The Pipeline

APRIL 16, 2019

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Funnel Clarity

APRIL 16, 2019

As a seller, hearing “We don’t work with outside vendors” or “We don’t work with third parties” from a prospect is incredibly frustrating; and not just because its used so frequently. There is a lot of irony in that statement, because if every company in the world abided by that maxim, nobody would ever sell anything. And the roughly 9 million non-retail sales people in the US alone say more than I ever could about how realistic that is.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 16, 2019

Sales opportunity management is absolutely essential for your business and its growth. Learn about sales opportunities, 3 benefits of using opportunity management, and how Pipeliner CRM makes all of this easier to visualize and track. The post What is a Sales Opportunity Management? appeared first on SalesPOP!

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criteria for success

APRIL 16, 2019

Are you a sales leader under high pressure to produce? Are you worried about recent sales performance? If so, you’re probably doing a lot of heavy lifting to extract information from each salesperson on your team. It’s like pulling teeth. You’re assessing a salesperson’s performance by feverishly examining their activities and results. For the most [ ] The post Being Preemptive Can Improve Sales Performance appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2019

In the last few years, mobile video technology has transformed the way we learn and consume content at work. But modern learning technology by itself doesn’t drive better engagement and learning outcomes. To be effective, a training program must also incorporate modern learning practice. Keep the Sales Learning Content Bite-Sized. Whether it’s delivered by mobile video, PowerPoint or a “live” human, a 60-minute lecture is still a 60-minute lecture – one that will prompt many reps to diseng

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2019

Take a look at your inbox – how many unread or deleted messages do you have? And how many of them are from companies trying to catch your attention? This is the reality of email marketing today. As such, it’s crucial to understand best practices that can help you improve email deliverability and compete in an environment where much is outside your control.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 16, 2019

One feature of modern, relationship-selling is that we need to understand about peoples’ preferred buying behaviour if we are to sell to more of them. It is a fact that people buy differently. They can be known as ‘buyer types’. Some people prefer to buy quickly, others slowly. Some people need a lot of information and detail, for others a sheet of A4 with bullet points is all the information they need.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

What is corporate hierarchy? It’s the business landscape upon which epic battles are fought. And there’s no question that B2B sales is a battlefield: Reputations, sales, and profits are lost and won. As with any battle, the key to winning is knowing the terrain on which the battle is taking place. Nowhere is this more critical than in enterprise sales, where understanding an organization’s corporate hierarchy can illuminate the battlefield.

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SBI

APRIL 16, 2019

Three Ways Digital Transformation Trends Apply to Sales & Marketing Behavior. If you asked 10 different business leaders to describe how digital transformation applies to their business, you would probably get 10 different responses. As CMO, when I think of digital transformation, I am applying it to the buyer journey and the new way in which prospects expect to be engaged with.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Costello

APRIL 16, 2019

In our latest research done in partnership with Databox , marketers and sales managers agree that playbooks improve the effectiveness and efficiency of calls, help train new salespeople and ensure product and services are correctly positioned. Perhaps most importantly, they also agree that sales playbooks creates a better customer experience! To figure out what playbooks companies should create, we asked 25 experts to share the situations in which they use them and how they’ve helped.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 16, 2019

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 16, 2019

In this post, we reveal the best sales emails practices we learned from analyzing over 15 million emails and compiled them in our book Secrets of Email Prospecting. Read on, and let us teach you some of the basics. RELATED: 7 Email Personalization Best Practices You Need to Know Sales Emails Secrets to Power Up Open […]. The post Sales Email Secrets | Secrets Of Email Prospecting To Increase Open Rates appeared first on The Sales Insider.

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Drift

APRIL 16, 2019

Conversational marketing isn’t about you. It’s about your buyers. It’s a new way of thinking because it’s focused on the buyer’s goals not your company’s goals. It’s the fastest way to move buyers through your marketing and sales funnels through the power of real-time conversations But in the last couple decades, the buying process has grown unnecessarily complicated.

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Nimble - Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re happy to announce a global reseller agreement with SherWeb, a leading cloud distributor and award-winning Gold Microsoft partner. SherWeb is enabling its 5,000 reseller partners globally to rapidly build their digital transformation practice and adopt a modern go-to-market strategy using Nimble CRM as The Simple CRM for Office 365 and gateway to Azure and […].

