The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 16, 2024
A good salesperson knows that success starts with making connections, building rapport, and creating a positive space. Short and irritable prospects make it difficult to have any meaningful conversation and make your job much harder than it needs to be. Building rapport and making connections doesn't have to take long, and it's well worth the investment.
Hubspot Sales
APRIL 15, 2024
Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.
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Customer Think
APRIL 19, 2024
According to Forrester Research, in 2023, for the second year in a row, the quality of customer experience among U.S. brands declined. In addition, the Average American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) was 77 (a C+ grade) in 2023 and has been hovering in the mid-70s for years. What’s the missing link?
Brooks Group
APRIL 18, 2024
Storytelling in sales is a skill. When used correctly, it can be an incredibly powerful way to convince your prospects of the value of your solution. As humans, it’s in our nature to be drawn to stories. A good story grabs our attention, helps us visualize and understand information, and connects us to both the storyteller and the characters within the story.
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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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 15, 2024
There’s a whole lot more to recruiting the right person for your team than just matching resumes to job descriptions. It’s about cultivating experiences and creating an impression that goes beyond a mere transaction. In today’s candidate-led job market, your company's reputation matters—a lot. Many of the people who have the power to influence your reputation are those you’re recruiting.
OnStrategyHQ
APRIL 16, 2024
What is Strategic Implementation? Strategic implementation is the process that turns your strategy plan into real action. Implementing your strategic plan is key to ensuring your organization’s future growth and success. Master the art of bringing your strategy to life like a pro. Play Watch the video Is implementing strategy difficult? While strategy implementation is a critical follow-up for any new strategy or strategic plan, it poses significant challenges for many organizations.
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Force Management
APRIL 16, 2024
We recently hosted a live session on Driving a Revenue Mindset with our Managing Director and Facilitator Brian Walsh. He shared insights on what’s changing in sales, what remains critical, and what the most successful organizations are focusing on to maintain revenue momentum. Be sure to check out the full on-demand recording here.
The Center for Sales Strategy
APRIL 18, 2024
We're tackling a crucial aspect of sales that's as important as your morning coffee: sealing more deals. To close more opportunities, it's critical that we limit or completely remove as many objections during the presentation as possible. One way to do that is to remove the surprises. Surprises are great for a birthday party, but they can be devastating during a business meeting.
Nutshell
APRIL 18, 2024
Your customer data is the key to understanding your customers better so you can improve your marketing, sales, customer experience, and more. However, when your data is scattered across various platforms, you can’t harness its full potential. That’s where a single customer view, or SCV, comes in. An SCV consolidates your scattered customer data into one location so you can better understand your customers and use your data in meaningful ways.
Kainexus
APRIL 17, 2024
Transformation in healthcare involves integrating technology to improve patient care, streamline administrative processes, and enhance overall efficiency within the healthcare system. Operational decisions are crucial in healthcare by determining resource allocation, staffing levels, and workflow management, ultimately improving patient outcomes and organizational performance.
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.
Force Management
APRIL 18, 2024
Top sales teams differentiate themselves with a proven system for finding and attracting elite talent. But landing strong candidates is only the first step in the journey. The best organizations know how to retain sellers with the most potential and ensure they’re positioned to perform and excel as they advance up the ranks. Making the move from sales rep to manager is a common career pathway.
RAIN Group
APRIL 17, 2024
When it comes to sales performance, getting the most out of your team starts with strong onboarding. Organizations with effective onboarding are 6.3x more likely to prepare their new sales hires to succeed.
Nutshell
APRIL 18, 2024
Some emails—like those from HR, your company’s legal team, or just sensitive conversations—aren’t meant to sync into your CRM. To keep private messages private, you and your team need complete control over how your email communications are shared in Nutshell. Nutshell already offers tools for hiding emails so you can keep sensitive information out of your Nutshell account.
Customer Think
APRIL 19, 2024
Short-form video content has emerged as a crucial tool for brand growth. Not only has it been recognized as the most popular and effective social media content format, but a significant portion of marketers (33%) are investing more in this strategy than any other.
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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
FinListics Solutions
APRIL 16, 2024
In today's fast-paced business environment, standing out in a sea of competitors requires more than just a superior product or service; it demands a customer-first approach to revenue generation. This pivotal shift is the heart of the newly released eBook, "7 Steps to Building a Customer-First Revenue Organization," co-authored by Dr. Stephen Timme,and Sheevaun Thatcher, CPC.
