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How Defining Your Processes for Special Pricing Agreements Can Improve Margins and Drive Profitability

Distribution Pricing Journal

SPAs also foster closer collaboration between manufacturers and distributors, aligning their sales and marketing strategies with strategic accounts. The distributor and supplier work together to negotiate these agreements to specific customers or market segments based on marketing goals to offer reduced pricing.

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The Art of Collaboration: Turn Strategic Losses into Opportunities to Win

Sales and Marketing Management

This article examines how to evaluate your current standing and begin translating losses into new opportunities to win. . Fortunately, this psychology provides the first opportunity to reframe the current situation by taking back some control. Start with the value you bring to the table.

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A Marketing and Sales Blind Spot?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? When marketers and salespeople align on something —  anything! — our Not so fast. Blind spots: Detected.

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The Interview….

Partners in Excellence

Dave: Thanks for the opportunity to speak, I’m sure I can have a great impact in driving growth in your sales organization. VCs are investing and have driven our market cap to hundreds of millions. CEO: What were the rough gross margins? With gross margins of 75% you must have had monstrous sales/marketing expense.

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What Value Are Your Customers Creating For You?

Partners in Excellence

Usually, we think of that in terms of the revenue the opportunity will generate for us. And sometimes, in addition to revenue, we may look at gross margins generated by the customer. But we need to look at value creation–and the value we receive from our customers as more than revenue or gross margin.

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Can AI revolutionize your content marketing strategy?

Pipeliner

Harnessing AI in Content Marketing: Insights from John Golden and Kyle Stout Hello everyone, I’m John Golden, your host for this enlightening discussion on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in content marketing. I had the pleasure of hosting Kyle Stout, the founder of Elevate and Scale, a leading email marketing agency.

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It’s Time to Pay Marketers Based On Their Financial Impact

Sales and Marketing Management

Business leaders need to be able to meet a marketer or PR pro and say the same thing. The commission model for marketers. As a former CMO and CCO in large technology companies, I’ve worked closely with a lot of marketing teams and agencies. Those same marketers received sizable discretionary bonuses as a result.