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DECEMBER 7, 2014

This past week I had the great privilege of giving the opening keynote speech at the B2B Sales and Marketing Forum in Warsaw, Poland.

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DECEMBER 7, 2014

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

B2B Sales

Speaker: Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo & Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2

Join Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo, and Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2 in this webinar where you're guaranteed to walk away with a fresh understanding of and a new perspective on intent data! Turn your go-to-market motions around with intent data!

Intent Data

Speaker: Brynne Tillman CEO | LinkedIn Whisperer at Social Sales Link

In many organizations, Sales Enablement is owning both LinkedIn and Social Selling. In this 1-hour session, Brynne Tillman from Social Sales Link will teach: What Sales Professionals Believe About LinkedIn. What Many Sales Professionals Are Doing Wrong. Profile Branding Tips for Your Sales Team.

Linkedin

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. Get started today.

B2B Sales

Advertiser: Showpad

According to Gartner, 15% of all technology spending in 2021 is predicted to go toward sales enablement technology. When identifying a platform that bridges the gap between sales, marketing, and customers while staying within budget, the selection process quickly becomes overwhelming. So, what features do you need to consider?

Gartner

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The good news is, there are various methods and technologies that can be used to provide sales coaching and training to your sellers – wherever they might be. We put together this guide to provide insight into how you can improve remote sales coaching for your teams and better enable them to win more deals from home. And much more!

Training

Advertiser: Showpad

The Showpad Sales Transformation Maturity Model helps organizations understand where they are today in terms of meeting buyer expectations, and how key teams can drive transformation that impacts the bottom-line. In order to deliver experiences that win buyers, your entire organization must transform.

Purchase

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales outreach is an art and a science. By the time you reach the end of our guide, you’ll be a sales outreach pro. The art is what you bring to the table—your flair for conversation, your work ethic, your dedication. We bring the science—proven tactics, strategies, and methods that really work.

Outreach

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This guide will help you stay data-driven while avoiding data overload by focusing on four categories: Sales enablement. Sales effectiveness. Sales readiness. Sales engagement. Revenue teams have become increasingly more data-driven, which makes it easy to get bogged down in tracking every little data point.

Effectiveness

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

Outreach

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. In today’s B2B business environment sales and marketing can no longer operate in silos. Jeff Davis is here to help you think differently about how Sales and Marketing should interact.

Marketing & Strategy

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

Product

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. Your future sales forecast? It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

Forecasting

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

A great sales team starts with a manager who’s a great coach. To enable your team to perform at its best and increase sales efficiency, it’s important that you give them the training, knowledge and tools that they need to be successful. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Coach your sales team and set them up for success.

Efficiency

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you.

Top of Funnel

Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training

Technology and Artificial Intelligence are evolving faster than ever and disrupting every industry and role, specifically Sales. As companies and reps continue to look for technical solutions to create efficiencies throughout the sales process the human element of sales is being lost.

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Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers. You will learn: What sales engagement is. How to measure your sales engagement efforts. Effective communication techniques. Critical training and coaching tips.

Work Management

Speaker: Jordi Gili, International Speaker, Managing Director at Execus, Professor Geneva Business School

As we kick off 2022, companies are giving more attention to their Digital/Social Sales Programs. While companies are enabling their sales professionals with coaching and a variety of digital tools to connect with potential customers, they're experiencing fluctuating KPIs. Sales and corporate strategy alignment.

Ad Building

Advertiser: Showpad

Sales managers play an integral role in improving reps’ performance and growing an organization’s revenue. Internal Showpad research reveals a day in the life of today’s sales managers and how they can lead more effectively with the right tools and support.

Training

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In this report, ZoomInfo substantiates the assertion that technographic data is a vital resource for sales teams. The reason for this is simple—sales teams value technographic data because it makes essential selling activities easier and more efficient. In fact, the majority of respondents agree—with 72.3%

B2B Sales

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The state of the market and the state of sales coaching make SCL a wise investment, but you have to do it right. This eBook will serve as a springboard for your business, a playbook, and implementation plan to guide you as you consider an investment of time and money to improve data-driven sales coaching at your company.

Enterprise Management

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

Top of Funnel

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

As a sales manager, you’re tasked with not only answering this question, but directing your sales team to achieve goals and deliver results. This often means motivating your team through everything from revenue targets, to sales funnel and forecasting, to activity management and collaboration. Master 1:1 sales meetings.

Top of Funnel

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

The average B2B sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 to 9 months to close, depending on the complexity of the product or service being sold. Now add the fact that we're facing a global pandemic and it could add an extra 2 - 3 months or more to a sales cycle. How to tap into growing markets for new sales opportunities.

ROI

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. More organizations are investing in B2B sales and marketing intelligence solutions.

Forrester

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

More often than not, sales leaders strive to accelerate their deal cycle, but it’s critical to also consider the opportunity cost. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control.

Process

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

Cold Calling

Speaker: Christopher Ryan, Founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners

Many companies have the core marketing and sales elements to take their revenue to the next level, but are still missing out on some key opportunities. How a few small marketing and sales changes can make a big revenue difference. What to do to get alignment, and better performance, out of your sales and marketing organizations.

Planning

Speaker: Dawn Baron, President, Passion Profits Consulting, and Shelley Trout, Webinar Producer, Aggregage

Smart webinars are one of the best way to address these challenges, efficiently reach your target audience and generate highly qualified sales leads. Which production secrets are key to transitioning webinar attendees to active sales prospects. Have you held back on doing webinars because of the level of effort required?

Webinar Metrics

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

By using the power of intent data, capturing buyer interest has become more feasible for sales. Not only that, but using it will save immense time during your workflow; a win-win on all fronts. Read on to learn more about how intent data can save salespeople time -- while capturing more qualified leads in the process!

Intent Data

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If your role includes supporting sellers, then this in-depth sales enablement guide is for you! Take the next steps from Sales to Revenue Enablement. Discover valuable insights and practical steps on how to: Adjust your tactics to deal with the impact of 2020. Keep remote onboarding and training engaging (including SKO).

Tactics

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Download this eBook to find out!

Zoominfo

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

Marketing Analytics Tools

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Forward thinking sales leaders are starting to prioritize technology initiatives. As organizations chase new revenue targets, B2B sales leaders must examine cutting edge prospecting solutions that proactively help reps identify, connect with, and close qualified buyers faster.

B2B Sales

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

B2B

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

Cold Calling

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How to strategically target your content and lead generation campaigns to disrupt the status quo and facilitate the sale.

Demand Generation

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

CRM software is a powerful tool when used correctly, yet another obstacle to a sales team’s efficiency when it’s not.

CRM

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

When used effectively, a CRM can be the lifeblood of your sales team – keeping everyone organized, efficient, and at peak productivity. However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. The result? Combatting low adoption rates and data quality.

CRM

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They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver. So forget your old sales playbook, because the ultimate value proposition is an impactful buying experience that guides people to the best possible decision.

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Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate

The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018.

Demand Generation

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Leveraging a data provider to help identify and connect with qualified prospects supports company revenue goals by alleviating common headaches associated with prospecting research and empowers sales productivity. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows. So what’s the problem?

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