The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

We've come to another Friday, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. The Ultimate Guide to Sales Qualification — HubSpot

This guide will walk you through the fundamentals of qualification, five different frameworks you can use, and provide pointers on disqualification and conversational tip-offs to listen for during your sales conversations.

Here we are at the end of another week, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Are You a Data-Driven Leader? — Optimizely

What do you base your decisions on, as a leader? Opinions or facts? This post provides a quiz to help you determine if you need to use more data in your decision-making process.

Content marketing is already strategic when it's “relevant and consistent" and designed to "attract and retain a clearly-defined audience.” Content marketing has the goal of building relationships and impacting the decisions people make about you.

Content marketing is focused on your target persona. Content strategy looks more at managing the lifecycle of the actual content. Strategy helps you increase your impact and reduce your workload.

We've come to another Friday, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. How to Find Your Brand's Disruptive Opportunity — Moz

If you're looking to set yourself apart in a competitive market, you need to find your "disruptive opportunity". Finding your brand’s disruptive opportunity means you’re not competing in the same sandbox as everyone else, which means your chances of dominating the category are much, much higher. This post digs into how to find your own opportunity.

Happy Friday! Here we are at the end of another week, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Practice for Tough Situations as You’d Practice a Sport — HBR

Preparation is one of the most obvious yet most misunderstood aspects of learning soft skills. Imagine you’re heading off to lead a meeting, make an important pitch for your company, or have a difficult conversation. It’s obvious in these situations that you want to prepare yourself for what you’re going to do or say. But what we often miss when learning soft skills is preparing to manage ourselves—especially when we start to feel the stress and pressure of the real-life situation. This article explains that to learn soft skills in a way that truly prepares us for what we’ll face when it really matters, we can take a few lessons from a different arena where learning, development, and performance are essential: professional sports.

Hope you've had a great week! It's Friday, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. 9 Simple Sales Enablement Tips to Implement Now — SBI

What is sales enablement really? It’s about getting the right content into the hands of the right reps. It’s about getting it to them at the right time, through the right channel. It's empowering your salespeople to do their jobs better and get better results. This article offers nine tips you can iimplement today.

It's Friday, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Why Your Sales Team Needs to Sit Next to Marketing — Salesforce

Sales and Marketing serve a shared purpose: to identify, attract, and close business for the company. But far too often, these teams find themselves acting out a typical “Dilbert” comic script of blame and frustration during slow sales cycles. Fortunately, it’s possible to bring these two groups to the same table to work off of the same script and dramatically improve performance across almost every worthwhile metric. Here's how.

We are very excited to announce that LeadG2, The Center for Sales Strategy's inbound marketing division, has acquired Vitberg, LLC, a HubSpot Gold Partner. Vitberg, LLC specializes in serving the professional services industry, and they're bringing valuable expertise to LeadG2. Here is the official press release.

This acquisition is going to help us serve our current clients better and help expand our services as well. Traditionally, LeadG2 has been known as the expert in lead generation for the media industry, but with the addition of Vitberg, LLC we will be able to focus on a new industry—professional services.

Our knowledge and work on developing the 7 Step Lead Generation process can be modified and applied to professional services marketing, and we are excited to bring this expertise to a new industry.

Here we are at the end of another week (Where did it go??), and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. 7 Powerful Persuasion Techniques to Use In Your Next Sales Email — HubSpot

The sales email is a special breed of writing. You only have a very small window of opportunity to capture your reader’s attention and convince them to move one step closer toward a purchase. Use these writing techniques to ensure your emails have the best chance of success.