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Sales and marketing - HBR - Harvard Business Review
Sales and marketing Magazine Article Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins, and Ryan Reynolds A guide to creating fastvertising—quick response ads that go viral.
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What Salespeople Need from Leaders—at Each Stage of Their Careers
Leading a high-performing sales team requires a personalized talent management approach. Salespeople’s needs evolve throughout their careers, and while sales managers often focus on competencies ...
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Companies Are Using AI to Make Faster Decisions in Sales and Marketing
In today’s dynamic business environment, decision-making in sales and marketing is shifting from reflective to reflexive, leveraging real-time data and AI to enable immediate, context-aware ...
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How CEOs Make or Break Sales - Harvard Business Review
A conversation with INSEAD professor Christoph Senn on what to do if your CEO is either overly involved—or not involved enough—in deals.
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A Great Sales Pitch Hinges on the Right Story
The story the sales team told focused entirely on why a better shelf space would benefit the company and their customers. It focused on what they believed set their product apart, but did little ...
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Can AI Assistants Add Value to Your Sales Team?
AI assistants are transforming sales by acting as digital coaches, analysts, and advisors to salespeople. They analyze sales pitches and provide personalized feedback, helping salespeople refine ...
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How Sales Teams Can Use Gen AI to Discover What Clients Need
In the face of decreasing access to buyers, sales organizations often increase the volume of their sales outreach, hoping that more times at bat will result in more hits. While this can produce ...
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How Successful Sales Teams Are Embracing Agentic AI
Agentic AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling autonomous personal agents to work alongside human sales reps, identifying, nurturing, and closing deals across channels. This technology not only ...
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5 Gen AI Myths Holding Sales and Marketing Teams Back
New and disruptive technologies often generate both excitement and anxiety, and generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is no exception. In marketing and sales, the buzz around gen AI is ...
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Avoid These 3 Pitfalls When Giving a Sales Presentation
A study examined the habits of almost 5,000 sales professionals whose livelihoods depend on their ability to build and deliver persuasive presentations. The findings revealed 12 common mistakes ...