Tue.Feb 21, 2017

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17 Places to Look for New Prospects

The Sales Heretic

Wondering where your next sales lead is coming from? Wonder no more! There are lots of places to find potential prospects—some in the physical world and some in the digital. Here are—in alphabetical order—17 of them: 1. Associations 2. Chambers of Commerce 3. Directories 4. Facebook 5. Google ads 6. Industry events 7. Instagram 8. [.].

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Review - Heart and Sell by Shari Levitin

Score More Sales

There are a lot of sales books out there and it is SO easy to skim them quickly and summarize that they are like other books I read about selling every month.

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Using Voicemail to Prospect: Yes it Works, When Done Right!

The Sales Hunter

I’ve heard all the arguments, both pro and con, about using voicemail to prospect. With that said, here are a few of the things you need to do if you want to use voicemail effectively when reaching out to prospects or customers. If you’re wondering, the ideas I’m sharing below come from my book, […].

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2016’s Most Prospected Companies By State

DiscoverOrg Sales

No matter our company or our role, I think I can safely say we ALL receive numerous prospecting emails and calls every day. Some of the messages we receive are well-crafted, on the mark, and personalized to our issues, and others….well, they just aren’t. Have you ever noticed that there are spikes in the number of prospecting emails you receive when: You change jobs?

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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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Are You Chasing Leads or Customer Outcomes?

The Sales Hunter

We have to stop the nonsense of thinking a lead is a lead and start getting serious about the quality of the leads we get. I see far too much time spent by not only sales but also marketing at the top of the sales funnel, doing nothing but gathering leads that don’t go […].

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2 Ways to Coach Your Team More Effectively

Engage Selling

You have a few top performers on your sales team. That means they don’t need to be coached, right? Wrong. Your top producing salespeople need to be coached just as much as your mid or bottom performing reps.

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Always Remember Customer Service Is SALES!

Increase Sales

How many times do those in B2B or even B2C industries fail to understand customer service is sales. A new report just released by Astound Commerce through secret shoppers recognized seven retailers who excel in customer service through: Must have website. Visibility. Overall customer service. Speed of delivery. Efficiency of checkout. One of the top seven performers was The Home Depot.

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Bust These Sales Operations Myths

SBI Growth

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Boosting Margin with Sales Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

Even with the most advanced sales tools available, it’s expensive to sell stuff. You must pony up bucks in advance to get bucks from the proceeds of a product sale. It doesn’t matter if you are a hobbyist selling hand-tooled belt buckles on eBay or if you are a multinational corporation moving million-dollar earthmoving machines, the cost of selling is significant.

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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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Why Corporate Culture is Unbelievably Important for Industrial Distributors

The Brooks Group

Companies in any industry will benefit from having a healthy culture among its employees. But for industrial distributors today, the culture that exists inside of your company can make or break the success of the business. Corporate Culture Plays a Big Role in Employee Branding . We’re hearing from many clients that as baby boomers retire they’re having a really hard time filling their open sales positions.

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TSE 512: Sell Me What I Need, Not What You Want

Sales Evangelist

I want to share with you an experience I had when I was shopping for a computer monitor over the weekend. And this salesperson who approached me was probably a fan of Glengarry Glen Ross’ Always Be Closing! Things he did wrong: No questions were asked about how he can help me with. Anyway, I […] The post TSE 512: Sell Me What I Need, Not What You Want appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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The Smarter Way to Sell More

Klozers

Wake up your customers, increase your profits and sell more NOW! At last there is a Smarter Way to Sell More. Coming soon is Kloze More Sales , a 15 point Simple Step-by-Step Guide to boosting sales with immediate, actionable and practical steps. Who's the Programme for? The programme is aimed at ambitious Business Owners and Sales Leaders who are looking for a Smarter Way to Grow Sales, rather than the magic wand or quick fixes that they know don't work.

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What Awesome Sales Coaches Do Differently

Steven Rosen

Wouldn’t you love to have a team of awesome sales coaches? Sales coaching is the most important sales management activity for driving sales performance. Unfortunately, most managers haven’t been taught how to properly coach their staff. If a sales manager could transform into an elite, top-level sales coach overnight, the impact on sales results would be outright amazing!

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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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Veteran's Great Quote Makes News and Has Terrific Lessons for the Sales Profession

Understanding the Sales Force

On my way to the office, I was listening to FOX News when they cut to a diner in Jacksonville, Florida to interview some of the patrons there. One of the people interviewed was Stanley, a Veteran who said he had two messages he wanted to share. He said, "To the media, don't make in-depth assumptions from shallow observations. And to the obstructionist democrats, we have a saying in the military.

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