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Sales And Procurement, Racing Toward Each Other

Partners in Excellence

As sales and marketing professionals, we’re consumed with the change in our professions. After all, sales is a numbers game. We attend lots of conferences with our peers, we read the sale blogs, we talk to, perhaps commiserate with, each other. Buying and Buyers are changing. Think about what that means.

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My Bot Will Chat With Your Bot

Partners in Excellence

We are just in the infancy of trying to understand and exploit AI/ML technologies in sales and marketing. The reality is the buying and procurement side is already leveraging AI/ML technologies as or more aggressively than sales. Buyers are already implementing Procurement Bots to simplify and speed up transactional purchases.

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Strategic Procurement And Sales, On Parallel Paths

Partners in Excellence

Probably, ever since the first sale was made to a customer that involved a buying agent, procurement and sales professionals have viewed each other as adversaries. But, in recent years, there’s an amazing transformation going on in both sales and procurement. Our goals are in conflict.

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The 10-Point Strategy for Leading Sales Teams in a Recession

Sales Hacker

It is our job as leaders and sales professionals to prepare for such an eventuality. 10 key points for sales leaders. What I share with you below is a distillation of incredible advice from sales leaders and professionals, as well as my own experiences. Well, it looks like the likelihood of a recession is a lot higher.

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Is It The Customer’s Job To See Sales People?

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I read a blog post in which the author was criticizing a procurement professional who had written a post about his experience with sales people. Beyond that, he had limited/no interest in engaging with sales person. Afterall, sales people aren’t the only source of new ideas.).

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Elevate Sales: Essential Cold Calling Tips and Techniques

Lead Fuze

Do you remember that moment, right before making a cold call , when your heart raced like a sprinter at the starting line? This isn’t about quick fixes but tested strategies used by successful sales professionals worldwide. This isn’t about quick fixes but tested strategies used by successful sales professionals worldwide.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. This episode is sponsored by Linode. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise.

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