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3 High-Impact Marketing Channels You’re Probably Overlooking

Hubspot

Enter content marketing -- a tool for building relationships with an organization’s stakeholders and prospective customers. Content marketing should be executed in tandem with your company’s account managers and client service representatives. When you meet prospective customers, tell them about your blog.

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Rethinking BDRs?

Partners in Excellence

I recently read a post from Dave Kurlan entitled, “Why I Believe We Should Blow Up The Business Development Role… ” He makes the argument that we put our most inexperienced sales people into one of the toughest roles in selling–inciting interests, identifying new opportunities, and prospecting.

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Sales Management Training: 7 Skills to Lead a High-Impact Sales Team

Highspot

Trying to build a high-impact sales team? Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find.

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How to Succeed in Sales Today: Start Helping Your Prospects

Hubspot

What we got was an outpouring of great advice addressing everything from how to talk to a prospect, to the value of leveraging internal resources, to the importance of being dedicated, to constantly improving skills and knowledge. They all reflect a common theme: at the end of the day, Sales should be about helping prospects.

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Sales, You Have To Do The Whole Job, All The Time!

Partners in Excellence

If may be prospecting avoidance for any number of reasons–“That’s the SDRs job, I can’t get them to respond, I’ll focus on the people I’ve worked with before… ” At the same time, their pipeline’s are empty. They help us understand how many deals, how much prospecting, and so forth.

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A Plethora Of Data

Partners in Excellence

What you might track for a SDR is different than what you might look at for a channel manager, an account manager, a sales specialist. For example, in our company a key metric is the number of high impact conversations we have with prospects a week. For example, orders/revenue are trailing indicators.

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If Prospecting Is The Toughest Part Of Selling, Why Do We Put Our Least Experienced People In Those Roles?

Partners in Excellence

Many people believe prospecting is the toughest part of selling. I’m actually not sure I believe that, but I do believe prospecting is tough. Too many sales people don’t want to prospect, it’s tough work. Or we hire appointment setting organizations to reduce the time sales people have to spend prospecting.