Thu.Sep 28, 2017

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Why There Is No Silver Bullet for Account Based Sales Development

No More Cold Calling

It’s time to sharpen your sales tools. Every salesperson in their right mind wants to grab every possible tool to accelerate account based sales development, look smarter, shorten prospecting time, and score meetings with decision-makers. But some tools are sharper than others. If it takes eight to 12 touches to reach a prospect, that tool is too dull.

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3 Ways the Best Leaders Set Themselves Apart

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mayur Ramgir Great leaders are in great demand, whether a coach for a football team, a CEO for a corporation or a general for the Army. But in many cases people are mistaken about what makes a good leader. Often, leadership is viewed as being able to establish resources and priorities to acquire worthwhile goals. While that’s part of it, true leadership involves a lot more than that.

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3 Reasons ‘Choice’ is Killing Your Pipeline

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Most people think they like choice, they think, contrary to practical experience, that choice empowers them, giving them “control”, and a sense of being in charge of their own destiny. The reality is often different, and giving prospects choices can have unanticipated consequences. While there are some pros and cons, there are three reasons you should not give choices, especially where you don’t have to, and you’re just doing it because you ra

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Be More Successful With These 10 Cold Calling Alternatives

MTD Sales Training

As more and more sales people are recognising cold calling is less fruitful than they would like, attention is being focused on what you can do to improve your overall sales success rate. If you would like to get hold of more decision-makers , talk to more interested people and give yourself a better chance of getting appointments, you need to do the hard work first that makes selling genuinely easy.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People [Book Summary]

Hubspot Sales

7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is a self-improvement book. It is written on Covey's belief that the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.

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6 Keys to Closing Tough Customers in Sales

Hubspot Sales

In a perfect world, all prospects would love you starting the moment they shook your hand -- and then they’d eagerly sign on the dotted line. Unfortunately, deals are almost never that easy to win. And it can seem nearly impossible to close when you’re dealing with tough customers who make everything harder than it needs to be. If clients try to push you around, or they waffle indefinitely over their next steps, deals can drag on for weeks on end.

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Don’t Be Oblivious!

Engage Selling

Are you present enough with your clients? A couple of years ago, I had just boarded a flight and noticed an attendant in the aisle helping another passenger find their seat.

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Business Intelligence for Sales Managers: What You Need to Know and How CPQ Can Help

Cincom Smart Selling

Before we had business intelligence, we had the bad old days of centralized information management. If you needed information, a customized report or just raw data , all you had to do was call upon the always happy to help MIS group. These guys hung out in a secluded area of the company, they spoke a specialized and obscure language and sometimes even hid behind locked doors.

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Grow Your Sales Revenue Through Sales Coaching - #INBOUND17

BrainShark

. Sales coaching is one of the most important aspects of a sales manager’s job – but it’s also a big cause of sales rep turnover. In fact, over 60% of salespeople are more likely to leave their job if their manager is a poor coach, according to Zenger Folkman.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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The Nimble Smart Contacts App Just Got Smarter – Introducing Prospector!

Adaptive Business Services

If you are not already familiar with Nimble, Nimble is a Social CRM that has revolutionized CRM in a number of ways …. It does the 3 Cs (contacts, calendar, and communications) right and in a way that is actually usable. Nimble will create, and flush out social profiles, contact records for you and it will do so automatically. Or, as Nimble says … automagically.

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Digital Mortgage – This is not Your Parents’ Home-Buying Experience

Velocify

There’s actually a divide forming in the mortgage industry right now between lenders that understand and meet the unique needs of today’s borrowers and those that are stuck in the past. And news flash, an entirely digital mortgage process is not the answer. Some might argue the way our parent’s bought a home 30 years ago was actually easier than the over-digitized lending experience of today.

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Customers Are Choosing How To Invest Their Time, Is Investing In You Their Best Investment?

Partners in Excellence

The reality of our professional, business, (perhaps our personal lives), is that we are time poor. Everyone is over-committed, overworked, and overwhelmed. Time becomes their most precious and unrecoverable commodity. With this as the glaring reality of our own time utilization and that of our customers, I’m astounded at how cavalier we are about how we use time.

