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Beyond Borders: Transforming Sales Strategies in a Post-Brexit UK

Allego

The seismic shifts caused by Brexit have left UK sales professionals facing a labyrinth of new challenges, especially those targeting markets outside the UK. Constant Market Changes: The uncertainty and evolving market mean sales strategies must be more flexible and attentive to what customers want and need, exactly when they need it.

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Success with a Sales Enablement Strategy

Pipeliner

More Profit, Less Time: Sales Enablement Strategy is Your Ticket to Successful Sales. It’s an intense time to be in sales these days. Time and energy used to get channeled into staying ahead of the market. But now, sales professionals are funneling that time into merely keeping up with it.

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How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling

SBI Growth

Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. You can avoid commoditization and grow your margins. Corporate Communications sees inherent risk in mobilizing a social sales force. Marketing worries about the brand’s consistency. PR handles the messaging and reinsures the market.

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Will ?Demo Automation? Work for Your B2B Sales Organization?

SBI

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. He had a mandate to decrease costs to improve profitability by increasing margins. Product Marketers.

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Sales Enablement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for 2013

The ROI Guy

Michael Gerard, VP of IDC ‘s CMO and Sales Advisory Practice indicates in a recent presentation that it now takes more than 650 targets just to get one deal, and each deal is taking longer to close than before, some 19 months for the marketing and sales cycle to complete. This is a good news / bad news story from IDC.

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Time to prioritize customer referrals

Sales and Marketing Management

It’s equally powerful in business-to-business marketing. Instead, buyers talk with their peers in their personal networks, do their own research via web searches and social media, and have already done a good deal of vetting before they even talk to sales. and ultimately closed sales? and ultimately closed sales?—?why

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?