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How to Ask for High-Quality Sales Referrals: 6 Key Tactics

Sales Readiness Group

Last weekend a strange man knocked at my front door. It turns out it was a painter named Steve with a unique specialty: painting your home address on the curb in front of your house. Steve wasn’t looking for my business, in fact, he reminded me, he had already painted my address on the curb a few years ago. No, Steve was looking for referrals.

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3 Ways to Drain Your Talent Bank

The Center for Sales Strategy

Talk with any manager or leader, regardless of their company, industry, or size, and without a doubt, you will find one thing they all have in common – the struggle to find great talent. Building, and maintaining, a talent bank is not for the faint of heart. Now imagine the added stress that occurs when you’ve made a heroic effort to build a great talent bank, and it runs dry.

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Six Buyer Excuses and How to Respond

Revenue Storm

We, as salespeople, are prone to look at the bright side of everything we hear. By nature, we want to accept everything said to us. We are positive people. My deal is awesome! My client loves me! My deal is definitely going to close this quarter! Well, maybe not, because you may have been told one of the following buyer excuses: #1: “I am the decision maker.” – This is the classic of all deceptions.

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Introducing Lead Attribution in Nutshell: Find Out Where Your Leads Come From—Automatically

Nutshell

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” This quote from John Wanamaker, an early marketing pioneer, is one of the most famous in marketing and highlights one of its biggest challenges—figuring out where your leads and sales actually come from. The key to solving this issue is having the right data, which is exactly what you’ll get with Nutshell’s new lead attribution features.

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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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Municipal Strategic Planning Template

AchieveIt

Local government entities can use strategic planning to ensure various priorities and goals are met, develop effective strategies and tactics to reach those goals, and hold the municipality accountable to itself and the community. Municipal strategic plans allow you and your team to set and work toward a series of goals and initiatives to make changes and improvements throughout the municipality and community.

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Is Your Biggest Customer Destroying Your B2B Sales Strategies?

SalesGlobe

Your largest customer is your best customer, right? It’s easy to think so. Far too often, manufacturing businesses will bend over backward to keep their biggest customer, thinking that if they do not satisfy them, the losses that follow will be irreparable. Depending on your business, market conditions and factors specific to your manufacturing operations, this may not necessarily be true.

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Leading a Growth-Stage Company through Dynamic Markets

Aepiphanni

6 suggestions… you can add to your arsenal of tools to keep things moving and to recession-proof your growth-stage company to face the constant evolution of dynamic markets.

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Sellers Resist Behavior Change. Here’s How to Break Through.

Corporate Visions

Many sellers resist behavior change. What can sales leaders do to break through that resistance and get them to adopt a new approach?

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Leading a Growth-Stage Company through Dynamic Markets

Aepiphanni

6 suggestions… you can add to your arsenal of tools to keep things moving and to recession-proof your growth-stage company to face the constant evolution of dynamic markets.

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Factoreal Unveils Agent App to Help Businesses Streamline Customer Engagement through their WhatsApp Business or Website

Customer Think

Leading Customer Engagement Platform Introduces New Communications Platform to Expedite Conversations With Live Agents

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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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6 Ways to Recession Proof Growth-Stage Companies in Dynamic Markets

Aepiphanni

6 suggestions… you can add to your arsenal of tools to keep things moving and to recession-proof your growth-stage company to face the constant evolution of dynamic markets.

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B2B Wholesale & Distribution: Challenges and Triumphs of Industrial Wholesale Companies Facing Insolvency in Germany

QYMATIX

Insolvency? A debtor that cannot pay its debts and liabilities to creditors. No cash, no business. In Germany, specialist wholesalers and industrial distributors who can no longer meet their payment obligations due to current or foreseeable overindebtedness must, by law, file for insolvency protection. Forget your revenue, your brand, your years in the market.

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Verisk Marketing Solutions Launches “Real-Time Decisions” Product Suite

Customer Think

Expanded Verisk data solutions power personalization and drive decisions, improving marketing ROI

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Mar 14 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: NAMER, United States (Remote) Organization: Appvance As a Director of Customer Success, you’ll ensure that consumers utilise Appvance actively and receive a return on their investment (ROI) and business value. Create strategies and procedures that enable top-notch customer adoption, growth, and retention.

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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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Achieving Greater Account Penetration by Increasing Share of Wallet

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

Interested in learning how much your customer spends? Share of Wallet (SOW) is an important metric to measure how much of a customer’s purchase you’re responsible for. In other words, it reflects the amount of product or service purchased from your company compared with competitors. It can provide valuable insight into growth opportunities and areas where customers might be considering switching suppliers.