Sat.Nov 06, 2021 - Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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Four Risks Growth Leaders Must Consider for 2022, Part One:  Unrealistic Assumptions Around Talent Acquisition

SBI Growth

Both CEOs and staffing firms shared that despite planned headcount additions, they are struggling to fill open roles, with the number of posted sales roles growing by 65% since early 2021. Further complicating sales leaders’ efforts to hit quota, on average, surveyed leaders are operating with 31% of sales capacity that’s either open headcount or in year 1 on the job, indicating partial capacity at best.

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Personalize Customer Engagement With Conversational AI

Sales and Marketing Management

Conversational AI allows marketing teams at small and medium-sized businesses to deliver prompt and personalized responses to prospect and customer inquiries within seconds. The post Personalize Customer Engagement With Conversational AI appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to be Successful in Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Whether you are just starting out in sales, or a company executive planning your sales growth for next year, wouldn’t it be important to know how to be successful in sales? And wouldn’t you like to know what attributes and skills need to be mastered in order to be successful selling?

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I Was Neglecting My Customer Relationships

No More Cold Calling

Your referral network is your net worth in sales. Don’t forget to nurture it. “How do I ask for a referral from customers I haven’t spoken with in two years?” That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. How can smart, experienced sales reps let their customer relationships wither? Now I know why, because I’ve been guilty of it myself.

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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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Are you Going For Another Hail Mary?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Many will remember the 2016 buzzer beater Kris Jenkins of Villanova scored to win the championship. The crowd was excited, a once in a lifetime shot. But was it? Do a little digging and you’ll find that the buzzer beater was part of every practice. At the end of the practice so people would be as exhausted at the end of a game. Leave nothing to chance, prepare for every know or “should have known” scenario.

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Believe With Trust: Building Organizational Confidence

Engage Selling

The ability to draw regularly from a deep well of confidence is a top predictor of successful performance. Experts know this and top-ranked salespeople do, too. But confidence isn’t just important at a personal level. It matters as much at … Read More » The post Believe With Trust: Building Organizational Confidence first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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How Corvinus University of Budapest is elevating the sales profession

Membrain

Some time ago, when the entrepreneur Csaba Csetenyi met with his friend, who was at that time the new head of Corvinus University of Budapest, Csaba said a few fateful words that changed the future for himself and for the university:

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 47 – Anita Nielsen

The Pipeline

Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Anita Nielsen is a Sales Performance Strategist, Consultant, and Coach. With 20 years of cross industry experience from various roles in B2B Sales and Sales Enablement. Anita is committed to her clients’ success and relentless in finding solutions for the various problems faced by senior B2B sales leaders.

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Sales Leadership Q&A: Driving Success in Remote Sales Environments

Force Management

Get more out of your team and cut through the noise of remote working challenges. In our recent webinar , Force Management President, John Kaplan, answered timely questions on sales leadership actions related to the “post-Covid” world and remote working strategies. We’ve compiled some of the most impactful topics and resources that you may find valuable as you decide what’s needed to support your sales team in hitting revenue goals.

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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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11 Ways to Activate Sales Content to Accelerate Revenue

Allego

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve got a full production calendar of sales content, solution briefs, case studies, videos, blog posts, product guides, and more to support sellers and help them be productive. Your first priority is to deliver the best sales content that will move deals through the pipeline. But if you support a sales team, you’ve got a lot on your plate.

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Want to be liked by your prospects? Get respect instead

Membrain

I grew up playing sports. I played softball and volleyball, and I loved being part of a team. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school.

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How to Help Your Team Hit Quota During the Holiday Season

Hubspot Sales

I'll preface these tips by mentioning that many sales teams struggle to hit quota during the holiday season — and those issues come from a lot of different angles, including: It's a shorter quarter with weeks-long holidays for prospects. Prospects take additional PTO during the holidays, in addition to company-wide holidays. Company-wide freezes — like code, website, purchasing, and budgeting freezes — tend to occur during the holidays.

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Pretty Big Deal: The 90 Percent Discount

Zoominfo

Bryan Tunick is a sales manager at ZoomInfo. But seven years ago, he was working at a start-up as the only salesperson. In this week’s episode, Bryan tells us about a deal gone wrong. And what he did to turn things around at the last second.

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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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Inside Drift: Josh Perk, Senior Director of Solutions Consulting

Drift

Welcome back to another edition of Inside Drift, where we introduce you to members of the team that make Drift such a great place to work. So far you’ve met Shannon Donovan, Mary Mitchell, Catherine LaMacchia, Nadine Shaalan, Britnee Laughlin, Carolina Caprile, Michelle Ai, Frank Schepps, Tate Knapp, Zareena Javed, Jason Richman, Stacy Chen, Lillian Frost, Josh Moody, Miles Kane, Lorraine Chon-Qui.

