Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recently, in conversations with clients and other groups, I’ve been stunned at how few have performance plans in place for their people. Having been raised in organizations that valued performance planning, I had assumed these were common place. Starting my selling career in IBM, we all had them.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 18, 2024

On the one hand, you have benefits like: Improved efficiency. These efficiencies have allowed SEO programs to move faster and produced cost savings, added value and, in some cases, more revenue. On the other hand, you have issues like: Generic content. And many of them are intriguing. Powerful content ideation.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Outside sales remain invaluable to companies, even as we move towards hybrid models. In this guide, we’ll explore field sales enablement in-depth. We’ll discuss strategies to make the most of field sales’ impact and why it remains significant in today’s sales landscape.

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Iannarino

JULY 11, 2021

There are, however, things that you should pitch if you want to make your conversations valuable to your clients, all of which improve your position. Switching your pitch from “why us” to the conversations necessary for better results improves your approach and your odds of winning. What you need to do is “switch your pitch.”

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In this article, we’ll review the 12 types of open ended questions to ask, when to ask them, and other emerging best practices. Additionally, we’ll cover some of the common mistakes to avoid when asking open ended sales questions. So tell me, what do you like about the [current solution] you’re using?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Too often, I hear the lament, “I don’t have the time to coach!” Endless discussion on “the numbers” and the challenges of achieving them. We see them leading team meetings, but usually these are fairly one way discussions, “You aren’t hitting the numbers, you need to do more!”

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They have let their fingers do the walking through Google, found your site and expressed interest. But we miss a huge opportunity by waiting for our customers to figure things out. But we miss a huge opportunity by waiting for our customers to figure things out. What’s it take to do this?

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Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

On top of that, they want sellers to meet them “wherever” they are. How can a salesperson meet all of these standards while also enjoying what they do? In this blog post, you’re going to learn about business anthropology and how it’s best applied to your everyday life in sales. Let me show you how.

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. We’ll cover everything from basics to advanced techniques for achieving your sales goals.

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Martech

MARCH 12, 2024

You’re likely familiar with the Pareto Principle, the old 80/20 rule and how it applies to marketing — 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. But do you know who your next best customers are? How long does the customer relationship last and how profitable has it been?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As our conversations often go, we were talking about the state of selling and how we improve. The conversation got me thinking about the issue: “Our customers desperately need help, but do we want to be helpful, do we know how to be helpful? Do we want to provide that help?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2024

We can, for instance, ask it for issues facing certain roles. We can ask it to look at certain industries/markets, or types of companies. We can even provide financial reports and other data, that can be incorporated into the analysis and recommendations. Today, they have certain priorities and issues, tomorrow those may change.

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Martech

MAY 3, 2024

Take a moment to search “CMO tenure” and you’ll find a wide variety of content discussing the short tenure of CMOs and how it’s among the shortest of roles in the C-suite. Boathouse’s CMO Insights study (registration required) noted several sobering conclusions: 34% of CEOs have great confidence in their CMOs.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

You have worked closely with the client, prepared all the necessary content, assets and targeting, and are confident about the potential success. To fully deliver results and revenue for clients, close collaboration with internal RevOps teams is essential. Here’s why this partnership matters and how you can develop it.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Top performers are already using these tools with tremendous advantage, and they always have because that’s what top performers have always done. ” All we have to do is look into history, we’ve provided tool after tool. ” All we have to do is look into history, we’ve provided tool after tool.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, it’s time to rethink our SEO strategy. Economic or industry trends: Do you have the right awareness? Macro trends may have been tackled in the wider business strategy. Still, it is good to do your research. Have any big competitors made big moves in 2023?

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We had the privilege of having an eye-opening fireside style chat with co-author Brent Adamson in our HM Inner Circle discussion– a tight-knit community for both current and past clients of Heinz Marketing. We can’t give it all away, but here are some highlights below. Why we must be buyer-focused vs. selling-focused.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Collaboration is key for C-suite leaders looking to drive business impact. This article provides a practical framework to help CMOs, CTOs and other leaders maximize the power of collaboration. Have in-depth conversations to understand your organization’s biggest goals.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 8, 2023

Wouldn’t it be nice if during our prospective client conversations, they were also that open with their concerns, perceived challenges, discomfort, or misunderstandings? After all, once that information surfaces, we can begin to help them work through those concerns. How does this sound to you? “How

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2023

It does provide a warning for many of us blindly jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon, it does make many very obvious errors and struggles to understand them. But in it’s enthusiasm to start training sellers, it’s started pitching me on how good it can be. ” And it started telling me the approaches and how it would do it.

