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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. According to the U.S.

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

Sales and Marketing Management

I like numbers when I want to look at quantitative data from a sales manager role, but the power of storytelling is way underrated,” says Carter Young, director of sales training and operations at SaleScout Data Solutions, a B2B sales intelligence provider. The fine art of spinning a powerful story will always provide an edge. “I

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Creating A Customer-Centric Strategy

Sell Integrity

Some of the common issues we hear involve: Providing consistency across channels Overcoming employee complacency Finding new ways to connect with customers and accelerate service delivery Time and cross-training Consistent, effective coaching on customer-centricity. The foundation is the company’s mission, vision and core values.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Brian Leach, CEO of @unboxedtech

SBI

In everything we create—from our learning management system and custom training content to our m obile sales apps and observation tool —the user experience is ridiculously simple and highly engaging. Our tools connect—and simplify—training your reps, selling your products and services, and validating rep performance.

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Build Predictable Revenue

Your Sales Management Guru

In recent years, organizations have gotten better at analyzing financial statements, refining manufacturing procedures, reengineering business systems and improving marketing effectiveness. Smart companies are scrutinizing their strategic sales management plans, taking a closer look at everything from their pipelines to their forecasts.

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. There are so many ways to drive and improve customer retention, and a lot of them revolve around a robust customer relationship management system , more commonly known as CRM.

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

Sales Hacker

When faced with winning or losing a commission check, they’re going to push forward and work directly with their accounts, not spend time entering data into a CRM system. Products like Yesware and Mixmax ensure inbox data finds its way into the corporate customer relationship management system. AI Use Case #3: Training.