Fri.Jun 14, 2019

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Digital Sales Data: The (Real) Secret to Moving Deals from Prospect to Closed

Sales Hacker

In an ideal world, 100% of your data ends up in Salesforce (or your CRM of choice). But sadly, that’s not what’s happening in the real world. According to a recent Salesforce study , poor data hygiene costs the average business nearly 30% of its revenue, amounting to a total economic loss of a whopping $700 billion a year. You know it’s important to capture high-quality data to help you conduct QBRs , analyze your account health, review handover processes , report on your opportunity pipeline, a

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Your Last Chance to Make a Good First Impression

Understanding the Sales Force

Most salespeople don't take first impressions seriously enough. If they did, their first impressions would be much more favorable.

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Success and 3 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself

The Sales Hunter

1. What level of risk are you willing to take? 2. What are you doing to nurture your network? 3. What are your 25-year goals? It’s amazing what you can achieve when you address those three questions. It is easy to rationalize why you’re not successful and make that why it’s ok to accept being average as good enough. Average is what other people do, but it’s not what you do.

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Las Vegas may get Musk-designed people mover

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff When it comes to putting heads in beds for conventions, corporate meetings or incentive travel trips, few destinations can match Las Vegas. Getting attendees around the city via affordable and easy-to-use public transportation is another matter. That may be changing. The board of directors for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) recently approved a plan to work with Elon Musk’s Boring Company to design, construct and operate a people mover that serves the city’s

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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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7 Ways You Should Be Selling With Stories, with Mike Adams #116

Vengreso

Subscribe to Selling With Social. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. The best salespeople in the world are selling with stories. Why? Because it’s one of the best and fastest ways to build rapport and trust. Not to mention that it enables you to segue into the business part of a sales conversation as “friends” with your prospect rather than as a seller (who they may be hard-wired to resist).

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Only Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

Anthony Iannarino

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. For a couple of years, I practiced Aikido, a very nuanced martial art, and one based on the premise that anyone who would attack you was already seriously troubled and deserved your compassion. O’Sensei made some connection with the Universe and created a way to protect yourself while also protecting the person trying to harm you.

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How Can You Tell if Your Digital Marketing Agency is a Dud?

Nimble - Sales

Digital marketing is a must; whether your business is a global powerhouse, a niche online store, or a local brick-and-mortar enterprise. In 2019, the number of people finding websites through organic search is down; however, paid search and social media referrals are up, making it more important than ever to have a strategy that works. Rather […].

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The 4 Most Common Sales Org Structure [+ Pros/Cons]

Hubspot Sales

The structure of a sales force has significant bearing on its success. For example, a rep used to selling to a given region might flounder when asked to concentrate on just one industry nationwide. If each of your company's products require deep and specific technical knowledge, it might not make sense to have reps sell all products by territory. It's simply not true that sales talent translates into all situations.

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Managing Your Own Emotions

KO Advantage Group

When I first started in sales, the very first thing I was told to learn and develop was to have a “tough skin.” In our industry, rejections are rampant and inevitable--and not to be taken personally. Remember your first heartbreak or rejected job interview? Isn’t the first thing that crossed your mind after you collected yourself was, “what could I have done better?

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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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Weekly Sales Enablement News Roundup – June 14, 2019

Showpad

Don’t miss these latest sales and marketing tips, tricks, and news! Build a Watertight B2B Sales Funnel in 5 Steps. Insight into the sales funnel is the key to sustaining existing customer relationships but also how your current sales process might fail to address pain points. When you build a watertight sales funnel, your conversion rates are guaranteed to improve.

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

????????????????????Today, I will be exploring how you can improve the metric of sales cycle length: how many days it takes to close a piece of business.

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How To Use Your ZOPA During A Negotiation

The Accidental Negotiator

In a negotiation you need to know your zone of possible agreement (ZOPA) Image Credit: Metro Centric. When we start a negotiation, we are filled with hope that by using our negotiation styles and negotiating techniques we’ll be able to eventually walk away with a deal. However, during every negotiation we are faced with two possible mistakes we can make.

