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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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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. For the first time in decades, email and live chat support made it possible to quickly and easily communicate with a real person instead of a computerized menu or canned response.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

Follwer her on Twitter @marketingprofs. Most businesses have some kind of social presence or plan to have one: Most have attempted a blog or Facebook page, or have at least peeked at Twitter. What’s the value of social-streaming platforms like Twitter, where your content quickly vaporizes? Wiley, 2011).

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Forget B2B vs. B2C – Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

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. Maersk now has over 63K Twitter followers and 2.45M likes on Facebook. Final Thoughts on B2P Sales & Marketing. Keep reading!

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Forget B2B vs. B2C: Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

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. Maersk now has over 63K Twitter followers and 2.45M likes on Facebook. As Ann Handley has so rightly said , smart companies lead conversations, not just join them.

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Drowning In Information, But Where’s The Knowledge Or Insight

Partners in Excellence

Daily, I get feeds from all sorts of services, several provide me information and news on people and companies I’m following. Service like LinkedIn keep me updated with activity of people I’m following on LinkedIn, I have my special Twitter groups. I just got my first “SMART Company Brief” from DecisionLink.

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B2B is Dead – Long Live B2P

DiscoverOrg Sales

Each acronym provides the building block at a company’s inception to describe their mission statement, target market, and product. Sales and marketing departments live and die by their ability to grasp these concepts, and a company’s success hinges an identifying the target market within each audience. But even this is changing.

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