Gong.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sorry! My bad! Forgive me! . These “apology” words and phrases are all too common on sales calls. Salespeople apologize All. The. Time. We (salespeople) apologize for reaching out, being late, and “taking up valuable time.” We even apologize for our product/service and pricing! Apologizing is rampant amongst sales professionals with 57% of sales calls contain ANY form of apologetic language : sorry, apologize, forgive, pardon.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. Every trade has schtick, specific things that they think they are expected to say or do. It is as though absent the schtick; you are not as expert as you claim. Sales, and the corner my fellow pundits and I occupy is no different. The right schtick helps uncover and align expectations, frame discussions, and lead to measurable progress.

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The Sales Heretic

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Negotiation is an essential element of sales, not to mention other aspects of business. It’s vital for reaching mutually beneficial outcomes, closing more deals, and growing your business. And yet, there are times when it’s in your best interest NOT to negotiate. Here are eight of them. 1. When you don’t have to If you [.].

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

What if you could predict a customer’s next move before they even make the decision to make it? In the past, this question was purely hypothetical. But, thanks to technological advancements, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of marketing forever. What is Predictive Intelligence? Predictive intelligence falls under the artificial intelligence umbrella.

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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Occasionally though, you need to go back to the drawing board and find out the gaps in your selling process. You can revisit the fundamentals of selling, acquire a new soft skill that will enable you to close more deals, or simply leisurely read some sales an

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this last article in our series on choosing a CRM solution, let’s take up evaluating the CRM vendor—the risk you’re taking, and the vendor vision. A client company, especially a larger company, usually wants to sign up on a contract in subscribing to a CRM. They want to make sure that the vendor is going to be around, and not go out of business in a year.

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Accidental Seller Series 7 - "Debby Montgomery Johnson" Here’s another episode from the Accidental Seller Series where we interview successful salespeople who didn’t start their careers with the intention of going into sales. Debby Montgomery Johnson is the president of Benfotiamine.net. Most of Debby’s family members are in the medical field and growing up, she wanted to be an anesthesiologist.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As traditional marketing has eventually yielded to the digital dimension over the last decade, whip-smart entrepreneurs began avidly grasping the nettle of online sales. The advanced superhighway offers brands an abundance of innovative and unprecedented opportunities for capturing the fussy customer of today, promoting their products more effectively and professionally.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Even if you get blackjack, hitting a 17 is still a bad decision, because the odds are, in the long run, you’ll lose. Data-driven marketers aren’t playing to win a hand or two. They’re playing to grow market share. And as more companies mature from making impulsive decisions based on data in spreadsheets to making data-driven decisions based on statistics collected through automation, more marketers are minimizing risk to play their cards by the numbers.

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Grant Cardone

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s that time of year again. The holidays are rapidly approaching, which means the movie “ The Grinch ” will be played on laptops around the nation. You can learn something from that movie, by the way. To refresh your memory on this classic, there lived a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who wanted to ruin the Holiday plans for citizens of Whoville. So he stole all their presents, took their Christmas lights, and tried to take all their holiday cheer.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Why is sales enablement important? Because buyers are more informed, and selling is more challenging than ever before. Our 2019 Media Sales Report found that some of the major challenges in sales today are that sales reps’ time is not actually spent selling and salespeople are simply not equipped with relevant materials. Sales enablement is a strategy that aligns marketing, sales, and operations while lowering costs, increasing revenue, ensuring brand integrity, and ultimately closing more deals

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Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Somehow, 2019 has (nearly) come to a conclusion. It seems like just yesterday we were talking about New Year’s resolutions. Since it’s so easy to get lost in the day-to-day, we want to help you take a few minutes to remember everything you learned this year (or finally have the time to learn about now #procrastinatorsunite!). From your favorite blog posts to a look back at all of the improvements and new product features Guru rolled out in 2019, we've got the knowledge you needed this year, plus

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Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because selling is your job, you may not look at it as something more than work. Most people don’t do as well at work as they could, mostly because they don’t bring their best selves to that work, something that would transform their relationship with work and their results. Selling well requires more of you. It requires that you treat the interactions you have with your clients as a performance.

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Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Smart Calling

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sam Richter is recognized as the world’s leader in how to use the Internet and the “invisible web” to get intel on prospects, their organizations, and situations. We of course can than use this intel in our outreach and sales process to be more relevant, have a greater chance of standing out from all of the noise we compete with, AND have more intelligent sales conversations.

