Sales enablement is no longer a preserve of large enterprises but a competitive differentiator in the face of stiff competition. Every sales leader must help their sales reps to leverage data assets to achieve their quota. This includes investing in the right sales enablement technology that will help your teams to gather, sort and […]
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8 Tactics to Avoid Missing Out on Leads
Keeping leads coming in is essential for many businesses. You need to have interested people approaching to enquire about your services or products, and you need people to leave their contact details so you can continue to lead them through the buyer’s journey. Making sure you’re always able to collect leads and follow up on […]
4 Ways COVID Will Change Your Business
The pandemic that the world has been dealing with for the past year has brought some businesses to their knees. Other businesses have thrived in the light of the move to the online world. COVID-19 has made the unemployment rates rise, and business leaders everywhere are waiting with bated breath to see how the pandemic […]
Finbold: P2P platforms are now actively competing for borrowers with banks
In a recent interview with Finbold, NEO Finance founder and Chairman of the board, Mr. Evaldas Remeikis, talked about P2P platforms and traditional banks’ relationship. He noted that the P2P industry has grown to offer competitive products to customers just like traditional banks. NEO Finance is a Lithuanian based Peer to Peer lending company. With […]
Alexander Group: The Evolution of Expansion Selling
Like a scene from Mad Men, the traditional selling model’s goal was to land ‘The Big One’, reaping one-time bookings while gearing up to land the next big account. Enter the XaaS business model, replacing legacy selling with revenue continuity driven by the need to prove ongoing customer value. Sales, Marketing and Service must […]
Seismic: Fall 2020 Release Extends Content Analytics Capabilities
Seismic Gives Customers Unparalleled Abilities to Explore, Customize and Share Actionable Insights on Campaigns, Content, and Deals Seismic, the industry-leading and award-winning sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider, today announced new content analytics capabilities that boost marketer and seller effectiveness, drive revenue team alignment, and help organizations deliver exceptional buyer experiences. In today’s world, […]
Keys to Sales Success: Tips to Take Your Content to the Next Level
In recent years, content campaigns have emerged as essential components of marketing strategies that support B2B sales. Indeed, CMI and MarketingProf’s North American benchmark report for 2019 cited content creation as a growing concern for marketers, with a full 56% of surveyed marketing professionals reporting major content creation budget hikes over the last year. Similarly, […]
The top B2B Marketing objectives for 2020 are sales objectives
Each fall, B2B marketers assess the performance of their prior year’s marketing program and plan for the year ahead. They look at past performance metrics, business goals, competitor initiatives, industry trends, and areas of improvement. The 2020 B2B Marketing Mix Report, published annually by Sagefrog Marketing Group, surveys B2B marketing professionals to uncover the top […]
TrustRadius study shows spike in Millennial buyers and a lot of single decision-maker purchasing
The majority of B2B buying committees are now made up of Millennials, and 49 per cent of buyers never actually talk to a vendor’s sales rep, according to a research report from TrustRadius released this week. In its 2020 version of its B2B Buyer Disconnect study, which is based on a survey of more than […]
ZoomInfo CRO: How we hit more than 600 demos in one day
You might expect a company that specializes in business contact details to be pretty good at reaching prospective customers, but ZoomInfo’s chief revenue officer says it has managed to reach a new personal best as a company by booking more than 600 demos of its software in a single day. The company, which is headquartered […]
InsideSales rebrands as Xant to demonstrate focus on transformative AI
InsideSales.com on Monday announced it was changing its name to Xant as part of a marketing campaign that will include a webinar this Thursday to discuss what it calls ‘the new face of sales engagement.” Based in Utah, InsideSales is best known for offering cloud-based tools that assist with sales, marketing and account management. The […]
LeadMD develops Sales and Marketing Alignment Index based on first-party research
Performance marketing consultancy LeadMD is using data it collected as part of a survey conducted in partnership with Drift to create what it calls a Sales and Marketing Alignment Index that will benchmark how well B2B teams are working together and offer ideas for improvement. The report, which was released on Monday, is based on […]
An experienced B2B leader eyes 20/20 predictions for 2020 sales
For 2020, most companies have their eye on sales. After all, this is the time that businesses and salespeople alike evaluate the past year and look ahead to the next, anticipating industry changes, determining where they can improve, and understanding how they need to evolve to continue meeting the needs of customers. While none of […]
Nintex research shows Gen Z have influenced purchases in 80% of businesses
Seventy-two per cent of managers believe their Gen Z employees are more tech-savvy than they are, which may explain why the vast majority of them are weighing on the kind of buying decisions that preoccupy those in B2B sales and marketing, a recent study from Nintex suggests. In its report, The Gen Z Effect On […]
Seismic study shows only 29 per cent of B2B firms can measure influence of content assets on sales
Brands often cite the importance of content in driving sales, but less than 30 per cent of B2B firms are tracking which marketing assets influenced the close of deal, according to a survey commissioned by Seismic. According to the firm’s State of Sales Enablement 2019, which was conducted for Seismic by Forrester Consulting and based […]
B2B sales research confirms buyers are overwhelmed and front-line managers are unprepared
Eighty per cent of B2B sales reps who help filter information and ease the decision-making process for customers close high-quality, low-regret deals, according to a report from research firm Gartner. Based on a survey of more than 1,000 B2B buyers, the Stamford, Conn.-based company’s report suggested that quantity and even accuracy of information is not […]
Pipedrive aims at enteprise sales teams with updated plans, AI-based assistant and learning portal
Pipedrive on Wednesday is launching an updated CRM suite that includes a virtual assist based on artificial intelligence, along with an online education platform and an enterprise plan in a bid to show it can serve larger organizations. Based in New York, Pipedrive’s latest release adds a slew of other features such as the ability […]
Accelerate the B2B sales cycle with better data: Here’s how
As a B2B sales or marketing professional, you’ve got a simple, straightforward goal: to help the business grow. If you take a look outside in early summer, you’ll see buds opening, new leaves unfurling, and shoots stretching towards the sun. And, it’s tempting to think that all growth comes with ease. To grow a business, […]
Outreach data scientists put emojis in B2B e-mail subject lines to the test, and . . .
Adding little clocks or other emojis before and after B2B e-mail subject lines like “Quick call next week” have a negative impact on reply rates, according to tests conducted by sales enablement firm Outreach. Using seven different variations featuring emojis that were subject to an A/B split, Outreach found an overall 42 per cent decline […]
Marketing comes third in departmental tech budget spending, DiscoverOrg survey shows
The number and diversity of “salestech” products and services may be dwarfed by those on the martech side, but a research study from DiscoverOrg shows that’s where the bulk of budgets allocated to tech will be going this year. In its inaugural Purchasing Power Survey, Vancouver, Wash.-based DiscoverOrg commissioned Wakefield Research to ask approximately 500 […]