Smooth Sale

MARCH 25, 2022

’ It’s not just about making business connections for sales development. Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know. As the CEO of Smooth Sale, after her near-death experience, Stutz adapted the motto, “Believe, Become, Empower.”

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I’ve also started two successful companies, and currently serve as co-founder and CEO of AdStage , a platform that connects marketers to their data across paid search and social, web analytics, and custom business metrics. To position ourselves for a good outcome, I chose to lead the sales team. 1) Improving Sales Conversations.

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HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 22, 2012

I’ve had the privilege of conducting “Win/Loss/No Decision Sales Cycle Analysis Studies” for leading companies including IBM, EMC, ATT, Acxiom, and PayPal. As the customer, you are going to meet with multiple vendors, watch their presentations, and read their marketing collateral. Did I listen to my sales intuition?

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 24, 2018

It is amazing that so many myths and stereotypes about selling and about sales people still resonate with so many folks. In 2018, we are decades removed from the shoeshine, plaid suit, risqué joke and flashy car loaded down with three ring binders of sales collateral. Here’s an example. Believe me, Willy Loman really did die.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2021

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. Let me walk through a very typical example. It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. And hopefully, we repeat the performance the following quarter, then hit our numbers for the year. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Dlinkers is a company dedicated to providing complete digital marketing services. I started Dlinkers Digital Marketing & Consultancy back in 2008. And as the founder of my own digital marketing company and an investor, I’ve met my fair share of them. Changes in digital marketing trends can happen daily.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2017

Social selling, many marketing, many inbound advocates leverage the stereotype of cold calls: A random, untargeted, unresearched, poorly prepared telephone call (or even a cold email), focused on pitching products. It’s a waste of time on the part of customers and sales people. Each of our calls is very targeted.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. From a sales person’s perspective, they get no value from it, but managers need it to make sure the business in control. At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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SBI

MAY 15, 2012

Your word, your message, your solution, and the caliber of your presentation and delivery surpass what even the best sales and marketing icons in the business could only dream of bringing to a prospect’s table. And that is okay, and certainly a vital piece of the sales process. That is a problem you must not create for yourself.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2015

Sales people, we have a PR problem, … it’s Real,…… and we probably deserve it, … and we need to do something about it. I just read this post by Brian de Haaff, CEO of Aha, This CEO Will Never Hire A Sales Person. My initial reaction was, “This guy is clueless about professional sales.”

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Basically the arguments are sales people versus management. So in this post, I’ll really focus on the sales people, so managers can stop reading here–in fact you probably should. So sales people—–Get over it! They are about helping your sales people be more productive, impactful, and effective.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” He went on discuss the selling distractions, arguing, “why would a sales person choose to spend their time on admin processes and things like updating CRM?”

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 25, 2013

Recently, a sales linguistics experiment was conducted in order to answer this question. Sales Linguistics is the study of how customers and salespeople use language during the complex decision-making process. The experiment also provides other important lessons for sales and marketing professionals.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2015

All sales professionals revel in doing deals. The corollary, is if your sales people aren’t doing deals, then they aren’t doing their jobs.). We do this by translating company strategy into sales plans, programs, and strategies to effectively and efficiently reach our target customers.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

“I need a report… ” is a phrase universally eliciting groans from every sales person—at least the good sales people. Bad sales people revel in these requests, because it means they get a momentary respite from prospecting, meeting with customers, moving deals forward, figuring out how to hit their goals.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2022

Everything in marketing and sales is about “the algorithm.” For example, one of the major problems most algorithms have is reinforcing confirmation bias. For example, early in Clubhouse’s launch I found the platform powerful and interesting. For example, in my profile I have 1000’s of endorsements.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is it – the 52 best sales book you’ll ever read. Of all the different types of books I read, sales books have probably been the most common (though I spend a lot of time reading books that have nothing to do with sales, which has tremendous value). The Challenger Sale. This is a sequel to The Challenger Sale.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

’ All the jobs require SaaS sales experience.” ” It is puzzling how “SaaS” or “XaaS” seems to have a disproportionate mindshare in the sales world these days. Yes–different product knowledge skills; Yes, perhaps market/industry/problem specific skills are necessary.

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OnePageCRM

APRIL 13, 2017

Having a clear understanding of who your customers are, what motivates them and what problems they need solved is the crux of any successful marketing or sales funnel. We sat down with the sales team and looked back over the last 6 months of sales in the CRM. What emerged was a revelation. HR knew the problem.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2018

Largely, I agree with the author, but he cited an example that is very misleading. I’m certain there was no bad intent, but it was an example that reinforced his basic premise–everything in buying is going digital, the B2B buying process is becoming consumerized. ” But one should be skeptical about these examples.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

89 percent of marketers cite email as their major lead generating medium, and with cause. Examples of how your offering benefits other businesses. The first and most critical stage is to develop a comprehensive assessment of your target market. To stand out, customizing your marketing email should be a key focus.

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