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

Hubspot Sales

Zach Rego is the VP of Sales and Marketing at Unstack , a marketing platform software. Phil Sofia on establishing new lead generation opportunities. The pandemic has caused massive dislocation that has resulted in some truly historic opportunities for smart companies, especially in distressed sectors like real estate.”.

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Need to Fill Your Pipeline? It’s Time to Reconsider Your Partner Ecosystem

Sales Hacker

Smart companies, and sales professionals, are leveraging their integration ecosystems to create more sales deals and attract higher valuations. Ignoring the benefits of your partner ecosystem as a sales professional is to ignore one of your best opportunities to scale. Bottom of the funnel: Accelerating active opportunities.

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

Sales and Marketing Management

“Whether it’s this year, 10 years from now or 100 years from now, a marketer’s success or failure will come down to one crucial skill: the ability to be an engaging and persuasive storyteller,” stated Amit Bivas, head of marketing at Optimove, makers of software that collects data to enhance customer relationships. Good stories surprise us.

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21 Salespeople Reveal the Worst Sales Advice They Ever Got

Hubspot Sales

If you're in a company where they won't promote you, it is probably because of you -- you are not doing something required of you that will result in a promotion. Smart companies always want to keep good people. If they aren't promoting you, then the next company won't promote you either. Why is this bad advice?

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

For instance, marketing language software — powered by machine learning — helped JPMorgan Chase increase headline clicks by as much as 450%. None of those parameters were discernible by splitting up companies by industry, location, revenue, or other traditional classifiers. Smart companies will start embracing AI today.

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Four Manufacturing Trends Driving Sales

SugarCRM

Companies where there’s an established culture of innovation or newcomers with a more modern mindset are going to find it easier to adopt new ways of working than established businesses with a longstanding legacy to navigate. Here’s our take on the four most important trends driving sales in the manufacturing sector right now.

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The Different Inside Sales Roles Explained

Factor 8

They are trusted to work high-opportunity deals, uncover needs, match your product/service to the leads, uncover customer values to generate excitement and close the business. Opportunities will stay with AE’s until closed-lost or closed-won, meaning a need for excellent follow-up and nurture skills for deals postponed or gone dark.