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The Ultimate Prospecting Tool for Sales Reps: Your Network

InsightSquared

The sales process is a race against numbers and time. . Reps are racing to hit quota within an allotted time frame. Sales ops is racing to capture sales data in real-time to enable data-driven decision making. And it starts with prospecting, one of the most time-consuming phases of the entire sales cycle. .

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Partner Relationship Management: The Key to Scaling Your Sales Efforts 

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

You’re always on the hunt for new revenue, but new sales has to come from your sales team, right? Sales can come from partners, too. In fact, partner selling is a great way to take the pressure off your own reps — and it’s relatively easy to implement. What are best practices for partner relationship management?

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How Marketing From Home Will Help Align Marketing and Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice.

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7 Sales Dashboards Every Team Needs (With Examples)

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

I’ve seen countless businesses (including enterprise companies) compile — and try to analyze — sales data in spreadsheets like this. Sure, spreadsheets are useful for small projects, but they can be cumbersome when dealing with complex sales data. Sales dashboards to the rescue. See how it works What is a sales dashboard?

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

The Point

And yet, at most B2B companies, social media is still relegated to a role loosely defined as awareness, community-building, or even PR. I spoke to Daniel Kushner, CEO of B2B social media management platform company Oktopost , for his perspective. (HS) Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel via @spearmktg.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Industrial Marketing for Manufacturers: Strategies for Lead Generation and Growing Sales

Tiecas

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Measuring ROI : Like any business investment, we need to measure our marketing efforts’ return on investment (ROI).

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The Complete Guide to Channel Sales

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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?