Sales Enablement
Articles Tagged Sales Enablement:
- Marketing Infographics
How to Improve Your Sales Team’s Performance
So many of my friends are great sales people. Quite honestly, I never fully respected their craft until I started my own business and took a stab at it. I had a great audience, solid relationships with companies who respected me, and a great service that they needed. None of that mattered the second I stepped through the door to…
- Content Marketing
Clarity Attacks Buzzwordsmithiness On Contact
A good friend of mine for many years is Steve Woodruff, a self-proclaimed (and very talented) Clarity Consultant, continues to share some rather ridiculous marketing-speak amongst websites and social media profiles. He shared his all-time favorite with me from a couple of years ago: We have pioneered a new model for sustainable, consumer-driven growth based on principles of complex adaptive…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Self-Service Sales or Value-Based Pricing – It’s Still About the Experience
Last night, I attended an event put on by PactSafe. PactSafe is a cloud-based electronic contracting platform and clickwrap API for Saas and eCommerce. It’s one of those SaaS platforms where I met the founder while he was just ramping up and now Brian’s vision is now a reality – so exciting. The speaker at the event was Scott McCorkle…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Always Be Closing: 10 Statistics Driving Sales Change
The team at Microsoft has put together a fantastic white paper on the challenges and successes of sales organizations, their productivity, and ability to adapt and adopt to technology. We often meet with companies that tout impressive sales results from word-of-mouth and cold calling. I don’t ever doubt that either of these strategies work – of course they do. Sales…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
