Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

First, every month, Lahat Tzvi and I have a conversation. In this post, I’m going to make the argument, that based on what I see in too many selling initiatives, is that we, as a community, have migrated from focusing on helping customers solve their problems to just beating the competition. Leaders love this.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 9, 2019

Markets are conversations as the saying goes. When buyers and sellers converse, they talk about the exchange of value. Sellers bring a chorus of voices to this value conversation: marketing talks about the possible, sales about the powerful and customer success about the practical. Albert Einstein.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Photo by Aitoff via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Use SEO Strategy to Stand Out from Your Competition? All businesses, large and small, and those with ambitious career goals realize the need to stand out among the competition. SEO is an essential strategy assisting the effort.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. That gives you the perfect opening to attack their strengths when you’re doing highly competitive demos, especially when their weaknesses aren’t show-stoppers. There’s no answer for that!

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you are like most sellers, you may not realize you could be selling solutions for your competition. When you are not differentiating yourself from the competition, you are selling for those competitors’ solutions just like you are selling your own. Stop selling for your competition with Mereo’s Contrast Quadrant.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Everywhere you turn, there is more competition. The competition is clamoring for your customers and your piece of the market. Secondly, know how your competition engages your customers. The tool will help you understand the gap between buyer, competition, and your organization. Have you checked your marketing strategy?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Conversational AI for sales teams can eliminate a lot of repetitive tasks such as follow-up emails and customer queries and even generate sales collateral. Operationally, conversational AI speeds up processes within tools like your CRM or CMS, makes reporting easier, decision-making more effective, and so much more.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

You can also join this promising posse of salesmen by following the insights we document in this blog—how the emergence of generative AI is equipping sellers with new capabilities to understand SMB needs, craft tailored solutions, and drive more impactful conversations! Read our detailed perspective.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Enter conversation intelligence. Conversation Intelligence: The Key to Deal-Closing Content. Powered by artificial intelligence technology, conversation intelligence records, transcribes, and analyzes sales calls to generate content and coaching recommendations for sales teams. Fuel and improve content development.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

It allows you to provide organizational knowledge, learning, coaching, and content to the field to gain—and keep—a competitive advantage in a buyer’s world. 6 Ways a Modern Learning Platform Gives Sales a Competitive Edge. Reps give and get practical advice that they can apply to their prospecting and buyer conversations.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Before joining the GTMfund team, she built and scaled GTM at a predictive conversion optimization company. The post GTM 66: How to Land your Dream Role in a Competitive Market with Sophie Buonassisi appeared first on GTMnow. She enjoys advising SaaS companies as they build out and optimize their marketing and overall GTM strategies.

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Anthony Iannarino

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Salespeople and sales organizations work very hard to differentiate themselves and their offerings as a way to create a competitive advantage. Few would dare to describe their people as their competitive advantage, even when it is true. When your competition zags, you should zig. Caring is Expensive. Caring Requires Intimacy.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 20, 2013

“Competitive Intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence…needed to support executives and managers in making strategic decisions for an organization.” You need to maintain a competitive edge over them, or at the very least hold even. You’re at a clear competitive disadvantage.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. Make sure your Hubspot instance is well integrated with your conversational marketing platform using these steps: Send chat data into HubSpot. Build conversations based on target lists. Employ HubSpot sales routing.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Today’s topic is understanding how to make the customer experience a competitive differentiator. As a guide to the conversation, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the customer experience design phase on pages 130.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Set Your Business Apart From the Competition. Our collaborative blog offers insights on ‘How to set your business apart from the competition.’ There is always competition, and it is essential to know how we differ to the advantage of our clientele. Image credit.

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Pipeliner

MAY 11, 2023

” The conversation highlights the importance of evolving brand messaging and staying relevant to customers to avoid becoming irrelevant and losing business. Jim also discusses the importance of building brand loyalty and staying connected with customers to remain relevant in a competitive market. on all major podcast stations.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 29, 2017

Today in this post we will demonstrate how to make the customer experience a competitive differentiator. To follow along the conversation, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the customer experience design phase on pages 130 –.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, we redesigned our local business prospecting platform and made it generative AI-first, facilitating a seamless transition from data to insights and personalized sales conversations. AI-Powered Conversation Starters Make every first impression the best impression! What’s more? Start with a free trial today.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 29, 2020

In Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition , I wrote about salespeople who struggle because they try to leverage things like their company’s history, and their leadership team, to create a competitive advantage in B2B sales. Win customers away from your competition. Check out Eat Their Lunch. Dominate Time.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 11, 2018

For that, salespeople need to pick up the damn phone and have an actual conversation. Why do humans still have the competitive advantage in account based sales? The post Message to Account Based Sales Teams: Your Humanity Is a Competitive Advantage appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Yes, “allow.”).

