Wed.Dec 07, 2016

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10 Essential Answers to Build a Sales Operations Department

SBI Growth

Today’s article is about how to build a sales operations department from scratch. The best growth executives understand that sales ops is the most strategic sales function in the company. They understand that when deployed correctly, sales ops can impact revenue.

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Social Capital is Like Credit, Build it Before You Need It

A Sales Guy

I received a LinkedIn message from a past employee the other day. He had just lost his job and wanted my thoughts on his next move and wondered if I could help. I hadn’t heard from him in a long time. I almost never see him on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook. For all intents and purposes, he doesn’t exist in my world or online. He’s not alone.

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#1 Website Tool of 2016

Fill the Funnel

Igloo has been my #1 best-selling web page software in 2016. It builds stunning web pages, landing pages, webinar registration pages, and with this new update – MEMBERSHIP sites. Works with WordPress or standard HTML websites. Anyone can use this – even with no previous experience. Click here to see a page built with IGLOO and […].

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Isn't It Time to Let Go of the Hope Sales Fallacy?

Increase Sales

Have you ever heard this hope sales fallacy from a SMB owner or salesperson “I hope to make this sale?” or “I hope sales improves?” Many years ago before the book Hope Is Not a Strategy , my 4’10” Swedish grandmother told me “Hope did get me to America.” No she planned for it and then worked her plan for 20 years.

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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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Make ‘em Laugh! 7 Guideposts for Using Humor in Your Business Presentation.

Julie Hanson

Many experts recommend opening your presentation with a funny story, joke, quote, or prop. And why not? Humor can engage your audience, add welcome lightness to a heavy subject, and increase audience recall. Yup, humor can be a great opener….when it works. And when it doesn’t? Few things will suck the confidence out of you faster than starting off with a joke or story that bombs, annoys or confuses your business audience.

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Controlling sales conversations: 3 steps to keep your sales calls on track

Close

Imagine yourself telling a difficult prospect, “You've enlisted my expertise and you've rejected it to go on the way you've been going. I'm not interested in that.” Before you can walk away, the once reluctant prospect is now anxious to do business with you.

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6 Predictions for Sales Software in 2017

SalesLoft

Sales software changes as rapidly as the sales landscape , which is to say at light-speed. The best way to stay current with sales technology is to look to the future. While no one knows exactly what 2017 will bring, we predict that the future of sales software will introduce more customization and the power of big data analysis to all industries. Let’s take a closer look.

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Is Job Hopping Inevitable?

Partners in Excellence

As long time readers know, I tend to be pretty opinionated. Recently, I’ve gotten sucked into a conversation thread on LinkedIn about job hopping. It’s semi interesting–much of it is people rationalizing why they move from job to job to job. Much of the job hopping phenomenon has been attributed, incorrectly I think, to millennial. “That’s the way they are, we just have to accept it.” First, I job hopping isn’t primarily limited to millennial, I see p

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Salespeople #x3E; Align with Marketing to make more money [podcast]

Jeff Davis

I recently had the chance to speak with @DonaldCKelly (The Sales Evangelist) on his podcast about how salespeople can benefit from better alignment with their marketing colleagues. It was a great conversation to address the challenges of selling in B2B today. There are many. What I share with people is simply that Sales and Marketing can no longer survive without each other.

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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 459: Sales From The Street: “Local Online Advertising Part 2”

Sales Evangelist

Today’s episode is Part II of the interview with DJ Shri where we talk about how you can master local advertising. If you haven’t yet, do check out TSE Episode 454, which is Part I of this awesome conversation I had with DJ Shri where he laid out the framework of local online advertising. Here […] The post TSE 459: Sales From The Street: “Local Online Advertising Part 2” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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From Farmers to Hunters: The Evolution of Enterprise Sales Cultures

People.ai

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing. ALWAYS BE CLOSING.” Alec Baldwin’s classic line in Glengarry Glen Ross defined what it meant to be a salesperson for millions of moviegoers (or at least casual YouTube watchers) the world over. But I’m here to tell you that Alec had it wrong – or at least he was only half-right – when it comes to enterprise sales.

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The Top 10 Sales Blog Posts Of 2016 – As Voted For By You!

MTD Sales Training

2016 has been a strange old year – if you thought Brexit was enough we were then Trumped by the States later in the year! We’ve brought you bi-weekly tips all year long and will continue to do so again in 2016! From sales management to prospecting, we have tried to cover as many bases as possible to improve your overall sales processes and performance.