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Are White Papers Dead?

The ROI Guy

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Your current white papers just don’t have the same impact as they once had … but why?

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Second Secret to Sales Force Excellence

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week, I revealed the first secret success ingredient from our Sales Force Effectiveness Study. Our new White Paper, The Modern Science Behind Sales Force Excellence is available today - Download it. John Pattison wrote his first article for the Sales Operations Blog, Today I met the Worst Salesperson Ever!

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Declutter for Sales Success

Shari Levitin

Your junk drawer, like your sales and sales training process, undergoes a natural sort of entropy. We litter them with ideas, metrics, and white papers; we pile on more information and clutter our slide decks. How might I streamline my sales conversations? Our sales conversations get cluttered as well.

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Go through the motions

Sales 2.0

In sales we need to go through the motions. Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies. Send a handwritten note or letter (mail is an underutilized channel) Send a second email, preferable including something relevant of value, such as an article link/white paper etc.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead. Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace.

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When are Interactive White Papers best used in the sales & marketing process?

The ROI Guy

Interactive White Papers can be used at various stages to help facilitate the buyer’s decisions, depending on the content of the white paper itself. Interactive White Papers with intelligent solution recommendations and configurations, quantified personalized benefits and ROI estimates help best during this middle stage.

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B2B Emotional Sales Formula - Curiosity. Obsession. Fever. Action. Passion.

Sales and Marketing Management

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. studying sales methodologies, you know that you are obsessed. Action – If you're sitting reactively doing email, if you're sitting period – you’re failing in sales. Send out enabling YouTube videos, white papers, blogs and tidbits.

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