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Market Changes Allow for Sales Success!

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Sometimes, You Have To Tell Your Boss What You Really Need. How to Coach Up to Create New and Better Possibilities. Part One

Keith Rosen

Coach UP! It’s the Message That Matters. During my trip to Moscow, while delivering my management coach training program, a manager, frustrated by the fact that she wasn’t getting the recognition and support she needed, asked, “Is it acceptable to tell your boss what you really want from them? I mean, shouldn’t they already know what I need and if they don’t know, shouldn’t they be the one to find out?

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Feature Change: Remember to Make Your Presentations Active

BrainShark

I’d like to call your attention to a small change we made recently to the myBrainshark service. Now, after you upload your content, it will be “inactive” initially and remain inactive until you activate it.

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Traits of Successful Companies-rate yours

Your Sales Management Guru

During the past 13 years of working consulting we have developed a list of traits and values that characterize successful companies: Corporate culture is deep and consistent. Business strategies come first. Business development effectiveness is essential . The best practices are consistent from industry to industry. Sales is a corporate priority.

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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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Sales Motivation Tips: Use a Contest to Increase Sales By John Boe

Sales Training Advice

When times are tough and prospects seem to be holding on to every dollar, your job as a sales manager is more important than ever before. Now is the time to roll out a sales contest to generate additional sales and build morale. Offering a contest to your sales team is a smart business decision on many levels. Contests, by their very nature, infuse a competitive spirit within the sales force and provide an excellent opportunity for management to recognize and reward top achievement.

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Top Four Reasons Why Resellers Blow Off Vendor Content

BrainShark

It’s a painful fact of channel marketing life that resellers will fail to use the vast

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more o

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

The Science and Art of Selling

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Shattering The Myth of Managing The Self Employed Salesperson. They Can Develop an “Employee” Mentality That Builds Accountability

Keith Rosen

It’s not a shock that one of my deepest passions is writing and sharing my work in a way that delivers value to people, wherever they are located throughout the world. What continues to drive me to write are the emails I get from readers, thanking me and asking for assistance around incorporating what they have read, overcoming a barrier they have encountered or what they can do to embed certain changes within their organization.

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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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Make the Most of Your myBrainshark Presentations

BrainShark

If you haven’t already noticed, your myBrainshark account now has a pre-loaded library of free audio so that you can make your presentations really sing!

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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

Two successive downturns over the past decade have resulted in buyers more skeptical of sales pitches than ever, and a condition called Frugalnomics – where buyers demand quantifiable proof of bottom-line impact for each purchase decision. The result of Frugalnomics has been a marked slowdown in the pipeline, and longer than ever sales cycles. According to Andrew Gaffney in his article Marketers Shifting Focus To Sales Enablement To Accelerate Slow Pipelines , “Deals expected to close in the cur

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To Build a Sales Culture

The Brooks Group

Part of our mission statement at The Brooks Group is to help our clients build Sales Cultures. And, often, when we’re sharing that goal, we get asked….” What’s a sales culture.” Here’s my take. It’s adapted from my father’s 2004 best-selling book, The New Science of Selling and Persuasion. 1. The sales department must be or have the potential to be profitable.

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Must Read: No More Cold Calling by Joanne Black | Sell More.

Engage Selling

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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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Demand Gen Cloud: Funnels and Pipelines are Old School

Green Lead's B2B

Craig Rosenberg, the demand gen expert from Focus.com recently asked me to participate in putting together the eBook, The Focus Experts Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel. Despite my whimsical title for this blog article (little link-baiting), the eBook is full of industry expert's takes on today's sales and marketing's demand gen and selling flow -- the path from universe to prospect to client.

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Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insight from CRM Analyst Lauren Carlson

The ROI Guy

In a recent blog post from Software Advice's Lauren Carlson , this emerging CRM analyst indicates how hot the market for marketing automation software has become, and although the niche was timid several years ago, marketers are now adopting these systems aggressively. These tailwinds for marketing automation solutions indicate a headwind for marketers, who are actively seeking solutions to help solve an increasingly challenging B2B sales environments.

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BrainShark

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Telephone Sales Skills – Selling On The Spot

SalesGrail

How many times have you hung up on a sales call and realized you completely blew the chance to close the deal? You said the wrong things. You weren’t listening to the buyer. You simply lost what you knew was a sure sale. Why did this happen? How often does it happen? Telephone sales skills don’t come [.].

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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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There Is No Substitute for Top Notch ? Score More Sales

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. There Is No Substitute for Top Notch. by Lori Richardson on October 19, 2010. Willows Lodge Offsite. It’s a term that originated in the 1820′s – “top-notch” It means outstanding, notable, superior. Quality surroundings, impeccable customer service, and amazing attention to detail creates a great first impression and begins the foundations of customer loyalty.

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Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner Downgrade IT Spending Outlook

The ROI Guy

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. Gartner's forecasts, revealed at their annual IT symposium here in Orlando, are the most pessimistic, predicting that the next five years would "represent a period of timid and at times lackluster growth.

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