The Pipeline

JULY 3, 2014

Most major sports have significant dates through the year when it comes to proactively developing the team, building a roster that will help you win now and into the future. Which means it is a great time for “the right talent” to go out and market themselves, demonstrate how they can fit in now and into future growth plans.

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Hiring Sports Sales Talent Territories 275

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This of course is an important part of marketing and sales. Companies are using this as a reason to focus all of their sales tactics and marketing dollars to the Internet. Probably the most dynamic and important traditional marketing strategy is person to person marketing. And for the most part, it feels like it is.

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Fashion Small Business Small Business Hiring 293

Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2018

But how do you find a target market and what exactly is it anyway? What Is a Target Market? A target market is a group of customers for which your products and services are aimed. Picking the right target market can tell you a great deal about your business. Target Market Examples. Atlassian target market.

Apparel 139

Apparel Marketing Segment Demographics 139

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 23, 2015

Teaser: For insights on how sales and marketing can become stronger team players, look at some of the top characteristics for winning sports teams and determine how new sales engagement tools and more integrated systems can help foster these traits. read more

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Sports Marketing System Tools 120

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We are going to continue to use Linkedin and Twitter for outreach and experiment with some inbound marketing tactics. HubSpot does an amazing job at creating social media distributed content and making sure that all their sales and marketing team members have a strong presence. We’re looking to develop something along those lines.

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Hiring Jigsaw Social Media Cold Calling 384

SBI Growth

JULY 14, 2013

Overall strategy, go-to-market model and product suite are essential. Are your quotas attainable and reflective of current performance and market potential? I’ll illustrate the importance of these conditions using a sports analogy with the NFL. Benchmark the market regularly to see if you’re competitive.

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Territories Incentives Incentive Compensation 328

The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2014

To use a sport analogy, your pipeline is your core, no matter what sport you are in hockey, tennis, or running, a strong core, a well exercised and maintained core adds to athletic performance and lifts one competitor to victory over a comparably talented athlete with a less conditioned core.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Funnel Sports 300

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Like a championship sports team that needs great athletes , exceptional salespeople are the lifeblood of a high-performing sales organization. But if you have recently recruited new salespeople, you probably have also experienced how brutal it is to try to hire top talent in today's market.

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Hiring Sports Training How To 177

Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With highly sophisticated marketing processes, companies tend to do an excellent job building brand plans and marketing strategies. If you do a better job executing than your competitor, then you should take market share from them. Execution is a team sport. Strategy Vs. Execution. 7 Obstacles to Execute with Excellence.

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Face-to-face Survey Sports Follow-up 326

The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2013

Often they make quota for reasons other than sales ability, market conditions, weak or easy quotas, and more. Given that most sales people are only evaluated by the results, rather than the quality of the effort, it often clouds how effective their apprenticeship is.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Quota Sports 305

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Realize the Commonalities Between Sports and Effective Selling? Competitiveness applies to sports and sales; however, the ‘Commonalities between sports and effective selling’ offers much more. Your Story: Commonalities Between Sports and Effective Selling.

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Sports Hiring Lead Rank Competition 78

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

While it is true the professionals who are known to be consistent top performers, be they in sales, sports or finance, that top 10%, the ones in the rest of pack aspire to be, are often said to have a winning attitude.

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Fashion Sports Motivation ACT 303

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“The money is in the list” is an old direct marketing adage going way back to the development of the envelope. Despite all the digital changes in in sales and marketing, if you’re running a business and trying to use outbound to grow it, the money is still in the list. Good marketers know that lists need to be segmented to be useful.

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Real Estate Sports Segment Outbound 195

The Pipeline

MARCH 16, 2020

But the virus has created a rare commonality, causing the market to behave in a more monolithic fashion. That sports team shut down, impacts bars, rideshare, workers, and people who we sell to. It creates focus when the markets are calm, and all the more so in volatile times. Trickle Down.

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Objections SME Lead Rank Lead Scoring 310

The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2017

In sports, it could be measures like goals against, team batting average, or in our favourite sport, average deal size, time to recover cost of acquisition or leads to opportunities converted. Seems the marketing cooks in Salesland are whipping up something “new” for 2017. veneer, is Sales Enablement.

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Sports Sales Enablement Account Based Marketing Exercises 209

The Pipeline

JANUARY 6, 2014

This a ritual not limited to sports, it is practiced in B2B sales, but under different names, fueled by the same need, and with all the same negative connotations; the end is nigh, and you know the drill. We’ve all seen it or lived through it, the end of quarter (or other sales period) deal coral and round up time.

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Sports Funnel 276

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A team that excels at the sport is the living incarnation of a well-oiled machine, with each member performing their part perfectly while being acutely aware of how they fit in with their teammates’ pace and movements. This is especially true when it comes to sales and marketing. Synchronized swimming is a beautiful thing to watch.

