Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 3, 2025
By investing in their personal brand, marketing leaders can strengthen their voice, extend their companys reach and drive meaningful industry impact. The post The Brand Behind the Brand: Why Personal Branding Matters for Marketing Leaders appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Sales enablement teams recognize the need to track and measure sales performance indicators, yet few feel confident in their ability to execute. While 89% of sales enablement teams report carrying responsibility in measurement and analytics, only 44% claim proficiency in this area. Even among top-performing teams, just 61% rate themselves as highly proficient.
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No More Cold Calling
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Discover how a broken approach to social selling can damage your sales reputation, costing you business referrals and lost revenue. Steve thought he was a social selling pro, but his first message after connecting with me on LinkedIn proved that he wasnt. What is referral selling? Asking me that question showed me he wasnt really a social seller; he was a social stalker.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The 5 keys to creating a high-performance sales team have more to do with effectiveness and consistency in execution than any specific kind of sales enablement or CRM tool that supports selling. Successful sales leaders and managers rely on critical data because they realize that it can and will provide them with real-time information. This real-time sales data can identify trends, effort and execution issues, and areas for coaching.
Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick
Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
In the crowded arena of GTM demand generation, most organizations are laser-focused on optimizing whats already known: nurturing interest in established markets, identifying accounts actively searching for solutions, and meeting familiar challenges head-on. And while these strategies are tried and true, they leave a critical opportunity untapped: latent demand.
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Most companies dont go through the process of hiring a sales training partner very often. When they do, theyre often looking to be educated about the selection process or, in a worst-case scenario, influenced toward an ineffective solution by an unscrupulous vendor.
SocialSellinator
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Explore top Digital marketing analytics tools for insights, improve ROI, and master data-driven strategies with our comprehensive guide.
Pipeliner
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
In a recent episode of the Expert Insight Interview, host John Golden sat down with Jonathan Mast , an AI and digital strategy expert and the founder of White Beard Strategies. With over 25 years of experience in the digital landscape, Jonathan shared his profound insights on how entrepreneurs can harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive business success, particularly in sales and marketing.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Not so long ago, a detailed profile of your ideal customer and a general idea of their purchase intent was enough to fuel growth for many go-to-market teams. Those days are gone but the best teams still find ways to win consistently, no matter the odds. To stay ahead in an unpredictable market, businesses need to truly understand buyer behavior, the kind of nuanced portrait that draws from a comprehensive, real-time view of the signals that indicate their readiness and likelihood to purchase.
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Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
To keep pace with, and potentially exceed, customer expectations, you must adapt your sales processes to be more agile, customer-centric and efficient. The post Adapting Sales Workflows to Evolving Customer Expectations appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Force Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
First principles thinking is a reasoning process used by some of todays top innovators to look at complex problems through a new lens. The concept is based on Aristotles writings about first principles, which he called the first basis from which a thing is known.
SocialSellinator
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Discover the benefits of ppc campaign management service to boost ROI and drive targeted traffic with expert strategies and tools.
Sales Gravy
MARCH 2, 2025
If youve hung around me for longer than five minutes, youve heard me say that sales is about talking with people. The fact is, the more people you talk with, the more youll sell. The good news is that there are lots of people to talk with. The problem is, far too many salespeople have quit talking with people. Email Prospecting Has Suddenly Stop Working Instead they keep prospects and customers at arms length through asynchronous communication channels like email - especially when prospecting.
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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
For more than a generation, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have been the unquestioned core of virtually every go-to-market strategy. But GTM leaders are increasingly wondering whether their CRM is telling the whole truth. Whether its disruptive new technologies like AI, dramatic swings in regulatory approach, or constant shifts in career mobility, its never been more true: Your ideal customers org charts, priorities, and budgets will be wildly different from year to year and eve
Julie Hanson
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Twenty-five interviewsand counting! That's the new reality for many executives seeking senior roles in today's job market. What began as pandemic-era necessity has morphed into an endurance test that can stretch across months, sapping energy and enthusiasm from even the most qualified candidates. As interview rounds multiply and screens replace conference rooms, a new skill has become the ultimate differentiator: sustainable virtual executive presence.
