Tue.Mar 28, 2017

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Are You Making Your Prospect Uncomfortable?

The Sales Heretic

A female friend called me recently to tell me a story. She had arrived home from work around dusk. As she approached her house, she noticed two men walking through the neighborhood. She pulled into her driveway, opened her garage door, and parked in the garage. As she exited her car, the two men approached [.].

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3 Ways Sales Management Can Coach and Develop Sales Reps

SBI Growth

SBI conducts hundreds of field observations and interviews with sales reps and managers every quarter. We call these Day in the Life Of, or Dilos. There is a major theme consistent across most sales forces: The Coaching and Developing of front.

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Speed Up Your Prospecting to Protect Your Best Asset

The Sales Hunter

Two weeks ago, I was looking for assistance on a project and was looking to hire a company to take it over. One of the companies I spoke with on the phone was courteous and nice, but they didn’t get the job. The reason is simple — they didn’t ask the tough questions. After […].

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Create Products that Fly Off the Shelf

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Tom Banta, a Senior Vice-President of Product Management and Development who knows a thing or two about creating products that people can’t imagine living without. Tom led product development at BMC Software and it’s.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Want to Close at Full Price? Start with Prospects Who Can Pay Full Price.

The Sales Hunter

You can’t take a Walmart shopper and turn them into a Nordstrom customer. It simply is not going to happen, but that is exactly what too many salespeople think they can do. If you want full price, you need to spend your time prospecting customers who can pay full price. Are you one who […].

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What’s Your Client Backup Plan?

Engage Selling

You cannot grow your business with a particular client if you’re relying on a singular point of information. Growth comes from not only the quality of contacts, but also your quantity of contacts in a particular organization.

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6 Positive Habits You Must Adopt For All Sales Calls

SalesEngine

The world of B2B sales has been transformed by big data, mobile technology, and advanced analytics, and there’s no question that these developments have made it possible for sales reps to engage with customers more efficiently and reliably. However, there is still room in the B2B sales landscape to talk about the power of positive habits, which can transform your actions and influence your behavior in myriad ways.

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Sales Tips: Sellers Shouldn't Act Like Waiters

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Salespeople Shouldn't Act Like Waiters. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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8 Best Practices for Sales Leaders

The Brooks Group

Great sales leaders know there’s more to the job than meets the eye. Success in such a complicated and high-pressure leadership position requires a lot of discipline, diligence, and savvy. . The best sales leaders follow these 8 best practices: . 1. They seek input from salespeople about their quotas . The quickest way to upset any sales team anywhere is to mess with pay plans.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Hiring the Right Product Manager

Product Management University

When it comes to hiring the right product manager, there’s no foolproof technique. Treat it like you’re shopping for a product. You have a set of needs. There are obstacles to meeting those needs, and you’re going to shop for a person who can best remove those obstacles. The situational interview will quickly separate the contenders from the pretenders.

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Some of the easiest ways to turn leads into customers

The SalesPro Leader

The article, Some of the easiest ways to turn leads into customers originally appeared first on SalesPro Leads - Connecting You with Tomorrow's Buyers.

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3 smart tips for managing remote sales teams

OnePageCRM

The role of a sales rep has evolved to the point where they now have the flexibility to work from wherever, whenever. This flexibility allows companies to hire and attract talent that would have been unavailable to them in the past and many are taking advantage by hiring remote sales teams. Studies show that remote work may even increase the productivity of your team over in-office hires.

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3 smart tips for managing remote sales teams

OnePageCRM

The role of a sales rep has evolved to the point where they now have the flexibility to work from wherever, whenever. This flexibility allows companies to hire and attract talent that would have been unavailable to them in the past and many are taking advantage by hiring remote sales teams. Studies show that remote work may even increase the productivity of your team over in-office hires.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.