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How to Drive a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Recruiting Process

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.” – Harvard Business Review Best Practices for Implementing DE&I in Your Hiring Process Implementing a DE&I program is easy to say, but hard to do. That’s because the modern hiring process typically starts far later than it should to improve diversity.

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Building Trust in Sales: A Guide for Sales Professionals

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Why would your B2B sales prospects be any different? In B2B sales, the quicker you build trust with your prospect, the more likely it is that you will close a deal. In fact, only 3% of buyers trust sales reps ( source ). We’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to building trust in sales. Keep reading!

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How to Build Trust With Your Customer Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing automation tools like HubSpot enable you to continue developing relationships and keep providing value long after the sale. Some tools even allow you to automate onboarding processes and nurturing emails, while also giving you opportunities to measure engagement. Marketing Automation and Customer Relationships.

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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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How Sales and Marketing Can Collaborate (+Expert Tips)

Hubspot

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

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Nine Benefits of Using Social Proof in Marketing

Webbiquity

In a nutshell, it’s word-of-mouth, magnified exponentially by the Internet. With social proof, prospective customers get an in-depth look at a product or service without wading through direct marketing or sales-focused copy. Having an expert talk positively about your product can improve trust and enhance brand credibility.

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Influencer Marketing Strategy: 4 Influencer Outreach Steps

Markempa

Proactively building relationships with influencers and industry experts is a powerful way to generate demand and leads, and positive word of mouth (WOM). Increasing your close rate and reducing sales cycle time by earning an influencer’s “seal of approval,” thus leveraging their credibility. To Summarize.