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The Most Dangerous Species of CEO: The Product Pusher

SBI Growth

The most dangerous species of CEO is the product pusher. Ask any sales or marketing leader. The product-pushing CEO is even worse than frugal Fran, whom as Oscar Wilde quipped of a critic, “knows the price of everything and the.

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Getting Results from Poor Performers

Engage Selling

It’s frustrating. When you see a sales rep struggling month after month, and missing target after target, it’s enough to make any sales leader uneasy. The problem is most leaders handle poor performers the wrong way.

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3 Methods That Will Give Your Prospect No Choice But Choose You

MTD Sales Training

No doubt you’ve heard the stories of customers who have changed their buying patterns and switched the companies they buy from, based purely on the fact the salesperson left one company and went to work for another. Their allegiance was with the salesperson more than the company and their products. Why does this happen? It’s normally because the buyer trusts the salesperson much more than they do the company.

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Multiple Lead Generation Strategies Builds Recognition ROI

Sales Gravy

Can you rely on cold calling as your one and only prospecting method for driving leads? Yes, you absolutely can. The challenge with that, though, is that whenever you employ just one method of reaching prospects, you are constrained to that method.

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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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Is Your Company Hard to Buy From and Sell For?

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Biju Baby, a Vice President of Global Sales Operations who knows a thing or two about supporting revenue growth. His company has seen an impressive 54 quarters of sequential revenue growth and Biju has.

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How to Become an Unstoppable Closer

Engage Selling

The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power, more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process—than at any time in history.

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Spigit Announces Biggest Product Release Yet and Adds New EVP of Sales

Planview

Following on the heels of announcing the acquisition of Kindling and record growth in 2016 earlier this year, today Spigit announces its biggest product release to date plus a new addition to the team. We’re serious when we say this release is big. How big? Try this on for size. Spigit releases game-changing capabilities. Here are five of the new capabilities Spigit customers will have at their fingertips with the latest release: A new REST API that allows customers to integrate their innovation

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3 Steps to Arrive at the Right Coverage Model

SBI Growth

Knowing when customers prefer to buy directly or indirectly can make or break your revenue goals. Likewise, matching the appropriate customer acquisition cost (CAC) by channel with customer lifetime value (CLTV) by customer and product type can improve the odds.

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Your Territory is Your Business | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

Throughout this year, we’ve been talking a lot about the hallmarks, the characteristics, and the personality types of the top performers.

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4 Social Media Monitoring Tools for Tracking Your Brand

ReviewTrackers

Given the realities of today’s customer-led market and real-time customer feedback , it’s more critical than ever for brands to track, monitor, and listen to what customers are saying online. It’s not always easy, however, to get a handle on what they’re saying — and where they’re saying it. With so many platforms and channels to choose from, your customers are more empowered than ever to share their thoughts about and experiences with your business.

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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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Spigit Announces Biggest Product Release Yet and Adds New EVP of Sales

Planview

Following on the heels of announcing the acquisition of Kindling and record growth in 2016 earlier this year, today Spigit announces its biggest product release to date plus a new addition to the team. We’re serious when we say this release is big. How big? Try this on for size. Spigit releases game-changing capabilities. Here are five of the new capabilities Spigit customers will have at their fingertips with the latest release: A new REST API that allows customers to integrate their innovation

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Field Advisory Board – The Guiding Light to Sales Enablement

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Andy Panos, a Vice President of Sales who knows a thing or two about making the number. Today’s topic is sales enablement and how to drive revenue per sales head up, and time to.

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Not All Revenue is Created Equal

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is John DiMarco, a Chief Executive Officer who knows a thing or two about setting his sales team up to hit the number. Not all sources of revenue are equal. Today’s topic is setting CEO-driven.

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5 Ways to Measure if Your Sales Process is Working

SBI Growth

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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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How to Increase New Sales Rep Productivity

SBI Growth

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A New Sales Organization Model that has Business Booming

SBI Growth

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Are Your New Reps Prepared for the Real World?

SBI Growth

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Are You Alienating Your Buyers? A Touchpoint Analysis Will Tell You.

SBI Growth

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

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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Why Your Reps Abandon The Sales Process

SBI Growth

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Avoid Sales Compensation Benchmark Gaffes With This 4-Step Plan

SBI Growth

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Product Launch: Who Should Own Enabling the Sales Force?

SBI Growth

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Do You Have an Operations Plan to Make Marketing Scientific?

SBI Growth

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Negotiate Larger Deals More Quickly

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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How to Respond to a Negative Review

ReviewTrackers

“No business is immune to a negative online review.”. Even those with a 5-star reputation receive the occasional scathing comment from a customer-turned-critic (or a bitter ex-employee-turned-hater.). On review platforms like Yelp, TripAdvisor, Google, and Facebook, such comments can stand out like a bad apple that spoils the bunch. How to Respond to a Negative Review: Apologize.

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Restaurant Guests More Likely to Leave Positive Reviews on Facebook

ReviewTrackers

Restaurant guests are more likely to leave high ratings on Facebook than on any other review site, according to research by award-winning customer feedback software ReviewTrackers. The research is based on a January 2017 local search and online reviews survey, as well as findings from an analysis of more than 331,920 online reviews of more than 1,300 restaurant locations.

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Relationships Are a Result of Customer Experience

ReviewTrackers

Welcome to Customer Insights , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. This week: a reminder to keep the customer at the center of the banking experience. Subscribe to receive these stories and more every week in your inbox. Email *. Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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Customer Service vs. Customer Experience: What’s the Difference?

ReviewTrackers

So many companies are talking about customer experience (CX). They’re putting it at the top of the corporate agenda. They’re creating new positions within their organizations and hiring customer experience representatives. They’re making CX software part of their investment priority. And they’re viewing customer experience as the single most important way for their organization to achieve success.

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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.