SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2019

Guest post by Karen Rhorer , Customer Success & Sales Strategy @ Atrium. For those of us who are immersed in the world of SaaS sales every day, it’s easy to forget how new the SaaS concept is. Therefore, data about what happens during the sales process could be tracked for the first time. For closers, this is bookings.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Software Software 53

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The majority of CMOs still don’t know what the ROI is of their social media efforts, with the majority of respondents indicating that they were not getting an ROI or did not know the ROI from various campaigns and channels. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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Social Media ROI Media B2C 60

Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

In order to build a successful company, you’ll need to create and fine-tune a business plan, assess your finances, complete all the legal paperwork, pick your partners, choose the best tools and systems to help you get your marketing and sales off the ground … and a whole lot more. Design a marketing & sales strategy.

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Top of Funnel How To Hiring Buyer Persona 145

Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Scale Banking 119

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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Harte Hanks ROI Marketing Social Media 45

OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. TOTAL $19,547 from 322 sales. Sales had increased 25% over the previous book due to larger audience, but revenue was up by 77%.

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Discount Lead Rank Top of Funnel Enterprise 55

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Assessing the savings quarter by quarter, in minutes a VMware sales professional or channel partner can develop a report card on the value VMware has delivered. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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ROI Social Media B2B Media 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%. How is IT spending changing for small and medium enterprises?

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Marketing Vendor Survey ROI 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Analysis Microsoft 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels. Tier 1: Marketing Operations and Technology Marketing Operations and Technology forms the foundation for all other marketing services.

Marketing 40

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Advertising 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

ROI 45

ROI Buyer Buying Cycle Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

ROI 40

ROI Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Social Media 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. This was not the case with many other groups like sales and marketing. The good news is that most analysts are predicting 4-5% growth for 2011.

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Competition Software Software Networking 40

OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. TOTAL $19,547 from 322 sales. Sales had increased 25% over the previous book due to larger audience, but revenue was up by 77%.

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Strategy Discount Lead Rank Enterprise 20

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

As I work to advise them, I stumbled on something I wrote in early 2001, another period of economic challenges. Since 2001 we’ve been through slowdowns a couple of times. ” Surviving Tough Times, Things We Have Learned (early 2001 version) The past year has created new professional and personal challenges.

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Face-to-face Churn Lead Rank Lead Scoring 143

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations.

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Strategy InsideView Hiring Social Media 115

Nutshell

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing professionals are constantly slinging around new buzzwords, complex terms, and confusing abbreviations. No blog, video, or sales pitch is complete until the phrase “boost ROI” or “improve your net promoter score” is used. It’s what we do. The marketing flywheel builds on this concept.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made.

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ROI B2B Social Media Buying Cycle 40

John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

Phone as a channel isn’t going anywhere. The validity of the phrase “cold calling is dead” may be debatable in terms of making 100 dials with no information per day versus calling 20-40 targetted accounts and having a first touch by email or social, but phone as a channel is not dead. Phone has become a novel channel.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? Noise is removed and education streamlined, helping to reduce sales cycles and drive more sales.

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ROI Social Media Vendor Buyer 49

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010 Leaders indicate Growing Investment in Smart Digital Content The migration of B2B marketing budgets from traditional marketing vehicles toward digital channels continues according to a study by Booz & Co. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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ROI Social Media Ideal Customer Profile B2B 40