The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Whether they realize it or not, consumers travel through a series of steps before purchasing an item. For the consumer, this journey is not something they think about; they’re simply trying to make a decision. The process consumers follow to purchase a product or service has changed significantly over the years. To truly understand the consumer journey today , we must look at the past relationship between the brand and the consumer and how it has evolved over time.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) has long been a strategic objective of B2C companies. Most of us have experienced firsthand how companies like Amazon and Apple have created sustainable competitive advantages. They create this differentiation not only with great products.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Author: Jimmy Verrett Take a moment to look around, and I suspect you’ll quickly find anecdotal evidence to support what research now confirms : Increased consumption of content is shortening attention spans. Whether it’s watching TV, scrolling through mobile apps, checking email, or streaming music, American adults are devoting more time to media content interactions than ever, now more than 11 hours of each day.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We spend lots of time and money trying to create predictable revenue, increasing the predictability of our sales approaches. We constantly engineer, refine, tune and re-engineer what we do and how we engage our customers to produce POs. We optimize our efforts, looking to be as efficient as possible, achieving what we do in the fastest time and lowest cost of selling possible.

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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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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Building Real Relationships Through Networking. Join us for a high-energy sales chat with Michelle Beauchamp who will provide you with great insights into how to be a top networker. Michelle will uncover for you steps you may have missed when starting your networking strategy and ways to maximize the effectiveness of every interaction. Hosts John Golden & Martha Neumeister will keep the conversation going in-person and on the hugely popular #SalesChats Twitter Chat.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

‘Tis the season for SDR’s to assess Q3 performance and pinpoint ways to succeed during the holidays, so they can outcompete and crush quotas ahead of the New Year. In most businesses, Q4 generates more revenue than any other quarter. So, from a selling standpoint, this time of year holds an opportunity to drive significant growth. But, for SDRs, the year’s final quarter is also one of the most challenging to navigate because it has the fewest business days available for prospecting.

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Anthony Iannarino

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It is always a no until it’s a yes. When your success requires that you ask people for commitments , you can expect to hear no as many—or more times than you hear yes. It is the nature of the endeavor we call selling, and no one, no matter how skilled, is free from this experience. It is essential to recognize that the word no only means not now and that you have not been personally rejected.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As a sales leader, you’re responsible for putting your team in a position to succeed. Part of that responsibility is ensuring your sales process is optimized. The slightest bottleneck can disrupt stages further along in the process. One area in particular where you can’t afford to have bottlenecks in is prospecting. This is the stage that sets the tone for everything else.

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Canidium

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Much like choosing the wrong sales performance management ( SPM ) or process management ( CPQ ) software, choosing the wrong SPM MSP can do more harm than good to your sales operations. For starters, MSP personnel that are slow ramping or lack expertise can cost you the time you hired them to save. Even worse, they can hurt your relationship with your sales team; creating mistrust and a lack of motivation which in the end can cost you revenue.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

SILICON SLOPES, Utah — November 4, 2019 — InsideSales.com today announced its corporate rebrand to XANT. Under the new name, XANT will continue to build upon the company’s innovative foundation and customer adoption for its intelligent sales engagement solutions. A play on the word cognizant, XANT embodies how its data and platform makes sales organizations “all-knowing.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In this guest blog post, Tim Conroy, one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , learning and development director with Applied Materials and an expert on sales coaching strategies, shares how he drives sales managers to perform their best. Most sales managers arrived in their position because they’re outstanding at selling or at managerial skills like developing market share or driving revenue.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Discover how artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) sales technology can provide key insights to optimize your sales planning and performance.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The average sales cycle for closed-won deals is 96 days. Even closed-lost deals average 20 days of a sales rep’s time. With so much time dedicated to closing, it’s more important than ever to organize your team’s efforts around a central sales methodology. A sales methodology defines best practices for an entire sales team. When everyone uses the same tactics, you can learn what’s working, identify what isn’t working, and tweak the approach accordingly.

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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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G2Crowd - Sales Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

After months of open houses, showings, and countless negotiations, an offer is finally made on a property.

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Close

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

“Our product works. It saves our customers a lot of money. We can prove it. Heck, we even do a pilot for them when they ask. Afterwards, they see the numbers, the data confirms our claims. But they still don’t buy!What are we doing wrong?

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The last few years of sales and customer service trends demonstrate that marketing has undergone some major changes. Many organizations are finding that B2B deals are high-cost, span multiple touchpoints, and take months to close. This means sales and marketing teams both must work hard to answer questions and continue to highlight the value of […].

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Recently, the Sales Operations Institute brought together industry and corporate leaders to discuss how to build and maintain a coherent and effective sales strategy for corporate advantage. Representatives from Mindtickle (including myself) attended and ran a session with sales operations leaders that focused on building sales capability within financial service organizations to deliver enhanced customer experience. .

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Xvoyant

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Steven Broudy, VP & Head of Sales for Bevy, teaches us about how finding and developing the best people are crucial to maintaining the core values companies must have to reach hyper-growth. Learn why being uncompromising on who you hire by using assessment and selection helps leaders screen candidates to find those who can succeed under the conditions of your sales team.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Recently, the Sales Operations Institute brought together industry and corporate leaders to discuss how to build and maintain a coherent and effective sales strategy for corporate advantage. Representatives from MindTickle (including myself) attended and ran a session with sales operations leaders that focused on building sales capability within financial service organizations to deliver enhanced customer experience. .

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Hyper-Connected Selling

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While comparing notes with a friend who also has small children, we stumbled across an important question: How do we ensure that our children have good taste in music when they grow up? For two guys who were DJs in former lives, that’s a really important question. But admittedly, maybe not one of critical importance. It did lead me to consider the question of what lessons are critically important.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

About Annie Meehan: Annie Meehan is an inspirational Keynote Speaker, an award-winning author & Certified Coach. After 9 years climbing the ladder in corporate America, she became a serial entrepreneur – buying one gym and building a second one, starting a speaking business, leading an AdvoCare Supplement team, writing one book and then another.

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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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Sandler Training

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Mike Montague interviews Scott Perry on How to Succeed at Being Creative on Purpose. In this episode learn: What does being creative on purpose mean? Are YOU creative? Four principles to be creative on purpose. The post How to Succeed at Being Creative on Purpose appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Selling Energy

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

How often does the word “winning” find its way into business language? Often, as we all know. Nevertheless what if winning was never the point to begin with, even though business is littered with figures we deem winners and losers?

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Often, a company buys from a salesperson because that salesperson had a great pitch. It is not always because the product is better than others on the market. “You could have a great offering, but if you don’t know how to sell it and pitch it, it doesn’t matter what your offering is,” says Justin Cohen, who tells us how to pitch to win in this video interview, hosted by John Golden.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Here’s the secret to a killer product overview. It’s more about what someone can do with the product than it is about what the product actually does. About 10 or 12 years ago, I was the victim of a killer product overview! I wasn’t even planning to buy anything, yet I spent way more money than I ever imagined and I couldn’t be happier. Here’s the story.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Think about a time when your employees might be asked to perform under pressure. Maybe they’re trying to close a big sale. Or handle a sensitive personnel issue. Or deal with an equipment failure. In stressful situations like these, when emotions are running high, training can make the difference. So there’s a certain logic to ratcheting up the pressure during certain workplace learning experiences, right?

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As more businesses implement a Sales enablement strategy, they are finding that simply instituting a program alone doesn’t ensure its success. As such, these organizations have grown to appreciate the importance of the Sales enablement manager. The role of a Sales enablement manager is one that has grown in prominence alongside the broader trend of Sales enablement.

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