Sales Enablement
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Accelerating Your Pipeline with Automated Lead Generation
Few companies have the sales power to call on every prospect available. That means that it’s often left to chance or a gut feeling on which prospects that you should spend the most time with. More often than not, this spells disaster for companies. They spend time on prospects that will never convert while they may have leads that are…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Impact of Collecting and Enhancing B2B Data for Marketing
When I began my corporate journey implementing continuous improvement, one finding that was consistent with improving any process was the inefficiency – and subsequent opportunity – in the hand-off. Decades later and I find that this is even true with our agency. One example is when our clients have turnover within their ranks. When the decision-maker changes, more often than…
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Marketing Infographics
5 Reasons Your Sales Team Isn’t Reaching Their Quotas
Qvidian has published their Sales Execution Trends report for 2015 and it’s full of stats across sales departments that should help you benchmark your own sales performance against the findings. Organizations in 2015 are making a fundamental shift toward aggressive growth. Sales leaders must refocus on making their teams more successful by looking beyond tactical sales enablement and empowering sales…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Unlocking the Power of Metaphor in Business Communication
In the noisy, fast-moving world of modern business, the ability to capture attention, build understanding, and drive action is more valuable than ever. Yet many marketers, salespeople, and leaders still struggle to connect with their audiences in ways that stick. One tool—often overlooked but immensely powerful—is the metaphor. A metaphor is more than a clever turn of phrase. It is…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
ClearSlide: Drive More Sales with Seamless Engagement & Insights
Building meaningful buyer relationships today is harder than ever. Sales teams juggle countless tools, chase fragmented data, and struggle to engage buyers consistently across touchpoints. Content gets buried, communications miss the mark, and reps often guess at next best actions. The result? Slow deal cycles, low productivity, and missed revenue targets. Clearslide ClearSlide is the industry’s most complete sales engagement…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Transforming Your Sales through a Multi-Threaded Approach
I was invited to take part in a recent panel discussion at the Sales Management Association’s Sales Productivity Conference in Atlanta. The session was focused on Sales Transformation, with the panelists providing their thoughts and insights on best practices and critical success factors. One of the first discussion points attempted to define the term itself. What is sales transformation? Is…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
If You’re in Sales or Marketing, Get Refresh Now!
It happens every week. I get an email from a vendor or prospect and we work together a date to talk. I check out their site and see whether or not it’s a fit. I might even connect with them on LinkedIn to learn a bit more about them. The date is set, the calendar invite is accepted and I…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Marketing and Sales Benefits of Marketing Automation
According to CSO Insights, companies with mature lead generation and management practices have a 9.3% higher sales quota achievement rate. This is where sales automation platforms like our sponsors at Salesvue have had a dramatic impact on improving both reporting and efficiency of teams utilizing Salesforce – providing a prospecting to pipeline automation solution. It’s not just sales automation that’s…
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Marketing Infographics
This Single Aspect of Sales Could be Losing Your Company $4 Million Annually
We tend to talk about sales by the revenue produced, but not by the losses when it’s not going well. Sales is a blood sport at most companies and there seems to be little patience nowadays for sales professionals to ramp up, build relationships, and convert customers. The sales manager even has the unenviable position of having to motivate and…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Utopian Future of Channel Selling
Channel partners and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) are the redheaded stepchildren (treated without the favor of birthright) when it comes to obtaining the attention and resources from manufacturers of the countless products they sell. They’re the last to get training and the first to be held accountable for meeting their quotas. With limited marketing budgets and outdated sales tools, they struggle…
