Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2018

I was on the way to a meeting and the traffic was stop and go - not moving for a minute, then back up to 30 MPH, and then back to a dead stop. I've been driving since 1972 and have driven in all kinds of conditions. Pitch black on a moonless night on a narrow winding road with no street lights; on a 4-lane highway in white-out conditions where you can't see where the sides of the road are, down-hill on black ice with zero control of breaking and steering; snow-covered, two-lane road with cars st

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2018

Joining us for today’s show is Walt Megura, Vice President of Emerging Industry Segments and Channels for Ericcson. Walt is here to share his experience in creating new beachheads in verticals that provide future long-term growth to Ericsson. Matt and.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 17, 2018

Many buyers have told us in the past that the one thing they hate when with salespeople is being sold to. That seems odd, when you think the reason they are there is to sell their products! But what they mean is that they dislike feeling under pressure, the salesperson using sales tricks and tactics, and the false promises that are only used to grab short-term deals.

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Connect2Sell

JANUARY 17, 2018

The preferences of buyers are that we begin to do things a little bit beyond the ordinary. Buyers are fatigued with ordinary sales tactics.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Best Sales Podcasts. B2B Growth Show. The Advanced Selling Podcast. Sales Gravy. The Salesman Podcast. Linking Into Sales Podcast. In the Arena. The Ziglar Show -- Inspiring Your True Performance. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Accelerate! Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Most salespeople want to be winners, but a select few are willing to put in the effort to get there. Those who do usually don’t possess a special skill or different approach, they simply show up and do the work -- even when it’s hard. You might call it desire, responsibility, or success. I just call it Grit. When I joined HubSpot in its early days I was one of the few employees who hadn’t graduated from MIT.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 17, 2018

FAST consists of four basic, powerful principles: Focus (on goals), Accountability, Simplify (to increase efficiency and probability of success), and Transparency (get good performance measures, see how well we’re doing). In this interview, Gordon Tredgold, author of the book FAST: 4 Principles Every Business Needs to Achieve Success and Drive Results , breaks it all down for us.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. What Is Lead Qualification? Lead qualification is the process of using metrics, scoring, and other criteria to ascertain whether or not a given sales prospect fits your ideal customer profile (ICP), and has strong mathematical probability of becoming a long term customer.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

With the demand for sales development talent skyrocketing, we wanted to investigate how sales managers are successfully hiring the right people for the SDR position. With such a disparity between supply and demand, sometimes the inclination is to take just anyone. But that mentality won’t help your sales org hit its targets -- and firing reps is an expensive (and painful) process.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

JANUARY 17, 2018

You’ve finally got the attention of that prospect you’ve been chasing. You can’t believe it. After the 12th attempt, they answered the phone and, whoa, they agreed to an appointment to meet with you! However, as tempting as it may be to get off the phone before they change their mind — stop. Don’t make that silly assumption. You’ve got to plan your call.

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Anne Miller

JANUARY 17, 2018

It was 9 years ago this week that Captain Sully Sullenberger landed US Airways Flight 1549 with 155 passengers aboard safely on the Hudson River, after a flock of geese knocked out the plane's engines. That amazing feat became known as the Miracle.

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SalesforLife

JANUARY 17, 2018

“What do I say?” This is easily within the top 3 most commonly asked questions from sales leaders and sales professionals when learning new digital engagement best practices.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 17, 2018

Sales Tips: 5 Habits for Being a Better Sales Professional. By Connie Schlosberg, Primary Intelligence.

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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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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 17, 2018

As a sales rep you are probably struggling with lack of information that is being passed to you. This makes it difficult for you to sell and often good leads may seem as bad due to lack of proper data. Typically, the sales team receive most leads with limited amount of information often with the information been acquired through marketing forms. Perhaps it has been enhanced by your sales operations department so they can send the leads specifically to you by knowing that the prospect is located

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Marc Wayshak

JANUARY 17, 2018

Knowing how to spot a liar is absolutely critical to sales success. Watch this video to learn the 5 best ways to tell if your prospect is lying. The post How to Spot a Liar: 5 Ways Salespeople Can Tell Their Prospect Is Lying appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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Jeff Davis

JANUARY 17, 2018

I had the opportunity to speak with top B2B companies in Paris and Europe about the challenges facing B2B companies that don't embrace the need to align Sales and Marketing.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 17, 2018

The transition from salesperson to sales manager can be tough ( and doesn’t always work out in the end.) Overnight, someone who is used to being responsible for only their own performance, is suddenly responsible for the performance of an entire sales team. Priorities must shift with the transition into a leadership position. Some sales managers struggle for the remainder of their management careers, until they return to a sales role—or worse—get burned out and leave the company.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 17, 2018

Search on the phrase, “how to get your customer to.” and you can learn how to get them. to trust you , to buy , and. to pay 10% more , Want to get them to love you, too? Click here to learn how! Ignore these tactics! Don’t “get” your customers to do anything! The killer skill to develop is the ability to help customers succeed. Ask a top revenue producer – one who truly serves customers – how he or she gets customers to buy.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JANUARY 17, 2018

When I first started my business, I didn’t have a marketing plan to get new clients. (I didn’t really have a marketing budget either.) But I had heard that networking was an important tool for building relationships and getting new prospects, so I started showing up at the networking breakfasts run by my local chamber of commerce. And the rest is history.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 17, 2018

On what she loves about SalesPOP and sales itself, why sales managers must collaborate with salespeople on quotas, selling in today’s (very different) economy, her own favorite buying experience, and her top selling lesson for 2018. Meridith loves her status as a SalesPOP! top contributor for a multitude of reasons, including how SalesPOP! is put together.

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LevelJump

JANUARY 17, 2018

As we've seen with the exciting and massive growth of the Sales Enablement Society , sales enablement as a function is red-hot right now. Many practitioners and industry leaders continue to evolve and work on its structure, definition, job description and responsibilities. Should it report to sales, marketing or perhaps neither? Is it marketing and sales content?

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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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SugarCRM

JANUARY 17, 2018

Editor’s note: the following is a guest blog post in collaboration with Tracy Blanchard, an experienced freelance writer and business blogger, who focuses on providing advice for small businesses, customer service teams, and sales departments. Why should businesses be marketing to mobile-first customers? Mobile use has been on the rise for years, that’s no surprise.

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Membrain

JANUARY 17, 2018

An Interview with Mike Weinberg.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this episode, I’m sharing some sales challenges from the different sellers of the group who are coming from across multiple industries and what they did to actually make things work for them. If you haven’t yet, check out the TSE Hustler’s League. Our new semester next week is focusing on business development – how you […] The post TSE 750: TSE Hustler’s League-“It Worked For Them” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 17, 2018

The transition from salesperson to sales manager can be tough ( and doesn’t always work out in the end.) Overnight, someone who is used to being responsible for only their own performance, is suddenly responsible for the performance of an entire sales team. Priorities must shift with the transition into a leadership position. Some sales managers struggle for the remainder of their management careers, until they return to a sales role—or worse—get burned out and leave the company.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 17, 2018

?A deeper understanding of naturally recurring patterns of thoughts and behaviors strengthens one?s ability to collaborate with others.? - Danita Bye ?Our talents, gifts and perspectives appear to be in conflict with each other.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

The post How to Execute Key Predictions on the Future of Sales Tech appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 17, 2018

In a lot of markets, there is a race to the bottom, but that isn?t a race you want to win. There is this thing that you do that causes your prospective client to believe you are a commodity.

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