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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

A Lack of Training. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On Training wasn’t as immersive as it needed to be, either, says Gupta, who recently co-authored a research paper on this topic for the Journal of Business Research. The answer has little to do with the technology itself.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

One major telecommunications provider in Scandinavia, for example, has migrated B2B sales to virtual channels, using marketing automation to create leads and installing an online self-service portal. Zoom, the video communications firm, uses software to analyze call data in order to identify winning communication styles and inform training.

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MindTickle Partnerships Add Firepower to Customers’ Vertical GTM Strategy

Mindtickle

SalesSparx enriches MindTickle’s data-driven learning, training, and coaching capabilities with industry-specific playbooks, processes, and training needed to arm sellers in the B2B healthcare vertical — a huge market with equally huge revenue potential. Cross-industry training content to uplevel sales conversations.

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Hear how Matt Fok grew his company leveraging existing customers

Alice Heiman

By providing content and ongoing interactions between companies and their prospects, the platform could be used to build communities. He has hired and trained a team of 20 Digital Collaborator Champions to guide customers through the setup and management process. eZ-Xpo provides the middle of the funnel nurture interactions virtually.

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The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

A Lack of Training Harvard Business Review foretold this problem in that old article, noting that installing and using automation tools “requires expertise in technology (computers, data communications, and software) as well as in marketing and sales.” One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Thanks For Training Me Not To Answer My Phone!

Partners in Excellence

While it is an unintended consequence (in fact quite the opposite of what people are trying to achieve), what this kind of marketing is doing is training customers not to answer their phones. Sloppy marketing and sales “trains” customers to respond in exactly the opposite way they intend for customers to respond.

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What We’ve Learned Supporting Telecom Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

In the 1990s, I started my sales career selling telecom for one of the largest privately held telecommunications companies in North America. Everyone calls themselves one but how do you know if you are truly considered a trusted advisor by your prospects and clients? Today, telecom is an important client segment to Janek.