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LBS Update #3

The Lost Book of Sales

🌪 Book summary #1 (long): Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore Outtake: -> What is the “Chasm”? The gap between these two markets, all too frequently ignored, is in fact so significant as to warrant being called a chasm, and crossing this chasm must be the primary focus of any long-term high-tech marketing plan.

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Media Buying 101: What It Is and How It Works [+15 Platforms to Use]

Hubspot

Supply-side platforms (SSP) where publishers sell their ad inventory. The ad exchange marketplace where advertisers and publishers buy or sell ad inventory through real-time bidding (RTB). Nobody knows exactly what the impact will look like yet," he added, "but we, in the industry, are crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.".

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7 Ways SEO & PPC Can Work Together in 2021

Hubspot

For example, the restaurant POS software, Toast, is bidding on "phone systems for restaurants" but they don't sell phone systems! The marketing team at Toast is gambling on the mere possibility that restaurant managers seeking a phone system might also be in the market for POS software. Udemy - Best Selling Online Courses.

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Email Copywriting 101: Five Steps to Better Converting Emails

ConversionXL

That’s what a digital marketer told me while trying to sell me his messenger bot software. Before strategizing or revising your email copy, ask four questions. If you’re starting a new campaign or selling a new product, you can create a baseline based on your current metrics. Emotion sells. “Email marketing is dead.”

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Hear What 3 Top Sales Development Leaders are Saying at Rainmaker 2016

SalesLoft

This new-thing-yet-old-thing, called the account-based method, is now the most strategic and forward thinking way to run your business. From marketing to sales development to sales, it’s all about account personalization and an agile, strategic process. That’s how people have been selling for the last three years.

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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

The Lost Book of Sales

Additionally, in the greater picture there is a mind-boggling lack of cross-disciplinarity in academia. ” When faithfully adhered to, these traits result in one of the best-known Munger characteristics: not buying or selling often! Bias from gambling compulsion. Bias from envy/jealousy. Bias from chemical dependency.

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10 New Findings Reveal How Sales Teams Are Finding Success Now

Salesforce

Instead of gambling on higher-risk strategies and tactics, sales leaders are pulling back and focusing on what they know works. Sales reps spend only 28% of their week selling, down from 34% in 2018. As noted above, tool juggling is one of the reasons reps don’t spend enough time selling. Download the report. 6 min read.