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Using Sales Enablement Tools and Technology to Add Value to Relationships

Anthony Cole Training

In order for salespeople to truly engage, build value, and develop long-lasting relationships, they must compliment their selling approach with sales enablement tools and technology. Listening with the intent to learn, asking questions that are not product-based, and understanding the nuances, trends, and challenges of a company and industry are required in today’s environment.

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Research: How to Drive Commercial Efficiency

SBI Growth

Facing headwinds from inflation, rising-wages, and decades-high interest rates, many firms are struggling to realize their growth ambitions while keeping costs in line. While some firms managed to outperform the market by being more responsive to changes, many companies are still holding onto common practices that were once considered prudent, but are now sapping efficiency and holding back profitable growth.

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Genesis and the Modern Sales Organization

Understanding the Sales Force

This is my fourth post in 2024 writing about God, Jesus or Church. I haven’t changed, it’s just that I have cast a wider net relative to sources for my many sales analogies! I never read the Bible from beginning to end until I began reading it a few weeks ago. I am still reading Genesis (first book in the Old Testament) and I am amazed by what I have read so far.

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Marketing Essentials for Small Business Owners

Sales and Marketing Management

Whether you're just launching your small venture or you are looking to grow an established business, mastering the basics of marketing can be transformative. Here are the three most essential tools and tactics for building a strong small business marketing strategy. The post Marketing Essentials for Small Business Owners appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Latest Podcasts: Leading Teams to Success

Force Management

Last month, the Revenue Builders Podcast shared stories from the sales world and beyond of leaders who built, coached and motivated elite teams. From Bowling Green University football coach Brian White to accomplished Human Resources expert Hollie Castro, these leaders have some wisdom to impart on building great relationships and coaching greatness out of the individual.

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Motivating Your Sales Team: Boomers to Gen Z

SBI Growth

Understanding what motivates a sales team is a significant challenge faced by sales managers. Typical sales teams often span three or even four generations, each shaped by unique experiences and values. Recognizing and adapting to these generational differences is crucial for effective sales leadership, reducing turnover, and driving better sales performance.

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Update Your Home to Enjoy or Sell Its Value

Smooth Sale

Photo by mmvxs via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Update Your Home to Enjoy or Sell Its Value You want your home to be where you enjoy and feel at ease. However, you may one day realize that it could use some work. Instead of getting overwhelmed, start by doing your homework and gathering ideas about what you can do to improve it. Doing so will help you prioritize your desirable projects.

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Is Your Marketing Missing the Creative Edge?

Sales and Marketing Management

A brand’s creative edge can mean the difference between a fleeting glance and an engaged, invested client. In a market filled with whitepapers and webinars, the ability to surprise, captivate and inspire sets the leaders apart from the followers. The post Is Your Marketing Missing the Creative Edge? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Cultivating Coaching Skills in Your Sales Leaders

The Center for Sales Strategy

Successful leaders coach. Period. It’s a skill that is absolutely necessary to succeed in sales and sales leadership. Sellers who don’t receive coaching and feedback get off track, pursuing the wrong leads, prioritizing the wrong activities, and focusing on the wrong goals. In contrast, sellers who receive good coaching tend to stay on track, finding and connecting with strong prospects, focusing on potential, and realized key accounts, meeting and exceeding their goals.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Outbound Lead Generation? Stop Making These 3 Mistakes

MarketJoy

Avoid the common traps and misconceptions that often plague outbound lead generation efforts. In this blog, you’ll discover the top three mistakes to steer clear of and how to sidestep these pitfalls from the outset! Outbound lead generation is a powerful tool for growing your business, but it’s easy to fall into traps that can sabotage your success.

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Success Story: Revamping a Company's GTM Engine for long-term Growth

SBI Growth

Growth is often at the forefront of any value-creation strategy for many companies. While CEOs may successfully drive rapid growth over extended periods, eventually, an organization's very foundations must evolve to support more ambitious growth targets. For organizations that find themselves being outpaced by competitors and facing slowing revenue growth, it might be time for a go-to-market (GTM) revamp.

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How to Ensure Your Tax Employees Are Current with Tax Laws

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Ensure Your Tax Employees Are Current with Tax Laws You may not want to think about them again, but before you know it, tax season will be here. Employees will soon review their W-2 earned-income forms, which will be delivered shortly after the year’s end. Now is a good time for HR departments to advise them to review their paycheck withholding and consider increasing their contributions to tax-advantaged retirement accounts,

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To Hire Talent, Build a Fantastic Company Reputation

SalesFuel

The battle to hire talent, especially highly skilled employees, may not be as challenging as it was last year. But you’re still competing with businesses that are after the same prospective employees. To achieve success, you must convince potential employees that they’ll thrive in your organization. Hiring Talent in the Current Labor Market After the high-profile layoffs occurring in the past year, you may think that job seekers would rush to apply for your open positions.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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5 Misconceptions About Talent and Strength Management

The Center for Sales Strategy

Recently, I have been spending a lot of time talking with managers about their underperforming salespeople. I want to help leaders win, and having AEs who are not performing is a huge problem for most. This made me reflect on how leaders hire and where they spend their time. Unfortunately, many leaders spend a lot of their time with AEs who have a “talent” deficit.

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Target Adds Rewards… But Shoppers Can’t Use Them

Grant Cardone

It goes without saying that Target is one of the most popular retailers in the country. With millions of loyal customers entering the red stores ready to shop till they drop. But recently, more and more of the brand’s fans have felt neglected or even offended by the Target Circle rewards program… And the company […] The post Target Adds Rewards… But Shoppers Can’t Use Them appeared first on GCTV.

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More Meetings Or Better Meetings?

Partners in Excellence

O Meetings are critical to achieving our performance goals! It is through these meeting, whether F2F, virtual, phone, that we engage our customers, helping them navigate their buying/problem solving process. So it stands to reason, that more meetings would drive higher levels of performance. To increase our attainment, we just need to conduct more meetings.

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What Does Packaging Say About Your Brand?

Smooth Sale

Photo by AbsolutVision via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: What Does Packaging Say About Your Brand? When considering your product offerings, do you know what grabs your customers’ attention first? Is it the feel, the quality, or the packaging? As a business owner, you might be surprised to learn that packaging is crucial in how your brand is perceived and how customers interact with your products.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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The State of AI in Sales

Sales Hacker

This is a special Wednesday edition of The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date on go-to-market and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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What if They’re Not Engaged? 6 Tactics to Boost Team Motivation and Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Here you are again. It’s Monday morning, and your team looks like a pack of zombies. They’re physically present but mentally checked out. Sound familiar? If so, your team’s engagement levels may be in a slump, which means it’s time to breathe some new life into your workplace culture. Here are six tactics to boost motivation and performance. Your team will thank you.

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How Badly Will Boeing Strike Impact Industry?

Grant Cardone

2024 is just not Boeing’s year. Between engineering mishaps and government investigations, the last thing the planemaker needs right now is more bad press… But with Boeing’s first strike since 2008 showing no signs of ending soon, another wrench is being thrown into the company’s plans. What Caused The Boeing Strike? Since September 13th, workers […] The post How Badly Will Boeing Strike Impact Industry?

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Sales Win-Loss Review Best Practices

SalesFuel

Do you ever conduct a win-loss review? If not, you’re not alone despite the benefits conducting one can bring you. Typically, sellers are so anxious to get to the next stage, they skip this valuable process. This can be a costly mistake. You’re missing valuable insights that can help you tweak your strategy for maximum success. What is a win-loss review?

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Six Fun Winter Hobbies for The Whole Family

Smooth Sale

Photo by FunkyFocus via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Six Fun Winter Hobbies for The Whole Family As the seasons shift and winter approaches, families are in a time of discovery. The long, dark, and possibly wet evenings are an opportunity to unearth new hobbies that bring joy and excitement to all, regardless of age. What can you do as a family that brings everyone together, regardless of age, and creates a strong sense of unity, especially when the weather outside is less than in

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Build Demand While You Fly the Ship

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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Why Adaptability is a Must Have Quality in Your Next Sales Hire

The Center for Sales Strategy

If you have ever coached a seller who struggled to adapt to changing situations and circumstances and just kept doing the same thing over and over because they’ve always done it that way, you likely understand the importance of hiring people with adaptability. It can make or break a salesperson’s success. An adaptable salesperson has the ability to adjust and thrive in various situations and environments, making them a valuable asset to any sales team.

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Shein And Temu Face New Foe: U.S. Government

Grant Cardone

For the past few years, Shein and Temu have charmed American shoppers thanks to their astronomically low prices… All while raking in billions of dollars in revenue. But now their glory days seem to be coming to an end because the U.S. government has set its sights on these two foreign companies. So what lies […] The post Shein And Temu Face New Foe: U.S.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Keep Your Brand Consistent With Marketing Email Templates

Nutshell

With Nutshell Campaigns , you can create emails from previous broadcasts, blank messages, and Nutshell-provided templates. Now, you’ll also be able to save messages as marketing email templates and share them with your team. Company-wide email marketing templates will enable seamless branding across all your company’s email communications and make customization a breeze.

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Implement A Better E-Commerce Strategy to Influence Buyer Behaviors

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Implement A Better E-Commerce Strategy to Influence Buyer Behaviors Wave goodbye to the days of circling parking lots and trudging through endless mall corridors. E-commerce certainly shifted the shopping experience online, but it also reinvented how we interact with products, brands, and even each other.

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GTM 115: Lessons from CS to CRO and How Customer Stories are Your Most Powerful Growth Lever with Allison Metcalfe

Sales Hacker

A transformational leader who specializes in data driven GTM, Allison Metcalfe has had a non-traditional path to the C Suite – starting in Account Management, and being a leader in the evolution of Customer Success, Allison has held a variety of leadership roles across sales and operations in some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies including Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce), Demandbase, Quotient (NYSE: QUOT) and Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), which went from $30M to $500M in revenue and

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