Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. ” We look for new channels or methods of engagement. Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2020

We revel in the number of meetings we can have every day as being something that can dramatically drive performance (Every time I hear about this, I reflect on the work of SDRs over the past years, thinking, “Why do we think all this is new? Related Posts: The Future Of Sales Is Virtual.

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Face-to-face Revelation Channels Exercises 157

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We know customers spend more of their buying journey finding information in digital and other channels. Engagement with sales people represent the smallest part of their time investment. ” So much of our thinking is around automation, digital interactions, and fragmented sales interactions.

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Revelation Channels Maximizer Social Selling 105

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” This would probably require a greater investment in both marketing and sales. I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. Too often, however, we could/should be doing much better.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. Regardless of the channel we use–a F2F or virtual conversation, email, text, if we aren’t communicating in a manner that the person we are trying to reach can “hear,” we won’t achieve the results. Afterword: The VP of Sales Ops was Betsy.

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Outsourcing Services Revelation Coaching Channels 96

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

Lately, there have been a lot of “Aha, we’ve discovered the secret” posts and eBooks on Product Led Growth and the role of sales people. Customer service, more complete offerings, different sales engagement models, rich partner networks, and other many other things become more important in sustaining growth.

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Lead Rank Revelation Segment Case Study 82

eGrabber

JUNE 28, 2021

What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is when sales and business development representatives potential buyers or targeted prospects and reach out to them through cold calls or emails. Why is sales prospecting important? Sales Representatives often find manual prospecting very troublesome and time-consuming.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 40

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It was a group of very bright thinkers/practitioners in sales and marketing. We were discussing the future of sales and marketing–things we saw happening, things we believed needed to change. Am I contributing to it’s improvement and the ability of sales to contribute to our customers and the companies we sell for?”

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Revelation Face-to-face Channels Segment 80

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

Here’s an important, and often overlooked, fact about B2B sales and marketing: Your customer data holds all the keys you need to grow your business. To succeed, you need to trust the data and step into predictive sales. Many sales and marketing leaders try to get cute and overthink their targeting, messaging, content creation, etc.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Customer Lead Rank 75

Smooth Sale

MARCH 25, 2022

’ It’s not just about making business connections for sales development. Upon being asked to select a topic related to her YouTube Channel, ‘ Attract Your Tribe Affirmations’ caught my attention. Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know.

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Hiring Lead Rank Revelation Sales Qualified Lead 78

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 27, 2017

Search YouTube or some of the TV Classics channels for episodes. Too often, our sales efforts are focused on finding, “Just The Facts.” If buying were that simple, clearly there is eventually no need for sales people. As a bit of trivia, he actually never said that, but it is very frequently attributed to him).

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 25, 2013

The map we use to describe and interpret an experience is based upon one of three channels of information — visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. The conversations salespeople have with prospective customers involve these visual, auditory, and kinesthetic channels. Customer Miscommunication The mind does not treat all information equally.

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Influencer Research Revelation Groups 92

Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2017

It’s a waste of time on the part of customers and sales people. We revel in cold calling because it produces results. Yes, each call is focused on an issue that we are deeply knowledgeable in (for example right now my calls are focused on complexity and its impact on sales performance). It’s a waste of time.

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Cold Calling Revelation Research Social Selling 51

HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 2, 2013

My recent Harvard Business Review article titled “ Research: How Sensory Information Influences Price Decisions” was based upon a fascinating sales linguistics experiment.   They consist of verbal and non-verbal messages that are sent via the visual,   auditory, and kinesthetic (sense of feeling) channels. .

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Revelation Groups Study Ideal Customer Profile 112

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. Those that don’t — won’t.

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Ideal Customer Profile How To Churn Face-to-face 83

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” He went on discuss the selling distractions, arguing, “why would a sales person choose to spend their time on admin processes and things like updating CRM?”

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Up-Sell Revelation CRM Buying Cycle 52

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers.

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Revelation Jigsaw Account Lead Rank 133

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Customers are self educating, they don’t want to see sales people until they have completed the majority of their buying process! We all know this–much to the chagrin of sales. Marketing becomes the primary channel to the customer for much of their buying process. But the customer is really screwing things up.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 96

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is it – the 52 best sales book you’ll ever read. Of all the different types of books I read, sales books have probably been the most common (though I spend a lot of time reading books that have nothing to do with sales, which has tremendous value). The Challenger Sale. This is a sequel to The Challenger Sale.

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Negotiation Tour de Force Influencer Lead Rank 111

Sales Hacker

MARCH 13, 2020

Join new channels and connect to Outreachers you normally wouldn’t. TIP: Create a “remotelife” channel, where your team can share working from home tips, thoughts, and challenges. Call people personally and stay in touch in ways other than in Slack channels. Slack is great for simple communications. Then use it.

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Face-to-face How To Call-back Video 127

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Getting into see/talk to customers is one of the top challenges I hear from executives, marketing and sales people alike. We are inundated with messages through every social channel. Marketer and sales people declare victory when a few percent “click through,” fill out a form and download a white paper.

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Revelation Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Gen 48

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Generic words and sales messaging such as “preferred customer” or “I’m such a great fan of your work” rob your cold email of uniqueness. To increase sales of your goods or service? Indeed, just 24% of prospects read sales emails. 7 Attract prospects through cold outreach personalization.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Consumer 52