Sat.Jan 26, 2019 - Fri.Feb 01, 2019

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Here's How to Value a Company [With Examples]

Hubspot Sales

What's your company worth? It's an important question for any entrepreneur, business owner , employee, or potential investor -- for any size company. And like most complex mathematical problems, it depends on a variety of factors. If you're an entrepreneur , understanding the value of your company becomes increasingly important as the business grows, especially if you want to raise capital, sell a portion of the business, or borrow money.

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How to Manage Underperforming Sales Reps

Sales Readiness Group

A look into each of the characteristics top performing sales teams have in common. Watch this video to help your team achieve their full potential.

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The 10 Best Customer Service Tips for 2019

Groove HQ

The best advice on customer service we’ve learned in half a decade of blogging Throughout five years of blogging at Groove, we’ve written about customer service tips a lot ourselves, as well as chatted with other influencers in the industry. Our support blog is full of fascinating stories, case studies, interviews, and tips spread all […].

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The Top Five Strategies to Drive Sales Productivity

Openview

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Highspot’s blog here. . Prospecting, pitching, tracking engagement — there’s no question that modern technology solutions have made it easier for sellers to complete these essential tasks. But even as the tools have improved, selling has become more complicated as buyers’ expectations have risen.

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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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How Investing In CRM Data Quality Increases User Adoption and Trust Across The Business

Hubspot Sales

Data is one of the primary drivers of business strategy and projection, however, many decision makers don't fully understand how inaccurate data collection and poor data maintenance can negatively impact their marketing, sales and bottom line. According to a recent report, bad data accounts for trillions of dollars spent annually by U.S. businesses, and unfortunately, bad data's impact doesn't end there: According to the 1-10-100 data quality principle, the relative cost of fixing a data error i

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Does Lack of Intelligence Put Your Corporate Strategy at Risk?

SBI Growth

As CEO, you are responsible for driving your corporate strategic direction: You identify objectives and goals, initiatives and timelines. You identify budget allocations and expected ROIs. You set revenue targets both short and long term. You are placing a big bet on being a.

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The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile Checklist for Sales Professionals

The Center for Sales Strategy

There are many benefits to using LinkedIn as a sales professional that include everything from personal branding and thought leadership to prospecting, lead nurturing, and recruiting. The problem is, often times, sales professionals don't have time to set up or update the basics of their LinkedIn accounts to best represent them and their company. You can't build a great building on a weak foundation, and the LinkedIn profile is just that: the foundation that could affect the success of your soci

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Why Are You Good?

Engage Selling

Why are you good? Seriously. Have you asked yourself this question before? Let’s face it. Salespeople often come with healthy egos, to put it lightly. The good ones know that they’re good, but it’s vital to go beyond that.

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Three Essentials to Upselling in Large Accounts

Miller Heiman Group

Salespeople are highly motivated to sell as many solutions as possible to their existing accounts. Yet most accounts end up getting smaller over time, not larger. This is directly related to how the seller fits into the buyer’s process. 70 percent of buyers start interacting with sellers after the buyer has fully defined their needs, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group.

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Here’s Why Changing Your Comp Plan Could be Your First Mistake of 2019

SBI Growth

Picture this: We are a few weeks into the new year, the results from Q4 are in, and there’s been a big drop in sales.

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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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Inputs vs. Output: Do You Know What’s Really Driving Your Sales?

The Center for Sales Strategy

One of the most common debates in sales is how to best measure performance and other sales indicators. While some organizations prefer process-oriented KPIs, others have an outcome-oriented bias. Both ends of the spectrum are invaluable for powering your sales, but when it comes to prioritizing inputs vs. output, the “i’s” have it.

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3 Tips for a Successful Sales Negotiation Agenda

RAIN Group

One of the biggest mistakes sellers make in a sales negotiation is letting buyers take control of the negotiation, leaving you to play defense. If you want to come to a great agreement (and you do), you need to lead the process. In our white paper, 6 Essential Rules of Sales Negotiation , Rule #3 is: Lead the Negotiation. A key part in leading a sales negotiation is teeing up the meeting properly with an agreed to agenda ahead of time.

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How to coach your sales team like Bill Belichick

Nutshell

Love the Patriots or hate ‘em , you can’t deny that Bill Belichick is one of the most effective coaches in football history. Belichick is the only NFL head coach with five Super Bowl victories, and under his direction the Pats have won nine AFC championship titles (beating my Colts in a number of those games). Clearly, the man knows how lead a team.

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Is Marketing Execution Your Achilles Heel?

SBI Growth

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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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I’m Sorry But Your Market Isn’t Different | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

?????I just got back from rolling out a program in a part of the world that I’ve never worked in before.