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Weekly Roundup: Plugging Leaks in the B2B Sales Funnel + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "EITHER RUN THE DAY OR THE DAY RUNS YOU.". -JIM ROHN. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Plugging Leaks in the B2B Sales Funnel — LinkedIn Sales Blog. An empty sales funnel is a relatively straightforward (albeit not necessarily easy) problem to solve: enhance your prospecting efforts to produce more qualified leads. A leaky sales funnel is another beast entirely.

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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.

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How to Succeed at Creating a Culture of Accountability [Podcast]

Sandler Training

This year, on Fridays, Dave talks about the attitude, behavior, and techniques of successful sales managers as he shares his thoughts on the 49 Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders. Listen Time: 9 Minutes.

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Building a Sales Dynasty Outreach Conference Unleash 19

Xvoyant

<iframe src=”[link] width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; fullscreen” allowfullscreen></iframe&gt. Rob Jeppsen’s presentation on creating a sales dynasty at Outreach’s Unleash 19 sales conference.

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Building Shareholder Value with CRM: White Paper Review - Workbooks CRM

Sales Lead Management Association

In few words, but loaded with meaning, Workbooks created a document that reminds senior management that CRM systems aren’t just for sales or marketing people. CRM systems inform and affect shareholder value.

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Key Takeaways from Smart (and Successful) Leaders

Braveheart Sales

I just moderated a panel discussion at the ESX conference entitled “How to Drive Performance with the Sales Team and Weed Out Underperformers.” The panel featured some very successful sales leaders and I learned some great things from them. It was also an opportunity to review principles that have been around a while but are easily forgotten. Quick Reminders.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Practice, Practice, Practice is the Essential Factor for Success - McClure

Sales Lead Management Association

I was at a seminar and Michael Phelps, the world-class Olympic swimmer who has won more medals (14) than anyone else in the world, was being interviewed. He was asked why he was so successful, so dominant in his sport. His answer was startling: .

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The 7 Most Critical Selling Skills in Wholesale Distribution

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Amazon Business is eroding wallet share and putting greater emphasis on price. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. And companies are starting to recognize that modern sales teams need to replace legacy classroom-style training with solutions that include digital, on-demand training.

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10 Percent increase for ALL reps

Xvoyant

What is your plan to grow each rep by 10%? Do you even have a plan? Rob talks about how to improve your whole team and shift the curve.

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How to Close the Sale

Selling Energy

You can start a conversation that leads toward a sale; however, it’s often more challenging to complete the transaction. Whenever you find yourself struggling with this you need to remember that if you don't harness emotion, you'll not likely create enough motivation. If you don't have motivation, you're not likely to see forward motion. In short, you need to get people excited about taking action.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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Real Coaching Genius 4

Xvoyant

Part 4 in the Real Coaching Genius series featuring a coaching decision that still makes Boston Red Sox fans cringe.

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The 7 Types of Commercial Leases Explained

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

For a real estate agent, complicated negotiations are just part of the job.

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I AM

Xvoyant

Rob talks about how people are the worlds greatest reflectors. What do you reflect to your sales team as a leader?

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Eyeful Announces Latest Insights Study – Data Is The Story

Eyeful Presentations

Data plays an increasingly important role in how today’s audiences engage with presentations. In an age of cynicism and ‘fake news’, the use of data to support your message has never been under more scrutiny or held more sway. With this in mind, the latest edition of Eyeful’s renowned Insights series focuses on the value of data stories and how to successfully weave them into your most important communications.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Real Coaching Genius 2

Xvoyant

Part 2 of the Real Coaching Genius series. This episode features a classic Giants vs the Eagles NFL football game.

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LendingHome Improves Rep Performance with Powerful Practice and Training

Lessonly

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Real Coaching Genius 3

Xvoyant

Part 3 of the Real Coaching Genius series, featuring a coaching decision with big impact in SuperBowl XLIX.