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What is Competitive Analysis? A B2B Marketer's Guide

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A change in your closest competitor’s lead generation strategy drives an acute drop in opportunities for your sales team. As a B2B marketer, you can’t control how your closest competitor goes about generating leads. Competitive analysis is the ongoing practice of assessing your competitors in relation to your own business.

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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

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Without revenue from sales of products or services, a business becomes little more than a hobby or a charitable organization. Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

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12 Actionable Outcomes of Competitive Intelligence

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Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a function that fits into every business strategy. No matter what your product or service is, you’ve got competitors fighting to win the same business as you and crafting strategies to stand out from the rest of your market. Let’s dig into some key actionable outcomes of competitive intelligence.

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

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Following are seven steps to guide this transformation for competitive advantage. Recent charts from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital help show just how many generative AI tools are coming to market to support sales, marketing, design, software engineering, customer support, legal, and other departmental needs.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Intensifying competition. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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Salesforce launches Starter to ward off competition in the SMB segment

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Salesforce has made its customer relationship management (CRM) suite, dubbed Starter, generally available in an effort to garner more market share in the small and medium businesses (SMBs) segment as it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Zoho. So, what is Salesforce Starter?

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Competitive Intelligence

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Sales is an inherently competitive function. You and your rivals are battling for every potential sale. When a customer chooses to go with you and not the company across the street, that’s a victory for your sales strategy.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up?