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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

Zoominfo

We all know Tom: the sales guy trying to sell you something you don’t really need on a Tuesday afternoon. The Old World vs. New World of Sales. Tom represents the old world of sales, which was limited by location, highly based on geography, and heavily reliant on how well he could persuade his prospects. Then there’s Kate.

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5 Ways to Improve CRM Adoption

InsightSquared

The excitement generated throughout the sales cycle is quickly stymied once you realize that simply flipping the switch isn’t going to generate the massive ROI you anticipated because…. Here are five tips to improve user adoption across the board and ensure your investment pays off. Define Your Processes. What’s In It For Me?

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Chicken Soup for the Quota: 6 Sales Books To Help You Close More Deals

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

As sales fanatics, we often ask ourselves: What makes top sellers the best at what they do? We wanted to know what sales book made the lightbulb go off above their head, along with their favorite passages and the takeaways that changed how they sell. Some of these titles aren’t even sales books. Let’s take a look. Get started 1.

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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

LeadSloth

If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. By the way: tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar with SalesFUSION, a Marketing Automation vendor that focuses heavily on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (but also supports Salesforce.com, of course). What if you’re choosing a CRM system today?

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

This included best practices for LinkedIn Group management, participation, and establishing a consistent level of communication and engagement. Take a look at the following groups and determine how your marketing initiatives could benefit from becoming a member or as an example of successful LinkedIn Group management. Salesforce.com.

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

The Point

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives. Once initiated, the steps are as follows: 1. Marketo sends first follow-up email.

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Create Video Marketing for the Entire Sales Funnel

Vidyard

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as contributed content on Salesforce.com. While most marketers are aware of the incredible effect video can have as part of the marketing mix, I still see a lot of B2B brands create top-of-the-funnel explainer videos and call it a day.