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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. I’ve seen first-hand the growth in the B2B sales industry.

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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

You are a “digital native” with a strong interest in new technology and have hands-on proficiency with many online tools for managing social media interactions, event production, and project management. You have 2-4 years of professional experience in marketing, social media, event coordination, or business operations.

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Using Video at Every Stage of The Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

Ben is a co-founder and executive producer of Storyboard Media, a B2B marketing, and video production firm in North Carolina. More About Ben Oliver: You can learn more about Ben’s company: Storyboard Media. More About Ben Oliver: * You can learn more about Ben’s company: Storyboard Media.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Look at some typical B2B marketing KPIs: Number of leads generated. It starts with sales enablement.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience.

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Twitter Link Roundup #158 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link].