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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

Sales development is a nuanced blend of art and science, requiring a delicate balance for its effective implementation within a company. Drawing from substantial experience, Sally Duby from The Bridge Group provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of sales development. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

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Sales and Marketing Misalignment Is Costly—But Avoidable

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing misalignment reduces revenue, lowers the quality of customer service, and can even dampen company culture. According to The B2B Lead , sales reps spend about 50% of their time prospecting unproductive deals—while missing 80% of the most qualified leads. Of course, it isn’t just your sales team that suffers.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: The Main Difference

The Startup Magazine

This is why: At different stages of the B2B sales funnel, demand generation and lead generation activities take place. Demand generation, which includes lead creation, is a step higher in the sales funnel. So, if you’re not getting enough SQL leads, it could suggest you’re having trouble building demand.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Analytical capability: Possessing Excel or SQL skills to extract data and gather insights on experiments to make better decisions. Image source.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

He's a former VP of sales at HubSpot, and currently specializes in helping companies grow by implementing sales and marketing excellence. I was the first person to go from individual contributor sales rep to manager, director, and MVP. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Peter Caputa. He's the CEO of Databox.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

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