SBI

JUNE 10, 2015

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Plus, our tools are versatile. Humans are inconsistent in their sales approach, which hurts the customer experience.

Up-Sell 50

Up-Sell Decision Maker Revenue Closing 50

Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 27, 2015

Smart companies don’t have software initiatives; they have business initiatives that drive software purchases. When you have disparate tools, you can’t do that, since they often don’t integrate together. Worse, the tools won’t work across the whole process. It also has a marketing module to help dealer offices.

Scale 48

Scale Smart Company CRM Microsoft 48

Braveheart Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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.

Margin 40

Margin Insurance Insurance Energy 40

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2019

These classifications provide the building blocks at a company’s inception, as they broadly define a brand’s audience and target market. But, in the rapidly changing sales and marketing landscape, it’s important to challenge the status quo. Enter, B2P (business-to-person) sales and marketing.

B2C 182

B2C B2B Marketing Lead Rank 182

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2019

These classifications provide the building blocks at a company’s inception, as they broadly define a brand’s audience and target market. But, in the rapidly changing sales and marketing landscape, it’s important to challenge the status quo. Enter, B2P (business-to-person) sales and marketing.

B2C 100

B2C B2B Marketing Lead Rank 100

Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 13, 2015

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.

Revenue 40

Revenue Hiring System Case Study 40

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Leah Chaney , the Chief Experience Officer for BetterGrowth, a customer support agency she founded. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Hey everybody, welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales teams have had to quickly adapt to a new normal.

Customer 67

Customer Churn Lead Rank Scale 67

Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

The recent increase in the number of Online Reputation Management companies validates this, however smart companies have learned some simple strategies and techniques on how to deal with the Customers From Hell, and try to catch them before the problem escalates, let alone they post anything negative online.

Ideal Customer Profile 50

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Social Media CRM 50

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From the sales floor to the makeshift home office set up, salespeople of all kinds in all industries have faced a myriad of challenges and roadblocks this year. Mintis Hankerson is a Senior Sales Manager at HubSpot. For Mintis, 2020 has been all about balancing empathy with sales achievement.

Real Estate 134

Real Estate Face-to-face Forecasting Hubspot 134

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

It is our job as leaders and sales professionals to prepare for such an eventuality. 10 key points for sales leaders. What I share with you below is a distillation of incredible advice from sales leaders and professionals, as well as my own experiences. Sellers don’t just look to their sales leader for reassurance.

Lead Rank 84

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky , an internationally recognized thought leader known as the disaster avoidance. His cutting edge thought leadership has been featured in over 550 articles and 450 interviews in the likes of Fast Company, CBS News, and Time. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Government 99

Government Call-back Real Estate Face-to-face 99

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 13, 2018

This morning, it was helpful as I spoke to a client/friend, I knew his company had just closed on an acquisition–something he’d been deeply involved in. I just got my first “SMART Company Brief” from DecisionLink. I got extra credit points in the call by congratulating him on the acquisition.

Smart Company 65

Smart Company Analysis Face-to-face Competition 65

Pipeliner

MAY 13, 2020

From new employee management strategies to cutting-edge innovations in marketing, the year ahead is headed towards booming success for companies that align their strategies accordingly. Recent studies show a whopping 84% of companies that have current hiring needs anticipate using executive recruiters to fill those roles.

Hiring 98

Hiring Trends Retention Ideal Customer Profile 98

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

Smart companies, and sales professionals, are leveraging their integration ecosystems to create more sales deals and attract higher valuations. Notice this part of the Axios article: “The two companies first began talking prior to the pandemic, although that was more about a partnership than an acquisition.”.

Top of Funnel 95

Top of Funnel Pipeline Scale Funnel 95

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

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.

Face-to-face 49

Face-to-face Networking ACT Ideal Customer Profile 49

Mindtickle

JULY 2, 2016

Tweet This: Smart companies have realized that customer loyalty is the most powerful sales and marketing tool that they have. Tweet This: When you improve your product so it does the customer’s job better, then you gain market share. Karl Wirth , Founder & CEO at Evergage.

Customer 52

Customer Loyalty Microsoft Smart Company 52

Mindtickle

JULY 2, 2016

Tweet This: Smart companies have realized that customer loyalty is the most powerful sales and marketing tool that they have. Tweet This: When you improve your product so it does the customer’s job better, then you gain market share. Karl Wirth , Founder & CEO at Evergage.

Customer 52

Customer Loyalty Microsoft Smart Company 52

LeadFuze

JULY 25, 2021

Grab our checklist for your New Product Launch Marketing Plan’s Client Onboarding Process. When you provide a service, either physical (like a marketing agency) or software (like a SaaS) it can be like that. There are a lot of moving pieces to the post-sale process. Now, let’s get into the nuts and bolts.

Lead Rank 124

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Churn 124