Martech: Sales
The latest news on CRM platforms and trends in account-based marketing, with insights on lead generation, lead scoring and related sales topics.
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Salesforce will acquire Salesforce.org for $300 million
The deal could drastically redefine the relationship between Salesforce and its nonprofit...
Compare 12 leading call analytics platform vendors
The flood of mobile calls to U.S. businesses continues unabated, changing the way enterprise brands view the telephone as an inbound marketing...
4 ways marketing can help turbocharge growing sales development teams
Break down the sales and marketing team silos by sharing data sources, productive use cases and leveraging content...
LinkedIn adds custom list sharing, Salesforce tie-in to Sales Navigator
LinkedIn will now let sales reps share the lead and account lists they create with team...
InsideSales’ new study: AI is ‘becoming a way of life’ for sales
Nearly three-quarters of surveyed sales pros in the U.S. are now using some kind of AI at work, twice the rate of last year’s...
3 things sales leaders should know about ABM measurement
As a sales leader, you might think account-based marketing (ABM) isn’t for you. After all, it has the word marketing in the name. But the...
Marketing tools can be leveraged by sales teams, here’s how
Webinars, media coverage and video are marketing tactics that can be invaluable for...
All the ABM metrics to measure for your quarterly reporting
You know the drill. The end of the quarter rolls around, so you dust off your go-to spreadsheets and dashboards. It’s once again time to...
LinkedIn Sales Navigator gets new engagement alerts, Custom Lists, more mobile search features
LinkedIn says the Q4 product release for the sales management platform is the biggest to date....
Sales and marketing: Decision makers say you’re sending mixed messages
A LinkedIn study says that the silos between sales and marketing -- and the use of different data tools between them -- can leave a gap in...
From funnel to flywheel
If you’re like most marketers, you could name the basic parts of the sales funnel in your sleep: Awareness, Interest, Evaluation, Decision,...
How to use data to power target account selection
According to SiriusDecisions, a full 91% of B2B teams that are doing account-based marketing (ABM) see larger deal sizes from their target...
With 600 vendors, sales tech landscape is 1/10 the size of martech — and still overwhelming
Smart Selling Tools founder Nancy Nardin offered an overview of the sales tech landscape during her presentation at the MarTech Conference in...
Salesforce adds process improvements to Sales Cloud, Einstein AI to Pardot
The enhancements are intended to improve sales flows and marketing...
LinkedIn’s latest Sales Navigator updates come with ‘Deals’ feature & Office 365 integration
After releasing a redesign in February, LinkedIn has added more features and integrations to its sales prospecting tool....
Marketing analytics platform CaliberMind launches ABM Converter
The new offering lets marketers convert their current platforms to account-based marketing, at what CaliberMind says is a fraction of the time...
Join SiriusDecisions and Openprise for ‘Key Marketing Ops Capabilities to Boost Revenue’
While many marketing and sales teams have adopted new methodologies like the SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall, very often those teams’...
Show and tell: Showpad brings AR features to B2B sales
The company says the technology changes the dynamic of the sales conversation by going 'beyond the Powerpoint.'...
Brainshark launches AI-powered analysis of sales reps’ self-assessment videos
The automated analysis of word choice, presentation complexity, emotions and personality complements the feedback by human supervisors....
6 ways ABM turns classical lead scoring on its head
Don’t be afraid to break the “rules” to drive the results you need, argues contributor John Steinert....