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SBI Research Featured in Harvard Business Review: The Hidden Costs of CRO Turnover

SBI Growth

We’re excited to share the findings of our latest research, which was just published in Harvard Business Review: The Hidden Costs of CRO Turnover. I n the article, co-authored with my colleagues Bryan Kurey and Dave Lingebach, we examine the high costs of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) turnover and its significant impact on company performance.

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When Adversity Hits, Do Your Research for Business Growth

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: When Adversity Hits, Do Your Research for Business Growth Commentary often gets us into in-depth conversations, particularly when we dont agree. Upon researching the previous predictions, they were accurate! However, the approach to attaining it may change entirely.

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The Trust Factor: How Emotional Connections Make Referrals Unstoppable

No More Cold Calling

In fact, just 18 percent of salespeople are classified by buyers as trusted advisors whom they respect, according to research by Steve W. As the Harvard Business Review puts it, Research suggests that inbound strategies can attract interest, but referral selling closes deals. At least, thats what many prospects have come to believe.

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Personal Branding for Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

What research did you do to explore your options, and where did you go to find the advice to make a decision among the choices you had? If you cannot pin that down, it is critical that you focus and develop your personal brand. Think about a significant purchase you made recently and the process you went through as a buyer.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships.

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Checklist for an Effective Sales Pitch

Anthony Cole Training

An effective sales pitch should begin with identifying areas of connection, often achieved by doing research on the industry and client prior to the meeting. Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step. Dont confuse this with being liked.

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Forget the Magic Ratio: Here's How Enablement Teams Scale for Growth

SBI Growth

Once considered a catch-all team performing various misfit duties for sales, our research uncovered that modern enablement has grown to support essential functions across the commercial organization. The mandate for enablement teams has evolved dramatically.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

Leveraging research and commentary from industry analysts, this eBook explores how your sales team can get back valuable time by overcoming some pain points with your CRM, such as low adoption rates, integrations, and data quality.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm Up Cold Calls

Dig into this eBook to find out how to make cold calling a thing of the past with: Powerful sales engagement and automation Insights, signals, and deep prospect research Alternative touchpoints that keep the conversation alive

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations. This frees up valuable time for sellers to focus more on building relationships and closing deals.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Connecting the Consultative Experience

But what research has discovered is that many of today’s B2B buyers are NOT empowered and, what’s more, they have little interest in being so. Many B2B businesses have come to believe that there is an asymmetric relationship between the company and its buyers.