Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 9, 2014

As you consider each of the following scenarios, try to make a comparison as to how it might compare with the sales calls and presentations you make to groups: Scenario 1: When I am the keynote speaker at an event, people have much higher expectations of me as a speaker, the entertainment factor, and the potential take aways from my topic.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 28, 2020

That’s why we have handpicked 19 best sales influencers from the business community. 19 best sales influencers to follow in 2020. Let’s check out these 19 sales influencers, and if you’re anywhere close to sales, you must follow them right away! He is one of the best influencers to follow on Twitter at this moment.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 26, 2023

Compare that to the definition of influence: The power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways, authority, credibility, and inspiration. This way they can confirm their position as a trusted advisor to buyers. The post Influence Versus Persuasion in Sales first appeared on Janek Performance Group.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, we have “Buying Groups.” The philosophy of buying groups is to identify and engage a set of personas involved in making a purchasing decision. What the Heck Are Buying Groups? This new way of thinking about people involved in making a purchasing decision is called buying groups. How Do You Measure Success?

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Nimble - Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While 83% of the latter group wants to continue to work remotely at least one day a week, 55% of executives are […]. The post 5 Key CRM Trends Influencing Remote Teams Today and Beyond appeared first on Nimble Blog. As the debate rages on about whether remote work is the “future of work” or not, here’s a fact for you: U.S.

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Shari Levitin

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At Levitin Group we’ve adapted to virtual keynotes, shifted to providing 6-week Master Classes and Train the Trainer courses to help sales teams master the four seismic shifts every hybrid seller must make. Be an influencer!” “Put The post August Roundup What’s Trending at Levitin Group? Hybrid work is here to stay.”.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself. She quite literally wrote the book on it.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 24, 2013

If you’re a sales leader or anyone in a leadership position, you are undoubtedly spending a lot of time with people you’re leading or influencing in one way or another. Challenge you have is who is influencing you? This is where having a peer group is worth far more than most people realize.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Operations leaders often have a disproportionate amount of influence over Sales functions. Data is the most effective way to influence strategy, especially against political headwinds. 2 - Get the data you need to minimize the influence of power and politics on the conversation. your peer group. Prove it’s wrong.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

As part of the Playbooks Buyer Intelligence suite, PeopleFinder identifies individuals who may be part of the buying group, contacts that hold similar positions or were involved in similar deals, their influence and role in an account, and other relevant insights. ” Find more information on PeopleFinder and Playbooks here.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

They know they must encourage and enable the people that know and trust them – their customers, employees and 3rd party influencers – to advocate on behalf of the brand. Other reasons customers, employees and influencers make good sales and marketing channels; 1. And it works.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 21, 2016

A book that holds pride of place in my library is Robert Cialdini’s “Influence”, where he talks about the principle of social proof. He means by this that most people are influenced by the actions of others, rather than furrowing their own trough and taking the risks of being a tail-blazer. Happy selling! Sean McPheat.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 4, 2012

With the amazing discussion we had on the first virtual roundtable on Sales Influencers, I’ll be moderating a second roundtable on Thursday, April 12 at 1PM Pacific / 4PM Eastern. Our goal is to show YOU how to create influencers in your company as a means of gaining visibility and ultimately growing revenues.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 29, 2013

Recently, at a picnic with my family, I took note of all the guests and couldn''t help but to see the similarity between the picnic and selling to a group. Butterflies were fluttering about and they reminded me of the interested observers who join gatherings like this but have no influence and attend to justify their existance.

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Xvoyant

MARCH 16, 2020

Adam Peek of Fortis Solutions Group shows us how to get off the sidelines and take charge of your own career and development. When you find solutions that can help you succeed, and bring success to your team and company, you build influence and become a great leader even if you don’t have that VP of Sales title.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 16, 2019

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Within the first two months of my sales career, I had to learn how to influence others to see value in my offerings. How we communicate in person and on stage influences others to listen first. The best book on the topic is “How to Win Friends And Influence People,” Dale Carnegie.

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Xvoyant

MAY 18, 2020

Alain Hunkins, Managing Director of Hunkins Leadership Group, shows us that success or failure is often a result of the environment we create, and sales leaders have the responsibility to shape environments that lead to success.

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If you’ve been listening to the Modern Selling Podcast for awhile, then you know that Vengreso had an amazing partnership for years with the Miller Heiman group (who was acquired by Korn Ferry). In the past, about six buyer profiles would influence the sale. The post What happened to the Miller Heiman Group?

