Sat.Mar 07, 2020 - Fri.Mar 13, 2020

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Sales may be about to get harder

Sales 2.0

I’m getting that feeling right now that I am living in a movie. Big events are happening so quickly it’s hard to keep up. One of the lessons I’ve learned is a crisis is not the time to get stuck. It’s time to take action…and to do so soon. In the sales realm I believe we may be about to see a big shift. The global crisis is taking up everyone’s mindshare.

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The Danger in Treating Sales as a Numbers Game

Anthony Iannarino

The idea that “sales is a numbers game” contains an absolute truth worth observing. The truth is that selling requires action or “ activity ” if you prefer. All things being equal, more activity is better than little—or no—activity. But activity alone is not enough to produce success, even if one occasionally bumps into success by taking massive action.

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9 Essential Stages for Every B2B Pipeline

Hubspot Sales

Welcome to the 2020 sales process where every single customer or sales initiated action is examined, scrutinized and obsessed over by sales people, sales managers, sales operation people and senior management. Like everything else in the world today, sales stages are much more granular, objective and should be more accurate than ever before. Your CRM is the oxygen for a sales team’s life (HubSpot has a good, modern CRM and its free) but one of the most important aspects of your CRM that gets a l

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Here’s to the REAL men!

Bernadette McClelland

Here’s to the amazing ones. The men. The supporters. The dependables. The backstops on the field of home runs. The ones who see their women very differently. Who respect their ambition, Their dreams and their skills. And fuel their insane and innate drive. To just go for it! To the many who may think these men soft, or weak, or submissive. While they take a backseat and play Mr Mom.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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3 Steps You Must Take Today to Save Your Company From This Economic Downturn

Understanding the Sales Force

You know the stories of the Three Stooges, The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, and baseball fans have just heard about The Three Batter Minimum (how stupid!). We're not going to discuss any of those threes today but we will talk about the three things companies must do, right now, in this quickly disintegrating economy, to drive revenue.

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How Customer-Centric CEOs Grow Revenue Faster Than the Competition

SBI Growth

Did you know that 70% of the buying experience is based on how the customer feels they are treated? Failing to deliver a good customer experience – from the customer’s perspective – has real consequences. The good news is, if a.

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AI’s Role In Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture. The authors, Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Larry Downes, refer to this untapped revenue as “trapped value.”.

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The Best Advice Sales Managers Can Give to Help Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Other-Orientation Is Essential for Mastering the Softer Side of Sales

Connect2Sell

One of the most unfortunate stereotypes about sellers is that we are self-centered. Buyers wrongly assume that all sellers are only after their money and only care about themselves. That’s why buyers are guarded. To dispel this unfair notion, you have to work harder and prove that you are interested in your buyers’ needs. You have to demonstrate an orientation to others to prove you’re not selfish and concerned only about yourself.

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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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From Ideation to Sunset—How to Manage the Lifecycle of Your Product

SBI Growth

If a comprehensive history of corporate entities is ever written and published, it will be littered with anecdotes of firms that were forced to make challenging decisions when business was difficult. Were they ready for an economic recession? Had the.

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AI in HR: How Machine Learning is Changing Human Resources

Zoominfo

Not too long ago, artificial intelligence seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. But today, AI is being used throughout every facet of the companies we buy from, sell to, and work for. That includes the field of human resources — and it doesn’t look like AI is going anywhere any time soon. […].

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New On Demand Training Available Now!

Mr. Inside Sales

It’s here! You and your reps need training, and you want it now! And we heard you! Introducing our brand new, 7-Session inside sales training course that is available to you and your team TODAY. Your reps can now watch and learn when it’s convenient for them! Over the course of seven pre-recorded webinar sessions, you and your team will learn: The New Rules of Prospecting How to Overcome Call Reluctance How to Breeze Past Gatekeepers Qualifying Fundamentals Email & Voicemail Best Practices H

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Expanding Your Brand to Europe? Here’s What This Thriving Silicon Valley Tech Company Learned

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Alan McGlinchey Zazzle, an online marketplace for customizing designs, was expanding its $250 million Silicon Valley operations into Europe to deliver its niche maker-products to even greater masses. Soon after the tech company’s top leadership unanimously selected, Cork, the second largest city in Ireland, in 2013, Zazzle’s operations guru arrived in Cork City to select a site and spearhead the early hiring.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Two Words That Can Eliminate Indecision, How Microlearning Can Help Us Prosper And A Quote From Henry Ford

MTD Sales Training

Episode 44 – Two words that can eliminate indecision, how microlearning can help us prosper and a quote from Henry Ford. This latest podcast takes a look at the two words that can eliminate indecision in your prospect. Could it really be as simple as that? Well, stay tuned to find out those simple words and the reason why they could have a big effect on the way your prospect considers the decisions they make.

