PowerViews with Jill Konrath: Changing Buyers Require Retooled Sales Reps

My guest today is Jill Konrath. Jill is an internationally recognized expert who is known for her fresh sales strategies and game changing approaches. She is author of SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies. Jill's..

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Posted by Ginger Conlon on Aug 2, 2012 7:33:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment, Guest Blogs

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The Compensation Conundrum

We're pleased to have Ginger Conlon join us as a guest blogger today. Ginger is editor-in-chief of Direct Marketing News. Contact her at ginger.conlon@dmnews.com or @customeralchemy.

Tales of the disconnect between..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jul 31, 2012 7:51:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, B2B Sales

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Sales Leads, Appointments and Granfalloons

Generating sales leads that are actually followed up by sales is a basic business process that is broken in most companies. The reason is that marketing and sales are part of a Granfalloon. Kurt Vonnegut defined a ..

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SiriusDecisions Summit 2012 Recap: Alignment Key to Revenue & Profit Growth

This year's SiriusDecisions Summit was attended by over 1,100 executives and had to be their most successful event yet. While there, I heard that they plan for 1,500 attendees next year. Wow!

Measuring B2B Lead Gen Spend: Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy (3 of 3)

The introductory post in this series addressed the problems and costs of applying the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments. In the second post, we looked at elements of a..

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association, and host of the Funnel Radio Channel. Jim recently..

Why Don’t Companies Want to Talk to Anyone?

It’s truly strange when companies enter the stealth mode. They hide phone numbers, dial-by-name directories, and employee names,..

What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads..

Gold Calling vs. Cold Calling

I've written many blog posts on the fact that cold calling isn't dead. In fact, doing the right amount of research, adding a..

Outbound vs. Inbound: The Risk Management Issue in the Complex Sale

Companies providing complex, high-investment solutions are facing a significant risk management issue in light of Sirius..