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 21, 2012

Once you have raised your visibility as a top influencer – hopefully through talking online about subjects and issues on the minds of your clients and potential customers, you need to find ways to further those conversations so that if there is a need on the part of someone viewing your content, you’d know it.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Being a leader of influence, leading with impact is not a position but a calling. The goal of a leader of influence is to create leaders into the next generations. Your influence is not always in the big things, but often in the small details. The influence of a drop of water has great impact. You are always an influence.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The marketplace is not just about products or services — digital platforms, social influences, company values, personalization, and authenticity all matter to younger generations. Social Media Influence Leveraging social media is today’s primary channel for interacting with younger buyers to create buzz about your products.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012. B2B sales is not different, the good folks over at OpenView Labs , have put together a list of Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012. Join the Renbor Sales Solutions LinkedIn Group. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s

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LeadFuze

JULY 19, 2021

Measure What Influences Sales Velocity in Your New Product Launch Marketing Plan. I prefer to look at sales velocity in a few different ways to get a sense of what levers influence your pipeline’s speed. Or, do groups of deals have different buying teams? Velocity can be incredibly variable throughout your business.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Networking Effectively and Creating a Sphere of Influence The idea of networking effectively and creating a sphere of influence is nothing new in sales. Once you’ve identified your clients, you can start building your sphere of influence. Creating your sphere of influence is easy to do. We hope to see you there!

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InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

As part of the Playbooks Buyer Intelligence suite, PeopleFinder identifies individuals who may be part of the buying group, contacts that hold similar positions or were involved in similar deals, their influence and role in an account, and other relevant insights. ” Find more information on PeopleFinder and Playbooks here.

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Connext Digital

OCTOBER 28, 2019

How Does it Influence Mobile Marketing? Mobile programmatic advertising allows marketers to reach their peak creativity, creating content that will appeal to the specific group of people you’re looking to connect with. The post Programmatic Buying and Its Influence on Mobile Marketing appeared first on Connext Digital.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

To get that inspiration, direction, and motivation we follow mentors on social media like Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn influencers. Without any further ado, let’s jump right ahead to the list of Sales LinkedIn Influencers: 1. Gary Vee is the influencer we all know & follow at least on one social media platform.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Social media through groups such as Facebook to blogs to article marketing expands your marketing influence. Your marketing influence is not just about you, but your connections and more importantly how you interact with those individuals. The challenge is to think differently, to get our of your own way.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 12, 2012

A sales rep who had a long-term relationship with the head of an in-house printing group naturally expected to get the business when the company decided to outsource its printing services. The rep was shocked to find out the deal went to a competitor. His contact told him only that the other company offered a “better value.”

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 25, 2013

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled Research: How Sensory Information Influences Price Decisions. Can different amounts of visual, auditory and kinesthetic information influence the price customers will pay for an item? Recently, a sales linguistics experiment was conducted in order to answer this question.

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LeadFuze

JULY 16, 2019

Source: Temkin Group. In November 2015, Temkin Group published research indicating the CX maturity level of B2B organizations. A 2018 report on “ The State of CX Management ” by Temkin Group highlights that 54% of companies aspire to be industry leaders in CX in the next three years. Do so by training employees suitably.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Since Pipeliner CRM is a European based firm, I expanded my influence into markets that I was not directly reaching. . Ton and I shared several groups and through our interchanges this opportunity presented itself. This sharing of good to great content allows all of us to expand our influence and therefore market reach.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

One of the core issues in understanding and influencing our customers’ buying processes is to make sure we are working with the right people, doing the right things at the right time. Research presented in The Challenger Customer , shows a negative 4% correlation to influencing a decision for us by getting the 5.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

To get that inspiration, direction, and motivation we follow mentors on social media like Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn influencers. Without any further ado, let’s jump right ahead to the list of Sales LinkedIn Influencers: 1. Gary Vee is the influencer we all know & follow at least on one social media platform.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Ken Thoreson, Acumen Management Group, Ltd. Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . KNOXVILLE, Tenn., KNOXVILLE, Tenn., To request an advance copy, email ken@acumentmgmt.com.

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Fill the Funnel

AUGUST 31, 2014

Please share this post with your peers and connections in any way you prefer so that I we can all learn from the largest group possible. Original article: Social Sharing Counters – Do They Influence Your Opinion and Actions? Comments are still available for you and I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on these questions.

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Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2012

According to McKinsey principal Mary Ellen Coe, “…CMOs need to be stewards of customer engagement and experience, which means they need to manage and influence the experience positively across the organization.” Andrew Briney, Senior VP and Group Publisher at TechTarget. Brian Halligan, CEO and Founder of HubSpot.

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