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7 Skills You’ll Need in Marketing for 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

One reason for this: marketing doesn’t speak the language of business and isn’t aligned with the goals of the rest of the organization. . Modern marketers test their assumptions and optimize their campaigns. Make 2021 the year that you build an infrastructure that allows you to run more tests and run them more often. .

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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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Why Traditional Marketing Is Broken (and 5 Ways to Fix It)

Sales and Marketing Management

We sit in endless meetings, debating annual plans – or worse, a three-year strategy – without feedback from the market or the rest of the organization. The traditional marketing organization is broken. The result is poor execution and an inability to communicate marketing’s value to the rest of the organization. .

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Is Your Company Failing Enough Times to Succeed?

Sales and Marketing Management

And failed tests aren’t efforts to be circumvented but embraced, as they ultimately enable curiosity, development, and growth by allowing a company to take risks, drive deeper thinking, and outmaneuver the competition. Why a Company Culture Built Around Tested Failure Succeeds. How to Develop a Culture of Tested Failure.

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COVID-19 Has Changed Everything About Selling. Here’s How We’re Handling It

Sales and Marketing Management

While no operator’s manual exists to handle an emergency as unique as this one, I think I’ve come away with at least some rough guidelines that could be helpful to other sales organizations, whether for managing the current crisis or the next one. . Life was good for sales organizations before COVID-19. Offer value in a crisis.

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Why Your Own Business Should Be Your Next Client

Sales and Marketing Management

It breaks through the corporate silos and works fluidly together with customers and people from different parts of the organization in order to form a balanced view of both business and customer needs. The process can be applied to businesses of all sizes, shapes and goals.

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Bringing Sales Online

Sales and Marketing Management

If this sounds like you, read this cautionary tale about how one iconic “boots-on-the-ground” company rose and fell, but can still move toward digital transformation without having to compromise its beliefs or fundamentally rethink its brand. Over the next 50 years, the Tupperware party became a ubiquitous concept synonymous with the brand.

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