January, 2016

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How to Score More Sales Leads: Don’t Believe the Buyer 2.0 Myths

No More Cold Calling

Do your sales reps really prospect based on fairy tales? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … Well, you know the ending to that famous story. You also know it’s just a myth, a fable, a legend. It’s entertaining, but not real. Fictional stories belong in books, movies, or in the theatre—not in real life. Yet, many sales reps buy into the mythical statistics and ridiculous promises floating around the Internet about how to drive sales leads in the digital age.

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How Targeting Improves Win Rates and Shortens Sales Cycles

Understanding the Sales Force

Now that we are nearly 3 weeks into the new year, have you changed anything with regard to goals, strategies or plans? How about targets? A few small tweaks to your targets can have a huge impact on revenue! Targets are obvious but at the same time, misunderstood. Of course I have the usual baseball analogy, which I'll skip along with the target analogies for Golf, Basketball, Soccer, Football and Hockey.

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Will You Ruffle Some Feathers or Spread Your Wings?

Bernadette McClelland

Hang on, am I supposed to be this super successful, sales guru/expert/ authority who knows what she wants in the world, is a beacon of hope for salespeople and sales leaders and puts on a mask to show that she […]. The post Will You Ruffle Some Feathers or Spread Your Wings? appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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4 Ways To Prevent Post Sales Training Stagnation

MTD Sales Training

Most good sales managers recognise the need to develop their sales teams and these managers often see the rewards that come from training their staff to build skills and attitudes. Oftentimes, though, the changes and improvements are short-lived and the return to the ambient levels of performance shows that the investment hasn’t been as worthwhile as originally thought.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016

Steven Rosen

By: William Arruda. Originally Posted: Forbes.com Dec. 4, 2014. Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016. Do you have a coach? If not, you could be limiting your career success. That’s because coaches help you identify and focus on what’s important, which accelerates your success. According to coaches.com, good coaches: Create a safe environment in which people see themselves more clearly; Identify gaps between where the client is and where the client needs or wants to be.

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New Ideas for Motivating Your IT Staffing Salespeople

DiscoverOrg Sales

Have you ever walked into the office on a Monday morning and just felt the palpable lack of energy? The phones are eerily quiet, your team members are glued to their computer screens, and you quickly predict that quotas won’t be met today. As an IT staffing firm, you depend pretty heavily on how motivated your salespeople are. Their selling powers rely on their energy, enthusiasm, and attitude in every conversation with every prospective client.

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3 Overlooked Productivity Tips for Sales Reps

No More Cold Calling

Does your team spend enough time with your customers? It’s always about time, isn’t it? We have a choice how we spend it. We can waste hours immersed in social media, sending emails, and surfing the web. Sounds like fun, but it’s not the way to excel in sales. Most of the time, it’s a waste of time and has nothing to do with engaging our prospects and customers.

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I Forgot To Be Who I Was Supposed To Be

Bernadette McClelland

Hang on, am I supposed to be this super successful, sales guru/expert/ authority who knows what she wants in the world, is a beacon of hope for salespeople and sales leaders and puts on a mask to show that she […]. The post I Forgot To Be Who I Was Supposed To Be appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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3 Quick Tips On Making Notes During Your Sales Call

MTD Sales Training

One of my sales trainers had an interesting discussion with a sales team recently, where the team were seeking advice on how they could make their sales records less over-whelming. No-one had ever given them recommendations on how to make notes. The question has rarely come up, but it’s worth asking. Should you make notes on everything that has been covered in the meeting?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Sales Performance - Stop Worrying About the Words You Say

Understanding the Sales Force

When coaching, most sales managers change the words their salespeople use. "That's not how I would say it - try this instead!" While there are a couple of key moments in the sales process where the words do actually matter, for 98% of the sales process, it's about listening and asking appropriate questions, following the process, achieving key milestones, following the company's general strategy and using appropriate sales tactics.

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How Wearables Can Augment Your Marketing Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-29. Author: Sarah Clark. Teaser: The volume of customer data that wearable tech can arm you with is wonderful, but only if you’re willing to take it to the next level and actually use what it’s trying to tell you. Before you decide that a wearable marketing strategy is right for your B2B efforts, there are some key questions you need to ask yourself.

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What is Not Why – Sales eXecution 326

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Start of the year is when you see a lot of policy changes, changes in fees, service levels etc. Done right this could actually help sales people and drive revenues, yes even price increases. Done wrong, it just leaves a bad flavour in people’s mouth and minds. Having had to face new fees and policies, I have come to observe that there is a missing element in how sales people, and I would argue all who interface with clients in any way, dea

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The Evolving Risks and Roles of CISOs in 2016

DiscoverOrg Sales

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are charged with more responsibility than ever before: Maintaining the enterprise vision, while ensuring technology assets are protected. In CISOs Identify the Biggest Security Challenges as They Enter 2016 , Security Current sheds light on the top-of-mind issues affecting CISOs today. IT security vendors are wise to recognize and capitalize on emerging trends: The Risks for CISOs.

