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First Post 2014 – Let’s Cut The S*#T – 1

The Pipeline

As the first post of the years, I thought I would set the tone for the blog and hopefully sales in 2014. Let’s start by setting straight some unadulterated s**t that has made its way into main stream sales over the last few years. A cute marketing term that elevated the noise created by Sales 2.0, Big difference.

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

Pointclear

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue. Tier 2: Inside Commercial Accounts.

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Can You Switch Hit For Sales Success?

The Pipeline

Since the company had a union to deal with, (yes I know, sales and unions, what a concept, nonetheless), the choice of who stayed and who left was not always made based on abilities and potential. Sales Process Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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The CMO’s Guide to Driving Impact in Year 1

SBI Growth

B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. The path to success for year a B2B CMO’s year one includes: Generate quick wins to build momentum. The quick wins will build credibility with sales and the CEO. How long is your honeymoon?

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Unveiling BuzzBoard’s Strengths Through Customer Reviews

BuzzBoard

Towards that, they are making smarter business decisions of acquiring deep intelligence about their prospects by investing in data vendors and sales assistants—the purpose being aligning their offerings with prospect needs to maximize engagement. We are finding more leads and making more sales calls. Everything is there for you.

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Direct Content Marketing is Born – Prepare for 2013

SBI Growth

B2B Marketing teams are seeing fruit from their investment in content marketing to fuel Lead Generation efforts; 2-3x increase in the quantity of inbound leads. Reduced overall sales cycles. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Higher close rates of from inbound leads. No worries.

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These Are the Top Sales Skills According to 9 Sales Leaders

Mindtickle

But most companies don’t have an ideal rep profile to map out the skills and competencies that their sales reps need to nurture those prospects, close deals, and convert them into paying customers. Then they can look for similar abilities in new hires and train and coach their other reps to increase skill levels across the sales team.