Smooth Sale

AUGUST 4, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Digital Marketing Strategies That Significantly Empower Business Growth In today’s digital age, small businesses face challenges and opportunities in their quest for success. Tailoring marketing efforts to these personas ensures that messages are relevant and engaging.

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SBI Growth

MAY 4, 2013

Every year, Sales Reps are forced into mandatory training. The question Reps want answered: how does this training help me make more money? Assess the value of your training and do one of these three things: If the training is bad, then tell your manager exactly why. Likewise, we must change with our Buyers.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For example, you might hear about a company using Instagram to market their products, LinkedIn to share industry expertise and insights, or Facebook Messenger to respond to customer service queries. An important distinction to make here is that social selling is not social media marketing. Social Media Training for Sales Reps.

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criteria for success

MAY 4, 2022

Many senior executives in sales and marketing don’t know who their buyers are, and don’t know how to position a selling conversation. Sell More by Understanding Who Your Buyers Are. Think of a buyer persona as a representation of the person or group of people most likely to be interested in your product.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate. What can marketing do better?

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Mindtickle

MAY 30, 2024

Launching a new product or expanding into a new market can be exciting for a business. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. But who needs one?

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If there’s one thing of value that hasn’t been changed due to the current market downturn, it’s data. That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market. You may wish to measure the conversion rate against your buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2024

Broad tactical approaches such as sales enablement and sales-marketing alignment, as well as specific tools such as lead-routing applications or contact and pipeline management systems, all fall under the sales acceleration umbrella. Why Sales Acceleration Matters Sales acceleration improves go-to-market (GTM) results in five main ways.

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Allego

OCTOBER 22, 2021

“You can even take marketing and sales out of the equation and, I know it sounds trite to say, put the customer at the center.”. This may seem like an unconventional comment coming from the Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions, a company that—at its core—provides sales and marketing training.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 29, 2024

Here, then, are more detailed answers and insights for the top questions from our webinar: How do I create detailed and accurate buyer personas? Buyer personas are a fundamental part of a business development strategy. A recent Janek poll revealed 83% of sales organizations utilize detailed buyer personas.

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Allego

MAY 7, 2024

Do your sales and marketing teams have a hard time communicating? According to a poll from SMM Connect and Training Magazine Network, 68% of sales and marketing leaders said “sales and marketing don’t communicate effectively.” And that leads to multiple issues, including: Misalignment on sales and marketing strategies.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The buzz around the water cooler is that marketing botched it from the get-go. As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. Unfortunately, most marketing leaders don’t know or under-estimate what’s involved. Are their new markets to enter? Target Buyer Persona Profiles.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In fact, sometimes it can help companies identify opportunities to develop solutions the market needs. Maybe these clients generally already have a software solution in place, but you provide analysis and training solutions ranging from $250-500k. Consider both the company and the individual buyer within a company. Download Now.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

How Marketing VPs Utilize Sales Call Recording To Become A More Effective Sales Partner. Marketers are known for their persuasive skills. If you’re familiar with DISC assessments and have ever reviewed team profiles, you know that marketers will likely exhibit a high “I” (influence) on their reports.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For the stakeholder mapping process to be effective, it should be aligned with the business’s ideal buyer personas and sales practices. Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers built based on market research and data from existing buyers. Listen and adapt.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Specifically, I’ll discuss designing sales training focused on Buyer Personas. In future posts, we’ll cover other important Sales Ops efforts and how to build them around the buyer. Click here to download our grading tool to see how buyer-centric your Sales Operations efforts are. But what about the Buyer?

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Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2018

Seasoned B2B marketers know a well-executed webinar is a goldmine for sales leads. Just consider these webinar lead generation statistics: 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say a webinar is the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). 79% of buyers say they will share information in exchange for webinars ( source ).

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

Below is a guide to accelerated ramp-up time for your salespeople (along with some examples of how HubSpot trains their salespeople). When you're creating a new-hire training plan, remember a few things : Keep your training plan personalized, because no two reps are the same. Pre-week training. Product Training.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 20, 2020

Stay tuned for content on reputation management, leveraging marketing, leading in challenging times, sales strategy in times of crisis, pivoting field marketing to digital, and more. Re-think your targeted addressable market. Buyer Personas . Here were some of their key takeaways: Lead Forecasting .

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Pipeliner

MARCH 17, 2023

In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition. It includes training, coaching, content creation, and technology solutions that are tailored to the needs of the sales team. What is Sales Enablement?

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Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Product complexity.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

With the right sales enablement process, revenue leaders can confidently improve sales team skills, boost customer retention, expand market differentiation, and drive revenue growth. That reflects the fact that effective enablement relies on contributions from multiple teams, including product, marketing, and customer success.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy. Lets you evaluate your training program’s impact on sales KPIs. How long will your training materials be?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you run a $5B company, you need a strategic presence in your marketing organization. However, if you think you need a highly experienced marketing strategist to take your company from $50M to $100M, think again. CEOs of emerging growth companies need ‘doers’ leading marketing. Training sales to sell new products.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

Train continuously: recommend quarterly. SALES STRATEGY STEP 2: SET UP BUYER PROFILES/PERSONAS. Now that you know which accounts to (and not to) target, it’s time to identify the individual buyers within those accounts — buyer personas/profiles. What questions to ask : Will vary by persona.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Are your systems and training mobile enabled? The Tablet: Do you provide content that addresses your buyer’s market problems? Or is your buyer reading someone else’s content on their tablet? Do you have a plan to connect to more of your target buyers? Are you getting referred to those target buyers?

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Vengreso

JULY 19, 2022

Here at Vengreso, all of our sales leaders play an integral role in understanding our buyer personas, and partnering with marketing – really immersing themselves in as many aspects of the business so they’re clear on the entire buyer journey. I would go to my top five customers and just talk to them.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It starts with the Marketing departments buyer centered marketing strategy. Doing so will assist your reps to spot where their prospects are in their buyers journey. They can then locate the right marketing collateral needed assist in the buying process. Generally, marketing teams struggle with producing content.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

He mentioned the obstacles he faces in creating compelling sales training for new products. One of his biggest hurdles was the lack of alignment between training and marketing. Sales was telling one story while the marketing content said something else. And improve your ability to train salespeople on new products.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 3, 2013

As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. From product development to field marketing, you are a lynch pin in the new release supply chain. 8-12 months prior to launch, marketing should complete a segmentation analysis of their customer and prospect universe. So do careers.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 15, 2023

6 key role play exercises to try with your sales reps Objection handling Negotiation Discovery Competition Buyer personas Getting to power #1. Video coaching activities are a simple way to organize this because you can ask each rep to show how they’d respond to buyer personas with different trigger points.

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