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2019

Every executive I speak wants to see growth in their businesses. Growth drives revenue, it provides funding for new product or market development, which in turn drives more growth. As sales and marketing professionals, it’s our responsibility to identify and pursue those growth opportunities. But we miss so much! Matt Heinz referenced Gartner data in a recent LinkedIn post.

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Anthony Iannarino

APRIL 16, 2019

Whatever is your most important outcome, do the work required until completion, or until you have made enough progress to reach a natural breaking point—and enough progress to stay on course. If you don’t start with the most important outcome, distractions and interruptions will encroach on your time, making it less likely you do meaningful work or enough of it to make a difference.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 16, 2019

Picture it: you’re working on an opportunity you deeply want to win. Your solution best meets the client’s needs and you’re trending ahead of your competition. But you lose the deal over an objection from a C-level executive. What went wrong? The needs of the C-suite buying influence are often quite different from other stakeholders; sellers need to tailor their messages to them accordingly.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s the first day of your sales career. You’re ready to take on the world sales, one cold call at a time as a Sales Development Representative (SDR). Your new manager congratulates you and says, “Alright, you’re here. Tell me about your goals.”. How does one uncover what the next step in their sales career should be? (Beyond learning 8539 acronyms, that is.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 16, 2019

The starting point of being a thought leader on LinkedIn is to use social selling as a way to connect with high potential prospects. Through social selling, you can illustrate empathy, expertise, and problem-solving ability which helps you build trust and create value for those who want to engage with you. I am still surprised by the number of salespeople I meet who don’t use social selling as part of their attempts to connect with a high-potential account.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2019

I read a post about influencing and accelerating our customers’ buying decisions. The author thought trying to acclerate or “move in” the buying decision was wrong. I don’t disagree–usually, our motives for trying to do this is getting an order and making out numbers. Toward the end of a month or quarter, managers seem to always focus on, “What can we move in?

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 16, 2019

Approaching sales force enablement with a carefully crafted plan can have a significant impact on the success of your sales organization. According to research from Demand Metric , 75% of companies surveyed report that having a sales enablement strategy makes a moderate or significant contribution to their achievement of revenue goals. The key here is to be intentional during the planning process in order to create results that are worth your time and resources.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

How many meetings do you have today? I'm assuming you have a fair amount. In fact, 23% of professionals in the U.S. spend five or more hours in meetings per week. Whether you're meeting with prospects, clients, or colleagues finding a time to meet can be a challenge, especially when everyone's calendars are equally as busy. And precious time can be lost while scheduling meetings due to countless email threads and back-and-forth messages.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 16, 2019

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Our beliefs about combining artificial intelligence and human selling are in the beginning phase. The question is, are we willing to consider varying perspectives for a better conclusion? My Story. On my first sales job, I was expected to sell fax machines. I knew nothing about the machines and was nervous given my lack of technical understanding.

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Leading Results Rambings

APRIL 16, 2019

The rise in voice search capabilities, chatbots, and changes in search behavior have left marketers and sales reps questioning how useful a traditional form and landing page are anymore. Here are a few things to consider about chatbots and conversational marketing: research says that in 2020, 85% of all customer interactions will be handled through chatbots, without a human, and 56% of people would rather message customer service reps than call them.

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CloserIQ

APRIL 16, 2019

Whether you’re new to sales or an experienced sales leader, prospecting is integral to your current success and your future career growth trajectory. A prospecting plan that’s strategic and worked consistently improves the quality and quantity of leads in your pipeline. When your pipeline has the right mix of quality and quantity, you’ll close more new business and expand your reach within your existing accounts.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Bigtincan

APRIL 16, 2019

This blog attempts to answer the thorny question of how much control you should give sales people over the creation of presentation decks – an area fraught with misunderstanding and different points of view! I also take a look at how sales enablement platforms can help and, in some cases, hinder. Marketing control versus Sales […].

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Adam Honig

APRIL 16, 2019

Let me tell you the honest truth about how I became a salesperson, after studying philosophy in college. The post How I Became a Salesperson (The Honest Truth) appeared first on Spiro Technologies.

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Guru

APRIL 16, 2019

So much of today’s customer experience happens online. Your customer’s expectation — whether they’re reaching out about an issue via chat, completing an online form for an event, phoning a call center, or browsing your website’s resources — is an effortless and efficient information transfer, so they can get back to focusing on their bottom line.

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