Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 27, 2019

Author: Steve Randazzo Any marketer worth his or her salt knows you have to understand your audience members before you can engage them. But the most important audience you have isn’t potential partners or customers – it’s the folks on your sales team. Because of this, collaboration between the two groups should be a top priority.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. This is problematic for more than the obvious reason.

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SMEI

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the morning of January 6, 2024, SMEI Vietnam, representative of Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI), organized the ceremony to award the Certificate of Sales Professional (SCPS – SMEI Certified Professional Salesperson ) and the Certificate of Professional Marketing Specialist.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Fearless Sales Leader. Fearless sales leaders know that business success is defined as achieving an objective or goal. Sales leaders are accountable for making the company’s sales objectives and sales objectives equal success. Sales leaders believe it is their job to develop their sales managers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 17, 2025

Data from a year-long survey reveals a common theme of the three groups within organizations that most need training. The post The 3 Groups Desperate for Leadership Training appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of marketing, the importance of building genuine relationships cannot be overstated. Carter , a seasoned expert in relationship marketing and podcasting. Understanding Relationship Marketing What is Relationship Marketing? Reciprocity Good networkers will naturally reciprocate your efforts.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2020

As part of our advisory program, SBI recently held a virtual meeting comprised of an intimate group of market-leading B2B CEOs (public and private with market caps from $1B to 10B) to discuss current market challenges and opportunities for achieving.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The post The 3 Groups Desperate for Leadership Training appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Its about developing leaders who deliver results. While organizational priorities vary, most needs fall into three categories.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Today is moving day for Objective Management Group. I'm happy to report that thanks to big-time help from PENTA Marketing CEO Deborah Penta , our new space is bright, cheery, modern, energetic, open and functional! When we first toured our new space, John Pattison , OMG's COO said, "It looks like something the 1980's barfed up!"

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I began debunking sales articles when the first ones predicting the death of selling appeared circa 2008. Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. Fifteen years later, their products have a place at the very top of the sales funnel.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #20 – Guest Scott Gillum. Scott Gillum is the founder of Carbon Design and a fellow member of CEB’s Sales & Marketing Thought Leadership Roundtable. This is not the usual us-versus-them sales and marketing discussion. This is not the usual us-versus-them sales and marketing discussion.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It can make it hard to predict what B2B marketing and sales will look like when we enter the post-COVID-19 era. . With that in mind, here are four things you can expect to occur in B2B markets as things reopen. Marketing spends will be lower. This is an excellent time to double down on your automated content marketing.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2022

Last week, SBI held an executive roundtable meeting for commercial leaders with the goal of unpacking Marketing and Sales interlock for revenue growth. The group combined leaders mostly from private equity backed companies in software, technology, SaaS, and business services.

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Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2020

When it comes to sales and marketing, building a prospecting list of target accounts and contacts may feel like a good place to start, but identifying and analyzing the total addressable market should come first. Total addressable market (TAM) is the total available opportunity for your product or services.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I specify the requirements, write the job postings, attract and source candidates, take the initial application, get them through Objective Management Group's (OMG) candidate assessments, review resumes, conduct the first interview and then recommend candidates who are perfect fits for the roles. What's the difference?

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. For a long time, few people could complete that punch list.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: The Long-Lasting Impact of Sensory Marketing Do your marketing efforts focus on audio-visual presentations, such as print ads, radio spots, and videos on TV and the Internet? Indeed, adding scents to products can increase sales.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world. . Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But what does developing an actual personalized marketing strategy actually entail?

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SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2020

Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. Digital best-practices for sales leaders. Achieving interlock between sales, marketing, and product on a digital strategy. Modernize the sales force to adopt to change. Click here for the podcast version of this interview.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. And that content is a gateway to a possible sale. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 8, 2021

Kendra Lee, president of KLA Group, examines the differences between lead generation and prospecting, and which is more appropriate when sales teams need to fill their pipelines quickly. The post Prospecting Versus Lead Generation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But for business, AI is having an early transformative effect on sales and marketing by helping people make better decisions and serve customers more effectively. Why AI Is Poised to Transform Sales. The sales function is uniquely well-suited to be transformed by AI tools. It helps farmers safeguard crops from disease.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2020

Sales Leadership Roundtable Discussion. I had 8 senior sales executives join me for an open discussion. What we found was that over the last few weeks, the majority of sales organizations had successfully made the transition in going remote and working from home. We all realized that we are all in unchartered waters.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In the past, I have lightly experimented with email marketing, first with Mailchimp and later with Mailerlite. While Nimble has always synced email with my Google Workspace accounts, their introduction of the ability to send group, one-off, messages was a huge step towards email marketing. that will be sent via group messages.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2025

Every marketing team should clearly understand whether its efforts are yielding results. However, many marketing departments struggle to define their key performance indicators (KPIs) or establish effective analytics tracking, which can make their marketing reports less useful. Table of Contents What is a marketing report?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Is your sales team disengaged? While not all sales teams may be struggling with demand (in fact some technology companies are experiencing record years), disen­gage­ment seems to be prevalent across all organizations and industries regardless of financial success. We took a keen interest on those in sales roles.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Group incentive travel continues to be a leading way to recognize and retain top performers. appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. The post Right Destination, Right Design… Right On!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2023

Group incentive travel remains one of the most impactful incentives a company can deploy. The post Incentive Travel: The Incomparable Motivator appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Two incentive travel experts talk about making the business case for these programs and meeting participants’ expectations.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 23, 2020

The number of US businesses grouped by number of employees. If you don’t sell to the enterprise market, it’s very likely your competitors will. When one of your competitors succeeds in getting business in the market that has 60% of the cash to spend in your type of solutions, what will that do for their business and yours?

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Enterprise Enterprise Penetration Gatekeeper 432

SMEI

JANUARY 16, 2024

What is a GPT and how can it enhance my sales and marketing productivity? In essence, GPT can significantly enhance your productivity as a sales and marketing professional by automating routine tasks, assisting in creative processes, facilitating learning, and providing support in various professional scenarios.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Regardless of how they acquire it, potential buyers step onto the sales floor (in-person or virtually) armed with information about their options; to remain effective, salespeople will need to adapt to the methods of the modern buyer. More than ever before, the new reality of sales must rely on marketing to a higher extent.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Very rarely did a sale require just a single signature, which meant the sales process and accompanying assets needed to be built around a variety of personas. Very rarely did a sale require just a single signature, which meant the sales process and accompanying assets needed to be built around a variety of personas.

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