Tue.Nov 24, 2020

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Are You Selling The Problem Or The Solution?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Selling solutions is a great approach, but there is a key prerequisite for it to work. Buyers need to actually have or feel they have the problem purported to be solved. But if they don’t see the problem, they won’t need the solution. This is why you find sellers selling more problems than solutions. Ask yourself what you are selling more, the problem or the solution?

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Are Your CSMs Assigned to the Right Accounts and Touchpoints?

SBI Growth

Customer Success has become the focus of many organizations and answers questions such as “how do I retain my customer?” And “how do I grow within my current customer base?” To ensure your organization is focused on the right CS.

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Streaming Vs. Real-Time Intent Data

Zoominfo

In the world of B2B, intent data is like gold. Well, maybe not actual gold and that’s because the benefits of B2B intent data go much further than a one-time increase in revenue. . The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike. Why is it so valuable, you ask? Because intent data allows companies to, as they say, “strike while the iron is hot.

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5 Ways to Influence Virtual Relationships with Buyers

RAIN Group

The in-person buying and selling experience usually goes something like this: You show up to your buyer's office, where they greet you and offer you coffee. You accept, and walk together to the kitchen, discussing your trip in and how the day's going. You chat around the coffee pot for a few minutes about the local restaurant you visited last night.

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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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Streaming Vs. Real-Time Intent Data

Zoominfo

In the world of B2B, intent data is like gold. Well, maybe not actual gold and that’s because the benefits of B2B intent data go much further than a one-time increase in revenue. The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike. Why is it so valuable, you ask? Because intent data allows companies to, as they say, “strike while the iron is hot.

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Streaming vs. Real-Time Intent Data

Zoominfo

In the world of B2B, intent data is like gold. Well, maybe not actual gold and that’s because the benefits of B2B intent data go much further than a one-time increase in revenue. The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike. Why is it so valuable, you ask? Because intent data allows companies to, as they say, “strike while the iron is hot.

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Improving Sales Performance: Business Performance and Culture

The Center for Sales Strategy

Your role as a leader is to drive your people toward your ambitious culture. How do you do that? You must connect with people! When COVID-19 closed gyms, 58% of trainers lost some of all of their income, and 23% were furlough or laid off ( PR Newswire ). How did one gym manage to gain more members now than pre-COIVD? Episode 4 of the Improving Sales Performance series with Tony Hartl, founder of Crunch Fitness Austin and Planet Tan, provides listeners with a few secrets of how he’s getting new m

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5 Sales Attributes We’re Thankful For

Force Management

The team at Force Management loves sales. We love salespeople. We know good salespeople when we see them. We are thankful for the ones who get it. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we are sharing a little gratitude on The Command Center blog.

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Believing is Seeing or Seeing is Believing?

Keith Rosen

Believing is Seeing or Seeing is Believing? How many times have you heard someone say, “I’ll believe it when I see it?” You decide. There was a postmaster who knew everyone in the small town where he lived. A new family moved into the town and asked the postmaster what kind of people live here. He answered them with a question, “What kind of people do you think you’ll find?

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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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Pipeliner CRM Automatizer: The Automation Growth Engine

Pipeliner

A very interesting report was just released from the World Economic Forum. It highlights something that I’ve been saying for a few years, but which is really significant today: without automation no company is going to make it into the future. One prediction made by the report is that, by 2025, 15 percent of the human workforce will be reduced, replaced by machines.

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Prospecting with Video in 2021: Top Templates, Examples, and Ideas Worth Stealing

Sales Hacker

Adding personalized videos to your outbound messages can have a significant impact on response rates and meetings booked. But being successful – and efficient – with video content takes more than just a webcam and writing a name on a whiteboard. The post Prospecting with Video in 2021: Top Templates, Examples, and Ideas Worth Stealing appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Exporting Incent Data Via Xactly Connect

Canidium

Do your organizational processes require you to manually download information out of Incent? If so, consider leveraging Xactly Connect to automatically pull information from Incent in a predetermined layout!

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What is Sales Enablement? And Why Do You Need It?

Allego

Sales enablement is having a moment. Selling is harder than ever and more organizations are dedicating people, processes, and technology to supporting this critical function. If you work in sales or marketing, chances are you’ve recently heard the term sales enablement. Although it’s a hot topic, there seems to be some confusion around how the profession is changing during this inflection point in its history.

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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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PODCAST 137: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 136, check it out here: From the Opera to the C-Suite: Taking the Leap and Founding a Company with Matt Klepac. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:04]. Who is Trish Bertuzzi and what is the Bridge Group? [3:00]. Team selling and why it’s making a comeback [7:43].

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Speed Up Your Sales Cycle with Data

Appbuddy

Let’s be honest, 2020 was not a great year for many businesses. With COVID-19 still ravaging economies around the globe, finding ways to improve sales continues to be top of mind for many. Thankfully, there are some simple steps businesses can take to help enhance their sales processes and customer engagement efforts. Making sure customer data is up to scratch is one of the best places to start.

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Coaching Volume: Setting Quarterly Goals for Highly Effective Sales Managers

CommercialTribe

Welcome to part three in our series on data-driven sales coaching, aimed at arming sales leaders with the advice they need to effectively direct coaching efforts and realize a strong ROI. If you’re new to the series, start here. It’s 10:15 on a Monday morning and Jennifer — a new but promising rep — is sitting down for a discovery call with a high-value prospect.

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How to Accelerate Sales in the midst of Uncertainty

Showpad

Every downswing has an inevitable upswing. In some cases, losses may never be fully recouped or prior advantages may no longer exist. On the positive side, economic or organizational uncertainty doesn’t have to spell complete disaster. A crisis, by nature, disturbs the playing field, opening up new opportunities, weeding out outdated practices and forcing executives to take a harder look at core competencies.

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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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The Art Of The Virtual Product Demo

Salesmate

Demos are by far the most effective method of showing off a product’s capabilities. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has made in-person product demo meetings more challenging. However, video conferencing allows you to perform virtual product demos without ever leaving the comfort of your home office. With so many people working remotely for the foreseeable future, virtual product demos are becoming increasingly popular.

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PowerPoint Basics

Selling Energy

The way people typically design PowerPoint slides is a joke, mostly due to outdated guidelines. PowerPoint practitioners used to say, "You shouldn't have more than five bullets on each slide, with no more than six words per bullet and one minute spent on each slide.".

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SugarCRM vs. Salesforce: 5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Sugar Sell

SugarCRM

User experience (UX) is everything in e-commerce. Today’s consumers are agile: They glide effortlessly between devices, making purchases on laptops and smartphones as they flit from place to place. They want mobile-optimized sites, personalized shopping experiences, and instant in-depth product information. They’re busy, they can be demanding, and they’ll bounce right out of your e-commerce site if they don’t like what they see.

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Two Cold-Calling Scripts to Help Your Team Schedule More Meetings

Chorus.ai

Cold calling is probably the hardest thing to do in sales, and conditions in the market post-COVID-19 haven’t made it any easier. Cold calling isn’t naturally designed to make you successful, so sales development reps and sales reps need as much help as they can get to overcome obstacles and objections. That’s why cold-calling scripts can be so handy.

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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.