Salesforce

MARCH 28, 2023

Breaking down silos Schneider Electric , a global energy management and industrial automation company, has formalized an AI program under a new Chief AI Officer and scaled it to every corner of the company. Let’s look at one model company you can learn from. Its vision, “data and AI first,” is already paying dividends.

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Electricity Objectives and Key Results Appointment Technology 96

Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 23, 2025

I spent the bulk of my latter career in the electric sign industry. After having been a selling partner in one company and the N.W. The electric sign industry is custom manufacturing combined with multiple levels of approvals including municipal permits. It is used both during the sale and after the sale. Your thoughts?

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Process Electricity Government Manufacturing 71

Martech

JANUARY 10, 2024

We spoke about his circuitous path to marketing through electrical engineering and the early days of ecommerce at GE Healthcare, where he worked for many years, reporting to both the CMO and CIO. I get some of those same feelings about being exposed, with everybody showing up at a public talk. I was in high school debate and forensics.

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Electrical Engineering Healthcare Electricity Technology 109

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Sales closing, or getting a prospect to agree to a deal and sign a contract, is how reps make their quota and how businesses grow revenue. You put in the time and made a strong case for why your solution can alleviate the prospect’s pain points. Prospects will often say no before they get to a yes. You either close or you don’t.

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Technique Closing Sales Electricity 105

A Sales Guy

MARCH 20, 2013

Let’s start a series that strengthens all of our business acumen and challenges us all to connect what we sell to our customers business. Depending on what it is you are selling, knowing this could play a substantial role in your deal strategy. If the number is negative, your ability to sell something could be hampered.

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Electricity Sales Commission Service 107

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. They wrapped up their entire theory in a pithy, if rarely used, concept. Create movement-first content to build credibility. It created powerful network effects.

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Niche B2B Manufacturing Education 133

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the comments, by Jason Kanigan, said: Traditional selling revolves around the demo/presentation. The result is we end up giving many presentations to unqualified prospects. Only show how you do what you do to fully qualified prospects. Electric lights reduced the demand for candles. Hit a lot of rejection.

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Presentation Electricity Up-sell Education 78

Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And rather than hiring another sales rep or BDR, you can automate the process and set up CRM correctly. You don’t buy an electric screwdriver to drive nails, do you? Then, let your sales executives (SEs) focus on actually selling rather than doing manual tasks like filling up CRM or following up with the clients.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The team at OpenView Partners, a venture capital firm, makes this thoughtful observation about the rise and appeal of PLG as a GTM strategy: “Software has become a fundamental utility powering our working lives — just like water, electricity, the internet and mobile broadband.

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Growth GTM Product Cross-sell 106

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction: Several weeks ago, I wrote, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling? ” My good friend, Christian Mauer , challenged me, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” ” It was a great question and he caused me to reflect, I wrote, “ Why I Am Obsessed With Selling.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But when you're making changes all over your site, how can you know that, overall, those changes are adding up to customer and revenue growth? One complicating factor is the fact that many ecommerce retailers today are selling across multiple platforms. Electrical and Commercial Equipment : 2.49% - 2.70%.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It went on to sell more than eight million copies. Moreover, it’ll inform the psychological triggers -- the words and angles — you use to compel prospects to buy things. Here's what you need to know: You can trigger prospects with: 1. Only 10 remaining!” ) to sell things for as long as advertising has existed.

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Electricity Angle Price Campaign 78

Closer's Coffee

JUNE 5, 2019

Sure, artificial intelligence and automation can handle tasks such as scheduling and keeping a sales funnel brimming with activity, but it cannot make someone laugh or compel someone into a decision about a product or service you’re selling. Jon Selig is a stand-up comedian who has made a career out of being funny.

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Electricity Cold Call Territory Sales 67

SalesFolk

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I worked on a team of recent UC Berkeley and Stanford grads, all of whom were and still are amazingly gifted at selling, and who will doubtless become pinnacle sales leaders in Silicon Valley. Prospects on my list received emails that were short and to the point while explaining a business problem TechValidate could solve.

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Meeting Cold Call Electricity Sales 73

Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2019

It’s the reward you naturally receive for giving everything you’ve got to the business relationship you are developing with your prospect or client. But it’s important to understand… This machine isn’t an automated email sequence or follow-up process. Of course, the number of categories depends on the product you sell.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Find gaps in your sales process where a disproportionate number of prospects fall off. Once you identify those, seek out software that can take the manual legwork out of them and free up your employees' time. Electrical Equipment: 7.63%. Pore through your expense reports to pin down any frivolous or unnecessary spending.

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Profit margin Real Estate Non-Profits Transportation 83

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, the way we work, shop and entertain ourselves has been completely up-ended. On live webinar meetings, for example, we've been treated to up-the-nose camera angles, inadvertently-shared bathroom breaks, echo-y audio and dark, grainy webcam video. The results have sometimes been cringe-worthy.

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Transportation Electricity Follow-up Angle 101

Sales Hacker

JULY 13, 2021

Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time and how they turn people that attend virtual events into prospects. Today’s virtual selling environment demands a new kind of approach, one that prioritizes the buyer above all else. And I wound up taking it and five months later I started Xerox.

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Objectives and Key Results Electricity Start-ups Networking 103

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His yearly Poor Richard’s Almanack, sold up to 10,000 copies per year and included seasonal weather forecasts, household hints, and poems. The Locomotive’s main goal was not just to sell insurance policies, but rather to help steam users operate their equipment safely. Could you please give more details?

