Bernadette McClelland

JULY 4, 2023

Most Australian heritage stems from a mindset based on a lack of opportunity, where making sure everyone has a ‘fair go’ is more important than standing out. In tougher times, people (including my family) emigrated from Ireland because of the lack of food due to the potato famine. There are a few. – my kids aren’t here with me.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

There’s no Magic 8 Ball for investing, but new tools are making the world of B2B sales development a whole lot more predictable. There’s something very sexy under the hood of DiscoverOrg, and it’s solving a quintessential outbound sales development problem: Knowing when to act. Prioritize accounts for sales development.

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Anne Miller

JULY 13, 2022

Ever notice how both in times of joy and times of crisis we reach for metaphors to describe what is happening? (“I’m Its efficacy verges on magic.” And that “magic,” even if the metaphor is a cliche, is why it is such an effective sales and communication tool. And, then, wave your magic metaphor wand.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 18, 2024

These days, Vedant Namboodiri is the Global Sales Operations Manager at Cin7. I very distinctly remember my day-to-day as an AE,” Vedant told us, sharing how a lot of time was spent on admin and making sure the company’s CRM was up to date. “I A magic admin-busting button? But when Cin7 adopted Salesloft, he was an AE.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? The Caliper vs OMG Comparison: Which Sales Candidate Assessment is More Predictive? How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 16, 2024

Negative comments from others, such as ‘It’s time to give up; you will never make it! Negative comments from others, such as ‘It’s time to give up; you will never make it!’ ’ can exacerbate this anxiety. But remember, these are just hurdles on your path to success, not showstoppers.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 4, 2022

Sometimes we think there’s a magic bullet that will catapult us to happiness and success. We’re frantically looking for a magic powder, a new pill, or the latest diet of clever closes. I hate to disillusion you, but the truth is no one thing will bring you success in life or sales. Then my mother made a discovery.

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Call-back Face-to-face Follow-up Exact 118

Sales Gravy

MARCH 24, 2024

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount, the author of People Love You: The Real Secret to Delivering a Legendary Customer Experience, sits down with Talroo's Vice President of Success and Enablement Barry Klein to discuss why a focus on customer retention is crucial for revenue growth. This word-of-mouth is invaluable.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Last week, I posted an article on the Impact of Relationship Building Challenges in Sales. Matt became a personal client of mine at Kurlan & Associates back in 1986 – 37 years ago – when his then packaging supply company sales team attended a public sales training seminar I was leading. You know, relationships!

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. But in the modern sales landscape, more and more salespeople have started reforming their behavior. Identify In this stage, salespeople do research to start the sales process with prospects who seem like good fits.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

I watched a sales rep making cold calls the other day. He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. Prior to the call, I asked this sales rep to send over recordings, so I could play and point out exactly what he was doing wrong. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Twenty years ago, I would have told you referrals couldn’t possibly be more important for account based sales development. This digital dependence actually decreases productivity and extends the time it takes to reach a decision-maker. The goal of account based sales development is to land and expand within named accounts.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. Set up Chat for Real-Time Engagement. Real time engagement is a crucial part of generating demand. The result?

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 23, 2022

How many times have you been stopped by the gatekeeper asking you: “Will he/she know what this call is about?”. The number one mistake inside sales teams make when asking to speak with someone is not using a directive statement afterward. Sales Rep: “Can I talk to {prospect’s name}?”. Have you spoken to him/her before?”.

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Julie Hanson

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Your virtual first impression can make or break your sale. In the first few seconds of a video call, prospective customers quickly make decisions about you and your company and how (or whether) they’re going to listen to you. To ensure you’re making a strong first impression, look no further than your television screen.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2014

Sales people quit when they lose confidence. You don’t make the number on the top 20%. You make it on the magic middle. The Magic Middle is the 70% of reps performing somewhere between poor and excellent. This is the group that keeps sales leaders up at night. Time horizons are shorter.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If you or your team is struggling, a cause might be a fundamental flaw that many sales teams suffer from: failure to understand—and pitch to—a prospect’s unique buying motive. Let’s review the sales process briefly: Recognizing all buyers of products and services have specific needs (buying motives) they are looking to fulfill.

