Brooks Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the dynamic world of sales, where every decision can make or break a deal, harnessing the power of data is critical. As a sales leader or sales manager, your ability to navigate the complex terrain of market trends, team performance, and individual contributions hinges on a crucial tool—sales metrics.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. Here is a summary of the sales targeting toolbox for professional services firms. The second question is “ Where will we play?”.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If You Don't Take Action, You Won't Get Results In this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and David Newman, author of Do It! Selling, discuss exactly how to connect and engage with decision makers and avoid the "middle management trap". To Sell, You Have to Take Action As a sales professional, you face a simple choice.

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Scovel

AUGUST 30, 2021

Hello, in this video, we will discuss the alignment of sales and marketing in organizations. In many organizations, sales and marketing are two different departments within. On the other hand, the sales team is perceived to be responsible for reaching out to a set of prospective customers and converting them into customers.

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many sales leaders think the way to do this is to help their sales team sell better value or overcome objections. These are both good strategies, but the true differentiator is the sales professional and their emotional intelligence. People could just go direct and buy wholesale. The truth is you buy from people you like.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What if instead of going out and finding leads, you could get leads to come to you? Keep reading to learn about what inbound marketing is, how it can benefit your business, and the steps to take to launch your inbound marketing strategy. How does inbound marketing work? In fact, you don’t have to choose one or the other.

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Red Star Kim

MAY 22, 2023

I’m often asked to provide training in conversation skills. Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of a relationship building or sales conversations. First, it looks at the way leaders communicate with their people and help shape organizational culture.

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Upland

AUGUST 29, 2023

Not only does it help with sales enablement, but it also helps craft better buyer journeys. They are identifying pain points, exploring potential options, and trying to grasp how a particular offering can address their needs. It can increase your site’s conversion rates by up to 200% !

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Red Star Kim

MAY 15, 2023

I’m often asked to provide training in conversation skills. Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of relationship building or sales conversations. Similarly, replace one word job title answers (e.g. I’m a lawyer”) to a benefit statement (e.g. “I

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This is a slightly different conversation book to those I reviewed previously (see list below). The first two focused on starting a conversation in a networking situation. The third focused on conversations between leaders and their people. This book – published in 2020 – is also focused on internal conversations at work.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From the animated discussions I selected a few topics of focus – Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing. Top-down or Bottom-Up Strategy? Others see it more as top-down or bottom-up approach to strategy.

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

How to create a marketing funnel 5. Footnotes You’ve probably heard a lot of people refer to the sales funnel or the marketing funnel. As consumers discover more about your products or services, leads go down the funnel starting at the top. Nevertheless, how does this actually appear? Introduction 2.

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Nutshell

MAY 26, 2023

Every business has a sales pipeline. What’s a sales pipeline? In short, it’s the journey people take to become customers at your company. But while every business has a sales pipeline, not every business makes a point of tracking or managing it—something you should definitely do. If that’s the case, don’t worry.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leads, opportunities, sales: That’s the natural sequence of the sales process, right? All you need to do is zoom out, see the bigger picture and start looking for long-term growth and expansion possibilities rather than focusing only on short-term conversion objectives. But opportunities can be much more than that.

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Red Star Kim

JUNE 12, 2023

Digital marketing update – How to Get 100 Sales Leads in 90 Days On 20 th April there was an information-rich and insightful webinar by Steve Pailthorpe, the CEO of Iconic Digital who I had the good fortune of meeting through the Worshipful Company of Marketors. This could generate up to 10 leads a month.

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Apptivo

APRIL 8, 2022

Lead generation is important for businesses today, as it can result in sales and increase the revenue of your business. Acquiring leads is one of the important objectives for any business. Usually, businesses dedicate large resources to lead generation. These prospects are referred to as ‘good leads.’

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Powerful and versatile, CRMs are used to manage every aspect of the sales pipeline , from signing up newsletter subscribers to nurturing longtime customers, and literally everything in between. Furthermore, many marketers find themselves stuck in sales-heavy organizations, with fewer resources at their disposal than their sales colleagues.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Even if you do, the pushiness is a turnoff and you might buy the product elsewhere or through a different sales rep. How to Make Effective Outbound Calls 1. For a great sales call, it's key for agents to be knowledgeable about company offerings, conversational, and respectful.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 27, 2021

Your only challenge would be to convert the traffic into sales. So then, affiliate marketing SEO is the practice of optimizing affiliate pages to make them discoverable online when people search for products related to what you sell. 10 proven affiliate SEO tips to boost traffic and sales. That would be great, wouldn’t it?

