Sat.Apr 07, 2012 - Fri.Apr 13, 2012

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Sales Executives Need to be Coaching their Sales Managers

Steven Rosen

The further you move in the sales organization you begin to realise that you have less impact on driving sales. Sales executive s become further removed from the customer and the day to day management of the business. Sales execution and sales performance are the result of your sales reps and marketing efforts more so than your own. The higher up you go the fewer levers you have at your disposal to impact sales.

Coaching 290
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Win, Lose or Draw?

The Pipeline

As you know, I have always encouraged sellers to review all sales in which they chose to invest time and resources. Whether you win the deal, lose it, or if it ends in “no decision”, it makes sense to understand why for all the obvious reasons. The latter group, “no decision”, is more important than many give it credit. Depending on your source for data, this “no decision” group makes up a significant number of deals, and therefore consumes a significant am

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The Belief Hunter, Ideas Visionary and Performance Driver

Bernadette McClelland

'The Belief Hunter, Ideas Visionary and Performance Driver. In the words of General Patton, “If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking” and whether you are on the battlefield or on the frontline in business, you can’t gain ground or win against the competition by playing it safe. The salesperson needs to become a BOLD ADAPTOR and in doing so must. play three roles a Belief Hunter, an Ideas Visionary and a Performance Driver.

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In Sales Management, The Time To Motivate, Is Not Always The Time To Educate

MTD Sales Training

As a sales manager, director or other frontline supervisor of a sales team, you will often have to help sales people correct mistakes. There are times when you absolutely must teach, correct, fix, train or rectify problems and sometimes you will have to reprimand or take disciplinary action. However, there are some times when you [.

Education 281
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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Get out and Coach!

Steven Rosen

Most first line sales managers manage between 6 and 12 sales reps. They are the ones responsible for bringing in the sales numbers in their district or area. Sales managers are constantly adjusting priorities depending on their urgency and work extremely hard in this new economy. With so many competing demands on their time the tendency is to focus on the activities that are the easiest and the most time sensitive.

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How to Qualify Prospects at a Networking Event: On Breakthrough Business Strategies Radio

The Sales Heretic

Whether you’re attending an international conference or your local Chamber of Commerce after-hours mixer, you have an opportunity to prospect. But how do qualify potential prospects quickly? And without turning people off? Listen to my appearance on Breakthrough Business Strategies Radio with Michele Price. In this twelve-minute segment, I discuss what you should say and do [.].

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How To Build Value In A Sales Presentation

MTD Sales Training

Increase the value, or the perceived value of what you sell, and you will make more sales! You have to have ways to raise the value of your product or service. By that, I mean, when the buyer feels that the return, is greater than the investment, you will close more sales. The sale often [.

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Influencing the Decision to Win the Sale (Part I)

Sales and Marketing Management

How does a done deal come undone? Your rep had a good relationship with a great contact, the right solution to meet the customer’s needs, and strong buying signals right up to the last. Then came the dreaded call: “Thank you for the proposal, but we’ve decided to go with someone else.” So, what happened? Could this loss have been prevented?

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Should You Restage Your Sales Pipeline?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan As part of its sales force evaluation process, Objective Management Group (OMG) conducts a pipeline analysis and determines both the quality of the pipeline and the quantity of the pipeline. We ask each salesperson to submit 4 proposal-ready opportunities and then we run the analysis. If we were reviewing a full pipeline instead of just 4 proposal-ready opportunities for each salesperson, an ideal sales pipeline would look like this: Because we are on

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Prospecting by Text

The Pipeline

It is amazing how little progress there has been in sales over the last couple of years, despite all the talk. My friend Keenan, The Sales Guy , is conducting a survey on his blog asking if texting is a viable and legit means of prospecting , please go and participate. I will try and bias here by telling you that two years ago I posted on the same topic and got a mouth and earful from those who felt it was over the top, and nasty!

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Use Client Testimonials To Close More Sales

MTD Sales Training

You face some objections so regularly, you know well in advance you will get them and you know how to answer them. You also have customers whom you have closed by overcoming those same objections. Here is a way to leverage those clients to overcome objections and close more sales. To Start, Make an Investment [.

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7 Sales Coaching Tips You Need for Success

The Sales Hunter

One of the biggest issues the sales community is dealing with is the lack of effective sales coaching. We can discuss as to why this is but instead let’s just cut to the chase. I want to give you what I see as 7 sales coaching tips you can use right now. Regardless of your sales position, these are 7 you need to know. 1. Consistently follow-up.

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Influencing the Decision to Win the Sale (Part 2)

Sales and Marketing Management

A sales rep who had a long-term relationship with the head of an in-house printing group naturally expected to get the business when the company decided to outsource its printing services. The rep was shocked to find out the deal went to a competitor. His contact told him only that the other company offered a “better value.” The sales rep thought he knew the customer, but now he wondered, “What did the other guy know that I didn’t?

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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A Working Definition of Value

The Pipeline

Sales like other groups have certain common words, reference points and symbols. They use them to communicate facts and concepts both to the tribe and to their buyers. The challenge is that often these words or symbols are often quiet subjective and open to broad interpretation, unless the seller defines the term. If they don’t which is usually the case, it opens the door to miscommunications, and missed sales.

