Wed.Feb 01, 2017

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Are Your Sales Leads Worth Anything?

The Sales Hunter

When was the last time you did a deep dive and compared the types of names you have at the top of your sales funnel and who you have coming out the bottom as a customer? For the majority of salespeople, after the smoke has cleared, it’s amazing how the two ends of the […].

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3 Ways to Move ‘B’ players to ‘A’ players in Less than 3 Months

SBI Growth

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Can You Afford Not to Delegate?

Increase Sales

Delegation is a way of thinking and doing. For many in business leadership roles, the ability to delegate is not a talent widely embraced. The reasons for this lack of delegation are many including: Credit www.pixabay.com. No time. No money. No knowledge about available resources. No confidence in employees – fear in hiring wrong people. No confidence in themselves – fear of making a mistake.

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Capture the Real Reasons You Win and Lose to Competitors

SBI Growth

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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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When Google Says You’re a Nobody

A Sales Guy

What happens when you Google your name? What comes up? You’re Facebook page, your LinkedIn profile, what? Do you like what you find? Is it consistent with who you are and how you do your job? Is what you find when you google your name, consistent with who you are? If someone had to make a split decision on hiring you or not, based on your social presence would you get hired?

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The Customer Buying Process Is Not About You Or Your Competition!

Partners in Excellence

I’m tempted to paraphrase the old Carly Simon song, You’re So Vain. Too often we think our customers’ buying cycles are about us, at least a choice between us and our competitors. We may be very customer focused in our sales process, trying to understand and align ourselves with the customer buying process. But still, our strategies tend to focus on a singular part of the customer buying cycle, “What does it take to select us?

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The winning growth formula: How marketing, sales, and success need to get their s**t together

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I recently gave a presentation at Growth Marketing Conference, sharing the lessons I’ve learned about creating alignment between marketing, sales, and success. Find out why it’s so important, how to recognize signs of misalignment, and most importantly how to align these three departments.

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Sales And The Zombie Apocalypse

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. As I reflected on the conversation, I realized this trend isn’t limited to sales managers, but is extending to the entire organization.

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The Difference Between Managing SDRs and AEs

SalesLoft

When it comes to managing sales development reps and account executives, the management responsibilities often fall on the same person. And that makes sense, right? Put all sales functions under a sales manager so they’ll have the clearest view of the entire team. But for modern sales managers responsible for both SDRs and AEs, it’s important to realize that these two groups need to be managed differently.

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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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Introducing Coachquest! The Evolution of Personal and Organizational Transformation

Keith Rosen

Thirty years ago, a college grad came up with an idea to create a new profession exclusively to help sales leaders, salespeople, and all people managers thrive in their careers and lives. I called it, “Executive Sales Coaching.” Here’s the next chapter. Thirty years later, I’m privileged to have had the opportunity to transform over 3 million lives in 60 countries, while creating my ideal life.

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TSE 498: Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale

Sales Evangelist

Sell with a Story. Paul Smith is going to share with us a load of insights into how you can improve your storytelling so you can improve your sales. Paul teaches the art and science of storytelling to leadership groups and sales teams. He helps people dive deeper into how they can craft their own stories […] The post TSE 498: Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Live Webcast: Hit Your Channel Sales Goals with ROI Selling

The ROI Guy

Thursday, February 9, 2017 11a ET Featuring: Tom Pisello, Alinean CEO / Founder and Dave Stachura, Alinean VP, Customer Success In an effort to reduce costs and boost sales, you enter 2017 under the gun to deliver even more business growth from your Channel Partners. But simply adding more partners won’t do the trick. The challenge: Your buyers have changed, no longer responding to the same old channel rep pitch.

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TSE 499: Sales From The Street-“Internal Competition”

Sales Evangelist

What happens when you have new people in your sales team? Do you get threatened that somebody might be better than you? In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you a personal experience – a difficulty I had as a young seller and how I overcame that. Overcoming Your Fear of Competition I’m […] The post TSE 499: Sales From The Street-“Internal Competition” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How Will Our Children Judge Us?

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post How Will Our Children Judge Us? appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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Champion Enablement: The Next Best Thing to Being There

BrainShark

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[VIDEO] How to Get 30% Response Rates with Prospecting Emails

DiscoverOrg Sales

Whether you’re in sales or marketing , you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about your email messaging. If you’re getting 30%+ of your prospects to reply to you, you can probably stop worrying about it as much, but if you’re getting less than that, then what I am about to share with you could be a game changer. Today I want to talk about a framework you can use for writing good prospecting emails, that spread over a series or cadence of emails, aka an email drip – can get you 30%+

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MRDs – How Much “Market” Is In Your Market Requirements Documents?

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. Most B2B organizations use a M arket R equirements D ocument (MRD) for driving new solutions to market. How much of the content in those MRDs should be pure market requirements versus product requirements? A good rule of thumb — 100% market and 0% product. If MRD’s are supposed to reflect the needs of the market, they should be market specific not product specific.

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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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Product Priorities vs. Marketing Priorities: Two Simple Questions

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to product priorities and marketing priorities. Answers to two simple questions can make those priorities much easier to establish. Where will short term revenue (this year) come from? Where will longer term growth (after this year) come from? If the answers to these questions take you straight to product level discussions, STOP!