Thu.Sep 11, 2014

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Need More Leads? Fix Your Marketing Strategy

SBI Growth

'There is one month left in Q3. This is the time of year leaders begin to plan for 2015. As you look back on 2014, did your marketing team accomplish their goals? Did your team provide enough leads for your sales leader? As you review your performance, and contemplate next year, you have two choices.

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Is Sales a Numbers Game? (#video)

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Nobody talks about the world being flat or round, so why does this topic merit discussion, there so many other more important unsolved mysteries in sales. Take a look at what I mean: What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto . Accountability Activity Management Alignment Attitude Business Acumen Excuses execution Metrics Objectives Sales Culture Sales Numbers Sales Success Sell Better Time Allocation Video Change Management Commitment how to sell

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Around the World in 80 Minutes: No Passport Required

No More Cold Calling

'Social selling exposes your business to a world of opportunity. A Brit writes to me on social media and wants to discuss referral selling. An Aussie reaches out to confirm his understanding of American prospecting practices. (There really isn’t such a thing, but we try.) A Chinese woman connects with me on LinkedIn and then visits the States to begin a business conversation.

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Here’s A Great Way To Get Your Clients To Open Your Emails…

MTD Sales Training

'When we do buyers’ surveys, it is interesting to note how many people tell us that they are overwhelmed at work. The amount of work they have to do has increased exponentially and you’ve seen and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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 Selling or Merely Answering the Phone and Taking Orders?

The Sales Hunter

' A few years back, there were a lot of salespeople who realized they weren’t salespeople. There were a lot of companies that realized they didn’t have a sales team. In both cases, what they realized is they were merely order takers, and the success they had was merely due to answering the phone and […].

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Marshmallow Leadership Anyone?

Increase Sales

'Being a former educator I was well versed in learning motivation through a variety of research studies. One of my favorites was the marshmallow study by Walter Mischel. My understanding of psychology and observations of human behavior always had me questioning this study as a solid way to understand internal delayed gratification and its connection to cognitive retention.

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Curiosity, Critical For Sales And Leadership

Partners in Excellence

'Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it is a critical competency for top performing sales people and sales leaders. Oddly, enough, I’ve seldom have seen anyone write about it, I seldom see it listed as a skill we look for in recruiting. It’s curiosity that drives a sales person to wander around their accounts and territories–building relationships, finding out what’s on the minds of customers, finding opportunities they may be missing, areas to improve.

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Don’t Get Trapped!

Engage Selling

'You’ve been increasing your prospecting efforts and as a result, orders and sales are beginning to flood in. Your hard work is beginning to pay off and you’ll never have to spend time prospecting again…right? Wrong! Too many salespeople become complacent after a successful period of prospecting. They begin to slow down with their prospecting […].

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FALL into the New Brainshark Author Training Series

BrainShark

September marks the beginning of a whole new school year.

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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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TSE 069: Just Say Noooooo!

Sales Evangelist

Post by The Sales Evangelist. As a new seller, one of the biggest challenges that I faced was the fear of saying “no” to prospects or clients. Why? I thought if I said no to any questions that they ask, I would disappoint them and eventually turn them away. Have you ever felt the same […] The post TSE 069: Just Say Noooooo! appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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7 Characteristics of the Most Successful Salespeople

The Brooks Group

There are many interpretations of what sales success "looks" like. But what are the specific characteristics of the most successful salespeople? There are many. Do the characteristics of the most successful salespeople include: Having an above-average closing ratio? Consistently meeting or exceeding quota? Make more contacts than are required? Spending more time out in the field than most?

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Hanging Out Where Our Customers Hang Out

Partners in Excellence

'I recently saw an infographic from the Brighton School Of Business entitled, “Do You have What It Takes To Become A CEO?” There was a lot of interesting data there, but several one category captured me. They wanted to assess the social media activity of the Fortune 500 CEO’s. Their conclusion was, “today’s top CEOs aren’t very active on social media.” It followed with the following: 28% have a LinkedIn profile (They didn’t assess how active tha