Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For some it’s an actual product: a unique amalgam of ingredients no other chef has yet discovered or marketed. In a competitive market, what pushes companies ahead isn’t just what they sell – it’s also how they sell. Today, winning in the market isn’t just about having the best product. The key ingredients.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database. And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. Think about it.

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SalesForce Territories Intent Signal Buyer Persona 219

SBI

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Old-School Territory Management is Dead: A Q&A with John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything. Following the recent acquisition of TerrAlign by MapAnything, I asked MapAnything CEO John Stewart to explain the relationship between map-based geo-productivity and territory optimization. So, I asked John to tell me more.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. A few years back, someone in Wing’s position might have faced a long slog full of trial and error and manual research. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

Last but not least, don’t forget to; “LinkedIn connect, and don’t sell!” This includes respect for the Sales Development motion and people, the importance of alignment between teams, and a focus on setting the SDR and AE up for success. What’s the best cold call opener? Which subject lines and email templates are working?

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2017

Author: Joe Andrews In recent articles, we looked at why an analysis of your ideal customer profile (ICP) and total addressable market (TAM) is foundational to modern sales and marketing initiatives, and also provided a framework for how to get started with your analysis. Most companies do not have complete coverage of their TAM.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

Want to get the real scoop about social selling? Here’s Barb’s take on social selling. People pick up on a catchphrase that is garnering attention and before you know it, they are jumping on the bandwagon to proclaim that they are the expert. That’s what is happening with social selling. This is about selling.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This type of research will earn you respect and a listening ear. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. Bottom-Up Quota Setting. Here’s a quick primer on these two main areas of focus.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Castro began his career in sales in a field role, which has long been shorthand for good old-fashioned door-to-door selling. GTM Plays Automated go-to-market plays that can rapidly scale your business. Selling in today’s economy is tough enough. Meeting people face-to-face was a valuable experience.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That’s why branching into new territory is more important than ever. In this post, we’ll further explore the concept of using AI to sell into new industries and review five ways your sales team can leverage it. 5 Ways Your Team Can Use AI to Sell Into New Industries 1. 5 Ways Your Team Can Use AI to Sell Into New Industries 1.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 2, 2020

This can include new quotas, territories, products, and compensation plans. Let's add one more thing to the list — creating a spirit of cooperation between your sales and marketing organization. Today’s modern salesperson doesn’t sell in a vacuum, and reaching a new level of success in sales often requires some help from marketing.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They’re trained to sell to anyone who wants to buy and facilitate a quick buying process — but as inbound salespeople, we know who our products are made for, and we should only be selling to customers who are going to leverage value over time. Their vertical market (i.e. industry) does not fit your target market.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2013

To get this tool, sign-up here. This also gets you access to SBI’s Annual Sales & Marketing Research. At no cost, an expert from SBI will present the full research findings. Reps give up and learn to live off of base salary. If it’s been the same year after year, it might be time to shake things up.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database. And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. ZoomInfo’s Salesforce Sync helps bridge the gap here by connecting our go-to-market intelligence directly to Salesforce.

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Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside researcher and author Sean Achor. If you want to sell more, lead with empathy. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business. Identify Your Target Market.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Has your Sales Ops planning kept up with the new realities? Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. If that covers most of your plan’s components, you better catch up.

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Alice Heiman

MAY 10, 2022

Set yourself up for #success by answering these 6 questions to ensure you hit your sales #goals! The “number” should be set based on the growth available in the market (based on research) and not on the growth your leadership wishes was available. Simply giving salespeople a larger quota and telling them to sell doesn’t work.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But if you find out they're in the market for a new vendor, you can reach out to your prospect before they begin researching, which ensures your message will be received with much more interest. Luckily there are a few places you can set up alerts that will help you discover these events as they arrive.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “ buyer’s journey.”

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

Industry researchers have found that a typical salesperson only spends about a third of their time actually selling. The rest is typically spent researching prospects, logging activities, and organizing to-do lists. GTM Plays Automated go-to-market plays that can rapidly scale your business.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Free Resources.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 5, 2023

As companies add and reallocate talent, enter new markets and territories, and adopt more security tools, corporate email systems are becoming increasingly complex. In fact, according to our research, nearly 80% of the Fortune 500 use more than one email domain or address pattern, and more companies are following their lead every day.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2012

Here is a question for you: What happens if the new product doesn’t sell? When you built your new product, you most likely did most or all of the following: Conducted market research to understand the problems of your customers. Validated the market will pay to solve these problems. They don’t know how to do it.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. Chad Burmeister , founder and CEO of BDR.ai , supports Wittman’s comment about value-based selling. Selling with AI is a good example.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

To learn more about designing sales organization models, sign up for SBI’s 7 th Annual Research Session. Loss of market share. Geography – territories are designed by zip code. You have reps who live in (or near) a particular geo where they sell. Make the # by: Building territories around rep proximity.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. Home About The Pipeline.

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Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

They designed new industry research methods that include both customers and sales reps. She was exploring new territory and charting the unknown. . While marketing was creating and organizing valuable content for sales reps to use, reps were often still unaware of what resources were available and how to best use them.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Reps constantly need to develop their product and market expertise, learn new company messaging and value propositions, and hone conversational skills to have more meaningful interactions with buyers. Selling to local SMBs is very different from selling to Fortune 100 executives, for example.) Social Selling. Prospecting.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In fact, sometimes it can help companies identify opportunities to develop solutions the market needs. If you want to develop a strong organization with core capabilities and predictable results, you need to sell the same kinds of things to the same kinds of people. Research Your Ideal Clients. Here’s a simple example….

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

According to Demand Gen Report ‘s 2022 B2B Buyer Behavior Survey , 55% of buyers say their purchasing timelines have grown, while 82% of sales professionals have had to adapt quickly to new ways of selling. Behind the scenes, it takes time for marketing to qualify and route high-value leads with sales. The result?

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside researcher and author Sean Achor. If you want to sell more, lead with empathy. Identify Your Target Market. Savvy sellers know their target markets: The size, persona and type of accounts that will feed them for days and often years. •

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SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Over the last couple of years, many of our customers have been asking us to identify the go-to-market strategy, and specific execution points, around selling in teams. In this blog, I won’t cover why it’s so critical to sell in squads and pods – that should be self-explanatory. Step 2: Deep research.

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