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5 Steps to Boost Your Social Media Sales

SalesHandy

The social media phenomenon has exploded in just a few years. And, now it seems that it’s the most frequent place people hear their news, find out about interesting information, share with others and even make purchases. You’ve got to make those personal connections with people throughout social media in order to find prospective customers and have your information shared widely.

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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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Our Sales Future – Are You Ready?

Braveheart Sales

What will it be like to sell in 2020? Perhaps you are thinking that far ahead, but more likely you’re worried about getting results now. Recently, I did have the chance to ponder this exact question. Going deep on details. I was approached by Vistage Research to consider what selling would be like over the next three years and provide my insights for an eBook they are soon publishing on the future of sales called, Customer Growth: Decisions for the SMB CEO.

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Get Aligned or Lose Your Competitive Edge

Jeff Davis

I do my best to share Sales and Marketing Alignment thought-leadership whenever possible. The video below is of Tracey Eiler, CMO at InsideSales. She talks candidly about why Sales and Marketing Alignment is such a hot topic right now and why executives are being forced to address it or lose their competitive edge. Be sure to subscribe to The Alignment Blog Newsletter ( here ) to get monthly updates on curated content about Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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(Video) What’s the difference between conversational presentations and traditional presentations?

Julie Hanson

Conversational Presentations vs.Traditional from Julie Hansen on Vimeo. I often get asked “What’s the difference between conversational presentations and more traditional presentations?” Traditional presentations are probably what most of us are familiar with. They typically involve going through a slide deck in a linear way with limited audience participation.

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TSE 670: TSE Hustler’s League-“Creating Scarcity”

Sales Evangelist

How do you increase urgency in your sales process without sounding too pushy? This and more in this episode of the TSE Hustler’s League. Today, I’m sharing with you how you can recognize the power of scarcity. Regardless of what you’re selling, there’s an opportunity to implement scarcity. Creating a Sense of Urgency The usual […] The post TSE 670: TSE Hustler’s League-“Creating Scarcity” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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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5 reasons why Sales Enablement is the next best thing for B2B marketing agencies

Showpad

As sales and marketing technology develops at disruptive speed, B2B marketing agencies need to step up their game to stay relevant and empower their clients. Merely focussing on brand awareness, lead generation, and marketing campaigns doesn’t meet your customer’s expectations anymore. They’re realizing they need to work every stage of the funnel, including the bottom part that used to be ruled by the sales team only.

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5 Reasons Your Sales Reps Hate Their Jobs and What To Do About It

Openview

U.S. companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces – three times more than they spend on all advertising media. However, sales teams deliver only 50% of the revenue performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised. While sales processes, training, compensation plans, technology, marketing support, and product lines matter, sales reps who simply dislike – or hate – their jobs is one of the most understated and overlooked aspects impacting sales force performance today

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CXO’s—It’s Getting Crowded At The “CEO’s Table”

Partners in Excellence

Nearly every day, I read of a new CXO title. The latest is Chief Resilience Officer–though I suspect the person’s tongue was deeply planted in his cheek. It seems everyone. There used to be such simple titles, like VP of Sales, VP of Marketing, VP of Procurement, and on and on and on. The CFO title seems to have been around for some time–at least as long as I’ve been working (which is a fair amount of time).

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Getting Started with Salesforce: 3 Simple Steps for Beginners

Contact Monkey

You can do anything you put your mind to. That is, as long as you have Salesforce. Ok, maybe anything is a stretch, but with this CRM software, you and your entire sales team can take full control of the sales process. You can track customer interactions for every step of the buyer’s journey. You can update your accounts right from your inbox. You can personalize every single customer’s experience.

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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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The ABM Cookbook for Sales Teams: 5 recipes to keep Sales 100% focused on target accounts

DiscoverOrg Sales

The account-based approach is an increasingly common undertaking by marketing and sales departments. Technology and the availability of quality data has made it easier than ever to achieve personalization … theoretically, at least. But the biggest account-based killer is still at large: Lack of sustained focus from Sales. At ABM Orkestra , we have helped dozens of companies solidify their account-based marketing strategy.