Mike Belden

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Quelles Astuces Pour Une Stratégie De Content Marketing Réussie ?

Mike Belden 12 May 2020
Les meilleurs créateurs de contenu utilisent 5 astuces pour gérer, créer et déployer des contenus pertinents et de qualité. Découvrez nos conseils d'experts.
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Five Keys to Successful Content Operations

Mike Belden May 12, 2020
  • Every function in the B2B revenue engine must overcome operational challenges related to content
  • Few organizations have achieved an advanced maturity level in developing and managing content
  • An organization’s roadmap to content operations excellence should contain action items in five key areas
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New Sales Operations Sunburst Model Debuts at Summit

Mike Belden May 7, 2020
  • Steve Silver of Forrester introduced the latest version of the SiriusDecisions Sales Operations Sunburst at Summit 2020
  • The Sales Operations Sunburst Model defines the core responsibilities of sales operations
  • The new version of the model provides a detailed breakdown of six key accountabilities
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Summit 2019 Highlights: Customer Retention – A Sirius Methodology for Growth

Mike Belden May 7, 2019
  • In their keynote session at Summit 2019, Lisa Nakano and Amy Bills provided insights into the typical causes of customer retention issues and how organizations can remedy them
  • If there is no team or individuals whose primary mission includes customer retention – and no one gets paid less if customer churn rises – the focus just won’t be there
  • Customer retention improvement efforts can be ramped up using a pilot program as part of a step-wise, continually improving approach
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Is Your Sales Asset Management Solution Delivering the Productivity Benefits You Expected?

Mike Belden May 1, 2019
  • Many organizations that implement sales asset management (SAM) technology achieve some level of benefits, but over one-third still cite content findability as a top challenge
  • To maximize the benefits of SAM technology, sales enablement practitioners need a realistic understanding of how reps spend their time and prefer to engage technology
  • Sales asset creation and curation must align to specific selling motions and be informed by the behavior and preferences of top-performing reps as they interact with buyers
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Aligning Sales and Marketing Planning: Three Key Phases

Mike Belden May 15, 2018
  • At Summit 2018 in Las Vegas, Steve Silver and Craig Moore of SiriusDecisions introduced a new model that helps organizations align their sales and marketing planning processes
  • Failing to align sales and marketing during the planning process results in disconnects during execution
  • Sales and marketing leaders must agree on points of intersection during the planning process and participate in joint planning sessions as a checkpoint
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Guest Speaker Platon Inspires Summit 2018 Audience of B2B Leaders

Mike Belden May 10, 2018
  • The British photographer and philanthropist Platon, celebrated for his portraits of world leaders and celebrities, spoke to the Summit 2018 audience in Las Vegas
  • As Platon showed his award-winning photographs and told stories about his interactions with his subjects, he also spoke eloquently about what makes a good leader
  • Platon urged the B2B leaders attending Summit to uphold the leadership values of courage, empathy and respectful debate
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Channel Partner Segmentation: Identifying Emerging Superstars

Mike Belden May 19, 2017
  • Just because a partner was a strong performer in the past, does that mean it will continue to produce at that level in the future?
  • How can suppliers identify emerging superstar partners that may be sitting in the bottom 80 percent, just waiting for some attention?
  • The Channel Partner Segmentation Model provides a structured, objective methodology for assessing partners
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Accelerating the B2B Revenue Engine

Mike Belden May 17, 2017
  • By understanding the factors that drive revenue, B2B leaders can make better decisions about which actions and investments to prioritize
  • Top-ranked revenue drivers include factors owned by sales, marketing and product as well as external market conditions
  • The categories of revenue engine performance include growth rate, productivity and efficiency