Fri.Jun 16, 2017

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3 Lessons on How to Growth-Hack Like a Pro

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Anna Fisher Growth hacking, which has become all the rage for companies of all sizes, stems from a simple concept in the startup world. Sean Ellis, a seasoned marketing leader, entrepreneur, angel investor, originally defined a “growth hacker” as "a person whose true north is growth.”. The initial idea: Nascent companies, without adequate budget to compete against established brands in traditional marketing channels, must embrace unconventional tactics to build product/market fit and eve

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Who is in Your Peer Group?

The Sales Hunter

Who are you spending your time with? More importantly, are those you’re spending time with helping you become a better person? Every week as my schedule allows, I spend 30 minutes to an hour talking with Gerhard Gschwandtner. If you’ve been in sales for any period of time, you’ll know him as the founder […].

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Winning Over a Skeptical Sales Leader to The Value of Marketing

SBI Growth

Marketing and sales teams too often find themselves stuck in a detrimental battle over to whom revenue attribution should be attributed. CEOs at top-performing companies utilize revenue attribution to navigate this war-zone and understand which activities produce revenue bookings. Revenue attribution models.

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Time to Move Beyond Increase Sales to a Highly Engaged Sales Culture

Increase Sales

So much emphasis is placed on the goal to increase sales. Then what happens is other aspects of the business are ignored such as excellent customer service to just every day good business ethics (positive core values). What leadership must do is create and sustain a highly engaged sales culture. Why a Highly Engaged Sales Culture? A survey from Clutch (a B2B research company) targeted 1,000 US consumers and asked them to respond to one of these three questions regarding United Airlines recent n

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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To win an RFP sales campaign – do the opposite of your instincts

SBI Growth

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A Smarter Way to do Loss Analysis | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Most companies take a reactive approach to client retention and that is the wrong way to think about this issue. That means two things.

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New Research: Yup, You Should Still Ask More Questions

SalesLoft

With so much about consumers and technology changing, it’s always jarring to find something that stays the same. And while certain sales strategies have certainly changed, the old adage of “ask a lot of questions,” keeps holding strong, confirmed by more and more studies each year. Just this year, Harvard Business School found that people that ask a lot of questions (at least nine) are found to be far more likable than those that ask only a few questions (at most four).

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How do you know if your business is sales ready?

Mindtickle

You need a license before you can drive a car. Your SAT scores open the door to grad school. Applying the same lens to sales teams, how do you know if your sales team are ready to have customer conversations? If you don’t know whether your reps are sales ready, you’re really just hoping they know what to say and how to address your customer’s pain points.

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3 Sales Tips from the Movies for Engaging Buyers

Julie Hanson

Holy Hollywood Batman! We lost another film icon this week – the first Batman, Adam West. It got me thinking about the lasting power of the movies. Even today, busy executives who can’t sit still for a ten minute meeting will carve out the time to watch a two-hour plus movie. Movies have honed the secret to engaging audiences from years of practice and experimentation.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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TSE 594: Sales From The Street- “Conventional Methods Don’t Work”

Sales Evangelist

Today, Grant Wise shares with us some wise insights into how you can improve your real estate skills. Wait up! Before you even say real estate is not your stuff, the principles you will learn today are definitely applicable to your industry. Regardless of what industry you’re in, sales principles are pretty much the same […] The post TSE 594: Sales From The Street- “Conventional Methods Don’t Work” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Simple Tools for Closing the Sale

Sales Gravy

Many people think that closing the sale is the difficult part of business, but it's not. Simply make clear offers to your prospects, give them a good understanding of the benefits of buying from you, and make it easy for them to purchase.

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TSE 595: TSE Hustler’s League – “Plan Prospecting”

Sales Evangelist

Today’s snippet of the TSE Hustler’s League is taken from our very first semester where we talk about prospecting, social media, and how you can increase your opportunities. Please be reminded that our new 12-week semester is coming up super soon where we will focus on increasing your win rate and selling the way your […] The post TSE 595: TSE Hustler’s League – “Plan Prospecting” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.