Smooth Sale

MARCH 17, 2022

Gordon provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Are You Ready to Break the Bias?’ The insights are essential for business growth and the precursor for successful sales. When I started my career in sales in the early 1990s, it was because I had a product to sell. Photo by Stux via Pixabay. Note: J anice B. Are You Ready to Break the Bias?

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The sales profession isn’t what it used to be. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? But before we dive into sales training ideas, let’s clarify what we mean when we talk about sales training. What about sales training programs?

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Short Summary What is Social Selling, and why does your sales team need it? Professional connection building.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 25, 2019

Both strategies work, and both come with potential challenges. You can also learn a lot about what your dream client is presently doing and strengthen your theory as to why they should do something different in the future. In every company, some people are happy with they are doing now, and some will defend the status quo.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 15, 2019

A sales funnel is the process a salesperson works to in order to convert prospects into qualified leads or sales. A typical sales funnel will have stages that each sales lead goes through. These funnel stages are based on the steps in the company’s sales process that the salesperson leads the customer through.

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Salesmate

JULY 28, 2020

The more you learn, the better you can perform when it comes to nurturing and converting sales deals. In sales, you need to keep learning to excel and surpass competitors. So, take the help of various sales books to enhance your knowledge and brush up your skills. 25 sales books you must-read in 2020.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 9, 2022

It’s co-hosted by Hannah Ajikawo, Practice Lead at Skaled Consulting, and Tony Germinario, Director of Sales at Mindtickle, and in our first episode, they sat down with Bob Apollo, Founder and Chief Outcomes Officer of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners. How to build trust, and why it matters. What sales leaders should prioritize.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2013

In February, I posted the first of a 2-part Sales Leaders’ pledge. It’s not sales goals or quotas I’m referring to (although a CSO study revealed that 37% of reps did not hit their plan last year — so we are falling short on those as well.) I pledge to learn why it’s not working and fix it.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. Update: June 26, 2020. Jordan Arogeti.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

One of the bits of advice we hear most from sales pros and entrepreneurs on the Sales Blog is, “ You’ve got to be reading.” One of the bits of advice we hear most from sales pros and entrepreneurs on the Sales Blog is, “ You’ve got to be reading.” Think you know why you make decisions? Unshakeable.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 31, 2020

We consistently present sales processes and the buyer’s journey as linear processes, when we depict them on a slide as a direct path, beginning on the left side and ending on the right. In complex, consultative, B2B sales, there is not a buyer’s journey. Buyer’s Have Journeys. Instead, there are buyer’s journeys.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s why we’ve committed to documenting and sharing our progress and intentions when it comes to cultivating a diverse and inclusive hiring process. You may have seen us reference escape velocity in other blog posts. Why You Need an Inclusive Hiring Process to Recruit Diverse Teams. Not without inclusion. So what gives?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

In fact, getting a response from prospects was identified as the hardest part of the sales process in the 2018 State of Inbound Sales Report. These 45 tips from three remarkably insightful sales experts should make it much easier for you. Set Yourself Up for Sales Prospecting Success. But, it doesn’t have to be.

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LeveragePoint

MARCH 23, 2018

With competing priorities, buyers erect walls, making it difficult for sales to engage and overcome buyer inertia. As highlighted in our last blog, the biggest sales challenge early in the sales cycle is usually combatting the status quo and getting a buyer to evaluate your solution with the active involvement of your sales team.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. I’ll be the first to admit it! So, there you have it!

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. These programs don’t settle for the status quo. Women Sales Pros.

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LeveragePoint

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Understanding Sales Challenges , Richardson’s recently compiled survey, identified the top 3 concerns among seller executives: (1) Competing against a low cost provider, (2) Combatting the status quo and (3) Knowledge about how to team sell effectively. This is a lonely time for a sales rep.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

However, as I suggested to my good chum and learned colleague Paul McCord this evening, I am going to challenge a blog post he wrote last week. It would be dangerous to simply pluck a few quotations, as the piece deserves a full reading – “In 2012 the New Normal in Sales Is.” Not so today.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Salespeople have changed as well. Zig Ziglar.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 7, 2013

A few months ago, I started to write about one of the missing pieces in many sales enablement discussions – the sales managers. The first blog post on this topic was about the WHY. Sales Enablement and Sales Management – Enable Your Sales Managers First.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 17, 2019

At a critical moment late in a sales or renewal process, the alarm goes off. An analytical person on the commercial team, perhaps a product manager or a presales professional, jumps into the fray, putting in extra hours to come up with a spreadsheet and a presentation to put out the fire. How Fire Departments Get Started.

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LeveragePoint

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Do B2B sales teams use marketing content? Marketing professionals, knowing they can’t close deals on their own, understand that Account-Based Selling (ABS) is necessary to execute effectively on ABM. The Question for Sales. What do you want your sales teams to say when they are in front of the customer?

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So you want to learn what skills the best-of-the-best sales pros use to close more deals, crush their goals, and make boatloads of cash? You are reading this blog post! To emulate what the top sales professionals do, you can: . and hope “sales skills osmosis” works. Millions of sales opportunities. .

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So you want to learn what skills the best-of-the-best sales pros use to close more deals, crush their goals, and make boatloads of cash? You are reading this blog post! To emulate what the top sales professionals do, you can: . and hope “sales skills osmosis” works. Millions of sales opportunities. .

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Why am I sharing this? Two of which are currently sales and marketing. I’m in control of every step of the sales process – from awareness to decision making.

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Pointclear

APRIL 13, 2012

In this second episode of PowerViews, I have the pleasure of talking with Jeff Ernst who provides advisory services to CMO and marketing leadership professionals as Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Jeff joined Forrester after spending 20 years in sales and marketing.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Looking for a rich list of sales techniques and tips you can use to close more deals? We’ve pulled together a list of 55 sales techniques, tips, and best practices. Prospecting Sales Tips & Techniques. This is an essential part of sales. It’s PACKED with useful sales tips that will help you book more meetings: 1.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 21, 2015

What follows is one of the best breakdowns of coaching and what coaching means you will read in a blog. So, we agreed I’d write this blog post. I’ve been coaching professionally since 2002. That everyone is cut out for Sales? That everyone can master all parts of the sales cycle from first contact to close?

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 21, 2015

What follows is one of the best breakdowns of coaching and what coaching means you will read in a blog. So, we agreed I’d write this blog post. I’ve been coaching professionally since 2002. That everyone is cut out for Sales? That everyone can master all parts of the sales cycle from first contact to close?

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