DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

The average American will spend up to 50 minutes browsing through social media today. This means the average user spends approximately 6 hours a week, or 303 hours a year, browsing over Facebook updates, Linkedin notifications, and an abundant amount of tweets. More important: Those 303 hours of social browsing are sales opportunities for you. Social selling is when sales professionals use their social network to communicate with prospects and develop relationships to solve problems and achieve

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s a common subject brought up on our training programmes, and it can affect even the most experienced of salespeople. How do we overcome the feeling of nervousness before having a sales interaction? First, let’s highlight why nerves may show themselves. Feeling anxious, uneasy or worried is a natural reaction to stressful or uncomfortable situations.

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MarketJoy

AUGUST 20, 2018

Written By. Reshu Rathi. Share. Get a Free Quote. [contact-form-7]. No matter what you do, mistakes are a part of the journey. We live in a busy world where things slip through the cracks all the times and outbound sales are no exception. However, some mistakes are deadlier than others and repeating those mistakes can kill your business. Given below are five such outbound sales mistakes you must avoid if you want to bring in new customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2018

Author: Paul Cherry I was working with a manufacturer of medical instruments that use lasers to measure blood flow. The products cost upwards of $50,000 and are sold primarily to medical research facilities. With a niche product like this, the pool of potential customers is small, so you have to make the most of every opportunity. Unfortunately, the closing percentages for this company were low.

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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.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s Crunch Time – the Beginning of Q4. Are you going to hit your 2018 number? What’s your forecast for 2019? Do you have the heads, processes, and funding to ensure a successful 2019? Only a handful of Sales Ops leaders can.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 24, 2018

If the whole, entire company supported revenue generation, how strong would your customer care or customer service team be? Would nothing ever slip through the cracks? If everyone supported revenue generation, how easily could we detect a disgruntled customer about to leave us?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2018

Author: Steve Woods, Nudge.ai Co-founder and CTO The fear-mongering is everywhere; artificial intelligence will replace humans and kill jobs by automating the things that we do. It’s effective click-bait because it seems like the plot of a Hollywood action movie pitting robots against humans. But, is it reality? To get to the answer of that question, we need to dig beneath the surface and understand what artificial intelligence is all about, and what it is likely to do to each industry that it a

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2018

Joining us on SBI TV is Doris Raimundi, SVP of Consumer Banking Sales and Support for US Bank. In today’s show, Doris details how to orchestrate a world class customer experience. Why this topic? The customer experience trend is sweeping.

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you are a sales manager, you probably received some solid training, read lots of books,and learned from experts in the field through seminars, webinars and blog posts.And all along the way, you learned that your primary job as a sales manager is to develop and coach your team. But then management tells you that you also need to be a sales leader.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 22, 2018

Unless you’re working with customers who are purely in transactional mode, the holy grail of sales is gaining repeat business. Turning a one-time customer into a loyal client increases revenue, profit and probable recommendations exponentially. So, how can you tell if the customer you’re dealing with will return and do more business with you? Here are some ideas to work with: 1) Ask what makes your customer use specific suppliers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 20, 2018

How effective are salespeople when it comes to creating urgency? I'm not talking about salespeople who create urgency by telling their prospects that if they don't order today the price will go up or it won't be available. I'm talking about salespeople who create urgency by asking questions to uncover problems, the consequences and cost of which, create urgency.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2018

On July, 17 1955 it was well over 100 degrees in Anaheim, CA on the first day in the original Magic Kingdom. Women’s heels were melting into the asphalt, and people were thirsty but there wasn’t enough to drink. Yet.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 19, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, we state that in order to stay viable, B2B companies need to hire a social media manager. Today, the role of a social media manager is more important than ever. According to one recent study, 93% of B2B marketers reported social media as the most utilized marketing tactic of their teams ( source ). As social media continues to grow, the need for a social media manager has grown as well.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2018

Over the years I’ve developed a framework for making prospecting calls more effective. I call this framework “social calling”. The three elements of the framework are: (1) having clean contact data, (2) leveraging trigger events and (3) using relationships. I’ve covered the first two elements in the two previous posts. Now I’m going to go over the one that makes the biggest difference, relationships.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 23, 2018

