Wed.Apr 01, 2020

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5 Ways to Improve Sales Efficiency

Hubspot Sales

What do jellyfish , a Dyson AM09 Fan Heater , and Peyton Manning's 2004 regular season have in common? They're all outrageously efficient. Jellyfish are the most efficient swimmers in the ocean. The Dyson AM09 Fan Heater was one of the results that came up when I searched "most efficient space heater" on Google. And Peyton Manning broke the NFL record for Adjusted Net Yards per Pass Attempt in 2004 before losing to Tom Brady in the playoffs.

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Enabling Your Newly Remote Sales Team with Knowledge Management

Guru

After a few weeks of adjusting to the “new normal” of working from home temporarily, it’s becoming clear that this situation we all find ourselves in won’t be quite as temporary as we had hoped.

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Your Customer May Be More Confused Than Informed

Adaptive Business Services

Perhaps they are both and here is why … . “With the advent of the internet, customers are more. informed than ever before. In fact, they may have. already made their decisions prior to even reaching. out to you and your company.”. These changes in buyer behaviors have created dramatic new challenges, and opportunities , for today’s sellers. You need to recognize the first and then position yourself to take advantage of the second.

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A Failure to Launch?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tom Pisello Many new campaign and product launches fail because sellers don’t understand the new solution or didn’t even know about the launch in the first place. An email outlining the new product, services and messaging is easy to overlook, leaving many sellers unable to fully understand the uniqueness and positioning of the new offering. In order to resonate with customers, your announcement must be seen, messaging absorbed and content leveraged with the sales team.

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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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What is Buyer Intent Data? A Guide for 2020

Zoominfo

The average B2B buyer is mostly through the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson. So how do you intercept buyers in the early part of their journey? You use intent data. Intent data predicts purchase intent by analyzing a prospect's behavior across the web. Learn how it can help you beat the competition to a deal.

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Pushing Pause During the Pandemic

Connect2Sell

Here at People First Productivity Solutions, we're taking a break.

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How to prepare your sales team for bounce-back after the crisis

Membrain

Most of Europe and the United States has been in a state of response to the novel Coronavirus pandemic for a few weeks now, and most of us are settling into a new sense of “normal.”.

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Podcast 141: Getting Through This With Michael Sadeghpour

John Barrows

We’ve broken away from our usual format with this episode of the podcast, because the world is totally different right now compared to how it was literally weeks ago. Michael Sadeghpour is helping a ton of people keep their mindset in check, even in the most testing times. Michael provides some real light at the end of the tunnel and practical ways to keep yourself in the right state of mind to carry on and keep those close to you safe.

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Real-Time Sales: Our methodology for selling

Vainu

Real-time sales is not just about speed. It’s about real conversations, too. We’re often asked, what do you mean when you talk about real-time sales? In this blog, we describe our methodology for selling, a strategy based on changing data that’s as fresh as possible.

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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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Selling Through Uncertainty

criteria for success

When speaking to salespeople, leaders, and executives in the past weeks, I've noticed an overarching sense of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts. How long will regional lockdowns last? What’s the potential economic fallout? How will specific businesses and industries cope? In last week's post, I shared best practices for leaders as they guide their teams through uncertainty.

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You Need Momentum Now for The Climb Ahead of You

Anthony Iannarino

Imagine you are driving over a mountainous landscape. You are on the backside of the mountain and declining, allowing the momentum to take over, turning off your engine because it isn’t necessary. As you start to level off, your energy is no longer enough to keep you moving forward, and you are staring up at a mountain that is going to require that you exert the maximum effort to climb.

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Brainshark Collaborates with GO1, Enhances Sales Training

SBI

Brainshark Collaborates with GO1, Enhances Sales Training. WALTHAM, MA (April 1, 2019): Brainshark , Inc., the industry’s only data-driven sales readiness platform, and GO1, a leading provider of off-the-shelf, high-quality eLearning content, today announced a strategic partnership. Under the partnership, joint customers can easily enrich their sales training programs with content from GO1’s robust library – using Brainshark to manage and deliver the learning, and test for mastery.

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How to Build – and Maintain – a Healthy Channel Ecosystem

Allbound

Ecosystem. It’s one of those buzzwords that’s thrown around a lot in the channel world. But what does it really mean? And what specifically should you be doing to build a channel ecosystem? Let’s start with the basics. Think of the Amazon: its flora and fauna all have a role to play in the reciprocal and balanced system that allows them to thrive.

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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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Marketing Balance for Fast Sustainable Success

Pipeliner

Everyone wants fast results that are also sustainable as a long term solution. Let’s be real, who doesn’t want it all? But that isn’t always how it works in the marketing world, there’s usually some kind of trade-off. There are things that you need to do that are in the best interest of your business in the long term, and many of these things require patience.

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The #1 Tactic Buyers Use in Sales Negotiations

RAIN Group

As the global economy teeters on the edge of uncertainty, companies are already canceling engagements, dropping vendors, and tightening their purse strings. They’re looking for any way to make their dollar stretch, and there’s no better time to do that than in contract negotiations. For industries still in buying mode, negotiations pose a unique opportunity to take advantage of desperate sellers struggling to meet their numbers.

