Sat.Nov 24, 2018 - Fri.Nov 30, 2018

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The 13 Best Real Estate Videos of 2018

Hubspot Sales

As technology advances, so has the real estate industry. And videos have become key tools for realtors to share their listings and introduce themselves to prospective clients. Real estate mogul, Barbara Corcoran , began by recording videotapes of her listings. They were initially recorded on VHS tapes, but she found the greatest success when she uploaded the videos to her website.

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Why I Decided to Join the SPARXiQ Team

Mike Kunkle

[ NOTE: This post was originally published in late November of 2018. I have updated it to reflect a few changes, including the company rebranding, my title, and some cool new solutions that we offer.]. The position change announcement feature on LinkedIn has become the birthday announcement on Facebook. Except for anyone with a large network, it’s 10 times more overwhelming.

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Leading Indicators of Sales Performance You Can’t Afford Not To Track

SBI Growth

The average lifespan of a Revenue Leader is less than two-years. Why? Most of the time the Leader’s departure is related to poor revenue performance or inadequate return on Sales & Marketing dollars. In the following article, we will outline.

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[Infographic] The Sales Leaders' Guide to B2B Sales Growth in 2019

RAIN Group

Seventy-five percent of purchases are strategic, meaning the buyer is making an investment and not required to buy. Yet only 14% of buyers discover these strategic opportunities from sellers. If you want to grow your sales in 2019, the opportunities are out there and very few sellers are taking advantage. How can you build a team that closes this gap?

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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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Debt to Equity Ratio, Demystified

Hubspot Sales

Growing a business requires investment capital. Scaling businesses need money to launch products, hire employees, service customers, and expand. There are numerous ways to raise capital, and each will have a different impact on your company and the pace at which you grow. The most common way to raise capital is through either equity or debt. But what do each of these entail?

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Advertising Sales is Changing — 5 Tactics to Stay Ahead and Win

The Center for Sales Strategy

The advertising game for traditional media is changing and evolving. In this case, change is not a good thing. It’s time for a revolution on your sales team. Are you ready? This sounds kind of dramatic, perhaps over-dramatic, but it is true. Some type of revolution needs to take place on your sales team in order for traditional media companies to stay in the game.

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Your Value Proposition Doesn’t Matter | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

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What's Considered a Current Asset?

Hubspot Sales

As an entrepreneur , cash is necessary to fund your operations. Whether you need new equipment for your business or a larger office space, you'll have to raise funds to pay for these investments. Funding can come from a loan, investor, business line of credit , or you can pay cash. Cash and short-term assets that can be quickly converted to cash are called current assets.

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Ever Feel Like Your Salespeople Are Bad at Picking Prospects?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Well, you wouldn’t be alone — I hear this from sales managers all the time. Here are the reasons I see that salespeople too often select the wrong companies to pursue: They are opportunistic and therefore look for low-hanging fruit where getting access to decision makers is relatively easy. Sometimes that works out, but too often it translates into prospects that do not have the resources to be a key customer in your organization.

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Unlocking the Secrets of Revenue Attribution

SBI Growth

Joining us on is Sarah Kennedy Ellis, the Chief Marketing Officer for Marketo, the leading marketing automation software provider. Below is a timestamped summary of the show segments and the topics covered. If you’d prefer to listen to the podcast.

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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 Find Out Why Your Client Is Leaving

MTD Sales Training

You’ll have heard many times that it costs more to attract new customers than to retain the business of current ones, and it’s true that the marketing costs plus all the other charges and outlays to attract customers far outweigh the time and effort to keep and increase business with existing clients. So, if your customer does leave you or ceases to repeat orders with you, it can prove to be not only a major disappointment for you, but also a big loss of profitability for your company.

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3 Sales Strategies to Be Assertive Without Appearing Aggressive

Hubspot Sales

Have you ever swallowed a question or backed off from a certain topic for fear of offending your buyer? This happens on sales floors around the world every day. Reps let their qualification questions slide so as not to flare tempers. But the truth is, salespeople are often more worried about the potential of p **g off prospects than the situation warrants.

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Understanding What Your Customers Value Most

The Center for Sales Strategy

Which of the following will generate the highest return? More customers. Keeping customers longer. More revenue per customer. Any one of these can grow revenue. But one has been shown to consistently bring in a higher return on your investment. Most businesses say they are focused on these in the order of the list: adding more customers, than keeping them longer, and finally getting more revenue per customer.

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A Product Platform Empowers Your Organization and Unlocks Customer Value

SBI Growth

A Platform elevates your offerings from merely functionally adequate to a driver of an emotional bond with your customers. To get there, you must set the standard across four key facets of your organization: Product Management Operations Human Resources Customer Success and Customer Experience. You.

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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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How to unite your sales and marketing efforts with Nutshell’s Unbounce integration

Nutshell

Quick question for anyone who uses Unbounce in their marketing stack: Which of your campaigns drove the most revenue for your company last month? As marketers, it’s critical that we understand the business impact of our efforts. Dumping leads into the top of the funnel isn’t enough— we need to know which campaigns are ultimately leading to revenue, and which ones should be cut loose.

