Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A key account management strategy helps you optimize the relationship between you and your most valuable clients. Find out how to create one, the easy way.

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Upland

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Why do you need to know your customer? You need to know your customer because customers buy outcomes. They aren’t in the market for products or services. They aren’t buying just to buy. They’re on a mission to solve a problem, fill a gap, or capitalize on an opportunity. The product or service you’re selling is the method or tool they will use to get there.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Get the conversation started with the 45 best questions to ask your client to get to know them, reveal new opportunities and hidden risks.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How we work and live has changed in unprecedented ways over the last few years. We have experienced both the benefits and the challenges of remote, hybrid, and return-to-office work models, and most have strong opinions and preferences on the subject.

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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.

Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Will Frattini, Head of Enterprise Revenue & Growth at Zoominfo, take on account management and account expansion selling. You'll learn why a focused and intentional account management strategy is essential for net revenue retention and account expansion. Why Account Management Matters In sales, closing deals and prospecting often steal the spotlight from account management and customer retention.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, I want to talk about using multi-factor analysis to maximize your sales performance improvement. In plain English, this is a way to look at a whole situation in context – the root cause of the problem and possible solutions – and to come at the problem from different directions at the same time. The reason you’d do this is because there is rarely one right answer, or one performance lever to pull, that will deliver the maximum performance improvement with a sal

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Software Sales Guru

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A New Normal in Sales A newly hired executive sat in on a sales call as part of his onboarding. He said, “This customer was very forthcoming. Far beyond normal. They told us everything. Pain. Cost of doing nothing. Their exact list of decision criteria. Budget. Process.” The call was recorded and we reviewed it with the sales team. The new team member thought he.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A key account management strategy helps you optimize the relationship between you and your most valuable clients. Find out how to create one, the easy way.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Have you ever hired someone who seemed perfect on paper, but ended up being a terrible fit for your team? What about someone who blew you away during the interview process, but then turned out to be a totally different person once you brought them on board? If we each had a crystal ball to gaze into, the hiring process would be so much easier. Instead, hiring the wrong person is oftentimes a tough learning experience.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Email templates are one of the best ways to make your outreach more efficient, keep your messages consistent across your team, and improve outreach effectiveness over time. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a new email report that will give you insight into the types of emails your team is sending and how many emails each team and user is sending.

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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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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In this post, I will offer advice about how to measure the ROI of your sales enablement program. This is a complex topic that is beyond the scope of one blog post, but I will do my best to provide a solid kickstart for you and offer what I hope will be some helpful perspective and good resources to continue to pursue. I do have a video on this topic, from my newsletter, Sales Enablement Straight Talk , as an additional resource.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Being easy to read, short and jargon-free The Strategy Book (FT Publishing, 2012) is a considerable achievement bearing in mind the subject matter. I deliver and facilitate strategy workshops and it’s always good to be able to recommend strategy books to delegates. This one is equally helpful for experienced leaders and students first grasping the principles of strategic thinking.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The beginning of 2023 marked the start of more conservative spending for CEOs, which is likely to continue until the year ends. But expense management is only one part of the equation: leaders must look elsewhere if they want to hit their financial targets. Based on SBI’s survey data, revising how productive their go-to-market (GTM) teams are and finding solutions to raise that benchmark is what’s going to make the difference here.

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Sales Readiness Group

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Success in sales demands more than a distant target. It requires a clear roadmap and smaller victories along the way, or, in other words, subgoals. Let’s explore what subgoals are, their role in achieving your sales targets more effectively, and how a 4-step framework can help you manage your team’s performance.

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Customer Think

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Customers’ prosperity is your path to prosperity. For your solutions serving their needs, their funding serves the needs of employees, partners, and investors. Inversely, customers’ hardships (lack of prosperity) are extra costs for you, either to resolve their issues or to expand sales with new customers.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Most of us have posted so much on social media, it’s hard to remember it all. But the internet doesn’t forget. When was the last time you did a brand audit of yourself? If you’re a professional in sales or leadership, will your online brand send the message you want?

