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How to Use Games to Build Relationships with Your Customers

Harvard Business

Organizations are still learning how to think about games as media for marketing. Games aren’t typically covered in marketing classes in business schools, and they are often still seen as fundamentally different from other media.

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How to Build Marketing & Sales Skills as a Technical Consultant with Heather Couture: Podcast #211

Consulting Success

If you have zero experience in sales and marketing while running a business, take time to learn it. Heather Couture is the owner and machine learning consultant of Pixel Scientia Labs, and she learned how to sell. Learn why and how she got into AI machine learning.

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How to Overcome Your Imposter Syndrome Fears

Consulting Matters

The fear might be not having what it takes to do the marketing and attract clients or even if they landed clients they wouldn't have the goods to back up whatever promises they made in their marketing. It comes out with all types of logical excuses about money and ethics about marketing. And this fear is sneaky.

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How To Build An Elite Consulting Business With Brian Oulton: Podcast #265

Consulting Success

As a consultant, Brian discusses that you must market some potential clients. Because marketing and sales. How To Build An Elite Consulting Business With Brian Oulton: Podcast #265 is a post from: Consulting Success. In today’s episode, Brian Oulton, a top consulting coach, reveals everything.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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A Great Sales Pitch Hinges on the Right Story

Harvard Business

When you’re working in sales, you need to master the art of persuasion and that involves being able to tell a compelling story that explains why your product or service will meet someone’s needs. The earlier you can learn how to communicate in this way, the faster you will likely grow in your role.

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How to Start a Consulting Business (or Coaching Practice) While Raising Young Kids

Consulting Matters

If you're wondering how to start a consulting business or coaching practice while being a fully present parent, let me show you how it’s not only possible but deeply rewarding. Set Up Marketing, Sales, and Client Delivery for Efficiency Time is your most valuable asset, especially when you’re a parent.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails. The good news?

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Any return to normalcy may seem far-off, but sales and marketing are on the front lines of restarting the economy. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm Up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

64% of successful data-driven marketers say improving data quality is the most challenging obstacle to achieving success. Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The bad news?

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing campaigns.