Thu.Mar 23, 2017

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How Can Tech Companies Attract More Women in Sales?

No More Cold Calling

Women have everything it takes to succeed in sales. Ask any B2B sales leader about their lead generation challenges, and you’ll get specific answers about why their teams can’t get access to buyers, how sales processes have gotten too long, or why they’re losing to the competition. Ask them why there aren’t more women in technology sales , and they’re not quite sure.

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Buyers: Take Your Rep To Work Day

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I am sure this not unique to Ontario, every November, grade nine students get the day out of school, and are encouraged to join a parent or relative at their place of work. It is an opportunity for the students to get out of their cocoon of academia, and experience a dose of reality. Among the many benefits of the program, and there many, given the career realities kids will face, is the ability to spend ‘a day in the life’ of a working pe

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Is Bad Prospecting Causing You to Discount Your Price to Close a Sale?

The Sales Hunter

Too many salespeople suffer from having to discount the price to close the sale. We can talk all we want about the need to create value for the customer, but if the salesperson still decides to cut the price then clearly something is not right. To understand this problem we need to go upstream […].

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3 Methods That Will Give Your Prospect No Choice But Choose You

MTD Sales Training

No doubt you’ve heard the stories of customers who have changed their buying patterns and switched the companies they buy from, based purely on the fact the salesperson left one company and went to work for another. Their allegiance was with the salesperson more than the company and their products. Why does this happen? It’s normally because the buyer trusts the salesperson much more than they do the company.

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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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Priceless, The First Customer Service Experience

Increase Sales

In relocating from NW Indiana to NW Arizona, we have had to outreach to several businesses. Once again I realized how truly priceless the first customer service experience really is. Credit www.pixabay.com. Must Have Internet. My business depends on the Internet. Having a reputable Internet firm is essential. I did my research and discovered Data-Max Wireless.

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Why Your Video’s Are Not Producing Results

Fill the Funnel

Have you ever wondered why your videos underperform…? It could be a simple tweak. The key is being able to have absolute control over the viewer’s experience. As sales and marketing professionals, we understand we have only SECONDS to get the attention of potential new customers. Which is why providing an exceptional experience while being able […].

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Avoid Sales Compensation Benchmark Gaffes With This 4-Step Plan

SBI Growth

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Getting Results from Poor Performers

Engage Selling

It’s frustrating. When you see a sales rep struggling month after month, and missing target after target, it’s enough to make any sales leader uneasy. The problem is most leaders handle poor performers the wrong way.

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Never Ask These Two Questions To Disrupt Your Competitor Vendor Relationship

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

When someone tells you they’re happy with their current vendor, how do you respond? If you’re like many salespeople, you’re tempted to one of these two questions: 1.“What is it that you like about your vendor?” 2.“What is it that you don’t like about your vendor?” While it may seem natural to ask those questions, they’re actually very dangerous. Why?

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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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Comment on 14 Sales Management Statistics Every CFO Should Know by The advice sales management desperately needs (but never gets)

LevelEleven

[…] Performance and The Sales Management Association found that more than 50 percent of companies invest less than a quarter of their training budget in sales […].

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Strategic and Tactical Product Management – A Bad Idea

Product Management University

There are two issues with the labels of strategic and tactical product management: The tactical label lacks the glamour of a strategist, not to mention all the hard work that goes with it. Neither label is conducive to market/customer focus. The Playbook: Forget about strategic and tactical. Think about strategy and execution. Strategy is everyone’s job — deciding what you’re going to do and why it’s valuable to the market.

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Sales Tips: Obituary for Traditional Selling

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Obituary for Traditional Selling. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Ten Tips to Take the Dread out of Commission Accruals

OpenSymmetry

For better or worse, accrual processing is a lot like the movie Groundhog Day. In the film, Bill Murray plays the part of Phil, a weatherman who is stuck living the same day over and over. At first, he dreaded the day and felt stuck in a nightmarish loop but ultimately embraces his circumstances and makes the most of them. He asked himself what could be learned and sought to better himself with each repetition.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Playbook: Choosing the Right Sales Coaching Solution [eBook]

BrainShark

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2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report

The Bridge Group

In the SaaS world, metrics can be finicky beasts. What works at LinkedIn, Salesforce, Twilio, or Zendesk might not be transferable from one to the other, let alone work for you. Questions around how can I benchmark myself make leading an AE group all the more challenging. In our 2017 SaaS AE Metrics & Compensation Report , we analyze the biggest shifts in recent years and provide core metrics to measure AE teams.

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