Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a newly-established freelancer who’s trying to generate leads, a job seeker in the market for a new job or position, or a seasoned sales professional, the strength of your LinkedIn profile can have a huge impact on your ability to attract and engage with the right audience.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Hiring How To 105

BrainShark

JANUARY 31, 2024

Recent corporate belt tightening has put sales-adjacent departments like sales enablement and marketing in the hot seat. Because even though they contribute to and quite literally enable sales, their activities aren’t always as easy to tie to the deal as it is for reps who get phone and face time with buyers.

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Pipeline CRM Training ROI 62

Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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B2B Training Top of Funnel B2C 52

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This broken link is to blame for sales teams’ biggest closing mistakes. “My This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. It’s just a symptom.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Hubspot Sales

MAY 4, 2020

Not only has personal social media usage been on the rise, but professional social media usage has become more prevalent as well — and the field of sales is no exception. With so many teams now focusing on inside sales, using strategies such as social selling to connect and win over customers are more important than ever.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring 121

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Today’s buyers are a lot more sales savvy; they conduct research online about your products and services, your company and your competitors all with a few clicks of a mouse. 2 out of 3 decision makers place more trust in their own research than in sales people – Market Transformations.

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LinkedIn Social Media GoldMine Decision Maker 282

SBI

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Customer References & Buyer Confidence. So many of these buying decision factors apply to B2B buyers. As Brent Adamson, Distinguished Vice President, Gartner has written about and presented on , all the sales motions that go on must ultimately help build buyer self-confidence in making the decision.

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Buyer Customer Vendor Lead Gen 115

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many sales reps and sales managers commented and shared about the previous post on How Salespeople Goof Up on LinkedIn so we were compelled to share more ideas to help sellers do better. First, I wanted to share that our blog is up for an AWARD – as one of the top Sales Blogs at Top Sales World.

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LinkedIn Referrals Buying Cycle Up-Sell 247

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. This client is positioning itself to cater to the New Buyer. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training.

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Training Sales Management Hiring Social Selling 300

Sales 2.0

MARCH 1, 2023

This is the third in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Regie helps sales, marketing, and success teams write engaging content faster using AI.

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Opportunity Buyer Tools Collateral 195

MEDDIC

APRIL 7, 2023

Sales leaders are usually very aware of the benefits of sales training and coaching in general. Sales leaders should not sacrifice the Sales Training & Coaching budget. Maintaining or increasing your investment in coaching and training during a downturn can pay dividends.

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Coaching Training Hiring ROI 52

Score More Sales

MARCH 14, 2013

Sales and marketing experts Jill Konrath and Ardath Albee just announced a new e-book, Cracking the LinkedIn Sales Code which will help you better understand how professional B-2-B sellers are using LinkedIn to grow visibility, gain connections and ultimately grow revenues. Top sellers use more of LinkedIn’s capabilities.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 238

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Even before the pandemic arose, we lived in a world where buyers are generally better at buying than sellers are at selling. 70% of buyers wait until after they’ve chosen a solution before engaging a seller. Define a Sales Methodology.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Sales Methodology 100

SBI Growth

MAY 4, 2013

Every year, Sales Reps are forced into mandatory training. As expected, the Sales Reps complain and resist. The question Reps want answered: how does this training help me make more money? My advice to Sales Reps: stop complaining and do something about it. Their Buyer’s evolved. Your Buyer is evolving.

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Training Buyer Persona Decision Maker Influencer 303

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? Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Social Selling Training Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel 52

PandaDoc

AUGUST 10, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report 2020 shows that 44 percent of companies are seeing a significant decrease in responsiveness to social and other outreach because of COVID-19. This is the platform where business and sales leaders can earn the trust of buyers and deliver value.

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LinkedIn Buyer Face-to-face VanillaSoft 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2023

The point is: If you want uncommon results — revenue that’s literally unmatched by anyone else on the leaderboard — then you’ll need to develop a set of uncommon sales practices. Tested, hard-won uncommon sales practices. Last year, I spent over 100 hours researching and compiling a 15,000-word library of uncommon sales practices.*

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation Targets 95

Vengreso

MAY 17, 2022

Although most people – including those in sales – treat LinkedIn like an online resume, it is much more than that. LinkedIn is an excellent resource for the modern seller and anyone involved in social selling. The value multiplies when one upgrades to a LinkedIn Premium account. Free LinkedIn Account.

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LinkedIn Revenue Ideal Customer Profile Hiring 59

Score More Sales

JULY 15, 2014

We talk to sellers all the time that assume a buyer is thinking in the same ways that they are. You know the old saying, “never assume… ” To build business you cannot afford to assume what’s in my head is the same thought that is in my buyer’s head instead think like your buyer. Close More Deals.

