A lengthened sales cycle and restrictions on face-to-face meetings have dramatically impacted how salespeople get their jobs done. Here are 3 things to do now to adjust to selling in this time of social distancing.
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What do New Year’s and spring have in common? They’re both times when we think about starting off with a fresh, clean slate. This is why we’re revisiting one of our most popular posts from earlier this year, which relies on wisdom from organizing consultant Marie Kondo to help marketers re-energize their marketing toolbox. Good reading before the new year.
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Social selling should be a critical part of your sales process these days. And, if you aren’t social selling, chances are you’re leaving money on the table. Read to learn more about social selling and how it fits into your overall strategy.
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Tidying expert Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, Netflix star and author, developed the KonMari Method™, a way to transform your home by gathering possessions by category and keeping only those items that “spark joy.” Kondo’s advice is taking the world by storm. But what does all this have to do with marketing?
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Are you embracing a modern marketing approach while your sales team struggles to keep up? It’s important for marketing and sales to align around how they communicate with leads. Consistent communications that help prospects solve their problems will win more often than not. Here’s how to modernize your sales team to support pragmatic marketing efforts.
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Marketing automation and CRM solutions provide insightful metrics, however, it’s important for you not to rely solely on these numbers when it comes to your lead generation program. Why it’s critical for you to understand your lead sources well, including both the quantity and quality of leads.
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When you dine at restaurants, good servers will converse with you to learn more about your tastes so they can recommend dishes that appeal to you. Unless you are a regular customer, it’s unlikely that they know enough about what you like to provide you with a tailored recommendation. Fortunately, B2B marketing and sales representatives don’t have this problem.
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Sales development representatives (SDRs) face challenges every day to connect with prospects and convince them to take some type of action. Actions can include viewing a product demonstration, scheduling a future conversation or agreeing to subscribe to an email newsletter. Measured by generating meaningful interactions and moving prospects through the buying cycle to create sales
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In my year-end blog post, I predicted that 2014 would be the year of the great marketing U-turn – the year in which marketers fully harness digital marketing tools to begin speaking primarily to individuals, not to the groups in which we believe they are members. My focus at that time was customer acquisition –
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