Go for No!

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s true that expectations can play a role in our mindset and then in our actions. For example, if you’re playing in a baseball game – and you believe the other team is really good and that you will lose – that might affect your play. Have you read Go for No!

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In movies, sales is the ideal career for anyone who would rather play golf. However, Forbes notes 90 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs play golf. Also, CEOs who regularly play golf earn 17 percent more. Most of all, however, 80 percent of executives say playing golf establishes business relationships. Sit up straight.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited, and you know your customers are going to be impressed. In order to make the launch a success, it’s crucial that you set clear goals, plan future steps, and earn a competitive advantage. When Do You Need a Go-to-Market Strategy? What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A recession can be a great opportunity to grow It’s easy to panic when the market is shaky — and many companies do. Some attempt to go after every customer imaginable and completely lose focus, while others freeze up and decide to do nothing. Bain has found that companies that deploy GTM plays see a 15-20% growth in pipeline.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

Author: Kristen Powers You have seen the mantra in the news, via advertisements and throughout social media: “We are all in this together.". There is plenty of chatter about how these two departments need to work together to yield greater success, but urging people to play nice is not enough. Sales and marketing need to become one.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

While the adjustment to a longer selling process can be challenging, a proactive approach can help you secure more wins. Engage Instantly There’s a 10X decrease in your chances to connect with a lead if you don’t prioritize connecting in the first few minutes. We are in a measured buying environment.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There’s no shortage of valuable information about prospects and customers — as long as you know how to access and apply it. Let’s explore the definition of a sales strategy, what makes a strategy successful, why accurate data is essential, and how to go about developing and refining a winning sales approach.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

As you will see, Martin has a fascinating and rich career an selling. Martin articulates something that I think so many of us find so exciting about selling: “The main reason is that it challenges you to reinvent yourself and stay current with your knowledge because it is the most dynamic industry of all.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, I’ll walk you through bridging the gap between L&D and sales enablement for your sales teams to create a culture of continuous learning that leads to super-powered sales reps. This doesn’t mean you need to overhaul your entire training program. Training isn’t just for onboarding. Learning beyond onboarding.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In football, winning the fourth quarter is pivotal. With time running down, teams with leads may play it safe and engineer long, slow drives that eat clock. While teams that are behind need to score fast, they too must be mindful of time or risk giving up a last-second, game-winning field goal. Incentivize. Ramp Up Coaching.

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Anthony Iannarino

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Desire to Win : You aren’t going to win if you can live with a loss. You are not going to win if there isn’t something burning inside you. The burning desire is the starting point of winning. You have to want it like you want your next breath. Preparation : Winners prepare.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Like snakes, I don’t like any, but some are not dangerous at all, while others can kill you, you wanna know which is which before you handle them. At a high level the prospecting objections you can prepare for, but there is always a random element, so we have to be ready for the known and the unknown. By Tibor Shanto.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Once again, I’m flooded with stuff happening around me that has nothing or very little to do directly with sales… and I cannot help myself but to connect these thoughts and events to what I love to do – coach and teach sales and sales management. Last year, she played basketball her senior year in high school. But, I was wrong.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

If buyers could do this on their own, they would not be negotiating. Here are 10 tips to help sellers maintain control of a sales negotiation to achieve win-win outcomes: Sales Negotiation Tips Preparation The more you know, the stronger your position. In addition, sellers must be familiar with their own competition.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 12, 2023

As a result, sellers are playing a losing game of catch up. But, even today, sellers are asking the question, “Are you the key decisionmaker? But, even today, sellers are asking the question, “Are you the key decisionmaker?” Reflect back on how buying has changed over the decades.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can check out Rahul’s video on accelerating bigger, faster deals with consolidation and Elisha’s tips for using your CRM, enablement analytics, and Call AI to inform better coaching. Identify specific stages to see where win rates may decline. Conduct role-plays to prep new reps for real-world selling scenarios.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

And while change does bring good, you know what they say about too much of a good thing? The reason you need to uproot is to prevent people from going back; to relapse and settle back to old ways of doing ‘it’. The more you work at getting rid of the bad the greater likelihood the ‘new good’ will hold.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 21, 2017

What we do in sales at DiscoverOrg is regularly run plays and campaigns that have immediate boosts on our pipeline. Three of those plays we run involve some form of going back to leads that went dead on us and bringing them back to life. Let me explain these three plays. I think you can use them, too: 1.

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The Accidental Negotiator

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Everyone wants to create a win-win negotiation Image Credit: Dennis Skley By now just about all negotiators have heard about “win-win” negotiating. This is in contrast to “win lose” negotiating where somebody wins while somebody loses.

