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How to Build a Successful Sales Team: VIDEO

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We spend an enormous amount of time trying to hire sales professionals that we think are “A” players. . We then (hopefully) invest time training those reps before turning them loose on the phones … only to ask them to do several different roles. . We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles, making them B or C players at both.

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7 Sales Demo Tips for Selling Software

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Your SaaS product is new! Exciting! It will save future customers time and money! So why doesn’t anyone want a demo? “It’s like trying to schedule a meeting for buying a time-share!” says Director of Sales Michael Veschio. “Sure, you get free lunch – but it’s an hour of your time, and you’re going to be sold to the whole time. Not worth the free lunch, for most people.”.

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Generating Leads at Trade Shows: The A-Z Guide for 2019

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The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f their entire budget. Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation. Trade shows are an expensive way to generate leads, even if you don’t have a booth.

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Sales Intelligence: What to Expect When You’re Prospecting

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Business leaders understand that data is the critical heart of growth and expansion. It’s the genesis of thousands of downstream processes and millions of actions. There’s data, and then there’s data. It’s not hard to find data : a company name and phone number, employee count, revenue, maybe direct numbers and email addresses, job titles. But long, complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers.

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Gender in Senior Management: F1000 Diversity Creeps Up From 2016 to 2019

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In 2016, DiscoverOrg compiled a benchmark report that asked: How is gender distributed among C-suite and senior management roles at Fortune 1000 companies? The answer then: Not much. Overall in 2016, we found that just 15% of senior management were women. At the most senior-level positions, women made up less than 10%. Fast-forward three years: How has gender distribution changed in 2019?

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Direct Dials: More than Meets the Eye

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Today’s story features the seemingly simple direct-dial phone number. And I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more to this piece of contact information than meets the eye. A lot of people don’t dig very deep into the possibilities of direct contact information – but in today’s whiteboard session, you’ll see the real impact on your sales team. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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3 Ways Corporate Hierarchy Data Can Accelerate B2B Enterprise Sales

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What is corporate hierarchy? It’s the business landscape upon which epic battles are fought. And there’s no question that B2B sales is a battlefield: Reputations, sales, and profits are lost and won. As with any battle, the key to winning is knowing the terrain on which the battle is taking place. Nowhere is this more critical than in enterprise sales, where understanding an organization’s corporate hierarchy can illuminate the battlefield.