April, 2023

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3 Steps to Ensure Sales Structure is Aligned with Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

When organizational design changes are required, CSOs must identify which structure aligns best with their goals while recognizing the tradeoffs that are likely to occur. Here are three steps to follow to identify and select the best design to match your needs. The post 3 Steps to Ensure Sales Structure is Aligned with Strategy appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How Can We Make Our Reps More Coachable?

Score More Sales

We know how important it is for sellers to be coachable. Coachability, after all, is one of the keys to identifying top performing sales professionals.

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Why Data Matters When Recruiting People that Will Sell

Anthony Cole Training

Let’s talk about why data matters when recruiting people that WILL sell versus CAN sell. There is a big difference.

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The Powerful Similarity Between Bad Baseball Teams and Most Sales Teams

Understanding the Sales Force

As we do each Friday in March and April, my wife and I drove to upstate New York to watch our son's college baseball games. But this article isn't only about normal, it's also about the abnormal in both baseball and sales.

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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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GTM Plays: How to Win the Race for Sales Productivity

Zoominfo

Although it may sound counterintuitive, multiple periods of economic uncertainty have revealed a striking pattern: the biggest winners in business are those who keep investing in growth. And regardless of how the current economic headwinds play out, Bain & Company partner Jordan Lee says this era’s winners will be the companies that focus their go-to-market strategies around highly efficient, data-driven plays.

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How to Enable Sellers to Win at the C-Suite Level

Force Management

Selling to C-level leaders is a crucial skill for your sales force if you want to grow your average deal size. Especially in today’s environment of economic uncertainty, big price tags are not getting approved without skillful execution of these conversations.

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Top Reasons Salespeople Don't Close The Deal

The Center for Sales Strategy

For any sales manager, it's incredibly frustrating when their salespeople don’t seem to be able to close the deal. A successful sale often depends on the product and customer knowledge of the salesperson, but what happens when the hard work isn’t translating into results? Let’s take a look at some of the top reasons why your team may not be closing deals - from common hurdles like difficulty establishing credibility and understanding client needs to more nuanced issues like forgoing preparation

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How Effective Is Your Sales Training Program? Check the Data

Allego

Congratulations! You launched your new sales training program ! You have personalized training, peer-to-peer learning , training reinforcement, and a sales content library filled with just-in-time learning that sellers can access when they need an immediate answer. It was a huge project, and now you are done. Well, not quite. Now, you need to make sure the sales training program is working.

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Will AI Really Help You Sell?

Membrain

It’s almost the only thing people want to talk about these past few months: Artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its many children and siblings have set the internet and our industry ablaze with speculation about what it means for us.

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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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AI Rising: Should Sales Leaders be Updating Their Resumes?

Sales and Marketing Management

The accelerated adoption of AI-powered sales solutions will undoubtedly whittle down the human element required for sales funnel management. But how far can this go? The post AI Rising: Should Sales Leaders be Updating Their Resumes? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Coaches Benefit from Tryouts, Sales Managers Fail Using Gut Instinct

Understanding the Sales Force

Our son's college baseball season is winding down and we think they'll make the playoffs for the second straight year. As I think back to high-school baseball, a couple of things came to mind that have a lot to do with sales development. Mike attended two high schools. His first high school baseball coach saw his potential, calling him up to play on the varsity team when he was still in the 8th grade.

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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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The Meaning behind Courage Endurance and Mateship

Bernadette McClelland

The Meaning behind Courage, Endurance and Mateship As I donned my Akubra and draped my Aussie flag around my neck crafting a makeshift scarf, we headed off to the ANZAC Day Service at the oval of the Stanley Marketplace hosted by the AUSDenver community. Seeing these three flags flying together was a really pivotal and personal moment because the vision took me back in time as I remembered that young 18 year old who had the courage to leave her childhood home in the suburbs of Auckland, experien

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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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Coaching Championship Sales Teams: Pat Summitt Says it All!

