Wed.Nov 01, 2023

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

At the recent PM Forum workshop on “Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and business development professionals” we focused on sales and selling challenges in professional services. Delegates from legal and accountancy practices in the UK and overseas (Brussels and Amsterdam) shared how to tackle those challenges. What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal sales traini

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5 Important Lessons Every Hiring Manager Needs to Learn

The Center for Sales Strategy

Have you ever hired someone who seemed perfect on paper, but ended up being a terrible fit for your team? What about someone who blew you away during the interview process, but then turned out to be a totally different person once you brought them on board? If we each had a crystal ball to gaze into, the hiring process would be so much easier. Instead, hiring the wrong person is oftentimes a tough learning experience.

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Get More Done: Practical Delegation Tips for Key Account Managers

Account Manager Tips

Overwhelmed as a key account manager? Discover the power of delegation to manage your workload effectively.

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Understanding the shifting priorities of IT leaders with Zendesk’s Paulette Chafe

Zendesk

More than ever, IT leaders are experiencing a greater level of responsibility: from taking charge of data security to implementing AI, these technology professionals play an increasingly vital role in how CX is delivered to customers. Zendesk’s Paulette Chafe , head of customer insights and thought leadership, has kept a close eye on these trends. She sat down to explore these issues with Conversations with Zendesk host Nicole Saunders, where they dove into the in-depth research that led to Zend

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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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Get More Done: Practical Delegation Tips for Key Account Managers

Account Manager Tips

Overwhelmed as a key account manager? Discover the power of delegation to manage your workload effectively.

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The Power of Context in B2B Buying, and What That Means for Marketers

Customer Think

The context in which people consider buying something has a significant impact on how the buying decision is made and on what is (or isn’t) ultimately bought.

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The 5 Essential Behaviors Before Concluding Customer Interactions

Customer Think

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Early in my career as a contact center manager, I did many things that make me cringe nowadays. One such thing was requiring my team to end every call by asking customers, “Is there anything else I can help you with.

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How To Break Through As A Leader - 35 Years Of Lessons Learned With Scott McGohan

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Scott McGohan, author of Culture Is an Inside Job, shares the leadership lessons he has accumulated in his 35-year journey from disruptive hero to sage leader.

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Does CDP Need a New Definition?

Customer Think

The earliest Customer Data Platform systems were introduced before 2010; the term CDP was coined to describe this emerging class in 2013.

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Strategic Planning Failure: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It

AchieveIt

There are more than 30 million small businesses in the U.S. If I asked you to divide these companies into categories based on annual revenue, how many would fall into the $1-10 million revenue tier? How about $10-50 million or above $50 million? These businesses comprise only about 4% of those in the U.S. The remaining 96% have less than $1 million in annual revenue.

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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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Shakeup in Retail Banking Strategy Spurs Product and Branch Innovation

NG Data

Rising interest rates will send banks 'back to the future:' They’ll lean more heavily on deposit-gathering strategies in a way the industry has not seen in nearly two decades, but also start to wrap that into a more holistic relationship approach for their customers. The post Shakeup in Retail Banking Strategy Spurs Product and Branch Innovation appeared first on NGDATA.

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Elevate Your Capital Improvement Plan with Envisio’s New Project Management Features

Envisio

Envisio helps public sector leaders to drive better community outcomes through the delivery and transparent communication of their most important plans. Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of Envisio Projects – a suite of project management tools to help manage, deliver, and communicate Capital Improvement Plans (CIP). Building on Envisio’s powerful analytic capabilities, beautiful public dashboards, plan management tools, and comprehensive progress reporting, Projects extends t

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What are bank marketers investing in for 2024?

NG Data

It's the digital age. Between work, shopping and entertainment, we're online several times a day (and an increasing number of us are online "almost constantly," according to Pew Research). So why am I, a digital marketer, talking about traditional marketing? Because we still operate in the physical world. While online consumes much of our daily life, it's not everything—not yet.

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Regulatory Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and What They Mean for Community Banks

NG Data

It's the digital age. Between work, shopping and entertainment, we're online several times a day (and an increasing number of us are online "almost constantly," according to Pew Research). So why am I, a digital marketer, talking about traditional marketing? Because we still operate in the physical world. While online consumes much of our daily life, it's not everything—not yet.

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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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Community banking: A growing alternative

NG Data

It's the digital age. Between work, shopping and entertainment, we're online several times a day (and an increasing number of us are online "almost constantly," according to Pew Research). So why am I, a digital marketer, talking about traditional marketing? Because we still operate in the physical world. While online consumes much of our daily life, it's not everything—not yet.

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CEOs Asked to Help ‘Shape’ America’s Credit Unions

NG Data

In an email late last week, CUNA and NAFCU officials have asked for input from credit union CEOs to help shape what America’s Credit Unions will be, if the merger of the two organizations is approved. The post CEOs Asked to Help ‘Shape’ America’s Credit Unions appeared first on NGDATA.