Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. potential conflict with their channel partners. Businesses don’t want to jeopardize the business that comes through channel partners?—?as Pricing Is Key to Keeping Channel Peace. as much as 90%?—?for Here’s how.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Paul Nolan While Zoom and Teams have proven useful for video meetings, businesses are adopting other means of incorporating video into their everyday communication and workflow. Wyzowl, a provider of animated explanation videos, reports that 86% of businesses use video as a marketing tool.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 6, 2024

I offer: ✤ Web Development ✤ SEO ✤ B2B/B2C Lead Generation ✤ 2D/3D Animation & Video Editing ✤ Graphic Design A quick meeting could be the spark for something game-changing. Example 3 – Cold LinkedIn Message: Hi Dave, Can I trouble you to like my YouTube channel. Why would anyone want to subscribe to his YouTube channel?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. A head of sales is a better place to start than an SDR, so they’ll get more calls. New to ABM?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

By carrying out a feasible demand generation plan, you’ll not just scout new opportunities but also create them, from marketing and sales alignment to data-driven growth for businesses. Incorporate Video Marketing. This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this 3:47 video , Helen Fanucci discusses how salespeople often struggle to be team players, despite excelling individually. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams. She emphasizes the need for teamwork in selling and highlights the critical role of trust in B2B sales.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). It’s not old wine in a new bottle,” says Dave Sill, our Senior VP of Sales. “It’s

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Online reviews and company websites are the two primary platforms for research, but other channels such as social media can provide valuable information, too. Because marketers live on the very channels the customers are engaging with, clever marketers harness these channels to reach potential and loyal customers.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 13, 2018

Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. Social selling is one of the hottest trends in the business world, yet many sales professionals remain skeptical of its effectiveness. As a sales person, we must be visible.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From sales processes to how we celebrate holidays, there has been no area left untouched by this pandemic. For ZoomInfo, one of the biggest challenges we are facing at EOY is how to keep motivation high and celebrations on par with the big achievements our sales teams are hitting day in and day out. Covid has changed everything.

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 31, 2020

We’ve had over 82 sales training programmes postponed! Some have moved over to virtual channels like webinars and online training but a lot are just waiting it out. I’m being bombarded with sales pitches at the moment. Have a “virtual coffee” over video or a call with a colleague. Selling is tough at the moment isn’t it?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The number of times a user replays the same video is also a heavy indicator of interest. • Tracks information in the video itself such as captions, audio and hashtags. • Use of a highly personalized “For You” page that, like Google’s search results, is tailored to each individual user based on their interests and viewing history.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

Video conferencing is a great way to get face to face with clients. I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. We’ve had to make do with virtual sales meetings, and that has affected many B2B sales pros’ ability to access new customers and to make real-world connections.

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Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2021

The pandemic changed the day-to-day processes of the B2B sales organization practically overnight when the world went 100% digital. A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020. Chinese proverb).

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Social media is the future of consumer shopping , so it’s no surprise that 59% of social sellers say they’ve made more sales through social media this year compared to last. In this post, we’ll discuss the best social selling channels to use according to our recent data and the best features these channels have to offer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Author: David Satterwhite In 2020, I reached my 30th year in business-to-business technology sales. Then, everything I thought I knew about sales blew up. . The hive-like atmosphere of our sales offices was replaced by Zoom calls. . The hive-like atmosphere of our sales offices was replaced by Zoom calls. .

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

As marketing leaders, it makes sense to explore multiple channels to reach your target audience. How do you decide which channels will be worth the. With so many options, it quickly becomes not only expensive but also difficult to manage.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. CRM systems wear many hats, including channel management, customer insights, communications, engagement, and more. Share the same goals and tools between sales and marketing teams. Integrate self-servicing into existing channels.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 clients and advanced degrees in business psychology, Joel offers a wealth of knowledge on the critical distinction between perception and reality in sales and hiring processes. Understanding this distinction is crucial for both sales and hiring processes.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 2, 2024

With video now so shareable, it should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy. After all, video is one of the easiest ways to fast-track those relationships because it mimics a two-sided conversation and helps people feel like they really and truly know you. How can video play into your selling strategy?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Product-Channel Fit measures how well a product aligns with its distribution channels to effectively reach its target market. The goal is not to test every possible channel but to focus on the one or two that maximize your resources and scale your product for hypergrowth. Does it follow a PLG or Sales-Led Growth (SLG) model?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And in the age of AI-assisted sales, what was once a long process of research, targeting, and crafting outreach has now become remarkably fast. But today’s top AI sales assistants don’t just help sales teams work faster — with the right data, AI helps sellers make smarter decisions. What is AI Sales Assistant Software?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

For the last six years, I’ve been an avid user and champion of using async video in my day-to-day as a seller — well before joining Loom to lead its Sales and Customer Success teams. I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Brandon Nye , Vice President of Sales for Inmode, shares the key qualities to look for when hiring salespeople, including a proven track record in B2B sales and a competitive mindset. This is a crucial skill that many companies overlook when hiring salespeople.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Our Host John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP!

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Trends that are here to stay.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Video technology tools like Zoom and Slack were reported helpful in fueling connection and engagement. Many of those providers enable robust integrations that make it possible for internal channel communication and rewards to be easily added. Cindy Mielke is the director of channel marketing, incentives at Tango Card.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 21, 2020

For a sales leader in this environment, problem-solving, and having shared responsibilities with these channel partners is the only way to succeed in moving the. Well-established tech companies have typically developed a large, multi-layer partner ecosystem that they rely on.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“Delivering a virtual event from a studio or production setting can make a virtual event feel like it’s more of an occasion than a purely online event broadcast from bedrooms and home offices around the country,” said Joshua Bryce, manager of technology sales, at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Reimagining… With a Twist.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sales + the pandemic = video. The pandemic brought video firmly to the forefront of our lives. For sellers in particular, video has become a ‘need-to-have’ channel of communication. This means skills for impactful communication over video are an essential part of our updated sales competency toolkit.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I was growing up in the 1960’s, I watched meteorologist Don Kent give his weather forecasts on WBZ channel 4 in Boston. I couldn’t find any video from the chalkboard days, but I did find one of him doing a forecast from the early days of markers. The adverbs: Where are you in the sales process? What if…?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Customers do their research, ask questions, and even address customer service issues on social channels. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. So don’t treat this like an advertising channel. B2C selling has dominated social media for the last 10+ years.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Author: Doug Bushée and Shayne Jackson Last March, sales leaders had to quickly shift from enabling in-person sellers to enabling virtual sellers. Now, as we dive deeper into a new year, sales leaders are tackling another issue. Many sales organizations have pivoted to virtual events rather than simply canceling major sales events.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

Register for Back in The Black Sales TV—first episode on January 19. The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. Actually, it’s more like Talk Radio, but on video. Why am I doing a monthly Sales TV Show? Always free.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Are you thinking about increasing sales with a webinar? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. Now, as people get comfortable with the idea of running a sales webinar, we’ll likely see a continued uptick in these sales presentations. How Do I Create a Sales Webinar?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. That’s the bad news.

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