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1 Key SaaS Sales Metric to Fine-Tune Sales Productivity

InsightSquared

For these reasons, accurately tracking key sales metrics and benchmarking your performance against peers and market leaders is critical to getting the most out of your sales resources. When scaling the business, sales typically averages roughly 30% of revenue, so therefore sales spend is one of the biggest investments a company can make.

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CMO spending on paid media soars at the expense of talent, tech and agencies

Sword and the Script | B2B

When you don’t have talent to create new content, you repurpose the old and throw a bunch of money at PPC and social ads hoping people will fill out a form. Marketing budgets are at their lowest point since businesses slashed budgets following the pandemic. Overall marketing budgets tallied at 7.7% of revenue – down from 9.1%

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How to Avoid Failure in Your Customer Experience Strategy Planning for 2018

Aberdeen

Unfortunately, it’s hard to analyze every article on CX trends and best practices to classify them based on the above criteria. Unfortunately, it’s hard to analyze every article on CX trends and best practices to classify them based on the above criteria. And therein lies the problem. This content is often generated based on: Hearsay.

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How marketers can take control of their data stack

ClickZ

Your peers, the consultants you hire, market research firms, vendors, your boss — just about everyone thinks it’s common wisdom. APIs, including Google Ads, Facebook, and other massive systems, are not perfect. “Take control over your marketing data.” Shopify might be SOT for ecommerce orders reporting.

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MarTech Conference: Some Random Impressions and Interesting New Vendors

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, where close to 1,000 marketing technologists heard sage advice, shared experiences, and otherwise frolicked with their peers. It might just be me, but this MarTech felt a bit less intense – less tribal -- than the first, held last August in Boston.

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BrightTALK Unveils new insights tool for B2B Marketers to Target the Buying Intent

Valasys

The tool is powered by Ads, which is BrightTALK’s propriety artificial intelligence machine. On the 30 th of September 2019, BrightTALK announced its new insights tool to aid in the level of precision of its buying intent-based marketing product named Intent Leads.

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The 8 Buyer Motives Every Salesperson Should Know

Hubspot

At the same time, it could be fun to do small stuff like never lose a game of rock-paper-scissors or finish people's sentences. And creepy as it might be, it would probably be incredibly practical — particularly in sales. Need might be the most immediate buyer motive. The same principle applies to need. But others might need a little guidance.