STAR Results

MARCH 4, 2021

Is a Lack of Business Acumen Impacting Your Sales? The number of sales reps has declined significantly over the last four years. Declining sales have not only forced the industry to reduce the number of sales reps but has also created the need to better focus on customer needs. The survey says…. Without training?

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Closing Bigger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This sales podcast episode is focused on shifting our sales performance management from tactical to strategic. Although there are dozens of strategic shifts we can make, today we are focused on three key levers that can impact your personal and organizational sales performance.

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Martech

MARCH 21, 2024

In this first article of our four-part series, we’ll outline the fundamental steps for incorporating AI into MOps, paving the way for the subsequent articles to delve deeper into planning AI integration with people, process, data and platforms. AI can refine attribution models, making it simpler to connect marketing spend with outcomes.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 27, 2024

Meridian , Google’s new open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM), has entered the rapidly evolving market for advanced marketing analytics and forecasting tools. Understanding marketing mix models The marketing mix model empowers marketers to analyze how various marketing strategies influence sales and forecast future results.

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Martech

JANUARY 18, 2024

To manage this complexity, you need an integrated martech stack that boosts efficiency, drives revenue growth, encourages data-driven innovation and aligns with strategic goals. However, obstacles like misalignment and poor collaboration can slow things down if not handled strategically. Supporting efficient workflows across markets.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Read on, take notes, and avoid these roadblocks as you get 2023 comp planning underway.

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2023

To help B2B marketing, sales and customer success teams power through the current and foreseeable choppy macroeconomic environment, this article dives into core strategies and tactics to turn GTM efforts into results. Dig deeper: How ABM strategies can accelerate marketing and sales velocity. Determining if, how and when to act.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. Here’s a mentality that top-tier outside sales gurus have.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. This approach helps companies accelerate sales and grow revenue without adding to their headcount, a move that’s increasingly important during economic uncertainty. What you’ll learn: What is channel sales?

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 26, 2023

Comprehending how a digital marketing agency gains income is imperative for sales representatives, recruiters, startups, marketers and entrepreneurs. Beyond that, you will learn about strategic partnerships as powerful tools for lead acquisition and revenue generation. How do digital marketing agencies make money?

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Salesforce

AUGUST 1, 2023

As a revenue leader, I apply this same mindset to sales planning. I understand why some organizations take a top-down, conductor-led approach, with sales leaders setting goals and strategy, then leading execution. The ideal sales planning strategy depends on your company’s stage, needs, resources, and operating model.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

Sales Qualification You’re entered into a flow when you sign up and enter an email on Runway’s website to join their waiting list. Then, they draft a customized email for that person and put the draft inside the draft folder of a sales rep. Everything below “Runway Sales Copilot” is written by AI. Here are sample outputs.

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Salesforce

MAY 4, 2023

When we launched the Salesblazer Community , we knew we needed a character to represent the largest and most successful community for sales professionals of all stripes — someone to be your champion. She’s brave, resilient, and strategic — and loves working with the herd to get things done. Meet Zig the Zebra. And why a zebra?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 24, 2024

Using product scoring, you can systematically choose which products to emphasize in your marketing and sales efforts, focusing on those with the strongest potential for advertising success. Conversion rates Measure how effectively customer interest is transformed into sales. Preorder ratio. That leads to Step 2.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2023

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. 6 Steps to Successful Strategic Marketing Planning By Uptempo Knowing how to strategize marketing plans is a critical part of the marketing process.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sales and marketing professionals understand the continual pressure to reach and convert new customers to a product or service and how easier it is to keep a happy customer than win new ones. What is a customer lifetime value model and how is it calculated?

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Martech

AUGUST 25, 2023

As data privacy regulations increase, attribution models may struggle to stay accurate and valuable. Many use Google Analytics 4 for attribution modeling, but it is not GDPR-compliant. Because of this, attribution models like those from Google Analytics will be less effective. This is where marketing mix modeling comes in.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

From spaghetti testing to strategic testing . That’s what led us to strategic testing. So we settled on growth levers at the bottom of the funnel–experimenting with pricing, the checkout page, plan mix, and our trial model. The following are some of the strategic tests we ran at Codecademy.