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Revegy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The B2B enterprise landscape has undergone a significant transformation over the years, with organizations placing a heightened emphasis on their customers. With the advent of digital technology, businesses have had to adapt to an increasingly complex environment characterized by more decision-makers, longer deal cycles, higher pricing points, and a plethora of competing channels.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For over 20 years I have attended and reported on the annual Professional Marketing conference. Sometimes I have also presented sessions. The latest conference was reported in the winter edition of PM Magazine. Thanks to editor Matt Baldwin for his assistance. The theme of the 28 th conference this year was “ Harness the power within your firm – creating stellar marketing for the future”.

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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.

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MDI Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence as a Co-Trainer in Leadership Development In a world that is constantly evolving, we at MDI always strive to be at the forefront of finding innovative ways to promote and sustainably improve leadership development. Our collaboration with the MDI AI co-trainer “AICo” represents an exciting step in this direction. This ongoing experiment allows us to explore the role of artificial intelligence in leadership development and understand its impact on our participan

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Sales Readiness Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Sales forecasting is not just another corporate chore. It is the cornerstone of informed decision-making and the financial roadmap that keeps your organization on course. However, many managers wonder if they need to take on this responsibility. Let’s explore who should be in charge of sales forecasting, why it is so important, and how to engage your team to gain unique insights.

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Customer Think

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Customer journey maps are a key component of customer experience strategy and planning. But what are they? What information do they provide? And, how should they be used? Depending on who you ask, a customer journey map is a process or a visual tool.

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Flevy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Organizations that do not define an organizational culture leave the door open for the culture to define itself—which is often fraught with dissatisfaction, toxicity, and misalignment. Corporate Culture, Organizational Culture, or Workplace Culture all share the same meaning. The term represents the shared beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that describe an organization and its employees.

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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.

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Revegy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Compared to its finance, marketing, and logistics counterparts, sales has traditionally been a laggard regarding digital technologies, and for good reason. According to the Harvard Business Review, despite most digital technologies’ promises to help sales reps increase pipeline volume and velocity, the opposite often proves true because many companies implement a multitude of point solutions. […] The post AI Transformed: 4 Ways AI is Rapidly Changing Sales appeared first on Revegy.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

At training workshops, people often ask me for case studies of successful marketing and business development strategies and campaigns at professional services firms. Both to support their competitor analysis and to see what good strategies and campaigns look like. I scour publications and awards to pick up as many as I can. Here I summarise brand, referrals, research, key account management (KAM) and new service development case studies.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s nothing quite like coming home to a package you‘ve been eagerly awaiting. If you’re anything like me, you take your time to unbox your item, and savor the experience. That’s why your ecommerce packaging needs to be clever, carefully, designed, and inventive. Capitalizing on your customers’ emotions during this moment is the key to leaving a lasting impact and creating an unforgettable buyer experience.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the competitive world of sales, adopting the right mindset is crucial for success. On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount spends time with Dre Baldwin, a former professional basketball player in the NBA turned business guru to discuss why sales professionals who adopt a pro athlete mindset have greater success. Journey from the Court to the Boardroom Dre's journey from the basketball court to the boardroom offers invaluable lessons for sales professionals.

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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?

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Vantage Partners

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In our experience working with thousands of organizations over the last thirty years, Vantage has identified eight essential skills that alliance managers must develop to be successful – for themselves, their teams and their organizations.

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Force Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Today's leaders have an uphill battle to successfully tackle revenue growth goals. Externally, marketplace dynamics have shifted and buyers have redefined why and how they buy. Internally, revenue organizations have to adapt and align their message in a way that communicates their value in today's dynamic selling environment. Strategies for growth and evolution should drive alignment across all your revenue teams.

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The Great Game of Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Everyone has had a peer advisory group at some time in their lives. It was just relatively informal. As children and teenagers, an informal peer advisory group consisted of closest friends, BFFs, classmates, parents, and maybe a mentor who took you under their wing.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As an fan of Challenger sales (and the variant Insight Selling Insight selling – building on consultative selling models (kimtasso.com) I was delighted to see that one of the originators – Matthew Dixon – turned his focus to selling in professional services. His research on rainmaker best practice is helpful for those providing sales training and coaching to lawyers, accountants and other knowledge-based professionals.

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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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