Sat.Feb 02, 2013 - Fri.Feb 08, 2013

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Follow the crumbs

Bernadette McClelland

'Follow the crumbs. We all remember the story of Hansel and Gretel and how the idea of leaving a trail of breadcrumbs would eventually allow them to find their way out of the forest. There are two pertinent messages that come out of this story: I have no idea why kids stories were so scary and. Following the trail of crumbs in business can lead us to bigger and better results.

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A Vicious Sales Cycle—4 Traps to Avoid

No More Cold Calling

How to stop undermining your performance, and save your sales. Getting caught in the cyclone of a vicious sales cycle is a looming trap. Take one wrong step, and you’re pulled into the eye of the storm. Sales quotas loom, and we neglect the basics of customer interaction, respect, and basic sales behaviors. There’s no way out. My colleague, Andy Paul, author of Zero-Time Selling , clearly describes four sales traps that stem from bad habits.

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How Social Sellers Build Their Pipeline with LinkedIn

SBI Growth

You don’t want a new job. You want to excel at the job you already have. To do that, you must outperform your peers and close more deals. So your success tomorrow depends upon your pipeline today. In today’s environment, a quality pipeline starts with LinkedIn. This post describes the Social Seller's strategy to grow their prospect list through LinkedIn.

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Did You Get My Voice Mail?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Yesterday I got a call about a piece I wrote for Radius titled: Get More Call Backs: How To Increase Returned Voicemails By 50%. Seems it has stirred up a discussion in one the LinkedIn groups, one I did not belong to, (since joined). Whenever I do a piece on effective voice mail techniques, three things happen: It get a lot more hits than most other posts – telling me that this continues to be a challenge and hot button for sales people.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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How To Build Your Personal Brand As A Salesperson

MTD Sales Training

Branding, the process of creating an emotional connection to a company or product, has been the subject of many studies and much research. Most of that research has revolved around the companies who. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Optimizing Your Website for Mobile isn’t Enough

SBI Growth

As a Marketing Leader, you pay attention to mobile trends. But what are you putting into action? If you don’t, lead generation efforts will hit road blocks. Live leads will break away as you reel them in. Your credibility with the sales leader will quickly dwindle. If you’re thinking that optimizing your website for mobile is enough, don’t stop there.

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Sales Tools Don’t Fail – Sales eXchange 186

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Advancements in technology, and the access to information have come at a staggering rate over the last 25 years. In some cases the resulting gains in productivity and efficiency have been as great or greater; access to data and analysis, manufacturing and supply chain are a couple of examples. But some areas like sales, have lagged.

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Building Self-Management & Organisational Skills To Create Sales Opportunities

MTD Sales Training

There is one skill that I see top-quality salespeople exhibiting that often overides everything else. You can be a great communicator, a superb closer and an excellent negotiator, but if this skill. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Practical Information About Making Sales Today | Self Test

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet Are you using the WOW factor? What is WOW? – WOW is sales! WOW separates the strong from the weak. WOW separates the sincere from the insincere. WOW separates the sales pro’s from the con’s. WOW separates the yes’es from the no’s. WOW is the full measure of your sales power and the way you use it. Are you WOW? Is WOW a factor in your selling process?

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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The Age of Social Network Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2013-02-04. Author: Brian Rowland. Teaser: A story in last week's Wall Street Journal reported that small and medium-sized businesses owners rank LinkedIn as the most effective social media sales tool. Here are 4 ways sales reps can get more from LinkedIn. A story in last week's Wall Street Journal reported that small and medium-sized businesses owners rank LinkedIn as the most effective social media sales tool.

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How to Consistently Win the Big Deal Using a Buying Process Map

SBI Growth

Sales Leaders always celebrate the Win on the Big Deal. There’s nothing better than the stories that go with winning that monster deal. But the real key is being able to dissect how and why you won. If you did it once, why can’t you do it again? The naysayers say these beasts aren’t repeatable. They say it’s a one-off, not a trend. I say, find out definitively what happened, and replicate it.

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How To Turn Customers Into Long-Term Clients – Video Blog

MTD Sales Training

As a sales person and business owner, you can be great at prospecting and setting appointments, and you can be great at closing the deal and delivering the desired results after the sale – but until. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The mile between satisfied and loyal. The EXTRA mile.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet. Have you ever heard the phrase, He went the extra mile ? I want to talk to you about the “extra mile” in a way that you might understand it and use it to build customer loyalty. The extra mile is an action or an expression that sparks a WOW! in the mind of the customer or a co-worker. It’s an unexpected deed. But before an extra mile is ever walked or executed, it has to be an attitude and a mindset from the extra miler.

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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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3 Technology Traps to Avoid in Sales

Score More Sales

In sales we work hard to create mutual next steps with prospective customers and ultimately to help buying opportunities for these prospects – these buyers. But time and again, we get bombarded with interruptions, alerts, tools, and technology. Younger sales reps tend to be more used to an interruption-based work day filled with texts, chat, some e-mail and perhaps phone calling all as a part of their day.

