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7 Must Do’s for Closing a Sale Quickly

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sealing the deal is the ultimate goal of any business negotiation, but the path to get there is often fraught with obstacles and delays. Striking while the iron is hot can make all the difference. Closing a lucrative deal within a tight one-month timeline might seem like an impossible feat. However, with the right mindset, preparation, and tactics, it's a challenge that can be conquered.

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The 9 Best Collaboration Tools for Your Business

Nutshell

You know what’s a surefire way to cause problems for your company? Having all your team members be on totally different pages from one another, without any kind of communication or collaboration between them. But assuming you want your business to succeed, we wouldn’t recommend that. Instead, you should make a point of connecting your different team members and encouraging collaboration between them on various projects and aspects of running your business.

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Research: 4 Ways to Drive Value Creation in 2024

SBI Growth

Every quarter, SBI conducts surveys to learn how CEOs and other C-level executives are planning for value creation and about the go-to-market strategies and tactics that will get them there. This year, we found that while many CEOs are confident in their direction, few believe they have the right people in charge, and time to productivity is slowing.

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What Is the Best Meeting Scheduler for Your Business?

Nutshell

If your business schedules a lot of meetings — either internally or with clients — you might wish you had a way to make that process easier. Thankfully, there are meeting scheduler tools out there to meet that need. These tools allow you to easily schedule meetings and get reminders for them, as well as keep track of when you’re available. The question, though, is this: What’s the best meeting scheduler for you?

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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How To Be a Customer-Centric Company

Groove HQ

It’s tempting to constantly focus on your company’s products and strategy. However, the best results often come from focusing outward on what your customers need and how they want to interact with you. In this piece, we’ll explore just what it means to be customer-centric and how to do it. What Does Customer-Centric Mean? Being […] The post How To Be a Customer-Centric Company appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Latest Podcasts: Successfully Scaling Revenue Teams

Force Management

March on the Revenue Builders Podcast consisted of so many great lessons and conversations with leaders both familiar and new. John McMahon and John Kaplan were joined by guests experienced in building and scaling elite sales teams, who shared insights on hiring great sales teams, leading them to success, and helping them execute next-level go-to-market strategy.

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How To Be a Customer-Centric Company

Groove HQ

It’s tempting to constantly focus on your company’s products and strategy. However, the best results often come from focusing outward on what your customers need and how they want to interact with you. In this piece, we’ll explore just what it means to be customer-centric and how to do it. What Does Customer-Centric Mean? Being […] The post How To Be a Customer-Centric Company appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Emergent Leadership

Customer Think

Premise: We are leading in a world that is constantly changing and at a pace which is sometimes mind-boggling. New generations coming into the workforce with a different set of expectations from all the other generations that are in our workforce.

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Accessibility First is the New Mobile First

Help Scout

There are several approaches to the software development process that prompt us to focus on specific priorities over others. But which one is best? Get our take in this post from the Help Scout engineering team.

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Why is the agency business model not working?

Account Management Skills

Michael Farmer, the author of two key books in the agency industry ‘Madison Avenue Manslaughter’ and ‘Madison Avenue Makeover’, has studied creative agencies for over 30 years in his capacity as management consultant. He’s identified patterns and a worrying downward trend. Here are 3 of the trends: Scopes of work (SoWs) are increasing in volume and yet agencies fees are declining – but because agencies aren’t measuring their SoWs they don’t often realise the extent to which this is happeni

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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How to solve a client’s business problem as an agency account manager

Account Management Skills

Michael Farmer, a management consultant who has studied creative agencies for 30 years, said this during our recent interview : “Account managers need to be more like Bain consultants” He was referring to the fact that clients aren’t seeing an ROI from working with agencies. His tip for account managers was to have a critical perspective on the client’s brief and ensuing scope of work and ensure it really addresses the client’s business problem.