Upland

MAY 22, 2024

When we speak about AI in sales and its potential impact, we would be remiss not to specifically focus on whitespace and AI. AI can be a powerful tool for targeting whitespace revenue – low hanging fruit to the seller. This guide is going to focus specifically on the impact of AI on whitespace. Although we will discuss the background of whitespace in general, you can learn more about the importance of whitespace in our guide on the topic.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 21, 2024

As a sales manager, you know the frustration of watching your pipeline slow down to a trickle. When you need a boost of new opportunities to drive revenue quickly, it's time to look beyond your typical marketing channels. Here are five lead sources offering a "short route to revenue" to help fill your funnel quickly.

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FinListics Solutions

MAY 22, 2024

ClientIQ's Journeys is an innovative, step-by-step guided experience designed to streamline the sales process from prospecting to meeting preparation

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Customer Think

MAY 21, 2024

AI Supported Simulations and Role Play Boost Learning, Helping Sales Reps Close Bigger Deals Faster

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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.

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Force Management

MAY 23, 2024

The product demo is an important part of any sales process, but they can also be a tricky stage to navigate while maintaining a value selling approach. We often advocate for sellers to move away from the 'features and functions' conversation in favor of discussing business problems and solutions. The demo is a time to discuss both. That can be a difficult balance to strike, especially when selling complex technical solutions.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 22, 2024

Are your sales reps dissatisfied with the quality of your company's sales collateral? You're not alone —the Media Sales Report found that 46% of salespeople are "not sure" or "dissatisfied" with their collateral materials. This is a major missed opportunity, as high-quality sales collateral plays a crucial role in driving conversions.

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The Great Game of Business

MAY 23, 2024

In our personal lives, we are terrible predictors of our future selves. Uniformed, we buy houses based on a salary we believe will only increase. We buy cars thinking the price of gas will stay the same. We subscribe to memberships and services thinking we’ll always use them. We constantly seek stasis in a world that is constantly changing.

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Customer Think

MAY 21, 2024

It is a well-known fact that when budgets are tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! Why is this? I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to precisely prove. They therefore make the perfect target for sweeping reductions.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 20, 2024

Even when you are excellent at closing a sale, your numbers can be down due to natural ebbs and flows in the economy or product demand. But there are other reasons why you might not see the sales you want and deserve: you might not be doing your homework. We get it; not everything your sales team does results in sales. And that’s okay, as long as you are prepping for future sales.

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Groove HQ

MAY 21, 2024

The barrier to entry is lowering for many industries, and competition is growing on every corner. Amid so much noise, it’s becoming harder to perform customer acquisition efficiently. Fortunately, you’re not limited to just one marketing channel. There are many options for expanding your business, even if budget or time is short (or both!).

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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.

Nutshell

MAY 21, 2024

When you offer financial services, your business often has industry-specific challenges that other industries may not relate to. But does that mean you should use a financial services-specific CRM over a general-purpose one? Or are you potentially losing out on great features by getting narrower? Read on to learn the differences between CRMs for financial services companies and general-purpose CRMs and which one would work best for you!

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Customer Think

MAY 20, 2024

Generative AI is rapidly evolving, with large language models (LLMs) communicating and tackling tasks in powerful ways. For the customer service industry, companies are using various levels of AI and technology throughout their operations – ranging from predictive analytics, workflow automation, quality assurance and more.

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Help Scout

MAY 20, 2024

Two very different approaches to the application of technology in pursuit of a particular goal, the outer edges of the responses that individuals and companies have to every new technology. Between Bjorn Borg and The Borg.

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Groove HQ

MAY 23, 2024

Customer support is more important than ever, yet it’s also more complicated. Buyers will reach out through a wide variety of channels, and expect fast, personalized service. If they don’t get it, they’re likely to complain in visible ways that can hurt your brand. For these reasons, the ‘client success manager’ is becoming an increasingly […] The post What Is a Client Success Manager (And Do You Need One)?

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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

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Nutshell

MAY 21, 2024

Whether you’re a wealth management advisor, accountant, insurance broker, or financial representative, a solid tech stack is essential for your financial services business. Software for financial services companies helps to determine investment opportunities, identify risks, forecast returns, and much more. Organizations in this industry often provide several different services, requiring them to have access to various software solutions.

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Customer Think

MAY 20, 2024

By now, everyone has recognized that we are in an AI hype. Again. It is probably the fourth since Joseph Weizenbaum developed the famous ELIZA, a natural language processing program that was intended to explore communication between humans and machines.