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In Light of Coronavirus, Most U.S. Companies Lack Work-From-Home Technology

Zoominfo

Wash your hands frequently. Call the doctor if you have flu-like symptoms. Be prepared to work from home. These phrases have been repeated ad nauseam as the U.S. reacts to the coronavirus outbreak. And while ZoomInfo doesn’t monitor hand hygiene efforts or health care records, it does track one data type that offers insight into […].

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The Startling Truth: How Cursing Impacts Sales

Gong.io

60-something years ago, sales was a very different game. . Back then, salesmen – I mean sales people (glad that’s changed) – would button up their best suits, court prospective clients in-person with bone-in steaks, and discuss business over a handful of dirty martinis. . Back then, the customer was always right, and calling them “sir” or “ma’am” was the norm.

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How to Talk with Customers during Coronavirus Fears

Alice Heiman

The coronavirus is dominating conversations and news coverage around the world. It’s also affecting companies of all sizes, across all industries. As an example, look at the impact coronavirus has had on the tech industry : Dell, Amazon, Twitter, and Google have all announced some major actions (including work-from-home mandates and canceled events) in response to the outbreak.

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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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Authenticity: A Recipe for Success with Marietta Davis, IBM

Igniting Sales Transformation

My interview with Marietta focuses on authenticity – being who we really are in all walks of life. For many women, including me, shedding the mask to be our authentic selves, especially in business, isn’t always easy. Women more than men are taught from an early age to “fit in” Be nice, include everyone, don’t get too big for your britches.

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AI in HR: How Machine Learning is Changing Human Resources

Zoominfo

Not too long ago, artificial intelligence seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. But today, AI is being used in every facet and function of companies, including human resources. Let’s look at some statistics from IBM : 66 percent of CEOs believe AI can drive significant value in HR. 50 percent of HR executives recognize that AI has the power to transform key dimensions of HR. 54 percent of HR executives believe that AI will affect key roles in the HR organization.

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Why you can't buy sales training and consulting like you used to

Membrain

Sales training is important to a high-performing team, and there have never been as many options as there are today. Online training, in-person workshops, blended learning, off-the-shelf, customized, training with consulting, consulting with training.

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What To Do When the World Is On Fire

Anthony Iannarino

At the time of this writing, there is a coronavirus of pandemic proportions spreading across the world. This virus is infecting many and taking the lives of some, especially the vulnerable. The stock market has been in free fall, and when it hasn’t, it’s been more volatile than ever. The airlines have had to adjust their scheduled flights to prevent losing more money as people stop traveling, a strategy that is unavailable to hotels and restaurants, who are also suffering the economic downturn a

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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How To Outsource Social Media?

SocialSellinator

You definitely need a social media strategy if you run online magazines, wikis, questions and answer platforms, as well as blogs and microblogs. You need an incredible social media strategy still if you belong to any of the content communities like YouTube, Vine, and so on. You will most likely need a social media strategy if you want to take your social networking websites, your Virtual game-worlds, and your Virtual social worlds a step higher in relevance than it is already.

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In Light of Coronavirus, Most U.S. Companies Lack Work-From-Home Technology

Zoominfo

Wash your hands frequently. Call the doctor if you have flu-like symptoms. Be prepared to work from home. These phrases have been repeated ad nauseam as the U.S. reacts to the coronavirus outbreak. And while ZoomInfo doesn’t monitor hand hygiene efforts or health care records, it does track one data type that offers insight into the issue of employees working from home as a result to the coronavirus outbreak.

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More Coaching, Even Poor Coaching, is Better than None

Membrain

I cannot stress enough the importance of sales manager coaching and doing it a bunch. I have stats to back me up. Check out this data curated by Objective Management Group on about 5,500 managers and their teams.

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Why building a custom CRM is almost always a bad idea

Nutshell

If your company has a unique sales process or sells a variety of products and services, it can be tempting to build a CRM from scratch. Theoretically, a custom CRM would include all the features your organization needs, none that you don’t, and would be tailored to your specific business in everything from the in-product terminology to workflows reflecting how your team sells.

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leader's Guide

This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment.

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What Are The Best Ways to Do Content Marketing?

SocialSellinator

Millions of pieces of new content show up on the Internet every day, but a very small percentage of it ever gets seem by consumers. When it comes to content marketing, no article, video, social media post, or sound clip makes a bit of difference if no one sees it. No matter what type of business you operate, you probably have struggled with getting a lot of attention on your content before.

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2 Simple Solutions to Improve Your Outbound Sales Cadence

Sales Hacker

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. They’re driving themselves crazy, stressing out over finding the best outbound sales cadence, especially when the sales numbers aren’t meeting expectations.

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Home Sweet Office: How to Optimize Your Temporary Remote Workspace

The Brooks Group

Working Remotely From Home. The Coronavirus and COVID-19 infection have thrust us all into unfamiliar, if not uncharted, territory. Along with other mandated changes to our daily lives, the requirement to implement “social distancing” measures, to avoid the spread of the illness, carries with it some of the most draconian of implications. For those who make a living pounding the pavement as sales professionals, you are already likely to be experiencing some significant disruptions to your routin

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