January, 2017

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3 Steps to Mastering the Art of Focus

Steven Rosen

Success Starts with Mastering Focus. Are you determined to make 2017 the year you will have breakthrough results? In my previous video, I talked about FOCUS being the key factor for success. I don’t care if you are the CEO, an executive, manager or sales rep, you are inundated with back to back meetings, phone calls, and voice messages, literally hundreds of emails, and numerous texts.

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Giving Time

Bernadette McClelland

Each one of us has the opportunity to make a positive impact on someone else’s life. How cool is that thought? Because deep down inside the majority of us love to help – we get a kick out of knowing someone else can do a better job, feel better about their possibilities, their abilities, their results, and themselves – even if it just a 5 minute window we both looked through together.

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Top 10 Tips to Help You Sell More And Get More Done Than Anyone Else This Year Part 1

Understanding the Sales Force

We attended the organizational kick-off meeting for the team with whom our 14-year old son will be playing travel baseball this year. The organization is run by former MLB pitcher Brian Rose and one of the memorable things he said at this meeting was, "There will always be someone working harder than you." He said, "If you take a day off, someone else will be still be working" and, "If you want to be the best you have to work harder than everyone else.

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Sales Improvement Programs that Fly Off the Shelf Inside Matrix Organizations

SBI Growth

Today’s topic demonstrates how to get sales improvement programs adopted in a matrix organization. To help illustrate today’s topic we will think through sales enablement within a matrix organization using Frontier Communications as a use case. As a guide for.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Reasons Cold Calling Is No Good for Account-Based Sellers

No More Cold Calling

Can one call generate leads better than ten? You already know my point of view on cold calling. No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads. It’s an ineffective prospecting strategy and a nuisance to buyers, most of whom ignore cold calls. For account-based sellers , it’s not only a waste of time. It’s a waste of perfectly good relationships.

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What You Can Do to Help Your Salespeople Succeed and Make You a Pile Of Money!

Steven Rosen

January is a crazy month, with national sales meetings, new comp plans, new marketing programs and the annual performance review process. The rest you had over the holidays is long forgotten. You are very busy. What if there was one thing that you could do now that would help your salespeople succeed this year? The good news is that you don’t have to drop anything.

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How To Know If You Are A Story Teller or A Story Seller

Bernadette McClelland

My friend and storytelling expert, Yamini Naidu, relates a task she was asked to do by her teacher whilst at school. The task was to write a story that made sense using only ten words, and each word could only be made up of two letters. They struggled, then the teacher went to the board and wrote the following: The story read, ‘if it is to be it is up to me’.

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10 [More] Tips to Help You Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else Part 2

Understanding the Sales Force

To start the year off I posted My Top 10 Tips to Help you Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else. I received so many thank you notes and emails expressing appreciation for that post that I decided to share 10 more tips for those who have the capacity to become even more efficient.

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Helping the Sales Team by Holding the Problem Together

SBI Growth

Today’s show is a demonstration on how a Chief Strategy Officer can help a sales team. A common challenge among sales leaders is taking strategic imperatives the CEO has laid out in the strategy and translating that into an operating.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Changing Your Path To #Prospecting #Success

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . No one says telephone prospecting is easy, which is why I am always puzzled as to why many sales people make it even more difficult than it already is. Many don’t set out to sabotage themselves, some are not even aware they are doing it, and many are just sadly following the advice of pundits who talk about but don’t actually telephone prospect.

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Get social or get left behind

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Mike Derezin, vice president of sales for LinkedIn Sales Solutions, says in an era in which social sellers realize 66 percent greater quota attainment than those using traditional prospecting techniques (a Sales Benchmark Index statistic), if you’re sales team doesn’t adopt social selling strategies, it may not be selling for long.

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What Leaders Have to Say on Setting and Achieving Goals

Steven Rosen

17 Inspirational Quotes on The Power of Setting and Achieving Goals. New Year resolutions are nothing more than rhetoric. Despite the initial eagerness you may feel for the goals you have set, that enthusiasm tends to wane over time, often leaving you right back to where you started. In fact, studies indicate that only 8-12 percent of people fulfill their goal setting resolutions.

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How To Reduce Time To Market and Speed Up Your Positioning

Bernadette McClelland

Today’s sales leader cannot just be someone who manages numbers and checks forecasts. Today’s sales leader has to lead, motivate, coach, align the team’s personal values to the business values and they must foster an environment of trust and momentum in order to create pace and results. Sadly, too many sales leaders don’t know what to do to amp up the changes necessary to shift the status quo, to break free of the stress and frustration, to grow as a person or even make a huge dent in their comp

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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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Short Attention Spans Aren’t the Problem

The Sales Heretic

It seems like every other week I read an article bemoaning the ever-declining length of the human attention span, which apparently is down to 4½ seconds. (Which means you’re no longer even reading this.) Here’s the thing though: I’ve never been able to find a legitimate study that scientifically documents this supposed decline. And in [.].

