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Mission Impossible: Making Hard Choices as a First-time CMO (Part 2)

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A 2018 HubSpot survey reports that 73% of marketers feel generally or tightly aligned (up from 22% of companies reporting close alignment in 2017!). Additionally, salespeople with SLAs call out marketing as the top generator of leads (#cred). Align sales and marketing with SLAs. We’re moving in the right direction!

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

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If you lead with price, you become a price-based purchase. “So Hubspot details this sales closing technique with a few questions: Ask your prospect: “Think of a scale of 1 – 10, where 1 is ‘I would NEVER buy from you’ and 10 is ‘I wish you sold more so I could KEEP buying from you!' “The

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How to Use the Tech Stack to Displace Competitors

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But if they’re already using other leading-edge technologies, they’re probably open to others. For example, if they’re using freemium versions of programs like Hubspots or G-suite, rather than the enterprise version – there’s opportunity there.”. How much does the CEO value technology? “A Data is just data!’

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How to Avoid the Spam Trap

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To make sure you never hit a spam trap, Hubspot suggests only sending to opt-in contacts and to avoid purchasing data from a data provider. unless you want to generate new leads and increase sales. DiscoverOrg has industry-leading data quality and contact refresh rates (60 days). So what’s a legitimate email campaign to do?

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

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If you lead with price, you become a price-based purchase. “So Hubspot details this sales closing technique with a few questions: Question 1: A scale of 1 – 10. Hubspot goes on to note that you’re looking for more than one answer; after their first reason, ask them for more. We need to revert to value-based appeal.

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7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment

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SALES: Marketing leads are crap. You guys take forever to follow-up on our leads – and you wonder why they don’t convert? Why would we waste our time on leads that are never going to convert? Agreement on what a “qualified lead” is. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Retarget cold, dead leads.

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[VIDEO] Whiteboard Wednesday: Increase Retention in Sales – with Data (Steve Waters)

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In 2008, according to Hubspot, almost half the sales department stayed on the job at least 3 years. ” And you get your generic list from a typical data provider: Most “leads” won’t have been there for years. They’re going to look around and ask, “Do I have the right leads?” No email addresses.