Mon.Sep 22, 2014

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Do people WANT to listen to you? 9.5 strategies to employ when presenting as a sales trainer, coach or leader

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Get Ready for the Annual Sales Planning Season

SBI Growth

'Q4 is around the corner. It''s annual planning season. Next year’s number has been handed down. Your sales leader is going to want to know your strategy for next year: How many heads will you need? How will you fill the pipeline with new opportunities? How will you fill open territories? These are just a few questions to answer. Bottom line, you will be asked about your strategy to make next year’s number.

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After Inbound 14 - Anatomy of a Hybrid Sales & Marketing Role

Understanding the Sales Force

'Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Last week, when speaking on the Inbound Stage at Inbound14, my topic was Hiring for the Inbound Sales Role. I asked the question, "Is this a sales or a marketing role?". The audience desperately wanted this to be a hybrid - someone who could do both the marketing and the sales. Unfortunately, a hybrid role it is not.

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Money Monday – Live and In Person for Sellers

Score More Sales

'When you are working predominantly with inside sales reps and their immediate sales leaders, it is easy to only think about being in the office and not ever going out at all. Within a couple weeks’ time, I have been to three insight-filled, amazing events. Each was amazing in their own way. All combined made for a brain swell. The AA-ISP Frontline Event – Boston was on September 9th.

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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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Networking Is Not Net-Broadcasting from the Social Media Bully Pulpit

Increase Sales

'Do you feel sometimes that you are being hounded by all the networking happening within social media? The constant stream of postings, blogs and emails where the emphasis is all about the other person and you know they could care less about you. It seems social media has become the bully pulpit. Teddy Roosevelt where are you? This past week beyond those LinkedIn members who do not know the difference between a discussion, an event or a job, I received numerous emails including these with my imm

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Leadership Lessons from the NFL

Engage Selling

'The best leaders are proactive. They create policies, plans, and action before they need to. The NFL has failed in this regard. While I applaud the work they are doing now to deal with future cases of domestic violence, one gets the sense they are only doing the right thing because of public outcry and fear of sponsorship loss.

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Your Unique Value: Solution Focused versus Challenge Centric?

The ROI Guy

'With all the choices available to buyers, it is important to communicate how your solution is unique. Many times, when organizations try to articulate the differentiating value of their solutions, they start with a “solutions first approach”, communicating each feature they perceive as a differentiator and the value these features might deliver. What your marketing and sales enablement teams might not fully realize is that: Product / service differentiators are fleeting, especially today where

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Sales Leadership: 5 Steps to Exceed 2015 Quota

Your Sales Management Guru

'Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. The end of the year is rapidly closing in and while everyone in your organization is focused on achieving their targets; as a sales leader it is crucial you are also focused on the new year. At this time of year I am working with each of my clients to begin to position them for success. I have listed the actions most organizations need to consider to exceed next year’s quota.

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Sales Tip: Turn Off Your Technology and Turn On Sales

Engage Selling

'Learn how to create continuous sales growth and eliminate boom & bust sales cycles! Get your very own copy of my new book Nonstop Sales Boom!

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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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5 Tips for a More Tech-Savvy Sales Presentation

BrainShark

While PowerPoint is still an invaluable tool for most sales presenters, many reps these days also mix in the

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The Reason For My Call – Sales eXecution 268

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . For many, “The Reason For My Call”, is a crucial part of their prospecting call, probably more accurate to say cold call, as I would have to assume that if it were a warm call the recipient would know the reason for the call. All too often I cringe when I hear how most callers use this expression, especially when a couple of small adjustments in their approach may lead to better results.

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Today’s Video Platforms Extend Employee Engagement Initiatives

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2014-09-22. Author: Vern Hanzlik, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Qumu. Teaser: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In truth, when it comes to engaging employees, a picture is worth far more than that. A study by 3M and the University of Minnesota found that a single minute of video equates to 1.8 million words. No wonder video has become a powerful tool for today’s business communicators, particularly for employee engagement.

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