Sales Enablement
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Customer Data Platforms
Close: The Inside Sales CRM and Sales Automation Platform For Fast, Agile Teams
Close is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Automation platform designed specifically for sales teams. Close streamlines and improves the sales process, enabling businesses to close deals faster and more efficiently. Close primarily helps small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups that have a focus on B2B sales. It is especially beneficial for sales-driven organizations with inbound sales teams who…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Mediafly Revenue360: The Evolution of Sales Enablement Technology
Before 2020, B2B buyer behaviors had already begun shifting to favor digital and self-service channels. With more buyers firmly cemented in the world of digital selling, there’s no going back. 71% of buyers willingly spend over $50,000 on a single transaction using a remote or self-service model, for example. McKinsey To remain competitive and relevant, revenue teams will need different…
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Advertising Technology
Shape: CRM, Lead Capture & Scoring, Sales Automation, and Pipeline Management
It’s amazing to see how advanced sales automation platforms are getting these days. I was just speaking with a colleague of mine where I mentioned that customer relationship management (CRM) was no longer a platform, it’s basically a feature. The platforms of old require often require massive implementation budgets that incorporate third-party integrations and tons of automation. I know… my…
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Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Sales Enablement
Sales enablement is a holistic process that follows sales development from lead to close. It identifies critical points along the sales journey, builds client trust and product knowledge, and enhances the decision-making process. In the past few years, as artificial intelligence (AI) has improved, data-driven AI has become an integral part of sales enablement. The use of data-driven AI enables…
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Customer Data Platforms
Owler Max: Help Your Sales Teams Work Faster and Smarter
Once upon a time, sales teams walked into office buildings with physical documents to conduct deals. Now, an abundance of information is available online, but despite the significant digital transformation, data is rarely presented in a way that can be readily leveraged. Sales professionals are in need of a companion, a reliable and accurate tool that can set teams up…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
3 Best Practices for Product Marketers at Enterprise B2B Companies
Business-to-business (B2B) technology enterprises face a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, rapidly shifting market conditions require these enterprises to demonstrate sales competencies and economic output. On the other hand, technology marketing professionals are in short supply, causing existing teams to be overworked and making it more difficult for teams to grow and expand. A recent survey of senior marketing decision-makers…
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Customer Data Platforms
After the Deal: How to Treat Customers with a Customer Success Approach
You’re a salesperson, you do sales. You are sales. And that’s just it, you think your job’s done and you move on to the next one. Some salespeople don’t know when to stop selling and when to start managing the sales they’ve already made. The truth is, post-sale customer relationships are just as important as presale relationships. There are several…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Gong: Conversation Intelligence Platform for Sales Teams
Gong’s conversation analytics engine analyzes sales calls at the individual and aggregate levels to help you understand what’s working (and what’s not). Gong starts with a simple calendar integration where it scans each sales representative’s calendar looking for upcoming sales meetings, calls, or demos to record. Gong then joins each scheduled sales call as a virtual meeting attendee to record…
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Customer Data Platforms
Hippo Video: Boost Sales Response Rates With Video Selling
My inbox is a mess, I’ll totally admit it. I have rules and smart folders that are focused on my clients and virtually everything else falls by the wayside unless it captures my attention. Some sales pitches that stand out are personalized video emails that have been sent to me. Seeing someone speak to me personally, observing their personality, and…
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Advertising Technology
How Does Advertising Work? What Makes People Buy?
While researching the topic of advertising, I happened upon an infographic on How Advertising Makes Us Buy. The infographic below opens with the notion that companies are rich and have piles of money and they use it to manipulate their poor audience. I think that’s a rather disturbing, unfortunate, and unlikely notion. The first notion that only rich companies advertise…
