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Strategic account managers (and their bosses) deserve better decision-making tools

Strategic Account Management Association

In the end, if you fail to meet your commitment, you fail to meet your commitment. You don’t have the technology to predict 90 days in advance which deals will be finalized in time. But assigning blame doesn’t really matter, does it? To be sure, a sales leader or SAM manager will have responsibilities beyond revenue.

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How to Reschedule a Meeting Professionally in 2024

Hubspot Sales

I‘ve been on both sides of the “how to reschedule a meeting” dilemma. It can be tough to know how to reschedule a meeting appropriately and effectively. How to Reschedule a Meeting Professionally When should I reschedule a meeting? Offer context about your schedule — potential through a meeting scheduler tool.

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How Can Pipeline Meetings Be a Coaching Opportunity?

Hubspot Sales

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” But these pipeline reviews should be true coaching sessions — not data-scrubbing meetings. If so, you’ve come to the right place. What is pipeline coaching?

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Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

The Managing Partners’ Forum (mpfglobal.com) holds quarterly meetings of its Advisory Board where senior leaders discuss issues pertinent to the professional services sector. or Claire Mitchell claire.mitchell@pmint.co.uk

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Roadblocks to Delivering a Competitive Buying Experience

Trying to communicate the value of their solution in a way that meets buyers’ wants, needs, and expectations, all while meeting their own goals and those of their organization, can sometimes seem nearly impossible. Buyers struggle with being overwhelmed, indecision, and trusting the information that’s presented to them.

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Navigating the New Generation of Strategic Account Managers

Strategic Account Management Association

Denise Freier, President and CEO at Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA), and Dino Bertani, Vice President, Head of Alliance Management at Zealand Pharma, talked about what’s shaping the role of KAMs/SAMs in today's business arena, and how Sales and KAM/SAM leaders can enable KAMs/SAMs to meet current and future customer needs.

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How to Plan Engaging Sales Meetings that Motivate Your Team

SBI Growth

If you have ever run a sales meeting, you know that most salespeople aren’t thrilled to attend and prefer to spend time selling. However, with the right approach, sales meetings are an excellent opportunity to transform your team into high-performers fueled by a shared vision of success.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable.

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Effective meeting engagement tips - pre, during and after. In this guide, we will show you how to elevate your sellers’ results and provide you with insights and tips that will also benefit the rest of your customer-facing organization. You will learn: What sales engagement is. Effective communication techniques.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Download this eBook to find out!

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

More meetings. Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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Intent Signal Data 101

Which type of intent data is best for meeting specific goals? This infographic clarifies three common areas of confusion: How does company-level and contact-level data differ? What exactly is first-party, second-party and third-party data?

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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Cold Calling Tips and Tricks

In fact, less than 2% of today’s cold calls actually result in meetings, and 63% of sales professionals say it’s what they dislike most about their jobs. In recent years, cold calling has become synonymous with rejection and failure.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Leveraging the latest industry research, this eBook highlights the impact of direct dial phone numbers on sales productivity with the goal of empowering reps to have more conversations with prospects, and consequently, schedule more meetings, increase opportunities, and close more business - fast.