Vainu

APRIL 1, 2019

Prospecting 90

Prospecting Sales 90

InsightSquared

APRIL 3, 2019

Our biases can make us do silly things. Our biases can also be leveraged to influence our decision-making. The best sales professionals and marketers understand how important it is to study human psychology and use that knowledge to create stories, messages and strategies that drive results. Psychological or cognitive biases are subjective perceptions that we fall back on as we process information.

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Advertising Advertising Study Proposal 111

Xactly

APRIL 3, 2019

Discover sales compensation best practices to improve your overall sales performance.

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Compensation Sales Incentives Incentive 69

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2019

Author: Kevin F. Davis It goes without saying that your top salespeople are the backbone of your team. Sure, they keep the sales rolling in, but they also play a key role in keeping your entire team motivated. When your top few are hard at work, the rest of the team aspires to their greatness. However, those top salespeople aren’t robots – they go through burnouts and times where they just need an extra boost of motivation, themselves.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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The Pipeline

APRIL 2, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. One reason many anti-phoners, will give you for not using that most noble sales instrument (the phone), is that no one picks up. As though that was some form of barrier or obstacle or a reason for not leveraging the phone in your sales and prospecting success. Let’s be real, anti-phoners are the sales equivalent of anti-vaxxers. Fortunately, anti-phoners only stunt your pipeline and revenues, not your kids.

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Face-to-face Call-back Case Study Banking 300

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2019

Does age really matter in sales? “Explain it so your grandmother would understand.”. That’s exactly what the CMO of a tech company said about how to explain your mission statement. I was listening to his podcast at 7:00 on a Monday morning, and I was ready to kick butt. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard the grandmother reference. I’ve heard it for mothers, as well, but never for fathers or grandfathers.

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Referrals Hiring Decision Maker Cold Calling 240

The Sales Hunter

APRIL 5, 2019

How well do your questions push the customer’s thinking? Sales leadership is about the customer seeing you differently than every other salesperson. If all you do is ask the basic questions that they’ve already been asked a thousand times, how will you stand out? Sales is about taking the customer to a different level. If you just satisfy their basic needs, you are not selling your service to the customer.

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Sales Leadership Motivation Sales Customer 223

The Pipeline

APRIL 2, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. The start of any quarter is an opportunity to step back take stock and recommit to your success. The first quarter, however, is a bit different, it is far enough away from the year-end, that you can think, be positive, and have the space to course correct or accelerate your triumphs; it is an entirely different affair the first week of October, when the desperate clouds of Q4 cover the top of the funnel.

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Top of Funnel Vendor Funnel Pipeline 271

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 5, 2019

About a year ago, I wrote a very popular article called, Persistence Over Polish , where I discussed the competencies that the top 10% of all salespeople were better at than everyone else. The article identified 5 of the 21 Sales Core Competencies that were the biggest difference makers, showed the gap in capabilities, and explained the impact of having these competencies as weaknesses.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 30, 2019

Today Meredith Kildow, Chief Revenue Officer of Consilio, joins us to discuss the ramifications of being a sales leader and how to design, manage and execute the integration effort when you combine multiple sales forces over time in a series.

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Revenue Company How To Sales 209

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 5, 2019

Author: Pete Dufner As a creative director in a past life, I witnessed Natasha Jen’s “Design Thinking is Bull ” presentation back at the HOW conference in 2017. That’s why I approached this article carefully, with eyes wide open and BS detectors set on high. (If you haven’t seen her video yet, it’s 13 minutes well spent.). Alexa, what’s design thinking?

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 2, 2019

What is a CRM system and what are the benefits of having one? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, and it’s essential that when you are selling your promises of a better future to your prospects, you are able to keep manageable records for those sales. The benefits of CRM systems are manifold, and here we list some of them so you can be assured you’re going in the right direction for the long-term relationship you’re building for your company and your customers. 1) It helps you manag

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Benefit CRM System Loyalty 185

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 4, 2019

In sales, it is critical for a producer to develop behaviors for success and systems to support those behaviors. But often times, salespeople struggle and settle for the results they get because they don’t know how to adapt. In this article, we will review the formula and methodology for change and the key questions every successful salesperson must ask themselves when identifying how to improve their sales outcomes.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 5, 2019

As a CRO, you’re supposed to be the perfect blend of sales leader, marketing genius, and metrics guru. If you’re doing it right, you’ve got your sales team closing, marketing group cranking out leads and you’re tracking your MCLs all.

