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4 Steps for Customer Experience Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Irina Jakovleva Building a business cemented in the customer experience is table stakes in today’s connected economy for both B2B and B2C organizations. In fact, a recent report from Gartner found that 89 percent of marketers expect that customer experience will be their primary differentiator in 2017.

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Ninivaggi Many companies have their annual sales kickoff (SKO) meetings approaching. It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Secret 3: Set the agenda early.

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. While most of this information is vital for customer-facing representatives of your company, it tends to be shared “inside-out” through the lens of how you, the vendor, see the world.

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5 Trends That Will Transform Meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff Benchmark, a global hospitality management company, pinpointed five trends that will transform meetings in 2020. This is having a transformative influence on how we approach the group meeting experience in 2020 and beyond.”. Planners and properties are curating these experiences for individual and group enrichment.

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Too Long.Too Boring.Too Many Distractions

Sales and Marketing Management

The perfect agenda, content and presenters are meaningless without the ability to connect (and stay connected) with no technical problems. Craft the Agenda — Then Slash It in Half. Initially, we drafted an agenda that looked like a traditional in-person event. Here’s how we did it. and “Do I want to commit the time to join?”

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Imprisoned by PowerPoint: A Foolproof Escape Plan in Five Steps

Sales and Marketing Management

Replacing the venerable Microsoft product with multi-page memos may or may not be a future-proof strategy, but it’s now the law at Seattle’s largest company. Until your company becomes as enlightened as Amazon—and forces you to read the memo—chances are you will still be imprisoned by PowerPoint presentations. Or your audience’s?

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8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018

Sales and Marketing Management

Donning the analyst hat I wore in my previous role – and also pulling from experiences I have with our sales team and customers every day – here are my sales enablement and readiness predictions for 2018: 1. Much of that expertise exists in the field, though – so why hire a company to teach what your salespeople already know?

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