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Marketing strategies from the Grateful Dead

Sales and Marketing Management

The band’s “passion, creative spirit, imaginative soul and industrious commitment to promote truth, fairness, justice and the Grateful Dead way led them through the evolutionary transition where they went from playing for silver to playing for life,” Walton writes. Think Netflix versus Blockbuster or Zipcar versus Hertz. Free your content.

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

Despite the fact that we live and breathe incentive comp, we are not immune to the factors that affect every sales organization. Our goal was to give our sales leaders the same in-depth look at Xactly’s sales performance across our sales team and companies in our industry as our customers. Are we assigning effective territories?

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Tips to Maintain Control of a Sales Negotiation

Janek Performance Group

In our recent white paper The Ultimate Guide to Sales Negotiations , we discuss how negotiations improve with consultative selling. They must show how solutions impact immediate concerns while also looking long term, anticipating changes to the buyer’s industry that offer opportunities for growth.

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6 Ways to Generate Urgency in B2B Sales

Janek Performance Group

Product sheets, blogs, and white papers are effective tools, especially when strategically deployed in the sales process. Special discounts, one-time-offers, and other time-sensitive promotions can be great incentives to create urgency. Collateral stays with buyers when meetings and calls end. It must inspire action.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

Zoominfo

Select firmographic data points, such as industry, geography, and revenue, and demographic data points, such as job title and location to narrow down your total addressable market. This gated content serves as a lead magnet — a valuable asset that creates an incentive for leads to share their contact information in order to access it.

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Top 7 Cross Promotion Ideas Every Business Should Consider

Pipeliner

Start by making a list of all your leading industry publications. Use a search string like “your industry + blog” or “your industry + write for us” without the quotes. And it works in every industry! Here, ebooks and in-depth white papers can offer greater value than top-level blog posts.

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Sales Tech Simplified: How to Turn Relationships Into Revenues with @ModelN

SBI

Nancy: Why does the industry need your solution? Russ: As you point out in your white paper explaining the Hierarchy of Revenue Needs, companies need to look closely at their processes to determine where to make improvements that offer the highest impact. We call it Sales Tech Simplified.

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