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Connect2Sell

APRIL 3, 2019

In this, the final installment in our 12-part series about how to be a memorable salesperson, we’re going to take a look at one more skill. This one is tricky. It’s sensitive. It’s one that you may not want to admit you could use some help with.

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Buyer How To Conversion Selling Skills 167

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

I was onsite training in Montreal , Canada last week—a software company, hi everyone! —and one of the sales reps brought up today’s quote as we were reviewing calls during the training. The call was a closing presentation—a demo, really—and after about an hour of slides and features and benefits, the rep was anxious to set next steps: schedule another demo call, schedule another Q & A session, etc.

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Closing Strategy Face-to-face Inside Sales 140

The Sales Heretic

APRIL 3, 2019

Are you using a leads group as one of your prospecting strategies? If not, perhaps you should be. After all, if you’re prospecting for new sales leads, referrals are the best kind. And a leads group can be a very powerful way of generating referrals. Like any other prospecting tool, however, your results depend on [.].

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Groups Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 140

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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SBI Growth

APRIL 5, 2019

How Does the Marketing Leader Know If They Are Aligned to Sales? Often, companies miss their number because Marketing and Sales are not aligned. As a Marketing leader are you aligned with your sales counterparts? Are you driving towards the same.

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Marketing Company Revenue Sales 176

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 4, 2019

Episode 26: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: The concept of reverse engineering in sales. Reverse engineering your next call. A quote from Henry Ford. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Reverse Engineering In Sales, Applying Reverse Engineering To Your Calls & A Quote From Henry Ford appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Engineering Training Sales 120

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

What makes a good sales presentation? An effective presentation tells a compelling story, highlights your value proposition, and aligns with your audience's needs and desires. It ends with a strong call-to-action. Hate the thought of doing sales presentations ? You’re not alone. But the best reps have sales presentations down pat, even if it’s not their favorite activity.

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Closing ROI Call-back Buyer 143

Membrain

APRIL 3, 2019

Win/loss analysis should be a critical tool for improving sales force effectiveness, yet many organizations only analyze some of their wins and losses, and the focus is often more on the losses than the wins.

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Analysis How To Tools Analytics 128

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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SBI Growth

APRIL 5, 2019

2019 Q1 CEO Research Report Your 2019 strategic plan may already be in jeopardy. Two-thirds of well-formulated corporate strategies fail due to poor execution. In this report, we provide a roadmap for CEOs to identify and close execution gaps across the organization… Get.

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 5, 2019

Every sales training program and book about increasing sales offers a sales process. These step-by-step processes help sellers to orient themselves and move through a logical progression from opening the sale all the way through to closing the sale. Having a sales process is a good practice. Knowing and following your buyer’s process is an even better practice.

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Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 123

SalesforLife

MARCH 30, 2019

Turning potential prospects into customers is no longer easy for salespeople. Why? The modern buyer is being transformed. Today’s modern buyer is drastically different than buyers of the past, and the buying cycle has also changed significantly. What can salespeople do to adapt to these changing times?

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Buying Cycle Buyer Prospecting Customer 115

Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 2, 2019

Managing a strategic account is a complicated balancing act. Sometimes, you find yourself striving for short-term gains by upselling. But to achieve long-term success with a strategic account, the customer needs to view you as a trusted partner, which means you need to constantly set yourself apart from the competition by helping your customer achieve their long-term goals.

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Account Influencer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 110

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?

Marketing

SBI Growth

APRIL 5, 2019

Is Poor Execution Endangering Your Sales Strategy? Sales leaders start the year on an emotional high from their SKO, confident in their strategic plan. But conditions quickly change. Unexpected challenges arise.

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Strategy Revenue Sales Marketing 168

Women Sales Pros

APRIL 1, 2019

It is always good to hear about the women who have gotten into a sales role in a company where there is or has been a male majority sales team. The opportunities in a sales career are some of the best compared to any other corporate role. It can also be a tough grind, a difficult ramp up, and in some companies, tricky being a strong, confidant seller looking to rise within the organization.

Sales Leadership 111

Sales Leadership Promotion Sales Research 111

Nutshell

APRIL 4, 2019

When a prospect makes the decision to become your customer, you want to roll out the red carpet for them. That’s just as true for a website visitor who subscribes to your newsletter or other marketing content. In both cases, a person has made a commitment to your company based on what you’ve shown them so far, and you have a wonderful opportunity to capitalize on that positive sentiment.

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