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Cold Calling Skills: The 21 Hard and Soft Skills Every SDR Needs
Introduction Most SDR teams do not have a cold calling problem. They have a cold calling skills problem, and the two get treated as the same thing. The channel itself is holding up. B2B cold calling still produces meetings at rates worth planning around: Cognism’s State of Cold Calling report put the industry-average success rate […]
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How to Develop a Successful MarketingAutomation Strategy?
When it comes to marketing automation, the basics are always helpful in creating a successful strategy that can help you get new customers and keep your existing ones happy. To develop such a strategy, it’s imperative to understand what is marketing automation, and how it can be used to optimize your content marketing, social media, […]
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What Is Sales Enablement, and Why Should Sales Managers Care?
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the importance of efficiency and productivity can’t be understated. One sector that has been dramatically affected by this is sales. The rapid evolution of customer expectations and the ever-increasing competition demand a more systematic and optimized approach to sales. This is where sales enablement comes into play. Understanding Sales Enablement […]
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AI in Email Marketing: 7 Best Practices
AI has been part of pop culture since the 1960s, with its first appearance in A Space Odyssey as HAL 9000. From there, we saw its peak in the 1980s with the cult classic movie, The Terminator, and we still resonate with Arnold’s “I will be back” dialogue. Then came the machines in The Matrix […]
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When Should Your B2B Tech Company Outsource Sales?
As the landscape around tech companies continues to shift rapidly, the demand for sustainable solutions to consistently attract high volumes of sales is always on the rise. The obvious solution here is to hire a solid team of qualified sales representatives. But while it may be easy to come up with the idea, going from […]
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How to Jumpstart Your LinkedIn Lead Generation Strategy Despite The Weekly Limitation
LinkedIn has recently put a new limit on connection requests, which went from more than 200 a day to only 100 per week. That has significantly slowed down the lead generation process for many businesses and put them in trouble. If that’s something you’re struggling with at the moment, you have to stop playing the […]
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A Tale of Two Tech Sectors: Why Submarkets Matters When Defining Your Sales Cycle
As the majority of B2B buyers rejoice in the normalization of remote selling, businesses around the world have been working diligently to meet the demands of the new environment. Before it was mainstream, we at Martal Group had been helping companies generate leads virtually with sales representatives trained in the art of long-distance prospecting. The […]
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A Guide to Objection Handling in B2B Sales
For a sales executive, there always comes a time when a prospect is hesitant about your solution. The prospect may genuinely have a problem, or they may be coming up with excuses to avoid expressing disinterest. In these situations, one must know exactly what to say, and most importantly, how to say it. As always, […]
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Intent Data: Why We Use It and Why You Should Too
There has been a recent development in the B2B Sales world that has redefined the way in which sales departments target their prospects. Buyers Intent data has only recently emerged, but in the short time that it’s been in use it has shifted the paradigm of the sales pipeline. Using this data, companies have been […]
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Outbound Sales and Lead Generation: Successful Strategies for 2023
Is outbound outdated? As long as you have sales to make, you will have leads to generate. If those leads aren’t coming to you, then you have to go to them. And why wouldn’t you? Outbound lead generation is one of the fastest ways to accelerate your company’s growth. But outbound sales is also often […]