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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

I was typically in a customer-facing position, such as applications engineering, sales, or product marketing. In sales, you’re visiting all these customers every day, and you might think that there’s a community of people at Hershey, Nestlé, and all the other food manufacturers. But yes, it’s sort of a common thing, right?

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is a well-known idiom, but “zero cooks in the kitchen” is an apt description of Spyce, a new restaurant in Boston.

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is a well-known idiom, but “zero cooks in the kitchen” is an apt description of Spyce, a new restaurant in Boston.

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What Do Reductionism And Machine Design Have To Do With Selling And Buying?

Partners in Excellence

Likewise, our customers live in similar worlds. We create “functional units” in our businesses, sales, marketing, product management, customer service, and so on. Now imagine this, we have our “machinery,” the customers have theirs. But now our customers are changing the way they buy.

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Why and how you should rethink profile merging

Martech

When marketers get too caught up in chasing the “golden record” in a customer data platform (CDP), they can allow “identity” to foul up their use cases. So let’s look at why creating a single customer profile in your CDP isn’t always ideal and how you can develop the correct procedures for merging records.

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Internal friction is exacerbated by the fact that in business as in war, we are operating in a nonlinear, semi-chaotic environment in which our endeavors will collide and possibly clash with the actions of other independent wills (customers, suppliers, competitors, regulators, lobbyists, and so on).

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 124: Q&A with Chandar Pattabhiram @chandarp

Heinz Marketing

Known for his mantra “marketing is about winning the battle for the mind,” Pattabhiram brings to Coupa proven strategies and tactics on how to build a brand that connects with customers emotionally. What’s the right time to cross sale, to do cross sale marketing to customers at the right stage of the journey?