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SalesProInsider

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These are the three areas we need to engage with our prospective clients in sales conversations. Because engaging their head, heart, and hands is how we involve and immerse them in the experience that builds trust, connection, and commitment with them versus having them be passive observers.

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Martech

APRIL 9, 2024

Google’s Privacy Sandbox is a space where a series of complex proposals to protect user privacy have been developed and are undergoing (or have undergone) extensive testing. But it’s not just about the Chrome Browser and it’s not just about Topics. It has worked with the U.K.

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Objectives and Key Results Campaign Entertainment Legal 101

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Fun fact: This report was visualized using Tableau Viz in collaboration with former Tableau Iron Viz champion Will Sutton. What you need to know When we say “Salesforce ecosystem,” we mean the thousands of companies and organizations worldwide who run their businesses on Salesforce.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

No matter what you sell, you probably have customers who: Truly care about your company, products or services and content. If you have fans who sincerely love your brand, they are a lot less likely to churn and leave you for a competitor. Make them feel seen, heard and cared about. Who loves your brand the most?

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Salesforce

APRIL 5, 2024

Still, how and where you start with accessible design can be daunting. That’s why we put together four entry points that anyone can try. Others with photosensitive epilepsy can have seizures if content moves, flashes or blinks more than three times in one second. It’s easy to understand how some people might be excluded.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Are you looking for some examples of how companies are using AI for SEO successfully? LinkedIn collaborative articles Monthly visits : 1.5 only) LinkedIn is the most popular social networking site for people who want to build relationships, learn and figure out a way to do business online. You are in the right place.

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The team collected more than 1,000 generative AI use cases at Dreamforce and hosted deep-dive conversations with 30 Salesforce buyers, admins, and end users. So, what does that mean for admins who are responsible for influencing how generative AI shows up for humans? Do X, based on W” or “Do X, then do Y”), macro-level (e.g.,

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 6, 2023

This impression is reinforced by the imitative behaviors we constantly see in selling, focused on doing more of what we know doesn’t work, but doing it because that’s what everyone does. We continue to focus on pitching products, when we know we have to focus on the customer business problems.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Everyday I read articles about how to conduct sales conversations. They get into topics like, “do you start with ‘How are you…,'” They extend into the exact sentence structure, use these words, don’t use these, counter with this, use these pattern interrupts, here are the sequences.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 27, 2021

In a lot of it, I wonder, “What problem are we really trying to solve?” ” To be honest, I think much of the justification we use in looking at Rev Ops misses the true opportunity. Much of the discussion is around improving alignment and collaboration across marketing, sales, customer experience.

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Strategic planning Manufacturing Legal Finance 124

Salesforce

OCTOBER 23, 2023

AI is having its moment. No longer just a buzzword, AI and generative AI are changing how we all do business. So what should a data leader be doing to succeed with AI in the enterprise? I believe we are at a point where we should be thinking about these jobs not as jobs that only humans can be doing.

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SalesProInsider

AUGUST 13, 2020

Whether they are face-to-face or virtual, productive sales conversations are not a sideline sport. It’s the same with our buyers, the sale is about them and they want to play. Collaboration Is King. In our sales conversations, buyers don’t want to be idle observers of a “pitch” or “presentation.” Involve Their Hands.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Start with these criteria.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Let’s dive into each trait and how you can use them. Unlock your SEO potential and embrace curiosity Curiosity is a must-have trait for any skilled SEO expert. ” Tenacity means pushing on, asking how it can be done, and challenging the idea of impossibility. Now, what will you do with this proof?”

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2022

We encounter them all the time. The customer has a point of view that differs from that we wish they would have. Perhaps, they aren’t as interested in the things we want them to be interested in. Perhaps they don’t respond in the way we hope they respond.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 20, 2024

So, if you’re a PPC expert looking to tie your campaigns to other marketing efforts, here are four ways to start doing that. They usually have a dedicated creative team or agency creating their ads. However, many companies don’t have those resources. Share results and how the findings can impact each channel.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2024

A roundtable of experts examined how our industry might change at SMX Next. SGE is a big change from how searches usually work. Before, Google showed 10 blue links for user queries, and clicking on them took users to websites, generating traffic. This shift could have a significant impact on website traffic. .”

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