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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. One of the questions I used to ask in any recruiting meeting for a senior hire or even a junior sales rep is as follows: “When you run sales campaigns do you prefer to .

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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Account-Based Marketing vs. Lead Generation: Which is Right for You?

ConversionXL

To pull this off, they wouldn’t run a hit-and-hope campaign to target a ton of brands like T-Mobile and pray they’d notice. You can run lead generation campaigns while simultaneously using ABM to win or expand important deals. There are other factors involved in making your decision, such as: The complexity of the buying cycle.

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

A recent survey by CEB reported that 57 percent of the typical business-to-business sales cycle is complete before the buyer’s first contact with vendors. By delivering a new story centered on the concept of “modern malware risk,” the company re-launched with an integrated campaign themed around “Modern Malware Exposed.”

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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. . Include strategic call-to-actions on your campaigns (e.g.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

For YouTube pre-roll ads, Google recommends segmenting video ad campaigns into three phases: Tease. A successful campaign needs to break video messaging into chunks that can capture busy top-of-funnel scrollers (short videos) and more engaged middle- and bottom-of-funnel viewers (longer videos). A 6-second video to “seed the idea.”

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