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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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Like a Virgin! WOW’d for the very first time…

Bernadette McClelland

I’m 36,000 feet in the air as I write this and have just come off the back of a two day program on how to ‘Think Like a Customer’. It’s a Friday night, I’m tired and just want to kick […]. The post Like a Virgin! WOW’d for the very first time… appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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3 Useful Hints For Leaving Your Prospect A Voicemail

MTD Sales Training

Do you get tired of phoning clients and, instead of getting through, get their voicemail? Yes, it can be frustrating, can’t it? And when you have dozens of them in your weekly call cycle, it can be demoralising and make you wonder if it’s all worth it. So what should you do when you get through to voicemail? To leave a message or not; that is the question.

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Ask for the Sale Five Times – At Least!

Mr. Inside Sales

How many times have you seen a commercial (either a TV ad, a public billboard, ad in a magazine, etc.) for Coke-a-Cola? Perhaps I should say how many times a DAY do you see one? Now you’d think that people already know about Coke-a-Cola, but did you know that Coke still spends billions of dollars a year on advertisements? Why do you think that is? It’s the same reason that infomercials run over and over and over again.

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How the Customer Makes a Decision

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-27. Author: Charles D. Brennan, Jr. Teaser: Selling someone a product or service is all about aligning with their habits and knowledge -- to use a technical term, aligning wi th their schema. If a salesperson is asking the same boring questions and giving the same boring presentation, the possibility of the customer’s schema being altered or changed is remote.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Give It Up!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One piece of advice many pundits, especially motivational types, offer up to sales people, noticeably more this time of year than towards the end, when they change their tune, is “Don’t give up”, or the right wing version, “Never give up.” Often giving example of people who persevered against all odds and finally delivered an invention that now stands the test of time.

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A Social Media Connection Is Not a Sales Lead

No More Cold Calling

Are your sales reps clueless about how social selling really works? Sales reps abuse social media to the extent that I typically delete more LinkedIn invitations than I accept. They invite person after person to connect using the same old standard invitation , and then immediately blast sales pitches to anyone who accepts. This bad behavior is not entirely the reps’ fault.

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Here’s To Course Corrections and Some Drinking Money

Bernadette McClelland

Our son, just this week, embarked on a trip of a lifetime. HIS trip! Not mine, nor his Dad’s. And as parents, we needed to be very careful we didn’t overlay our beliefs in a way that told him what […]. The post Here’s To Course Corrections and Some Drinking Money appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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3 Great Reads That Will Elevate You To Sales Excellence

MTD Sales Training

I’m often asked by salespeople and sales managers about how they can develop their skills on a regular and consistent basis, and the obvious answer is to learn from experts and people who have been there and done that’. But it’s easier said than done. A quick search on Amazon shows over 300,000 books just on the subject of sales. When you widen your search to include CDs, DVDs, videos and the like, the number climbs to over 1.6 million.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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How to Handle the Wife Stall

Mr. Inside Sales

If you sell B2C (or even B2B) and you get the “I have to convince my wife,” stall, how do you handle it? If you’re like many of the sales reps I’ve been listening to lately, the answer is: Not very well. So let’s start at the beginning. The first thing you need to do with this stall/objection is to isolate it. You begin by qualifying that the prospect you are speaking to is sold on your solution regardless of that the wife would say.

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How to Increase Your Company’s Profit by 20 Percent

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-25. Author: Stephanie Chung. Teaser: When creating a strategic plan that aims to increase profitability, it must engage employees and align with your organization's mission and objectives. Here are three tips for creating a strategic plan that engages your employees. When creating a strategic plan that aims to increase profitability, it must engage employees and align with your organization's mission and objectives.

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A Sales Viewpoint – Sales eXecution 325

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . With the election cycle in full swing in the USA, many (some) are reflecting on what their point of view is on key aspects of life to be impacted by the outcome of the election. This includes things like economic viewpoint, free market or centrally controlled economy; global viewpoint vs. protectionist, and more.

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Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016

Steven Rosen

By: William Arruda. Originally Posted: Forbes.com Dec. 4, 2014. Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016. Do you have a coach? If not, you could be limiting your career success. That’s because coaches help you identify and focus on what’s important, which accelerates your success. According to coaches.com, good coaches: Create a safe environment in which people see themselves more clearly; Identify gaps between where the client is and where the client needs or wants to be.

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Guide to Using Buyer Need Data

This guide explains how to use Buyer Need Data to identify prospects who could use your solution *before* they demonstrate intent.

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Sales Selection Experiment - Part 2 - It's Back!

Understanding the Sales Force

When our son was just beginning to speak and we did something that he really enjoyed, he would say, "Again! Again!". Two years ago, I wrote about a sales selection experiment with a group of college kids and the results were so much fun to read that when they repeated the exercise this year, my first reaction was, "Again!" I think you're going to really enjoy the conclusions from this year's class!

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3 Facts About Your Prospect That Will Change The Way You Sell

MTD Sales Training

“But I sell a great product Sean, why won’t they buy?” It’s a question I get asked a lot! Many salespeople think that just having a great product is good enough – that it will sell itself but in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Ten New Ways to Handle, “We’re all set”

Mr. Inside Sales

I receive emails from my readers all the time asking me how to handle various objections and resistance statements. A common request I get is how to handle the initial resistance statement “We are all set.” A variation of this is anything along the lines of: “We are O.K. with our present system”. OR. “We’ve already got a company that handles that”. OR.