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Are You Still Selling Like It’s 1982?

Engage Selling

Did you know closing ratios on deals that employ traditional selling methods (e.g., cold calls and direct mail) have not changed since the 1980s? Seriously. They’ve not budged at all since “Eye of the Tiger” was a hit song on … Read More » The post Are You Still Selling Like It’s 1982? first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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How to Differentiate Yourself From Your Competition When Selling

Janek Performance Group

Selling can be a tough job, especially when your market is saturated with other salespeople offering similar products or services. Competition in all industries is fierce and getting tougher. Even if you have a great product, you can still struggle in sales unless you differentiate yourself from your competition. Convincing potential clients that you’re the right person to solve their problems is fundamental to sales success.

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Weekly Roundup: Avoid Burnout, Convert More B2B Sales + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "Anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference.". - Mark Sanborn. - AROUND THE WEB -. > 10 Tips to Avoid Burnout While Working in Sales – Badger Maps. Are you feeling a lack of motivation, negative energy, and exhaustion? Wheels spinning but you’re getting nowhere? While sales pros enjoy the roller coaster ride of emotions, it can take a toll on your physical and mental health.

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Negotiators Discover That They Need To Limit Their Options

The Accidental Negotiator

Do more options help to reach a better outcome for a negotiation? Image Credit: Mike Cohen. When we enter into a negotiation, what we’d like to be able to do is to use our negotiation styles and negotiating techniques to determine what the other side’s interests are and then reconcile them with our own. Successfully doing this can be quite a process.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

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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Do You Believe You Can Achieve Success?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay. Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: . Upon beginning our career journey, most of us want to be successful, but the differentiator is whether you believe you can achieve success. We each define the word in varying ways. For example, we view recording artists and movie stars as hugely successful. . But ~ if we don’t have that type of talent, how can we discover our unique abilities as we move forward in our careers?

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The Ultimate Guide to Conversational Sales & Selling

Drift

How easy is it for your customers to buy from you? Sales teams are tuned into pipeline, win rate, and sales-qualified leads. But they’re missing the most important part of the modern sales process: conversations. We no longer live in a world where companies are the gatekeepers of product information, or where sales teams get to decide how (or when) potential customers get to talk to reps.

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How to Fix Stalled Opportunities in Your Sales Pipeline

The Sales Readiness Blog

Pipeline management is an ongoing challenge for sales managers. While it may seem that a pipeline with more opportunities is better, this isn’t the case if a large percentage of opportunities are stuck.

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Boost Engagement Through Prospect-Centered Selling | David Smith - 1513

Sales Evangelist

Selling can be a complicated process, especially when prospects have multiple objections to your solution. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by David Smith to discuss how he uses prospect-centered selling to overcome these objections and help prospects make authentic and genuine decisions. David encountered this issue when developing senior housing communities in St.

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Green Leads Named Among Best New Hampshire Advertising Companies and Startups for 2021

Green Lead's B2B

The Green Leads team is thrilled to announce our selection as one of New Hampshire's Best Advertising Companies and Startups for 2021 by BestStartup.us. From the BestStartup.us article: This article showcases our top picks for the best New Hampshire based Advertising companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Advertising industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Boost Engagement Through Prospect-Centered Selling | David Smith - 1513

Sales Evangelist

Selling can be a complicated process, especially when prospects have multiple objections to your solution. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by David Smith to discuss how he uses prospect-centered selling to overcome these objections and help prospects make authentic and genuine decisions. David encountered this issue when developing senior housing communities in St.

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SaaS Demo Best Practices | How to Give a Great SaaS Demo

Klozers

SaaS Demo Best Practices – Top question from Google How to give a great SaaS demo Unfortunately, most people who are trying to understand and learn how to do a “good saas demo” are starting from the wrong place. Confused? Don’t worry just bear with me. Sales is full of pitfalls and traps, and what. Read more.

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Boost Engagement Through Prospect-Centered Selling | David Smith - 1513

Sales Evangelist

Selling can be a complicated process, especially when prospects have multiple objections to your solution. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by David Smith to discuss how he uses prospect-centered selling to overcome these objections and help prospects make authentic and genuine decisions. David encountered this issue when developing senior housing communities in St.

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SDRs, AEs, and ABCs: How the Best B2B Tech Teams Use Sales Enablement Training Software to Succeed 

Lessonly

If you’re in sales, you’ve heard all of the acronyms under the sun. Your job title has probably included a few of them—SDRs, AEs, BDRs, and BDAs unite! And if you’re in sales at a B2B tech company you’ve probably invented a few acronyms of your own. . But what you might not have considered is what all of those acronym-clad coworkers of yours are using to train, coach, and equip themselves.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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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Best CRM For Financial Services – Finance CRM

Apptivo

Any organization is a comprehensive collaboration of different departments (also known as sectors) that work together to bring out efficient results. One of the prime sectors or departments in most organizations is financial services. Financial services, in general, refers to financial management which in broader terms refers to banking, investment, and insurance.

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How Eightfold Unified Its Sales Readiness Experience with Mindtickle

Mindtickle

Salespeople aren’t constantly on the phone closing deals. Their roles require a lot of moving parts: managing pipelines, building knowledge and skills, practicing pitches and objection handling, and meeting with managers for coaching sessions. The simpler and more efficient these tasks can be, the more time reps can spend solving customer problems and generating revenue.

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Sales and Service Teams Just Go Better Together

SugarCRM

B2B consumers have higher expectations about the customer experience (CX) that encompasses every aspect of a company’s offerings. Every team contributes to this experience through the quality of customer service, advertising, service features, ease of use, and reliability. Sales teams are usually the first to contact your prospects, develop initial relationships, and set customer expectations.