No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These days, people are literally addicted to smartphones, and salespeople are so reliant on social media that they forget to be social. More specifically, just under half of all Americans spend between five and six hours on their phones per day, while a further 22 percent use them for three to four hours on average.

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The Pipeline

MAY 25, 2020

Steve Gielda , is the co-founder and CEO of Ignite Selling, and someone I have been looking forward to having on the podcast. Having conducted post-mortems on enterprise-level deals for leading companies, Steve shares what he has learned over the years, and more importantly, some actionable insights that will boost you in all markets.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter. I accepted his standard invitation, thinking he might be a good connection, and sent him a personal message, inviting him to contact me with any questions about referral selling. His response: “What is referral selling?” Not even close!

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign onto Amazon or any other shopping site, and we are pummeled with recommendations, all based on what we’ve bought and recent searches we may have made. All of this is targeted at maximizing our time on these sites (and our spending) based on the predictions on what interests us. And we may not recognize this.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 23, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How To Attract Investors to Your Business Excitement is yours as you announce your business; you’re excited about the future, and now you’re thinking, “Maybe it’s time to bring in the investors.” It’s not just about the cash—though let’s be honest, that part is significant.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Every day I think we have reached bottom with the level of stupid advice I see in my social feeds. But it sounds impressive, it sounds like one is taking an informed position, but it’s only built to attract likes, views, comments–all of which take the arguments to deeper levels of dysfunctional strategies and behaviors.

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Anne Miller

OCTOBER 10, 2023

On the other, the way the social media companies run their business models, the internet has also become a dangerous cesspool for the spreading of hate, fear, and divisiveness in our society, threatening our very democracy. Those who disagree see social media firms more as utilities that need regulatory guardrails.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The more we know about our clients, the more we can solve their problems and help them succeed. These deficiencies can hinder selling or drive buyers away. It’s understanding what widgets are, what they do, and how they affect their buyers. Too many salespeople think the art of selling is homogenous.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 17, 2022

B2B marketers are catching up with the B2C space in using social media to drive revenue. They more and more understand that listening to the customer voice across digital channels, including social media and reviews sites, should be a key part of their success. With that in mind, here are four tips for advanced social selling.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AI is changing the world (“Wow, what an astute observation, Dave.”). It reduces what may have taken hours or even days to seconds. There were a few times in my selling career, I’d have to do deep research to begin to understand trends, challenges and issues facing my customers. ” Let me dive into this.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2023

Long gone are the days of solely visiting brick-and-mortar businesses to find what you need. When we think about online selling, we usually think about selling products like clothing or electronics. How to Sell Services Online 1. Now, e-commerce is booming and here to stay.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We know what happens when, inadvertently or purposefully, we betray that trust. Integrity, consistency, meeting commitments, knowledge, honesty, values and value, caring are all elements of establishing and maintaining trust. We’ve all seen massive inaccuracies produced by the LLMs. What do we trust, what do we ignore.

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Scale Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Construction 114

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2024

It won’t matter who they work for or what industry they’re in. So, let’s take a look at the trends sellers are reporting about inbound lead flow on RepVue , and three things you can do to still hit your targets. What It Means for Sales Reps So, what exactly does that mean for you? We all know buyer research is changing.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Is your LinkedIn social selling strategy based on FOMO (the fear of missing out)? Especially if we are talking about social selling on LinkedIn. We all agree exposure on LinkedIn is important, but there can be a negative impact without a clear social selling strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. Tracking Trigger Events With the myriad of instances that can be considered a trigger event, you may be wondering how to keep up with all of them. So what do sales trigger events look like?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Social media is the future of consumer shopping , so it’s no surprise that 59% of social sellers say they’ve made more sales through social media this year compared to last. More yet, 87% of social sellers say social selling has been effective for their business this year. Best Social Selling Channels 1.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

When you encounter him in social media, you already know how driven he is about the “state of selling,” He is viciously focused on helping drive performance with his clients. I’ve learned a lot from him, and respect what he does. All this goes to prove we can’t be perfect in everything.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

“Selling Bad Breath” repulses the people we are trying to reach. Somehow when we open our mouths or send an email or do an outreach, all it accomplishes is driving our prospects and customers away. No amount of “mouthwash” disguises selling bad breath. What is Selling Bad Breath?

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Social Media Up-Sell 73

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Do you genuinely care about the people you are prospecting? Do you genuinely care about your customers? Do you genuinely care about your colleagues and peers? Do you genuinely care about your people? Do you genuinely care about what you are doing? What are their goals/dreams?”