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Nimble - Sales

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A CRM system is a must-have for those companies where maintaining internal documents using Google Docs or similar apps is no longer effective. The larger the company becomes, the more need it has for creating, controlling and optimizing processes. CRM allows you to reach a whole new level of business. This is a natural stage […]. The post How to Choose a CRM for Recruiting Agencies appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Close

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects, sending cold emails, booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal.

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Bigtincan

DECEMBER 3, 2019

CRM is an essential tool for most businesses, providing companies with insights necessary to make business decisions. Does your current level of CRM adoption support this need, or instead, does it provide limited insights that are hurting your business decision making? According to the 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study by CSO Insights: “CRM systems have been almost […].

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Sue Barrett

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sales trend 12 from the Barrett 12 Sales Trends report 2019 looks at the key things that marketing teams in B2B environments need to do to help their businesses win back the trust of their customers. The endeavour of building and maintaining a trusted B2B brand is far more complex than it used to […]. The post The role of marketing in developing trust appeared first on Barrett Sales Blog.

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Richardson

DECEMBER 3, 2019

1. Pretesting. Traditionally, tests serve as a tool for measuring what we know. For most of us, this kind of assessment instills anxiety, but a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology may finally lay that anxiety to rest. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have uncovered what they call the “pretesting effect.”. The researchers examined if failing a test can improve future learning.

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Force Management: The Seller's Command Center

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We often write about the importance of discovery. Our facilitators frequently say that deals are won and lost in discovery. It's critical that you use this time in the sales process to uncover needs, and at the same time, align your differentiation to what the buyer needs. As a salesperson, you need to think about why people choose your solution and how you can get that criteria into every buyer's decision criteria.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 3, 2019

SEATTLE, Dec. 3, 2019 — Highspot, the sales enablement platform that reps love , today announced that it has raised a $75 million D-1 funding round with participation from existing investors ICONIQ Capital, Madrona Venture Group, OpenView, Salesforce Ventures and Sapphire Ventures. The company’s total funding is now $200 million. The D-1 investment will bolster Highspot’s technology innovation, industry vertical expansion, and enterprise services and support capabilities. “Our

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Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this last article in our series on choosing a CRM solution, let’s take up evaluating the CRM vendor—the risk you’re taking, and the vendor vision. A client company, especially a larger company, usually wants to sign up on a contract in subscribing to a CRM. They want to make sure that the vendor is going to be around, and not go out of business in a year.

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Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) helps modern sales teams better understand customer needs and sell more effectively. The power of machine learning guides teams to make better and more informed decisions. Sales organizations know the benefits of adopting tools powered by machine learning: on average, they use 10 different sales tech tools, with plans to add four more to their repertoire in the next 12 months.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 3, 2019

TShane Johnson is a Motivational Speaker, Corporate Sales Coach, Marine Corps Veteran, #1 Best Selling Author, and World Record Athlete and is one of the most inspiring Corporate sales coaches and Speakers in the country. He has had numerous speaking and coaching engagements including, Marine Corps Reserve, LSU Alumni Association, University of Central Florida, GoDaddy, Caesar’s Entertainment, Veterans Voice, and many more.

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Xvoyant

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By Bryan Jeppsen. 4 min read. As winter has come on strong, and temperatures drop to freezing levels, I really appreciate the radiant heating system in my home. Radiant heat circulates hot water in the floors throughout the house. The result is heat through the floors giving a solid base of warmth everywhere with no cold spots. Whenever family and friends stay at our home, they often comment on how surprising it is to go barefoot into the kitchen and walk on those porcelain tiles that are wa

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Selling Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Winning the sale is only half of the battle. The next steps you take determine the ultimate success of your business.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By visualizing both these parts, students would simply cover the aforementioned word problem by adding both parts with one another to create an entire bar of 100. The element of space can be utilized in three-dimensional art too. You might decide you would like to carry on working on your drawing and enclose a few of those lines. As an example, sugar is a mixture of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Recently, my family decided to buy a new tent. The two-person one my husband and I had relied on for years would no longer suffice with two kids in tow, so we decided to try a bigger version from a different brand. By the time we got around to taking our purchase out of the package, however, we discovered it was damaged. A torn rainfly was definitely not what we wanted to see, especially with storms in the forecast for our upcoming camping trip.

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