The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Lately I have had a chance to sit in on a number of “opportunity reviews”, and it is interesting how the format and tools have changed, the plot and the theme have not changed much beyond the costumes, props, and players. Real or Fantasy. What was striking is that for the most part, these “events”, fall in to one of two groups, they are either objective, fact based exercise, leading to a realistic view of their opportunities, with the conviction o

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Hey Steven coming at you right again with my next Executive Briefing. Last time I spoke to you about coaching and the quantity of coaching. How many days should a manager spend in the field? I found this old presentation that I did when I was the vice president of sales at Alcon and we did some learning and many of you may have seen this on video, it’s by Stephen Covey, I like Stephen Covey and it is called The Big Rocks Presentation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Author: Staff "It will sell itself.". We hear that sort of hype often, especially from newer entrepreneurs and innovators looking to build a startup and acquire venture capital. Unfortunately, almost nothing sells itself , no matter how great that product or service may be. From the very beginning – before the product is even developed – startups as well as mature organizations rolling out new product lines need to ask the question, “How will we sell this?

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The Sales Heretic

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a lot of wisdom, insight, encouragement, and humor out there. Here’s another sampling of my favorite quips and quotes. “If you are not building value, you are losing sales.”—Laurie Brown “When starting out, don’t worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite [.].

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 2, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. I was in the audience for a panel looking at sales, and the future of sales (yes, another). What made this a wee bit more interesting is they actually had some buyers on the panel, bringing a level of reality often absent from such affairs. One CEO made a comment that at first seems basic, but when expanded on his experience, it was easy to see why we as sellers think we are doing something, the buyer completely misses, or misinterprets.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Sales is an admirable role in your organization because nothing happens until someone sells something. You can have the most incredibly designed product or service – and if you don’t sell enough of them, ultimately your business is doomed.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Joining the SBI podcast show is Nick Mehta, CEO of software company Gainsight, the global leader in the customer success category. Many CEOs are moving their revenue models to recurring revenue as this type of revenue creates higher enterprise value than.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Image Copyright iStock Photos. I just returned from the local car dealer. Have you ever noticed how happy people are when they are buying things? What about you? How did you feel the last time you took delivery of your new car? Was it the new car smell? The finish? The wheels? The look? The brand? What about the last time you bought a new smartphone, tablet or notebook computer?

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I’m always asked for my ideas on what sales coaching techniques to use in different situations. Sometimes it’s how to deal with underperformers and others it’s how to develop the best of the best. If you’re a Sales Manager or a Sales Coach then I’ve got a couple of golden nugget coaching techniques for you to use with your sales teams. And if you’re not a manager you can use these techniques equally well on yourself – you’ll just need to coach yourself!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In a perfect world , the B2B buyer-vendor relationship is mutually beneficial – and most of the time, it is. So why don’t buyers like salespeople? It may be true that some sales professionals are, shall we say, less than professional; but B2B buyers have to get their products and services somewhere, so it’s important to make this inevitable relationship a positive one.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The clock is ticking. We’re already halfway through the first week of the 4th quarter. For too many salespeople, this is the quarter that will make or break their year. If you’re in this camp, keep reading for what you need to be doing. Unfortunately, I’m sharing this from first-hand experience, having spent too many […].

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. When you and your team are focused exclusively on “lead” outcomes, immediate costs are misleading and long-term costs increase dramatically. Here is why: You have heard the expression that to a hammer everything looks like a nail.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Though many salespeople despise prospecting, it’s an important part of sales. Unfortunately, the majority of reps use ineffective and outdated sales prospecting techniques, instead of the effective practices that could actually lead to a higher volume of better qualified leads (and make them more partial to prospecting). Just like every other aspect of the sales process, you need to put in the effort and focus required.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Top-performing salespeople are those who reach out to others and learn. Who can you learn from today? OPiuM is simply a way to think of Other People’s Minds. Today I encourage you to find more sales motivation by looking around and LEARNING from those around you. Check out the video to see what I mean: […].

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. Yet, as an industry, we’re failing badly at it. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% in 2015), but only 5.2% of surveyed companies said that sales enablement was meeting all expectations.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

One of my guiding principles is that every business is a people business. It doesn’t matter what your industry is or what you do -- if you are not relating to the people you deal with, talk to, manage, or lead, your career will be a long, hard slog. That’s why building rapport is essential, especially when you’re forging a relationship and selling over the phone.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Who isn’t looking for more sales in less time? Hmm, with it being the 4th quarter, it puts even more pressure to deliver more as the clock clicks down fast. I’m no different than any of you. It’s easy to become distracted, and as a result, it’s easy to suddenly find myself far behind in […].

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Membrain

OCTOBER 1, 2017

I was in the right-hand lane of very slow moving traffic because of a lane closure ahead, marked by orange cones. I was along side the cones in the lane where traffic was merging left. All of a sudden, a police siren and flashing lights were upon me but I had nowhere to go.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. That’s the sound of the countdown that begins each day of every week of every month. It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Sell, sell, sell. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Time. And those two things often go hand-in-hand.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about how leaders need to be “all in,” and I’m a firm believer in it. The same applies to salespeople at all levels. We have to be all in with those with whom we come in contact. Recently, I was working with a salesperson making sales calls and I was […].

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. It’s nearing the end of your company’s fiscal year, the sales team is gearing up for another year end close, holiday parties are being planned, and your leadership team is determining 2018 initiatives. These initiatives will likely trickle down into your lap in the form of a whole heaping of new projects, sometimes with little more than a one sentence headline.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

You have your list of names and phone numbers. Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep-up talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. But before I give you the keys to the castle, let’s look at a typical cold call.

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Openview

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I’d like to think we can all learn from not only our own mistakes, but also from each other’s. I want to share with you the biggest mistake I made in my career, and it happened to be as a co-founder and Sales VP. I was a co-founder of a software company called Open Environment. We developed middleware to help large companies connect various back-end systems.

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Jeff Davis

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This guest blog post was written by Jeremy Shere over at tribknowledge.com Ask anyone in marketing or sales if they think the functions need to be better aligned, and they’ll almost certainly respond with an unqualified “Yes!” Then ask how we ought to break down the barriers keeping marketing and sales at arm’s length, and you’ll likely get a litany of shopworn, if valid, ideas—marketing and sales need better channels of communication … we need to talk each other’s language … marketing and sales

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