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The Story of Sales - the Admirable Profession of Sales

Score More Sales

Have you seen the new documentary called The Story of Sales? It is now viewable through the Salesforce website , who funded the project. There are also some upcoming viewings in cities around the country. I know firsthand how dedicated the interviewers, producer, director and everyone involved in the production were.

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I Need Home Office Approval Before I Can Buy. NOT!

Jeffrey Gitomer

More than half the time you hear the line, "I need home office approval," it's a lie. A stall tactic that frustrates and deceives. The challenge this objection presents is to find out if it's the truth (or true objection).

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

Pointclear

Unless you are the low-price leader, value selling is essential to the success of your business. It's a rather straightforward proposition to sell on price only. The real challenge is to learn how to demonstrate that the extra cost of your product or service is worth it. That takes more persuasive skills, better navigation of the prospect organization, a broader understanding of strategic objectives - and frankly a likable demeanor - to convince your target of the value you offer.

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Does Sales Enablement Technology Work?

No More Cold Calling

Sure, but only when combined with human conversations. I love technology … when it works. When it doesn’t, it feels like the end of the world. OK, not exactly, but it does slow us down. In sales, time is money, and the more of that time is spent interacting with customers and prospects, the more money comes in. Plain and simple. Thus, sales enablement technology only works if it saves times on menial tasks and facilitates human conversations.

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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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The Difference between Inbound and Outbound Sales Strategies

The Center for Sales Strategy

Inbound and outbound sales strategies are both crucial to a healthy, thriving business. Since leads are the lifeblood of most sales teams, receiving them in more than one way allows your company to be dynamic and flexible, easily shifting with the latest marketing trends and poised for conversions.

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It’s a Trap! Why Your RFP Response Rarely Wins

Hubspot Sales

How to Craft an RFP Response. Identify whether you already have a relationship with the RFP issuer, consider if you have an RFP “Swat Team” ready to go, and don’t let excitement fool you into thinking the deal is yours. Consider whether this is truly a qualified lead, and be willing to walk if it means saving valuable time and resources. Many salespeople become giddy when they see an RFP (Request for Proposal) that falls within their sales area.

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B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey. Here’s How to Do It Right

Sales Hacker

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g.

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Top 5 stress reduction strategies in sales

Trinity Perspectives

I’m either exactly the right person, or completely the wrong person, to write an article about how to overcome stress in sales, given my experiences over the past 20 years in the B2B sales industry … I’ll let you be the judge. What I can say without fear of contradiction, is that being a sales professional can be one of the most stress-inducing, gut-wrenching and soul-destroying career paths that anyone can pursue.

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What Is Sales Readiness? And Why Should You Care?

BrainShark

Learn about the concept and importance of sales readiness and three ways to improve it across your sales team.

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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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Revenue Summit 2018: Key Takeaways From 5 Groundbreaking Sessions

Sales Hacker

Sales Hacker has once again brought another electrifying edition of The Revenue Summit! The event marked an impressive energy with over 40 speakers from very successful companies from all over the country. Thank you to all of those who attended the event with us in San Francisco! If you’re a sales leader and you couldn’t make it to the event, make sure you head over to the event recap published last week.

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ClickFunnels vs Leadpages Review: The Ultimate (No Fluff) Guide

Sell Courses Online

The post ClickFunnels vs Leadpages Review: The Ultimate (No Fluff) Guide appeared first on Sell Courses Online. ClickFunnels vs Leadpages Review Summary. Pricing Ease of Use Sales Funnel Builder Checkouts & Fulfillment Customer Support & Community Pricing Site Design & Customization Sales & Marketing Course Delivery & Engagement Customer Support What I like about ClickFunnels vs Leadpages?

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How to Use Sales Compensation to Motivate Middle Performers

Xactly

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. Being a sales leader is no easy task, and it takes a lot of strategy and collaboration with sales operations to be incredible at sales compensation planning.

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Future Proofing Your Sales Career

Engage Selling

I’m rarely lost for words, but this provocative question at last night’s Enterprise Sales Forum in NYC caused me to pause for a few minutes: “What does the fact that most sellers don’t call themselves “salesperson” say about our clients’ … Read More »

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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 Age of Remote Sales Training

Pipeliner

Why The Days of Live In-Person Training Are Coming To An End. In recent years I have noticed something: more and more of my clients do not want live in person training. They want training done remotely. When I first started to facilitate online training way back in 2012, I found it difficult to ensure that participants were getting the most out of the sessions.

