Altify

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I don’t know when exactly it happened, but it definitely happened in the last 15 years – selling changed. While there has always been complexity in business to business selling, the proliferation of information and connectedness amongst people has created a far more sophisticated buyer. Whether you’re buying a 4K TV at your local Best Buy or you’re buying your next enterprise application for thousands of users on behalf of your company, you have access to a wealth of information, you have many c

Revenue 80

Revenue Customer Retention Study 80

Julie Hanson

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

For many of us, bringing a pet, a favorite toy or even person to school for show and tell was our earliest experience using a prop. Why didn’t the teacher just have us tell a story? Because teachers know that a verbal story alone is not enough to hold the attention of a room full of children. While your prospects are likely a bit older, show and tell is still one of the most powerful ways to gain an audience’s attention and improve recall.

Face-to-face 94

Face-to-face Video Sales Industry 94

BrainShark

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Examples 104

Examples Sales Enablement Sales 104

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. While it has been near 40 years that voicemail has been the constant companion to sales professionals, it still seems to challenge many, especially when it comes to connecting with unknown buyers. “How do you get them to call you back and still hold your own?” Most salespeople I speak to, opt out and don’t leave a message the first time to an unknown prospect.

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Call-back Objections ACT Prospecting 262

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

From Mindful to Mindset, Part 2. MINDSET is preceded by MINDFUL. Mindful, or self-mindfulness, is the first, and most important step to your mindset. Positive outcomes start with MINDFULNESS, not MINDSET. Here are the elements and actions needed for Mindful that set the stage and the tone for Mindset. Mindful of your space to set your mind – comfort, quiet, distraction free, alone.

Positioning 259

Positioning Banking Exercises Intent 259

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. One guy even said he was thinking of cold calling (shudder) and doing more marketing. Why didn’t he think to ask for referrals? That’s a rhetorical question. I already know the answer. People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect.

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Referrals Lead Gen Social Media Cold Calling 233

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Author: Jennifer Tomlinson Consumer choice has never been greater. In fact, you can expect 30,000 new products to hit the market each year. With competition so immense, and the chances of failure so high (at a rate of 95 percent, to be exact), attention should be paid to delivering value to your target audience. One of the most effective ways is to focus on your value proposition.

Lead Rank 214

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Consumer Exact 214

Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

From Mindful to Mindset, Part 1. The personal development buzzword for the last decade or so has been MINDSET. Here’s a bit of history and explanation…. NAPOLEON HILL is the grandfather of MINDSET. His definition was “concentration” combined with the elements of enthusiasm, self-confidence, a chief major aim, and providing more service than you are paid for.

Positioning 234

Positioning Study Groups Examples 234

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Market Segmentation analysis and reports are a foundational component of strategic analysis, planning and decision-making for any CEO. Understanding market opportunity and market dynamics is critical. It informs how to make investments in people, time and money. Geographic growth opportunity Industry/Vertical market.

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Segment Study Analysis Marketing 204

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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Companies spend thousands—even millions—of dollars every year training their salespeople and sales channels on the minutia of their products and services. In fact, many companies use the term “sales training” when what they really mean is “product training.” And that’s a mistake. Because product knowledge is not enough. If product knowledge was all that mattered, [.].

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Channels Training Company Benefit 204

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN There were a few things that struck me as being relevant that didn’t quite make it into the print version of my article on elevating your customer experience. In this case, they’re like the cattle that couldn’t be brought back into the herd before the gates closed on the corral. They’re still out there and they’re still relevant and they are shared here in hopes you’ll benefit from them.

Trends 205

Trends Ideal Customer Profile Customer Face-to-face 205

Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Now that we’re more than halfway through this CONNECT2Sell series on how to become a more memorable as a seller, be sure to go back and catch up on any posts you’ve missed. We’re covering 12 different ways you can make a lasting impression with buyers. The benefits for you of becoming more memorable include differentiation, competitive advantage, confidence, getting more referrals, and making more sales.

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Buyer How To Referrals Benefit 203

Score More Sales

MARCH 1, 2019

Do you have these five components as a sales manager? It takes much more to be successful, however these five areas make up what Objective Management Group calls the Will to Manage Sales.

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Groups Objections Sales Sales Management 201

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Too often marketing leaders focus their digital initiatives on one thing: lead generation. So, if you’re like most CMOs, you’re investing a lot of time and energy into your website, marketing automation platform and maybe some tools to provide enhanced.

Lead Generation 196

Lead Generation Energy Marketing Tools 196

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 1, 2019

Want to know a secret about objections ? There are really only two types: Real concerns that need to be addressed, and, once you do, you can then close on, and, Smokescreen objections hiding something else (like the real reason your prospect isn’t buying). Now here’s the trouble for many sales reps and teams: The most frequent objections they get are smokescreens and yet they try to overcome them as if they were real objections.

