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

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This means creating a vision and a plan, setting goals, building relationships, understanding your product, and implementing analytics so your marketing strategy is data-driven. Read it: So It’s Your First Day as the Chief Marketing Officer… Identify what isn’t working and make changes. Align sales and marketing with SLAs.

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

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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 The key to this question is to get the prospect to tell you why they want to buy.

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Top 7 Sales Books for Sellers of SaaS – for Spring Break 2019

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Whether it’s cloud-based products evolving to new needs and new markets, salespeople adapting to new sales technologies, or products so cutting-edge that you can barely describe them – don’t get comfortable. Yes, the author has actually built a $100 million business himself – a little company called Hubspot.

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How to Avoid the Spam Trap

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There’s something lurking out there, in the corners of the email marketing world, that scares a lot of people: the Spam Trap. Campaign Monitor agrees that even good email marketers can get caught. 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.

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

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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. The key to this question is to get the prospect to tell you why they want to buy. Spend some time here.

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How to Use the Tech Stack to Displace Competitors

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In B2B sales and marketing, a company’s installed technologies – their tech stack – includes: Software products. Marketing automation tools, and more. Chief Martech’s popular annual Martech Landscape included 6829 different technologies in 2018 – for marketing alone. Web servers. Programming languages.

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7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment

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We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.