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20 Blog Posts to Guide Your Event Marketing Strategy

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From event planning to trade show design, there’s a little something for everyone. 5 Reasons to Send Employees to Trade Shows and Conferences. 6 Ways to Stand Out in a Trade Show Exhibit Hall. When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show.

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Top 21 Sales Training Programs and Techniques to Boost Team Performance in 2022

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But regardless of their focus, programs designed for junior- and senior-level salespeople will target the same things: the sales cycle and buyers’ journey, engagement strategies, negotiation, and tips and tricks for closing deals. Sales Training Programs for Beginners. The Brooks Group. Challenger. Corporate Visions.

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Sales Training Article about Confusing Activity with Progress

Customer Centric Selling

While not nearly as pervasive as they were, many companies relied upon trade shows as a way to identify new opportunities. Large sums of money were spent on trade show booths where the vast majority of the audience consisted of mid to low-level staff incapable of allocating unbudgeted funds to new initiatives.

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Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #1 - Website Leads = Top-line Revenue

Customer Centric Selling

For vendors selling complex big ticket items, website leads remind me of the bingo cards from trade shows. Think for a minute of the level of people that attend trade shows. They were distributed to sellers for follow-up after trade shows. They seem sure their old selling approaches will still work.

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The Pipeline ? Not Different ? Sales eXchange ? 132

The Pipeline

John: No no, my people have to go out find leads and prospect, in fact, I wish they would do more; but they work trade shows, networking, cold calls. Had I allowed myself to go down the “wow is me, we are different” road, there would have been no sale, or a much longer sale cycle. Sales Bloggers Union.

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The Pipeline ? 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales.

The Pipeline

There’s so much that’s wrong with the traditional sales funnel, and it’s gotten worse in the Sales 2.0 For example, get so-called leads from mailings, trade shows, advertising, networking, newsletters, and speaking. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Sales Training Look into the Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles

Customer Centric Selling

The buying behavior we described in Rethinking the Sales Cycle (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has become a snowball rolling down a hill gaining speed and momentum. Painting with a broad brush, today buying cycles start primarily in one of two (2) ways: 1. Need some help with your sales performance?