Thu.Apr 02, 2020

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The Market Is Uncertain, But Your Demand Gen Strategy Shouldn’t Be

SBI Growth

There is no doubt that life is going to look a little bit different coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have seen medical professionals turn to telemedicine, elementary school students begin eLearning, and even fine dining restaurants start.

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Are Small Businesses Prepared to Work from Home? Maybe not, Data Suggest

Zoominfo

As the coronavirus pandemic has continued to worsen, large companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and many others have either encouraged employees to work from home or mandated it. Despite this, the transition to working from home is fundamentally more difficult for smaller businesses and not nearly as widespread.

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Sales Training Aligned to Your Buyers Journey

The Digital Sales Institute

In a world where it is increasingly difficult to separate out one offering from the next, sales training aligned to your buyers journey can be a key competitive advantage as it will allow you to deliver relevant experiences matched to each step along the process. For you to truly understanding your own buyer’s journey will mean embracing the many turns in the path towards a buying decision.

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Normal Is Just Another Word For Yesterday

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. You don’t need to look far today to see someone going off about the “new normal.” While it is easy to understand why people choose this lens, I find it a bit self-serving and potentially risky in the current environment. In a world where the only constant, is change, normal is just another word for yesterday. We are living through an unprecedented experience, completely new to everyone.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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5 Secrets for Successfully Working from Home

Mr. Inside Sales

So how is working at home going for you? Have you found a way to keep the dog from barking? How about the kids? And what about the gardener that blows every Tuesday? Oh, and don’t forget to actually work! You remember, the prospecting calls you need to make, the demos you need to book, and the prospects you’re supposed to be following up with. If you’re new to working from a home office, or if you don’t have a proper home office set up yet, then you know how challenging it can be to get into a r

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Improving The Customer Experience With Behavior Modelling for Sellers

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Sean Broderick Modern buyers are seeking trusted advisors and not vendors, which is why simply knowing the product or service being offered is no longer enough for sellers. With the average sales manager devoting just 9% of his or her time developing direct reports, there is a tendency for sales coaches to focus on training sellers on the ins and outs of the products or services they are selling.

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7 Email Ideas to Boost Customer Relationships

Nimble - Sales

A recent study showed that 77% of brands could disappear and nobody would care. It sounds pretty harsh, like something Regina George from Mean Girls would tell you if she was your business advisor. But, the truth is many brands fail to make meaningful connections with their customers. Email is the perfect channel to prevent […]. The post 7 Email Ideas to Boost Customer Relationships appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Make the Right Call Now to Win Business Later

SalesProInsider

Have you heard the saying, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care?”. Now is the time that we should be keeping that mantra in mind as we proactively use these next weeks to reach out to people and set the stage for helping them, strengthening our relationship with them, building trust, and earning the right for business in the future, whether that’s short term or long term.

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Are Small Businesses Prepared to Work from Home? Maybe Not, Data Suggest

Zoominfo

On February 26, 175 executives gathered at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel in Boston, Mass., to discuss the future of one of the world’s largest biotech companies. Within days, it was revealed that several of them were infected with COVID-19. Following this confirmation, all conference attendees were immediately asked to self-quarantine, and by early March, Biogen had effectively transitioned it’s 7,400 employees to a fully remote workforce.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Schools & Non-Profits: Stay Healthy, Use Brainshark for Free

BrainShark

To help ease the burden created by COVID-19, Brainshark is inviting any school, university or non-profit to use our award-winning content authoring solution - at no cost. .

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How life changes after you get Xactly (Process Improvement)

Canidium

Processing sales commissions and getting payroll out the door can be a difficult task each month. This is especially true if you are not using any software to help! Inserting Xactly into your sales commission process helps improve your existing process but also creates unexpected value! Let's compare the difference between life before and after implementing Xactly.

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How to avoid building a big sales infrastructure and still grow your company

Predictable Revenue

Part of growing a company is growing a sales team. But, what about those organizations that never plan to build and grow a robust sales infrastructure? How do those companies grow their bottom line? The post How to avoid building a big sales infrastructure and still grow your company appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Companies Are Turning To eCommerce—Here’s How To Find Them

Vainu

When the going gets tough, the tough test new ideas. In the recent weeks of economic downturn, many business owners have been forced to look for alternative ways to bring in revenue. And one of the most popular ways has been going digital: leaping into the unknown and setting up an ecommerce website, or doubling down on an existing one.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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How to Overcome the Top 3 Pains of Virtual Training

Allego

Many training managers are scrambling right now. In-person sessions have been canceled. Teams are working remotely. We all need to find the best ways to stay productive in the middle of what otherwise feels like a really chaotic time. For sales to stay on track, it’s even more important than usual for reps to collaborate and share best practices with one another.

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Maintain Sales Productivity: Five Ways Your Company Can Focus Your Reps on Selling Value

Force Management

With the news about the COVID-19 Pandemic changing daily, focus can be a challenge for a sales leader. The constant shift likely means pivoting between heavy-hearted decisions, board meetings, conversations with employees and the albeit adjusted revenue numbers. Your customers are facing the same difficult decisions. How are you keeping your sales reps focused?

