Wed.May 11, 2022

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5 Steps to Grow Sales by 33% in 12 Months

Understanding the Sales Force

I'm a baseball guy and a die hard Boston Red Sox fan but I can't bear to watch them right now. They are playing the worst baseball since I was 10 years old so that's going back 55 years! It's not hard to understand why they are so bad because the data tells the story. Their stats show that as of May 9, 2022 their bullpen has 9 blown saves. Bullpens rarely blow 9 saves over a full season never mind over five weeks but if you look deeper, they wouldn't be in so many close games if their offense wa

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Breaking Down Barriers: Becoming a Sales Leader as a Black Woman

Sales and Marketing Management

Black women who are sales managers shouldn’t be the exception; we should be part of the rule. Here are the three ways I was able to break down those barriers on my journey to becoming a sales manager. The post Breaking Down Barriers: Becoming a Sales Leader as a Black Woman appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Why Leading CEOs are Measuring Employee Lifetime Value

SBI Growth

When it comes to supporting the CEO’s growth agenda, the level of sales talent is the primary differentiator for market-leading organizations. According to our internal SBI benchmarking, most business-to-business sales organizations exited December of 2021 with a startling 10–15% open sales headcount. But the real issue is the “sales capacity at risk” figure which is closer to 50–60% when factoring in open headcount, expected sales professional attrition, lower productivity levels from a glut of

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Drive Consistency in Your Sales Planning Process

Force Management

A salesperson’s time is valuable. Ensure your sales team is spending their time building a pipeline of high-value accounts. Support your sales managers and reps in developing a result-driven plan that focuses them on pursuing these high-value opportunities. Put a process in place that helps your salespeople repeatedly and consistently drive effective sales plans.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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Are You Helping Clients Prioritize Their Own Needs or Your Needs?

Babette Ten Haken

You all serve clients regardless of your respective professional disciplines. So it follows that when you serve those clients, your focus primarily is helping clients prioritize their own needs. That focus is truly noble. However, as you work with those clients, at what point do you shift your focus towards meeting your own needs first? Crossing that barrier, or interface, is where theory meets practical reality.

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21 Data-Backed Sales Skills Every Top Performer Needs

RAIN Group

There’s simply not enough time in the day to focus on every essential skill needed to succeed in sales. While sales teams must prioritize skills development, it’s important to identify which skills could have the biggest impact on your sales results.

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Want Productive Sales Meetings? Set Expectations

criteria for success

As a sales leader, you’ve had your fair share of sales meetings. You’ve survived the good, the bad, and the ugly. But what if I told you there was a way to avoid the bad and the ugly entirely? All you have to do is set expectations. Think of how much easier sales meetings would be if all parties involved knew exactly what everyone was expecting to gain from them.

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Do You Use The Seven Top Ways You Can Look After Your Customers?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Marcus Loke via Unsplash. Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Use The Seven Top Ways You Can Look After Your Customers? Our collaborative blog offers insights into the question, ‘Do you use the seven top ways you can look after your customers?’. If you are running your own business , you know how important it is to look after your customers.

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How to Build a Data-driven Sales Strategy: A Practical Guide for Turning Data into Revenue

Sales Hacker

Sales organizations have never had more data at their fingertips. For most sales leaders, knowing how to use and deploy that data is one of the greatest opportunities to boost seller performance. It’s also one of the most challenging. Join Peter Kazanjy (Co-founder at Atrium) and Deniz Olcay (Senior Director of Product Marketing at Allego) as they share how to bridge the gap between sales rep data and sales rep performance.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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Are You Familiar With Nine Services To Outsource As A Business?

Smooth Sale

Image by Jirehg via Pixabay. Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Are You Familiar With Nine Services To Outsource As A Business? Our collaborative Blog provides suggestions for the question, ‘Are you familiar with nine services to outsource as a business?’ As a business owner, you are always looking for ways to increase efficiency and optimize your workflow.

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Back To The Office….

Partners in Excellence

After 2 years of WFH or WFA defining how we work, some/many of us are going back to the office. Some by choice/preference, some out of meeting a requirement. Before I get much further, the nature of work, how we work, where we work has changed profoundly–and it will continue to be. For many roles, WFH or WFA will continue, and it will be for the better.