Planview
APRIL 15, 2024
By now, many boards have asked their executive teams to create at least one AI use case—if not tens of use cases. Choosing the right AI use case doesn’t just affect how the board sees your performance, it impacts your enterprise’s competitiveness in the Digital Age. It’s a remit that Jeff McMillan, the new head of firmwide AI at Morgan Stanley, understands. “We’ve deployed two use cases.
Nutshell
APRIL 16, 2024
It was a busy first quarter here at Nutshell! We rolled out new features like: Nutshell Landing Pages A/B testing in Nutshell Campaigns Customizable lead board cards And free marketing-only seats (Missed some of these new updates when they launched? Check out our Q1 roadmap and the Product Updates page on our site to see a full list of the most recent Nutshell releases.
Customer Think
APRIL 19, 2024
Between the death of the third party cookie and the birth of AI, the face of the internet is getting a major makeover. To keep your business thriving, you’ll need to make some major changes to your marketing strategy.
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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.
Help Scout
APRIL 15, 2024
As we venture into this next season of support, where AI will make our landscape more competitive and providing human support will become more demanding, what kinds of skills should we be developing?
Insightly
APRIL 19, 2024
It’s the ultimate ‘this or that’ question in business: does your company use Microsoft Office 365 or Google Workspace? Did you know that globally, it’s nearly a dead even split? According to NinjaOne , “Google Workspace tends to be more popular among businesses, holding 50% of the market compared to Microsoft 365’s 45% market share.” The good news is that you are all set either way with Insightly.
Nutshell
APRIL 18, 2024
Some emails—like those from HR, your company’s legal team, or just sensitive conversations—aren’t meant to sync into your CRM. To keep private messages private, you and your team need complete control over how your email communications are shared in Nutshell. Nutshell already offers tools for hiding emails so you can keep sensitive information out of your Nutshell account.
Customer Think
APRIL 19, 2024
The Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra is known for his many “Yogisms.” The one we are most familiar with is, “It ain’t over til it’s over.” He is also known for saying, “It’s déjà vu all over again.
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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
NG Data
APRIL 18, 2024
A recent survey by the ABA shows that while the use of AI-powered marketing technologies in banks is still low, the potential impact of AI is significant. Bank marketers see the most value in gaining efficiency and enhancing the customer experience through the automation of repetitive tasks, data analysis and insights, and personalized customer experiences.
Insightly
APRIL 19, 2024
Google Workspace vs. Microsoft Office 365. It’s the battle royale of the business world and there is no clear, dominant winner. Globally, it’s nearly a tie. According to NinjaOne , “Google Workspace tends to be more popular among businesses, holding 50% of the market compared to Microsoft 365’s 45% market share.” If you are using Insightly, you don’t need to worry either way.
PandaDoc
APRIL 17, 2024
In this article, we’re going to learn all about contractor management software (CMS). Contractor management software is a tool that helps organizations streamline and automate the processes related to hiring, onboarding, monitoring, and evaluating external contractors and vendors. The market for construction software is expected to reach $3.875 billion by 2030.
Customer Think
APRIL 17, 2024
” Saying you ‘recommend’ rather than ‘like’ something makes people 32 percent more likely to take your suggestion.” “Adding more prepositions to a cover letter makes you 24 percent more likely to get the job.” “And saying ‘is not’ rather than ‘isn’t’ when describing a product makes people pay three dollars more to get it.
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.
NG Data
APRIL 18, 2024
In today's competitive marketplace, consumers want unique experiences. Brands use innovative strategies like AI-powered personalization, interactive experiences, voice-activated tools, cross-channel personalization, and predictive analytics to stand out. These technologies enhance customer satisfaction, foster brand loyalty, and drive sales. Source The post 5 Innovative Ways to Give Your Customers the Personalized Experiences They Want appeared first on NGDATA.
QYMATIX
APRIL 18, 2024
Wholesale businesses can benefit greatly from the possibilities of artificial intelligence. The possible applications of AI in wholesale are manifold. Karlsruhe, Germany – Lucas Pedretti, Managing Director of Qymatix Solutions GmbH, has been booked as an external speaker for eight events organized by the German Association of Technical Wholesalers (VTH).
Strategic Communications
APRIL 17, 2024
Whatever happened to… Over the past decade, we’ve seen a number of iconic brands simply disappear without a great deal of fanfare. On the other hand, we’ve seen the meteoric rise of new players that quickly captured the hearts, minds—and wallets—of consumers. But will they be able to sustain their gains? Only time will tell. Here we take a look at some of the “losers,” and some of the “winners” and try to determine what it is that keeps a brand strong.
Customer Think
APRIL 16, 2024
Major Update Rebuilds Platform Around GenAI, Reduces Risk With Slate of Safety Features
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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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