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Organisations are nothing without communication and relationships

Sue Barrett

Organisations can only exist when there is an active system of communication between parties that creates the scaffolding of relationship dynamics. Without communication and relationships, organisations are hollow, empty. And as much as good communication can do for an organisation, bad communication or the lack thereof can tear it down. In times of crisis and […].

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Achieving Sales Excellence, Remotely

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

There’s no doubt that times are changing – that includes sales as much as any other profession. Offices are closed, and workforces are distributed across remote setups. In-person interaction has been taken off the table for the time being, with the new normal living online and through video chats and emails. Sellers have already been adapting to changing buyer expectations, and to a more tech-savvy business landscape.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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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1 Minute Remote Working Tips #9: Team Dynamics

Pipeliner

Welcome to SalesPOP “ 1-minute remote working tips ” video series. This is the 10th video in the series. #8: Empower & Get Out of the Way! If you missed the other 9 videos in the series you can find them below. Introductions. #1 Expectations. #2 Sales Manager as Role Model #1. #2 Sales Manager as Role Model #2. #3 SHOWING UP. #4 DIGITAL PROCESSES. #5 Your Workspace. #6 Negotiating with Everyone. #7 Be Available. #8: Empower & Get Out of the Way!

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Finding The Good in Today’s Climate

Engage Selling

Despite everything going on right now with COVID-19, it is possible to find the good in today’s climate. I’ve spoken extensively about the coronavirus outbreak recently.

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The Outbound Assist — How Outbound Tactics Make Inbound Leads Grow

Cience

In 2015, HubSpot published the result of their traffic research , stating that 46% of traffic that B2B companies across all the industries get to their websites is direct. However, according to Paul Koks and Online Metrics , direct traffic over 20% is a sign of incorrect Google Analytics settings. Direct traffic remains an enigma for marketers. Its share in overall traffic is decreasing as Google finds new ways to attribute traffic (e.g., the email share) and marketing professionals are learning

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Remote sales team? 4 ways to close more deals with video calls

Close.io

We're all looking for a sales approach that'll close deals during this crisis. We want something that distinguishes us from all the messages, emails and noise of other sales professionals doing outreach of their own. Here's the tough part: Every salesperson is sending emails and making phone calls every day. A prospect's inbox is only going to get bigger and bigger over time, and it'll become increasingly difficult to stand out and get a prospects' attention.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Webinar: 5 Take-Aways to Bust Through Today’s Selling Barriers

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — 11:00 am (Eastern Time) Paul Cherry interviews Steve Schiffman, legendary sales trainer of more than 500,000 of sales professionals and author of 70 books, as he shares with you five key ideas you can put into action immediately to bust through the today’s barriers. What you’ll learn: Develop a positive mindset to cut through the !

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Operations: What It Is and How to Implement It

Highspot

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. When implemented alongside strategic training, tools, and engagement techniques, sales operations can help sales teams become more productive and efficient and have a positive impact on both top- and bottom-line performance.

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New Study: Customer Experience Best Practices

Miller Heiman Group

In our “ Customer Experience Best Practices Study ,” researchers from Miller Heiman Group explore the business case for investing in a customer experience strategy to drive revenue performance. In today’s competitive market, growth strategies based on low pricing or product innovations are not enough to create a lasting advantage. What does? Customer loyalty.

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Effective Sales Development with David Dulany of Tenbound

Tenbound

David Dulany is the Founder and CEO of Tenbound, a research and advisory firm focused and dedicated to sales development, performance, and improvement. They provide cutting edge research, high-quality events, consulting, training, and coaching for all levels of the sales development team. David also provides sales training to salespeople, and his company’s tagline is, “More Appointments.

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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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Your Greatest Vulnerability?

Xvoyant

by: Rob Jeppsen. 10 min read. Quarantines. Social Distancing. People wearing sanitation masks to the grocery store. Inability to purchase hand sanitizer. The handshake may never be part of business ever again. As organizations have responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic around the world, workers have left the corporate environment and retreated to the safety of their homes.

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The Daily Briefing: April 2, 2020

Chorus.ai

Watch the Video. In Today's Daily Briefing, Chorus CEO Jim Benton was joined by Dan Dawson , CSO of Force Management to discuss the relationship of new opportunity meetings and discovery meetings in this current climate. Ultimately: Account Executives are still meeting and starting new opportunities, but discovery is dropping. There’s a slight dip in new opportunity meetings with Account Executives, but mostly holding steady. 22% drop in Discovery Meetings MoM 31% Drop in Discovery Meetings YoY

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Adjusting to a New “Normal” – Take it Easy on Yourself and Others

Carew International

The last several weeks have presented us with many new challenges – to say the least. We have all found ourselves being forced to learn new things and quickly adjust to different routines. Change of this caliber is not easy to handle. Most of the change initiatives that we’ve become familiar with over the course of our careers are rolled out gradually—think organizational restructuring or cultural changes, for example.

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