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.

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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.

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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.

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Generative AI models are quickly making their way into call center operations. And it makes sense. Their ability to enhance customer interactions, streamline processes, and glean deeper insights into customer behavior are an attractive proposition for the industry.

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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.

QYMATIX

APRIL 8, 2024

AI-based predictive sales analytics and ERP data mining: technologies that help wholesale distributors increase margins, stay competitive, and reduce costs. B2B wholesalers face the challenge of keeping up with current market dynamics and acting with foresight. Enter AI-based predictive analytics and ERP data mining. How can applications of these technologies help wholesale distributors?

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

I wrote today’s post for Nextiva; it covers an important topic: how to scale your customer experience strategy and includes how you can implement tools like Nextiva to support that strategy. The only true and sustainable competitive advantage brands have today is the customer experience.

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Every day, millions of online shoppers face substantial risk of unwittingly giving too much away – money, information, privacy. To some retailers, this might be gold, but when the gold comes from dark patterns, we need to start applying new rules.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

A deal desk introduces a new approach to managing deals. This is done by forming a team of stakeholders and decision-makers, establishing approval workflows, and effectively integrating automation tools. This article highlights how a deal desk functions and its ability to transform the way companies tackle their sales strategy. Let’s get to it! Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Products and devices can be complex to troubleshoot, making customer support a challenge. Companies typically offer a wide range of products and devices, each with its own support requirements, which compounds the complexity of diagnosing and troubleshooting problems remotely.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 8, 2024

Claire Milligan, CEO of Aimably, discusses the power of neurodivergence in organizations. Discover the power of transparency, technology, and more.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Dental marketing, like other areas of marketing, is changing as a result of advances in technology and its impact on the way businesses interact with customers. What are the key features of dental digital marketing that will help your practice thrive?

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QYMATIX

APRIL 8, 2024

AI-based predictive sales analytics and ERP data mining: technologies that help wholesale distributors increase margins, stay competitive, and reduce costs. B2B wholesalers face the challenge of keeping up with current market dynamics and acting with foresight. Enter AI-based predictive analytics and ERP data mining. How can applications of these technologies help wholesale distributors?

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. It wasn’t personal. It wasn’t about whether we liked them as people. It was about those who did or did not make changes and improve.

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Account Management Skills

APRIL 8, 2024

“People who accomplish big things did small things well” Horace Jackson Brown, author of ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’ There are little things account managers can do well to avoid big client complaints. (The caveat to this is there will always be clients who complain regardless of how well you do your job – but that’s a topic for another day).

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Illustration 42097686 © Retro Clipart | Dreamstime.com Can your customers count on superior product and service quality regardless of the employee involved? Or is the quality of their experience reliant on the employee they happen to get?

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DemandFarm

APRIL 8, 2024

If you’re part of a B2B sales team, chances are that ABS as a strategy is on your radar. Account Based Selling (ABS) burst into the spotlight in the mid 2010s and has been steadily gaining traction as the go-to approach among B2B sales organizations. Who wouldn’t want to unlock the full potential of their key accounts? Identify your target accounts, put together a team of sales plus marketing, work out a hyper-personalized messaging and content strategy for those accounts, and measure your eff

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

An intelligent seller appears where the eyeballs are, and social media is the place. Usher in the power of social media in your ecommerce platform will help turn your audience into customers. This online shopping statistic of the last quarter of 2023 will blow your mind! Online buyers spent an average of almost 2.

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Podcast Today’s interview is with James Lawther, Director at Squawk Point Consulting and Author of ‘Managed by Morons: The Path to a Thriving Organisation’ James joins me today to talk about his new book, why so many organisations are mediocre, what we should be thinking about when it comes to measuring performance, a story about a Unilever soap […]

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

All the rage these days in Contact Center online webinars and consortia is the topic of automation and “AI”… “Bots”, “ChatGPT” (I still don’t understand what that does, but apparently, as far as you know, I’m using it to write this article right now.

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Customer Think

APRIL 8, 2024

Generative AI (AI capable of creating original text, images, and more) is reshaping the marketing landscape. However, its adoption within the industrial sector lags behind other industries.

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