Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It seems AI and tools like ChatGPT are the answer for virtually every sales activity. It can generate endless amounts of well written content for email campaigns, blogs, and so forth. I reached out to one of the greatest thought leaders in the “Human” element in selling to have a conversation with her, getting her insight.

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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2024

Why do I bring this up in the context of entrepreneurship? It’s an entrepreneurial competency we must develop first-hand. Naqvi is also a Kolbe Certified Consultant, and I love his LinkedIn content about working to your intuitive strengths and weaknesses as a leader. Sometimes, life just happens. More on that later.

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

Imagine that only 28% of your sales reps expect to hit quota. As a sales leader, you’d probably scoff at this. But according to Salesforce, this is the reality for many businesses, and the pressure to hit revenue targets has companies looking to improve sales processes to boost performance. Interested to learn more?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

To succeed through digital channels, marketers must make intelligent decisions and leverage sophisticated technology to stay ahead of the crowd and ensure they’re converting every lead they can. With the increase in available channels and touch points, marketing and sales funnels are becoming more merged.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn why each marketing strategy works and walk away with an armory of tactics to fuel your own growth marketing efforts. Typically, they use gated content to capture the prospect’s contact information so the sales team can nurture and convert them. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

Making sound decisions is an imperative aptitude that all sales reps, recruiters, startup founders, advertisers and entrepreneurs must excel at. Conclusion The Importance of Effective Decision-Making in Business Being a boss means making decisions all day, every day. What are the 5 steps to making good decisions?

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Martech

MARCH 31, 2023

That’s why as martech professionals, we need to develop our skills and knowledge constantly. For example, DevOps and sales topics can help you better understand your stakeholders. Here are some reasonable and cost-effective opportunities that require varying levels of commitment. Start a podcast, blog or YouTube channel.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Building that connection with customers requires a clear brand strategy to define why you exist and a solid marketing strategy to communicate that purpose with your customers. Brand strategy: Defining why you existing in the world. Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 30, 2023

For as long as I’ve worked in SEO , I have been asked the same question by brands and businesses, big and small: Why should I use YouTube ? There are common false assumptions among business leaders and even marketers around YouTube: YouTube is for kids and Gen Z. How can it help my business? Shouldn’t I be on TikTok instead?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding. Sales Onboarding.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

You’re probably here because you want to build a successful sales enablement strategy for your business. Read on to discover how to create effective sales strategies through the power of enablement and turn your team into an all-star performance machine. What is a sales enablement strategy? You’ve come to the right place!

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If you need help building a website, creating a company blog, or getting webpages discovered by search engines, there's plenty of SEO training that can help you get started. That's why we spoke to experts on HubSpot's SEO team to learn how they've improved content strategy over time. Prioritize internal linking.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 9, 2023

Optimizing your LinkedIn profile should be a continuous process which involves everything from your URL and images on your profile to effectively displaying your core skills. Headline Sales professionals know all about the power of a headline. However, don’t oversell with pushy ‘sales talk’ and gimmicky buzzwords. No sombreros.

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Martech

JUNE 14, 2023

Constructing pleasant interactions must be the foundation of your communications and content. Absorb the following pointers to learn why UX is critical to your content and how to execute its principles. The sales room floor, vehicle maintenance, website and blog should all run smoothly and give an air of extravagance.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

CROs, and sales leaders alike, often walk into their new role blind. They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The key is identifying the sales metrics that matter most and getting ahead of pitfalls with actions like managing dashboards correctly. .

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Read all about it in Google Webmaster Central Leaves Beta; Its Blog Gains Comments. Open Letter: Why Search Engine Land Will & Won’t Cover Someone Being Penalized By Google 2014: Search Engine Land would only write about it if there was some exceptional news value.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 27, 2023

Why does my online reputation matter? Strong leaders understand that weaknesses can be exploited or used for growth and turned into strengths. Sales pushes. Earning your audience’s trust must come before overly promotional posts, especially if you want them to become strong brand advocates. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. You need specific, account-based marketing tactics, and I’m going to let you in on 5 tactics that we use at Belkin that you can use to boost your sales. In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. iPullRank Blog. Litmus blog. But it was effective. Unbounce blog.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Women Sales Pros. Women in Sales. Utah Women in Sales. Gals and SALS.

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Hubspot

JULY 7, 2020

This retrospective takes a deep dive into buyer interest, marketing and sales outreach, and sales outcomes (spoiler alert: there's a lot of engaged prospects out there, but sales teams have work to do in capturing that interest). On the sales side, things aren't going so well. Sales Emails. Buyer Interest.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. This and a lot more!

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2014

This post originally appeared on the Sales section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Smart sales and marketing leaders know how important it is to collaborate with cross-functional teams. As New Breed Marketing ''s Sierra Calabresi puts it: “Your sales team makes up the front line.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Kofi Senaya, Director of Product at Clearbridge Mobile , a Canadian-based mobile app development agency, argues that “mapping out the customer journey is an effective way to understand what turns a viewer into a long-term, loyal customer.” And, it is why diverse customer intelligence methods are vital and need to be perpetual.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2017

It's why I started HubSpot's agency partner program in 2008, and why I've launched an agency partner program at my new company, Databox. So why the hell would a company hire an agency that doesn't prioritize their own marketing? Marketing technology isn't just a fact of life you must adapt to.

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Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2011

This is a guest blog post by Mike Gospe, an author of The Marketing High Ground and a speaker at our Lead Generation Quick-Start Series. When executive staff members are added, engineering, operations and sales leaders are often added long before a marketer. This only confuses the issue and lengthens the sales cycle.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. Why waste that value?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Learn how easy it is to become the highest-performing field sales professional at your company. Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. But what does tomorrow hold for field sales? Field sales is not dead!

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. With Google, what would you say to some of the non-technical leaders here? What about you?

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2023

This article explores why today’s CMOs should prioritize marketing technology strategy and create internal policies for using generative AI. Image created by Dall-E Why CMOs need to be technology aware The case for CMO engagement in technology was already compelling: Technology enables everything that marketing does.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I’ll show you why I consider their piece problematic, describe the impact it’s had on us in SEO, and then zoom out to what I see as the more interesting conversation: Who, if anyone, “ruined the internet” and how did it get us where we are now? Why we care Here’s my larger point: the Verge article was correct in pointing out a problem.

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SBI

MARCH 22, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Ease of use. A unique suite of pipeline tools.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or inside sales expert, we can all agree on a few things. One; sales is no longer just about high pressure, ‘won’t take no for an answer’ pitches. Today, it’s more of a different dynamic where sales reps listen, empathize, and even kill pitches early if they sense the prospect isn’t interested.

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