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Sales Ops: Defend your Turf

SBI Growth

Buyer data is being housed in Customer Service. Customer data is more granular today than ever. Customer service is not trained to collect and analyze that data. It is not just customer service ineffectively owning your buyer data. Ensure data is being tracked accurately in your CRM.

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Four Steps to Successfully Bringing Products to Market

SBI Growth

The team should include stakeholders from sales, marketing, channel partners, product development, customer service and operations. A few must-do items in this step: Target Ideal Customer Profile for new product. Early stage marketing collateral. Support tools and customer service capabilities verified.

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The Top Sales Tool for 2014

SBI Growth

They stopped handing out collateral on all the bells and whistles. They changed their messaging to focus on customer care. They picked up 2 new clients in Q3 that were drawn to the customer service approach. They put down their product pitches. Instead, they produced case studies from top clients.

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7 Tips to Skyrocket Performance In Small Sales Teams

Sales and Marketing Management

Review your sales collateral. Customers have questions; they want answers. Your small sales team needs to be able to add value to the buying process in order to win customer trust. That doesn’t mean you have to miss out when it comes to sales collateral. This can be done through content. How are your team dynamics?

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Customer Experience Takes Loyalty Further in Go-To-Market Plays

Zoominfo

According to Gallup, the analytics company well known for its polls, if companies can connect with B2B customers by acting as trusted advisers, those businesses enjoy 50% higher revenue and 63% lower customer churn. If they are happy, ask them for quotes and case studies and use these as early collateral for your sales team.”.

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Why your sales meeting sucks — and how enablement can fix it

Sales Hacker

It provides sales teams with the latest product information, marketing collateral, and L&D, and is a one-stop shop for everything sales- and product-related. Collateral. Make sure your team has all the collateral that they need in one place. Why sales enablement matters. Selling has historically been an inefficient activity.

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5 Steps to a Precise Internal Sales Diagnostic

Sales and Marketing Management

From a higher level, how do prospect profiles and sales collateral make their way to the sales team, and do those tools help drive sales? Customer service : If the sales process goes smoothly, but the postsale process and onboarding are disastrous, the number of deals closed might not tell the whole story.

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