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What CRM/systems would people recommend? There was much discussion about the different systems that were used – and people’s views on whether they were good, bad or indifferent. However, some lack systems and data for monitoring activities once leads are passed to fee-earners for follow up and nurturing.

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SuperOffice

JULY 5, 2022

And finally, when they’re ready to talk to sales, they contact you. How do you get their attention? Your audience consists of two parties: People you’ve sold to. People you’ve never sold to. So, how do you get there? So, how do you get there? Well, it starts by truly understanding them.

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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This article is a summary of the conversation and key takeaways from a workshop in London for MBL. Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability Capacity – Rational elements of referrer management Throughout the workshop we considered how leadership and organisation (rational activity) supports effective referrer management.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Of course, when we talk about the future of sales, it's less about the products we might sell (flying cars, anyone?) and more about how we'll sell them. Here, I spoke to sales leaders at Bardeen.ai , Aircall , and HubSpot to get their top predictions for the future of sales. Publish case studies on a blog.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While organic reach can help you reach a good number of people, it’s been shrinking over time due to increasing competition for space in the news feed. To ensure you’re using the combination of organic content and Facebook ads effectively, I recommend creating a sales funnel specifically for Facebook. Middle of the Funnel (MoFu).

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Zendesk

JANUARY 28, 2022

And how do you get them to buy from you? If you want more customers, you need an organized lead funnel. In this piece, we’ll take you through the ins and outs of a successful lead funnel and why your job doesn’t stop at lead generation. What is a lead funnel? Lead generation funnel. Sales lead funnel.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To learn how to do just that, we sat down with 11 digital marketing professionals and collected their best tips on how to amplify your messaging and maximize your conversions! For most goods, explain how that product will make their life better or easier. Make the Benefit Clear. Gwen North, Lake Rabun Hotel.

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Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

Imagine a locally-owned store operating in a small town—a simple, familiar place where the shopkeep knows your name and knows precisely how to help you find what you need. When people refer to CRM, they’re usually referencing the software. A CRM for sales and marketing is a CRM used to drive more sales through marketing efforts.

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Zendesk

JUNE 11, 2021

The concept of a “sales funnel” is a little misleading. But not every lead that enters the top of your sales funnel will come out the other end as a customer—there’s bound to be some pretty significant spillage along the way. In this comprehensive guide to sales funnels, you’ll learn: What a sales funnel is.

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ACT

JANUARY 10, 2024

That means a sale is an outcome, not a sudden event. To boost sales, you must optimize the sales funnel and ensure every stage feeds the other until the eventual conversion occurs. What is lead generation? Lead generation vs. lead nurturing: What’s the difference? Here are a few reasons.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You’ve heard marketers talk about landing pages and how important they are as part of a holistic marketing plan. In fact, one of the most effective ways to generate leads is through a landing page. So, what is a landing page, and how do you incorporate it into your overall marketing strategy? Of course you do.)

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SuperOffice

AUGUST 1, 2022

When you start building your first marketing strategy, all you think of is how to get new customers. You hardly think of how to attract bigger customers specifically. All you want is to attract more people who might be interested in your product or service. How many stakeholders usually take part in the decision-making process?

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Nutshell

MARCH 22, 2024

The top transcription tools can easily transcribe audio into written text, letting you do things like skim through it and search for specific words or phrases. Keep reading for a list of the top transcription apps out there! DOWNLOAD Want to generate more leads? (Of But which software should you use to accomplish this?

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Zendesk

APRIL 16, 2021

Sales reps know nothing’s harder than patiently nurturing a lead, establishing a relationship with them, and carefully converting them into a customer—nothing, of course, except finding a good lead in the first place. Lead generation is often a huge challenge for sales and marketing professionals. Getting leads.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2021

How can I avoid a dilemma like that? This meeting or call is a conversation with the major stakeholders to ensure that everyone is on the same page. It helps you create a plan, define a list of priorities, and reaffirm the goals you uncovered during the sales process. Measurable: Establish how you will track the goals.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 19, 2020

There is no greater feeling than nurturing a lead into a paying customer—especially when it’s a lead you didn’t have to pay for. B2B marketers rely on SEO , or search engine optimization, to generate high quality leads at very low cost through organic search. Create a Visit-to-Lead Path.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Whether your sales process relies on inbound leads or targeted outreach, whether you’re a big company or small, whether your sale is complex or simple; inbound sales is relevant. What is inbound sales?

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