SBI
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Why Sales Enablement Needs To Be Measured in Salesforce. We have an enablement problem… People think we suck at enabling our reps because we can’t prove its impact. Many SaaS companies struggle with ramp time, and it’s getting worse over time. The Bridge Group reports that on average, it takes 5 or more months for new sales reps to ramp at SaaS companies today.
Shari Levitin
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
I love watching the Super Bowl, and I love a good tailgate party. But to excel in sales, or any worthwhile endeavor, you need to play the game, get dirty, fall down, and get back up again! Learn how. The post Use Your Heart to Increase Your Sales appeared first on SHARI LEVITIN.
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Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Author: Kelly Bosetti Salespeople once played a significant role in educating buyers about their options and helping them come to a decision regarding a product or service, but times are changing. In many ways, the average customer now carries the sum of all human knowledge in their pocket on their smartphones. Because of this, it’s no surprise that the buyer’s journey has undergone a fundamental shift.
The Pipeline
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
By Tibor Shanto. Salespeople are preoccupied with closing; makes sense, that seems to be where the pay-off is for everyone, at times even the prospect. However, the biggest challenge most sales organizations have is not closing but opening. The reason most salespeople or teams miss quota is not that they can’t close, they just don’t have enough opportunities to close.
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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
I pulled up to the entrance of the Doubletree Hotel, greeted Chris, and we walked into the hotel restaurant. As we approached the table, a well-meaning server asked, are you an Honors member? I said, "yes.".
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
HR leaders work for months creating Talent Programs that target sales and marketing employees. There is substantial pressure on making sure that the spend is worth the efforts. The programs have been meticulously created, the work has been done and.
DiscoverOrg Sales
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Marketing says their leads are qualified – but Sales doesn’t trust them.
MTD Sales Training
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
There are many times when a sale can stall in its progress and there are many reasons for it occurring. One of the most common is the issue of price, where a prospect has not yet seen the value of paying the price for your products or services. Why does this happen? Naturally, it’s because people associate what they have to pay with how useful the solution will be for their current situation.
The Sales Heretic
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
As kids, nearly all of us want to be “normal.” We want to fit in and be accepted. And that’s understandable when we’re six or seven (or even fifteen), and “different” is perceived as bad or weird or wrong. Unfortunately, too many people never outgrow that need. As adults, so many of us still cling [.].
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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.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
First, what is Customer Experience and why should you care? Private Equity firms care about Customer Experience (Cx), because it is key to driving revenue growth, maximizing reducing the expense to bookings ratio, while providing customers with a great interaction.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The importance of lead generation is ingrained in the mind of every modern marketer— the more high-quality leads you bring in, the better. But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place.
Connect2Sell
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Being memorable matters! You work far too hard and put in way too many hours to be easily forgotten. You don’t want to be part of the ho-hum background noise in other peoples’ days. You’re better than that. You have more to offer than that. And it’s time you made some simple changes to how you present yourself so the impression you make is a lasting one.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
In a business world filled with an abundance of technologically advanced CRM tools, there are 5 tools that salespeople must use and sales managers must implement throughout their day-to-day activities and agendas, in order to be successful.
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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
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Author: Merilee Kern Nobody starts out automatically caring about your products or services. They care about how you can make a difference in their lives. No matter the context, all relationships begin with a “handshake moment,” whether literally or figuratively?—?those first few introductory moments that reveal a great deal about the character of the person standing before you.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. It’s a guaranteed ROI booster — but, that’s only if you do it correctly. The days of batch and blast emails are long gone. It’s no longer good enough to send your entire customer database the same offers. That’s why email list segmentation is the key to successful email marketing.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The way we interact with people is changing, both in our personal and professional lives. When we send text messages to friends and emails to colleagues, we expect a quick reply. And whether we're instant messaging a co-worker or chatting with customer support on our favorite website, we often get a response almost instantly. Wouldn't it be great if your sales team could connect with prospects in a similar way?
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.
John Barrows
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
As a GenXer, when Social Selling hit the sales scene I thought it was a joke and yet another thing I was supposed to do to be successful in sales. Fantastic, add it to the list. The whole idea of tweeting and posting sounded and felt ridiculous to me. When I went off on my own with JBarrows, I had a whole bunch of consultants tell me they could get me 10,000 Twitter followers in just a few weeks.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Candidate sourcing is difficult – and according to recruiters, it’s only become more of a challenge in recent years. In fact, 65% of recruiters claim talent shortage is the biggest difficulty they face in the hiring process ( source ). With social media platforms and job boards taking over the recruitment industry, there are more ways than ever to reach job candidates.
Alice Heiman
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
We appreciate our customers and we all know it is important to thank them. Yet, do we do it in the best way and at the best time? . Asking clients about their level of satisfaction and thanking them for their business should be part of our routine. I believe in thanking people throughout the year in different ways. This also gives me an opportunity to ask them for a referral. .
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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.
Chorus.ai
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Sales team managers have a tough job, don’t they? They used to be great sales reps and hit quota repeatedly. Eventually there came a time when they had to take up a much bigger goal - build a team of quota crushers! Now they have 5 people to work with but are responsible for a 5x higher goals as well.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The importance of lead generation is ingrained in the mind of every modern marketer— the more high-quality leads you bring in, the better. But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place.
Women Sales Pros
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
In email prospecting , one of the first things I recommend is that you send yourself a draft before hitting send. That way, you experience what it’s like for the prospect you’re emailing – from the perceived length to the content and call to action. You can quickly see where you need to make adjustments to grab your prospect’s attention and get a reply.
Openview
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Being a salesperson isn’t just about knowing the ins and outs of your product. You may have all the answers to commonly asked questions and have no problem pitching your product, but your value proposition only goes so far. In order to be successful, you have to be able to identify the needs of each potential customer. A needs-based salesperson is the gateway between brands and consumers.
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?
SBI
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
How AI is Poised to Transform Sales. In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. This week I interview Tom Victory , VP of Marketing at Aviso. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP AREAS OF FOCUS IN THE NEXT 12-24 MONTHS FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT WANT TO TRANSFORM THEIR SALES ORGANIZATIONS? TOM: Although there are a lot of emerging technologies debuting in the sales and marketing space, Aviso is singularly focused on advancing the adoption
Membrain
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
According to the Sales Education Foundation, on average, graduates of academic sales programs ramp up 50% faster than their peers without a sales-specific educational background, and experience 30% less turnover. Yet colleges and universities have been slow to meet the need, with only a few leading universities offering dedicated sales majors.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
How do you manage your contacts and deals? If you're manually keeping track of them with spreadsheets and documents, you're likely in need of some automation and organization. Manual data entry can result in missing contact information due to human error. Plus, it's difficult to keep team members in the loop about contact and deal movement. And transferring customer ownership if a salesperson leaves the company is a challenge.
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