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How Unicorn Companies Maintain Their Growth Momentum

Force Management

Most have great timing with a disruptive idea, scalable technology and a relationship with investors marked by two-way trust. Today, there are over 1250. There is no roadmap for becoming a Unicorn, but there are common threads.

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Should a CEO Lead the Sales Team? The Good, the Bad, and the Surprising

Hubspot Sales

I needed my sales team to take the same approach to conversations with prospects. Whether you’re a CEO or simply hold a sales leadership position, it’s important to coach your reps on having great conversations with their prospects. Leading sales calls every day gives me insight and feedback from our prospects and clients.

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Why Key Account Management Should Be a Priority

ProlifIQ

A survey conducted by the ABM Leadership Alliance found that companies using a key account management approach generate up to 208% more revenue from their most valuable accounts compared to companies without a KAM program. Which is precisely the job of a sales VP or manager. The proof is in the numbers.

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11 Simple Questions to Assess the Maturity of Your Sales Team

Openview

A lot of sales leadership issues can be solved by simply setting and following a regular cadence for productive, actionable team and individual meetings. You need the tools and resources to get to any number you need quickly, and to keep key sales metrics highly visible to everyone in the organization. Your results.

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5 Essential CRM Reports (Plus 6 More You Probably Need)

Insightly

That said, sales teams are among the most avid consumers of CRM reports (more on that later), so many key reports target this audience. Following is a brief summary of the five most common (and most useful) CRM reports for your sales leadership team.

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What Your CMO Doesn’t Know About Customer Advocate Programs

SBI

These are the sentiments that describe their view of CAPs: The advocate program is like a reference “help desk,” lining up references for salespeople in the 11th hour of the sales cycle: reactive, tactical; a necessary evil to close deals. The advocate program is about collecting marquee logos to prove the viability of an emerging technology.

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Executive Interview with Rich Lanchantin, CEO, @Qstream: Sales as a Buying Experience

SBI

Rich Lanchantin sets the Qstream vision to ensure our microlearning solution delivers long term value and easurable outcomes for our enterprise customers, partners, their employees and our investors.