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What Is a Sales Cycle and How Do You Optimize It for Consistent Sales?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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6 winning strategies to shorten your B2B sales cycle

Martech

The B2B sales cycle is lengthy and complex. Sales isn’t easy. But after 15 years in relationship-based sales and management, I can tell there’s a solution to close deals 25% to 30% faster. But after 15 years in relationship-based sales and management, I can tell there’s a solution to close deals 25% to 30% faster.

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6 Tips for Avoiding Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

ClickDimensions

The social media landscape today is filled with potential pitfalls and landmines for the B2B brands attempting to navigate it. As such, B2B marketers are bound to have their fair share of snafus and slip-ups on social. Here are some top tips for avoiding common social media mistakes that B2B businesses often make: 1.

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How to use social media and Linkedin to drive sales

Seismic

Social media plays a role in our personal lives, but it’s also a powerful tool for every business. Maybe your organization is in the early stages of its social selling journey or looking to take things to the next level—we’d like to help you develop best practices to drive sales on LinkedIn and social media.

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What is attribution modeling for social media marketing?

Sprout Social

Or it was a combination of newsletter information, social media posts, and word of mouth? Depending on how long your sales cycles and customer journeys are, attribution modeling can be the solution to all of these questions. There’s an attribution model for everyone that can help you get more out of your social metrics.

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Paid Social Media for B2B: Strategies that Get Results

Oktopost

There are few things in a B2B marketer’s toolkit that can deliver as much ROI as paid social media marketing. With over 750 million professionals currently using LinkedIn , it’s easy to see how success on major social media platforms can lead to a goldmine of opportunity at your fingertips.

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5 ways to create better buyer personas with social media data

Sprout Social

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. Accelerate buyers through the sales cycle.