No More Cold Calling
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Pack your pipeline with nothing but hot referral leads. I recently scored a meeting with the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. It took me one call to get on his calendar. Why? I received a referral introduction from his trusted friend and advisor. During our 30-minute call, I learned what this CEO expected from salespeople and what initiatives he was driving.
The Pipeline
OCTOBER 1, 2015
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . People are creatures of habit, and while we do change over time, most often these are gradual and incremental evolutions, only occasionally radical and sudden change. There are several way this can help sellers perform better, not only in terms of quota, but helping clients achieve their objectives, leading to more business as a result.
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Understanding the Sales Force
OCTOBER 1, 2015
If you had a crystal ball to predict whether or not your next sales candidate would succeed in a difficult selling role at your company, wouldn't you want to use it? Heck, you would want to look into that thing even if it wasn't a difficult selling role. But what if you were recruiting kids right out of college? What would you do then? Would you just recruit a whole bunch of kids and keep the ones who didn't quit?
Pointclear
OCTOBER 1, 2015
There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? That’s what I set out to find when I presented this question to fellow industry experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months.
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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.
The Sales Hunter
OCTOBER 1, 2015
A salesperson contacted me saying he was not having any success developing new customers. I get calls like this all the time, but what struck me about this situation is what I found out after I started digging in. The company the salesperson sells for offers a wide range of services their target prospect […].
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Mr. Inside Sales
OCTOBER 1, 2015
We all face competition. There is always someone who can do it cheaper, or faster, or better (at least in the mind of your prospect). Because of this, prospects – and even customers – are constantly on the search for a better deal. Knowing how to handle the competition objection effectively can mean the difference between winning the sale or suffering that sinking feeling of having lost the business to someone else.
Increase Sales
OCTOBER 1, 2015
For mid-size to small businesses (SMB), there is a very real US (those not in sales) vs THEM (the salespeople) sales mindset. Since in many instances, the salespeople are the greater salary earners, there is a resentment by some of the non-sales employees. Credit www.gratisography.com. This resentment happens because executive leadership allows it.
A Sales Guy
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Do you remember the book the Challenger Sale ? The book that got everyone fired up because they said relationships wasn’t the most important skill in selling? Well, the boys are at it again and I got to interview them. The authors of the Challenger Sale just launched the Challenger Customer and it’s already a Wall Street Journal bestseller (#2).
Engage Selling
OCTOBER 1, 2015
It really has been a crazy few months here at Engage Selling. Working with so many different clients in such a short span really opens your eyes to new ideas, strategies and insights. I’m always open to embracing fresh new thinking! With that in mind, I want to share with you an important point which […].
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OCTOBER 1, 2015
In case you’ve missed them or are in serious need of sales motivation quotes, here are all 30 videos we published this month. Theoretically, since each video is less than a minute long, you could watch them in half an hour. Although we can’t guarantee what will happen to you if you do!
Hyper-Connected Selling
OCTOBER 1, 2015
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. But it’s still as relevant as it was then. Don’t make too quick a judgement. In Blink , Malcolm Gladwell goes from his examination of macroscopic communication in The Tipping Point to the other end of the spectrum. With Blink , Malcolm looks at the power of first impressions.
BrainShark
OCTOBER 1, 2015
The article below was submitted by Austin Duck, Content Marketing Manager at CircleBack.
SugarCRM
OCTOBER 1, 2015
The content marketing craze is in full swing, but the truth is, many organizations don’t have a fully-dedicated content team. And, according to SiriusDecisions, 60-70% of B2B content is wasted. We want to let you in on a little secret: You don’t need to churn out a ton of new content each day to be successful. This is especially the case when you look at marketing activities like nurture campaigns.
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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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