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Time Management Mastery for Key Account Managers: A Comprehensive 30-Day Action Plan

Account Manager Tips

Transform your time management in just 30 days! Get actionable steps to enhance productivity, prioritize effectively, and achieve work-life balance for key account managers.

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Innovative Recruitment Strategies: Thinking Beyond Traditional Approaches

The Center for Sales Strategy

We can all agree that finding top talent is a daunting task. It's essential for organizations to adopt innovative recruitment strategies to attract candidates. Leaders who create a recruitment strategy and think beyond the traditional approaches have been able to attract more top performers and build stronger talent banks.

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24 Sales Tips to Refine Your Skillset

RAIN Group

Selling is about the whole experience from the first conversation to signing on the dotted line. One wrong move or poor interaction can drive buyers away. The best sellers strive to deliver value in each interaction, leaving the buyer wanting more and turning to them for advice. What’s more, the best sellers tend to have strong skills across the sale cycle.

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How Playing Poker Can Help You Become A Better Businessperson

The Great Game of Business

What would happen if you treated every decision like it’s a million-dollar bet?

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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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[Research Round-Up] The Effectiveness of AI-Generated Images for Marketing

Customer Think

Source: Shutterstock (This year, I’m devoting some of my Research Round-Up posts to academic research papers relating to the use of artificial intelligence for marketing purposes. This post features an unpublished paper that compares the performance of AI-generated vs. human-made images across three marketing use cases.

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10 of the Best Lead Generation Software Tools for Your Business

Nutshell

Your business needs leads to continue growing and thriving. Without leads, you can’t make sales, and if you can’t make sales, you won’t generate revenue. So, how do you ensure you’re always bringing in fresh leads for your business? It’s simple — lead generation software. Choosing lead generation software can be tricky, though, with so many tools to choose from.

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Customer service quality assurance: The ultimate guide

Zendesk

What is customer service quality assurance? Customer service quality assurance (QA) is a systematic process of evaluating customer interactions, identifying areas for improvement, and providing effective coaching to enhance the overall customer experience. Restaurants don’t attain Michelin-star status by chance. From setting the menu to plating, a chef is monitoring the quality and progression of the dish from start to finish.

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The Ethics Of AI In The Workplace

Customer Think

More than nine in ten leading businesses have ongoing investments in artificial intelligence (AI), including non-tech giants like McDonald’s, CVS Health, and Pfizer. More than 90% also report increasing their investment and incorporating AI into more of their processes.

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How to Overcome Challenges in Account-Based Selling

Arpedio

Account-Based Selling (ABS) has emerged as a potent strategy for businesses aiming to target high-value accounts strategically. However, like any innovative approach, ABS comes with its own set of challenges. Take a closer look into the common hurdles you may encounter in your ABS implementation, and explore effective strategies to overcome them. Common challenges faced in account-based selling Strategic planning and analysis ABS starts with identifying the most promising accounts to target.

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Learnings From The Q1 2024 Customer Service Wave

Customer Think

Great customer service sets companies apart, and you leave money on the table if you don’t meet your customers’ expectations of engagement. Business and IT leaders understand the economics of great customer service, and Forrester data shows that over 70% of enterprises invest in modern solutions.

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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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KPI Management: Open Innovation KPIs

Flevy

Open Innovation Programs represent a paradigm shift in how organizations approach innovation, moving beyond the confines of internal R&D to leverage the collective creativity and expertise of external partners. This approach encompasses collaboration with startups, academia, and even competitors, aiming to tap into a broader pool of ideas and accelerate innovation.

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Mallard Bay Secures $4.6 Million in Series A Funding to Revolutionize Hunting and Fishing Experiences

Customer Think

Booming Outfitter Industry: Global Hunting and Fishing Expenditure Hits $500B Annually

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Understanding Gen AI in Business and Strategy

AchieveIt

Is generative AI good or bad? Many in the artificial intelligence field constantly debate this question, but is there be a better way to approach it? The short answer is “Yes!” We should be figuring out the right way to implement AI tech into our strategy and processes. Lisa Esch , Senior Vice President and Chief of Strategy, Innovation, and Industry Solutions at NTT DATA provides a crash course on all things generative AI, LLMs and the risks and calculations any type of organization

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Breaking the Paradox of False Consensus: A Journey to Better Decision-Making

Customer Think

Have you ever heard of the Abilene Paradox? This happens when everybody agrees to do something that nobody wants to do. Today, we will discuss how to avoid this situation in your organization. Jerry B. Harvey wrote “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement” years ago.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Crack the Consulting Code: Top 10 Digital Transformation Frameworks

Flevy

Business frameworks and methodologies are structured tools to approach complex, but common business challenges. They allow us to cut through noise, zero in on the key issues, and facilitate the development of insightful recommendations. The importance and usefulness of business frameworks in the consulting world—especially among the global strategy firms—cannot be overstated.

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Integrating Telemedicine Features into Custom Healthcare Software Development

Customer Think

The idea of remote patient monitoring has existed since the 1960s, when it was used to monitor astronauts’ health in space. However, it was only in 2020 that, with the coming of COVID-19, people realized its potential even more and adopted it widely. Lockdowns across the globe sped up the adoption rate of telehealth services.

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8 Ways for Support Teams to Use the Time That AI Saves

Help Scout

Discover 8 different ways that customer support teams can make use of capacity that may be freed up when AI tools automate some portion of their work. From professional services to internal tooling!

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Successful Fundraising: getting chosen over the competition

Customer Think

Your important nonprofit or exciting startup will help the world be a better place, bring innovative ideas to the market, and be quite sucessful. You’ve created a terrific pitch deck, have a highly competent management team and terms, and have identified donor prospects with major gift potential.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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6 Critical Challenges Solved by a Strategy Execution Platform

ClearPoint Strategy

Explore how the right strategy execution software can help your business overcome the most daunting challenges and thrive in a competitive market.

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Cameras, Pictures or Memories?

Customer Think

What Does Your Customer Need? “Your customer doesn’t want a drill. He wants a hole.” You have no doubt heard that one before. Working through customer requirements is difficult, particularly when customers don’t know what they want. Do Customers Want Cameras? I found a story in an old 1990s textbook (The Leader’s Handbook).

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Get off Your Butt and…

Customer Think

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, hosts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen discuss the significant changes in sales post-COVID-19. They address the reluctance of sales reps to return to face-to-face selling and the importance of embracing in-person meetings.