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Take Stock: Gain A Realistic View Of What You Have Achieved.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. Take Stock: Gain A Realistic View Of What You Have Achieved. Gitomer | May 5, 2011 | 4 Comments. Tweet Share I have written that turmoil is the best time to make change, and accept change. Yes, we’re in the crapper, but it’s way better to focus on what’s the opportunity, your opportunity, that this downturn presents?

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The Pipeline ? Sales in a New World ? Choosing your Customer

The Pipeline

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Join me at Top Sales World’s 2011 Sales & Marketing Success Conference + Benefit for the Japanese Relief Fund

No More Cold Calling

We all work hard to build our sales businesses. We’re dedicated, focused, and committed to doing things the right way (hopefully, through referrals!). Join me at Top Sales World’s 2011 Sales & Marketing Success Conference + Benefit for the Japanese Relief Fund. May 9th through 13th, 2011. Online, from-anywhere conference. 35 sessions presented by some of the world’s top sales experts. 5 days of outstanding, top-sales content.

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Revenue Performance Management: Doing For Revenue What ERP Does For Ops?

Pointclear

In a recent article on Revenue Performance Management in Marketing Automation Software Guide, Lauren Carlson does a nice job of providing a context for the RPM discussion by differentiating it from marketing automation, reviewing the factors motivating its advancement, and raising good questions. The core idea of RPM naturally brings to mind other approaches like CRM and ERP, both bringing strategies, applications, and integration together into unified wholes.

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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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Order Your Copy Of The Little Book Of Leadership Today! | Jeffrey.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. Order Your Copy Of The Little Book Of Leadership Today! Gitomer | May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share The Little Book of Leadership is now available! Order it today on Amazon.com for bonus offers. Learn more: Share this Post. xmlns:dc="[link] xmlns:trackback="[link]. -->.

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5 Ways Value Changes In The Buyer’s Mind

MTD Sales Training

Delivering value is the catalyst for any buyer to make a decision. But what many salespeople forget is that the customer’s view of value changes as they move through the buying cycle. The stages buyers go through start with recognising there is a need. Then they make evaluations as to who they should buy from, followed by the decision phase and finally taking the action necessary to buy the product or service.

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Low-Hanging Fruit, “Operation Bounty” and the Problem with Having Too Many Orchard Crates

Pointclear

Today we're honored to have guest blogger Nancy Nardin share her thoughts on delivering the 'right' leads to sales. Nancy is Founder and CEO of Smart Selling Tools , a leading online marketplace that helps connect Sales professionals with the right Sales Software vendors. The ideal situation for a sales organization is to have enough “ripe” opportunities hanging on the tree-of-prospects to simply pick the low-hanging fruit first.

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Lost Opportunities

Fill the Funnel

Lost opportunities. We know that this happens to most of us every day, money flying out the window. We can’t do everything we know we should do to grow our sales and our business. Simply not enough time in the day. I have always had that feeling, and now it is exasperating (and yes I looked it up – it means ‘causing annoyance’) due to the introduction of social media and a multitude of web-based tools and mobile computing.

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The Pipeline ? Prospecting With E-Mail

The Pipeline

Home About The Pipeline. Contest. Free Resources. Search. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email. We take privacy seriously. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. For Email Newsletters you can trust. RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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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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4 Reasons Why Buyers Make Decisions

MTD Sales Training

There are, of course, many reasons why people buy from you, but they all tend to fit into specific categories and if you are able to observe and ascertain the real reason why your prospect says ‘yes’ to you, then you have a good platform to build on for the next prospect. So what are the main reasons why buyers make decisions to buy? Here are four: 1) The supplier has the knowledge they are looking for.

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HEAVY HITTER SALES LINGUISTICS - NEW BOOK!!!

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Sales Leadership: Be Prepared!

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership; Be Prepared. As an Eagle Scout, I have always considered the Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” in all aspects of my life, this past week as the South felt the destructive power of massive tornadoes and rain it was a difficult time for many with many challenges to come. I was in Kansas working with a client, while wife was at our home in Eastern Tennessee facing the storm alone.

