Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2013

.” I suppose, after bloggers and writers have exhausted all the topics about New Year’s Resolutions, there’s a struggle to come up with blog topics—at least until Valentine’s Day. “The Death Of… ” topics are probably fashionable. What sales and marketing people do, has changed tremendously.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

The post Sales Strategy: What’s Most Effective? When you think about it, an effective sales strategy is all about making sure that your reps hit their quota, right? A Forrester Research study revealed that only 15 percent of sales calls add enough value, according to executives surveyed. A Great Message!

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Inaccurate data means leads aren’t routed properly to sales. It all increases friction between sales and marketing — two teams who, now more than ever, need to work in lockstep. What’s it take?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 30, 2023

Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. A B2B marketing funnel is unique because it often involves multiple people from a single business moving through each stage of the funnel in a haphazard fashion.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

She stumbled across a video that included a recent mention of my book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. It was produced by ASG Group, a European company that helps their clients improve their sales processes. His concern is that this old-fashioned cold calling isn’t a part of a systematic, sophisticated approach to sales.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Raising a fund, securing capital for a startup, or even selling into the enterprise all share a common foundation: relationship-driven sales. Just like in Enterprise Sales, you often get one shot with your prospect (or in this case, an investor). But looking back, this actually hurt us. But ignoring it is a mistake.

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Product Management University

APRIL 17, 2024

If you want to create a revenue plan with sales that gives you a more realistic chance of hitting your revenue targets, give some thought to a broader market strategy where each product plays a role versus a marketing plan for each product. Sales signs up for a number and then everyone does whatever’s necessary to hit the number.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 27, 2018

Talking about “the buyer” no longer makes sense for most B2B sales organizations. The part that is missing from most ABM strategies is the fact that sales has to change the way they sell too. If that’s you, just getting better at traditional demand generation can get the job done.

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SalesFolk

JANUARY 26, 2021

It generated over a million dollars in sales revenue. I’ve written more than 10,000 sales emails that made over a billion dollars in revenue for many major B2B SaaS companies. The content was extremely popular, and my blog post was Hubpsot’s most popular sales blog post for a very long time.

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Mereo

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Are you enabling your sales force to make deals — or leaving them floundering to break them? Learn how a greater understanding of what buyers value most, and a commitment to serving those values, can turn your sales deals around to close. Sales leadership must understand what drives their buyers’ decisions and moves them forward.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Enter sales methodologies. Businesses rely on sales methodologies to help their reps consistently deliver at every stage of the sales cycle. Here’s everything you’ll need to know to make the right choice: What is a sales methodology? Why do I need a sales methodology? Why do I need a sales methodology?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

If only sales and marketing were that swashbuckling in real life, right? Every crew member on a ship has a duty to perform, and it’s the same when your sales and marketing teams are aligned. Secondly, did you notice that marketing was sales’ secret weapon? ABM improves alignment between sales and marketing.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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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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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Here are the notes from this compelling and important interview: One of the biggest issues for Sales is that according to several research firms, over 1/2 of a typical prospect’s purchase decision is already complete before your sales reps are even being invited to the table. Are more buyers really paralyzed by inaction and why?

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