Mon.Feb 27, 2017

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Prevent a Revenue Miss – Take a Closer Look at Your Territory Alignment

SBI Growth

Today we’re going to discuss territory alignment and demonstrate how to balance customer requirements, company revenue expectations and sales rep workload to grow revenues. As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in.

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Losing Track of a Buyer Not Yet Ready to Buy

Score More Sales

Recently we shared a post 5 Ways – Don’t Leave Money on the Table and this week we break it down by one item at a time. Losing track of a prospect is one of the biggest ways to lose a sales opportunity because research shows that only 3% of buyers are ready to buy at any given time. The remaining 97% is either not going to buy or will buy at a later time.

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Creating a High-Five Culture

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-27. Author: Larry Kendall. Teaser: How do you build a High-Five Culture? Simple: Hire sales associates who aspire to be 5 percenters and coach them to success. Here are observations of the top 10 attributes and activities of top salespeople. How do you build a High-Five Culture? Simple: Hire sales associates who aspire to be 5 percenters and coach them to success.

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The Five Second Rule

Mr. Inside Sales

Thoughts are things. As true as the law of gravity, this is one of the fundamental laws in the universe. Whatever you believe with feeling, you bring into your life. And like gravity, you don’t have to believe in it for it to always be working in your life. Take gravity for example. If you were to step off a ten-story building, the law of gravity would take over and you would fall ten stories to the ground.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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New LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

Fill the Funnel

By now, most LinkedIn users have received the highly anticipated and debated “new user interface” As with most major updates, many are complaining, some are praising and most are just lost and confused. I think you will find the LinkedIn cheat sheet below to be helpful. If you have not noticed already, the feeding frenzy […]. The post New LinkedIn Cheat Sheet appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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LevelEleven

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The Oscars Best (and Worst) Presentations – and what you can learn from them

Julie Hanson

The stars, the clothes, the mix-ups! But underneath it all, the Oscars are really a collection of short presentations delivered to an audience with short attention spans and high expectations. If that sounds like a business presentation to you, it should! Each year I like to highlight the Oscars best and worst presentations and glean what we can learn from them as business presenters.

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Enable Guided Selling for Sales with CPQ Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

Guided selling is a process that seeks to keep the selling conversation on-topic. CPQ tools can help. In a large sense, selling is merely the delivery of decision information to buyers. The information should either draw the buyer closer to your product or push them away from your product—both outcomes are good. The buyer is either finding confirmation that your product fulfills their needs or learns that it does not.

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Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline?

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. The point of my last article was that the integrity of data determines how accurate CRM forecasts will be. A while ago I learned a different way to look at the acceptance of change within organizations. The people most willing to embrace change are those that derive benefit.

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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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We tried to recruit these 2 people for 5 years. It was worth every minute.

Close

Show up. Follow up. Follow through. The Hustle Formula. If there’s any real “secret” to success, that’s it.

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Good Networking Skills Will Grow Your Business

Sales Gravy

Effective networking can increase your visibility and strengthen your career. The more people you meet the more that know you. The most successful people in the world have vast networks. These help with jobs, leads, aid and a whole lot more.

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Web Demos: Engaging An Audience You Can’t See

Product Management University

The #1 challenge with conducting web demos is the ability to read and engage an audience you can’t see. Is the demo going well? Are they doing e-mail while I talk? Does anyone care? Somebody, anybody, give me a sign! How do you really know if your value proposition is resonating with your prospects when you can see them? The key to reading a prospect you can’t see is to engage them in a discussion during the demo.

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Sales Coaching Technology: How to Prepare Sales Managers for Success

BrainShark

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Answering the “Product Vision” Questions With Something…Visionary

Product Management University

“What’s on our strategic roadmap?” “What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. A different approach to answering these questions will help you articulate a vision that energizes everyone and simplifies the execution of your product, marketing and sales plans.

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Why Make The Call

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One reason many give me for not wanting to prospect, is the fact that fewer people are answering their phones, and as a result it is not as effective as other forms of prospecting. Part of that is dictated by what state or mode the buyer is in, Actively Looking buyers may be more prone to a call, while, Status Quo buyers, are less likely to answer or engage.

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