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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and

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Seven Sales Leaders on the Challenges They Overcame in 2020 & Their 2021 Predictions

Hubspot Sales

I interviewed seven sales leaders from across the country to better understand how they overcame the challenges of 2020, what challenges they expect to encounter in 2021, and how they recommend readers combat both. Mintis Hankerson is a Senior Sales Manager at HubSpot. Mintis Hankerson on balancing empathy with achievement.

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Raising Prices When Costs are Rising

Braveheart Sales

We’re very unlikely to see wage deflation in the US market. Of course, smart companies play the arbitrage game: When costs are rising, pass along the price increases as quickly as you can while you try to delay accepting the cost increases from your suppliers as long as possible. Once wage inflation happens, it sticks.

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Build Predictable Revenue

Your Sales Management Guru

In recent years, organizations have gotten better at analyzing financial statements, refining manufacturing procedures, reengineering business systems and improving marketing effectiveness. But one area where additional improvements still can be made is the sales organization. They often lack both a strategic and tactical sales plan.

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Overloaded And Overwhelmed

Partners in Excellence

All of us, customers, sales people, marketing, customer service—everyone, daily face a number of converging forces which adversely impact our own and our organizations’ performances. Disruptive alternatives, changing the landscapes of our traditional markets and competition arise every day.

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The 10-Point Strategy for Leading Sales Teams in a Recession

Sales Hacker

Make sure that you support your AMs and intellectually curious sellers with methods to capture what they learn and share their findings with the rest of your sales team. Leverage your marketing team , especially if they are a mature function who have close connections with the buying community. Speak to your partners.