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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. According to the U.S.

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Inside Sales Growing by Leaps and Bounds

Score More Sales

The state of the profession known as Inside Sales – or Remote Professional Selling – is thriving. While outside sales positions are on the decline, Inside Sales positions are growing at a phenomenal rate. Smart companies in nearly every industry are building out strong inside sales teams now.

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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. Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers.

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Beyond the Curve: 5 Ways to Reorient Your Sales Team During COVID-19

Pipeliner

As the country starts to open up again, sales teams around the country are tentatively reaching out to customers to test their receptiveness. Whether it’s a salesperson on a shopping floor or sales executive on the brink of making a deal of a lifetime, salespeople rely heavily on one-on-one interactions with potential customers.

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Get It Together! Marketing and Sales Collaboration That WORKS

The Pipeline

Sales and marketing teams also had unique silos. This is especially true of sales and marketing departments. Sales teams fail to see the value in marketing, while marketers see salesmen as lazy. Sales and Marketing Don’t Have to Go Head to Head. All this bickering is stealing from your company’s bottom line.

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Leveraging Price Ratio To Win The Right Deals

The Pipeline

Pricing continues a key factor in winning or losing sales opportunities, and while few vendors take pride in being the low cost provider, at times it seems they set out to be just that, or they take few steps to avoid it being forced on them. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Tibor Shanto'

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From the Switchboard to Social Media: A Brief History of Customer Service

Sales and Marketing Management

Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. Similarly, cutting-edge marketing and customer service gurus saw the advent of social media platforms as a golden opportunity to set themselves apart from the crowd. Don’t @ Me.