April, 2024

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How to Conquer Imposter Syndrome as a Key Account Manager

Account Manager Tips

Ever feel like a fraud as a key account manager? You're not alone. Get help with this guide to conquering imposter syndrome and banishing self-doubt for good.

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Building Relationships, Not Just Resumes: The Human Side of Recruitment

The Center for Sales Strategy

There’s a whole lot more to recruiting the right person for your team than just matching resumes to job descriptions. It’s about cultivating experiences and creating an impression that goes beyond a mere transaction. In today’s candidate-led job market, your company's reputation matters—a lot. Many of the people who have the power to influence your reputation are those you’re recruiting.

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New Report: Key Trends in B2B Content Consumption

Customer Think

The lead generation experts at NetLine just released their “2024 State of B2B Content Consumption & Demand Report,” a meaty 38-page guide based on data from more than 6 million content registrations.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Prospectors, According to Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Making a Memorable Entrance: The Art of the First Meeting

FinListics Solutions

The initial meeting with a potential client is your opening act, and as with any performance, preparation is key. But how do you prepare for a meeting that's not just good, but great? It begins with a deep understanding of the client's business and financial landscape.

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Strategic Implementation

OnStrategyHQ

What is Strategic Implementation? Strategic implementation is the process that turns your strategy plan into real action. Implementing your strategic plan is key to ensuring your organization’s future growth and success. Master the art of bringing your strategy to life like a pro. Play Watch the video Is implementing strategy difficult? While strategy implementation is a critical follow-up for any new strategy or strategic plan, it poses significant challenges for many organizations.

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7 Must Do’s for Closing a Sale Quickly

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sealing the deal is the ultimate goal of any business negotiation, but the path to get there is often fraught with obstacles and delays. Striking while the iron is hot can make all the difference. Closing a lucrative deal within a tight one-month timeline might seem like an impossible feat. However, with the right mindset, preparation, and tactics, it's a challenge that can be conquered.

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Data: The Secret Weapon in Winning the Battle for Consumer Attention

Customer Think

It is both intriguing and worrisome that our attention span has diminished to just eight seconds, which is even shorter than that of a goldfish. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a 30% decline in our ability to focus. In our fast-moving world, advertisements hold our attention for merely 1.

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How Do You Stack Up against Your Competitors in the IT Services Market?

Vantage Partners

Driving revenue and margin growth in the fast-moving IT Services market requires providers to harness the right mix of talent, industry and technical expertise, and intimate client knowledge. Add to that a fine-tuned set of internal processes and expert approaches to negotiation and competitive intelligence. All these factors must come together to deliver value and innovation to clients, which translates to increased loyalty, revenue, and profitability.

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How to Set Up New Managers for Success

Force Management

Top sales teams differentiate themselves with a proven system for finding and attracting elite talent. But landing strong candidates is only the first step in the journey. The best organizations know how to retain sellers with the most potential and ensure they’re positioned to perform and excel as they advance up the ranks. Making the move from sales rep to manager is a common career pathway.

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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. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Transforming Local Government (TLG) 2024: Are You Ready?

Envisio

TLG 2024 is just around the corner, and rumor has it… Envisio is going to be there! Next week, one of the foremost conferences in local government innovation returns. Transforming Local Government 2024 (TLG), hosted by the Alliance for Innovation, is a seriously inspiring event. It brings together a vibrant community of local government thinkers, partners, and leaders to showcase innovative solutions and share real-world case studies.

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The Ultimate One Page Key Account Plan Template

Account Manager Tips

Simplify your key account management with our quick 7-step one page key account plan template. Designed for maximum impact without the time sink!

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Remote Recruitment: Navigating the New Normal

The Center for Sales Strategy

In the “old days” (5 years ago), hiring a new employee meant meeting them in person, shaking their hand, and conducting a live interview. Today, that’s not always possible. For many, remote and hybrid models are becoming the norm, which means leaders must adapt their recruitment strategies to meet the unique challenges and opportunities these environments present.

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How Transformation in Healthcare Improves Decisions | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Transformation in healthcare involves integrating technology to improve patient care, streamline administrative processes, and enhance overall efficiency within the healthcare system. Operational decisions are crucial in healthcare by determining resource allocation, staffing levels, and workflow management, ultimately improving patient outcomes and organizational performance.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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7 Tips for Using Storytelling in Sales Presentations

Brooks Group

Storytelling in sales is a skill. When used correctly, it can be an incredibly powerful way to convince your prospects of the value of your solution. As humans, it’s in our nature to be drawn to stories. A good story grabs our attention, helps us visualize and understand information, and connects us to both the storyteller and the characters within the story.

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Driving a Revenue Mindset: 5 Takeaways from Our Conversation with Brian Walsh

Force Management

We recently hosted a live session on Driving a Revenue Mindset with our Managing Director and Facilitator Brian Walsh. He shared insights on what’s changing in sales, what remains critical, and what the most successful organizations are focusing on to maintain revenue momentum. Be sure to check out the full on-demand recording here.

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Nutshell Announces New Email Sync Controls

Nutshell

Some emails—like those from HR, your company’s legal team, or just sensitive conversations—aren’t meant to sync into your CRM. To keep private messages private, you and your team need complete control over how your email communications are shared in Nutshell. Nutshell already offers tools for hiding emails so you can keep sensitive information out of your Nutshell account.