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Are These Three Things Affecting Your Sales Revenue?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Most sales organizations are dealing with some hidden constraints that negatively impact revenue and cash. Here’s a list of the three most common, plus solutions to eliminate them.

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5 Essential Tips For Sales Managers For Running Better Sales Meetings

MTD Sales Training

Meetings with your salespeople can often be seen as a grind, or a necessity, rather than something to be looked forward to. For many sales managers, they can turn into long, boring sessions that people can’t wait to get out of. Many sales meetings fail because of the following reasons: – administrative matters receive more time than sales matters. – one or more salespeople dominate the meeting. – trivial matters encroach on more important subjects. – management uses threa

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How Operating Partners Can Kickstart Growth for their Portfolio Companies with Six Steps

SBI Growth

Download our Cross-Industry Benchmark Assessment Tool to help identify areas that need to be strengthened in your own company, to isolate what industries you should look to for cross-industry benchmarks, and for a step-by-step guide of who to engage at.

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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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Five Fabulous Tips for Winning at Sales Enablement in Midsize Organizations

Miller Heiman Group

In today’s unpredictable, fast-paced sales environment, midsize organizations need a formal sales enablement initiative to ensure that sales reps are having quality conversations with prospects that lead to more wins. Sales enablement affects the bottom line in a real way. Unfortunately, many midsize organizations struggle with sales enablement. One of the largest inhibitors to sales enablement in midsize companies is taking a random approach to it.

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Weekly Roundup: Content in the Sales Process, Social Selling + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "YOU WIN THE GAME ONE PLAY AT A TIME.". -FRANK TARKENTON. - AROUND THE WEB -. > One Simple Way to Improve Your Sales Process with Content (VIDEO) — LeadG2. Are you using content in the sales process? How do you use content in the sales process? Likely, your marketing team has created a large amount of great content that's not only beneficial for lead generation, but is also helpful for lead nurturing.

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Moving from Reactive to Proactive Customer Success

Strikedeck

Clayton shares how to move from reactive to proactive Customer Success, and the necessary strategies to advance!

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SBI’s December 2019 CMO Newsletter

SBI Growth

The CMO Guide to Data: Why Your Marketing Database Is Broken, and How to Fix It Hyper targeted advertising with highly personalized content will be table stakes for best in class marketing in 2019, but all your efforts could go to.

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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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Did We Forget How Sales Actually Works? Trish Bertuzzi on Why It’s Harder Than Ever to Engage, But Easier Than Ever to Sell.

Drift

As President & Chief Strategist of The Bridge Group – and the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sales Development” – Trish Bertuzzi has made a name for herself by advising companies that want higher performing sales development and inside sales teams. According to Trish, the team with the hardest job in the entire sales process is the sales development team.

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One Hot Tip to Connect with Target Accounts

The Center for Sales Strategy

Need some help connecting with target accounts when prospecting? Do you know the decision maker you need to connect with at a company, but don't have their email address? Have no fear. Trey is here. to share a hot tip that he uses regularly to connect with target accounts.

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The One Change You Need to Make to Get Out of Your Sales Rut

Jeb Blout

I spent the past week working with one of my client’s inside sales teams. My objective was to map the sales process of their very best reps in preparation.

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SBI’s January 2019 CSO Newsletter

SBI Growth

The Top 5 Technologies to Support Revenue Enablement Revenue enablement technology has evolved to meet challenges presented by sophisticated buyers. Advancements in 5 key technologies allow you to sell more, free capacity, develop talent, and optimize content. How to Settle the.

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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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The Return on Corporate Generosity

Engage Selling

In this three-part series on generosity in sales, I’ve talked about how this must-do work is a three-part journey. First, there’s what you need to do to be generous at a personal level.

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The Lean Visual Management Tools Your Team Will Love

Kainexus

Although the overarching objective of Lean management is to create an unhindered flow of value to the customer, another of its primary concerns is transparency. If you can see roadblocks, process irregularities, resources that aren’t at capacity, and poorly aligned goals you can do something about them. That’s why so many Lean tools are designed to allow visual management.

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2019 Social Media Guide for Business Owners

Outbound Engine

All of us at OutboundEngine believe that every business deserves great marketing. We also know not every professional has the time or interest to take on the marketing tasks needed to promote and grow a business. As a result, we’ve put together this free guide to social media. Our 2019 Social Media Guide for business owners will help give you direction as you map out your social media marketing strategy for this year and beyond.

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SBI’s December 2019 Private Equity Newsletter

SBI Growth

Are Your Portfolio Companies Optimizing Their GTM Resources? Waste and inefficiency are the enemy of growing enterprise value. It isn’t enough to simply have an org chart, budget plan, and strategy laid out. You must match up the right people, with.

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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.