Category Archives: Sales Tools

The Agency Post:Your Marketing Budget is Cut. Now What? 3 Ways to Do More With Less

It’s become the new normal in business: do more with less. And for B2B marketers, it is more than a catch phrase — it is reality. Recent surveys of large corporate marketing departments yield the following common challenges: – Imperatives … Continue reading

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Should Sales Training Be the Responsibility of Marketing?

Did you know that the average sales call lasts approximately 1.5 minutes? And a first impression is formed in the first 7 seconds? Average Talk Time/Call = 1.5 minutes. Average Cold Call Prep Time = 3 minutes. Average First Impression = 7 … Continue reading

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3D Product Visualization and Interactivity Ignites B2B Product Sales Training

Learning by doing has long been considered one of the best ways to retain information, and new visual interactive applications are providing an amazing opportunity for businesses to provide more compelling and memorable experiences. The debate regarding precise statistics, citations, … Continue reading

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4 Tips for Creating A Killer Product Presentation for Your Sales Team

According to a recent survey by the CMO Council, sales thinks presentations created by marketing are less than useful, with salespeople spending approximately 40% of their time preparing customer-facing deliverables while leveraging less than 50% of the materials created by marketing. … Continue reading

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CASE STUDY: Juniper Cuts Product Demo Costs from $100 to $2.33 Per Minute

Enterprise IT sales are finally starting to show some positive growth, as companies emerging from the down economy are once again starting to look at tools to help improve efficiencies and expand their reach more cost effectively. In this case … Continue reading

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Tablet Takeover? Evaluating Nexus 7 for Business

Tablets are undoubtedly one of the hottest sales and marketing device trends of the year, and (at the moment) the iPad reigns supreme for enterprise use. At the beginning of 2012, 1,604 purchasers of hardware for corporate enterprises were surveyed … Continue reading

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How iPads Revolutionize Medical Device Marketing

How iPads Revolutionize Medical Device Marketing Have you ever tried to present a complex medical device at a moment’s notice? If so, you’ll know how difficult it is to communicate complex product differentiators, workflow and processes without a visual aid. … Continue reading

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The Blurry Line Between Marketing and Sales Enablement

When was the last time your sales team applauded when your marketing team delivered materials or content for them to use? If this is not happening frequently enough (or at all) then perhaps we should consider the reasons. I recently … Continue reading

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Cisco Blog: Kaon 3D Data Center Models Will Help Shorten Your Sales Cycles

Kaon 3D Data Center Models Will Help Shorten Your Sales Cycles Cisco Channels Blog–June 28th, 2012 Imagine you’re at a lunch meeting with prospective customers and they begin to ask you questions about the Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch. Wouldn’t it be … Continue reading

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Marketers Are Driving Sales Enablement Tools, at the Request of CEOs

Sales enablement has become a very hot topic this year. So much so that in March 2012 Forrester Research held a Technology Sales Enablement Forum: Bridging The Strategy-To-Execution Gap, in San Francisco. Forrester touts that to produce sales growth, sales departments … Continue reading

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B2B Marketers Top 3 Problems

I’ve been fortunate to attend (and be an invited speaker at) several industry conferences and events this year, and it seems to me that there are some interesting threads that have emerged. In speaking with marketing executives from a wide … Continue reading

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Kaon Selected as a 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist

Interactive 3D Product App for iPad Finalist in “Best Mobile App” Category Kaon Interactive, the leader in 3D interactive product marketing, announced today that its Kaon 3D Product App™ has been selected as a finalist in the “Best Mobile App” … Continue reading

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Mobile Marketing Myths

Josh Clark, the founder of design consulting firm Global Moxie, recently shared his “Seven Deadly Mobile Myths” with MobiHealthNews.com, debunking commonly held opinions about the melding of business and mobility. While he was discussing mobility within the healthcare field, the … Continue reading

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Marketers Make Manufacturing Products Sexy

Thanks to programs like Science Channel’s How It’s Made and Discovery Channel’s HowStuffWorks, there’s a new appreciation for the machinery that makes everything from the food we eat to the mattresses on which we sleep. This high-profile introduction into the … Continue reading

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Can You Manage Your Stuck Deals – Part 1

Do you have opportunities in your sales pipeline that aren’t moving? Are these opportunities stalled or stuck? There is a long list of reasons why an opportunity might not be moving. Here are of some of the reasons that opportunities stall and … Continue reading

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