Tue.Aug 16, 2016

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Embarrassing Feedback That Taught Me The Biggest Lesson Ever!

Bernadette McClelland

So, imagine this! You decide to study and undertake a Diploma. And that Diploma is in coaching – executive coaching, small business coaching, sales coaching and peak performance coaching – like the athletes do! You are someone who walks your talk – so by becoming a coach, it makes sense that you, too, get a coach. After all, you can’t learn to swim by reading a book.

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Should Women in B2B Sales Sound Overly-Friendly to Succeed

Score More Sales

Recently, my good friend and sales prospecting expert to SaaS companies, John Barrows looped me in on a conversation he had with a woman who attended one of his recent sales prospecting sessions. I’ve changed some of the Q&A a bit, but wanted to share the main points of the conversation around how successful women need to “be” in order to be a successful BDR, AE, SDR, or other sales position.

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10 Rules to Follow When Starting a Prospecting Telephone Call

The Sales Hunter

Each week I’m asked by at least one salesperson, “How do I open a call with someone I’m prospecting?” For many salespeople, it’s the biggest obstacle they need to overcome when prospecting. In my upcoming book, High-Profit Prospecting, I dig deep into the issue of how to open a call. Below are just a few […].

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SBI’s Review of the “The Challenger Customer” and its Impact on Your Sales Strategy

SBI Growth

“The Challenger Customer” by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, Pat Spenner and Nick Toman was one of the most popular sales books last year. It was written as a sequel to the highly successful book, “The Challenger Sale.” Watch here as.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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You vs. The Competition…Want To Win? Here’s How…

MTD Sales Training

I’ve been speaking to more of my clients recently. Not that that should surprise you, but I’ve taken some time out to find out some of the key issues they are facing and identified many of the specific ideologies that drive them to make decisions. In some cases it’s been eye-opening, and has allowed us to tweak our offerings and practices so we are in line with their requirements.

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8 Must-Have Qualities for Achieving Sales Success

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

What’s the secret for achieving sales success? For the past 20 years, I have dedicated by life’s work to helping individuals achieve and surpass their sales performance goals — I’ve helped over 1,200 organizations in all sorts of industries, across the country. That’s why I founded my own company, Performance Based Results, in 2006. At PBR we interviewed 400 highly-experienced business-to-business sales professionals.

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Top Ten Characteristics of Top Sales Producers (Part Nine)

Mr. Inside Sales

These last two parts will focus on the one characteristic that is perhaps the most important of all. You’ll find this characteristic in ALL top performers, not just in top sales producers. You’ll see it in top athletes, actors, musicians, dancers, top business people, academics, etc. All top producers have this quality in abundant amounts, and parts nine and ten will focus on how to develop, grow, protect, and maintain it within the sales arena.

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Why Your Ego Is Killing Your Account Based Marketing Efforts #flipmyfunnel

A Sales Guy

A little while back I spoke in Austin at the #FlipMyFunnel conference. It was an Account Based Marketing (ABM) conference. ABM is hot right now. I see a lot of organization implementing it, including a number of my clients. In spite of the power of ABM, and the tools, methodologies etc, messaging is still a critical part of sales and ABM. Unfortunately, too many people miss the mark on Account Based Marketing messaging and they let their ego get in the way.

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Hiring for Sales Success

Engage Selling

How can you ensure that you’re hiring the right people to join your sales team? Many sales leaders have been asking me how to hire new sales reps and build a profitable team.

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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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The Human Desire to Control the Sales Closing Question

Increase Sales

So you reached the end of the sales conversation and now, drum roll, comes the ultimate sales closing question. This one is a sure fire winner. You speak and nothing happens. No reaction, no comment. Now you are scrambling as to what to say. With today’s buyer’s being far more education,, possibly the tried and true closing question requires a little adjustment?

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Predictably Unpredictable

Partners in Excellence

Over the past few years there’s been a huge rush to “predictability” in sales and marketing. Marketing and sales automation tools strive to increase our ability to predict interest and propensity to buy. Inbound and outbound sales development reps are scripted to qualify and move prospects through a series of steps that have very predictable outcomes.

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The Five Pillars to Business Value / ROI Selling Success

The ROI Guy

A business value / ROI sales tool can be a fantastic foundation to business value selling success, but to elevate to greatness, you need more. From our extensive client experience, we have found that implementing best practices from the following Five Pillars can be the key to reaching new heights with your business value-selling program: 1) Deliver a superior user experience – Do your sales reps and channel partners love using your business value / ROI tools?

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Modern Sales Professionals Launch to New Heights {Infographic}

SalesLoft

Modern sales professionals are the Neil Armstrongs and Sally Rides of any organization, serving as the explorers of your industry’s sales environment. They pioneer new prospect ground , constantly battling obstacles in the form of objections to achieve their goals. Unfortunately for these modern sales professionals, this means that it’s incredibly difficult to perform successfully, with all systems operating smoothly.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.