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The Silver Bullet for Sales Ops to Drive Revenue and Lower Costs

SBI Growth

“I’ve got too many things to do. It’s killing me not being able to focus on our strategy!”. I hear this lament often from Sales Ops leaders. The highest priorities on your plate are often about reacting to the sales team. Compensation disputes, monthly reporting, new rep on boarding, SKO planning, forecast re-do’s, etc., etc. It’s time to initiate a strategic effort that won’t just maintain revenue but will grow it.

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Using Suggestive Selling To Enhance Value

MTD Sales Training

When I bought my new television recently, I did the research, examined my options and made decisions based on what I wanted. The web was my instructor, expert and advisor. My choice whittled down to. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Practical Information About Making Sales Today.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet You can measure how much WOW is in your sales effort by looking at the following ten aspects of what makes up WOW: 1. Be totally persistent – To reach the prospect, to get the prospect your information, to get information about the prospect, to appoint the prospect. 2. Be totally knowledgeable about the prospect – Your knowledge of the prospect and his or her business is often critical to completing the sale.

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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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Discounting Your Price Brings You Customers You Don’t Want

The Sales Hunter

When you discount your price as a way to attract new business, the only thing you’re going to do is make yourself and your company work harder. Using a low price to attract new business is a great technique to attract customers who will never pay full price. This is true in both B2B and B2C. The fall of Groupon, Living Social and other coupon sites is living proof.

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The Sales Book Your Intellectual Uncle Loves

SBI Growth

If Sales Books lived up to the claims they made, we’d all be at 300% of quota every year. Of the thousands of books published annually, many are just inspirational fluff. Others are tired retreads of the same material. However, Sales VPs we interview always ask about specific sales books. What did you guys think about.? Download this tool to see the top 5 books we recommend to Sales VPs.

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Inside Sales Influencers – First Annual Rankings

Score More Sales

At the end of January, B2B Sales and Marketing Influencer Craig Rosenberg posted a first ever, annual ranking of Inside Sales Influencers for 2013 on the Radius Intelligence blog. This was interesting for a couple of reasons: - Inside Sales for years was treated as a step-child to prestigious outside sales so it is great to see more visibility for those championing the profession of inside sales and sales leadership. - Craig based the list on Kred scores – something I was not even familiar

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The "Bell Curve" Dilemma in Sales Management

Anthony Cole Training

I'm not sure if the word "dilemma" or "problem" best describes what I'm trying to say. It's like trying to compare the words commitment and resolution. I'm reading the book, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" , and on page 54, Lincoln is quoted as saying: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.".

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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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If a Pilot Has a Checklist, Then Salespeople Should Have One Too

The Sales Hunter

Anybody who gets on a flight is going to expect the flight crew to go through a checklist before taking off. Regardless of how many flights a pilot may have made previously, they know the importance of the checklist. If it works for pilots, it seems like it should work for salespeople too. I hear way too many salespeople complain about how hard it is for them to get a sales call.

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Identify the Blind Spots of Your Competitors Sales Team

SBI Growth

The following post is a based on a true story. The events and characters have been fictionalized to protect privacy. It is the first night of sales kickoff for a $400 million communications company. I have been asked to give the opening keynote speech the next morning. My phone tells me it is time to meet the CEO. I knock on door 1107. “Charlie” opens the door and invites me in.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 99 – Environment

Score More Sales

If you are at a desk in an office or working remotely there is no doubt something about your environment is distracting to your focus of making contact with potential buyers or talking with existing customers to grow revenues. For this conversation, a toleration is an annoyance – something you put up with, and it adds to your stress, often making you less productive.

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Challenge for Today | Self Confidence

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet Project your self-image in a way that breeds confidence in others. Self-confidence comes from your internal thoughts and image. What is the image that you have of yourself? How are people referring to you behind your back?

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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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10 Questions to Find Out if the Weekly Sales Meeting is a Waste of Time

The Sales Hunter

Are weekly sales meetings a waste of time? I hear from both salespeople and sales managers about the pros and cons of the weekly sales meeting. Want to find out if a sales meeting is an asset or a waste of time? Consider these 10 questions: 1. Do people view the meeting as “update session” where people update what’s happening? 2. Is the conversation one-sided with the manager doing all of the talking?

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4 Steps to Break the February Sales Talent Exit

SBI Growth

Top sales performers are heading for the exits. This happens just after the January commission checks are cashed. It’s like Groundhog Day – the same thing happens every year. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now is the time for HR and Sales leaders to break the cycle. The year-end commission check is a major root cause of turnover. For top earners it marks the end of the 2012 comp accelerator.

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Balancing the Consultant and Strategist Roles

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2013-02-08. Author: Michael Leimbach. Teaser: Successful salespeople must develop both consultant and strategist skill areas. The balancing act is critical if salespeople hope to be competitive and serve their clients. Here's a look at what is involved with each role. Successful salespeople must develop both consultant and strategist skill areas.

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