Do you have a customer retention scorecard? You know what I am talking about. Any of the plethora of scoring systems which measure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Chances are, your organization already has a scorecard or two. And your own performance is measured and compared with the ratings customers provide on a quarterly basis. Do you know which factors these scorecards measure?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2018

Are you a company that evaluates your pricing as part of an annual process? Congratulations, you are in select company. The majority merely glance at the competition, evaluate their price, and make minor adjustments. The better organizations look at their solutions.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2018

Your marketing landing pages may receive a ton of traffic– but are you converting those visitors to leads? For marketers, there’s nothing more frustrating than low landing page conversion rates, especially when it’s difficult to determine what the cause is. The truth is, there are many reasons why your landing pages may be suffering from low conversion rates.

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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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Connect2Sell

AUGUST 22, 2018

( Editor's Note: Today’s post about converting leads to sales is from a guest contributor. Deepti Jain is an engineering student who has a knack for writing and works at AeroLeads as a content writer.). Generating leads is in itself a tedious chore. On top of that, turning those leads to sales may give new salespeople a reason to worry. However, it's a lot easier than you might think.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 18, 2018

Inside Sales Management Made Easy. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Learn effective inside sales force team rep performance management training ideas, tips, techniques and plan with best practices. Being an inside sales manager is tough these days. Technology (which is supposed to make your job easier), is overwhelming and there are just too many new data points technologies allow us to measure: Top, middle, bottom of the funnel?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2018

In 2005 nearly 50% of Fortune 500 companies had a Chief Operating Officer (COO). In 2015 less than 35% had a COO. Why does this matter to you? Once thought of as the obvious successor to the CEO, the COO is.

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John Barrows

AUGUST 22, 2018

With Q4 around the corner and event season (September) upon us, we here at JBarrows will be making the rounds at all the events coming up like Tenbound , HyperGrowth , INBOUND , Digital Sales World and of course Dreamforce. In order to get the most out of these opportunities for us and for you, we’ve developed this guide. Read it below or download your own copy here.

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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.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most sales and marketing teams are looking for ways to generate more leads. It's likely a daily discussion for most of us, but have you ever considered that your sales reps need fewer leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified leads. Sales reps need leads that have been carefully qualified and properly and consistently nurtured increasing the likelihood of a sale.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

In a 2018 survey of more than 4,000 homes, 68% of staged homes sold for at least 9% more than those of their unstaged neighbors’. Whether you’re starting a real estate business or have been selling homes for a while, there’s clear and increasing benefit to professionally staging your clients’ homes. But the future of home staging goes beyond just hiring a designer.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 19, 2018

How Often Should Sales Talent Be Assessed? The Answer: Quarterly. Talent should be assessed every quarter to ensure A-players are developed and C-players are removed quickly. Nothing is more toxic to revenue growth than a complacent sales team. To keep sales.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2018

Marketing automation has become an increasingly effective tool in today’s technology-driven business landscape. In fact, studies show that the use of a marketing automation platform produces, on average, 60% revenue growth for B2B businesses ( source ). While its name implies marketing automation is strictly for marketers, sales teams can also use marketing automation to boost productivity and efficiency.

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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?

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Close.io

AUGUST 20, 2018

“I have [insert disadvantage]. How could I possibly succeed in B2B sales?”. I can’t tell you how many times sales reps have told me they can’t sell because something is getting in their way. I get it. Sales isn’t always easy. And it can drag you down when you feel there’s something making it even harder just for you. But there’s a silver lining to everything.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Great news: It’s time to hire a sales manager for your team. But before you can start interviewing candidates, you need to draw them in with a well-written, accurate, compelling job description that describes the role,

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 18, 2018

Done well, quota-setting is an enabler to achieving your top-line revenue or bookings targets. How you as a Sales Operations leader determine quotas also has significant impact on managing sales expense. Poorly done quota-setting will have devastating effects on retaining.

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