Fri.Apr 14, 2023

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Second Quick Fix to Get Your VMs Returned

Mr. Inside Sales

To follow up on the blog post from two weeks ago (about the one quick fix to get your VMs returned ), here is the second quick fix: Stop trying to trick your prospect! Everyone knows that a partial message like: “Hey _, this is Mike. Call me back as soon as you can…” just reeks of a tricky salesperson calling. I ALWAYS delete these messages the moment I hear them.

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5 Behaviors Great Sales Managers Exhibit to Drive Consistent Sales Results

Anthony Cole Training

Improve your sales management skills by implementing these 5 behaviors to help your sales team drive consistent results.

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The Ultimate Guide To Going Live on Instagram in 2023

SocialSellinator

Have you been thinking about taking your Instagram presence to the next level? Going live on the platform can be a great way to connect with your followers in real-time and give them a behind-the-scenes look at your brand or personal life.

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In What World Is This Considered Great Prospecting?!??!!!

Partners in Excellence

I know, I know. I shouldn’t get so wound up about the stupidity I see in LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media. I’ve tried not to get wound up. I scan my feeds about 3 times a day, and even that my be a waste of time. I’ve had to pause scanning my feeds, and start closing my eyes, doing deep breathing and meditation during those periods.

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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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Amy Porterfield’s List Builders Society Review (2023)

Sell Courses Online

Of all the different types of marketing activities your brand could engage in, nothing is as powerful as building an … Amy Porterfield’s List Builders Society Review (2023) Read More →

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We Miss The Point In Asking About “The Future Of Selling!”

Partners in Excellence

Every week, I am asked to participate in a number of interviews/webcast/discussions about the “Future of Selling.” My feed is filled with prognostications about the future of selling–and a surprising number of “gurus” with death wishes proclaiming selling is dead. There are phenomenal changes–new technologies, shifts in global economies, social changes that have a profound impact on sellers.

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Best Article on AI and Metaphors

Anne Miller

Artifical Intelligence is THE hot topic of the day and nowhere can it help more than in the creation of metaphors to make your point. This is the best (and most entertaining) article I have seen on how to do that. Written by Mitch Jackson, lawyer communication pro, and fellow “Metaphorian,” he begins, “Good metaphors serve as a Trojan horse that sneaks your message into the hearts and minds of your audience.” …And it only gets better and better from there.

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How to Use and Create a Facebook Poll that Gets Results in 2023

SocialSellinator

In today's world, social media platforms like Facebook have become an integral part of our lives, with millions of users engaging on the platform daily. Facebook polls are an excellent tool for businesses and individuals to engage with their audience, gather valuable insights, and drive more traffic to their pages.

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Challenge Your Prospect's Expectations

Selling Energy

Too many salespeople tell every prospect the same thing, either because they’re lazy or because they’re not taking the time to evaluate that prospect’s situation and needs. As a result, those salespeople fail to deliver messages that truly resonate with their prospects. The result? An unnecessarily low closing ratio.

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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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How to Build an Effective Sales Training Program

Highspot

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Every business needs to present what it’s selling as standing apart from the competition, but differentiating how you sell it is equally important.

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Pilots, Trials and POC’s – Place Your Bets!

Pipeliner

We’ve all faced the challenge. Our new major account prospect feels good about our solution as it directly addresses their needs and pains. We’ve gained significant competitive advantage over the competitors we faced in the pursuit but they linger in the wings still, the deal not yet consummated. For the prospect is not quite ready to sign as an element of doubt hangs in the air.

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How to Build an Effective Sales Training Program

Highspot

If you want your sales team to efficiently and consistently close deals, you need to arm them with the resources and materials they need to be successful. Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Every business needs to present what it’s selling as standing apart from the competition, but differentiating how you sell it is equally important.

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Outbound Sales Strategies: The Key to Closing More Deals in 2023

Close

Outbound sales involve actively reaching out to potential customers and potentially engaging them in a conversation about your product. Learn 13 outbound sales strategies that will work in 2023.

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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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Spam2Gold – Easy Way for Salespeople to Trade & Book SMB CEO Appointments

eGrabber

Spam2Gold – Easy way for salespeople to trade & book SMB CEO appointments. This tip will have their employee work as your partner, pitching your service to their CEO. Always a Win-Win Situation It works if you sell a product your service providers can use and your CEO gives you a calendar time slot. The chances are high that your company was bombarded by 100+ vendors pitching services and products last week.

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Negotiators Discover The Power Of A Hidden Price

The Accidental Negotiator

If the price is not known, then that can affect the whole negotiation Image Credit: stirwise When we go into a negotiation, we do our best to collect all of the available information. However, there will always be times that there may be things that we don’t know. One interesting situation that we may find ourselves in is a situation in which the price of what we are talking about is not known.

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How to Improve Sales Performance: 23 Ways to Empower Your Team

Accent Technologies

The post How to Improve Sales Performance: 23 Ways to Empower Your Team appeared first on Accent Technologies.

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How to Encourage the Prospect to Make a Change on the First Call | David Bennion - 1660

Sales Evangelist

Today’s guest brings his top-tier track record to the show to help you and your team convert your prospects into customers using his proven, customer-first approach. In this episode, your host Donald Kelly sits down with David Bennion, the VP Sales at Apollo.io, which serves over 160,000 companies and more than one million users worldwide. Bennion shares his clear-eyed, precise understanding of his team’s success and the steps it takes to get there.

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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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Presenting is a Privilege

Eyeful Presentations

​In the world of presentations, there is a fundamental rule that is often forgotten: the audience is king/queen. I was reminded of this recently at an event with a Who’s Who list of speakers who were experts in their field. The audience was made up of senior people who invested their time and money to be there – it was as friendly and enthusiastic a crowd as you could have hoped for.

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