Wed.May 11, 2022

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21 Data-Backed Sales Skills Every Top Performer Needs

RAIN Group

There’s simply not enough time in the day to focus on every essential skill needed to succeed in sales. While sales teams must prioritize skills development, it’s important to identify which skills could have the biggest impact on your sales results.

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5 Elements of a Problem Statement

Flevy

Managing any organization can be described as a constant stream of problems that need to be managed and solved. However, oftentimes, people like to immediately implement solutions without having spent the time and effort to truly understand and analyze the true nature of the problem at hand. Thus, organizations end up spending a lot of time, effort, and money without precisely knowing what the endeavor is going to do for them.

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Drive Consistency in Your Sales Planning Process

Force Management

A salesperson’s time is valuable. Ensure your sales team is spending their time building a pipeline of high-value accounts. Support your sales managers and reps in developing a result-driven plan that focuses them on pursuing these high-value opportunities. Put a process in place that helps your salespeople repeatedly and consistently drive effective sales plans.

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Open Corporate Accelerator (OCA)

Flevy

The necessity to accelerate Innovation is not unique to a particular industry. Incumbent companies in numerous industries are thoroughly cognizant of the competitive risks presented by the inadequacies of their Innovation chains. They are also aware of the capabilities of startups in quickly utilizing technologies. This realization has given birth to the concept of Open Corporate Accelerators (OCA) , which involves less investment than the conventional Corporate Accelerator model.

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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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Why Leading CEOs are Measuring Employee Lifetime Value

SBI Growth

When it comes to supporting the CEO’s growth agenda, the level of sales talent is the primary differentiator for market-leading organizations. According to our internal SBI benchmarking, most business-to-business sales organizations exited December of 2021 with a startling 10–15% open sales headcount. But the real issue is the “sales capacity at risk” figure which is closer to 50–60% when factoring in open headcount, expected sales professional attrition, lower productivity levels from a glut of

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Your how-to guide to growing with the Zendesk Suite

Zendesk

During the pandemic, companies across industries were challenged: spread thin, understaffed, and often under-resourced. That left many at risk for providing lackluster customer service experiences. But while businesses felt the strain, customers didn’t lower their expectations–if anything, they raised the bar. How can businesses scale support and stay agile through change?

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Compensation in a Reinvented Work Environment

SalesGlobe

The notion of a “typical” workplace is evolving before our very eyes, and with it, remote work sales compensation plans. As quickly as the pandemic drove offices to remote work, major cities in the U.S. are seeing community Covid numbers go down. Therefore, many organizations are eager to bring their employees back into the office, sourdough sandwiches in tow and all.

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Five big bets for the future of CX

Zendesk

At Zendesk Relate , our flagship event held May 11, 2022, our Chief Technology Officer Adrian McDermott dusted off his crystal ball and unveiled five big bets for the future of customer experience. Technology has made some rapid and creative advancements over the past few years, and much of what we can expect by 2025 is an extension of what we’re already seeing today.

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Apptivo Product Updates as of May 11, 2022

Apptivo

Hello! Welcome to the month of success. To be a part of your successful business, apptivo has upgraded its features and, as always, is back with resources to help you navigate the new upgrades seamlessly. Our team has worked hard to implement several updates based on your requests and recommendations in order to nurture your business alongside Apptivo.

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

Mike Kunkle

Sales Transformation. It’s a term that means different things to different people. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. In my experience, the potential for improvement in most sales organizations is significant.

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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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May 11 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Sr. Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, Richmond, VA, US Organization: Partnerize As a Sr. Director of Customer Success, you will own your team’s metrics and create strategies to exceed them, focused on expansion, churn mitigation, success planning, and customer satisfaction. Be the named contact for specific strategic accounts and own senior customer stakeholder relationships.

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A new era of conversational CRM connects customer conversations across your business

Zendesk

At Zendesk, we’ve long talked about the value and importance of fostering customer relationships. They are the foundation upon which customer loyalty is built, and these customer relationships are anchored in conversations. Of course, conversational relationships aren’t new, but the way that we think about them has evolved—particularly when it comes to customer relationship management.

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10 Effective Account-Based Marketing Tactics That Every Marketer Should Be Aware Of?

SmartKarrot

The first lesson a B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) marketer learns about account-based marketing tactics is that you cannot possibly target each customer in your niche. If you do that, you are putting a huge risk of attracting no one! This is the hard truth of account-based marketing strategy. The only workaround to this situation is by being specific about the target audience you are trying to lure into buying your product.

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Introducing new Zendesk Sell innovations to help companies drive revenue

Zendesk

Every sales team is driven by a common goal—revenue. No matter the industry, size, location, or maturity of its business, a sales team’s ability to hit their target correlates to the overall success of the company. But maintaining growth requires more than just a sales strategy—it takes tools, data, and insights to help sales teams be more efficient and make smarter decisions.

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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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The New CEO’s Guide: Top 10 Priorities for First-Time CEOs??

SmartKarrot

Being the new CEO of a company can be a whirlwind. Taking over a position at the top of an organization is difficult, mainly if you’ve never been a CEO before. So, how do you know your top priorities as a first-time CEO? Let’s dive deep into it. As a new CEO, you’ll have your hands full. As you’re aware, being a leader at the helm of a company can be difficult.