article thumbnail

Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

Red Star Kim

For complex projects we must collaborate with those in other functional specialisms such as finance, technology, people and innovation. We covered a variety of hard skills (vision, strategy, finance, MBD planning) and soft skills (leadership, buy-in and influencing, personal brand, managing a team and motivation).

Marketing 130
article thumbnail

ICYMI: Our Favorite Reads From 2018

Help Scout

The Art of Negotiation. Our VP of Finance, Shawna Fisher, delivered a talk at a company retreat about how negotiation is best understood not as a face-to-face confrontation, but as a side-by-side, problem-solving journey: “Negotiation is fundamentally about human interaction.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

For example, for accountants this might include Quoted Companies Alliance, UK Finance or Federation of Small Businesses. Without targeting there is the risk of “spray and pray” content being sent into the ether. For law firms these might be GC 100, International Bar Association or the Association of Corporate Counsel.

article thumbnail

What Sales Leaders Need to Do to Hire and Evaluate Talent More Effectively

Miller Heiman Group

In 2018, just 54 percent of all sellers met their sales quotas, according to CSO Insight’s 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. Furthermore, only 16 percent of sales leaders say they are confident they have the talent needed to succeed into the future, according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Sales Talent Study.

Sales 62
article thumbnail

The Four Buying Influences to Identify in Manufacturing Sales

Miller Heiman Group

Now according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Buyer Preferences Study , sellers face an average of 6.4 In fact, 72% of manufacturing sales leaders say their greatest challenge in winning new business is identifying and gaining access to decision-makers, according to CSO Insights’ 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. All this has changed.

article thumbnail

Three Strategies for Messaging That Wows Your Buyers

Miller Heiman Group

One important way for sellers shape and grow deals is to help buyers identify and prioritize their needs, but now buyers often wait until they are ready to negotiate to engage them. Less than one-third of buyers find that one seller outshines the rest, according to the CSO Insights 2018 Buyer Preferences Study.

Finance 61
article thumbnail

Artificial Intelligence vs Business Intelligence – What is really self-service business analytics?

QYMATIX

2018 said Carlie J. For finance departments, this is probably a no-brainer. Thus, pricing potentials per customer can be determined, which gives your sales team negotiating security in price negotiations. 2018): Gartner Says Self-Service Analytics and BI Users Will Produce More Analysis Than Data Scientists Will by 2019?