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Electricity Promote Engineering Entertainment 52

SalesLoft

MAY 1, 2018

What do water, electricity, and humans all have in common? We’re Not Selling; We’re Educating. Humans like to say “no” when they think someone is selling to them. Use the discovery process to uncover the value your solution can offer a prospect. There isn’t one simple solution that makes sales easier.

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Electricity Education Sales Meeting 52

Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

Not long ago, Schneider Electric created what it calls its “digital opportunity factory.” Without leads, you can’t sell anything, so they are vital to your sales process. That lead may end up being qualified, but may not be — they might end up being a good fit for your product.

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Hubspot

JULY 2, 2018

But what takes the place of a billowing summit isn’t a barren crater -- it’s an electric blue lake, surrounded by pine trees and the jagged remains of the volcano’s collapsed mouth, which crumbled during an eruption almost 8,000 years ago. So how do you set yourself up for success? Set yourself up for financial success.

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Electricity Hospitality Healthcare Drivers/motivators 78

Hubspot

JULY 19, 2016

Now, you're responsible for everything, from the work to the happiness of clients to hiring to the state of your bill with the electric company. Others are simply too afraid of losing the deal to ask a prospect to sign on the dotted line. 5 Common Mistakes New Agency Owners Make. 1) Not getting a contract signed before starting work.

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Contract Electricity Clients Legal 53

SBI

JUNE 23, 2015

Most principles used in B2B selling today have been in place since the late nineteenth century and coincide with the rise of large mass manufacturing firms. National Cash Register, Westinghouse Electric and others created large, organized sales forces and with them, standardized sales and sales management techniques.

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Non-Profits CRM Electricity Sales 55

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Get AI-driven insights that help you boost revenue Sell smarter with a revenue intelligence platform built into Sales Cloud. Speed up revenue growth with actionable intelligence and insightful visualizations to address pipeline gaps and hit forecasts. Revenue intelligence is a data-driven way to sell. And what about metrics?

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Pipeline Cross-sell Finance Electricity 59

Salesforce

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether you’re talking to a promising lead on social media or chatting up prospects in person, tailoring your pitch to the situation is key. An elevator pitch is a brief, persuasive summary of what you or your organization has to offer and how this positively impacts your prospect. What makes a good elevator pitch?

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Pitch Objectives and Key Results Appointment Non-Profits 59

Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

For example, there are lead generation companies that provide accounting, corporate IT training, custom software development, electrical engineering, film services, privacy shield notice, technical support, etc. The B2B lead generation experts began sorting contacts in order to keep only the prospective ones. Do Your Own Research.

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Lead generation B2B Appointment Networking 89

SalesLoft

JULY 9, 2019

Using surprising analogies, Rob demonstrates that even though you may have the best product in the world, without a successful and customer-specific demo, it can be difficult to get prospects on board. I know you and I are both recovering electrical engineers. I had no electrical engineers in my family whatsoever.

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Electrical Engineering Electricity Engineering Gaming 45

Hubspot

JUNE 26, 2012

We don't mean to brag, but our Pinterest conversion rate is a whopping 15% -- and we sell software! General Electric, a manufacturing & engineering company unequivocally killing it on all kinds of social networks, is unsurprisingly an example of excellent Pinterest marketing in a B2B industry. How "boring," right? 1) Healthcare.

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Hospitality Manufacturing Healthcare Networking 78

Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2014

” It’s what happens when you see a face in an electric outlet, or when you see shapes in the clouds. You can have a great, well-crafted story, but if it doesn’t line up with your audience, it won’t mean a thing for your conversions. You need to have a sense of who your prospective customer might be.

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Electricity Entertainment Presentation Service 78

Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 23, 2024

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. In case you’re not familiar with MAC Products, they are a producer of products and services for the transmission, distribution, and control of electrical power.

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Manufacturing Product Electricity Start-ups 59

Hubspot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Aside from breaking down a larger news report into short-form Story pages, called snaps, WSJ uses Snapchat's swipe up feature to enable viewers to swipe their finger up to access a longer-form story that's placed in Snapchat's CMS rather than WSJ's website. Harvard Business Review also recognizes the benefits of Instagram Stories.

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Entertainment Promote Networking Follow-up 101

Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Don’t make your prospect wait. There are several questions that most of your prospects/site visitors would ask. By the time the prospect gets to a human being, she/he has already received answers on their most urgent questions. Some of the conversations between your SDRs and prospects won’t happen, that’s true.

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Lead generation B2B Non-Profits Appointment 56

Salesforce

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Prospects see the industry as antiquated — not sexy and forward thinking like Apple, Amazon, and other technology companies. There was a time when top prospects flocked to work with communications service providers. They were also expected to upsell and cross-sell to these unhappy customers.

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Electrical Engineering Transportation Electricity Networking 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The 6sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in market for your solution and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging, generate more opportunities, increase deal size, and get into opportunities before your confrontation.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They did not follow up on the precious qualified prospects that they did find (assuming they knew how to qualify) – OR even worse – they didn’t follow up with actual customers who had a good experience with them but haven’t bought again due to indifference. Social Selling. Thanks for your comment.

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Niche Electricity Consult B2B 49

Hubspot

MAY 10, 2012

You know, where you are "social" with people instead of pushing the hard sell? You can also combine this with the targeting feature we just discussed to create up to three variations of the banner so you can achieve greater relevancy. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest marketing articles? Social media! Like this.

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