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Julie Hanson

JUNE 22, 2023

Win Over Decision Makers with Virtual Executive Presence Landing a virtual meeting with a decision maker or anyone in the C-Suite is your golden ticket to go beyond entry-level conversations about features, functions, and prices and fast forward to strategic discussions and setting the bar for the competition.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2018

Author: Jason Jordan In a previous blog post , I recounted the story of a coach who shouted absolutely useless advice to a team of 12-year-old boys who were trying to win the last game in a soccer tournament. They already wanted to win the game – probably more so than the coach, for that matter. Work harder' is a losing strategy.

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The Accidental Negotiator

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When we’re negotiating, it’s possible to get stuck Image Credit: Geoff Livingston Just exactly how committed to reaching a deal in your next negotiation are you? If you are like most of us, you really do want to have the result of all of your time and effort that you’ve spent on the negotiation be an eventual deal.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But to transcend, I use fear as a guide that points me to what I should do next. Jack Canfield used to say, "Feel the fear and do it anyway." When you sit down at work tomorrow, do not check your email. Write down what you are most afraid to do instead. Maybe it is a demon you need to face.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” is a quote you will never hear Nick Saban say. While there he worked with psychiatry professor Lionel Rosen to formulate a systematic approach to winning football games. Saban said “It’s impossible to read and execute every play to perfection for the entire game.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2020

Author: Dave Gerry Building a winning sales organization is no small task. Most importantly, you have to have a sales process and methodology that you are operating against. This means having a clear definition of the role sales plays, the sales process, performance metrics and a definition of success.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In our pursuit of success, we often find ourselves immersed in two popular mantras: ‘Work Hard, Play Hard’ and ‘Fake It Till You Make It.’ Sales professionals who are under pressure to perform may turn to unhealthy behaviors as a way to play hard and de-stress.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? As my product knowledge increased and selling skills became more polished, I felt I could really own the deals in my pipeline – proving to myself that I could win deals solo. What is the “ham and egg” method?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2012

The opportunity for sales people to improve their craft these days are tremendous, not only do you have the traditional sources, but between blogs, webinars, You Tube , and more. Yet, sales people don’t embracing change and new opportunities; they lose in two ways, first, by missing out on winning techniques.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 5, 2020

You will never build the best team possible if you don’t teach, train, coach, and develop the individuals on your team, improving them individually, as well as improving them as a team. You would also have a strength coach and a position coach to ensure you are prepared to play at the highest level.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 29, 2019

We give to little attention to the need to more competitive in sales now, with most people merely going through the motions, doing their job, hoping to win. We give to little attention to the need to more competitive in sales now, with most people merely going through the motions, doing their job, hoping to win.

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The Accidental Negotiator

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Framing is a powerful tool if you know how to use it Image Credit: Maayan Windmuller As negotiators, I think that we all understand that our goal in our next negotiation is to find a way to present what we want the other side to do in a way that they will accept it. Although this can be easy to say, it can be hard to do.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 27, 2019

To prepare you for an upcoming webinar with Jay Acunzo, we provide you with a comprehensive guide to revive your creativity—not as a vague concept but as a tangible marketing skill. This guide to content marketing gives you three proven strategies that will revive and renew your marketing creativity. Keep reading. Because it is.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Preparing your packaging line for business growth helps you scale effectively and smoothly. Prepare Your Packaging Line for Business Growth Struggling to keep up with business growth can lead to an inability to meet customer demand, damaging your reputation and potentially losing market shares to more agile competitors.

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BrainShark

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Whether you have an enablement team of two attempting to serve hundreds of employees or a team of 10 instructional designers dealing with too much red tape, inefficiencies in your learning authoring process are costing you. Common inefficiencies in the learning authoring process 1. Ensuring audio-visual synchronization.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

And unlike the Olympics, silver medals don’t get you on the podium. Sure, you’ve had some nice wins but the whale has eluded you. So, the prospect of winning a big Q4 deal is alluring, isn’t it? It’s our selling human nature at play. The big win – tons of revenue, profit and potential. Of course, Dec.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 14, 2020

No matter what industry you are in , the game of sales has changed. Statistically and anecdotally speaking all the data points to improved sales w hen sales managers learn to coach effectively and spend more time doing it. . By making a priority not only will it happen but you will see the results quickly. .

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Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You’re watching your reps very carefully and doing everything you can to ensure they close deals and hit their numbers. And with budgets expanding very little—if at all—everyone is being asked to do more with what they have. There’s one thing that can help you, though: technology. But it isn’t easy. Amand said.

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