for your sales reps than to reach the end of a sales presentation and hear, “I have to think it over and get back to you.". That’s why it’s so important they feel confident delivering a convincing sales presentation. . The importance of this step in a sales presentation cannot be overstated.

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Babette Ten Haken

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A potent client retention strategy is driven by an equally potent human capital strategy. A potent client retention strategy flattens the concept of customer acquisition and retention. Otherwise, no matter how well marketing and sales efforts attempt to convince clients otherwise, your organization “looks” like everyone else’s.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

When I discuss content related issues with sales executives, I often experience some kind of surprise or even resistance – consciously or unconsciously. Ok, and how do you think your content impacts your sales performance?” You can check this out in my sales enablement book or in the Fifth Annual Sales Enablement Study.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This sales strategy example can also act as a template to document your sales plans and goals. Developing a robust sales strategy, one that can be implemented and measured is a vital cog in every company’s growth plans. Before we go into a sales strategy example, lets cover four important pre-planning actions.

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SalesEngine

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Sales revenue is one of the most important factors in determining the success and progress of a company. A successful sales strategy requires a lot of thought, commitment, and hard work, but is well worth the time. Here is a simple five-step process for creating a winning sales strategy: Conduct a SWOT Analysis.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Their strategies and fundamentals are so sound that they continue to prevail year after year. But what about playbooks in sales? How valuable is the time spent on crafting and employing best practices, tactics and strategies throughout the selling process? Well said and clearly sales-focused. Makes sense.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 2, 2018

Setting up rules and guidelines for the sales force to follow feels an awful lot like being a parent to a group of rowdy teenagers. Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Enter this information here, follow this new process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Author: Doug Bushée and Shayne Jackson Last March, sales leaders had to quickly shift from enabling in-person sellers to enabling virtual sellers. Now, as we dive deeper into a new year, sales leaders are tackling another issue. Many sales organizations have pivoted to virtual events rather than simply canceling major sales events.

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MEDDIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A Time Limited Offer You Can’t Refuse Earlier this month, we at MEDDIC Academy soft-launched Infinite Sales Leadership , a groundbreaking course designed to redefine the essence of sales leadership in the modern era. It focuses on leveraging the MEDDPICC methodology to enhance team performance and sales execution.

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Nutshell

MAY 20, 2024

The lousiest part is that it could all have been avoided with a simple call or meeting and a series of sales discovery questions at the start. Coming up with a solid set of sales discovery questions to cover all your bases can be tricky, though. Table of Contents What is the sales discovery process? Download it today!

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 12, 2020

For an organization, the sales team is one of the biggest assets because these are the people who drive business and revenue. Here are some actionable strategies you can implement to manage risks for your sales team. You would want to go the extra mile with their satisfaction and wellness. Keep track of their schedules.

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Zoominfo

MAY 19, 2020

Good sales and marketing teams target specific people for specific reasons and with specific messages. Follow these five simple guidelines, and stay on the right side of the CAN-SPAM Act. If you are emailing more than a handful of prospects, you will likely need a marketing or sales automation tool to track these unsubscribes.

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Guidelines ACT Campaigns Scale 182

Janek Performance Group

JULY 30, 2019

Requests for Proposals (RFPs) can be a significant source of revenue for many sales organizations. But they’re also time- and labor-intensive, and using the wrong strategies in pursuing them can result in a net negative to the bottom line, the hidden costs exceeding the revenue gains of won deals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Picture this: your company wants to boost its sales with an incentive program. The purpose of this article is to show you how PR and SEO can work together and how you can use public relations strategies to boost your link building efforts. You Can Set Clear Guidelines for Media Outreach. What do you do?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Sales Role Play Exercises. Sales Role Plays. The same concept can apply in sales. Guidelines: Write down the most extreme negotiating situations you’ve ever experienced (tight deadline, massive deal, legal complications, and so forth) on pieces of paper. Practice Dealing with Extreme Situations. Players: The salesperson.

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