Tue.Mar 07, 2017

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It’s Not the Number of Leads You Have. It’s the Quality that Counts!

The Sales Hunter

What does your sales funnel look like? Is it full of junk? What is the % of leads at the top of your funnel that actually become customers? I see way too much time being spent on keeping names in a sales funnel just for the sake of keeping a sales manager happy. It’s time […].

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Call Reluctance is Just as Popular as Ever!

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright Christian Chan. Last week I wrote an Article for LinkedIn Pulse that explored some of the statistics related to Call Reluctance. Many might think that Call Reluctance is a malady that occurred back when salespeople did their own dialing and had to book their own appointments. The truth is that most salespeople are still expected to dial and in tech companies where BDR's do that dirty work, Call Reluctance is still the primary reason why there aren't enough conversations.

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Territory Alignment: The Right Resources in the Right Place

SBI Growth

Our show today demonstrates how to balance customer requirements, company revenue expectations and sales rep workload to grow revenues. To follow along, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the Sales Strategy section and flip.

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The One Question That Gets Referrals

Engage Selling

Is your sales team actively seeking out referrals from your current client base? According to recent studies, 78% of happy clients want to give out referrals. Yet only 8% of salespeople actually ask for them. Can you see the disconnect?

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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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The Right Sales Process Wins More Deals, Bigger and Faster

SBI Growth

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Comment on Sales leader brief: Salesforce Einstein by Salesforce releases sales software innovations powered by AI

LevelEleven

[…] Salesforce officially released the AI-powered sales software innovations we’ve been hearing about for a few months now. A press release sent out by the company this morning covered its Spring ‘17 […].

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Of Course Sales Is About Relationships!

Partners in Excellence

I am fuming at one of the most amazingly naive posts about “the Death Of Sales.” Ironically it’s written by a sales leader at one of the leading Marketing and Sales Automation company. Even more ironically, the call to action at the end of his post is to recruit partners to sell his company’s products. And his products are focused on helping sales people become more effective!

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Sales Tips: Keith Rosen Shares Time Management Tips

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Time Management Tips for Sales Leaders. Author of "Own Your Day," Keith Rosen, Joins Sales Rehab in Episode 31. [PODCAST] In this new episode , author of Own Your Day , Keith Rosen, joins the Sales Rehab show with CCS® President/COO, Frank Visgatis , to share life tips and time management advice for everyone, including salespeople and managers.

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TSE 523: Actionable Insights Most of Us Are Not Even Thinking About

Sales Evangelist

Imagine creating a business card that people will never throw away, much more, something that will be of tremendous value to them. But how can you guarantee they’ll never throw your business card? My guest today, Nick Raithel, shares with us how exactly you can do this. Derived from a concept called How to Write […] The post TSE 523: Actionable Insights Most of Us Are Not Even Thinking About appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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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The ?Will to Win? Just Isn?t Enough

Sales Gravy

It took a long time for me, as a struggling sales rep, to understand the difference in attitude and action, but once I did, my sales results (and my life) changed.“It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that.

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Improving Adoption of New Features

Product Management University

How can we improve adoption of new features? The number one reason customers don’t take advantage of new features is because they’re not explained in a manner that’s relevant to how people do their job. Most new features are communicated as follows: Here is a great new feature. Here’s how it works. Here’s the benefit. What’s missing? Context. If you can’t give your users a scenario (job task) that’s familiar to them and how the new feature set will help, chances are, they won’t use it.

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A Social Recap of #Rainmaker17

SalesLoft

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