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Track the Right Metric to Increase Enterprise Value

SBI Growth

CEOs can guide the decision-making required to increase enterprise value by comparing customer acquisition cost (CAC) to customer lifetime value (CLTV). Focusing on the CAC:CLTV ratio enables you to reduce churn, boosting customer satisfaction and share of wallet.

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Answers Are Only As Good As The Question

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Communication, which at the core selling/buying is, will always be a mutual exercise, which why monologues work well in theater, but not in delivering revenue or quota. As such, a bit of forethought and focusing on how you’ll choreograph the sales are important. Which is why it is that much more noticeable to all, including buyers, when the effort is just not there in how sellers choose to engage and carry on a sales interview or conversation.

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To Fuel Your Marketing Engine, Fill Up on Creative

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Alex Withers, Chief Marketing Officer, inMotionNow To keep up with the pace of buyer expectations, sales and marketing have accelerated the go-to-market machine with automation. However, while automation is delivering ROI for most teams – 86 percent report its been somewhat or very effective – the best marketing engine in the world won’t function without creative fuel.

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Which Salespeople are Easier to Train - Millennials or Veteran Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

We brought home a puppy and we had him completely housebroken in 4 days. He's really smart and we've done this before, a combination that makes it nearly impossible to screw up. To see him go to the door and touch it with his little paw, whimper when he is in his crate, go outside and do his business, and run back to the door is great. But it got me wondering, why is training a puppy relatively fast and easy while it is so much harder and takes so much longer to train salespeople?

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How B2B Buying Has Changed – And How Sales Teams Must Adapt

A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.

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The Right Sales Channels for the Omni-Channel Era

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is John Kedzierski, a Corporate Vice President of Marketing who knows a thing or two about going to market with the right channels. Today’s topic is focused on selecting the right sales channels by using.

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Sales Leaders Heads Hurt When Thinking about Tech Tools

Score More Sales

Several main stage talks and numerous breakout sessions at the 2017 AA-ISP Leadership Conference referenced the many thousands of sales tools in existence and how confusing it can be for sales leadership. It is enough to make your head spin. While you may be using 3 or 4 or more of these tools, the average number of apps in a high growth sales development team tech stack is 5 (according to TOPO.

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What B2B Companies Must Learn from 10 Reasons Why Amazon is Destroying Retailers

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright AdrianHancu. Amazon generated almost $44 Billion in net revenue last year and it had to come from somewhere. That's not $44 Billion that people wouldn't have spent if not for Amazon. It's money that people would have spent, at some retailer, probably within an hour of their home or office, but chose to buy from Amazon instead. You may think it's because Amazon saves them money but that isn't necessarily true.

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Proven Steps to Earn Brand Preference with Content Marketing

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Mary Clark, a Chief Marketing Officer who knows a thing or two about building brand preference. Today’s topic is focused on content marketing. Mary and I leveraged the SBI annual workbook to guide our conversation. To follow.

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5 Reasons Salespeople Need a Mentor

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Lance Hodgson Formalized mentoring, as of right now, is a practice typically reserved for diversity and leadership development. But it shouldn’t be. Mentoring is a tool that can be used for all departments within an organization – with sales being the most ideal of candidates. Here are a few of the reasons why: 1. Salespeople are often young and inexperienced.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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I Have Seen the Future of Sales and it is Bright

The Sales Hunter

Never before have I been more proud of the sales profession and more passionate about its impact on the global economy. In this era of consolidation and trends that move at the speed of a tweet, sales is a profession that doesn’t just stay the course, but sets the course. Last week 400 sales professionals […].

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Change The Candidate – Not The Rules!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I am not big on politics, but it’s hard to avoid, seems to be everywhere one looks and steps, believe it or not, I have even witnessed it in corporate boardrooms where apparently, business was supposedly being conducted. But I was recently struck by an interesting parallel between some current political theater, and things unfolding in some sales organizations.

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How Top Sales Leaders Work with Sales Operations

SBI Growth

Today we are going to demonstrate how the relationship between the head of sales and the head of sales operations should work. Joining us for today’s show is a sales leadership team who know a thing or two about revenue.

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Apps for Recording Your Phone Calls

Mr. Inside Sales

Years ago, Stan Billue – the top inside sales trainer at the time – made a claim that every sales rep could double their income in 90 days by doing one thing. Intrigued (and highly skeptical), I listened to what he said next, and then challenged myself to do it. His advice was: Record and listen to your calls, every day, for 90 days. So I did. And 90 days later, I had indeed doubled my sales, and my commission.

