Four Dangerous Signs That You Will Miss Your Sales Targets This Year
With a growth of 10.8 %, the year 2010 looked optimistic for the German media market, compared with 2008 and 2009. The improvement included online marketing, free magazines and trade journals, amongst others. Everyone was betting on an active recovery for the key market players.
However, on January 18, 2011, the second biggest European print service providers, Schlott Gruppe AG from Germany, opened insolvency proceedings.
How to use Big Data to stop customer churn in B2B | Predicting Customer Churn
Sales leaders in business-to-business (B2B) organisations are under constant pressure to spot new business opportunities.
It is, however, a too often neglected fact, that some of their current customers will churn and recurring revenues will not return.
Besides attracting new customers, succesful B2B firms also direct their efforts into retaining existing ones.
How to Master Your New Sales Management Job in the First 90 Days
90-day plan for a new B2B Sales Manager.
The first 90 days as a sales manager represents a critical period. It is your chance to make a good lasting impression and to change the status-quo in B2B sales teams.
Your team will be concerned, and you will be under stress. In this article, we want to share with you some ideas to successfully overcome this defining first quarter. We also want to show you how our predictive sales tools can help you.
Four Machine Learning Applications Your B2B Sales Teams Might Be Using Today
Real life machine learning examples for B2B sales
Without any doubt, in the coming years, progress in machine learning, artificial intelligence and sales automation, will replace many of the time-consuming tasks of B2B salespeople. Your sales team is probably already using machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in sales does not mean that Terminator is applying for a sales job, no. It mainly means machine learning. Machine Learning (ML) is a part of what researchers call “narrow” or “weak” artificial intelligence. Neither “weak” or “narrow” sound much of a fighting robot. Weak AI uses software to solve specific problems better than humans.
What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape
“What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape” is a terrific article published in 2015 in the Harvard Business Review (HBR).
HBR released it in the background of a peaked interest in analytics and big data. It discussed how these new technologies would change the B2B sales profession.
How to end the war between sales and controlling
Why Controlling and Sales cannot be friends?
Conflict is unavoidable, even necessary in business. “For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” - writes Margaret Heffernan, an internationally renowned author, businesswoman, interviewer, and TED speaker.
Conflict will arise in any company, regardless of whether sales controlling and key account management belong or not to the same structure or share the same culture. Conflict is natural - even required. At the same time, predictive analytics is gaining in importance to avoid disputes in and with sales.
Predictive Analytics in B2B E-commerce: A customer acquisition example
As "Business Manager E-commerce" I work daily with new trends and strategies to improve and optimise the buying experience of our B2B customers.
There is one trend that Business Managers cannot avoid in E-Commerce these days: the systematic use of data to optimise product and sales strategies.
Predictive Sales Analytics Software | Qymatix Predictive Sales New Release
With the valuable input from partners and customers, Qymatix has released an improved version of its predictive sales analytics product.
The new version of the SaaS brings together extensive research in the field of predictive sales analytics and front-end usability. Sales leaders in Business-to-Business will benefit with an easy-to-use and easy to understand self-service predictive sales analytics software. Users do not need their IT department to perform advanced sales analytics and will no longer suffer “spreadsheet misery” during sales reporting.
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