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A Four Letter Word Every Seller Should Learn – Sales eXecution 318

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One attribute many successful sales people possess is clarity of purpose, this helps them plan and execute more effectively, as well as help them review their actions and results more objectively. Because they are more focused on ‘purpose’ rather than self, any negatives that may surface during those reviews are weighed against results and how they may have moved them towards their purpose.

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7 Ways To Make Your Monday Morning Sales Meetings Buzz

MTD Sales Training

Why is it that many salespeople hate internal sales meetings? You know, the ones where everyone sits round a desk and covers off the trivia and very quickly get bored with the whole process because. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Build Relationships at Every Stage of the Customer Journey

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-11-20. Author: Gregg Schwartz. Teaser: Every custmer is on a customer journey. Instead of thinking about how to work customers through your sales process, think about the customer’s view of the conversation and try to adapt your tactics to match the customer's buying process. Every custmer is on a customer journey. Instead of thinking about how to work customers through your sales process, think about the customer’s view of the conversation and try to adapt your

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10 Great Examples - Customer Service as a Powerful Sales Tool

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week, during my travels to Poland and back, I experienced how companies are using customer service as sales tools. In most cases, customer service tends to be vanilla, bland, and although professional in its approach, it is typically highly unspectacular. However, sometimes, customer service is so good, or so bad, that their brand statements go beyond what marketing or sales could ever do.

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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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Sales Eagles Sore! Turkeys Get Consumed.

Steven Rosen

Thanksgiving is the time to celebrate and be thankful for our family and friends and all the wonderful blessings we have. I would like to wish all my American friends a Happy Thanksgiving. Be careful not to eat too much turkey, as it is high in L-tryptophan and can make you sleepy. Most of your customers will shut down in less than 4 weeks. If you are chasing your 2015 sales numbers you need to return from this holiday weekend highly energetic, focused and ready to sprint to the finish line.

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Compromise the Achilles’ Heel to Authentic Leadership

Increase Sales

Do you believe in compromise? How do you define compromise? For those in authentic leadership roles, this word may potentially become their Achilles’ Heel. When we simply look at the word compromise, we see the word promise. When we promise something to someone, we are giving our word, our bond. Behind that word are the positive core values (ethics or business ethics) and respective behaviors.

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Hard Work is a B h

A Sales Guy

Hard work is a b h! Tiger Woods hits 1,000 balls AFTER each round in a Major. Lindsey Vonn spends 8 hours a day in the gym, 5 days a week. Michael Phelps spent 40 hours a week in the pool, and that didn’t count his gym time or road time. Hard work is a b h and the truth is you have no idea what hard work really is. If you want to make Presidents club, if you want to make a lot of money….

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Five Reasons Why You Need a Sales Playbook

Sales Result

Can every member of your sales team deliver strong value propositions and elevator pitches that address a prospect’s needs while building credibility and peaking interest? Is your team consistent and effective in their approach strategies, both individually and collectively?

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What's the Most Important Role of Front-Line Sales Managers?

BrainShark

One of the core goals of any sales enablement strategy or technology is to put salespeople in better position to have more successful sales conversations. But with so much focus always being placed on the reps , it can be easy to overlook the needs of the people managing them.

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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 Steps to Get Your Lead Data Ready for Account-Based Sales Development

SalesLoft

You’ve gotten the lowdown on Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD). And you’ve hopefully also read about the common myths busted by ABSD , and how it can boost your team’s morale. By now, your team should be ready to take the plunge. But what about your lead data ? That’s right — even if your mind is right, you need to get your data right before you go all-in with ABSD.

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Prospecting Roundup: 7 Articles to Improve Your Sales Team’s Prospecting Effectiveness

The Brooks Group

As the year comes to a close and your team is busy trying to meet their Q4 target, don’t let prospecting for the new year fall by the wayside. Even the most skilled salespeople can’t close a deal if they aren’t capable of getting in front of the right people, so your team’s prospecting effectiveness should be your top priority for 2016. To help you optimize your team’s sales territory planning strategy, we’ve rounded up 7 posts from The IMPACT Sales Training Blog that focus on the sales skill th

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Stuff Your Turkey, Not Your Database: How to Keep Your Email Database Clean

SugarCRM

This Thanksgiving we’re looking forward to a table stocked with all the fixings: Stuffing, cranberry sauce, a juicy turkey and pumpkin pie topped with a dollop of whipped cream (is anyone else getting hungry?). Of course what’s sitting on our plates is only as good as how delicious it tastes. Most of us would probably rather have a single, yet perfectly-prepared, mouth-watering dish than a table brimming with cold, flavorless plates of food.