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Number One Sales Priority for 2011: Show Buyers the Money

The ROI Guy

Improving sales’ ability to show benefits / value to prospects is the number one tactic to drive B2B sales performance in 2011, according to a recent survey by CSO Insights. With two economic downturns in the past decade, buyers have permanently and fundamentally changed, requiring that B2B solution providers prove the bottom-line impact, significant return on investment (ROI) and fast payback of any proposed solution.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer ? Blog Archive.

The Science and Art of Selling

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Happy Mom Day with the help of Google

BrainShark

I was cranking through some buzz marketing initiatives this morning when I realized that Mother’s Day is this very Sunday and that I’m a total loser for not having prepared anything already for my lovely mom. I’ve also neglected to create a Brainshark or my own blog post in a little while, too.

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The Seven Deadly Sales Sins - Part 1

Sales Gravy

It’s a common misconception that you don’t need any pure sales skills. Some people think that if you're breathing, or have an outgoing personality, you can land a sales job with ZERO experience.

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Alinean Announces the CMO Challenge

The ROI Guy

Free Campaign and Marketing Optimization (CMO) Assessment Tool and Service to Optimize B2B Marketing Return on Investment (ROI) Alinean announces the CMO Challenge , a free online assessment tool and service to help B2B marketers optimize the spending and practices of overall marketing groups, or individual campaigns. The assessment benchmarks an organization’s marketing or campaign spending, tactics, and effectiveness compared to peers and leaders.

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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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The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer ? Blog Archive ? 10.

The Science and Art of Selling

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Brainshark May 2011 Newsletter

BrainShark

Here is the May 2011 newsletter that was sent out to our customers this morning. It includes a quick overview of our brand new site, a schedule of upcoming webinars and success tours, as well as some new features that come with our latest release.

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What's the Most Important Thing a Sales Manager Can Do to Drive Business?

Sales Gravy

If you want to improve the sales performance of your sales team, then you need to stay focused on and monitor what is driving those results - what your reps are saying and doing during their qualifying and closing presentations.

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Alinean and Content Marketing Institute Launch Content Marketing Assessment Tool

The ROI Guy

Report Offers Industry Competitive Comparisons on Marketing Effectiveness Alinean and the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the go-to source for practical how-to content marketing advice and consulting, have announced the development and launch of a new Content Marketing Assessment Tool. The interactive assessment is designed to help B2B content marketers compare spending, tactics, effectiveness and success, benchmarked compared to peers.

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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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What ?Iggy's? loss can teach us about sales | Sell More, Word Less.

Engage Selling

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Great Example of Mobile Readiness

BrainShark

With the help of the Brainshark Services team, Pedowitz Group created this slick mobile-ready highlight of the Revenue Marketing Blueprint.

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Selling In Today's World: Eight Tips for Optimizing Your Sales Success

Sales Gravy

In order for sales to occur, a process for converting prospects into clients or customers must exist.

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LinkedIn Lead Gen Tip: When a Face Makes the Difference

Green Lead's B2B

Guest Post from Gareth Morfill, Inside Sales Blackbelt at Green Leads. If you were talking to a prospect face to face, do you think that would make you pitch any differently? More confidently? We feel that it absolutely does. The simple act of having a real person to look at while you are having the conversation makes the building of rapport much easier.

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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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Test Your Sales Knowledge:How to handle a Pricing Competition.

Engage Selling

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Exciting Updates to myBrainshark.com

BrainShark

You may have noticed some changes over the weekend to the myBrainshark.com site. I’ll take a moment to explain what’s new.

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Optimize Content Marketing by Facilitating the Buyer’s Journey

The ROI Guy

Content marketing represents a significant investment, consuming over 26% of total marketing budgets annually, according to surveys of 1,100 marketers by the Content Marketing Institute. This already significant spending is increasing, with 51% of respondents indicating plans to increase their content marketing spend over the next 12 months. However, even though budgets are significant and growing, marketers have serious doubts in the returns on these investments, with only 41% indicating that t