Sat.May 11, 2024 - Fri.May 17, 2024

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Altify and Salesforce and What’s Next for Simplified Selling with AI

Upland

The B2B sales landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Altify and Salesforce, two titans of the CRM and sales effectiveness world, are partnering down to deliver a potent blend of AI innovation that promises to redefine how businesses close deals. But with talk of “Sales AI” reaching a fever pitch, a critical question begs an answer: what’s next?

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6 Steps to Improve Your Employer Brand and Boost Recruitment

The Center for Sales Strategy

In the travel industry, you want to be a “destination of choice,” meaning you are highly preferred or sought after by travelers for your attractions, amenities, and experiences. As an employer, you want the exact same thing. But what does that mean for you? How can you be a destination of choice? Remember, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While one person might seek the rich history and cultural landmarks of London rather than the commercialization and street vendors of New York’s Times Squ

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Active Listening Skills: Understanding Your Prospect’s Needs

Brooks Group

Understanding your prospect’s needs is arguably the most critical aspect of being a successful salesperson. It goes far beyond simply knowing the features and benefits of what you’re selling—it requires active listening skills and the right sales questions. Truly grasping your prospect’s pain points, challenges, objectives, and desired outcomes allows you to position your product or service as the ideal solution to their specific situation.

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CX Design: What Can Companies Do to Compete with Tech Giants? – Part II

Customer Think

CX Design: What Can Companies Do to Compete with Tech Giants? – Part II Medium and small players entering markets dominated by giants like SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce face some substantial challenges, with significantly fewer resources at their disposal. However, they also have unique opportunities to differentiate themselves and capture market share.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketer's Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Building a Dynamic Business Operating Model

Aepiphanni

Building a resilient business operating model that decentralizes decision-making, increases productivity and results in greater employee satisfaction.

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Mind Over Time: 10 Lessons to Boost Your Productivity

The Center for Sales Strategy

We've all been there — feeling overwhelmed, scattered, and struggling to get things done. The traditional approach tells us to buckle down, make a to-do list, and manage our time better. But what if the real key to productivity lies not in rigidly scheduling every minute but in learning to manage our minds? David Kadavy's "Mind Management, Not Time Management" offers a fresh perspective and practical tips for boosting productivity by harnessing the power of your most precious resource — your att

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What Consumers are Saying About AI and Customer Service

Customer Think

These days, everybody in business is talking about AI. We’re inundated with research and data about the percentages of people who report this or that about it, especially as it has begun to be employed in customer service use cases.

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Establish and Expand Customer Relationships: The Imperative for Readiness and Preparedness

FinListics Solutions

Sales Teams face the critical challenge of remaining agile and prepared to meet and add value and align their sales approach to their customers’ business goals in any marketplace.

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Securing Appointments Through Social Selling

The Center for Sales Strategy

The most common frustration I hear from B2B sales and marketing leaders is their inability to secure first appointments with qualified prospects. The common sentiment that I hear over and over again is this. “We do really well as a sales team when we have an opportunity to tell our story. But we’re just not getting enough at-bats.” For several years, traditional outbound prospecting methods (cold calling and email) in B2B selling have become less productive.

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4 Common Pitfalls of Marketing Campaign Models

SBI Growth

CMOs and their marketing teams utilize numerous resources and talent to ensure their campaigns perform well. But thorough preparation is just half the story: CMOs often struggle to drive the execution successfully, resulting in lesser impact and weaker ROI. With resources and strategic value at stake, avoiding common pitfalls while designing campaign models would go a long way in maximizing returns down the road.

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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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CPG Study: Complaint Handling is More Challenging. Yet 40%+ Delight is Attainable

Customer Think

A new CCMC study of 8,500 respondents has found difficult-to-handle Covid/Supply Chain/Inflation issues have come to the fore along with more intense emotions and social media use. And, surprisingly, much higher levels of delight with some responses, especially digital.

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Expanding Nutshell’s conversational AI with Notetaker 

Nutshell

Sometimes, typing notes about a customer call or interaction with a prospect just isn’t as fast as you’d like it to be, especially if you have a lot to write down. Introducing Nutshell Notetaker, the new voice-to-text tool as part of Power AI , our plan powered by artificial intelligence. Notetaker helps you get your thoughts down faster. With Notetaker, you’ll be able to quickly and accurately add notes, comment on logged activities, mention teammates, and write emails in Nutshell—all using you

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Mind Over Time: 6 Lessons to Boost Your Productivity

The Center for Sales Strategy

We've all been there — feeling overwhelmed, scattered, and struggling to get things done. The traditional approach tells us to buckle down, make a to-do list, and manage our time better. But what if the real key to productivity lies not in rigidly scheduling every minute but in learning to manage our minds? David Kadavy's "Mind Management, Not Time Management" offers a fresh perspective and practical tips for boosting productivity by harnessing the power of your most precious resource — your att

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8 Effective Customer Communication Skills for Your Small Business

Groove HQ

When a customer has an issue, how you communicate can make the difference between them leaving a 5-star review or turning to your competitor. Customers come in all shapes and sizes: friendly and patient, interested and indifferent, angry and erratic, etc. So how can you make sure that no matter what the situation is, you get […] The post 8 Effective Customer Communication Skills for Your Small Business appeared first on Groove Blog.

