SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Pricing is more than just setting a number on a product— it’s a strategic decision with implications stretching deep into the organization. The right pricing strategy can influence demand, brand perception, and profitability.
Vantage Partners
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Even the most sophisticated firms can lapse into incumbent complacency. A plan must involve changing both processes and mindsets to demonstrate and realize value at renewal time.
FinListics Solutions
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
B2B sales reps only get one chance to make an impression with executive buyers, and that moment is make-or-break. Walk in with a surface-level understanding, and the opportunity evaporates. Execs don’t have time for vague promises—they need credible insights backed by hard data. Sales teams that fail to connect with the issues that truly matter to top decision-makers lose trust, relevance, and, often, the deal itself.
Force Management
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A well-defined negotiation strategy is a critical component of an organization’s success. A great negotiation strategy goes beyond individual seller skills - leaders should create a repeatable framework to ensure negotiation is being executed consistently across all deals to ensure maximum revenue. If your team repeatedly loses margin on deals, loses to competitors based on price or struggles to expand deal sizes, it may be time to assess your negotiation strategy.
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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.
Nutshell
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Many businesses can benefit from expanding their visibility and customer base. And channel marketing can help you achieve both of these goals. Channel marketing is a marketing strategy for getting your product or service in front of more eyes and potential customers by using the help of like-minded businesses. In this guide, we’ll answer important questions about channel marketing and teach you how to start your own channel marketing campaign.
Sales Gravy
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount Jr. sits down with sales guru Kristie Jones as she shares her secrets to success, including powerful mindset shifts and strategies to unlock your full potential. Key Takeaways: – The Importance of Positivity in Decision-Making: Positive decisions about entering a sales role, rather than trying to escape a current job, can lead to more fulfilling outcomes.
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SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Take a quick look at the forecasted end-of-year close dates in your CRM system. What dates do most of your sales team’s opportunities show? Do you see a lot of December 31 st close dates? Chances are your sellers don’t understand how high performers close business and enjoy a more stress-free holiday. Whether it’s a more basic deal qualification tool like BANT , or a bit more sophisticated as with MEDDPICC, sellers are mistakenly taught to chase deal-close clarity in a sequence.
Nutshell
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
It’s your virgin venture into the world of customer profile creation, and you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by all the data collecting and analyzing that lies ahead. Anyone who has been in this position before would easily forgive you for feeling that way, especially if you don’t have a trusty customer profile template on hand to guide you through the process.
Hubspot Sales
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Before starting my career in marketing, I worked in business development. I had some of the best times and work experiences during those years. But, oof, I don‘t need to tell you how challenging life in sales can be. For every exhilarating win — yay, you closed a deal — there’s an all too humbling loss. Boo, you were ghosted by a prospect you thought for sure would convert.
Kainexus
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Organizations that strive for continuous improvement outpace the competition, regardless of the types of products or services they offer. From retail and manufacturing to healthcare and construction , the intensity of effort dedicated to daily positive change in an organization is directly tied to customer satisfaction and financial success. This guide explores the essential role of measurement in process improvement and dives into the key metrics that can help you track progress and drive meani
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.
SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
One frequently discussed issue by negotiation experts is when you should make the first offer in a negotiation. Conventional wisdom is to never make the first offer in a negotiation. After all, by making the first offer, you risk "showing your cards" too early and leaving money on the table. On the other hand, there are many cases where it is to your advantage to make the first offer.
Nutshell
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Your role as a sales manager or director comes with multiple responsibilities, from developing and overseeing sales strategies to coaching and managing sales reps. Generating insightful sales reports is a critical component of your role and can involve some heavy lifting. That’s where sales report templates come in handy. Creating and presenting detailed sales reports that colleagues and management can easily understand can prove time-consuming.
The Great Game of Business
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Most companies react to recessions. at SRC, we prepare! With insights from ITR Economics, our employees don't just weather economic downturns—we leverage them.
Hubspot Sales
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
If you’re wondering what the secret formula is for going from freelancer to entrepreneur, then building a thriving business model, then achieving goals for that business, I’d say to just ask Jim Huffman. Huffman, the CEO and Founder of GrowthHit , knows how to own his lanes. From owning a high-performance agency that focuses on web design and optimization , growth marketing , and creative services to being a bestselling author of The Growth Marketer’s Playbook , he’s truly got his formula for su
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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
DemandFarm
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Strategic selling is a methodology that focuses on long-term relationships with customers while maximising sales opportunities. It involves thorough research, planning, and a deep understanding of the customer’s business needs. The ultimate goal is to provide solutions that align with the customer’s objectives and deliver significant value.
Nutshell
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When it comes to booking appointments with your company’s leads and customers, it’s critical that meetings are booked with the right people—whether you’re scheduling sales, support, or customer success calls. Scheduler, Nutshell’s built-in meeting scheduling tool, now supports the ability to schedule round-robin meetings, in addition to solo and co-hosted meetings.