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The Role of Urgency in Selling

Adaptive Business Services

One of the techniques often discussed in selling is that of creating a sense of urgency in order to move a client from the thinking to the acting stage. As in … placing the order. I don’t much care for the term “creating” as it implies some sort of artificial emergency that is conjured up by the salesperson in order to close the sale. The fact of the matter is that sometimes these emergencies are quite real and it is the responsibility of the salesperson to advise their clients of the necessary

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How to attain “strength and peace of mind” for your company - Berotec’s story

Membrain

Berotec is a Swedish consultancy that specializes in IT, technology, and management. Their business includes smaller, individual companies within the larger company, to best serve their markets, while providing a consistently high level of expertise and competence.

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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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Warming Up to Cold Calls: 10 Cold Calling Techniques for New Sales Reps

Allego

It’s more challenging than ever to get prospects to respond to cold emails. One reason is simply email fatigue. The pandemic triggered the assumption that because people weren’t working in the office that they could only be contacted by email. As a result, an email tidal wave slammed onto prospects, and they stopped responding. In 2020, the average cold email response rate dropped below 1% for the first time, according to HubSpot.

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The Road to Retail Excellence: A Sneak Peek into Peter Hall’s Session at the Retail Execution Roundtable

Repsly

While there are numerous draws to attend this Spring’s Retail Execution Roundtable , none may be bigger than the President of Kraft Heinz Ingredients and U.S Away from Home, Peter Hall , who will be delivering a powerful session on the road to retail excellence in Chicago on May 17th, and New York City on May 24th.

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An AE’s Secret Weapon: Automated Client Gifting – Outside Sales Talk with Kris Rudeegraap

Outside Sales Talk

Kris is the CEO of Sendoso, a Sending Platform for corporate gifting that’s been growing rapidly over the last few years. He is a California native with around 10 years of sales experience. As a former salesperson, he really understands how to interact with clients and what really makes the sale. . In this episode, Kris talks about his experience as an AE and how AEs can create the ultimate sending strategy. .

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?? The Foundations of Being an Authority Brand

Pipeliner

Many others in your industry do what you do, but none of them will do it in the same way. This is why the brand experience is so important. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Steph Weber, the CEO of The Weber Company. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. The post 🎧 The Foundations of Being an Authority Brand appeared first on SalesPOP!

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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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What we learned from commercial pharma leaders at NEXT Normal 2022

Bigtincan

Here’s what commercial pharma leaders had to say at this year’s NEXT normal conference. Find out how Bigtincan helps pharma companies deliver the buying experience of the future to their customers.

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5 Predictions For What The Future Of Crypto And NFTs Hold

Pipeliner

Introduction. Since its inception, both individual investors and venture capitalists have been putting money into Bitcoin research. With the latest technological breakthroughs, Bitcoin can become a hub of finance really soon. As a result, the number of traders like all those excellent and user-friendly apps or platforms like Quantumai has been increasing significantly.

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Apptivo Product Updates as of May 11, 2022

Apptivo

Hello! Welcome to the month of success. To be a part of your successful business, apptivo has upgraded its features and, as always, is back with resources to help you navigate the new upgrades seamlessly. Our team has worked hard to implement several updates based on your requests and recommendations in order to nurture your business alongside Apptivo.

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How to Keep a Meeting Agenda on Track

Selling Energy

There will be times when you find yourself in a meeting that’s getting off track.

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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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The power of Scope 3 value chain analytics in the net-zero transition

Anaplan

This is a guest post by our partner, Point B, on the solution they built on Anaplan to help enterprises analyze and plan sustainability programs.

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Driving more B2B leads from paid digital advertising

Close

Not all paid advertising tactics are created equal. Learn how to paid digital advertising can drive leads with proven tactics.

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WEBINAR: Morgan J. Ingram hosts “3 Selling Secrets That Will Catapult Your Close Rate” SPONSORED by Gong, Vidyard, & Proposify

John Barrows

The post WEBINAR: Morgan J. Ingram hosts “3 Selling Secrets That Will Catapult Your Close Rate” SPONSORED by Gong, Vidyard, & Proposify appeared first on JB Sales.

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Global Spring: Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World (video)

Pipeliner

In this Expert Insight Interview, Dr. Maha Aziz discusses her latest book Global Spring: Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World. Dr. Maha Aziz investigates global risk and prediction in her work as a professor in the MA International Relations program at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is also a risk expert for the World Economic Forum and the author of Future World Order and the recently released Global Spring: Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World.

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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.