Tue.Mar 14, 2017

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Where Do You Rate On The Paradoxical Nature of Time?

Bernadette McClelland

Each one of us has the opportunity to make a positive impact on someone else’s life. How cool is that thought? Because deep down inside, the majority of us love to help – we get a kick out of knowing someone else can do a better job, feel better about their possibilities, their abilities, their results, and themselves – even if it just a 5 minute window we both looked through together.

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Make the Switch to Value-based Pricing

SBI Growth

Meet Dave, a mid-market tech CEO. He is smart, savvy, and universally respected by his employees and industry peers. He’s invested wisely in sales and marketing optimization over the years, and consequently his team makes the number more often than.

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Simplify Your Sales Process — Speed Sells

The Sales Hunter

With technology and the ability to track information comes the risk of over complicating the sales process. I see this a lot with companies I’m asked to assist. They’re excited to show me how they’ve dissected the sales process. It has the feeling of a patient being prepped for surgery. Flash announcement… sales is […].

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The CEOs 4 Most Common Go-to-Market Mistakes

SBI Growth

Utopia for a CEO is growing faster than your industry and your peers. A thoughtful go-to-market strategy is imperative to enable this growth. Here’s the catch: Many CEOs have risen to the top through finance, operations, or product management. With.

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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 Your Leads No Better Than Lottery Tickets?

The Sales Hunter

What does the top of your sales funnel look like? More importantly, how does the top look like compared to the bottom? It’s time to get real. It’s the bottom of the funnel where we make our money. I know what you’re going to say, “You can’t get anything out of the bottom until you […].

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Defining Sales Success – The Art and Science of A Sales Managed Environment®

Anthony Cole Training

I'm sure someone from the Harvard Business Review or the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business could prove otherwise, but when it comes to defining success, I don’t believe there is an art to it.

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Why ALL Sales People Should Focus On Customer Centric Selling

MTD Sales Training

Now and again, a new concept is discussed that takes sales into a new dimension. Many are reworks of familiar and rapidly-evolving ideas, and some take sales onto a new plane that deserves contemplation and further development. I’ve been reading a book recently that I believe can help you achieve more by getting inside the minds of customers and connecting with them in person and online.

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Lead or get out of the way

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-03-01. Author: Gino Wickman and Rene Boer. Teaser: Being a great leader doesn't make you a great manager and vice versa. To become a great boss, you must consistently do five things as a leader. Being a great leader doesn't make you a great manager and vice versa. To become a great boss, you must consistently do five things as a leader.

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Note To Sales People in 2017 — It’s Time To Up Your Game

A Sales Guy

If you’re a sales person and you give a s**t about your clients, your personal development, your career, and your company, then I have a message for you. It’s 2017, and we’re failing our customers, prospects, the companies we work for and ourselves. In the past 15 years, there have been crazy advancements in the area of sales tools, from CRM’s that do just about everything except your laundry to data or insights applications that deliver a full dossier of your client̵

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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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2 Quick Ways to Step Up Your Sales Game

Engage Selling

The best salespeople are constantly looking for ways to improve. They are not staying static for extended periods of time because, let’s face it, if you’re not moving forward – you’re moving backwards!

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Sales Tips: How to Think Like Your Customer

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Think Like Your Customer. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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26 sales email tips to crush 2023 (+ 13 templates)

Close

Experts have long predicted that social selling will spell the end of sales emails. Yet, email is still 40 times more effective at getting new customers than social media. What’s worked in the past still works if you're doing it well—here are our best sales email tips.

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Sales Tips: 9 Steps to Aligning with Expert Buyers

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Align with Expert Buyers Using Interest Qualification. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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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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Video as a Killer Sales Tool [Infographic]

SalesLoft

The importance of online video is undeniable. Few mediums are more effective at reaching and holding the attention of modern consumers. That’s a large part of why, by 2019, global consumer Internet video traffic will account for 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. And businesses are taking notice. 96% of B2B organizations are using video in some capacity.

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Comment on 6 Tips to Make Your Modern Sales One-on-Ones Great by 4 Things Only Great Sales Managers Do – Marketing Automations

LevelEleven

[…] messaging, delivery, and value proposition. Finally, everyone in sales management should be having weekly one-on-one sessions with each of their team members.2) You’re mentoring top, middle, and low performers.Many […].

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Sales Tips: Take the Guesswork Out of Pipelines and Forecasts

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Take the Guesswork Out of Pipelines and Forecasts. By Jim Naro, CustomerCentric Selling® Certified Business Partner.

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The Secret Reason to Like Job Anniversaries on LinkedIn

Hyper-Connected Selling

I’ve been showing people how to use LinkedIn for over a decade. And one of the most consistently maligned pieces of functionality has been the job anniversary notification. Over and over I hear some form of, “Why is LinkedIn gumming up my feed? Why should I care if Bill Jones has been at Company XYZ for 6 years? Does “liking” that really mean anything?

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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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TSE 528: Cold Emails and Cold Calling Are Not Dead!

Sales Evangelist

Does cold calling still work? Picking up that phone book and calling all the numbers listed would probably no longer be as effective. But the short answer is definitely yes. Cold calling or cold email still works. The key is to have an effective way of prospecting. My guest today, Marylou Tyler, is going to […] The post TSE 528: Cold Emails and Cold Calling Are Not Dead!

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Product Management Is a Contact Sport – What’s Your Injury Risk?

Product Management University

There’s a good reason why athletes in contact sports wear protective pads. Over time, statistics have shown where injuries are most likely to occur, hence the placement of the pads. If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? What types of pads do you need and where is their optimal placement?

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Comment on How to Not Burn Out as a Sales Leader [Podcast] by 10 resources to improve sales coaching sessions

LevelEleven

[…] VPs of sales need to empower their frontline managers to be better at sales coaching. […].

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EmployAbility Galway increases new hires by 87% since using OnePageCRM

OnePageCRM

Like many other recruitment services, the team at EmployAbility Galway knew they needed a better way to coordinate and build a process around employer interactions. This was necessary in order to increase placements and overall productivity. After being recommended OnePageCRM by a board member, Pauline O’Dwyer (Program coordinator) was keen to try out the system and work towards launching their 100 jobs Campaign.

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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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3 simple tips for sales conversations that sell

OnePageCRM

In my experience, one of the hardest skills to master as a sales executive is the art of conversation. Most sales reps get into the business of selling because they are personable, friendly and extroverted. In short, they enjoy meeting new people and talking, talking, talking. Consistent closers know it takes a lot more than good social skills to be a great salesperson.

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3 simple tips for sales conversations that sell

OnePageCRM

In my experience, one of the hardest skills to master as a sales executive is the art of conversation. Most sales reps get into the business of selling because they are personable, friendly and extroverted. In short, they enjoy meeting new people and talking, talking, talking. Consistent closers know it takes a lot more than good social skills to be a great salesperson.