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Best Practices for SaaS Companies and Vendors with Nigel Cullington of Upland Software

Upland

Nigel Cullington, VP of Marketing of Upland Software’s Sales Effectiveness Division, spoke with Alex Gluz on the Revenue Engine Podcast about the vital lessons outlined from real life sellers in his recent book, Not Just Another Vendor. Second, sellers need to align their sales processes to their customers’ buying cycles.

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Sales Compensation: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

Sales 145
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Account Planning Best Practices with Nigel Cullington’s Expertise

Upland

Nigel Cullington, VP of Marketing of Upland Software’s Sales Effectiveness Division, spoke with Alex Gluz on the Revenue Engine Podcast about the vital lessons outlined from real life sellers in his recent book, Not Just Another Vendor. Second, sellers need to align their sales processes to their customers’ buying cycles.

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Revenue Team – It Takes a Village to Close a Deal

Upland

Relationship management has never been more important in sales, and it takes a revenue team to build vital relationships with the people that matter. What is a Revenue Operations Team? This includes, primarily, people in marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Do You Need a Revenue Team? That depends.

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How To Fix Your Marketing Structure Problems

SBI Growth

She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support. At this point sales sees no value in marketing and why would they? Currently no leads provided to sales. No Marketing Automation.

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

From the animated discussions I selected a few topics of focus – Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing. Professional service firms are usually a collection of disparate and self-governing business units focusing on different markets and services.

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2014 Planning Metrics for B2B Marketing Leaders

SBI Growth

The Holy Grail of 2014 Planning: Marketing Contribution as a % of Total Revenue. 2013 is the last year executives accepted activity-level results from marketing. CEO''s don’t accept activity reports from Sales leaders without revenue results. Lead Generation team % of Contribution to Sales Funnel (Opportunities).

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