Wed.Jan 12, 2022

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Four Questions to Predict Your A-Player Retention

SBI Growth

The “war for talent” dominated headlines and SBI client conversations across 2021, with attrition rates ranging from 25-60%, and leadership teams scrambling to both backfill open roles and future-hire sufficient headcount to achieve growth goals.

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Lessons the Irish Pub Can Teach Us About Experiential Design

Customer Think

The cab driver on his way from Dublin airport was dispensing unsolicited advice on two topics to our family: alcohol and where to buy it cheaply. He cheerily pointed out the multitude of appealing and reasonably priced pubs as we zipped through the narrow streets of Dublin to our hotel. Being properly primed, our first […].

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Talking Leadership with Maryann Balbo and Fran Mallace, Cox Media

The Center for Sales Strategy

We hear this question more than ever, " What makes a good leader? ". In the first 2022 episode of Improving Sales Performance, Stephanie Downs joins Matt Sunshine and guests Maryann Balbo and Fran Mallace of Cox Media. Maryann and Fran are both Group Vice Presidents at Cox Media, and throughout the show, they discuss qualities of a good leader, leading in a 'people-first' company, and offer advice for sales leaders on company culture, sales management in 2022, and looking forward.

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Revenue vs. Profit: The Difference & Why It Matters

Hubspot Sales

Revenue and profit are two of the most prominent, crucial metrics every business needs to track if it wants to understand its performance, forecast effectively, and spend wisely — among a host of other key functions and activities. Each term is distinct in its application and measurement, but despite those differences, the two concepts are often conflated.

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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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9 Guiding Principles for Doing Startup Customer Service Well

Help Scout

Follow these nine startup customer service tips to get started creating an excellent experience for your prospects and customers.

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What is Real Value?

Customer Think

Nothing can have Value without being an object of utility—-Karl Marx Too many people latch on to the meaning of value someone famous has coined, such as Value requires to be an object of utility, according to Marx. Utility can mean useful, helpful, effective, convenient etc. Utility value is defined in many ways by different people […].

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Is Your B2B Content Creating a Sum of Knowledge?

Customer Think

B2B content doesn’t create a sum of knowledge as one-off random acts of content. That’s just a recipe for confusion about your brand; frustration and a turnoff for your buyers; and putting loyalty in question for your customers.To create influence, you.

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Encouraging Support Teams To Write Help Docs

Help Scout

This Ask Help Scout column includes advice on getting your customer service staff interested in writing more help documents — and creating space for them to do so.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 305: Q & A with Russell Benaroya @

Customer Think

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio, or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every.

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How You & Your Team can Thrive in the Aftermath of Trauma w/Ken Falke, Chairman Ep#142

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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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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3 Big Martech Innovation Themes in 2022

Customer Think

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The 11 Best Freshdesk Alternatives to Consider in 2022

Help Scout

Tired of Freshdesk or looking for your first help desk? This list of Freshdesk alternatives will help you decide which tool is right for you.

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Traditional metrics are sleight of hand. It’s time to restore our faith in creativity — and implied attribution

Customer Think

Marketers have become too engrossed in digital marketing metrics. Click-through rates, impressions, unique visitors and the like offer instant confirmation that their marketing efforts are working. But are they really? Do traditional metrics reflect real buyer behavior? Put another way, do we really know what prompted a buyer to engage with a brand?

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Professional ghosting: How to avoid potential clients from suddenly ending communication

Crank Wheel

How to avoid potential clients from suddenly ending communication

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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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Remote Selling Viewpoints:

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. . Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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Omnichannel Marketing vs. Multichannel Marketing: What’s Right for Your Brand?

ReviewTrackers

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Jan 12 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: VP Customer Success – BetterUp Care Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA, US Organization: BetterUp As a VP of Customer Success, you will build and lead a world-class customer success organization for BetterUp Care. Develop a scalable elegant and innovative customer success playbook that sets clients up for success and maximizes the value of BetterUp Care offerings.

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What is a sales qualified lead (SQL) and why is it important?

Zendesk

When it comes to sales, it’s easy to believe that no opportunity is a wasted opportunity. If you throw a product at enough people, someone is bound to buy it, right? Technically…yes. But say you spent money and effort to contact 100 random people about your product. Seventy-five of them aren’t in your target audience, 10 of the remaining 25 can’t afford your product, and 14 are happy with their current product from a competitor.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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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A Step-by-Step Guide on Writing Compelling Product Launch Emails for Customers (Examples Included)

SmartKarrot

Imagine you have designed a beautiful dress, worn it, and then sat in a room without anyone getting a glimpse of it! Would you get appreciated for the design or how well the dress fits you? No right! Now, let us replace the dress with a product. You may have conducted extensive market research, spent time planning, and allocated a decent budget to develop an amazing product that addresses your customer‘ needs or fulfills their desires.

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Second Nature Launches AI-Powered Interactive Sales Coaching Solution with $12.5M Investment

SBI

Second Nature Launches AI-Powered Interactive Sales Coaching Solution with $12.5M Investment. Zoom among the companies successfully using the immersive AI simulations to impact sales. Tel Aviv, Israel, January 12, 2021. Second Nature , the automated AI-powered sales coaching solution, today announced the company’s launch alongside a $12.5M Series A round of investment by signals Venture Capital, StageOne Ventures, Cardumen Capital, and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. via the Zoom Apps Fund.

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Top 10 Tips for Creating a Robust Product-Led Growth Strategy

SmartKarrot

If you are into selling a B2B SaaS product, then chances are you might have come across the term – Product-Led growth. The question is, what exactly do you mean by it? Let us try to search for answers to these questions in this write-up. . The first question you might have is – What exactly is a product-led growth strategy? Let us head-start this write-up with this topic and then focus on the much bigger questions as we move ahead.

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