October, 2009

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Sales Linguistics is Sales 2.0! Steve Martin.

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Featured Content: Social Media: The Old Marketing Game Has New Rules

BrainShark

If you found this blog through a social tool or are following us on Twitter , then you obviously know that the marketing game has changed. But are you using it for your business?

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Part Three: Determining When To Coach Your Salespeople, When to Provide Sales Training and When To Give Them The Answer

Keith Rosen

As a recap from Part One, “Do I Coach Them or Train Them?” when coaching someone, The Gap is the space that exists between where the client or coachee is today and where they want or need to be. It’s the void that exists between the person and their goal. As a coach, it’s your responsibility to identify and fill in this gap. The question is, what exactly do you use to fill in this gap – do you coach them, train then, advise them or flat out just give them the answer

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The Promotion That Got Away, And How To Learn From It

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Sales Success rests on building Strategic Roadmap with Customers

The ROI Guy

In today’s tough selling environment, a sales enablement best practice is to deliver tools to help sales professionals compete better. Most sales enablement groups have started to implement best practices to help connect better with customers in the later stages of the sales cycle, including tools to create better business cases (ROI Analyses), deliver and quantify competitive comparisons (TCO analyses), provide better RFP responses, and build better proposals.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Selling to The C-Level Webinar-WATCH IT!!!

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Featured Content: Learning Excel 2007 - Back to Basics

BrainShark

eed some brush up on using Microsoft Office's Excell 2007? Or better yet, are you first starting to use this software and need some proper level 1 training? Danielles at C.R. England authored some great content on this subject.

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Part Two: Determining When To Coach Your People, When to Provide Sales Training & When to Give Them The Answer

Keith Rosen

As a recap from Part One, “Do I Coach Them or Train Them?” when coaching someone, The Gap is the space that exists between where the client or coachee is today and where they want or need to be. It’s the void that exists between the person and their goal. As a coach, it’s your responsibility to identify and fill in this gap. The question is, what exactly do you use to fill in this gap – do you coach them, train then, advise them or flat out just give them the answer

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6 Ways To Avoid Pointless Pow-Wows

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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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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ROI RIP?

The ROI Guy

A recent headline from CIOInsight caught my eye: ROI RIP : Not really dead, just overrated. The article link can be found at: [link] In this article from Arthur Langer , he explains that CIOs and CFOs care more about strategy and less about financial ROI calculations. With earnings season in full swing we know that this is not the case as CFOs in an environment where revenue is hard to come by, are squeezing every ounce of cost out of the business to post good earnings and maintain enterprise va

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Your Road Map to Success in Sales

Sales Gravy

Do a great walk around presentation, show the engine compartment, point out the self-service items, show the size of the trunk and the rear seats, point out all of the bells and whistles. Get the client behind the wheel and show all of the controls.

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Can Value Propositions be Generic?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

Was the subject of a debate I recently followed on LinkedIn. The person asking the question was of the opinion that value propositions work best if they are customer specific. However a well known expert of the subject was of the opinion, that they need not necessarily be customer specific to be effective. They must though be concrete. Statements like “our solution reduces cost” do not work.

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MD and E

BrainShark

Garth Shaner explains how Brainshark assisted his consultant work by improving training and sales effectiveness.

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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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Do I Coach Them or Train Them? Determining When To Coach Your People & When to Train Them – Part One

Keith Rosen

When coaching someone, The Gap is the space that exists between where the client or coachee is today and where they want or need to be. It’s the void that exists between the person and their goal. As a coach, it’s your responsibility to identify and fill in this gap. The question is, what exactly do you use to fill in this gap? Part of the reason why identifying the gap is such a critical starting point in coaching is this; you must first determine whether the issue at hand is, in fa

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How To Untangle The Web Of Distraction At Work

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Datacenter virtualization only at 16%

The ROI Guy

At Gartner’s IT Symposium in Orlando this week, Gartner released the latest census on datacenter virtualization. According to Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, only 16 percent of workloads are running in virtual machines today, but this is expected to rise to around 50 percent of x86 architecture server workloads by the end of 2012.

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The Two Most Powerful Words That Will Make You Sell More

Sales Gravy

Who would be crazy enough to say "guaranteed" about two little words? Well, it's not crazy. In my travels working with thousands of sales professionals, I've found a common thread in those who are tremendously successful.

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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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Compare Apples to Apples…

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

when using sport’s teams analogies to coach sales teams. A Sales Team is a Sales Team or not? There are at least two definitions that come to mind: A group of sales people reporting to a sales manager A group of specialists (an account team) all facing a particular customer orchestrated usually by an account manager. How are they different? An account team is a work group, whereas a team of sales people reporting to a sales manager is not.

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Welcome to the myBrainshark Blog

BrainShark

Since myBrainshark has launched , we've seen some intriguing content & fascinating educational topics.

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What Do You Coach? Coach The Gap

Keith Rosen

The most common question I hear from managers just starting to shift from manager to coach is, “How do I recognize where it is they need and could benefit from the coaching most?” Actually, covering the specifics of what you can coach someone on, from a tactical perspective is actually the easy part. It’s uncovering the who or the often very elusive and limiting thinking or outlook they have which is ultimately showing up in their actions and behavior that is the tricky part.

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Study Shows Employees Crave Meaningful Feedback from Managers

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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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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Gartner highlights importance of business cases to address budget woes at its annual IT Symposium in Orlando

The ROI Guy

According to Gartner’s latest research, the IT industry is exiting its worst year ever in 2009, as worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline 5.2 percent. According to Garner’s Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner and Global Head of Research, “While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012.

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If At First You Don't Succeed

Sales Gravy

Successful sales people know the importance of persistence but the key is to change your approach or strategy with each prospect every time you contact them. You also need to consider the frequency of your contacts.

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Lead Generation Tips - Take 3 Hour Lunches

Green Lead's B2B

There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. MIT data shows that that might have been a good idea! Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. The report details such information as the right time of day to call, the best day of the week, how the response time to a lead impacts conversion, etc.

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Sales Training – The No Pressure Sales Technique

SalesGrail

Companies spend lots of money on sales training programs to sell more products. They’re constantly pushing – that’s the sales business- and it’s great! Yet, have you ever walked into a big-ticket store only to be confronted with an overanxious or inexperienced salesperson? It’s uncomfortable. How do sales professionals sell without being overbearing?

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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 Your Commitment To Others Sabotages Your Coaching Efforts

Keith Rosen

Yes, you can actually want too much for your salespeople and your clients, more than they, in fact, may be ready for or even want for themselves. Jake learned this lesson quickly as a new coach. To this day, Jake’s unwavering commitment to every one of the salespeople on his team is to help them make the long-term changes they want and need in their careers.

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Can You Sum Up Your Accomplishments In 6 Words?

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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“Pricing Leadership: Navigating through Tumultuous Times” by John Hogan

LeveragePoint

John Hogan, management consultant, author, and LeveragePoint advisor, recently delivered a keynote at the Professional Pricing Society’s annual conference in Orlando in October. The talk on “Pricing Leadership: Navigating through Tumultuous Times” is available on SlideShare , where you can also find his speaker’s notes. In this talk, John brings into focus the double challenge facing marketing and pricing experts in today’s economy, and by extension the challenges to sales leadership.