Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 25, 2022

The post Using B2B Social Selling to Generate Better Leads appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Social selling flips the switch on traditional cold calls and takes a customer-centric approach, which is exactly what businesses need to do to stand out from their ever-increasing competition.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 6, 2024

The post Driving Leads and Sales Through Private Engagements appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Offsite events are not a "build and they will come" endeavor. Here are five ways to make your in-person event more enticing and successful.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2022

The pending recession presents a great opportunity for marketers to lead in their organizations, and be the revenue generators that CEOs have expected for some time. The post 4 Ways Marketing Can Take the Lead During a Recession appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 15, 2022

Lead nurturing content comes in multiple formats, but any sales enablement content should strive to accomplish these same few goals. The post How to Use Lead Nurturing Content to Close Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So why are so many qualified leads not followed up? The post Why Your CRM System Is Essential for Lead Management appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. You've got a CRM system in place. It's time to rethink the role of your CRM.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This week, we identify the final 5 keys to success in leading a sales team. Sales leaders must be both effective managers and great coaches by arming their salespeople with the skills to be successful and managing their strengths.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership. Some salespeople fool themselves into believing what I call the “warm call fantasy.”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At this point in 2020, all your competitors have undergone some variation of a “digital transformation” to supplement an end-to-end data-driven, Customer Experience (CX) focused digital sales strategy. A recent study conducted by KPMG found that over 90% of companies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 15, 2024

While often overlooked in the B2B space, video marketing offers a unique opportunity to distill complex concepts and engage a business audience in ways that other content can’t. The post Video Marketing: Your Secret Weapon for B2B Lead Generation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 17, 2022

Content marketing helps make connections with key members within your industry. The post Content Marketing is More Than Just Leads, It’s Connections appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Here are four ways to shift from a conversion-focused strategy to connections.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Succeeding in a recession will require developing new strategies and approaches to lead your team and adapt to the economic conditions. You need to determine how to lead your team to achieve your objectives. The post Are You Ready to Lead and Succeed in a Recession? The time to BE BOLD is now!

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In our sales management training, we have developed 10 keys and a framework of activities that provide a new or tenured sales leader with a roadmap they need to put in place to help lead their team to greater sales success.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 20, 2021

SBI recently held its first Chief Financial Officer Growth Forum to bring together like-minded finance executives to discuss common challenges and share best practices with their peers. These growth-focused CFOs gathered in an intimate virtual setting to discuss the following.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

By implementing these strategies, sales leaders can bridge the knowing and doing gap, leading to increased sales performance and overall success in their organizations. The post Leading a High-Performing Sales Team appeared first on Steven Rosen | Star Results.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

CMOs commonly struggle with talent issues across marketing functions, more so than their counterparts in sales. Being the benevolent leaders that they are, CMOs often explain this as a consequence of marketeers requiring deeper role specialization, technical skill requirements, data.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Ryan also discusses the challenges of leading sales teams in a complex and fast-paced industry and provides valuable advice for sales leaders. “It’s The post Leading Transformation in a Fast-Paced World appeared first on Steven Rosen | Star Results. It’s not about just selling them technology.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They’re accountable for sales touches, not for generating leads that are actually qualified. What tech tools will help me generate hot leads and land new clients? You nurture professional and personal networks that keep your sales pipeline full of referral leads. Someone’s making them do it.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 10, 2023

Businesses must work harder to generate high-quality leads. The post Mastering the Art of B2B Lead Generation: Strategies for Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. These strategies will help get you there.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2020

As the supply chain is being disrupted across industries, businesses are reimagining how to go to market, generate demand, and serve customers. Consumer behaviors have changed drastically over the past year, with a significant rise in ecommerce. On today’s show, Grant.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Efficiently managing leads and routing them to the right accounts is a challenge for many companies, no matter the size. Lead-to-account matching and routing software addresses this problem head-on, automating key processes to help sales teams work smarter and faster.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2024

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 30, 2023

Today, I read two articles that had some quotable copy which we can translate to sales. The first article is about baseball and I'll translate what it says after the quote I pulled out.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

ZoomInfo’s new integration with Clari Groove helps sales teams automatically sync contacts between ZoomInfo, Salesforce, and Groove Flows — seamlessly bridging the gap between lead identification and engagement. Here’s how it works. Learn more about the Clari integration in the ZoomInfo Marketplace.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. What is Lead Mining Software? The result?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 7, 2024

The post Rewarding Sales and the Steps That Lead to Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Ric Neely of Hinda explains why B2B sales teams are increasingly using incentive programs that reward reps for completing steps to the sale and not just closed deals themselves.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

If your team has trouble closing, go back to the beginning—qualifying prospects—and examine your entire sales process for missing links and ineffective tactics. Ask yourself: How are sales reps sourcing leads? How are sales reps qualifying their leads? If your reps chase cold leads, they’re set up to fail.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

In fact, when you’re tenacious enough to book a call, data from Marketing Wizdom suggests that a mere 2% of sales leads will close on the first meeting. In the example below, the AI sales agent has engaged the lead six times before receiving a positive response and labeling the lead as “Hot.”

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