Thu.Oct 20, 2016

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High Profit Prospecting – Book Review

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . It seems prospecting is back in style, we’re talking proactive, resource and process based methodical approach to professionally engaging with potential buyers, by leveraging all the tools and techniques available to them. While in the early part of the decade you’d be hard pressed to find pundits singing and parsing the virtues of a blended approach that includes the telephone.

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The #1 Reason Your Referral Program Won’t Work

No More Cold Calling

Your marketing strategy is doomed without practice. Why is it that companies spend tons of money on client events, company celebrations, sales incentives, and work-life balance perks like childcare, but then they skimp on investing in building permanent, repeatable sales skills for their teams? Sure, they provide “training,” but training without reinforcement, coaching, accountability, and practice is a waste of time and money.

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Breaking Down Silos and Building Bridges

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-10-21. Author: Chris Benedetto, Director of Marketing, Sales Automation, Pegasystems. Teaser: Sales, marketing, customer service and onboarding/operations functions are often running as disparate business systems that are not conducive to creating the holistic experiences that today’s customers expect. Savvy companies can build bridges between siloes to create positive experiences that will catapult them towards success.

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3 No-Nonsense Steps to Connect the Corporate and Sales Strategies

SBI Growth

Today’s topic is connecting the corporate strategy and the sales strategy. Joining us is John Suh, the CEO of LegalZoom. John has been with LegalZoom for 11 years, and was previously the CEO at StudioDirect and Casting Group. Most CEOs have.

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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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The Best of the Best, Sir!

Anthony Cole Training

In a scene from Men in Black, Will Smith’s character, Agent J, asks, “Why are we here?” (He is in a meeting room with the head of Men in Black , Agent Zed, along with several other recruits all from various branches of the military.) Agent Zed asks one of the recruits to answer the question. The young recruit stands and declares, “We are the best of the best, SIR!

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Do You Truly Love Sales?

Increase Sales

Everyone is in sales. Mothers sell eating healthy to their children. Teachers sell learning to their students. Business owners sell their vision to their customers both internal and external. Sales people sell their products and services to potential customers. A recent survey indicated that the number one open position within the United States business arena is sales.

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Need To Move From Preferred Supplier To Trusted Advisor? Here’s How…

MTD Sales Training

We were working with a client recently who asked us if we could discuss strategies on how to become a preferred supplier to their customers. . I must admit to feeling a bit puzzled. My consultant asked them, “Why do you want to only become a preferred supplier?”. The answer was along the lines of ‘isn’t that what very supplier should want to attain… preferred status?

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7 Tips For Automating Your Email Marketing

Fill the Funnel

Email marketing is an area of marketing in which automation is completely essential. You simply can’t do email marketing effectively without some version of an autoresponder program, which automates subscriptions, list organization and message broadcasts. Here are 7 essential tips for automating your email marketing for the best results possible.

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The Secret to Breaking Out of a Sales Slump

Engage Selling

Trying to motivate a member of your sales team to break out of a sales slump? No matter their skill level, ambition, and work ethic, even the best of salespeople go through a period where they create less than desirable results.

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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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How IT Departments Can Lasso Sales Cowboys with CPQ and Other IT Business Solutions

Cincom Smart Selling

The IT department fulfills many vital functions within most enterprises. One of the less frequently acknowledged roles for IT is one associated with assuring that people and processes are aligned with the stated enterprise mission, goals and strategies. This unsung role is readily apparent with systems relating to configuration, quotation, pricing and the other IT business solutions they deliver in support of those activities.

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Introducing Salesforce for Sales Engagement: SDR Edition

SalesLoft

It’s nearly impossible for a modern sales team to do their jobs without a Customer Relationship Management tool (CRM). With more information generated by customers than ever before, sales teams need a nerve center to collect, organize, and access all that data to tailor their sales approach throughout their process. This is especially true of Sales Development Reps (SDRs).