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InsideView Lead Rank Lead Scoring Account Based Marketing 138

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Just the plain simple fact that we are measured on our success with numbers, leads to the integral, if sometimes inconvenient fact that sales is a numbers driven sport. While no one will argue that there needs to be a greater focus on quality than quantity, you also can’t get away from the fact that numbers play a great role in sales success.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Insurance 282

Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2021

Breaking News: Broadcast Sports Sales Updates Live. Sporting bow ties and fancy formalwear, with virtual fireworks lighting up their Zoom backgrounds, our sales enablement team emceed the marathon event. The live portion of the event was comprised of a few key elements that gave it the feel of a sporting event.

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Hiring Sports Nonprofit Segment 228

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. Plenty of companies have sales and marketing plays, but not all plays are created equal. What is a Play?

Marketing 130

Marketing Scale Call-back Decision Maker 130

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Delivering A Next-Level Customer Experience In this Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount talks to Clare Dorrian, SugarCRM's CMO, about putting people first, building human connections, and prioritizing the customer experience in a saturated market. In a highly competitive market, differentiation is key.

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SugarCRM Customer Marketing Outbound 104

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 17, 2017

Why some of us can learn languages easily and yet others can pick up any sport and excel.”. Want buyers to engage with your content marketing and sales presentations? And now this idea helps us to understand why some children can thrive in traditional education settings and others don’t. Ask them how they prefer to learn.

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Account Video Cold Calling Webinar Metrics 291

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In some sports and other skills based endeavours, for example figure skating, you can score points for artistic merit, and you also get scored on execution. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guidelines Sports 219

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 26, 2020

The stock market goes up one day and down the next. Consider this: Sports teams are contributing funds to help support workers at their sports centers—without whom games wouldn’t go on. Anxiety isn’t something I think about all the time. It’s just there. Everything is uncertain. Stores are shuttered.

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Film Sports Cold Calling Compensation 38

SalesFuel

AUGUST 5, 2024

How Marketers Can Use Audience Segmentation to Achieve Rich ROI What is Audience Segmentation? According to Mailchimp , audience segmentation is “a marketing strategy based on identifying subgroups within the target audience in order to deliver more tailored messaging and build stronger connections.” Marketing information (e.g.

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Segment ROI Ideal Customer Profile Marketing 104

SalesFuel

JULY 12, 2024

Here’s how to use custom content marketing to get your clients ahead this summer. How to Help Clients Create Custom Content Marketing for the Summer Consumers are Ready to Buy This summer has been a hot one in the U.S. So, why is it that 8% of marketers go dark during the summer, according to data from effectv ? Furniture: 25.6%

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Customer Advertising 105

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

Hyper-personalized cold emails are the main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to account-based marketing, or ABM ). Like many B2B companies, ZoomInfo has such a wide total addressable market. As the marketing manager for a huge company, that connection has the potential to influence a large deal! No response.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Author: Charles Brennan One of the fastest-growing sports in America is pickleball. However, many people are not familiar with the sport. Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis.

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Sports Call-back Pivotal Intent 184

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 130

Bernadette McClelland

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Just as kids we learnt our times tables, understood currency, sang our alphabet and represented our School House in some kind of sports, it was preparing us for our future. . · The adult – someone who asks rational questions, who listens, gives the benefit of the doubt, holds people accountable and demonstrates patience and respect.

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Account Sports SalesForce Conference 301

SalesFuel

MAY 1, 2024

Social media marketing is a HUGE part of acquiring new customers and inspiring customer loyalty. It’s time your client learned how to craft the best social media marketing they can. The Best Social Media Marketing Avoids These Mistakes In order to create the best social media marketing, Hootsuite recommends avoiding common pitfalls.

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Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profile Marketing 98

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2014

This also had a math equation within it: Sports is to Selling as Baseball is to Consultative Selling as Pitching and Defense are to Baseline Selling. It''s safe to assume that when a company goes to market with such a simple sales process, there isn''t a methodology to drive the conversation.

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Sales Methodology Negotiation Proposal Analysis 271

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Mareo McCracken is the Chief Revenue Officer at Movemedical, where he guides the sales, marketing, and customer success efforts. Outside of family, reading, food, travel, church service and sports—driving organizational and individual growth are his passions.

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Sports Travel Segment Education 156

SalesFuel

MARCH 27, 2024

The senior marketing manager is always looking to be visually on the forefront of advertising, and they have strong competition in the area, and need to show they are leaders in health care in the community especially in robotic surgery.” “The business I used AdMall for was a large hospital,” said Huffer. And, 71.5%

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Sports Advertising Advertising Health Care 52

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 19, 2018

Consider the time I met Ruby Newell-Legner, a well-connected woman who’s worked with several professional sports teams in different leagues. Plus, a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research found that customers who were given a product were 20 percent more apt to talk it up. Appreciate the little guys.

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Referrals Journal Buyer Persona Study 219

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

For example, we sell to sales and marketing, so the fiscal calendar year drives decisions for our prospects. The budgeting process is top of mind for our target market during October-November (and we want to get in during budget planning!).”. XX email marketing trends you must know.” I like to use puns in marketing emails.”.

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B2B Hubspot Marketo Account Based Marketing 243