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5 Key Steps for Building an Effective Sales Academy [Infographic]

Hubspot Sales

If you're looking to grow your skills as a working professional, it can sometimes be tough to find classes and training that meet your needs. After all, you can't go back to graduate school to get a master's degree in sales, and if you work in an industry that evolves rapidly, traditional education might not be particularly useful for you. Enter academies.

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5 Questions To Ask To Really Understand Your Buyer

MTD Sales Training

One of the keys to increasing sales is getting under the skin of the prospect or your customer, so ascertain the real needs and to get them to understand how they can improve their business using your solutions. Without that depth of knowledge, you sound just like any other vendor, trying to persuade your prospect to buy from you rather than someone else.

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Weekly Roundup: Strengthen Your Sales Management Techniques for 2019 + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "WELL DONE IS BETTER THAN WELL SAID.". -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Strengthen Your Sales Management Techniques for 2019 — LinkedIn. As a sales manager, two of the best words you can hear are “thank you.” While it’s of course great to hear them from a customer who feels you went above-and-beyond, it’s even better to hear them from a sales rep for whom you’ve made a real difference.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

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.

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How to hire the right sales reps (and keep them!)

PandaDoc

Whether we like it or not, you have to agree: The development of improved AI and forecasting means sales is no longer an “artform” but a “science” The question is how to hire sales reps whose qualities match the trends seen in data and keep them on to continue building relationships with clients at scale. Your sales representatives are the ones working with your prospects to learn more about their needs, build relationships, and deliver results.

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These Shark Tank Winners Share Tips for Swimming with the Big Fish

Hubspot Sales

Raise your hand if you’ve ever daydreamed of starting a business with your best friend. Maybe you had the conversation after three-too many happy hour sangrias or maybe it’s something the two of you have been discussing for years. Jennifer Paschall and Gita Vasseghi, co-owners of No Mo-Stache , managed to turn this longtime dream into their reality.

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Customer Gift Ideas and Tips for the Holidays

Outbound Engine

If you’re a follower of our blog, you’re familiar with the importance of following up with customers after a sale and continuing to nurture relationships long term. The holiday season is a great time to check in with clients and remind them that you are thankful for their business and their relationship. We’ve put together a few actionable customer gift ideas you can use this holiday season.

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Show, Don’t Tell: 5 Effective Ways to Coach Your Sales Team

The Center for Sales Strategy

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Salesandmarketing.com. If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. Telling people they’re not meeting expectations and inspiring them to turn things around isn’t easy. In fact, most of the time, it’s downright uncomfortable.

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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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5 Pain Points of Sales Reps Solved With Automation

SBI

While working on the real thing, you cannot rely on a haphazard collection of outdated notes and a motley crew of tools to keep track of what you are doing. Unfortunately, for some sales reps, digging through notes in the way real miners do, became daily routine. Due to the advent of CRM systems with automation tools, businesses received a single database to store information about leads and customers.

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4 Strategies and Tactics for Better Sales and Marketing Alignment

Corporate Visions

The post 4 Strategies and Tactics for Better Sales and Marketing Alignment by Corporate Visions appeared first on Corporate Visions. According to Forrester Research , only eight percent of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. That means that 92 percent of organizations have a sales and marketing alignment problem.

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Building a Culture of Employee-Led Innovation

Planview

In a recent HR Technologist article , Spigit CEO, Scott Raskin, made the case for why companies need to get employees invested in their innovation and improvement processes – and how to do it. At Spigit, our customers have seen a significant difference in how engaged their employees are when they’re able to collaborate and get involved in the company’s strategy through innovation.

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ServiceNow Event Recap: Is Customer Success a Band-Aid for a Malfunctioning Product?

Strikedeck

Zahra shares the insights from the lively Customer Success meetup event at ServiceNow in October on whether CS is a band-aid for a malfunctioning product.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

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.

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Sales Enablement 101

Showpad

Today it might seem obvious that sales enablement is a critical business function, and for many organizations, the importance of a structured sales enablement team has only very recently gained traction. For those early in their journey toward better sales enablement, here’s a primer on what it means, where you should focus and how you can measure success.

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How Does Live Chat Improve Customer Service?

Help Scout

Most customers — 75% to be exact — prefer to chat with someone online and in real-time for answers, rather than pick up the phone to call for help. From 2012 to 2016, the number of consumers using live chat increased by 50%. Why? It’s fast, efficient and convenient. Customers value their time and expect you to value it too. At this point, if you’re not providing live chat customer service, your competitors might be, and your customers may wonder why you’re not.

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U.S. Air Force Leverages External Innovation to Surface Innovative Ideas

Planview

Providing our airmen and women and operators of the US Air Force with top-notch technology is crucial to keeping our country safe. Spigit recently partnered with AFWERX, a product of the Air Force launched. with innovation hubs around the US, to solve some of their biggest challenges through crowdsourced innovation. A collaboration between the USAF and non-military contractors, and directly envisioned by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, AFWERX was created with the objective of overcomi

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How to Claim Your Yelp Business Page

ReviewTrackers

Why Claim Your Yelp Business Page? Founded in 2004, San Francisco-based Yelp has collected approximately 171 million crowd-sourced reviews of businesses in a wide range of categories, from restaurants and hotels to dentists, boutiques, and mechanics. Studies have shown that 82 percent of Yelp users visit the site when preparing to spend money. Also, 93 percent of Yelp users go on to make purchases at the business they looked up and researched on the site.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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.