Smooth Sale
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Tips for Working with New Sales Development Representatives Sales development is a critical part of todays business environment. Many companies require a team to manage the high volume of leads generated by technology-supported outbound efforts to maintain a pipeline and scale up successfully, and sales development rep training is a core component of building an SD team that succeeds.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Five years into my B2B marketing career, I noticed a pattern: The clients who said yes were the ones whom I understood not just their stated needs but their underlying motivations through conceptual selling. Like the SaaS founder I was working with who said they needed better analytics when what they really wanted was to prove their products value to skeptical investors.
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October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.
Sales Gravy
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
You nailed the pitch. The budget was there. The decision-maker was engaged. So why did the deal go cold? The problem might not be your process. It might be you. Before a prospect buys from you, they have to buy into you. Your professional presence sets the stage for every interaction. First Impressions Matter If you dont make a strong first impression, it wont matter how great your service is.
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
We live in a world of constant disruption and change. It can be distracting as we struggle to understand and respond, or as we try to figure out how to leverage the disruption to better achieve our goals. We become focused on the change, the technologies, the new approaches/ideas, tools. We tend to be attracted to “bright shiny objects,” or the miracle cures, or the “secrets to my success.” And this is natural and, sometimes, helpful.
Membrain
MARCH 2, 2025
Join us in this episode with Mario Martinez Jr. CEO and creator of FLYMSG.io, whose journey started unexpectedly at a photo lab and soared to leading digital sales prospecting training. Mario's story is not just about achieving success but about redefining it.
SalesFuel
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Haley Johnson, an account executive at Fox21, has only been selling media for a little over a year, and in that time she has closed around $300,000 in sales with the help of AdMall. For her latest sale, she leaned heavily on AdMalls AudienceSCAN data when she approached a local construction company. I had been trying to close with [the company] since October of [2023], said Johnson.
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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.
Koncert
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
How AI Virtual Sales Assistant Transforming B2B Sales Teams The sales landscape is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and shifting customer expectations. Sales representatives face unprecedented challenges, from managing massive amounts of data to personalizing customer interactions at scale.
Allego
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Your top rep just completed a high-impact sales training session. A month later, theyre struggling to recall key facts and techniques in a critical deal. Sound familiar? The problem isnt a lack of effort. Its the forgetting curve , a phenomenon where up to 90% of newly learned information fades within weeks without reinforcement. This rapid decline in knowledge retention leads to inconsistent sales execution, wasted training investments, and a constant struggle to keep teams aligned on best pra
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
A thoughtful LinkedIn Post (I know, I know, it’s a rarity), addressed the tendency of managers to “over control” the way sellers work. Too often, we see rigid processes and managers demanding compliance, and constant/dysfunctional micromanagement. Yet every situation is different, in the best sellers agilely adapt what they do to achieve the goals.
Smooth Sale
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Market Your Business and See More Success You will always need to market your business. It fuels your growth and helps you see more success over time. However, that’s only when you know what you’re doing. You won’t see the desired results if you’re not advertising your business correctly.
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This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Objection handling is one of the trickier, more grating aspects of sales life. Pushback is natural and often productive in a sales engagement, but in many cases, a piece of you is going to think, Oh, come on, when a prospect brings up concerns. In those instances, you cant lose composure and run the risk of making critical mistakes, but what can those "critical mistakes" look like?
Sales Gravy
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Carolyn is dealing with a dilemma so many sales professionals face this time of year: How do you shake off a mid-winter rut and regain your momentum when its cold, dark, and everyone else seems to be dragging too? On this Ask Jeb episode I offer practical, real-world strategies to help you thaw out from the winter freeze. Whether youre fighting the gloom of early sunsets, the aftereffects of holiday downtime, or the struggle to get your customers back in buying mode, these tips will help you pow
SalesFuel
MARCH 3, 2025
B2B sellers and sales managers are increasingly relying on AI sales tools to meet sales quotas. AI and automation are becoming essential in helping organizations reach their goals by providing valuable information and enabling autonomous actions. However, the success of AI initiatives depends on thoughtful adoption, connecting business data, and implementing practical use cases.
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