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Forget B2B vs. B2C – Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

These classifications provide the building blocks at a company’s inception, as they broadly define a brand’s audience and target market. But, in the rapidly changing sales and marketing landscape, it’s important to challenge the status quo. Enter, B2P (business-to-person) sales and marketing.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Conner Burt The current labor market remains among the tightest in modern history. As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees.

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Forget B2B vs. B2C: Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

These classifications provide the building blocks at a company’s inception, as they broadly define a brand’s audience and target market. But, in the rapidly changing sales and marketing landscape, it’s important to challenge the status quo. Enter, B2P (business-to-person) sales and marketing.

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From the Switchboard to Social Media: A Brief History of Customer Service

Sales and Marketing Management

Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. Similarly, cutting-edge marketing and customer service gurus saw the advent of social media platforms as a golden opportunity to set themselves apart from the crowd. Don’t @ Me.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

As an editor and marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the “how to”—in other words, how to translate the best and more interesting marketing ideas into truly actionable steps for organizations looking to grow their business. In other words: B2B marketers + social = lots of room for improvement.

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Drowning In Information, But Where’s The Knowledge Or Insight

Partners in Excellence

This morning, it was helpful as I spoke to a client/friend, I knew his company had just closed on an acquisition–something he’d been deeply involved in. I just got my first “SMART Company Brief” from DecisionLink. I got extra credit points in the call by congratulating him on the acquisition.