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Channels LinkedIn Media Opportunity 97

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

I first met Inshal about a year ago. The interviews were to be about 30 minutes, but each person became fascinated with Inshal and her ability to “connect” with them. Why I’m So Interested In Selling Sales wasn’t on my UT Dallas agenda. It all started my freshman year. He inquired about my career goals.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The key is to meet people where they are — and more often than not, they're on social media. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the top social selling trends to reach more prospects and close more deals — all at your fingertips. Let's take a look at the top social selling trends of 2022.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

While the majority of sales and business professionals endorse development and use of personal branding, there’s no real common agreement as to what exactly it is. In the resulting two decades, sales professionals have wrestled with the idea of personal branding – what it is and how to implement it. There’s a problem, however.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

I’ve been getting a variety of people telling their stories on, “ Why I Am So Interested In Selling.” The response from ChatGPT was pretty much what I expected. What was fascinating was the sharp contrast with the dozens of responses from outstanding sales practitioners I’ve been sharing.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

She talks about the advantages of having a founder-led sales organization. One of her earliest lessons about selling came from a successful Silicon Valley startup CEO who taught her it’s never too early to sell. And as a founder, you’re always selling. What is their competition doing? [15:53]

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 22, 2024

Key Takeaways from the Post: Understand Your Prospect: Have a nuanced grasp of the audience mindset to solve a real problem they care about right now. Create Content That Sells: Generate meaningful content that sells with the help of purpose-built tools that match your agency offerings. Or, you let BuzzBoard do the job for you!

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Scale Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 101

Nutshell

APRIL 3, 2024

By analyzing the data, you can figure out what you need to do to make your customers happier with your business. That’s just what we’ll be discussing on this page. Keep reading to learn more about measuring customer satisfaction. Table of Contents What is customer satisfaction? But what metrics are those?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Social media is used by businesses across all industries to reach their target audience members. For example, you might hear about a company using Instagram to market their products, LinkedIn to share industry expertise and insights, or Facebook Messenger to respond to customer service queries. What is social selling?

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Social Selling Training Social Media How To 136

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And if my social feeds are any indication, filling anemic pipelines is the number 1 problem facing organizations. One starts thinking, what else can we do to address this problem? We need so many opportunities, that we spend less time on each opportunity, and guess what? Imagine what would happen if our win rates were 40%.

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Allego

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you haven’t already, it’s time to double down on social selling. LinkedIn today has 660 million users and it’s rapidly catching up to Instagram, which is one of the biggest social networks in the world. For salespeople, social selling is a great investment of time and energy. But it’s worth the work.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

He does offer some clarification, these touches are across all channels, for example email, phone, social, text. What this means is to find a single opportunity, there are 1000-1400 touches across many potential customers. To make quota, imagine what we have to do! What do we need to do differently?

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 9, 2021

The idea that Gap Selling would have ever reached 50K books would have been inconceivable. In spite of years of social media exposure, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning blog, a large and growing social following every published turned me down. And that celebration is all about you. It’s working.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

welcome to “How I Work It – Social Selling”. There is a lot of confusion, particularly with B2B, regarding how to implement social selling. Tom takes the mystery out of social selling by consistently demonstrating key elements including … Authenticity. Ultimately, it’s about keeping my team busy.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

There are many misconceptions about modern selling. Therefore, the modern buyer must seek to educate themselves about solutions to the client’s business challenges, and any other aspects they may have missed while identifying the buyer’s needs in the sales process. What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

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SocialSellinator

AUGUST 24, 2022

A social media marketing funnel is an essential process that you can use to optimize your marketing efforts. When creating an effective social selling strategy, you need to understand the different sales funnel stages. When creating an effective social selling strategy, you need to understand the different sales funnel stages.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2024

We recently reached out to some of the winners for their insight on what sales leaders should prioritize, some principles they should live by, and how they should work with their teams in 2024. We‘ve compiled their answers in this post — so without further ado, we present five pieces of advice all sales leaders need for 2024.

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Lead Rank Construction Hubspot Lead Scoring 103

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2024

It’s Monday morning, I’ve just cleared my email and social feeds. Can I show you what results you might realize…” Sometimes, the product pitches are thinly veiled by a problem: “Is lead/demand gen a problem for you? Until they care about it, they don’t care about it!

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Vengreso

JULY 11, 2022

As a LinkedIn user, have you wondered how to find your LinkedIn Social Selling Index (SSI) and what levers you could pull to increase your LinkedIn SSI score? Wonder no more… The secret sauce is all right here on how to upgrade your sales process and create a perfect 100 out of 100 LinkedIn Social Selling Index score!

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