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back 223

Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Some sales leaders immediately disregard the principles, claiming it is just another buzzword. Others are caught in the constant grind of achieving quota and cannot fathom trying to implement a new sales plan. The modern buyer has a longer journey that involves more decision-makers. What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Travel Social Media 122

Score More Sales

MAY 26, 2014

Two different sellers told me in the last week that they are not using LinkedIn as much as I had encouraged them to do because it doesn’t work for them and takes too much time. Here are several ways that more consistent use of LinkedIn WILL help most sellers. It is critical in gaining trust and solving buyer issues.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Buyer 209

SBI

APRIL 6, 2021

Sales Training: Why You May be Struggling to Deliver. Are you struggling to deliver training that leads to positive, measurable outcomes? Most training fails to deliver long-term impact. As long ago as the 1870s, there was formal sales training.” It began more as sales coaching than training.

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Training Top of Funnel Lead Rank Call-back 122

Vengreso

JANUARY 25, 2019

Do you feel overwhelmed when you log in to LinkedIn Sales Navigator? If your sales preferences aren’t set correctly, you could be wasting valuable efforts sifting through a jumble of distracting leads in your feed. It’s time to go all Marie Kondo on your sales prospecting and tidy up! Company size. Seniority level.

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LinkedIn Prospecting Buyer Persona How To 98

Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

In fact, a recent study suggests that 91% of B2B buyers are active and involved in social media, while 75% are significantly influenced by social content when forming their buying decisions ( source ). But—as B2B marketers and sales professionals—we have a lot to learn about social selling. Adopt an “everyone’s in sales” mentality.

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Buyer Social Media Social Selling Incentives 190

SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

I was lucky enough to be introduced to a sales team’s top performer for 2013. Julie’s Sales Operations leader thought I could learn a lot from her. Almost overnight, buyers stopped responding. Training dollars are being misallocated. The Dasboard will allow you to: Improve your sales team''s talent level.

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Training Top of Funnel Hiring Hotels 293

Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Photo by Andrea Schit z via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Know How To Increase B2B Sales? As a result, B2B companies don’t have to underrate the importance of building a robust sales strategy that targets high-value prospective clients and convinces them to transact with their brands.

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B2B Top of Funnel How To Sales Qualified Lead 106

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2020

These five LinkedIn summary templates will help you flesh out your profile in no time flat. LinkedIn Summary Examples for Reps. The most successful reps know that sales isn’t about them — it’s about the prospect. With that in mind, lay out the high-level problem your buyers face. If you’ve got writer’s block, good news.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Pharmaceuticals Retail 123

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

He regularly receives 200-300 emails in a day and cannot be bothered with most sales “pitches” Like other C-level executives I speak with, he says that sales people can seem lazy and are not persistent. This brings me to the question – Are you studying your buyers to even KNOW what they like and don’t like?

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Study Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank 198

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

Face-to-face sales interactions are typically viewed as the most valuable activity by Sales Leaders. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. But buyers are much more informed today.

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Buyer Prospecting Face-to-face How To 317

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Sometimes I accept a connect request on LinkedIn with people I don’t know but others in my network do. Unlike some on LinkedIn, I don’t connect to just anyone , and know most of the people I’m connected to or have talked with them since we connected. Often it begins, “Thanks SO much for connecting!”

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Inside Sales 229

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Want to get slowed down as a sales prospector and waste a lot of time? You can waste literally days out of every month looking for the wrong buyers. We get calls from companies every week who want us to evaluate or use their sales tool. As in all aspects of selling, you need to make it simple and easy for a potential buyer.

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Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

Alice Heiman

APRIL 11, 2023

Is your sales team struggling to have conversations with the right buyers? Better prospecting is the most direct path to increase sales conversations. Wendy Weiss takes us through the four steps to improve your sales team’s ability to schedule sales calls.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Conversion Prospecting 125

Score More Sales

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the very best ways to grow sales opportunities, and ultimately revenues, in your business is by having “real” ideas that solve issues for your prospective customer. Use buyer insight to grow sales). “b2b sales Insights” - About 201,000 results. Buyers have problems.

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Buyer B2B Ideal Customer Profile Vendor 203

Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Training Hiring Coaching Course 52

LeadFuze

AUGUST 13, 2021

Stay Ahead With These Sales Training Courses this 2021! Predictable Revenue, sales hacking, and now account-based everything has massively impacted the sales profession over the last 10 years. In partnership with LeadFuze, Sales Hacker has launched FREE LeadFuze Certified Sales Hacker Bundle.

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Course Ideal Customer Profile Training Account Based Marketing 98

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92