Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. But in today’s digital world, the line between sales and marketing is increasingly blurred.

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing Case Study 241

Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

This underscores the influence of sales collateral, ranging from traditional brochures to dynamic digital content like blogs and videos, in steering potential customers through their buying journey. This guide shares the importance of sales collateral, who is responsible, and how to use it to seal the deal. What Is a Sales Collateral?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. “Changing the perspective within your organization is key … it’s not about aligning sales and marketing to each other, but aligning and integrating them both with the customer’s journey.”

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It starts with the Marketing departments buyer centered marketing strategy. They can then locate the right marketing collateral needed assist in the buying process. Generally, marketing teams struggle with producing content. Strong internal content utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, and Product Development.

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Outsourcing Services Buyer Persona Infusion Exercises 317

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

A sales skills assessment will enable you to do that and provide structure for your future training, recruiting, or redistribution plans. Train to the skills gap. Following a skills assessment, you need to address training. Training isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Review your sales collateral.

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Collateral Sales Qualified Lead Guarantee Resources 230

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

These days, emotional engagement with customers is a key differentiator for go-to-market teams. It’s also cheaper to keep an existing customer than it is to acquire a new one (think marketing campaign costs and new user training, for example). Online Searches May Indicate Early Go-to-Market Motions.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

When the decision is made at the top, the collateral damage is multiplied. Ignoring Content Marketing. Take the simple example of Marketing Automation technology. However, Jim has not trained his team to follow a hiring process. Use it to compare your thought process to that of other executives. They usually go online.

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Hiring Lead Rank Collateral Case Study 326

SBI Growth

MARCH 2, 2013

marketing collateral, proposals, executive summaries, letters, emails, presentations, etc). Platforms: Methodologies, Processes, Training. If you’re theme sticks out, customers are more likely to remember it. Socialized – Once you have your theme, you need to spread it.

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Meeting Customer Scale Collateral 316

Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures. 2 Seller Training. Tapping into the Power of Sales Enablement.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

These days, emotional engagement with customers is a key differentiator for go-to-market teams. It’s also cheaper to keep an existing customer than it is to acquire a new one (think marketing campaign costs and new user training, for example). Are they sticking around? So what do these patterns mean in the bigger picture?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

Other selling tasks include prospecting, administrative work, data entry, market research, etc. Training and onboarding. Around 3 in 4 organizations use classroom training as their primary way to train salespeople ( source ). 44% looked to their manager, 35% to team training resources, and 24% to media ( source ).

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Hiring Referrals Cold Calling B2B 197

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On’s streamlined user interface puts first-rate marketing tools at your fingertips, making campaigns and programs easier and faster.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Sales enablement technology and training can help in this area; however, a tremendous gap remains in resources for indirect sellers. While 68 percent of B2B companies provide presentation templates to direct sellers, only 48 percent provide the same collateral to their indirect or partner sellers. times lower rates than direct sellers.

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Sales Technology B2B Sales Enablement Enterprise 218

Allego

MARCH 7, 2023

Product marketers play a critical role in any company’s success. They’re conduits of information and the connective tissue between product developers, the marketing team, and the sales force. If you’re tired just reading that list, imagine how product marketers feel. 3 Habits of Highly Effective Product Marketers 1.

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Marketing Sales Enablement Collateral Microsoft 115

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Cespedes, Yuchun Lee and Mark Magnacca A lot of sales training misunderstands how salespeople learn. They pick up lessons about how to pitch, answer objections, use marketing collateral and other aspects of selling for that product in that market, while gaining confidence in their abilities. Author: Frank V.

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SAP Face-to-face Hiring Exercises 177

Allego

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve got a full production calendar of sales content, solution briefs, case studies, videos, blog posts, product guides, and more to support sellers and help them be productive. Marketers like you face three big challenges: 1. But if you support a sales team, you’ve got a lot on your plate. Go Virtual.

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Revenue Scale Collateral Harvest 128

Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Sales Collateral Management is the process of creating, storing, and simplifying access to all the collateral that salespeople and marketing teams need. It enables salespeople to locate the right collateral at the right time, empowering them to sell with confidence. Marketing Strategy Documents. Calling Scripts.

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Collateral Enterprise Enterprise Case Study 59

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Essential collateral: buyer personas, deal milestone timelines. To ensure the right people are involved in the conversation at the correct times, you need to provide your employees with the right materials, training, and guidance. Essential collateral: plays or scripts with qualifying questions that round out the buying team.