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Social Media Has Changed YOUR World

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet. Social media has changed the world. Let me clarify that statement. Social media has changed YOUR world. Whatever you’re doing online, whether it’s tweeting, LinkedIning, Facebooking, or YouTubing, Social Media has changed your way of communicating one-on-one, one-on-customer base, and one-to-the-world. Facebook is the easiest phenomenon to understand.

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7 Secrets to Improve Your Negotiating Skills

The Sales Hunter

Here are 7 secrets you can use right now to improve your negotiating skills. 1. Sell first, negotiate second. Never go into a sales call expecting to negotiate, rather go in committed to sell and close the deal without making any concessions. It’s during the selling phase when you have the best opportunity to learn the most about what it is the customer needs and wants. 2.

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Building Strategic Partners Video Interview by Jill Konrath of Lori Richardson

Score More Sales

More than 3 years ago I was interviewed with B2B sales guru Jill Konrath. Not surprisingly, our conversation about building strategic partnerships is still current information (except that I’m based in Boston now). This is one of my favorite interviews and is about specific ideas around a simple way to grow revenues. Click here to view the embedded video.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Does Your Sales Force Look Like This?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I spoke to the energetic group of sales leaders attending the EcSell Institute Sales Coaching Summit in Austin Texas. The thing that makes EcSell different is that they won't place speakers on their event faculties unless their work is backed by research and science. As a result, their audience is a sponge for any and all best practices that are time-tested, proven and have empircal data to back them up.

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Market Research - Time Spent and Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

Thank you in advance. Over the last several years our team at Anthony Cole Training Group has worked closely with David Kurlan in our attempt to help sales companies build and execute more successful sales team. We work with Dave because his company, Objective Management Group, provides the best analytics to determine the root cause of performance for sales team.

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Poor Listening Skills Sabotaging Your Sales Career?

The Sales Hunter

Do you truly listen to your customers? Could you do better? The reason I ask is because it seems that listening is a skill that is emphasized as important, but unfortunately is not actually put into practice — at least to the extent it could be. And if you aren’t really listening to your customer, you could miss vital information that not only will affect your sales success, but more importantly will affect your relationship with that customer.

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PowerViews with Jonathan Farrington: Stay Focused

Pointclear

I’m really pleased to introduce you to PowerViews, a new series of Q&A video interviews that are all about providing solutions to the marketing and sales challenges we face today. It’s an honor for me to have as my very first guest Jonathan Farrington who is the CEO of Top Sales Associates and the Managing Director of Jonathan Farrington & Associates.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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How Sales Has Changed in the Last Five Years and More

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Does everyone get to see your best work? Probably not. Your best work probably takes place when you are one-on-one with one of your salespeople, one-on-one with a client, or on the phone. Chances are, your best work doesn't happen at the sales meeting, in front of your entire sales force, or in front of all of your customer's employees.

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Sales Pro-gress requires change

Anthony Cole Training

When I was 42 my eyesight began to change. I was coming back from Manchester New Hampshire where I had just spent 2.5 days working with a sales team to help them improve their cross selling process. It had been a long trip as I actually started in New York City on Monday and today was Friday. So when the words in my document appeared to be blury I just thought it was due to fatique.

Hiring 168
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It’s Only Cold-Calling if You Think It’s Cold-Calling

The Sales Hunter

Recently I was on the phone with a director of sales and marketing for a service company. The conversation had to do with cold-calling and sales prospecting. The director of marketing had called me looking for strategies they could implement to gain new business that would not require cold-calling. Yes, I had some ideas for him, but I started off the question by asking him what he meant by cold-calling.

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Currency of Trust in the Sales Process

Increase Sales

One question that I have not often heard is: “How does your sales process earn the currency of trust?” . Credit www.sxc.hu. There is all that talk about establishing rapport or building rapport in many sales training coaching programs. Yet how does a salesperson go beyond earning the currency of greenbacks and actual builds a savings account filled with trust?

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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Money Isn't Everything

Sales and Marketing Management

At a time when companies need engaged leaders and other employees willing to exceed expectations without promise of immediate increased financial remuneration, a new wave of respected thought leaders, including McKinsey, Harvard Business Review, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Aberdeen, acknowledge the effectiveness and strategic business value of non-cash incentives.

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Sales Progress Requires Change

Anthony Cole Training

When I was 42, my eyesight began to change. I was coming back from Manchester, New Hampshire where I had just spent 2.5 days working with a sales team to help them improve their cross selling process. It had been a long trip as I actually started in New York City on Monday and today was Friday. So, when the words in my document appeared to be blury, I just thought it was due to fatique.

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7 Articles to Boost Your Sales Success With Buyers

The Sales Hunter

In recent blog postings, I have talked a lot about sales prospecting. I know that for many of you, your sales efforts require that you prospect and sell to professional buyers and purchasing departments. Below are 7 articles I’ve written that dig into the unique dynamics of working with buyers and purchasing departments. I encourage you to take the time to read these.

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