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The Science of Developing Sales Skills

Janek Performance Group

Do you know the difference between an amateur and a professional? The amateur will practice until they get it right while the professional will practice until they can’t get it wrong. There are no secrets or shortcuts to becoming a high-performing sales professional. And, as a manager of salespeople, to create high-performing sales teams you need to establish clear sales competencies.

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Podcast 243: Suneera Madhani on Leaving Your Legacy and Not Being a Typical CEO

John Barrows

Suneera Madhani, mentor, investor and Fortune’s 40 Under 40 CEO at Stax by fattmerchant, joins John this week to talk about mom guilt, building a legacy of empowering women, and evaluating $10 tasks versus $10,000 tasks. This episode is filled with serious life advice from two different generations, actionable time management tips, and how to approach life knowing work-life balance does not exist for anyone.

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6 Strategies Buyers Use to Negotiate Price

RAIN Group

Some buyers are conditioned to try certain tactics to lower your price. Maybe they've read about negotiation in books or were trained to use pressuring strategies.

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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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[NEW] Your Sales Development Program Scorecard

Tenbound

Discover Your Sales Development (SDR) Program Score with this free program scorecard. For emerging and current leaders of Sales Development and Go-To-Market teams. Increase your ability to drive reliable SDR Sales Pipeline. Click here to start the survey. This scorecard has been designed to show Go-To-Market Leaders their blind spots and provide instantly actionable steps to boost Sales.

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Social Selling Via LinkedIn

Janek Performance Group

Is your LinkedIn social selling strategy based on FOMO (the fear of missing out)? FOMO is rarely a good reason to do anything in business. Especially if we are talking about social selling on LinkedIn. We all agree exposure on LinkedIn is important, but there can be a negative impact without a clear social selling strategy. Implementing a social selling policy should be the first step of any social selling program.

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Sales Leadership Series: Mike Searson | Vice President, Local Revenue at Corus Entertainment

The Center for Sales Strategy

Being a sales manager has always been a difficult job. But we can all agree that over the last couple of years, it’s gotten a lot harder. In this episode of the Sales Leadership Series, Mike Searson, Vice President, Local Revenue at Corus Entertainment discusses sales and executive leadership tips. He also addresses some of the top KPIs he looks at and what sales managers should be focused on in the upcoming years.

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Sales Development Methodology

Predictable Revenue

This 2-part methodology is designed to help companies build their go-to-market plan and teach you how to execute it. The post Sales Development Methodology appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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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Are We Numbed By Work?

Partners in Excellence

I watched a fascinating short film, “Work, I Think It Numbs You, Somehow.” It got me reflecting on much of what I see when working with executives and sales people. Add onto that, all the we read about the Great Resignation. About two minutes into the film, a factory worker is interviewed. He talks about how so much of work causes you to stop thinking, we go through the motions and don’t have to make decisions.

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Lead vs. Prospect: What’s the Difference?

Crunchbase

Lead generation is what drives growth for businesses around the world. But, let’s be honest. Lead generation is pointless if it doesn’t result in a prospect and a conversion. Before we dive into how to drive conversions, let’s first unpack the difference between a lead and a prospect, and how to turn one into the other. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data.

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Sales Leaders' Top Challenges— Setting Clear Expectations

The Center for Sales Strategy

As a sales manager, here’s an easy concept to get your head around: sales performance improves when sales managers set clear expectations with each salesperson. Think about it, when sellers know what to do—and managers establish performance tracking metrics and leading indicators to monitor progress—life becomes easier for all involved. Simply put, when life is easier for a salesperson, they perform at a higher level.

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How To Hire Top Performing SDRs

Predictable Revenue

Poor hiring processes play a big role in the inability to hire timely or correctly. We’d love to show you our hiring process so you have the right tools at the tip of your hands to start hiring for success. The post How To Hire Top Performing SDRs appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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LIVECAST: John Barrows, Morgan J. Ingram, & Leslie Douglas host “Come Prospect with Us!”

John Barrows

The post LIVECAST: John Barrows, Morgan J. Ingram, & Leslie Douglas host “Come Prospect with Us!” appeared first on JB Sales.

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Volume Discounting: What It Is, How It Works, & What It Looks Like

Hubspot Sales

As a wholesaler or supplier of high volumes of certain products, you're going to run into cases where you want a bit more from your buyers — instances where they might have the bandwidth to buy more but lack the motivation to. Those kinds of situations put you in a tough spot, and incentivizing buyers to put up more cash for higher volume orders is a challenge in itself.

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Weekly Roundup: Getting Buy-In From Your Entire Company, First Impressions + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "It's not about having the right opportunities. It's about handling the opportunities right.". - Mark Hunter. - AROUND THE WEB -. > 3 Essential Steps to Get Buy-In from Your Entire Company – The Great Game of Business. “If people don’t participate, they don’t buy in. If they don’t buy in, they don’t commit. If they don’t commit, they don’t deliver!

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