The Pipeline

JUNE 27, 2016

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . As we head in to the second half of the year you realize you need to prospect and get some more opportunities in your pipeline. As you seek advice from your peers, one veteran tells you “You gotta buckle down and make more calls”, sage advice from someone who is under quota. Then you turn to a younger colleague and ask, not direct but by text, what she does, she tells you “OMG, get in to the 21st century, forget that calling stuff, you need to b

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 27, 2016

I finished reading Game 7 - Ron Darling's book on the final game of the 1986 World Series , and I'm half way through Shoe Dog - Nike creator Phil Knight's memoir. They're similar books because each devotes so much ink and analysis as to how their own thinking and beliefs - both positive and negative - shaped their actions and outcomes. Read them and imagine sales instead of baseball and entrepreneurship, and both books will help shape the ideal thought process to support selling!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-07-01. Author: Paul Nolan. As we were headed to press with this annual issue on technology and its impact on the worlds of sales and marketing, the Tribune Media Company, owners of such notable newspaper brands as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun , announced it is rebranding the company as “tronc.” No, that’s not a typo.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 27, 2016

This morning I read a posting about “free” sales training or any other training. Those who provide training and development services especially the solo entrepreneurs are retreating to offering free as an incentive to increase sales. We see this with many of the e-courses now being offered. The first one is free and thereafter there is a price to pay.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-07-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: “If it involves arranging words in rows with occasional punctuation, then I’ve given it a bash,” says Jonathan Crossfield , a Sydney-based marketing consultant. On his entertaining and informative blog (JonathanCrossfield.com), Crossfield sounds off on a wide range of ideas regarding using words to build your brand.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 27, 2016

Selling to the Point. – a book review-. This book should be scheduled for your next Acumen Sales Book Club. Selling to the Point by Jeffrey Lipsius is a unique sales training book and I have read many. What makes this book valuable is the author uses a story to drive home his key learning points. The story revolves around the quest to cut the costs of selling by dropping the in-house sales trainer, the CFO uncovers what is separating their company from the competition is the unique sa

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SalesLoft

JUNE 27, 2016

This week is the one year anniversary of SDR TV’s most popular video series, Sales Tips! We’re celebrating with recap playlists like how to craft personalized sales emails and the best ways to supercharge sales calls. And to close out the playlist celebration before tomorrow’s can’t-miss blooper reel , we’ve compiled a playlist featuring none other than the fearless AE leader, closer extraordinaire, and (M) VP of Sales Tips — DG!

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Bigtincan

JUNE 27, 2016

As we head into the 2nd half of 2016, many of the world’s leading organizations are realizing that the way that their field teams sell to customers has to change. No longer is it acceptable to continue to create the standard “PDF product flyer” or simple sales guide presentation in Powerpoint and have the sales […].

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

JUNE 27, 2016

Asking great warm-up questions during a cold call meeting is a valuable technique in establishing a new business relationship with a prospect. You’ve scheduled your first meeting with a new prospective customer! You’re hoping for “beginner’s luck,” eager to make a stellar first impression—but what’s the best way to make that happen? Do you jump right into questioning if your prospect knows little, if anything, about you?

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BrainShark

JUNE 27, 2016

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Engage Selling

JUNE 27, 2016

Last week I was observing the geese in Alan Weiss’s pond.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2016

SaaS has become all the rage of businesses these days. Of course it’s attractive when we see the number of SaaS unicorns or when we read of the high growth rates of SaaS companies (though a 100% growth rate of a young $1M SaaS company is very different than the 5% growth rate of a $1B company.) But there’s a lot of sex and sizzle behind these business models, with everyone wanting to jump on board–giving rise to Everything as a Service.

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