The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What you plant now, you will harvest later.". -Og But the shift to virtual selling has proven that the fundamentals of a great sale are still real relationships and customer value. And we’ve seen that you can still be present for your prospects even when you can’t physically be with them. >>> - MOTIVATION -. Og Mandino.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2023

Utilizing new technologies like precision agriculture or robotic harvesting could give you a distinct edge over other farmers regarding efficiency, quality assurance, and cost savings. Look for opportunities to automate, including integrating robotic harvesters or improving storage areas with automated sorting systems.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 23, 2023

Because your prospect is uncertain. As a seller, your success rests in your attitude: your complete conviction that your solution is the best in the world for your customer. It’s important to put your self-interests aside and be mentally ready to serve that potential customer. Your sales have gestation periods.

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BuzzBoard

AUGUST 19, 2023

For a long time, even until the recent past, the only available means to scale outreach and prospecting efforts was limited to free or in-house created templates that were life savers for reps, who used them to bulk-email prospects. Or worse—reps ignored them. However, data storytelling is a hard job—many sales reps struggle with it.

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Allego

JULY 21, 2022

Parts are short in supply, customer preferences have changed, and we’re experiencing record-high inflation. They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. Connecting sellers, managers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) with prospects and buyers. To do that, however, they need help.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2018

Of the rest 586 were disqualified, had bad data, or were existing customers. Think of this group of specialists as “lead farmers,” or prospect development specialists—they qualify inbound leads, nurture lukewarm prospects, and turn the developed leads over to the sales force for harvesting.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The research tells us we need to be persistent in our outreaches to prospects and clients. Phone, email, social, texts, and other channels must be leveraged simultaneously to provoke a prospect–even a customer to respond. Data shows we often need to reach out over 15 times to catch the attention of prospects.

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Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. If you don’t have a provocative business case that will pique your prospective customer’s interest, you’re sunk like the Titanic. Adding prospects on Facebook is risky.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

I’m dialed into my customers. Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest. By the time a customer contacts you, they’re 60% through the buyer’s journey. He’ll reveal tips and tricks used by LinkedIn to prospect and grow business. Your prospects and customers are doing the same.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Whether by fate or chance, the following definition was contained in a marketing piece I received in my inbox yesterday: “By definition, “Cold Calling” is the marketing process of approaching prospective customers or clients, typically via telephone, who were not expecting such an interaction. Just like they used to.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 26, 2020

Nigel understands that if you don’t relentlessly pursue your craft and coach your team well, you won’t be in the game very long. The revenue harvest Nigel coined the term, Revenue Harvest , in this sales leaders almanac containing the fruits of 15 years of experience. Tend Planting seeds doesn’t guarantee a harvest.

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SBI Growth

MAY 10, 2013

Prospective customers research solutions and wait until late in the buying process to engage sales reps. Customer and Expert quotes can be pulled from the Webinar talk track and used in brochures, website call-outs, nurture emails, etc. Transform existing new business development videos into a new customer welcome video.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

” Don’t panic, that would just be a waste of your time, and time is something you don’t have in abundance; instead, get prospecting. Prospecting in two ways, first reworking all your current assets, the second is going beyond to prospects and buyers that you will need to identify, engage and move through the process.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

It could be a target prospect account you’re already researching, or a current client you’d like to expand. Almost all the large global pharma companies are my client’s customers , but most of their contracts have been based in the United States. Define parameters for sales prospecting. Who owns the global campaign?

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Connext Digital

MARCH 26, 2019

In this increasingly customer-centric business landscape, it’s getting more important than ever for companies to tap into their buyers’ mindset. By putting yourself in your customer’s shoes, you’ll understand their pain points, needs, and decision-making process better. Reach out to your customer support representatives.

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Allego

JUNE 29, 2021

But with reps AND prospects working in a hybrid world—with some back in the office and some remote—making quota is harder than ever. When you harvest best practices from the field, you preserve institutional knowledge and can use it to replicate your “A” players. #2. Use AI to Scale Programs. Support Hybrid Selling.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From landing a meeting with a key prospect, to losing the big account. He diligently calls each one and leaves a personalized voicemail for each prospect. Here’s what detachment looks like for sales reps: Detachment in sales involves acknowledging that you can’t dictate when a prospect will make a purchase.

