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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

One of the questions I’m most often asked by CEOs is how to hire sales people. I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. Call high, and get passed down or; B. ” Whatever this issue is.

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Streamline Your Sales Process With These Five Proven Techniques

YoungUpstarts

All of these problems can often be traced back to an ineffective sales approach. Here are five techniques to nail your ad campaign, streamline your sales process, and achieve sustainable sales growth: 1. Sit down with your team and take a close objective look on your sales process. Be Value-Oriented.

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10 Reasons Why Your Marketing Plans Don’t Work

Up and Running

Gathering your team to plot out your next marketing campaign can seem daunting, especially for a new business. If you aren’t strategic and thoughtful about how you spend your money, you’re more likely to waste your money on campaigns and tactics that don’t work. . Don’t do something just because it seems like you should.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Hiring & Firing the CEO. As things got bigger we hired a head of European sales and a head of European marketing. In your case this might simply be a VP of Sales or Customer Support for multiple locations. Selling the company.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

The role of a demand generation manager (DGM) is to manage the team and the campaigns that create awareness and interest. Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Overall, the bar is extremely low when it comes to cold email – most practitioners dip the scale way too far toward quantity over quality, and their campaigns rarely produce results. I used to think that until our cold campaigns started landing meetings and closed business with Fortune 500s for mid-five figure deals. Click rates.