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Decision Maker Buyer Persona Collateral Case Study 128

Mindtickle

JANUARY 25, 2024

The right sales collateral is essential. In this post, we’ll explore what sales collateral is, why it’s important, and what the different types are. What is sales collateral and why is it important? First things first: what is sales collateral? First things first: what is sales collateral? But why is it important?

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Collateral Top of Funnel Closing Buyer Persona 59

Allego

JULY 21, 2022

More than that, modern sales enablement enables hybrid teams to close more deals thanks to an up-to-date approach to sales training , coaching , and content. Getting qualitative data on usage and quantitative feedback on whether collateral is succeeding. Product and Process Training. Performance Insight.

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Sales Enablement Company Collateral Hiring 117

Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

Today, product success is frequently determined by who gets to market first. Getting to market first means getting to market without stumbling or missing important items along the way. Product marketing data. Internal training schedules and dates. WHAT – What kind of information needs to be communicated?

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The right technology solution enables sellers to do personalized outreach, record videos, manage content, and share collateral and videos with prospects. Content creation can be an obstacle for rep success unless they’re empowered to create and curate just-in-time content alongside formal marketing and product collateral.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI. Their rapid growth recalls some of the most durable tech-driven shifts of modern history, with research by Bloomberg suggesting the generative AI market will grow to $1.3 What Does this Mean for Marketers? How Do Marketers Use Generative AI?

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Accent Technologies

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Marketing Teams need a powerful tool that goes beyond traditional approaches. Let's explore how this technology transforms content creation and knowledge management for marketing professionals. Centralized Knowledgebase Marketing teams often struggle with scattered information across various platforms.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 1, 2023

Regie helps sales, marketing, and success teams write engaging content faster using AI. Tools without training hinder growth As mentioned by one of the previous interviewees in this series, training your sales team on the usage of new tools is critical, and frequently inadequate or missing completely.

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Opportunity Buyer Collateral Tools 195

Allego

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If you’re a marketer supporting a sales team, you’ve got a lot on your plate. Today’s competitive economy—and the new requirements of virtual selling —have increased demands on marketers. Today’s competitive economy—and the new requirements of virtual selling —have increased demands on marketers. Sirius Decisions).

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SBI

JUNE 26, 2018

This week I interview Jill Carpenter , VP of Marketing for Cirrus Insight. Share and Track Sales Collateral: Use attachment tracking to determine high performing pieces of content and know when prospects read high converting pages. Day ~15: User training sessions. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers.

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Top of Funnel Collateral SalesForce Prospecting 123

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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Training webinars. Case studies.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 111

SBI

AUGUST 1, 2019

Sales Enablement: Marketing and Sales Alignment by Design. Marketing and sales both work to drive demand and grow revenues. They do so in silos, guided by a linear process that dictates marketing works on the first part and sales works on the second. Only 12% of marketers agree they have a successful process from lead to deal.

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Showpad

JUNE 15, 2020

Sales training programs offer your reps the opportunity to develop their sales skills and connect with customers more meaningfully — when set up and executed properly. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you need formal sales training and how to guarantee its success. . Components of a successful sales training program.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

You might find fundamental flaws in your approach, your training, or your management style, so you can take time to remedy them. Marketing collateral usage. Hopefully, your marketing team is creating collateral that helps your reps move their prospects through the sales process. Image Source.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Part of the problem was the company’s content repository: Halcyon Knights relied exclusively on Microsoft’s Sharepoint to store and share marketing collateral and learning materials. We need to train people on how to do business development and sales,” said Leah. “We We need to train them on how to send out content.

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Collateral Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Scale 98

Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps. Sales strategy.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sales enablement is the systematic approach of providing your sales team with content, tools, strategies, and training to help them succeed. 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.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Collateral Ideal Customer Profile 105

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

MAY 24, 2019

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. Sales and marketing must work together to deliver on the promise of alignment. Marketing must agree to move beyond demand generation content and build content designed to be used in the sales process. Train sales.

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Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 90

Hubspot Sales

JULY 29, 2022

In the same way that founders could never reach their goals without sales, marketing, customer support, R&D, and HR teams, one company standing alone won’t get half as far as one that invests deeply in connecting with other companies in its space. That’s why savvy companies invest in partnership teams and partner programs.

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