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Motivation Face-to-face Gatekeeper Sales Qualified Lead 156

Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2021

Is it possible to replicate the infectious energy of the sales floor at the end of a quarter in a virtual world? That was the challenge ZoomInfo faced as 2020 drew to a close in December, which is typically a great month for B2B sales teams. Breaking News: Broadcast Sports Sales Updates Live. We will find deals at 10 p.m.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

At that time, my clients were asking me the same questions, I wrote a paper to help them think about the issues and how to manage through and thrive. .” Since 2001 we’ve been through slowdowns a couple of times. Time to face reality. Churning through programs and initiatives merely waste resources and time.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring Churn 111

No More Cold Calling

JULY 8, 2014

Social selling isn’t a magical cure for all your sales challenges. Is it just the latest buzzword bandied about by shifty trainers, or an actual sales strategy with teeth? They make outrageous promises that are “guaranteed” to increase sales effectiveness overnight. Be Wary of Magical Cures. Comment Here.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

How can you start to improve, so that you have the best chance to make an impact and create high level communications with clients that will persuade them they are making a good decision to choose your products and services? Without the answer to this most basic of questions , you are going on a magical mystery tour.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 31, 2024

AI isn’t just about making machines work for us; it’s about leveraging technology to solve problems in ways we never could before. For example, AI has revolutionized the roadside assistance industry by making help arrive faster and improving overall customer satisfaction. Automating a mess just gives you a faster mess.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 25, 2019

How many times have you made a presentation and afterwards thought ‘that was so boring, even I wouldn’t have bought my product!’. Instead, a perfect product demonstration always tells a story, using the product as the visual hook that makes the story real. Because people don’t buy your products. What does this mean?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sales leaders must take the rap. We used to hire account based sales reps, indoctrinate them with product knowledge and a smattering of business culture, and give them a few lead generation tools. Clients tell me not much has changed, except that companies now give account based sales reps a desk, a computer, and a password.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 20, 2024

Being in business can make us feel like every day is a roller coaster. From there, negative comments may make you feel like it’s time to jump off or quit upon hearing from others, ‘It’s time to give up; you will never make it! A Positive Mindset Will Get You to Goal and Beyond Live Life Without Regret.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Well, in Montana that meant that there was still a lot of time spent inside. In those days my favorite stuff to make time fly was creating things with Lincoln Logs, and Erector Sets (you all may need to Google those to see what they were). I would combine the two sets of magical parts and create contraptions of all kinds.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 30, 2024

At times, it seems as if we are returning to the era of almost cave dwellers, and today, with AI on the rise, the thought of space aliens visiting Earth is possible, and our living on the moon almost sounds like a good idea. Moving several times sent my effort spiraling downward until I caught each issue to dismantle it to move forward.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To paraphrase the renowned sales guru Mark Twain, The difference between the right word and almost the right word, is the difference between telling your sales manager that the deal is dead, versus, the deal is no longer viable. Words are the hammers and nails of sales. Sales, like life, are greatly influenced by semantics.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The magic of Automation. According to research, leads experience five to 10 marketing interactions before making a purchase. Thankfully, lead management automation has some built-in magic. Manage leads from forms and registrations. Use surveys to nurture leads and customers. Nurture mailing list subscribers.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Fast forwarding to current times, based on how we engage our customers, we demonstrate a similar vanity. There were the logo slides, the Gartner magic quadrant slides, a slide dedicated to the greatness of each of their key product groups, and so forth. They had a mandatory 16 page presentation they had to present to every prospect.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s about making sure your online presence feels like you. It should make your audience think, “Yep, that’s them!” Chat with your audience to exchange thoughts and make them feel part of your journey. Here for the Long Haul Remember, going online isn’t a one-time gig. growing your business).

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Highspot

MAY 9, 2023

How Leveraging AI Improves Sales Processes For marketing, sales enablement, and sales teams, the potential of AI is vast. Amidst a backdrop of hybrid work, economic uncertainty, reduced budgets, and boards that are asking companies to do more with less, leaders are dialed in on increasing sales productivity.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Email templates are one of the best ways to make your outreach more efficient, keep your messages consistent across your team, and improve outreach effectiveness over time. Get insight into your email activity Click below to head right to the new email report in Nutshell.

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Anne Miller

APRIL 7, 2024

The folks at KUOW Public Radio and The Seattle Times in partnership with NPR faced that problem for a recent podcast on just that type of topic: The difficulties in treating serious mental illness. Imagine” is a Magical Word This “Imagine” metaphor technique can be used in any communication situation in business (and life).

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As leaders across all sectors push to adopt generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s also becoming clear that most generative AI (GenAI) initiatives for business will quickly fall apart without a foundation of accurate, timely, and comprehensive data. The magic of GenAI lies in its ability to predict what humans want.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 14, 2021

Magic Sauce. The thing is that a newsworthy angle can be created with enough effort, and people seem less and less willing to put in the required time and effort to create the “magic sauce” that makes a story newsworthy. If you’re going to spend money to send a press release, you want to make sure it is strategic.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When your customers are savvy, discerning, and constantly bombarded with a barrage of sales pitches and marketing messages, how do you plan to stand out in this crowded digital arena? Even so, we see sales reps struggle with nurturing, qualifying, and converting leads, achieving sales-marketing coordination and building trust with prospects.

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