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How B2B Companies Will Win The Competition For Growth
The competition for growth is fiercer than ever for B2B companies. To win, marketing, product, and sales leaders need to build a growth engine based on three fundamentals that are also simple, powerful, challenging, and achievable.
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Why Aren’t There More Enablement Help Desks?
What does a help desk, or similar functionality, look like for enablement teams?
Sales Activity Study
Identify productivity roadblocks for your sales reps and start paving the way to greater efficiency.
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Leverage Data In Your Sales Strategy To Win 2023
Attention, sales leaders! In case you missed it, to win in 2023, your reps must leverage digital selling tactics and listen to buyer signals. Today’s buyer is empowered and increasingly reliant on self-discovery through digital experiences. Sales leaders need to adapt fast to win, retain, and grow revenue in this increasingly turbulent market, but the […]
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Navigating The Economic Headwinds Of 2023
The inability to sell in person during the pandemic gave rise to the perception that we needed more meetings and emails — taking away from direct selling time. As we’ve moved past the pandemic, learn what our data is telling us about where sales reps are spending their time now.
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A Sales Performance End-Of-Year Review — Forrester’s SPM Landscape Can Help
Congratulations on making it through another turbulent year! As we toast our glasses to hopes of new opportunities and growth in 2023, it’s important to take some time to review what we’ve learned through the year and adapt to changes that are unfolding into the new year. This was an important year of discovery as […]
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What’s Next For Sales Intelligence Solutions?
(Part two of a two-part series) Sales intelligence, in concept and in practice, has experienced a significant evolution (see part one of this blog series). Today’s sales intelligence providers give insight into buyer behaviors and provide data to salespeople. This helps sales professionals identify, analyze, present, and utilize data to increase win rates for acquisition, […]
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The State Of B2B Sales Intelligence Vendors: What Is It, And Why Should You Care?
(Part one of a two-part series) In the recently published Forrester Landscape report, we define B2B sales intelligence as: Solutions that offer data, insights, and data management services to optimize sales efficiency and effectiveness. Companies use sales intelligence vendors to augment and enhance sales data about markets, accounts, prospects, buying groups, and contacts. Insights delivered […]
Tackle 2023 With Bold Action & Clear Focus
Get our Predictions 2023 Guide to see the 12 big-impact dynamics that leaders will have to navigate in the coming year.
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Role-Based Sales Competency Maps — I Ain’t Got Time For That!
Ugh. I get it. When I was a first-time sales enablement practitioner, just the mention of “competencies” made my eyes glaze over and my attention immediately wane. I believed that competency mapping was a theoretical exercise invented by human resources or learning designers to test my last nerve. I was certain that the exercise would […]
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Sales Leadership, Assemble! At Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA In London, October 11–12
B2B organisations face a range of macroeconomic uncertainties as they head into the second half of 2022 that pose risk to growth and profitability objectives. While you may not have control over these changing conditions, you can determine your own path through them to ensure that you thrive rather than just survive. Forrester’s B2B Summit […]
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The B2B Sales Leader’s Strategy Guide For Economic Downturns
Discover actions you can take now to position your organization for a fast recovery.
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Sales Enablement Technology Decisions Just Got Easier: Introducing The Now Tech Report For 2022
Sales enablement automation (SEA) solutions equip sellers with personalized training and content to effectively engage with and meet the expectations of increasingly digital-first buyers. Over the past decade, these solutions have evolved and empowered B2B revenue teams to: Optimize sales processes. Break down organizational silos. Shorten time-to-competency. Measure the impact of enablement programs. These technologies […]
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Actionable Insights And Metrics That Unlock Channel Sales Growth
Importance Of Channel Sales Metrics Today, actionable insights are the backbone of channel sales organizations. Collecting the right data and transforming it into actionable insights enables channel sales leaders to spot risks, find opportunities for growth, and make smarter decisions. In other words, tracking the right metrics could mean the difference between hitting your channel […]
See Why 2023 Fortune Favors The Bold And Focused
Explore our 2023 Predictions to see where strategies are shifting – and where opportunities for bold moves exist.
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Time For Sellers To Exit The Activity Capture Game
New tools that automate data capture from buyer-seller interactions will unlock a plethora of benefits for sales organizations.
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The Great Sales Content Disconnect
Today, both sellers and buyers are forced to navigate a perfect storm of content, as the average number of interactions per B2B buying cycle has jumped 54% over the past two years and reps have an average of 1,400 sales assets to choose from. While reps now have more tools to leverage than ever before […]
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Sales Leaders Can Improve Sales Productivity By Focusing On Four Wellness Steps
Sales leaders want to continuously improve sales productivity. What many may not realize is that high seller engagement and wellness directly correlate with higher productivity. However, evidence from Forrester’s Q3 2020 US Future Of Work Survey shows that B2B sellers feel fatigued, less engaged, and more frustrated at work compared with other B2B professionals. This […]
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Can You Handle The Truth? Why Popular Myths Are Holding B2B Sales Back
It's time to relinquish outdated beliefs and embrace data and insights.
Throw Out That Old Sales Playbook
Stop relying on a small group of superstar reps to achieve quota. Download this free guide to learn more about the insights driven sales system.
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Why Don’t Sales Leaders Care More About Seller Insights?
Advanced analytics are changing sports as teams collect data that provides insights about the opposing team, its players, and in-game opportunities. These insights only work, however, if the players take advantage of them during the game — in the moment. The three-point shot in the NBA is a great example. Obviously, scoring three points is […]
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Insights Are The Key To Unlocking New Levels Of Sales Productivity
A systematic approach to selling that relies on insights — rather than individual heroics — can help increase sales productivity and ensure all reps achieve quota.
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Three Keys To Effective Coaching To Increase Sales Productivity
Sales leaders should hold their sales managers accountable for providing consistent coaching to reps because it has a significant impact on sales productivity and performance. Sixty-five percent of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more of their time coaching. Today, CEOs and investors prioritize scalable […]
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