Featured B2B Marketing Insights & Tips
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Why Losing Your Sales Team's Confidence Is Dangerous
Having salespeople that are confident in what they're selling can certainly help close deals. But as this case study shows, things can get ugly if that confidence isn't there.
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B2B Marketers Shouldn't Support Sales?
Sales support shouldn't be about taking marching orders, doing the grunt work, or just blindly executing whatever tactics sales comes up with to "save the quarter." No, there's a much better way to look at it...
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Most Sales Teams Are Throwing Good Leads Away!
Dan McDade, author of "The Truth About Leads", reveals that for every 10 pursued leads in a quarter, sales teams are trashing 20 leads that would be viable in the near future.
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Questions from the Community
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Once I understand the untapped potential in each account, what can I do with the information?
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Why would a marketing team focus on profits? If the sales team is focused on revenues, wouldn’t it be best to align with that?
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Are marketing automation tools really all that? What can and can’t they do, really?
Recommended Tools & Diagnostics
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The Multiple Dimensions of Value Chart
Use this chart of potential value-drivers along multiple dimensions to aid your initial brainstorming around how your offerings deliver value to your customers.
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The Marketing Research Analysis Guide
The Marketing Research Analysis Guide will help you interrogate your marketing research findings to gain strategic insights and identify opportunities for truly meaningful action.
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Finding Margin Leaks in Your Sales Processes
It’s important to realize that every sale is the result of a process. This diagnostic examines how to improve sales results by identifying root causes and areas for improvement in your sales processes.
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Recommended Case Studies
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Popular Expert Interviews
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Lowering the Cost of Customer Churn in B2B
It's not uncommon for 30-50% of a company's customer base to be in some stage of defection. We spoke with Javier Aldrete and learned the new approaches companies are using to recover the revenue they're losing to customer defection and churn.
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Price Segmentation
In this expert interview, Barrett Thompson provides insight into the common problems and pitfalls to avoid when developing price segmentation models in B2B environments.
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Predicting the Future of B2B Marketing
What if you could talk to the top thought leaders in B2B marketing and get their predictions about where B2B marketing is headed in the future? Paul Salvaggio of Backbone Media did just that. And in this expert interview, Paul reveals what he learned.
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Popular Express Guides & Research
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Seven Building Blocks of Sales Effectiveness
It can be challenging to know where to focus your attention and resources. This guide provides a framework of the seven areas where improvements have the most impact on close rates, cycle times, deal sizes, and margins.
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Avoiding Five Margin-Killing MarCom Mistakes
How to identify and avoid five marketing communication mistakes that can damage your value before the sales rep even talks to the prospect.
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How to Prevent Customer Defection
In this SellingBrew research report, learn how leading B2B companies are protecting their future revenues and profits with innovations in customer retention and defection detection.
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