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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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[Research Round-Up] The Latest From NetLine On B2B Content Consumption

Customer Think

(This Research Round-Up discusses the 2024 B2B content consumption report from NetLine Corporation. NetLine publishes this report annually, and it consistently provides a wealth of real-world insights about how business professionals actually consume marketing content.

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How to Effectively Capture Leads? 10 Proven Ways

Nimble Business Success

In today’s competitive business landscape, capturing leads effectively is essential for sustained growth and success. Whether you’re a small startup or a well-established corporation, building a robust pipeline of leads is crucial for expanding your customer base and increasing revenue. However, with countless marketing strategies and tactics available, it can be challenging to know where […] The post How to Effectively Capture Leads?

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Help Scout Using Help Scout: Tags and Custom Fields

Help Scout

Let's take a look at how Help Scout's customer support team uses the tag and custom field Inbox features.

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Key Account Management In Life Sciences

ProlifIQ

Core Facets Of Key Account Management In Life Sciences Managing relationships and building strategic plans to grow revenue across complex accounts is a part of day-today life for anybody in sales, marketing, or account management in the Life Sciences space. Different health care systems, hospitals, and regional players in the space make understanding the different nuances and connections between people and businesses a challenge.

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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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Can Big Brands Compete Overseas with International Marketplaces?

Customer Think

Gap recently made headlines with its sudden closure of the brand’s physical stores and ecommerce site in Spain, about three years after expanding into the market.

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New Feature Spotlight: Journeys & Dashboard

FinListics Solutions

With Spring officially upon us, we wanted to let you know about one of our biggest updates in a long time.

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Encouraging Empathy in Customer Service Teams

Help Scout

Empathy is a core component of every good customer experience. Learn why it’s important and ways to infuse empathy into your customer service interactions.

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Key Account Management In Life Sciences

ProlifIQ

Core Facets Of Key Account Management In Life Sciences Managing relationships and building strategic plans to grow revenue across complex accounts is a part of day-today life for anybody in sales, marketing, or account management in the Life Sciences space. Different health care systems, hospitals, and regional players in the space make understanding the different nuances and connections between people and businesses a challenge.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Improve CX Root Cause Analysis with AI and LLM: Five Steps to Take

Customer Think

We are hearing a lot these days about “getting to the root of the problem” including fixing Boeing’s 737 jet problems and in the recent obituary for Ford Motor Company’s CEO in the 1980s, Donald E.

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Indirect sales can boost revenue while minimizing costs to your business – use our guide to find out how

PandaDoc

In this article, we’ll cover how you can measure indirect sales success and discuss the four main types of indirect sales strategies: distribution , dealership , franchising , and merchandising. We’ll also highlight the main advantages of indirect sales, such as expanding the sales network , increasing distribution efficiency , and minimizing costs.

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Practical Tips for Community Bank Innovation

NG Data

Community banks are embracing innovation and technology to stay competitive. ChoiceOne Bank built its loan origination platform and offers it to other financial institutions. BAC Community Bank has hired professionals with data analysis backgrounds to help with software and other projects. Seattle Bank launched CD Valet to increase deposits and help other banks do the same.

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Customer Experience is Everyone’s Responsibility

Luminas Strategy

In today’s digitally-driven marketplace the pathway to delivering differential value to your customers requires more than just an exceptional digital experience. All organizations – B2B and B2C – are being challenged to forge more meaningful connections across a variety of touchpoints. Recent initiatives undertaken by companies like DoorDash underscore the imperative of adopting an outside-in approach, where every employee, from top executives to frontline staff, actively engage with customers –

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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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CommBox launches Connect partner programme, offering market-leading automation and AI capabilities to customer service ecosystems

Customer Think

Opens CommBox's market-leading technology to the broader customer service ecosystem

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A comprehensive guide to lead qualification – what it is, how it works, and the best strategies 

PandaDoc

Generating leads is vital, but it’s only half the battle — you also need to figure out which leads are most likely to become paying customers. That’s where lead qualification comes in. In this post, we’ll explore what’s involved in the process and show you some winning strategies. Key takeaways: Lead qualification identifies high-quality leads who are likely to buy.

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Jack Henry Strategy Benchmark

NG Data

The Jack Henry Strategy Benchmark survey found that growing deposits is a top priority for financial institutions. Both banks and credit unions plan to increase tech spending on fraud detection, digital banking, and data analytics. Net interest margin compression and deposit attrition/displacement are top concerns. Financial institutions plan to embed fintech and serve niche markets like SMBs.

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What to look for once you are hiring an Advertising Account Manager

May Phoo Pan

Lately, especially in the Myanmar Advertising Industry landscape, due to the shortage of well-rounded & well-experienced professionals, I see that there are a lot of job vacancies for account managers where it's coming up with the typical job description. And I understand the headache of HRs or agency owners in identifying a good account manager as there is no proper account management training in the academic way, and all the account managers are all experienced learners while you are findi

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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.