Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Lee Smith A recent State of Sales report published by LinkedIn revealed that U.S. businesses spend $15 billion a year training their sales employees. Despite this spending level, 68% of sales professionals are rated as moderate performers in the State of Sales, fourth edition, report from Salesforce.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Author: MARIA BOULDEN, EXECUTIVE PARTNER IN GARTNER’S SALES PRACTICE After a series of delays to critical upgrades, the world has blue-screened and is now in the process of painfully rebooting. The only certainty in customer’s minds right now is expense management. Lead with insight. The best sales professionals lead to it.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

BOLD Sales Leaders will perform best in a rapidly changing environment. It is not the most competent or the smartest sales leader that will survive, but rather the sales leader that is BOLD and can adapt to change will thrive. I don’t care if you are the head of sales or a front-line sales manager.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 16, 2020

We’re starting to get familiar with how our lives are affected by the health issues inherent in this COVID-19 crisis but the economic consequences are just kicking in. Shifting from crisis to recession. The fact that we are very likely in a crisis does not seem to have struck all sales people in all companies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2020

Author: SMM Staff An extended quote about creativity in a crisis is circulating around the internet more in these times. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. He who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2020

In many ways, this very humanity is bringing out the best in the often-misunderstood world of sales. Sales reps are at the leading edge of that charge to orchestrate supply where it is needed most. In the words of Kelly Smith, Commercial Sales Leader for MVP, “there’s never been a better time to do the right thing.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

For sales leaders, this raises the challenge of managing reps in their homes in a way where reps attain peak productivity and their careers advance. Online learning, coaching and assessments will become the backbone of rep management in this new world.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its sales expertise? The management team? It develops organically from the chemistry between the management and workforce. . That's all well and good when your sales force works in a traditional workplace – sharing office space and meeting face-to-face. We tend to think of inside sales reps as being reasonably autonomous.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2021

Sales like most tribes being a bit more civil than antelopes, prefers the 80/20 rule, over herd mentality. I have always been fascinated by how willing sales types are to accept the 80/20. As has been the case through the ages (I’m old enough), sales leaders look for “solutions” to fix their problems. A Crisis In Leadership.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2020

Author: Christopher Croner The current global health crisis and lockdowns are putting most companies under extraordinary stress. And yet, some of the greatest fortunes in history have been made in times of crisis, and a window of opportunity has indeed opened up. But the current crisis has caused us all to think about change.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 28, 2020

SalesRoads is a leading B2B Appointment Setting and SDR Outsourcing firm. FYI from Nigel: you should contact them if you need this kind of help. To study this, we surveyed 755 B2B SaaS professionals who are part of the sales process at their companies in late May and early June 2020. They are the “real deal”!].

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Sales Hacker Training

MAY 7, 2020

A crisis can arise from anywhere… A manufacturing error, a complaint that goes viral… or a global health crisis. Unfortunately, regardless of how strong or established your business, there’s no guarantee it’s immune to crisis. Then we’ll look at how to respond during the crisis. Let’s get into it.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With a daunting array of tools, an endless list of growth strategies, and constantly evolving communication channels, there’s compelling evidence that modern work is facing a crisis of disconnection. They analyzed multiple data points, using human researchers and AI, broken into three phases that reflect the journey of a lead.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 17, 2020

It doesn’t help you to wait until things settle down, watching them get worse, feeling a sense of dread, allowing yourself to be disempowered by events. While you may not control the root cause of a crisis, you can manage your response. You can determine what you believe , and you can manage your reaction.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Done right, virtual selling offers several advantages.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt? are aligned in a post-coronavirus world.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Author: Nick Chasinov The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left millions unemployed, as businesses in nearly every industry have been forced to close up shop – and many won’t be reopening. of purpose-driven advertising over time.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Empathy leads to action. Author: Gary Burnison, CEO, Korn Ferry. At a time when different work needs to get done?—?and and work needs to get done differently?—?we we leaders have to change. Today, everyone is a leader, and it culminates in how we make others feel. Coach Keady must have seen something else in me. Empathy is the starting point.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 22, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: 6 Tips to Help You Protect Your Business Assets Better Running a business without safeguarding your assets is like skydiving without a parachute! Our collaborative blog offers insights to help you better protect your business assets.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A PR firm specializing in crisis management can be your knight in shining armor, galloping in to save the day. They know how to navigate the choppy waters of bad press, crafting statements and strategies that can help restore your tarnished image. Still, it doesn’t need to be if your business fights back.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

