Wed.Jan 28, 2015

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What the Blizzard of 2015 Can Teach us about Sales Presentations

Understanding the Sales Force

'As most of you know, were absolutely clobbered by yesterday''s Blizzard of 2015 which gifted us with 34 inches of snow and even higher drifts. Wishing to be prepared, I went to Staples the day before the storm and purchased every last one of the small devices that recharge phones and tablets. That evening, I made sure that each was fully charged so that if we lost power, three of us could recharge our 7 combined devices and remain connected and productive.

Course 211
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There’s More To Farming Accounts Than Repeat Business

MTD Sales Training

'Whenever salespeople think about prospecting, it often has two distinctly different reactions. For some it can be a challenge that they relish, looking forward to seeking out new opportunities and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Really, Sales Has Changed? Poppycock!

Increase Sales

'There appears to be a lot of angst in the sales world if you read some of the more popular postings by noted sales experts to consultants. In many cases, there is an ever increasing school of thought that suggests sales has changed and this is utter poppycock. Note: I just did a quick search on the phrase “sales has changed” in Google and received 58,500 hits.

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How High-Performing Sales Organizations Differ From Others

SBI

'What Separates High-Performing Sales Organizations From Average and Underperforming Sales Organizations? That’s what Velocify , along with Steve Martin , author of the “Heavy Hitter” series of books on enterprise selling, set out to discover. They asked 800 sales executives, managers and front-line sales reps a whole lot of questions—42 of them to be exact—to get at the answer.

Lead Rank 108
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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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Email – Show Respect For Current And Future Customers

Fill the Funnel

'As effective as email is in growing your business, it can also be used with disastrous results. Particularly at the beginning of the year, everyone is talking about cleaning out their email. All the spammy messages and wondering how they ever got in there in the first place. There are a few key things that you can do to keep your prospects and customers happy: Always use a “double opt-in” sign up process.

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Sales Tips: Enterprise-wide View is the Key to Relevance

Customer Centric Selling

'Sales Tips: Enterprise-wide Views Are Key to Relevance with Senior Buyers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Arztsamui at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. The role of B2B sellers is rapidly evolving. The impetus has been changes in buying behavior. Vendors have been in react mode.

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Email – Show Respect For Current And Future Customers

Fill the Funnel

'As effective as email is in growing your business, it can also be used with disastrous results. Particularly at the beginning of the year, everyone is talking about cleaning out their email. All the spammy messages and wondering how they ever got in there in the first place. There are a few key things that you can do to keep your prospects and customers happy: Always use a “double opt-in” sign up process.

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Using Keywords When Prospecting

Tom Hopkins

'We use keywords when prospecting on social media sites and when searching for information on potential clients. When we go online to search for anything, we ask questions of our favorite search engines. The search engine uses the words in our requests to search out those same words on websites so we can be properly directed. […]. The post Using Keywords When Prospecting appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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How humor affects response rates for follow-up sales emails (we’ve got the data)

Close

I preach the gospel of the follow-up almost every day of my life. I've written an entire book about it. And if you're in sales, you've probably come across these follow-up emails that employ humor to elicit a response. Do they work?

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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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“The People Who Perform The Best Have Intangible Skills” w/ Owais Farooqui

SalesLoft

Meet Owais Farooqui. As head of Sales Development & Marketing, Owais defines sales development and hiring best practices at NuORDER. In his discussion with Sean Kester , Owais shares specifics in the outbound process, including who and what to look for when hiring new SDRs. Take a look: Ready to build a sales development team of your very own? Start with a playbook outlining best practices and specific workflow.

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Content Marketing vs. Sales Enablement? Relax ? We?re Both on the Same Team

BrainShark

Red Sox vs. Yankees.

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Industry Insights with Paul Greenberg Part 2

SugarCRM

'The post Industry Insights with Paul Greenberg Part 2 appeared first on Salesfusion.