Sales Enablement
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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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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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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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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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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 With limited marketing budgets and outdated sales tools, they struggle…
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16 Steps to Compelling Content Creation
Sometimes a checklist makes life easy and this one is pretty good on ideas for developing compelling content creation courtesy of WebSearch SEO. I like the advice here because it goes beyond the actual media and points to other elements that make consuming the content easier as well. The 16 Steps to Compelling Content Creation: Think like a journalist. Get…
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How to Select a Sales Automation Solution
While marketers may have the most options available at this point, other industries are delving into the automation space to make lives and jobs easier. In a multi-channel world, we can’t manage everything and that also means simple administrative tasks that once accounted for 20% of our day. A primary example of one of the industries that are taking a…
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You Spend 83 Days a Year Emailing
The average salesperson logs over 2,000 hours per year on business communication, mostly on role-specific tasks (39%) and reading/answering emails (28%). While it would seem that social media is becoming the most popular mode of communication, as 72% of companies are now using social media in some form, email is still the top preference among businesses around the world. According…
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The Art and Science of Content Marketing
While much of what we write for companies are thought leadership pieces, answering frequently asked questions, and customer stories – one type of content stands out. Whether it’s a blog post, an infographic, a whitepaper or even a video, the best performing content tells a story that’s explained or illustrated well, and supported by research. This infographic from Kapost really…
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More Content, More Problems: The Struggle of a Sales Rep
We’ve been publishing quite a bit about the tools that align sales and marketing efforts. In my opinion, sales representatives have a much more difficult job to do nowadays. 59% of their time doing tasks other than selling such as researching the account and generating leads. And consumers and businesses are able to do extraordinary research online, evaluating features, benefits,…