Groove HQ
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
You’ve built an amazing SaaS product, but now you’re drowning in a sea of customer queries. Your support team is getting sidetracked by repetitive tickets, the churn rate is creeping up, and you’re losing sleep over missed follow-ups. Sound familiar? In the fast-paced world of SaaS, stellar customer support isn’t just nice to have—it’s critical […] The post How To Choose the Right SaaS Helpdesk Software appeared first on Groove Blog.
Planview
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
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How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.
DemandFarm
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Do you know how the top key account managers (KAMs) become the top KAMs? They don’t just respond to an account’s needs—they anticipate them, creating proactive strategies that build trust and deepen relationships. Getting there requires more than assuming the role. Top KAMs work proactively to add ongoing value, evolving customer relationships into growth drivers and ensuring account success is always a step ahead.
Agile CRM
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Imagine your team working hard, managing leads , following up with loyal clients, and pulling in new customers—all while dealing with routine tasks that steal precious time away from meaningful customer connections. At Agile CRM, we get it; CRM can transform your productivity, but to elevate customer engagement, it needs to go beyond simple automation.
Groove HQ
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
So, your customer support team just switched over from Gmail to Zendesk. And while you’re happy about the upgrade, you can’t seem to find the tools you’re looking for within its UI. There’s a pretty steep learning curve that’s resulted in a lot of wasted time. You’ve also realized you’re paying a premium for features and […] The post What’s the Best Customer Service Software for Your Small Business?
Planview
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In October 2024, Planview sponsored the first Project to Product Summit (and it won’t be the last). But in case you can’t wait until next year’s event, we’re sharing some of the key content to catch up on. In these sessions, speakers from FedEx, Nationwide, Spotify, Vanguard, Verizon, and Planview described their journeys, shared the roadblocks they encountered, and laid out the strategies they developed for the project-to-product shift.
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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
DemandFarm
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Someone has to say this. You don’t need a tutor to realize the importance of optimizing your sales team’s efficiency. But how do you know if yours is efficient? Here is the simplest way—your sales team is in a rut if you don’t get satisfactory answers to the following questions. Are our sales teams consistently meeting targets and improving conversion rates?
QYMATIX
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
What does the Product Safety Regulation 2024 (GPSR) mean for B2B wholesalers? In B2B wholesale, the challenges are often as diverse as the product portfolio. With more than 20,000 items in stock and thousands of customers served every day, wholesalers in Germany are under enormous pressure. Another factor is hard to ignore: the EU’s new product safety regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/988, which comes into force on 13 December 2024.
Corporate Visions
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
See how market leaders use win-loss analysis for competitive intelligence and discover patterns from 6,000+ B2B deals that expose what competitors hope you never find out.
Whetstone
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
One of the crucial lessons in planning for sales organizations is understanding leading and lagging indicators. Too often, we are focused solely on lagging indicators—things like sales numbers, market share, and profitability. These are important, but they’re outcomes, not inputs. But by the time we have information, it’s retrospective. The game has been played, and those lagging indicators are simply the scoreboard at the end of the quarter or year.
Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications
Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.
RAIN Group
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
TL;DR? Download the complimentary guide and take it to read later. In today's competitive sales landscape, having a well-structured sales playbook can be the difference between good and great performance. Research underscores the critical importance of effective sales enablement including sales training, and, by extension, sales playbooks, in setting the stage for transforming your sales organization.
Hubspot Sales
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Brian Scudamore is a man who believes in human connection before technology, so it’s no wonder he founded a company that has a heavy dose of both. In 1989, he founded 1-800-GOT-JUNK? as a way to cover college tuition. Since then, the company has turned into a trash-hauling juggernaut with over 200 locations across three countries that brought in $600M in revenue in 2022 — but it wasn't always smooth sailing for Scudamore.
Revegy
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Companies implementing cross-selling strategies can increase their sales by 35%, yet many sales teams struggle with pinpointing where these opportunities lie within existing accounts, often missing hidden revenue potential. Revegy’s white space analysis in sales addresses this challenge head-on, mapping out gaps in current offerings so teams can spot precisely where cross-sell and upsell opportunities […] The post Filling the Gaps: A Complete Guide to White Space Analysis with Revegy appea
Account Management Skills
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Welcome to episode 126. In this episode, I chat to Brian Jacobs (Founder, BJ&A) and Crispin Reed (Founder, Skyscraper Consulting) about what’s wrong with the advertising industry. And what specifically prompted the launch of their ‘Who Cares?’ initiative, aimed at tackling the pressing issues affecting the advertising industry today. We cover: · what’s actually wrong with the industry itself · the need for greater creativity and transparency in advertising · how
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
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