Account Manager Tips
APRIL 11, 2024
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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 15, 2024
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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Hubspot Sales
APRIL 15, 2024
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.
Customer Think
APRIL 10, 2024
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.
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.
OnStrategyHQ
APRIL 16, 2024
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.
FinListics Solutions
APRIL 10, 2024
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.
Strategic Accounts Today brings together the best content for strategic account managers from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 4, 2024
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.
Vantage Partners
APRIL 12, 2024
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.
Customer Think
APRIL 10, 2024
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.
Envisio
APRIL 5, 2024
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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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
Force Management
APRIL 16, 2024
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.
Account Manager Tips
APRIL 10, 2024
Simplify your key account management with our quick 7-step one page key account plan template. Designed for maximum impact without the time sink!
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 10, 2024
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.
Kainexus
APRIL 12, 2024
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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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.
FinListics Solutions
APRIL 16, 2024
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.
Customer Think
APRIL 8, 2024
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.
Nutshell
APRIL 4, 2024
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.
SBI Growth
APRIL 12, 2024
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?
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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 16, 2024
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.
Kainexus
APRIL 9, 2024
Leaders who want to develop a culture of rapid continuous improvement have many tools at their disposal. So many that it can be challenging to keep them all in mind when deciding how to execute an opportunity for improvement or address a difficult challenge. Most organizations don't use all of these techniques simultaneously, but each can be remarkably effective when applied to the right situation.
Hubspot Sales
APRIL 1, 2024
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.
Customer Think
APRIL 5, 2024
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.
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.
Nutshell
APRIL 4, 2024
If your business schedules a lot of meetings — either internally or with clients — you might wish you had a way to make that process easier. Thankfully, there are meeting scheduler tools out there to meet that need. These tools allow you to easily schedule meetings and get reminders for them, as well as keep track of when you’re available. The question, though, is this: What’s the best meeting scheduler for you?
SBI Growth
APRIL 11, 2024
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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 8, 2024
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.
Kainexus
APRIL 1, 2024
In their quaint unsuspecting neighborhood of the 1980s, two young visionaries, Greg Jacobson and Matt Paliulis, embarked on an adventure that would unknowingly pave the way for a future innovation. While their peers were preoccupied with the latest Atari games and BMX bikes, Greg and Matt found themselves enthralled by a different kind of challenge: optimizing their paper routes through the principles of Kaizen, a concept they barely understood but inherently practiced.
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?
Help Scout
APRIL 15, 2024
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?
Customer Think
APRIL 12, 2024
Like everyone else in the world right now, I’m finding ways to use AI, the latest greatest shiny object. One of the more impressive types of AI generative tools are those that create sophisticated graphics on demand.
Nutshell
APRIL 3, 2024
Startup management used to be complicated and time-consuming for companies wanting to scale. But nowadays, with modern software for startups, getting your small business off the ground is easier than ever. Whether you want to sell or scale your business, here are the software tools to make a productive tech stack for your startup. Table of Contents 5 types of software to include in your startup tech stack Productivity and collaboration software Communication software Marketing and sales software
SBI Growth
APRIL 8, 2024
Prospecting has evolved as automation has made creating, sending, and tracking multi-email sequences to prospects easy. Unfortunately, while sales enablement technology has dramatically increased the volume of prospecting emails you can send, it hasn't improved their effectiveness. Here is how you can increase your email prospecting odds using the HERO framework.
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.
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