Thu.Aug 28, 2014

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Easy Ways to Use Social Media for Sales

The Pipeline

'The Pipeline Guest Post - Megan Totka. Let’s face it; social media is the future of sales. Actually, it’s the right now of sales, too! Social media is an inescapable force in the lives of billions of people. Are you harnessing its power for your sales initiatives? There are so many different social networks; truthfully, it’s hard to keep track of them all.

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Why Your Lead Generation Process is Failing

SBI Growth

'If you are reading this blog then you are likely an advanced marketing leader. You want to stay ahead or you’re transforming an organization. I’m going to go deep with you on the most exciting new development in lead generation: Dynamic Lead Management Process.

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Easiest way to make a sale? Start at the top!

Jeffrey Gitomer

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How to Get Prospects to Call You Back

No More Cold Calling

'If no one’s returning your calls, you must be cold calling. I see you. I know who’s calling. If I don’t recognize the name or number on my screen, I won’t answer. I’ll wait for you to leave a message, but you won’t. No one leaves a message when they’re just cold calling a list. They’re expecting someone to pick up the phone and actually listen.

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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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How To Spend The Five Minutes Before Meeting Your Prospect

MTD Sales Training

'Some salespeople relish meeting new prospects. They love the anticipation of the initial stages, are keen and eager to assess the business opportunities and are happy to build relationships that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Tale of B2B Mobile Websites – Webinar Platforms

Score More Sales

'I have spent some time ranting a bit about how poor many B2B websites are when it comes to utilizing them on a mobile platform, such as a smart phone or tablet. We know that according to eMarketer, “more than 59% of B2B purchase decision makers and influencers use their smart phones to gather information when purchasing products or services”. Research also shows that 65% of executives are comfortable making a business purchase from a mobile phone (Forbes, “The Untethered Executive”).

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14 Lessons From My Dad, The Sales Manager

Anthony Cole Training

'In case you missed my previous blog post, I talked about words of wisdom I learned from my dad, Ray Cole Sr. In that post, I covered: He’ll only do that once. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. He’s too dumb to pour p**s out of a boot even if the instructions are on the bottom. I started that post with the comment that I thought my dad could have been a good sales manager.

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Corporate Culture Is the Result of Leadership

Increase Sales

'Earlier this week I saw a social media post about some so called business expert leaving the airport to teach some Fortune 500 firm “corporate culture.” My first reaction is not printable here. However, my second reaction was “you can’t teach corporate culture because that is the result of good, bad or mediocre leadership.” The third thought was “more wasted training dollars looking for the quick fix.” There are a plethora of definitions regarding co

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2014?s Not Over, But These #TopMarketingTools Have Already Won

SBI

'Want to accelerate your revenue marketing with tools that let you identify, prioritize and nurture leads? Perhaps you want tools that deliver rich content that lets you convert more prospects into leads and leads into opportunities. You’ll find them and more in our new Top Marketing Tools of 2014 guide. We’ve scoured the marketing landscape to identify what we believe are top tools for B2B marketers.

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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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Dealing With Poor Performers

Partners in Excellence

'As managers and leaders we like working with our top performers. It’s creative, they “get it,” we focus on how we win, how we grow the business. If we’re doing our jobs right, however good they are, we are always coaching, developing, stretching them to grow, and achieve more. Sometimes, we give them special developmental opportunities, exposure to execs, special projects–but they deserve it, and it helps build them as sales and business professionals.

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Survey: Local Presence Dialing—Foot in the Door, or Door-Slammer

Engage Selling

'Instructive new research from Software Advice a sales software comparison website about the likelihood of prospects answering unknown calls vs. local calls vs. toll free. “The idea is that people are more apt to answer a call from an unknown number if that call appears to be coming from a local number: this gets the caller’s “foot in the door.

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I learned 3 things last weekend

Tom Hopkins

'Life is a learning experience, isn’t it? Even though I’ve been teaching and training others for 40 years, I learned three things last weekend. This time last week my staff and I were traveling from Phoenix to Las Vegas for our first-ever 2-day Sales Academy. It was held at The Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel–right on […]. The post I learned 3 things last weekend appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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How a tie salesman's trust changed the way I look at sales

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The best salespeople can change your life. Not because of what they sell you, but because of how they make you feel.

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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.

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TSE 067: Uncovering Pain and Creating Revolutionary Solutions!

Sales Evangelist

In this episode my good friend Jay Quiles and I interviewed Mike McGee who is one of the co-founders of the of Starter League and Starter School. Mike and his co-founder started Starter Leagues as a solution to their “pain” they faced as they tried to develop a start up business. Without any coding or […] The post TSE 067: Uncovering Pain and Creating Revolutionary Solutions!

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Why Salespeople Fail

Jonathan Farrington

'When I am asked to diagnose why an individual – or even an entire sales team - are not performing at optimum levels, I usually ask just four very straightforward questions: Are they visiting/talking to enough clients/prospects? In other words are they pro-active and are their activity levels high? I call this CCT as a percentage of TWT (Customer Contact Time as a percentage of Total Working Time) BUT, we should never believe that activity alone will guarantee success; we can all be busy f