” They manage strategies around low tenure (11 months for sellers and leaders). Low engagement, the great resignation, quiet quitting are now business constants that leaders have to manage around. It’s both a business crisis, and people crisis! Too many leaders seem to have given up. How do we fix this?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Author: Steven Kellam We’re currently in the midst of one of the worst health and economic crisis this country and world has ever seen. Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. That’s the bad news.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Even before the rise of COVID-19, sales managers had what’s known as the “hardest job in sales.” As the rest of their organization pivots to manage the challenges of the coronavirus and establish strategies for rebounding from the crisis, sales managers also must shift.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

Offering discounts for their support through advocacy or references shows your appreciation and can help you build a stronger community.”. Author: Paul Nolan. Under normal circumstances, you may have been able to set a competitive but fair price for your company’s goods or services and stick with it. Financial technology company Square Inc.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2018

Last week I looked at the power of the small word ‘NO’ in halting sales, preventing President’s Club, and more; but we looked at it in the context of the prospecting experience, very early in the process. Oddly enough most salespeople seem to be able to manage objections better at the end, then in a first prospecting call.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 19, 2020

In a crisis—whether it’s a health pandemic like COVID-19 , a natural disaster or another unforeseen emergency—those on the front lines make a difference. For sales organizations, that means sellers and customer service reps will take the brunt of the customer onslaught brought on by fear, uncertainty and doubt.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 20, 2020

Stay tuned for content on reputation management, leveraging marketing, leading in challenging times, sales strategy in times of crisis, pivoting field marketing to digital, and more. One area of particular focus for many leaders right now is sales, as revenues decline and customers’ budgets tighten.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

At InsideView, we’ve been helping customers find unexpected opportunities by using a variety of non-typical data signals. I’d like to share what’s been working to help others find their way. In such a crisis, companies can hunker down and hope to outlast the storm, or they can learn to ride the wave and find opportunity in its midst.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2023

Ben Dietz is the general manager of Mintel , a leading data and analytics company. In this episode of Sales Hacker, Ben recapitulates his first days in the company, the company’s core services, the challenges they faced during the pandemic and are facing now, given the recession and other global events.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Author: SMM Sales managers rely on meticulous onboarding programs, continuous coaching and extensive product instruction to instill confidence in their sales reps. To that end, leading suppliers train their sales reps to engage customers with a specific kind of information?—? Information overload. sense making.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 22, 2020

The challenges of quarantine deepen in sales, where lead-generation from cold calls and emails is essential. In fact, many businesses are attempting to forecast the months and years ahead to navigate a successful path through the crisis. Our six steps will help you build to success while avoiding common (and painful) mistakes.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Building a sales pipeline in this context can seem daunting. By understanding customer needs more deeply, organizations can reframe their messaging to accommodate shrinking budgets and nervous customers to generate sales leads that produce revenue. . Keep in mind that the pipeline is built by both Sales and Marketing personnel.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Expert’s Guide to Managing a Team in Crisis: How to Guide Your Sales Team to Results During COVID-19. With so many restrictions and the changing market, it’s important to have a way for brands to access regular sales. It All Begins with a Plan: Selling Strategically During a Crisis.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 10, 2013

You''ve seen this before: a sales leader makes an urgent call to the HR business partner. It’s a different crisis each time. Or, the sales talent isn’t ready to handle a sudden competitive threat. This post will help sales leaders Make the Number with the help of their HR partners. This isn’t the first time.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2020

RELATED: The State of Sales: Pandemic Adaptation Survey (Report). After all, broken communication during a crisis will cause havoc among your employees and even customers. Although you don’t know what’s coming tomorrow, you can prepare and put processes in place to help your employees and customers navigate their new normal.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Two solid hours of not working, not being asked for snacks, and not experiencing Zoom fatigue — a feeling she, even as the Head of Global Sales Ops + Enablement at Zoom, had become all too familiar with. By then, it was clear: Zoom was in crisis mode. They had a clear change management framework. Customers are calling.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2020

Its purpose is to help customers identify prospects interested in specific subject matter and topics related to a customer’s value propositions. Medical treatment, Employee Benefits and Workplace Safety Lead the Way. We live, breathe, and obsess over how to deliver B2B intelligence that unlocks go-to-market success. Glad you asked!

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