The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 20, 2023

Conflict between sales and marketing is nothing new. The most common scenario is that marketing teams complain about a lack of timely follow-up with their hard-earned leads or them not being closed properly, and sales is often unhappy with the quality of leads they get from marketing. These two teams Marketing teams can track the online behaviors of leads to help warm up what would otherwise be a cold call.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 20, 2023

Modern tooling is the leading solution for scaling sales and operations. Here is some of the top tech on the market that you can adopt today to boost business efficiency. The post Scaling Sales and Operations Efficiency: 10 Tools for Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools. Let me explain and then I’ll pivot to selling. When it comes to yard-work I’m pretty lazy.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2023

Content warning: This article contains descriptions and images of gun violence, as well as discussion of trauma. After the first shot, I thought that someone had popped a bottle of champagne. After 10 to 20 more shots, reality set in, and so did the chaos. People running in every direction in the crowded brewery. Time standing still, then unfreezing.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 20, 2023

I read a post by a respected sales expert on “Information Asymmetry.” Oversimplifying it, the premise was sellers and customers struggle with buying because we have much more knowledge about our products than the customer, as a result, we have to reduce that asymmetry in how we educate our customers about our products. This is probably correct, at least for the part of the customer change process that focuses solely on product/solution selection.

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Go for No!

JUNE 20, 2023

When I was 16, I needed a job and I wanted to work in only one place. The local record store. Technically, it was records, CDs, and cassette tapes. I didn’t apply anywhere else. I was determined to work there. The store was only a few miles from my house not to mention working at a record store was the coolest job anyone could possibly have. So, I applied.

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Nutshell

JUNE 20, 2023

One of the most essential tools for any business is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform , and your tech company is no exception. But there’s more than one type of CRM out there, and you may be unsure which one is right for you. Two of the main types of CRMs are industry-specific and general-purpose CRMs. That probably leads you to ask, “Should I get a tech-specific CRM or general-purpose one?

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 20, 2023

Janek Performance Group recently received the prestigious State of Nevada Top Workplaces 2023 Award , marking our third consecutive win. While we are humbled by this recognition, we accept this award proudly because it represents a lot of hard work. This Top Workplace Award serves as a reminder of the numerous factors to consider when building a successful sales organization.

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Nutshell

JUNE 20, 2023

Your sales pipeline—that is, the multi-stage journey your leads take to become customers—is the key to unlocking more revenue for your retail and ecommerce company. When your pipeline is efficiently managed, you can significantly increase the number of sales your business generates. But how do you do that? What does it take to improve a retail and ecommerce sales pipeline?

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Selling Energy

JUNE 20, 2023

Have you ever encountered a prospect who would only approve a project if it qualified for a rebate or incentive? Perhaps they said something like, “Efficiency upgrades used to make sense when there were a lot more rebates. If you can’t get me a rebate on this project, I’m not interested.” Today, we’ll discuss why statements like these reflect at least two myths, and how you should preemptively neutralize objections.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 20, 2023

Are you tired of the traditional tactics of asking for referrals and not getting any results? Do you feel like your referral campaigns are falling flat? Look no further than Stacy Brown Randall’s “backward approach” to generating referrals. Stacy emphasizes the importance of building relationships with potential referral sources before asking for referrals.

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GTM Buddy Blog | Sales Enablement Resources

JUNE 20, 2023

Every third person on LinkedIn claims to be an influencer today. Here's our list of some of the best folks working in sales enablement who are actually worth your time.

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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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Pipeliner

JUNE 20, 2023

In this podcast episode, John Golden and Stacy Brown Randall discuss the challenges of generating referrals without asking for them. They explain why traditional tactics of asking for referrals and incentivizing them don’t work and emphasize the importance of building relationships and nurturing a referral ecosystem within a business. Stacy introduces her “backwards approach” to generating referrals, which involves building professional relationships with potential referral sou

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Close

JUNE 20, 2023

Looking for a change from PhoneBurner? These 7 PhoneBurner alternatives might just be what you need to streamline and boost sales productivity.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Finance and accounting professionals perform tasks that are often complex, demanding, and incredibly consequential to the success of their company. As such, they rely on many technical skills gathered through years of experience and education. But, mathematical skills and role-specific expertise are just a piece of the puzzle– success in finance or accounting also requires a number of equally important soft skills.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 20, 2023

Revenue is one of the most important parts of any business, but it doesn’t just pop into existence on its own. Many teams, tasks, and processes are involved in generating revenue — and that’s why every company needs a solid revenue operations strategy. Also called RevOps, this function unites different parts of a business to ensure that everyone and everything is pushing in the same direction.

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SugarCRM

JUNE 20, 2023

When it comes to modern CRM technology, there is good and bad news. The good news is that CRM is now the largest software market. The bad news is that CRM is now the largest software market. I know. Mind-blowing, right? Let me break it down for you. Today, we have dozens of CRMs flooding the market, and while that means that users have more choices, it also means that there is a lot of noise and confusion.

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