Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Take Control of Your 2015. By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. As we enter the heart of the holiday season, most salespeople and sales organizations are in one of three (3) modes: 1. 3 Ways to Take Control 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-09-04. Teaser: A sales playbook helps make your sales team aware of the critical points in a sale and how to avoid common mistakes will smooth out the process and improve sales efficiency. Author: Tim Matthews. read more

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 27, 2023

With other organizations, improving the sales process is the best way to drive significant sales improvement. In this article, we will provide insights and directions to help you decide where to focus your resource for the most significant sales improvement. The new sales process requires new sales skills.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Content marketing is incredibly successful strategy and tactic for your buyers to begin to know you and trust you. What you don’t want is your marketing efforts to read or sound like the efforts of others or be seasonal as in the “best holiday marketing approach.” Evergreen marketing also relies on SEO.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Systems/Processes/Tools.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Becoming “brilliant in sales execution” during each stage is critical. This is a new trend that will evolve quickly in 2015-16.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY decline from 2014 levels.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As a sales professional what you need is practical and executable inputs that will help you close the year strong, and set yourself up for a profitable 2015. This is NOT another Marketing-Still-Sucks-Here’s-What-You-Need-To-Do-Better rant. Sales Process Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Whether or not you have put in place a sales process – it is happening everyday. It is whatever your salespeople are doing Monday morning to navigate the customer’s buying process. The real problem is not, therefore, a lack of sales process. Lack of definitional clarity. It’s about being on the same page.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 16, 2015

According to Bain & Company , B2B sales executives have seen a tremendous disruption in recent years – and there’s every reason to believe the trend will continue. In most B2B markets the buying process has changed dramatically. Only 40% said their sales reps have a strong understanding of their company’s differentiation.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Torrance Heart is CEO of Teak and Twine , a corporate gifting company that works with sales, marketing, and HR teams to use strategic gifting to accomplish goals. Once Torrance embraced her role as sales leader, there was no turning back. Highlights of this Episode: [1:05] Strategic gifting for sales, marketing, and HR. [7:07]

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If the purpose of marketing is to attract attention, then the goal of marketing is…? The goal of marketing within any sales process is two fold: Make a friend. Download this 7-Step-Sales-Process-ADVSYS. This is why so much emphasis is placed on measuring the goal of marketing. 18 comments.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

One of the most important aspects of any sales enablement strategy is alignment to the customer journey. What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. According to Bain & Company, B2B sales executives have seen tremendous disruption in how customers buy in recent years – and they see no reason to think it won’t continue. The folks at Bain surveyed 550 B2B sales executives. First, focus on how customers are buying in today’s market.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Because the process has gotten incredibly complicated, even though it can almost be a no-brainer. At most companies, the sales process is a balancing act that doesn’t always work so well. This does, however, explain why prospecting is so challenging for most sales teams. In 2015, 43.6 In 2016, it was 53.3

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2016

Teaser: Pretty much every sales team relies on a customer relationship management (CRM) system to manage the sales process, but according to ISMM’s Sales Director of the Year 2015 Ian Moyse, the system itself is often misused when it comes to effectivenessand team motivation. read more

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 8, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-07-08. Author: Robin Saitz, Chief Marketing Officer at Brainshark. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-10-12. Teaser: Today, enhancing and accelerating the sales process requires a new level of engagement and access to knowledge between the organization and its field sales representatives, and more importantly, between the sales representative and the customer. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-11-20. Instead of thinking about how to work customers through your sales process, think about the customer’s view of the conversation and try to adapt your tactics to match the customer's buying process. Author: Gregg Schwartz. Teaser: Every custmer is on a customer journey. read more

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For example, if you sell marketing automation solutions, you could join a Marketing Live Event and interact with others at the event. Were in the past a LinkedIn super admin was most likely a marketing person, this new feature opens the door for sales reps to drive engagement. .

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, the past several months have only bolstered my belief in the impact that a sales team can have on an early-stage product. Hiring salespeople before you have a product that’s ready to go-to-market might be a high-leverage way to test your product-market fit, pricing and packaging, and product’s readiness. Here’s why.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. We each presented three things you can do to close the year strong. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto .

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is hot right now, and the responses I received were excellent.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-08-31. Teaser: The sales proposal is one of the most underappreciated assets in the sales process, yet it has more influence over closing a deal than all other sales materials combined. Author: Jesse Kurth, Director of Client Success, TinderBox. read more

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

What is all this talk about a Sales Process? Whether your organization is using CRM or not I find that most organizations have not taken the time to define, write out and train their sales team on how to use prescriptive a sales process. If your sales teams execute that well you get the production Subway does!

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s the subject of my latest Sales Talk for CEOs podcast, where Erik Frank – CEO and President of Tristate Amature and Electrical Works – shares the details on the major overhauls that are happening in his 101-year-old business. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations?

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Tenfold

JULY 18, 2017

To grow a business these days, one needs to understand why traditional sales and marketing strategies are failing and how to develop a sales marketing strategy that works. What is Sales Marketing? A well-crafted combination of sales and marketing is necessary for successful business growth.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As we head to the finish line 0f 2015, there is a tendency among many in sales to maximize their “closing” activities. Spurred on by their managers to close business, sales people get distracted from executing on the entire cycle, and focus on the here and now, and sacrifice future opportunities.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Only 42% of marketing generated leads were accepted and worked in those same years. Their “reward”? The result?

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Schuck has bootstrapped a data business, built a go-to-market team, gone through an IPO, and acquired other companies. What you see in ZoomInfo today is a lot of the vision that I had for DiscoverOrg in 2015, 2016, but I never built a good enough engineering and product team to make that vision come to life,” Schuck said.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Author: Giuseppe D’Angelo Inside sales have never been hotter, and the sales field is experiencing considerable change. Much of this is due to the technology that is beginning to drive the sales process much the way it has driven marketing for the past several years. Increasing demand for skilled inside sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? While you could come up with a complicated plan that won’t deliver results for half a year or more, you can get better results, faster, by implementing a DRIP Marketing Plan. DRIP: The Secret to Reliably Penetrate the Market.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While the close is an important event within the sales process, there are many events long before the deal is closed that also require time, attention, and effort. Blake would never give up control of the sales process to a prospect. What’s a sales rep to do? What Is Always Be Helping? Always be helping.

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Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

I was fortunate in that my husband built mine for me (Sales-Meetings.com), we were early adopters of autoresponders for newsletters and before permission marketing, my database was fairly large purely because I was speaking where-ever I could – some would say, even at the opening of an envelope. Minneapolis.

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