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Principles From the Greatest Disruptor in History

Pipeliner

In my last article, I discussed the importance of disruption in commerce , and how it changes everything at the time. Interestingly, if we take a step back, we see that most likely the greatest disrupter in history was Jesus of Nazareth. His short “career” disrupted and changed the course of history for the following 2,000+ years. Setting religion aside, we can examine his life, and from it extract principles that can be applied to any disruption. 1.

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Sales Management Tips for Conducting Remote Sales Meetings

The Center for Sales Strategy

In addition to generating revenue and keeping their sales pipeline strong , sales managers are also tasked with running effective remote sales meetings. In our current work-from-home world, managers need to stay connected with sellers to conduct the following types of meetings: Sales meetings. Training sessions. One-on-one meetings (revenue development focused meetings).

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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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TechTarget Launches Verified MSP Targeting Powered by Priority Engine Purchase Intent Platform

SBI

TechTarget Launches Verified MSP Targeting Powered by Priority Engine Purchase Intent Platform. NEWTON, MA – MARCH 31, 2020. TechTarget, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTGT), the global leader in B2B technology purchase intent data and services, today announced the release of Verified MSP Targeting powered by Priority Engine TM , TechTarget’s SaaS-based purchase intent insight platform.

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Hosting Activities and Events: What Software Do You Need?

Nimble - Sales

Events and activities have different significance for different organizations. Some businesses structure their product offerings around activities (white water rafting companies, tour companies, etc.) while others use activities to supplement their offerings and further engage various audiences (staff retreats, nonprofit fundraisers, company class sales, etc.).

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Direct Mail Prospecting: 10 Reasons to Get Physical in Sales

Sales Hacker

What was the last sales message you received? I’m guessing it was just a few minutes ago. So what was it? An email, phone call, LinkedIn message, or maybe even a text message? Chances are it was one of the millions sent through digital channels on a daily basis. Now, how did you react to it? Did you open/answer at all? Or did you send it straight to your trash bin?

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Persistence Requires You Be Creative

Go for No!

People often ask us, when it comes to going for no – do you just keep going at people over and over in the exact same way? Of course not. When it comes to selling – and “going for no” you need to be creative. You don’t want to approach the same person over and over again in the exact same way. But when you ‘go for no’ you aren’t giving up on someone just because you got one ‘no’ one time.

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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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Preparing for Your Virtual QBR

InsightSquared

Perspective is everything when assessing your sales performance, especially during unprecedented times. While it’s important to keep your focus ahead, it is equally important to reflect on past results to better evaluate where you are headed. As we enter Quarterly Business Review (QBR) season, it’s likely you will be conducting the meetings virtually.

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How CPQ for manufacturing helps companies overcome some challenges

Canidium

Manufacturing companies have common sales and production challenges. Some of these include increasing overall revenue, shortening sales cycles, reducing production costs, and improving supply chain - just to name a few.

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To Sell or Not to Sell in These Turbulent Times: 5 Topics You Can Talk About

KLA Group

By Kendra Lee These are turbulent times and in sales and lead generation, you’re wondering what the heck do I do? After you’ve called all your clients, shared your COVID-19 response plan, and told them how you’re prepared to support them remotely, what more is there to say? We’ve never gone through this before and. Read more.

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The Daily Briefing: April 1, 2020

Chorus.ai

Watch the Video. Today, The Daily Briefing launched into Q2 with a more nuanced discussion of Sales Productivity. Chorus CEO and Daily Briefing host, Jim Benton, was joined by Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. They discussed how productivity differs between geographic markets, and how COVID-19 has impacted the productivity and effectiveness of cold calling.

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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

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To Sell or Not to Sell in These Turbulent Times: 5 Topics You Can Talk About

KLA Group

By Kendra Lee These are turbulent times and in sales and lead generation, you’re wondering what the heck do I do? After you’ve called all your clients, shared your COVID-19 response plan, and told them how you’re prepared to support them remotely, what more is there to say? We’ve never gone through this before and […].

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The Beginners Guide to Sales Cycle

SalesHandy

There often comes a state in Sales, especially for new teams, when almost everything seems to be going haywire. You do not see the results you need, not sure why. At the very worst, you wouldn’t know what to do about it and get stalled. Getting in this situation will have a profound effect on your organization’s goals. Some of the best performing Sales teams worldwide profoundly understand and master their Sales cycles.

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1 Minute Remote Working Tips #8: Empower & Get Out of the Way!

Pipeliner

Welcome to SalesPOP “ 1-minute remote working tips ” video series. This is the 10th video in the series. #8: Empower & Get Out of the Way! If you missed the other 9 videos in the series you can find them below. ## Introduction. #1 Expectations. #2 Sales Manager as Role Model #1. #2 Sales Manager as Role Model #2. #3 Showing Up. #4 Digital Processes. #5 Your Workspace. #6 Negotiating with Everyone. #7 Be Available.