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 14, 2020

We sometimes forget that selling is a series of conversations. It’s never the product that makes the sale, but rather the conversation around the product. You ensure your solution is chosen not through the solution itself, but the conversation around the solution. Early Stage Conversations. Middle Stage Conversations.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

What is Competitive Intelligence? Competitive intelligence is the process of sourcing and analyzing data to see the competitive landscape in order to build plans, messaging, advertising, and products to outperform competitors. How to Get Started with Competitive Intelligence. Identify Your Goals. pulled on Chorus.ai.

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BuzzBoard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While experts repeatedly stress on ‘personalization’ and ‘understanding’ this small business segment for its diversity and complex decision-making nature, sales reps often feel lost and baffled to convince SMBs due to the ever-changing market dynamics, fierce competition, and the lack of pursuing a fruitful conversation.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

MARCH 21, 2023

During difficult economic times, it is especially important for distributors to protect against competitive encroachment. Easy access to great data allows you to have highly personalized sales conversations and send personalized messages to your customers. Identify ways a competitor beat you.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Hosts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen discuss the importance of face-to-face conversations in sales and how sales leaders can encourage their teams to embrace in-person interactions. Key Takeaways: Setting expectations is crucial for encouraging salespeople to embrace face-to-face conversations.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2021

Having conversations with prospects is baked into sales — in a lot of ways, it's the basis of the whole concept. You need to be able to successfully initiate and conduct productive sales conversations if you really want to thrive in a sales role. A successful sales conversation is rooted in trust and comfort.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Then in a conversation with your contact a realization occurs: You are not the only date to the dance. Your competition has begun to make headway in the account. The competitive battle will always be there. Buyers know more about you and your competition than ever before. How do you keep ahead of the competition?

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 18, 2020

At first glance, Conversation Intelligence sounds like it’s just a fancier version of call recording. There are many ways to coach reps to drive more sales, but Conversation Intelligence literally turns conversations into visual data to see what the best reps are doing and how it compares to the reps that are not performing as well.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. These solutions record, transcribe and score customer calls, serving them back to sales managers to use as fuel for more effective coaching conversations. Were they able to discover how the buyer perceives the competition (pros and cons)?

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Starting digital conversations is the first step to build this trust. Simply put, you and your team use social media to start conversations that both expand your network and build trust for a future opportunity to sell. [4:23] ’ [5:11] What we’re doing on social is trying to create a conversation. Tik Tok [link].

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Gong.io

AUGUST 12, 2022

You’re staring at your notes, trying to remember every detail from the prospect conversation you just had. . Was it something about the competition? . That’s where conversation intelligence steps in. What is conversation intelligence? How does conversation intelligence work? Sound familiar? .

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SalesLoft

APRIL 6, 2020

In this blog post we’ll discuss how customers are using SalesLoft to facilitate remote activities that inspire healthy competition and maintain team rapport: Hosting remote power hours. Gamifying content competitions. Closers: Who had the most conversations? Customer Success: Who had the most conversations?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Who is your competition? Something more introspective, with some salespeople saying the answer is that they are their own worst enemy…that they are the competition…kind of a “I have met the enemy and it is me” kind of deal. I have always had high regard for how Tom Connellan defines competition.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Over the past couple of weeks, I have had occasion to watch and listen to salespeople enter the conversation from the Left. They start a conversation with their prospective clients with a story about t heir company and how their product might help the client. If you want to improve your results, start strategic sales conversations.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This results in a space filled with heavy competition from other brands and a lot of noise that you have to battle if you are going to capture the attention of your customers. If you can tell them what’s in it for them, the easier it will be to turn their leads into conversion. . Make the Benefit Clear. Gwen North, Lake Rabun Hotel.

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