Fri.Oct 19, 2018

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Is Your Sales Team Ready for Disruption?

Sales Result

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No Selling Skills Required

Braveheart Sales

Here’s a statistic you may have seen. I can’t remember where I read it myself. It said the mere act of following a repeatable sales process helps salespeople close 15% more business. I wish I knew where the information came from, but since I couldn’t verify it directly from the source, I went searching for data myself that might support the use of a sales process.

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Does Your Sales Funnel Need a Weight Reduction Program?

Women Sales Pros

Is your sales funnel bloated? Do you need to shed those ungainly suspects that are weighing you down? It’s a common dilemma. There’s a certain level of satisfaction when your sales funnel is full. However, filling your pipeline with empty and unqualified opportunities leads to an unhealthy outlook. The solution is an intense cleansing process to get your funnel in ship shape.

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Customer Lifecycle Management – The Foundation for an Effective Customer Success Organization

SBI Growth

Customer Success has become one of the hottest trends and sources of growth in Revenue Management. In fact, if you are managing Customer Support, Renewals, and/or Upsell you are keenly aware how much impact a Customer Success Strategy can have.

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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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9 Insanely Successful Real Estate Marketing Ideas from Top Agents

Hubspot Sales

As a real estate professional, you want to grow your business, and marketing plays a large role in capturing the attention of potential clients. A 2018 study by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) found 87% of home buyers purchase their home through a real estate agent. It’s evident there’s a market for real estate agents. But how can you reach prospects?

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3 Sales Enablement Trends to Watch in 2019 [CSO Insights Research]

BrainShark

Sales enablement leaders are learning more about how to succeed in their roles with each passing year, but new data shows they still have room for improvement.

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How to Use Digital Engagement on LinkedIn To Sell And Hire, with Jenn Walsh, Episode #87

Vengreso

Subscribe to Selling With Social. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. Digital engagement is one of those things we all know we need to be doing, but that we don’t always dedicate time to. But if we can get over the hump and do it consistently, the benefits can be amazing. On this episode of #SellingWithSocial, Mario asked his friend and partner, Kurt Shaver to guest-host and to speak with one of his friends, Jenn Walsh about how to use LinkedIn and other platforms for bett

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How we won Dreamforce 2018 - Our Underdog Story

LevelJump

There’s a lot of noise that comes with Dreamforce every year. With the conference attracting over 150,000 people to San Francisco for one week, constant promotion that starts 6 months prior to the actual conference start date, Dreamforce can be a big cash burn if you don’t get anything in return. Sounds challenging right? Well, we couldn’t make that mistake this year.

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What Full Employment Means to You | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????I think it’s fair to say that our buyers are busier than ever before because we’re in a virtual employment situation.

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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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Weekly Roundup: Sales Stats to Help you Sell Smarter + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- WHAT'S MOTIVATING US THIS WEEK -. "YOUR ATTITUDE, NOT YOUR APTITUDE, WILL DETERMINE YOUR ALTITUDE.". -ZIG ZIGLAR. - WHAT WE'VE BEEN READING THIS WEEK -. > 73 Mind-Blowing Sales Statistics That Will Help You Sell Smarter in 2019 — Hubspot. Like just 17% of salespeople think they're pushy -- compared to 50% of prospects. And along similar lines, only 3% of buyers trust reps.

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Do You Avoid the Grand Vision?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: NOTE: Today’s Guest Post, is provided by By Roger HB Davies, CEO, McLuhan & Davies Communications, Inc. Roger Davies is founder of McLuhan& Davies, a boutique communication-skills training company that sells its services in over 30 countries. He’s an award-winning journalist, an entrepreneur, and author of the best-selling book: Mastering Communications. _. ‘Avoid the Grand Vision ~ Seek the Opportunity!

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Successful Sales Calls: | Let the Customer Do The Talking

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

First-time sales calls When meeting with a prospect for the first time, Don’t bring the usual “bag of tricks” to the meeting: No PowerPoint presentation No sales literature No brochures No charts or graphs No reports ? Your Number One Job Instead, try focusing on the customer. A key factor in determining the success of a sales call is this one important question: Who did most of the talking?

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When You Shouldn't Promote a Top Sales Rep to Sales Manager

Janek Performance Group

If finding star sales reps seems difficult, finding stellar sales managers can be even more challenging. Many companies engage in short-sighted thinking, promoting top reps to manager roles under the misguided notion that their success will automatically translate into more of the same in their new role. The reality is frequently the opposite. Your best sales performers far too often will have no business just being promoted to the leader of a team.

