SBI Growth
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Traditionally, B2B sales teams are mostly dominated by men. Though female sales reps earn a base pay of 33% lower than male reps, women are still paid higher at a commission rate. In fact, 86% of women achieved their set.
Hubspot Sales
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Business growth often comes from internal changes. While these changes are positive and aid in business development, internal teams can sometimes struggle to adapt to new strategies after years of the same processes. As a sales leader, you know how important it is for your sales teams to be ready and adapt to change as it comes. This is especially important since sales performance is often a critical factor in determining how businesses can grow since revenue gives them the means to expand.
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The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 16, 2020
What are your most effective recruiting tools and strategies? As a hiring manager, you’ve witnessed first-hand that simply posting a job listing is not enough to attract top talent to your organization. You may have tried to throw-out company statistics and numbers while interviewing, but even those impressive numbers didn’t set you apart from the competition.
Sandler Training
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Mike Montague interviews Alea Homison on How to Succeed at Organization-Wide Effectiveness Using Sandler. The post How to Succeed at Organization-Wide Effectiveness Using Sandler [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.
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.
SBI Growth
DECEMBER 16, 2020
CMOs commonly struggle with talent issues across marketing functions, more so than their counterparts in sales. Being the benevolent leaders that they are, CMOs often explain this as a consequence of marketeers requiring deeper role specialization, technical skill requirements, data.
Hubspot Sales
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The entrepreneurial spirit isn't ageist. Anyone who has the passion, business acumen, creativity, and critical thinking skills necessary to found and operate a business of their own can take on the challenges and responsibilities that come with entrepreneurship. It has no minimum age. There are plenty of successful inventors, innovators, and businesspeople operating their own companies before they turn 30.
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Openview
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The post Business Insider: How software testing startup Cypress.io went from nearly broke with no revenue two years ago to winning big customers like Disney, Shopify, and Slack, with $40 million in fresh funding appeared first on OpenView.
Miller Heiman Group
DECEMBER 16, 2020
How has COVID-19 impacted virtual selling practices? Korn Ferry surveyed sales organizations around the world to find out, uncovering how companies are working to achieve stability in the midst of ongoing crisis. Organizations seem to have the same idea: focus and execute on what you can control as the surest path to success. They’ll need to consider a range of strategies and tactics to succeed.
Hubspot Sales
DECEMBER 16, 2020
What pops into your head when I say the words data hygiene ? Do you picture cleaning your hard drive with a soapy sponge? No? Maybe that’s just me … although that would probably cause more harm than good. Anyway, data hygiene is an oddly-named yet important part of maintaining a strong database. Without accurate information that you obtain legally about real consumers, your data is meaningless.
Kainexus
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Although the Lean business improvement methodology was initially developed to improve the quality and productivity of automotive factories, it has been used with great success in industries and settings of all types, including software development, government, retail, and other service settings. Healthcare organizations , in particular, have found that the approach can be used to reduce costs and improve quality and patient satisfaction at the same time.
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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
Showpad
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The transition to a fully remote work life has been a journey for employees around the globe. But think about those that found a new opportunity and started a new job completely remote. No in-person welcome on the first day. No orientation with their fellow new hires sitting beside them. No face-to-face interaction with their manager. Having to navigate new technology and software on their own.
Sandler Training
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Mike Montague interviews the Email Marketing Heroes, Rob and Kennedy, on How to Succeed at Email Marketing. The post How to Succeed at Email Marketing [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.
Hubspot Sales
DECEMBER 14, 2020
As a sales leader for a large, nation-wide business, you know that all members of your team don’t often interact with each other, or even know who their coworkers are. While team-wide accomplishments are probably announced to everyone, individual teams in one region may not be aware of the successes of their coworkers in another region and how they all work together to help your organization meet their sales goals.
Zendesk
DECEMBER 18, 2020
While a rich, modern messaging experience is a technical reality, it may feel out of reach for startups who are, say, establishing a customer support team for the first time. Messaging might feel ambitious now, but you can still plan for it down the road, and there are more than a few reasons why you should. Let’s get started. The importance of messaging.
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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.
Showpad
DECEMBER 18, 2020
In today’s wildy competitive and sometimes uncertain business environment, organizations need every advantage possible to keep themselves ahead of (or, at the very least, competitive with) other vendors in their field. A comprehensive and well-thought-out sales enablement strategy can be exactly that advantage. Modern sales managers have a lot on their plates and may not have had the time to plot out enablement in a way that would work most effectively for their unique needs.