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Which Markets to Pursue and Which to Avoid Like the Plague

SBI Growth

Today’s article is a demonstration on how to determine which markets to compete in and which markets to avoid. As a guide, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the Markets phase on pages.

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Odds & Sods

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Every year I jot down different ideas, always with the goal of fleshing them out and building decent post. For a myriad of reasons, sometimes these ideas don’t get developed, but unlike previous years, I am resolved not to let them evaporate with time. As a result what follows are ideas I think people in sales should be thinking about, but rather than waiting to polish them up, I am putting them out their in their raw state, and set them free to

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3 Sales Management Blunders You Must Eliminate to Hit Quota Consistently

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-16. Author: Mike Scher. Teaser: Getting reps to consistently reach, or better yet, exceed quota requires sales managers to own the shortcomings of their teams and help them improve. Here are 3 behaviors sales managers must abolish in order to lead a successful team. Getting reps to consistently reach, or better yet, exceed quota requires sales managers to own the shortcomings of their teams and help them improve.

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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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Sales Productivity Focus

Score More Sales

Improving sales efficiencies and effectiveness is a top, recurring issue as researched by organizations like CEB and the AA-ISP. I participated in two podcasts about this recently with CEB you can listen to here. In this new year, how will YOU lead a team to better productivity? If you just lead yourself, and not a team, how will you have your most productive sales year ever?

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Your 2017 Sales Prospecting/Growth Plan in 8 Steps

The Sales Hunter

It’s the start of a new year and as much as you feel good, you also feel a sense of concern about the numbers you need to hit for this year. The solution is NOT merely doing more of what you did last year and thinking that alone is going to do the trick. Success […].

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Is Who You See Who I See?

Bernadette McClelland

I’ve grappled with some people’s styles over the years and people have probably grappled with mine as well. It’s human nature. Outside of the fact that we have many profiling tools, there are some behaviours that many of us notice – either online or in person – where we wonder if there is something wrong with the way we see people, if there might be something amiss with ourselves, or if there really is justification in the names we mutter under our breath about the way some people show up.

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Bringing the Vision into Strategic Focus

SBI Growth

Many CEOs and boards will tell you their corporate strategy is already designed to grow revenue. These executives wonder whether they really need a Revenue Growth Methodology to hit their objectives. They do, and here’s why: If you dig into.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud! With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings.

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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part II

Anthony Cole Training

In the previous post, I identified 8 clues that would indicate that your sales organization has a sales growth problem ( CLICK HERE to read the article and review the 5 clues).

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Marketing and Sales Alignment Starts With a Common Technology Stack

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-01. Author: Bonnie Crater, CEO of Full Circle Insights. Teaser: When sales and marketing align around the CRM solution the sales team uses, they’ll be speaking a common language and working from the same playbook for the first time. When sales and marketing align around the CRM solution the sales team uses, they’ll be speaking a common language and working from the same playbook for the first time.

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Seven Negotiating Mistakes That Hurt Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

Negotiation is an essential element of most sales efforts. Yet too many salespeople, professionals, and business owners lack the skills to negotiate successfully. If you’re not good at negotiating, it can cost you both sales and profits. Have you made any of these common negotiating mistakes lately? 1. Not being willing to walk away This [.].

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring

The Sales Hunter

I read with interest this short article about three traits Warren Buffett looks for when hiring someone: Intelligence, Energy and Integrity. He values each one, but he says if they don’t have integrity, the other two don’t count. Integrity is tough. It takes a lifetime to create and only a second to lose. Another […].

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.

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When You’ve Been Given the Stage and Mic’d Up– Now What?

Bernadette McClelland

Imagine you’d been given your own perfect audience and then handed a microphone. What would you do? Would you stare at it, wondering how it even worked? This device whose role is to increase the volume of the human voice – purely and simply? It’s not like the mask with the horn shaped mouthpiece that was invented to amplify sound in the ampi-theatres of Greece, nor the megaphone that followed, or even the ‘lovers device’ with two cups attached by a cord that some of us called walkie talki

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Avoid Competitive Erosion – Remain Relevant in a Changing Market

SBI Growth

There is a common question among Chief Executive Officers. How do I stay relevant in a changing market? Many industries are experiencing significant shifts. Disruptive technologies take root, or markets are saturated. The reasons are many. As CEO, your task.

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The Art and Science of Cooking Up a Sales Team Built for Growth

Anthony Cole Training

At Christmas, my wife, Linda, bought me a cookbook – The Science of Good Cooking. She gave it to me because I really do love to cook. I love to cook because I love to eat. I’m not a foodie who is into exotic or gourmet types of recipes. I’m a basic meat, potato, soup, pasta, BBQ, stew and sandwich kind of guy. You’ll notice the absence of veggies in that list.

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