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Objections Inside Sales Closing Prospecting 195

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sales is a complicated, never-ending process of building relationships with prospects, building trust, answering questions, and moving the whole procedure through to the commitment stage. Your sales process is the formula that keeps you ahead of the game and allows your customers to make decisions that are in line with their concepts of success. Your sales processes need to be updated regularly, because your customers will always be changing their expectations of what quality of service and prod

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Author: Jason Loh Every chef has their secret sauce. For some it’s an actual product: a unique amalgam of ingredients no other chef has yet discovered or marketed. For others, “secret sauce” designates less a specific concoction, but instead an approach to the craft – a body of experience and intuition that shapes a chef’s strategy for every dish they cook.

Strategy 149

Strategy Marketing Incentives Incentive 149

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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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The CMO who exclusively focuses on new lead generation is falling behind the market, their competitors, and their peers. This myopic view only focuses on one stage of the Customer Lifecycle. Conversely, revenue driven CMOs are making massive impacts to.

Lead Generation 174

Lead Generation Customer Revenue Leads 174

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Typically, when a salesperson doesn't win an account it's due to a few different factors; the prospect didn't have a compelling reason to make a change, the salesperson didn't do enough to uncover their capacity to invest, or the incumbent wasn't properly eliminated from the running. In this article, we discuss the 3 Rules every successful salesperson must follow in order to eliminate stalls and objections during the sales process.

Objections 137

Objections Account Sales Process Prospecting 137

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Cat Meme Queen, CEO at Catmom3.com : That’s a potential title and email domain that could be entered into your web form fill to get that ebook or whitepaper you promised. THEY get a free ebook. And YOU get bad CRM data, killing email deliverability, wasting your reps’ time, skewing your analytics, and costing you money. We’ve all done it. We didn’t want our names on someone’s email list, so we typed in a favorite video game character, a poop joke, or threw our cat under the bus.

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Data CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. The executive was enough of a regular at the store that he knew the store manager’s name and swapped pleasantries with him on most visits.

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Insurance Insurance Commission Lead Rank 120

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I couldn’t be more excited for SalesLoft’s upcoming Rainmaker19 conference held in Atlanta on March 11-13th. This is one of my favorite conferences of the year put on by one of my favorite companies. Their CEO Kyle and I connected back in the early days of both our businesses and I’ve been a huge fan of him and the company he has built ever since. They just do things right.

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Conversion Conference Scale ROI 126

Openview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Growing a business can often create a complicated conundrum for entrepreneurs: How do we get the people who have what it takes to help us believe in our mission enough to take a risk and join the cause? This situation can often lead us to do some questionable stuff – like biting off more than we can chew to get them on board: Bigger titles than they’re ready for or we can support.

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Hiring How To Scale Comparison 131

Nutshell

MARCH 1, 2019

Following up with buyers is a crucial part of any salesperson’s job. Rarely will a new prospect get back to after your first cold email , and even your best clients often need multiple touches to draw them back into a sales conversation. Both situations take time and persistence. Buyers want to know that you care about them and their needs, and following up is a way to show that you care.

Top of Funnel 124

Top of Funnel Campaigns Call-back Follow-up 124

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Whether you're setting personal or business goals, you likely created a plan to achieve them. Without clearly defined steps, it can be difficult or even discouraging to tackle the goal you've set. One example of a situation where planning and strategy come in handy is during a job search. Let's say you've spent weeks or months scouring the internet for a new sales job, but none of the job postings seem to match your skill set or career interests.

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Hiring Enterprise Enterprise Objections 119

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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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Subscribe to Selling With Social. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. I recently witnessed the importance of organizational culture when I had the opportunity to spend time alongside my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial. Justin Hiatt is the Vice President of Digital Sales at Workfront, a company that has an amazing organizational culture.

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Hiring Oracle Retention Google 109

Membrain

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

One of the challenges that sales managers have is their trepidation around transitioning from very little coaching to daily coaching; and at the same time, moving from coaching light (ineffective coaching) to coaching pro (effective coaching). Why? They aren't masters of role-playing and role-playing is one of the primary tools to demonstrate best practices and how effective sales conversations should sound.

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Coaching Tools Conversion Sales Management 102

SBI

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

SalesTech Video Review: Finlistics. Finlistics offers a complex and comprehensive business intelligence database of insights to create a rich profile of your prospects. By leveraging this information, sellers can have much more detailed conversations about the customers current business challenges. Finlistics helps bridge the gap between what your solution does and how it can benefit your customer’s unique company– in other words, it’s true value to the prospect. - Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling To

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