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Martech

MARCH 1, 2024

As buying shifts online and marketing takes on some traditional sales roles, retaining existing customers is essential for driving growth and profits. Thus, retention is gaining traction again as a strategic B2B marketing priority. Penetration marketing aims to maximize customer value by optimizing current-customer sales.

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Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2023

You can divide organizations into two buckets based on their approach to social media execution: Those that think strategically and plan their programs. Because of these investments, best-in-class (BIC) companies have progressed their program planning from weekly to quarterly. The ones who just post… anything and everything.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2023

The situation has put a strain on management resources and forced a lot of seasoned marketers back to completing entry-level tasks, especially in areas like content production — rather than strategic planning or performance optimization. with custom personalization in outreach to prospects, helping the productivity of sales reps.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 28, 2023

You’ve probably heard the news: Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 will completely retire first-click, linear, time decay, and position-based attribution models in September. Last-click and data-driven attribution models will remain available, along with external attribution. a sale or a lead) to an ad click or impression.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sales teams dedicate a lot of their time to forecasting. Yet, over 50% of sales leaders question the accuracy of their sales forecasting efforts. Since sales forecasting is a rather complex and time-consuming process, organizations seek ways to improve it, with many turning to machine learning.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2024

Everything in this new year should be about setting goals for the year, creating aspirations and deciding what we need to accomplish — like how we will reach that seemingly impossible sales number our boss gave us because we smashed our goal in 2023. If you find yourself in the front seat of the struggle bus, do what I do. It’s not a fad.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 8, 2024

Instacart’s latest advertising solution presents a strategic avenue to engage with high-value customers at a pivotal moment in the shopping journey, increasing the likelihood of sales and return on investment. The ambitious plan aims to deploy thousands of Caper Carts by the end of 2024. New features.

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 3, 2018

Most sales people agree that planning ahead of time for important sales calls is a precursor for successful call outcomes. However, based on my observation in working with hundreds of sales people over the years, many continue to ‘wing it’. Sales call after sales call, they leave the entire outcome to chance.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 22, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, organizations need to have a clear understanding of their future sales performance to make informed decisions and plan effectively. Sales projection plays a crucial role in this process by providing insights into the expected revenue and helping businesses align their strategies accordingly.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Dave Kellogg, EIR at Balderton Capital and 25-year C-level veteran, shares the top 14 signs that you have a SaaS metrics problem, the five reasons those symptoms exist, and a SaaS metrics maturity model with five layers to help you move the needle at every stage. We ended at 96% of the plan. But they didn’t. They used a $12.5M

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The 5% Institute

MAY 16, 2023

This article dives into the various aspects of management roles, exploring their types, key responsibilities, required skills, challenges faced, role models, and the benefits they bring to organizations. Some of the core responsibilities include: Strategic Planning One of the primary responsibilities of managers is strategic planning.

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 12, 2019

Simply stated the 48-Hour Rule stipulates that to maintain sales momentum you need to consider the correct follow-up or action within 48 hours after interest has been established. A Case in Point When I was a Sales VP one of my sellers set up a meeting for me with his executive sponsor at one of his largest accounts.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you don’t break your GTM model, your growth will. In their initial stage of growth, most CEOs, CROs and CMOs expect that if they can crack the code on their company’s go-to-market (GTM) model — product-market fit, ideal customer profile, differentiated value, market positioning, and sales model — then they can just focus on executing it.

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Lead Fuze

MAY 26, 2023

Additionally, we will discuss gaining experience before starting an agency, choosing the right pricing model, setting SMART goals and differentiation strategies for growth, conducting competitor research and content approaches as well as building a cost-effective portfolio by hiring freelancers. Say goodbye to manual work. No coding skills?

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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