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The sales climate has grown more complex as buyer expectations escalate. Sales organizations need new processes, approaches, and skill sets — while facing the ever-present pressure to make the number. Explore our insights from former sales leaders for building buyer-centric strategies, streamlining processes, and gaining efficiencies.
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What’s Lurking In Your Sales Culture?
Toxicity lives on in some sales cultures — and where it does, it impedes growth and success. Learn what’s needed to overcome it in this B2B Summit North America session preview.
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Announcing Forrester’s B2B Program Of The Year Award Winners For North America
Get ready to be inspired by these best-practice program implementations across B2B marketing, sales, and product. We reveal which eight companies will be honored at B2B Summit North America in May.
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Announcing The Winners Of Forrester’s Coveted B2B Return On Integration Honors For North America
These three companies have transformed their businesses to maximize customer value and relentlessly drive internal alignment. Get a preview of the success stories they will share at B2B Summit North America in May.
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Your Time To Shine: B2B Summit EMEA Award Submissions Are Open
EMEA B2B companies: If you have a cross-functional alignment success story or have achieved exceptional results within a single function, we want to hear from you. Learn more about Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA Awards.
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B2B Summit North America 2024: Your Ticket To Turning Disruption Into Growth
Explore the strategies and tools needed to drive customer-obsessed growth at our premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product teams.
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Call For Entries: Forrester B2B Summit North America Awards
Have a great B2B success story to share? Nominate it for a B2B Return On Integration Honor or Program Of The Year Award! Winners will take the stage at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.
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Predictions 2024: For B2B Teams, GenAI Will Yield Mixed Results
Generative AI will make B2B sales, marketing, and product teams more prolific in 2024 — but not always in ways that are desirable. VP and Principal Analyst Laura Ramos and Principal Analyst David Parry discuss this and other 2024 predictions for B2B teams on this week’s episode of What It Means.
Supercharge Your APAC B2B Success — And Save $200
Register by June 28 to save $200 on B2B Summit APAC in Singapore. Access growth, revenue, alignment, sales, genAI, and product strategies to boost your brand success.
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What I Learned About Sales Technology In 2023
The past year was an exciting one for the sales technology market. Here are some of the highlights, along with a look ahead to 2024.
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Shift From Manual To Automated Account Planning To Deliver Results
I’ve been involved with account planning programs for over 30 years — first as a sales rep, then as a sales manager, then as a sales operations leader, and, finally, as an analyst and advisor. And in all that time, resistance by sellers to the process of creating and leveraging account plans remains high. Why? […]
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Sales Force Automation, Q3 2023
Shareholders demand profitable, responsible revenue growth. Buyers expect you to deliver value at every step of the sales process. And sellers expect to be prompted to the best actions and steps to take to achieve quota. It’s really hard to deliver on all these expectations. Buying motions are complicated. They involve more business and IT […]
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Your Company Just Announced Sales Layoffs. What Should Revenue Enablement Do About It?
Read five suggestions to simultaneously come to the aid of your internal customers and to up your enablement game for the long term.
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Improv And Playbooks: Navigating The Unscripted World Of Modern Selling
I’m from Chicago, which is known for many things, particularly its rich history with improvisational theater. Improv is a form of theater performed unscripted and created spontaneously by the players on stage, often through an audience suggestion. As a theatergoer, I am amazed at how much knowledge the actors must have to create something from […]
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Apollo And Mediafly Funding Signals Renewed Interest In Sales Tech
This blog covers the impact that Mediafly and Apollo’s recent funding will have on the two firms, the sales technology market, and buyers of sales technology.
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How B2B Companies Will Win The Competition For Growth
The competition for growth is fiercer than ever for B2B companies. To win, marketing, product, and sales leaders need to build a growth engine based on three fundamentals that are also simple, powerful, challenging, and achievable.
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A New Playbook For B2B Sales To Drive Scalable, Sustainable Growth
Sales and revenue leaders need to transition to a systematic approach to growth that prioritizes processes and investments in infrastructure, technology, and insights. Our Forrester Decisions for B2B Sales service is designed to facilitate that transition.
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Not All Alignment Is Equal: Achieve Alignment That Drives Growth
Successful alignment is less about process and more about calibrating buyer value. Learn about the five dimensions that top organizations align on — and learn more at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.
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It’s The 53rd Earth Day, And What Has Sales Done?
Learn six meaningful ways that the sales organization can contribute to sustainability efforts at your organization today.
Adapt To EMEA B2B Buyer Change — And Save £200
Register by July 19 to save £200 on B2B Summit EMEA in London. Discover how to adapt your marketing, sales, and product strategies for complex buyer scenarios, longer sales cycles, genAI, and more.
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The Emerging Role Of The Field Sales Coach: A Success Story
Who doesn’t love a success story? Every year at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America, our sales research team presents new and exciting research, topped off with a captivating B2B Program Of The Year Award presented in a fireside chat with a Forrester analyst. For 2023, our B2B Program Of The Year Award session will include […]
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Announcing Our Return On Integration Honorees For This Year’s B2B Summit North America
Meaningful cross-functional alignment fuels B2B growth and success. At this year’s B2B Summit North America, our three B2B Return On Integration Honors recipients will share their stories and offer firsthand insights to achieving alignment.
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Exemplifying B2B Excellence: Forrester’s 2023 Programs Of The Year Award Winners
Our annual POY awards, given at B2B Summit, celebrate companies that have achieved exemplary results in marketing, sales, or product management. Learn the seven companies that will be in the spotlight this year.
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