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Salesmate

APRIL 7, 2020

With Acuity Scheduling , you can put your appointments booking with your clients & customers. Maintaining a healthy and lasting customer relationship is necessary for businesses. This is where Customer relationship management (CRM) tools come into play and help your sales team members. You can allow your clients to.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This is a big trend – a new holistic approach around communicating value to your buyers and customers. Customer value management leverages the best of three dimensions: dynamic value management, real data from use cases and customer projects, and state-of-the-art technology. . Yes and no. In general, it shouldn’t be new.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guiding Prospects. Access to online content has put most of the buying process firmly in the hands of prospects and clients. Information asymmetry, where sellers had more access than their prospects to insight and information, is a thing of the past. Sure, prospects have lots of information. But you do.

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Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

For instance, look out for a sales expert experienced in bundle pricing who knows how to promote these bundles to potential customers by clearly articulating their benefits and emphasizing cost savings. This will make prospective hires see the significant societal impact your business makes.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Whether you’re assessing new potential customers and buyer personas, catering to existing customers, refining your onboarding process, or evaluating sales training methods, you may find that best practices have shifted. New customers for your business are valuable, but credibility and reputation are priceless.

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Allego

MAY 27, 2021

There are many new barriers to productivity including canceled meetings and travel restrictions, a lack of face time with reps and prospects, difficulty collaborating with colleagues, and more. Other valuable videos include best practices, insights from the field, tips on objection handling, and customer stories. Learn More.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 20, 2018

You want to find a way to give the customer what they really want and what they really need. One example is beacon tech , which can give you data on the following: Customer behavior while they’re in store, including product preferences and location preferences. Seems ethical, because the customer is giving you permission.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2022

We provide data and insights that help our customers connect with prospects and the decision-makers within those companies. Generally speaking, people are worried about having their personal information harvested without their knowledge or consent. Should people be worried about how ZoomInfo uses their data?

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Allego

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By the year 2020, customers will manage 85% of the buyer’s journey without interacting with a single human being. Today, when 90% of B2B sales are virtual, many more customers will have looked at your website, read reviews, visited competitors’ sites, and downloaded white papers and eBooks before they speak with your reps for the first time.

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Revegy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

While CRMs can serve as the global warehouse for customer data, they were not purpose built for KAM and they alone do not provide the actionable intelligence required to drive key accounts growth. For effective KAM, you need guided direction on where growth opportunities lie and how to harvest them. Here’s why. .

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Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Improve Customer Conversations. Thanks to this partnership, sales reps using Seismic will be able to improve their customer conversations by creating, sharing, and consuming just-in-time, interactive Allego videos by other successful peers demonstrating how to speak to relevant sales collateral, competitive questions, and objections.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 31, 2018

A sales process includes all the steps that are taken from the time a prospect indicates interest in a product or service to their acquisition of that product or service and beyond. The notion of the ‘Customer’s buying process’ is a critical perspective. Initial prospect research. Customer agrees with problem or opportunity.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This time period coincides with the rise of data analytics and the belief that nearly all of an organization’s operations will be significantly improved if they are informed by insights that have been carefully harvested and meticulously analyzed. Uncovering critical customer trends. Are your competitors selling there?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Is your prospect moments away from throwing a mouse at the screen share? Ever feel like you nailed a presentation only to find your prospect staring at the screen share … silent? Start by confirming the qualification criteria you or your BDR have harvested. And give your lead generation team the ability to fire bad prospects.

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Connext Digital

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In turn, this increases your chances in grabbing your prospects’ attention and harvesting results in your ads. Included in the list of benefits you can get from the automated nature of programmatic buying is the ability to target your custom audience intelligently. More transparency and control. Programmatic is the Way Forward.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One way to measure your selling time is to look at how much time you spend with your prospects and clients. Too Little Prospecting : No opportunity is ever closed before it is opened. Salespeople, sales managers, and sales leaders love to focus on deals while trading prospecting as something less important.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 9, 2020

After all, salespeople are everyday ambassadors of a company’s brand in front of customers. Too many startups start harvesting their existing companies too early in the name of customer success and don’t focus on planting new seeds. This is a very unique and powerful perspective in a sales leader. Rajeev: What are you known for?

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When you learn how to do this in every conversation, it’s not only a relational win, it’s a sales win that yields a harvest in the future. That’s why Adam says it’s your job as a sales professional to let your prospects and customers know that you are MOST interested in the relationship you have with them.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JUNE 21, 2017

Did you follow up on an introduction, ask for a referral, or send a customized invitation to connect to someone on social. They might be a direct prospect, or maybe it’s someone who could become a champion or influencer. You never know where a referral, an interested prospect, or a raving fan will come from.

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Gong.io

JUNE 29, 2022

Beating customer churn is how the best-of-the-best Customer Success orgs shine. So how can you help your customers achieve value faster? However, onboarding goes beyond teaching customers how to use a product. Onboarding has the biggest impact on retention in the customer lifecycle. Lowers customer support costs.

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