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How to Measure Sales Fitness

Sales and Marketing Management

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. In these three channels is where sales performance can be enhanced.

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The Sales Script Is (Mostly) Dead: 2 Tricks for Better Interactions

Hubspot Sales

You heard that right -- sales scripts as we’ve known them are dead in the water. If you’re paying real people to make sales calls -- then giving them a strict step-by-step script to follow -- you’re missing out on a massive opportunity to make personalized interactions which actually provide value for your prospect.

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The 6-Step Cold Calling Framework (How to Cold Call, with Examples)

Sales Hacker

Cold calling is (and will always be) a foundational skill in sales. If you want to learn how to cold call — or just improve your skills — your best approach is to watch what experienced sales reps do, listen to recordings , and of course, study cold calling examples. This includes your interaction with the gatekeeper.

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How to make sales calls [The Ultimate Guide] – Part 2

OnePageCRM

The ultimate guide to planning, conducting and tracking your outbound sales calls. How to get past gatekeepers. The best way to get past a gatekeeper like this is to reframe how you approach the call. Use your CRM or something like FullContact to gather rich intel on your prospects. Part 2 – Making the call.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

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How to find, interview and hire great sales people [ 22 Interview questions included ]

OnePageCRM

That’s the cost of a sales rep mis-hire, according to research by Dr. Brad Smart of Topgrading Inc., a firm that helps companies assess sales candidates. But how do you identify a great sales hire? Not all sales people come from the same aggressive ABC (Always Be Closing) mold. Teams that use coaching see 161% more sales.

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Top 25 Incendiary Social Selling Secrets

Tony Hughes

Can you close million dollar deals with social selling fully inside? It's being done right now in the field by a sales team near you [perhaps a competitor], it's remarkable and it's not for the faint of heart. Challenger Sales marketing and sales alignment. Here are the top 25 ways how you can actually do it.