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How Sales Enablement Supports Customer Experience

Customer Think

As customers become more informed, businesses must shift from selling to enhancing customer experience. This needs quality offerings and the ability to provide seamless, personalized experiences. This is where sales enablement comes into play.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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7 Simple Steps to Boost a Prospect's Mood and Improve Sales

The Center for Sales Strategy

A good salesperson knows that success starts with making connections, building rapport, and creating a positive space. Short and irritable prospects make it difficult to have any meaningful conversation and make your job much harder than it needs to be. Building rapport and making connections doesn't have to take long, and it's well worth the investment.

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Continuous Improvement vs Operational Excellence | KaiNexus

Kainexus

We are often asked if continuous improvement and operational excellence are the same. They are not, but they are closely related. Continuous improvement involves constantly improving your business processes to reduce waste, cut costs, improve quality, and maximize human potential. It focuses on making each existing process perfect. Operational excellence goes further.

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Embracing the Future with "7 Steps to Building a Customer-First Revenue Organization"

FinListics Solutions

In today's fast-paced business environment, standing out in a sea of competitors requires more than just a superior product or service; it demands a customer-first approach to revenue generation. This pivotal shift is the heart of the newly released eBook, "7 Steps to Building a Customer-First Revenue Organization," co-authored by Dr. Stephen Timme,and Sheevaun Thatcher, CPC.

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CEOs Discuss: Marketing as a Key Revenue Driver

SBI Growth

Marketing is an integral part of any successful go-to-market model, yet they are typically the most misunderstood, with many relegating them to the role of cost-center. What roles do they play in a B2B environment, and how can leaders transform marketing into a key revenue driver for their organization?

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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The 9 Best Collaboration Tools for Your Business

Nutshell

You know what’s a surefire way to cause problems for your company? Having all your team members be on totally different pages from one another, without any kind of communication or collaboration between them. But assuming you want your business to succeed, we wouldn’t recommend that. Instead, you should make a point of connecting your different team members and encouraging collaboration between them on various projects and aspects of running your business.

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Fewer Inbound Leads in 2024? 3 Things Sellers Should Do to Hit their Numbers.

Hubspot Sales

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. This week's installment comes from Repvue's Founder and CEO, Ryan Walsh. Want more content like this? Subscribe to our newsletter. Ask any salesperson if they get enough inbound leads. You can bet their answer will be “no.” It won’t matter who they work for or what industry they’re in.

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Beyond Orientation: Strategies for Continuous Support in the Early Days

The Center for Sales Strategy

Congratulations! You’ve just made an amazing new hire with talent, experience, and skills who aligns well with you, your team, and your organizational culture. With all that in place, it’s safe to assume that all will be smooth sailing toward a future of success, right? Unfortunately, things don’t always turn out as we assume. Nearly a third of new employees leave within 90 days of getting hired.

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Lean Transformation for Enhanced ROI | KaiNexus

Kainexus

In today's fast-paced environment, Lean transformation emerges as a strategic approach to streamline processes, optimize resources, and drive continuous improvement while embracing technologies. Combining Lean methodology principles with innovation, Lean transformation emphasizes efficiency, agility, and customer-centricity. Maximizing return on investment (ROI) in transformation is paramount as organizations seek to justify investments, prioritize initiatives, and ensure sustainable growth.

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The Truth About Sales Agility: Separating Fact From Fiction

Speaker: Michelle Vazzana

Every sales organization wants their sales force to be agile. Why? Because the world is rapidly changing, becoming more complex, and making the salesperson’s job harder. Organizational leaders are unsure of the best way to equip sellers to succeed in this new reality. Should they change their sales methodology? Should they adopt better technology tools?

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GenAI as a Catalyst for Workforce Enhancement: 10 People Strategy Considerations

Customer Think

We are amid a GenAI revolution. GenAI burst into our personal and professional lives so abruptly in 2022 that many companies are still playing catch up. GenAI has been the fastest technology development in our lifetime. The rapidity of GenAI development continues daily with the emergence of new players, models, and functionality.

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Report: Four Steps to Revive Commercial Productivity

SBI Growth

Buyers today face a lack of consistency: from rapidly shifting priorities to uncertain regulatory environments, every step in the purchasing journey is plagued with second-guessing and hesitation. The main issue for commercial teams? Reset buying, where just as everyone in the buyer decision team gets agreement, changes happen and reset the progress that sellers have made thus far.

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Nutshell Announces New Email Sync Controls

Nutshell

Some emails—like those from HR, your company’s legal team, or just sensitive conversations—aren’t meant to sync into your CRM. To keep private messages private, you and your team need complete control over how your email communications are shared in Nutshell. Nutshell already offers tools for hiding emails so you can keep sensitive information out of your Nutshell account.

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Building Skills for the Sport of Support

Help Scout

As we venture into this next season of support, where AI will make our landscape more competitive and providing human support will become more demanding, what kinds of skills should we be developing?

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Negotiate Larger Deals More Quickly

What if there was a better method of changing the conversation with your customer from delivering pricing to delivering value solutions? A method that would help keep you in control, manage the uncertainty, and close larger deals more quickly for you and your company? There is.