Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A consultative selling approach is key to running a well-oiled sales team. To me, the difference between a traditional sales process and a consultative one looks a bit like the difference between a doctor and a therapist. What Is Consultative Selling? Rather than telling your prospects what they need, consultative selling is an investigative approach by which prospects are engaged with thought-provoking questions that help them identify their own pain points.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. Tasked with recruiting and hiring, overseeing large teams, providing guidance and training, building culture, setting quotas, creating sales plans, analyzing data, forecasting, assigning territories… the list of responsibilities is as diverse as it is long.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Wouldn’t it be amazing if every lead entered your pipeline convinced your product is for them, ready to sign on the dotted line? Well, maybe that wouldn’t be amazing — because then your customers wouldn’t need to be sold to , which is what you’re here to do. At times, you will have very engaged leads who have done their own research and are ready to buy right away.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Tibor Shanto. To Check-in, or not to, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The silence of unmanaged fortunes and opportunities, Or to take arms against a sea of pundits. And by opposing end them – Check-in and know, know more; and by making the call uncover the unknown! A great frustration for salespeople is when an engaged buyer turns aloof, going radio silence – transponders off.

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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.

Sales Cycle

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Put people before technology in your prospecting. Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy. Sales strategy isn’t yours or mine. It’s your company’s strategy for attracting customers. Not much has changed over the years. An executive reads the latest book and declares the precepts in the book are the company’s new strategy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door? (I've actually done that by accident - twice!).

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. However, when you presented your proposal it seems as though everything became silent, time began to slow down and tension filled the air as you anxiously waited for the prospect’s decision.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they know what they want. B2B companies need to switch from a mentality of “here’s what we’re selling” to “we understand what you need.

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Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Listening well improves business results, including sales. Consider these findings: A study of 267 leading U.S. businesses found that upgrading team members’ communication effectiveness is associated with a 30% improvement in the organization’s market value. Fortune 500s lose an estimated $15,000 per employee per year due to miscommunication. This adds up to over $50 million in annual losses.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

They delete your emails. They decline your invitations. They cut your calls short. So, what does it really take to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? We wanted to know just like you do, so we went straight to the source: a CMO. We asked Jill Konrath, best-selling author and speaker on the subject of […].

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Today Scott Santucci, CEO of Growth Enablement Ecosystems, joins us to discuss digital transformation and how it impacts revenue growth. Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. The landscape has changed drastically and integrating a successful strategy is no easy feat. There are a variety of ideas and definitions that surround “digital,” and Scott addresses common issues that companies run into when undergoing their own digital transformation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Author: Andrea Grodnitzky The sales professional has the job of encouraging the customer to become comfortable with the idea of committing to a product or a service. The problem, however, is that making this commitment has become a high-stakes challenge because today’s buying decisions represent more risk to the buyer for three reasons: Current economic indicators portend difficult times ahead.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This post is about an interesting place you can look for “suspects” when you are prospecting. This is a place that is super-obvious, but as with many real world things, often not utilized: your company’s own CRM/old contact lists. I’ve seen the scenario umpteen times. A rep has a quota to make and feels under-the-gun. The first place they go for a “suspect”/”lead” list is Linkedin or another third-party list (InsideView, Zoominfo etc. etc.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

It's a new year and we have some new content to share with you here at Anthony Cole Training Group. If you're looking to increase sales this year and beyond, then you're in the right place!

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Do you ever feel like most of your days are spent going to meeting s, assembling information for reports , a nd putting out fires? Do you w ish you had more time to focus on the things that will make the biggest impact? . W hat if you had more time each day to spend coaching your salespeople to close business? Just one more hour a day would be an extra 250 hours a year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales reps and rewards go hand in hand. Managers use rewards because they reliably deliver recognition and motivation. However, one often overlooked aspect of a reward is the signals that go with them. This came to light in a recent conversation with Jana Gallus from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management at a Behavioral Science workshop in Philadelphia.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Of all the decisions and executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization." - Peter Drucker. The new year is 1/12 complete, and January is old news. How is your organization doing so far? Are you on track to exceed your growth goals for 2020? Are you lagging behind?

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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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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Pause for a moment. Look at your qualified pipeline. Start at the bottom. Can you identify the problem the customer is trying to solve? Or the opportunity they are trying to address?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Author: Adam Ortman Each year, it seems like the list of marketing conferences grows exponentially, which isn’t a bad thing. After all, they serve as an effective means for keeping abreast of what’s trending in the industry. At conferences, you can learn about best practices, the latest technologies, and upcoming tools in the marketing world. You can also rub elbows with influential people.

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Jake Dunlap joins us on the podcast this week to talk about where and why the prospecting/sales process is broken. Jake’s seen a lot of companies change their thinking on sales methodologies, activity metrics and their general approach to the sales process. But what’s broken? Where are leadership teams making life harder for sales managers and reps?

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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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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Nirav Dave, CTO & CO-Founder, Capsicum MediaWorks, LLP , provides today’s Guest Post. Nirav Dave, CTO & Co-Founder at Capsicum Mediaworks, a digital agency based out of Mumbai, India. The company specializes in all things Web Design & WordPress. He Worships WordPress and Loves to read anything and everything about this exceptional CMS.

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. But first, if you haven’t checked our detailed article on sales methodology, please check that out from here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they know what they want. B2B companies need to switch from a mentality of “here’s what we’re selling” to “we understand what you need.

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We’re pleased to have Shruti Kapoor on the podcast this week to lift the lid on the state of automation in sales right now. This was an interesting discussion, where Shruti explains how prospecting teams in future will be using just-in-time learning technology to help them do the right thing more often on sales calls. Added to that, Shruti has an interesting view on where we are right now with regards to how advanced the technology we can use as prospecting teams is, on the scale from 0 to

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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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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I often get bombarded with questions from overwhelmed salespeople and sales managers on how to manage their time effectively given everything they have to do in a day.

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In this article, you will learn about creating your own sets of automated text messages with text (SMS) sequences and merge them with your email drip campaigns for successful follow ups. We already have shown how sequences can be used as drip campaigns for putting your email follow-ups on autopilot. We know email campaigns have to be well-planned. Their lengthy and repetitive loop makes it difficult for users to keep a manual track on the execution and deliverance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan This issue’s cover feature on artificial intelligence (AI) marks the second straight issue that we have focused our cover story on technology. Our last issue of 2019 looked at how 5G technology will change how sales reps and marketing professionals do their jobs. Technology is more important than ever in B2B sales and marketing, yet it’s increasingly challenging for managers and executives to tackle their day jobs and stay on top of new technology that will help their teams pe

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