Sales and Marketing Management
Explore the latest material on sales and marketing management. In this category, you can find topics related to sales and marketing alignment, effective lead generation, sales content optimization, go-to-market and product launch plans, sales and marketing operations, and more. So if you want to drive true sales and marketing harmony, you’re in the right place.
        
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            The Top 5 Strategies to Drive Sales Productivity        
                
            With these 5 steps, you'll have the building blocks you need to support sellers and continually discover new opportunities to optimize sales productivity.        
        
        
        
        
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            New Year and New Opportunities to Provide Better Sales Onboarding        
                
            How can you make the most of every chance to improve the sales productivity of your reps? Here are five important opportunities to keep top-of-mind.        
        
        
        
        
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            How to Define and Measure Sales Effectiveness        
                
            It can be difficult to assess your sales team's efforts. Follow this guide to define, measure, and improve sales effectiveness to help sales reps succeed.        
        
        
        
        
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            How to Create Marketing Content That Sales Will Love        
                
            How can you ensure that your sales team will use your marketing content? Discover 5 tips to create content that your sales team will not only use, but love.        
        
        
        
        
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            The Evolution of Sales Readiness—from Classroom to Training-in-Context        
                
            Discover how sales readiness has become a must-have for every sales organization's onboarding, sales communication, and sales training processes.        
        
        
        
        
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            Guided Selling Best Practices to Close More Sales        
                
            With these best practices, you'll better understand what makes up effective guided selling that helps sales reps move buyers toward purchase decisions.        
        
        
        
        
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            4 Steps to Sales Pitches That Engage Your Buyers        
                
            A marketer shares 4 tips (and a sales pitch template!) to help you build pitches that your sales team will use. Are you following these best practices?        
        
        
        
        
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            The Relationship Between Winning Sellers and Content        
                
            With these strategies, you'll learn how to effectively use core sales content to empower your sales reps with content management via sales enablement.        
        
        
        
        
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            3 Reasons Why Sales Enablement Matters to Marketers        
                
            Sales enablement answers the questions that marketers have about content performance. See what life looks like for marketers empowered by sales enablement.        
        
        
        
        
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            4 Best Practices That Will Turn Your Sales Playbook into Sales Action        
                
            DSG and Highspot recently surveyed 74 organizations to discover the best practices for sales playbooks. Read about four key findings from the research.        
        
        
        
        
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            7 Essential Elements of a Winning Sales Playbook Template        
                
            Use this sales playbook template to create a modern playbook that will keep reps focused and on-message across different selling scenarios.        
        
        
        
        
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            Breakthrough Marketers Know Best: Why Highspot Took Home Two Awards        
                
            Learn why Highspot won two MarTech Breakthrough Awards for Best Overall Sales Enablement Software Solution and Best Content Performance Management Solution.        
        
        
        
        
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            Account-Based Marketing in the Age of Authenticity        
                
            Find out why authenticity matters in account-based marketing and how to implement it in ABM strategies in this recap of the #FlipMyFunnel conference.        
        
        
        
        
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            REEL Sales Enablement with Phill Sundal at DiscoverOrg        
                
            Phill Sundal of DiscoverOrg outlines the successes and failures he encountered as he worked to bring sales and marketing into alignment at his company.        
        
        
        
        
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            REEL Sales Enablement with Jason Bailey at Fiserv        
                
            Jason Bailey shares advice on how to measure sales performance, choose the right sales enablement vendor, and drive 85% adoption as he did at Fiserv.        
        
        
        
        
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            Why Content Personalization Is Not One-Size-Fits-All        
                
            Content personalization can be accomplished with a number of different approaches. Find out where you land on the "Sales Content Personalization Continuum."        
        
        
        
        
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            Opportunities for AI in Your Sales Tech Stack        
                
            Sales AI can give your team the productivity boost it needs to succeed. Follow these 6 tips to begin using AI to streamline your sales processes.        
        
        
        
        
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            The Secrets to Creating Winning Sellers        
                
            What are the traits that make up winning sellers? Let's take a look at their anatomy and the steps that leaders can take to nurture more successful reps.        
        
        
        
        
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            Four Steps to Successful Change Management        
                
            Stay competitive in the ever-changing sales landscape with effective change management. Follow these 4 key steps to execute change within your organization.        
        
        
        
        
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            REEL Sales Enablement with Erin Osman at Dun & Bradstreet        
                
            Erin Osman recounts how she streamlined Dun & Bradstreet's sales enablement strategy and shares advice on how to implement a holistic sales enablement plan.        
        
        
        
        
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            Why Forced Learning is Ineffective for Sales        
                
            Choosing the wrong sales training methods can hinder sellers' success. Learn about the top training tactics to avoid — and discover six tips to try instead.        
        
        
        
        
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            6 Tips to Tune-Up Your Sales Team’s Productivity        
                
            Sales productivity = profit. Follow these six steps to identify areas of improvement and opportunities to achieve greater productivity on your sales team.        
        
        
        
        
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            REEL Sales Enablement Interview with Joe Andrews at InsideView        
                
            A VP of Marketing reveals his top sales enablement advice and shares what he learned from directing successful sales enablement efforts at InsideView.        
        
        
        
        
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            The Framework for a Solid Sales Playbook        
                
            The sales playbook has evolved. Prepare your sales team to provide personalized responses to prospective buyers at a moment's notice with these five steps.        
        
        
        
        
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