Anthony Cole Training

There are five pillars that make up a strong Sales Managed Environment which in turn will help you build a consistent, championship-quality sales team.

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How is Sales Prospecting Different for Complex B2B Sales?

Membrain

Everyone talks about sales prospecting , and we all think we know what it means. It’s just going out looking for potential customers to put into your sales pipeline, right? Traditionally, this was a task entrusted to junior “hunters” on the sales team–young hungry salespeople tasked with “drumming up opportunities.

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The Link Between Sales Funnels and Digital Spend ROI

Sales and Marketing Management

Crushing it with your sales funnels starts with having clean, integrated data that you can use immediately. The post The Link Between Sales Funnels and Digital Spend ROI appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How Mission-Driven Companies Benefit From Founder-Led Sales

Alice Heiman

It’s not surprising that Bronwyn Spira, after trying many different sales strategies, landed back on the founder-led model. In mission-driven companies, founders often deliver the most compelling pitch. She then set about recruiting a sales and marketing team to support the sales process across the entire customer journey. Stick with us to the end where Bronwyn leaves us with her three growth tips for every CEO.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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The Simplest Way to Qualify

Mr. Inside Sales

Problem: Salespeople talk too much when they finally get a prospect on the phone. They pitch features and benefits instead of asking questions and qualifying. They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. Result? They may get some leads out and set up some “demos or presentations,” but because they didn’t discover whether a prospect was truly a buyer and in the market at that time, their close rate is a disappointing 2 sales out of 10 full pr

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Latest Podcasts: Leading Through Challenges

Force Management

As leaders, we serve as guides for our teams through challenging times. In the current economic landscape, when the challenges are unpredictable, it helps to have guides of our own. Last month on the Revenue Builders Podcast, we talked to multiple leaders who have guided teams successfully through crises. They spoke to the power of gratitude, communication, culture, and humility.

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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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What Are Business Acumen Skills?

Membrain

“Business acumen” is a concept spoken of quite often by sales thought leaders. I’ve talked about it , as well. Most of us agree that it’s something salespeople need in order to differentiate themselves and help buyers make the right choices. But I’m not sure everyone is on the same page in regard to what it means and the degree to which salespeople need to be upskilled in it.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Staying Motivated in Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

The vice president of sales at CRM provider Pipedrive discusses keeping sales teams motivated, why deals stall and organizing customer data. The post Staying Motivated in Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Top 10 Advantages of Social Media Marketing for Insurance Agencies Today!

SocialSellinator

Social media marketing is a powerful tool for insurance agencies looking to reach and engage their target customers. From increasing brand visibility to creating more meaningful relationships with prospects, the advantages of using social media strategies are limitless.

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Better Prospecting Leads To More Sales Conversations

Alice Heiman

Is your sales team struggling to have conversations with the right buyers? Better prospecting is the most direct path to increase sales conversations. Wendy Weiss takes us through the four steps to improve your sales team’s ability to schedule sales calls. Her four steps are: The right list Great skills Strong process The right software What can your team add to improve their prospecting?

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3 Ways to Motivate Your Sellers During Economic Challenges

Force Management

Economic challenges can take a huge toll on workforce morale. Your sales force is likely encountering obstacles they haven’t faced before, and it’s possible that’s affecting their ability to win.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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Accountability – The 14-Letter Dirty Word for Many Sales Organizations

Anthony Cole Training

Accountability in an organization is kind of like the old country song by Joe Diffie: Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die).

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15 Bad Habits Reps Need To Ditch To Improve Sales Performance

KLA Group

You know your reps don’t always follow up with marketing leads. Sometimes, they read directly from a sales script. You don’t think too much about it.

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With Buyers’ and Sellers’ Roles Upended, B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment Is Critical

Sales and Marketing Management

With prospects now driving their own problem-solving journeys, sellers must design their entire go-to-market strategies around enabling and facilitating the buyer-led process. The post With Buyers’ and Sellers’ Roles Upended, B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment Is Critical appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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