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Revegy

MAY 24, 2024

Every salesperson and operations leader knows that leveraging technology to streamline sales processes and enhance team performance is essential. In this context, sales enablement platforms have emerged as a cornerstone of this technological shift, helping sales teams to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, increase visibility and accountability, and support company growth.

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Planview

MAY 22, 2024

We’re excited to announce four Vision Award winners at this year’s Planview Accelerate conference – a recognition given to just a handful of organizations each year. This post highlights their stories and how you can use their insights at your own organization. Planview’s Vision Awards, now in its 13th consecutive year, recognizes forward-looking organizations that have excelled at achieving their strategic goals by leveraging Planview solutions.

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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.

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Nutshell

MAY 20, 2024

Bringing your office tech stack together so you don’t have to switch from one app to the next is the new black. And Zapier is one of the best-known apps for connecting software and streamlining workflows, especially when coupled with a powerful CRM. Finding the best CRM for Zapier is the best way to maximize productivity through these app connections.

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Customer Think

MAY 20, 2024

After your company has hosted your initial (or recent) customer advisory board (CAB) meeting and followed up by sending the important meeting materials to members, you may be thinking that your program is FINALLY completed. While these accomplishments are significant, no doubt warranting well-deserved praise from your superiors, the work is, alas, not over.

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Help Scout

MAY 22, 2024

Customer-obsessed businesses grow faster and retain more customers. Check out this article for actionable steps to build a more customer-centric organization.

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Groove HQ

MAY 23, 2024

Customer support is more important than ever, yet it’s also more complicated. Buyers will reach out through a wide variety of channels, and expect fast, personalized service. If they don’t get it, they’re likely to complain in visible ways that can hurt your brand. For these reasons, the ‘client success manager’ is becoming an increasingly […] The post What Is a Client Success Manager (And Do You Need One)?

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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

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Nutshell

MAY 20, 2024

There’s nothing worse than spending hours building a relationship with a lead only to discover months later that they don’t need what you’re selling. The lousiest part is that it could all have been avoided with a simple call or meeting and a series of sales discovery questions at the start. That’s not to say that setting up a meeting with your new prospect and firing away with a list of questions about their business is necessarily the answer.

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Customer Think

MAY 21, 2024

For a brand, positioning is important and cannot be overlooked. And an effective positioning cannot be achieved without the right messaging strategy. So, positioning and messaging work hand-in-hand to influence how your brand is perceived. Positioning refers to how you want your brand to be viewed compared to competitors.

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Arpedio

MAY 23, 2024

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the ARPEDIO Account Management solution. This update comes with a range of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing your user experience. A highlight is the ability to customize your company branding directly within the export settings. With this feature, you can easily adjust brand colors, logos, fonts, and imagery to better align with your corporate identity for your PowerPoint exports.

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Brooks Group

MAY 23, 2024

Sales hiring assessments are now an essential element of a B2B sales leader’s expertise. Hiring the wrong person for a sales role, whether due to a lack of necessary skills or a poor cultural fit, can have serious negative consequences for an organization. Not only are there significant financial costs, but a bad hire can also negatively impact team morale, customer relationships, and the organization’s reputation.

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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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Nutshell

MAY 20, 2024

Bringing your office tech stack together so you don’t have to switch from one app to the next is the new black. And Zapier is one of the best-known apps for connecting software and streamlining workflows, especially when coupled with a powerful CRM. Finding the best CRM for Zapier is the best way to maximize productivity through these app connections.

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Customer Think

MAY 21, 2024

It’s a familiar scenario: your business has seen exceptional growth within a specific region. Seeking new growth opportunities, you identify a promising chance to enter additional markets. Expanding into these markets could boost growth and revenue and solidify your brand’s global presence. However, these rewards come with risks.

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Arpedio

MAY 23, 2024

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the ARPEDIO Account Management solution. This update comes with a range of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing your user experience. A highlight is the ability to customize your company branding directly within the export settings. With this feature, you can easily adjust brand colors, logos, fonts, and imagery to better align with your corporate identity for your PowerPoint exports.

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DemandFarm

MAY 22, 2024

Salesforce’s revenue reached approximately $31.25 billion in 2023. Not just that, over 150,000 companies globally depend on Salesforce for CRM services, with the US making up 62% of Salesforce customers. Salesforce continues to dominate the CRM market, reflecting its widespread adoption and the value it brings to businesses across various sectors.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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