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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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What Does ZoomInfo’s Acquisition of Datanyze Signal to the Sales Industry?

Sales Hacker

A couple weeks ago Zoominfo , a premiere B2B contact database, acquired Datanyze , a more recent pioneer that arms sales teams with technographics about their leads. The sales world is abuzz about these two joining forces! Both have ranked very highly in recent years as top tools for startup sales tech stacks, as shown by Bowery Capital’s most recent Annual Sales Stack Report here.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote from David Ogilvy – Episode 92

criteria for success

Do you want to learn more about sales management? This quote from David Ogilvy is all about hiring the best team possible. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration. David Ogilvy Quote In this episode of Let's Talk Sales, it's all about this month's theme: sales management and leadership basics. [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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TSE 946: Three Effective Ways To Create Loyalty

Sales Evangelist

The buying process has changed, and by the time your prospect gets to you, he has already done a substantial amount of online research. A recent study showed that 68 percent of people in the B2B space believe online information is far more helpful to them than the information they get from salespeople. On today’s episode of […] The post TSE 946: Three Effective Ways To Create Loyalty appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Achieving Peak Performance

Pipeliner

How to Become a Better Version of Yourself, Every Day. What do the most successful people in the world do differently and better than everyone else? There are successful people in many fields, like sales, and sports, and leadership. What do the elite class, the top 20% of the top 20% do differently and better? These were the questions that Michael Altschuler asked himself on a regular basis – until he discovered an even better question.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Reframing Renewable Energy

Selling Energy

I was walking past an Apple Store while exploring a neighborhood with my family. There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about seeing one; however, I did note a sign in the front window: “100% powered by renewable energy.” Time has passed and this trend has only increased, and of course the usual demographic is going to be impressed with that sort of thing.

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Live and Work – Author Unknown

Selling Fearlessly

Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sundays, Father hardly ate a meal together with his family. He […].

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Sales Engagement Platforms 101 — What You Need to Know

Groove.co

Whether You’re Rethinking Your Current Sales Engagement Platform or Starting from Scratch, Here’s What You Need to Know. One of the many buzzwords you hear in our field is “sales engagement” — but what does it actually mean? To boil it down, sales engagement is all the communication that happens between sales teams and prospects and customers. It can include emails, phone calls, in-person meetings, events, and so on.

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Customer Service Training: Why Practice is Essential

Lessonly

At Lessonly, we’ve helped hundreds of teams across the globe learn, practice, and Do Better Work. Over and over again, we found that the best teams examine their training efforts through six key phases: Assess, Plan, Build, Learn, Practice, and Perform. So, what sets the high-performers apart from the rest of the competition? Companies that offer teams with opportunities to rehearse and refine their skills.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

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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From KPIs to Marketing Accountability: How Marketing Directors Use Analytics

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Frank Moreno, vice president worldwide marketing, Datawatch Marketing budgets have never been higher, but neither has marketing team turnover. Why? As a CMO, if you were handed an extra million dollars of budget, under the condition that you had to show the exact ROI and demonstrate how you generated that return – would you take it? In this scenario, would you place your trust in a spreadsheet generated by marketing operations or your analyst teams to help you place your bets?

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Accelerate Your Startup’s Growth with the Power of Blitzscaling

Hubspot Sales

One of the most important growth factors that enable a company to blitzscale is distribution. Many people in Silicon Valley like to focus on building products that are, in the famous words of the late Steve Jobs, “insanely great.”. Great products are certainly a positive -- we’ll discuss the lack of product quality as a growth limiter later on -- but the cold and unromantic fact is that a good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution.

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Lessons From the First Virtual Workers: Salespeople

Miller Heiman Group

In major cities around the world, you can’t turn the corner without running into a co-working office. These membership-based spaces offer all the perks of working at a sleek startup (coffee and snacks, flexible workspaces, trendy decor, etc.) without the investment in footprint. While the first modern co-working spaces didn’t appear until the mid-’90s, one profession has always been inherently work-from-home (or hotel room or coffee shop or international office or airport): sales.

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Memorable sales training drives performance

Allego

Organizations need to train their employees all the time, but salespeople too often forget what they learn. Billions of dollars spent on training programs go to waste and work continues as normal. Creating more memorable training programs is a must. Sales training retention is important for growing a business in an ever-changing environment. By using modern learning practices to keep training front of mind, your salespeople are much more likely to use what they’ve learned and increasing revenue.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp