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The Best Cold Calling Tip Is Stop Immediately (Do This Instead)

No More Cold Calling

Have you ever met a salesperson who enjoyed cold calling? How about a buyer who enjoyed receiving cold calls? Not only is cold calling tortuous for everyone involved, it’s one of the reasons that only 54.3 percent of sales reps made quota last year. What makes this lead generation technique so ineffective?

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Stop Doing Stupid Sh*t: 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Abandon in 2018

Hubspot Sales

I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. But being a salesperson in 2018 is very different than being a salesperson in 1987.

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Digital Marketing Takes Center Stage

Sales and Marketing Management

“Google searches reflect that Airbnb has eclipsed the equity of century-old brands, in one decade, across markets big and small,” wrote entrepreneur and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway. While competitors may have equity in a specific market, no brand sits on the iron throne across all markets as Airbnb does.”.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. This is the greatest time ever in history to be a sales rep.

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. They get it, but they don’t always know how to get it.

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Enhance Sales Momentum

Pointclear

Momentum in sales and sports is a strange phenomenon. Then everyone gets excited, but they don’t seem to recognize momentum has a life of its own. For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It).

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! Every link has been tested, every post suggested for you to read is recent to 2018. Get your Feedly (or favorite RSS reader) ready. These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Sales Hacker.