Thu.Mar 05, 2015

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Time Is The Currency Of Sales #BBSradio

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . This month’s piece on Michele Price’s BREAKTHROUGH radio program deals with time, as time runs out on Q1. To hear my segment from last week, click on the image below. Check Out Business Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Breakthroughbusiness on BlogTalkRadio. I appear every 4th Monday, speaking of course about sales, but there a host of other great content, I encourage you to check Michele’s program out, and learn from a range of contribu

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4 Ways Salespeople Get Social Networking Wrong

No More Cold Calling

'Forget about social selling and focus on social engagement. “Aren’t you afraid clients won’t need you?” That’s what a shocked colleague asked when I told him I was including my entire referral process in my first book, No More Cold Calling. Yes, I was giving everything away—my content, my best ideas, and a process that took years to perfect.

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The Three Things That Buyers Want

MTD Sales Training

'“But I sell a great product Sean, why won’t they buy?” It’s a question I get asked a lot! Many salespeople think that just having a great product is good enough – that it will sell itself but in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Get a Customer to Buy NOW!

The Sales Hunter

'We’ve all had customers who are on the verge of buying, and then suddenly for one reason or another, they decide to wait. The excuse they use might be real or it might be bogus, but the effect is the same — no sale now! Being able to overcome this buying situation is important. […].

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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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When Bad Things Happen to Good Leads - Part 4

Pointclear

'So far over the course of this series we’ve covered how marketing to non-lead outcomes, such as pipeline and nurture dispositions*, can substantially increase return on marketing programs. Yes, we have a problem in that sales has a tendency to ignore leads from marketing. Be that as it may, marketing is not exactly making use of the valuable data that results from their efforts either.

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Leadership for the Self-Employed

Increase Sales

'Being a sole proprietor, one may not think about leadership given there is no one to lead. Yet is that really true? When we gaze back through the annals of time, many who are still viewed as great leaders, began as self-employed ones. Did you know that: George Washington was an independent surveyor? Abraham Lincoln was a farm boy turned self-taught lawyer?

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The Greatest Sales Person, Can’t Save The iWatch (Apple Watch)

A Sales Guy

'The iWatch talk is getting hot. Watches as a device are being pumped up as the next big thing, but if you ask me, I’m saying no. ( so is my boy Fred Wilson ). Here’s the deal. I had a badass professor at The University of Chicago, his name was James Schrager. Some of you might even know of him. The guy’s a classic. One of the things he taught us was businesses fall into 4 categories (I think it was 4 ) One of the categories is the image category.

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Are You Measuring Customer Growth?

Engage Selling

'Don’t leave customer growth to chance. The truth is it takes a certain degree of measurement to ensure that your current customer pool contributes to your continued growth. In this article, I discuss the best and most efficient ways to measure customer growth so that you can quickly and easily set yourself up for massive success. […].

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Hacking Sales: The Playbook for Building a High Velocity Sales Machine

SalesLoft

The SDR role is the beginning of a career path in sales. Time to start getting these new salespeople set to succeed from the get-go. This makes 2015, The Year of the SDR. Max Altschuler’s Sales Hacker Series and Conferences have gathered traction in the past year, with events in New York, Seattle, and San Francisco. In addition to organizing events, Max published his first book, “ Hacking Sales: The Playbook for Building a High Velcoity Sales Machine, ” focusing on empowering t

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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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Guest Post – Amateurs vs Professionals

Tom Hopkins

'Wendy Weiss is an author, speaker, sales trainer & coach who recently sent me this article describing the difference between Amateurs and Professionals. I liked it so much, I asked her permission to reprint it here for you. Enjoy! Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine. She is a former, highly successful […]. The post Guest Post – Amateurs vs Professionals appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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TSE 117: One Simple Activity I Learned as a Mormon Missionary Which Has Revolutionize My Sales Prospecting

Sales Evangelist

This, my friends, is not an episode about preaching or religion but this is about helping you learn to OPEN YOUR MOUTH. What many of you probably don’t know is that I went to Brigham Young University-Idaho and I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.When you’re 18 years old, […] The post TSE 117: One Simple Activity I Learned as a Mormon Missionary Which Has Revolutionize My Sales Prospecting appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Increase Sales Productivity: Invest^* Organize^* Measure

BrainShark

It’s official: sales productivity is suffering.

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Salesfusion Announces Carol O’Kelley as Chief Executive Officer

SugarCRM

'The post Salesfusion Announces Carol O’Kelley as Chief Executive Officer appeared first on Salesfusion.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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.