Wed.Mar 22, 2017

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[VIDEO] How to Evaluate a Data Provider

DiscoverOrg Sales

Does this situation sound familiar? I’m in the middle of evaluating sales coaching tools (3 to be exact), and while I see some pros and cons to each, there’s nothing really standing out to make one of them the clear winner. One of our partners called this recently, “selling in a sea of sameness” – so many tools, it’s hard to differentiate. The flip side is I’m sure those vendors just can’t stand that I’m unable see how each one is the best.

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Correct Course Now

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-03-01. Author: Matt Heinz. Teaser: You know what they say about best-laid plans, right? Even if you started 2017 with specific, measurable goals, what happens when you fall behind? What happens when those best-laid plans meet the battlefield of business? What happens when things don’t always go the way you intended? Here are 10 things you can do to get back on track.

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A Sales Maxim To Be Held True

Increase Sales

What sales maxim do you hold to be most true? This past week I had the opportunity to personally witness how the violation of this code of sales behavior turned me away from one vendor to another. Let me explain. As we have just relocated from 1/3 acre home with no fence to two acres totally fenced, we decided it was time to find a dog. Our new home is out in the country where there are plenty of coyotes.

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Product Launch: Who Should Own Enabling the Sales Force?

SBI Growth

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Why Order Taker Mindset will become IIoT Business Extinct

Babette Ten Haken

Order taker mindset will go the way of the dinosaurs. For starters, order takers have difficulty adapting to the challenges presented to them, courtesy of the Internet of Things (IoT) business ecosystem. Changing order taker mindset assaults ingrained professional habits developed within legacy business models. Are you an order taker or an innovator?

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Sales Tips: Scripted versus Tailored Sales Presentations

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Scripted vs. Tailored Sales Presentations. By Connie Schlosberg, Primary Intelligence.

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[Podcast] How FMCG Giants Coach their Sales Teams (Episode 14)

Mindtickle

?. In this 12 minute podcast Singh outlines the k. ey skills that a sales rep in the FMCG space should possess: Different long and short-term initiatives that Dabur has implemented to achieve sales excellence; How to leverage technology to overcome the challenges that field sales teams face; and. Key metrics to assess a sales rep’s growth and measure the outcome of your sales enablement program.

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Optimizing Part Of The Selling Function, Sub-Optimizing The Whole

Partners in Excellence

Recently. I read an article in which the position was put forth, “Inside sales does not have the responsibility for creating pipeline, only the responsibility for selling. They should never pick up the phone and make a prospecting call!” Many of you can imagine what my knee jerk reaction was to this statement. But for a moment, I managed to contain myself.

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[Podcast] How FMCG Giants Coach their Sales Teams (Episode 14)

Mindtickle

?. In this 12 minute podcast Singh outlines the k. ey skills that a sales rep in the FMCG space should possess: Different long and short-term initiatives that Dabur has implemented to achieve sales excellence; How to leverage technology to overcome the challenges that field sales teams face; and. Key metrics to assess a sales rep’s growth and measure the outcome of your sales enablement program.

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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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Comment on 6 Tips to Make Your Modern Sales One-on-Ones Great by 4 Things Only Great Sales Managers Do – Lucid Biz Intelligence

LevelEleven

[…] messaging, delivery, and value proposition. Finally, everyone in sales management should be having weekly one-on-one sessions with each of their team […].

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Drive Your Sales Success with 5 Easy Networking Conversations

Hyper-Connected Selling

I’ve been speaking and training on networking for years, and in all that time, I’ve only met a handful of people who feel they really have their hands around their networking. Most people sullenly acknowledge that having better professional relationships would help, but stress that they just don’t have the time or attention. Too often we wait until we need something from our network before we reach out.

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Salesman Podcast: How To Get Attention In Sales By Selling With Insights

Insight Demand

Click Video Below For Podcast. What you will learn in this episode: [00:58] – Intro. [02:38] – What is a “sales winner”? [05:35] – Is our goal to help the buyer make the decision to buy? [09:58] – Should we interview our best customers to find out how we add value to them? [13:55] – What is the starting point to insight selling? [17:26] – Techniques to deliver the insights to customers. [22:23] – Selling with stories VS logic. [32:40] – How can we accelerate the whole process?

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Success is a Daily Habit

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post Success is a Daily Habit appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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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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High Trust Selling

Platinum Rules for Success

Do you know the difference between low trust and high trust selling? Did you even know that low trust selling was a real thing? Admittedly the names came later, however elements of low trust selling still exists today, practiced by sales teams around the world. Dated and increasingly ineffectual, low trust selling has been replaced by high trust selling’s non-manipulative and thoughtful approach.

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How to Make Time for Real-Time Coaching

SalesLoft

As sales organizations and companies evolve, it’s becoming clear that one asset is becoming more precious than any other: time. With more complexity, more responsibilities, and higher expectations on modern sales teams than ever before, time is becoming a rare commodity. This is especially true for sales managers. With so much on your plate, it’s hard to make time for the small activities that have the greatest impact on your team, like sales coaching.

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5 Traits of Highly Successful Salespeople

SalesHandy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are those who are gifted with certain personality traits, and those who have to work to develop them. Regardless of the path to accumulating these traits, a salesperson’s success relies on them. There have been many research studies conducted on personality traits and their correlation to success. One such study conducted by Harvard Business Review highlights the ideal temperament and characteristics that are hallmarks of a successful salesperson.

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