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Top 5 stress reduction strategies in sales

Trinity Perspectives

I’m either exactly the right person, or completely the wrong person, to write an article about how to overcome stress in sales, given my experiences over the past 20 years in the B2B sales industry. I’ll let you be the judge. What I can say without fear of contradiction, is that being a sales professional can be one of the most stress-inducing, gut-wrenching and soul-destroying career paths that anyone can pursue.

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The Age of Remote Sales Training

Pipeliner

Why The Days of Live In-Person Training Are Coming To An End. In recent years I have noticed something: more and more of my clients do not want live in person training. They want training done remotely. When I first started to facilitate online training way back in 2012, I found it difficult to ensure that participants were getting the most out of the sessions.

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All You Need to Know About Account-Based Sales

Vainu

After decades of hunch-based, adrenaline-fueled cold calling and Hail-Mary revenue generation, we’ve recently entered an entirely new era. An era steered by intelligent, laser-targeted prospecting, tuned by personalization and driven by data. Thanks to new technological innovations, a relatively old business selling model has become more common lately: the account-based sales model.

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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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Sales Tech Game Changers: How to Drive Effective Relationship Management

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Lyamen Savy , VP of Marketing at PipelineDeals. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Lyamen: PipelineDeals was founded in 2006 with the mission to give any business the power to build game-changing relationships.

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2 Quick Tips to Increase Sales Management Effectiveness

Pipeliner

In this video, Adrian Davis offers 2 quick but powerful tips to increase effectiveness in sales management. Don’t drive looking in your rear-view mirror. It’s fine to look over reports of what’s been done, but to effectively manage you need to look out ahead, and manage behavior accordingly. Don’t drive at all! You need to be coaching your salespeople to be excellent drivers themselves.

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Coming Soon: Innovation from SugarCRM to Address Data Protection and GDPR Compliance

SugarCRM

Personal data is valuable, and it’s easier than ever to obtain. Since the onset of the digital revolution, consumers have made it very easy for companies to sweep up a great detail of data about themselves and their activities. While all this data has been a boon to companies’ sales and marketing efforts, it’s created some bad corporate habits. While some companies are open about their data practices, many seem to operate under to motto: “ it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. ” Some o

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2 Quick Tips to Increase Sales Management Effectiveness

Pipeliner

In this video, Adrian Davis offers 2 quick but powerful tips to increase effectiveness in sales management. Don’t drive looking in your rear-view mirror. It’s fine to look over reports of what’s been done, but to effectively manage you need to look out ahead, and manage behavior accordingly. Don’t drive at all! You need to be coaching your salespeople to be excellent drivers themselves.

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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.

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Embrace ‘Spring Fever’ to Heat Up Sales

Carew International

It may not yet feel it for the majority of us, but spring 2018 has officially arrived! Once those first beautiful days arrive, we will all be talking about how difficult it is to be at work and how we would much rather be outside enjoying the weather. What if, instead of fighting against “spring fever,” we embraced it…to the benefit of our sales efforts and our customer relationships?

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Will the Salespeople You Hire Master the Skill of Making Effective Presentations? – by Steve Suggs

Selling Fearlessly

This is the written version of a Steve Suggs video blog. Hello, I am Steve Suggs, sales recruiting expert and author of the book, Can They Sell. Welcome to my sales recruitment video blog where you learn to hire the best salespeople. I recently had the privilege of being the customer of a master salesperson, Travis. […].

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TSE 796: What Does It Mean to Become an Authentic Leader and How Do I Do It?

Sales Evangelist

Authentic leaders make themselves vulnerable. They value transparency and they connect with their teams. Authentic leaders understand that they must show up and be present in their leadership roles. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, we hear from Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes about the importance of authentic leadership. In their book, Remember Who […] The post TSE 796: What Does It Mean to Become an Authentic Leader and How Do I Do It?

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Sales Coaching In 3 Easy Steps

Sales Gravy

The goal of sales coaching is to change behavior. Either get a salesperson to start doing something they?re not, stop doing something they are, or do something they are doing only better. Giving people critical feedback is hard to do.

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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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7 Ways AI, Machine Learning and Automation Will Impact Your Business in 2018

Outbound Works

AI is taking over tasks from human workers and creating new value for businesses by doing tasks human workers could never do. This isn’t something that will happen – it’s been going on for some time. But this year it’s reaching a critical mass as basic automation measures have become widespread, while more advanced AI […].

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Sell Or Die Podcast: Dealing With Sales Objections Video

Sales Gravy

Jeb Blount, Jeffery Gitomer, and Jen Gluckow offer tips, tricks, and techniques for getting past sales objections on this episode of Sell Or Die podcast.

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Are You Clear About What Success Really Is?

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post Are You Clear About What Success Really Is? appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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