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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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Sales Motivation Video: Let Your Personality Come Through!

The Sales Hunter

Your personality is key to building dialogue with another person. Let your personality come through! By doing this, you are giving a nudge to the other person to let their personality show as well. As you know, success in sales (and in life) has a lot to do with genuinely connecting with others. Let your […].

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STOP Using These Tired Methods When Opening Your Sales Interactions

MTD Sales Training

The initial interaction with the buyer is one of the most critical parts of the sales process. This session establishes the ‘primary perception’ of you by the buyer. It builds your credibility and trustworthiness, and allows you an easier passage through the process. Some research suggests that you have between 15 and 30 seconds to establish that perception, either positively or negatively.

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Customer Experience: Move Beyond the Competitive Deadlock

SBI Growth

Our guest today is a Vice President of Global Product Strategy who knows a thing or two about creating a customer experience advantage. This is a must-hear podcast for not just product leaders. CEO’s, marketing and sales leaders will gain.

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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

Pointclear

On April 13, 2017, I attended the #OutBound conference in Atlanta, GA. Remarkably, despite the road destruction in downtown Atlanta, everyone got there on time – about 400 attendees. The event was held at the Hotel Intercontinental in Buckhead and Cirrus Insight did a great job as a sponsor. The coffee was hot and the lunch was great. Thank you. The entire day was spent talking about prospecting.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Guilt by Association — It’s Not the Way to Lead

The Sales Hunter

It seems everyone is talking about the unfortunate situation United Airlines had recently. I’m tired of hearing about it and I’m more tired of hearing how people are bashing every United employee they can find. I spend a lot of time in airports and here’s what I see: Thousands of United employees going to work […].

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Sales Coaching and Quota Attainment

A Sales Guy

I went public recently arguing that sales coaching offered the greatest opportunity for sales organizations to accelerate sales in 2017. You can see my very public declaration here. You know me, I don’t hold back when I make a prediction. But in this case, my declaration isn’t enough. I want more. In spite of my bullish outlook on the power of coaching salespeople in driving and exceeding quota, I wanted to know more.

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Will You Be a Casualty of the Sales Coaching or Business Coaching Stampede?

Increase Sales

Well, it seems like everyone is now a coach, be it sales coaching, business coaching or even executive coaching. From local Small Business Development Centers to recently unemployed executives, there continues to be a plethora of “coaches” ready to solve their clients’ problems and fill their own bank accounts. Credit www.gratisography.com.

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7 Barriers to High Employee Engagement for Sales

SBI Growth

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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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Try Something New, Grow Your Sales

Engage Selling

Working with so many different clients across a variety of industries really opens your eyes to new ideas, strategies and insights. I’m always open to embracing fresh new thinking!

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The lost art of call planning

Sales Training Connection

After many years of sitting in on sales calls and even more providing feedback to salespeople in sales simulations, we’ve noticed there definitely is variability in the amount and quality of pre-call planning. Pre-call planning improves when someone else is on the call, like a sales manager, colleague, or even a consultant along as an observer. But the boost doesn’t last.

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Sales Numbers Matter, But Never More than People

Increase Sales

Today there is incredible emphasis on sales numbers. CRMs churn millions of bits of data each day for sales managers to pour over with the hope to discover what is missing in their goal to increase sales. A past article published by Harvard Business Review entitled “Know Your Customers Jobs to be Done,” examined the gap between data gathering and improved business results.

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Product Launch: Ready to Shake Up the Status Quo?

SBI Growth

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Ghostbusters I Predicted the End of the Sales Professional

Anthony Cole Training

THE DIGITAL AGE SIGNALS AN END TO TRADITIONAL SELLING.

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Sales Training is a “Process” not an Event

ROI4Sales

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. 3 facts every seller should know : #1: 94% of buyers have conducted online research before purchasing [1].

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What Happened to Permission Based Marketing?

Increase Sales

Each day in my email inbox, I receive many unsolicited emails from SMBs and organizations that do not interest me. These entities obviously ignore permission based marketing and rely on buying lists from other unethical firms. When I first started developing my email lists over 10 years ago, I signed up with AWeber. At that time AWeber recommended the double opt in option so that people would know they had signed up for being on one of my email lists.