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Active Listening for Agile Marketing Leaders

Marketing Insider Group

This is referred to as “active” listening as a reminder that we need to do it intentionally. Agile leaders sidestep that risk and embrace both halves of effective communication. For effective communication, active and resourceful collaboration is necessary. Agile marketers put the customer at the heart of their activity.

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Should you stop (organic) social media activity?

Biznology

Instead, Avinash Kaushik , a well-known analytics guru and Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google , says it’s time to “ stop organic social media altogether.” We can take that time and focus our efforts more effectively instead. The post Should you stop (organic) social media activity? Like this post?

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Effective B2B Sales Coaching Via Situational Fluency

Marketing Insider Group

To make sales coaching effective, managers or coaches must know the specific performance elements that require coaching. What Are We Coaching For? The top level objective of sales coaching is clear. We’re coaching sales performance to drive better results. But what does this really mean? They lack data. Think about it.

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How Great Leaders Use Storytelling to Activate Empathy in Their Teams

Marketing Insider Group

It can be an effective tool for learning, too. Stories are effective learning tools, and smart leaders can use them to their advantage. When researching Mean People Suck , I came across this article written for Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, which explains exactly why storytelling is so effective for learning.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

With increased scrutiny for marketing to prove ROI on their activities and it becoming increasingly hard for B2B salespeople to even get in front of customers, the old way of doing business is no longer an option. Establish an understanding of the detrimental effects that occur when sales and marketing are misaligned.

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5 Hacks to Boost Your B2B Company’s Organic Social Media Reach

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re a B2B social media manager, you’ve probably noticed that organic social media reach has been on the decline in recent years. With increases in paid ad content and algorithms constantly in flux, it’s easy to see why it’s becoming increasingly challenging to reach followers with organic campaigns. Study Best Practices.

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How CMOs Can Keep Marketing Organizations Agile in Changing Times

Marketing Insider Group

How can chief marketing officers empower their organizations to remain nimble in changing times? Understanding how your organization fits into society can help you remain relevant and address current challenges and concerns authentically. 11 Ways CMOs Can Help Their Marketing Organizations Stay Agile in Crazy Times.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

This often means motivating your team through everything from revenue targets, to sales funnel and forecasting, to activity management and collaboration. As a leader in your sales organization, it’s incredibly important to have an accurate picture of your team’s revenue, pipeline, and sales activities in order to deliver results.

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GDPR & Demand Generation: What Your Team Needs To Know

Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate

The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018.

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The #1 Reason Why Sales Coaching is Critical to Your 2022 Sales Success

Speaker: Tim Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Leadership Associates

In this era of social media, traditional ways of selling are not as effective as they used to be. As prospects become more proficient on social media, many organizations struggle to keep up, not knowing how to navigate the new digital landscape.