Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

The post 5 Innovative Approaches to Motivating Sales Teams appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Peak performance requires sales teams to feel good about company culture, processes and operations, and themselves. Here's how managers can get there.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2024

A recent survey of Sales & Marketing Management readers showed a significant percentage of them use gift cards to motivate their employees to complete training. The post Gift Cards Motivate Skills Building appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. A closer look at the statistics.

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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. If your sales team doesn’t buy into your marketing, its members will struggle to sell, and business will falter. So how can you create that genuine bond between sales and marketing teams?

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SBI Growth

MARCH 2, 2021

The most difficult challenge leaders will face in 2021 is motivating personnel. Even with a new prospect or a new project, for most employees, the outlook is another year of virtual meetings that highly resembles 2020. In this environment, how.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gift cards provide choice and flexibility The post Motivating Todays Multigenerational Workforce appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Travel is meaningful to all ages.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 6, 2022

The post Behavioral Psychologist Ayelet Fishbach on the Science of Motivation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

Incorporating an impactful gift into your prospecting strategy will motivate your sales team in two ways: Inspire passion. Purpose Is a Powerful Motivator. Sometimes, the best incentive is the work itself. When your sales reps feel connected to their outreach, they’ll want to work even harder. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. You can use them as a tool of instant engagement to make the reward experience more meaningful, which in turn can motive sales teams more effectively. Motivate sales employees with on-the-spot rewards. Reward for the right reasons.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? Obstacles to Marketing Productivity. Either way, there are a host of obstacles to marketing time management that can impede productivity. Lack Of Strategy And Alignment: Sales and marketing alignment is imperative for efficient time use.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Khan is a speaker & founder of Empression: a marketing services company that works with highly motivated entrepreneurs and organizations. Sales Scrum Episode #21 – Guest Javed S. The post Sales Scrum Episode #21 – Guest Javed S. Khan appeared first on TiborShanto.com.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 24, 2024

The post Motivating Today’s Multigenerational Workforce appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Travel is meaningful to all ages, so it's an effective means of recognizing stellar workplace performance. Marriott GiftCards provide choice and flexibility.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2024

When asked what types of recognition were the most memorable, respondents emphasized six methods in particular: Public recognition or acknowledgment via an award, certificate or commendation Private recognition from […] The post Money Isn’t the Only Motivator appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Peer coaching is one technique that will help you unlock employee engagement in all three of Daniel Pink’s categories of what motivates: purpose, mastery and autonomy. The post Use Peer Coaching to Drive Employee Lifetime Value appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How To Motivate Employees Before a Trade Show Putting much emphasis on your trade show displays before a show is wise but equally or even more important, you will want to recognize the importance of a happy staff.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I was appalled when listening to a podcast on marketing, and the interviewee said: “Explain it so your grandmother would understand.”. Know What Motivates Your Team. Instead of “dumbing things down,” focus on knowing what motivates people, so you know how to interact, recognize, and manage them. How should I interact with you?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

To me, the most important role of management is to motivate and remove obstacles for their sales teams. When prospects convert, we feel motivated, and we are on a high. But it’s also important that when things aren’t working out, we continue feeling motivated and part of the team. Shifting Messaging .

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SalesFuel

JUNE 25, 2024

Not every employee brings a high level of motivation to work on a daily basis. But what should you do about your challenging employees – the ones who are very capable but never seem motivated? The key cause underlying the lack of productivity is likely motivation. That’s fine — people have "off" days.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 15, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, aligning sales and marketing teams is crucial for organizational success. Here are five key strategies to ensure your sales and marketing teams work together seamlessly, driving growth and enhancing overall performance.

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Nutshell

JULY 5, 2024

Salespeople constantly put what they’re selling (and maybe even themselves) up for rejection, then deal with the daily challenges of staying motivated and balancing lots of demands on their time. That’s where motivational sales quotes can come in handy. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Bold leaders also tend to be highly confident and charismatic, with the ability to inspire and motivate their teams to achieve great things. They are also skilled at creating a vision for the future and inspiring and motivating their teams to work towards that vision. If you’re not bold, what are you waiting for?

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2020

In part 1 of this two-part series, they shared how they have kept their salespeople productive and motivated over the last couple of weeks. Keep them active with respect maintaining their subject matter expertise top-notch so when they return to market they will be prepared. Keep the motivation and the communication open with accounts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Here's a look at why they are popular and some suppliers for your next motivational effort. The post Gift Cards: Highly Valued and Highly Used appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Nine in 10 respondents say gift cards make an appropriate employee incentive or reward.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation. First, reps benefit from the precise and transparent nature of the measurement and tracking, whether they are stack ranked or not, being motivated by social proof or peer pressure. Without precision, the incentive – as a tool to deliver motivation – fails.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By embracing a balanced, data-driven approach that taps into intrinsic motivation, you’re not just enhancing your sales initiatives, you’re revolutionizing them. The post The Future of Sales Excellence appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With a majority of buyers only choosing to engage sellers once theyre 60% through their purchasing journey , its crucial for go-to-market teams to have accurate, reliable insights into how active, high-priority accounts are thinking about software investments.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Ryan Thomas , the sales VP of Elastic, Americas, shares his insights on effective leadership, team motivation, and driving business growth. He emphasizes the importance of inspiring and motivating teams, aligning individual success with the company’s vision, and making data-driven decisions.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 17, 2021

The challenge of setting hard goals is making the targets motivational. Do you need to work with marketing more effectively on lead profiling and scoring? Do you need to work with Product Management and Marketing to reduce your closed lost ratio with features and positioning fixes?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Oh ya, the marketing team that “developed” the “value prop” does. Not just with a marketing intern’s or contract writer’s view of things. Buyers come in many shapes and sizes, with an equal number of objectives, agendas, and motivations. Same for value propositions, leave them in the marketing guy’s car. . No, seriously!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

For managers, the ultimate goal for sales coaching is to create an environment where their sales team feels more motivated to learn, grow, and take on greater responsibility. Sales managers need to be firm and hold their team accountable, but on the other hand, they need to be able to motivate and encourage their sales reps. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2021

Staff are motivated and ambitious, and competition between sales agents or teams is often encouraged. Without a rigorous monitoring, motivation and recognition system, a sales team […]. The post The Sale’s Manager’s Guide to Performance Management appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As more people permanently transition to home offices, companies will need to change how they motivate and recognize employees. In April, Echo Market Research and Tango Card asked 500 newly remote employees how engaged they were feeling. Cindy Mielke is the director of channel marketing, incentives at Tango Card.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. When entering a new market, you’ll want to be able to highlight what differentiates your product from competitors. However, even with all this time and effort, 40% of new product launches fail. Intelligence: ?Providing

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This doesn’t bode well for your long-term reward and recognition strategy, and doesn’t do much to excite and motivate your team to help you reach your business sales goals. The excitement of a cash reward wears off quickly when it is spent on bills and other daily expenses.

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