Peter Simoons
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Recently I presented to Dr. Brian Tjemkes’ Alliances, Mergers and Networks Program at the VU University in Amsterdam. In good 2020 style, this presentation was fully online. Nevertheless it was highly interactive. Over 100 students participated and they asked many questions. One hour wasn’t enough for their questions so at the end of the presentation I invited the students to reach out to me on LinkedIn to continue the conversation.
Hubspot Sales
DECEMBER 15, 2020
How did your leadership priorities change in 2020? If you started paying more attention to the sales enablement needs of your organization, you’re not alone. According to recent HubSpot research, 65% of sales leaders who outperformed revenue targets in 2020 reported having a dedicated person or team working on sales enablement efforts instead of making it an initiative someone works on off the side of their desk.
Zendesk
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Running a business means managing all of the moving parts—and that includes agent scheduling. Your contact center needs enough agents at the right times to serve your customers without long waits. If your call center is understaffed, your team may not be able to answer calls quickly—that’s frustrating to your customers. In fact, customers have a higher expectation a quick response by phone support than any other channel.
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.
KAMCast
DECEMBER 17, 2020
IN THIS EPISODE: In today’s world we could categorise organisations into two camps: those that add value, and those that add COST. Why type of organisation are you? What is your definition of value? How will you know when you are adding and creating value for your customers? Do your most important clients know the extra lengths you go to provide them with unexpected, relevant and personalised value that is ultimately useful to them?
Sales Gravy
DECEMBER 18, 2020
On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational.
Revenue Storm
DECEMBER 15, 2020
As we learn how to sell and work in an almost exclusively virtual environment, a new threat has emerged during the pandemic that you might not recognize yet. One that I believe will act to change enterprise sales forever. Over the past nine months, our clients have built a new level of self-sufficiency. They have become accustomed to buying almost everything virtually.
The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 18, 2020
- MOTIVATION -. "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.". -Albus Dumbledore. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Remote Work is Lonely. Here's What Companies Can Do To Foster a Community – OpenView. Some organizations have transitioned to hybrid models since the pandemic began, but many teams are still completely virtual.
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.
Strikedeck
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Mary Poppen talks about managing customer expectations. How do we support customers amid this global pandemic and the lessons it teaches us?
Zendesk
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Mobile gaming is booming, lucrative, and extremely competitive. In the latter half of 2020 alone, mobile gamers exceeded $20 billion in spending. Gamers are loyal, high spending customers, and games account for 80% of app store spending. Customer experience is a key differentiator in this space, and agile brands are offering their customers more ways to reach out by adopting new channels, and bringing seamless customer service straight into their own apps.
Kainexus
DECEMBER 15, 2020
In some organizations, the leaders who are good at putting out fires are considered the best managers. But what if, instead of putting out fires, leaders had the luxury to spend time on fire prevention? What if, when the rare flame was spotted, every leader was skilled in identifying and correcting the root cause? These conditions are possible with an approach called Leader Standard Work.
Engage Selling
DECEMBER 18, 2020
I don’t need to tell you that the 2020 global pandemic was a watershed year for change. But, what gets overlooked far too often is that the conditions for change—especially in sales—were apparent for years. Selling was ripe for disruption … Read More » The post Beware of All That’s Familiar in Selling Now first appeared on The Sales Leader.
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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.
Strikedeck
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Steve McDougal as he shares his insights on why relationships are won or lost during key moments.
The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 15, 2020
These days you can never get enough information on work from home best practices, how to use video to help manage and sell, and how to manage a remote sales team. In episode 7 of the Improving Sales Performance series , Matt Sunshine hosts a roundtable discussion with Jim Hopes, Stephanie Downs, and Kurt Sima — all consultants at The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS).
Sandler Training
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Dano Ybarra, International speaker and best-selling author of Guiding Your Raft, 17 Lessons in Leadership to Safely Guide Your Business Through Calm and Tumultuous Waters, joins the ACTivation Nation Podcast to share some of his favorite stories – including learning from Steve Jobs, listening to his better half to get the big deal, and changing the rules to win the game.
Nimble Business Success
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In the era of free content, there’s hardly much info about how to use forward-looking metrics to improve sales on the net. As Nimble is the CRM of choice for contact and task management, calendars, emails to hundreds of thousands of users, we decided to share our straight-from-the-field insights on the topic. If you’ve always […]. The post How to Use Forward-Looking Metrics to Improve Sales KPIs Today appeared first on Nimble Blog.
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Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.
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