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Effective B2B Sales Coaching Via Situational Fluency

Marketing Insider Group

In the B2B selling world there is near universal appreciation for the value of sales coaching. Research from The Sales Management Association show sales people believe it’s the most important, least supported sales resource. Training prepares sales reps to execute. What Are We Coaching For?

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Chief Revenue Regrets: Relying on Reps to Provide Forecasting Deal Data

InsightSquared

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. It is now quite clear to me that was not my reps’ fault.

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How Marketers Can Help Reps Use Sales Content Effectively

Marketing Interactions

Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Links to the next part of the story, process, or thinking about how to solve the problem or, in the case of customers, what to do now that they’ve solved the original problem. The Job of Sales Content. For this post, let’s focus on content’s job for sales.

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Adopting a Self-Service Sales Model in Your Organization

ANNUITAS

As early as 2017 two-thirds of buyers preferred finding information on their own instead of getting help from sales reps. That doesn’t mean that salespeople are no longer a valuable part of the buying process. It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective.

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Market Validation: The One Step You Can’t Afford to Skip

Vision Edge Marketing

To that we say, “Whoa, Nelly, market validation comes first.” Simply defined, market validation helps determine whether the market and/or customer segment you’ve decided to target will be receptive to your solution. It’s not about convincing someone to buy and teeing up the transaction–that is a closed sale. What’s wrong?

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How To Get The Handoff To Sales Right: Why First-Party And Validated Buyer-Level Data Is Essential For Effective Qualification

NetLine

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information. That handover process between marketing and sales is crucial.

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What Is Bottom-of-Funnel Marketing? Validating the Purchase

ClearVoice

What is bottom-of-funnel (BoFu) marketing? Bottom-of-funnel marketing is a strategy that aligns with the latest “decision” stage of the buyer’s journey. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life. As much as we like to toy with the idea that we have evolved past marketing funnels, we haven’t.