Fri.Feb 25, 2022

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The Four C’s of Great Salespeople: Part 3

Anthony Cole Training

We have identified the four Cs of great salespeople and how mastering these traits will lead to better relationship selling and advanced selling skills. This week we are focusing on the critical trait of Courage. There are two primary challenges for salespeople that require the most courage.

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One Question to Learn Buying Motive

Mr. Inside Sales

How is your first quarter turning out so far? Closing lots of business and exceeding your quota? Or are you struggling to catch up and hoping for a strong March? If you or your team is struggling, a cause might be a fundamental flaw that many sales teams suffer from: failure to understand—and pitch to—a prospect’s unique buying motive. Let’s review the sales process briefly: Recognizing all buyers of products and services have specific needs (buying motives) they are looking to fulfill.

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How to Leverage Your Perspectives

Engage Selling

Do you know how to strategically create, foster, and leverage your perspectives? Learning how to be Right on the Money means learning field-tested strategies to adapt fully and thrive in today’s permanently changed marketplace. That’s why I launched this four-part … Read More » The post How to Leverage Your Perspectives first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Weekly Roundup: 2022's Economic Slowdown + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.". - AROUND THE WEB -. > The Top 3 Things to Consider for 2022's Economic Slowdown– The Great Game of Business. In 2021, industrial sectors experienced Accelerating Growth, creating crunches on capacity, exacerbating concerns surrounding the labor market, prompting a willingness to purchase raw materials at higher costs than perhaps would have otherwise been desired.

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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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Create Customer Experience With Marketing Content To Sell More

KLA Group

What you write in your lead generation and marketing content directly impacts the actions your prospects will take. When your content is detached, dull, and dry, prospects ignore it. To engage, get more leads, and ultimately sell more, you have to create a customer experience that brings to life the experience of working with your […].

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Getting Past the Gatekeeper

Selling Energy

A lot of people misunderstand the role of the gatekeeper, such as an executive assistant or receptionist. They assume the gatekeeper’s purpose is to prevent you from making a sale that allows you to send your kids to a good school or to pay your mortgage. The truth is quite different. If you’re dealing with a gatekeeper who is good at their job, they’re making sure their boss’s time is well spent.

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Debunking 3 Common Sales Enablement and Readiness Myths

Highspot

Did you know that according to Hubspot, average sales turnover is 3x higher than it is for other industries? Maybe you’ve experienced this first hand – sellers leaving because they’re struggling to reach quota, feel unsupported and disengaged, or are simply overwhelmed and frustrated by administrative tasks. You’re likely trying to solve this by ramping up your sales engagement efforts – adding tools, content, and fine-tuning your readiness strategy to keep sellers

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Stop Chasing B2B Buyers And Start Engaging Them Their Way With The Buying Team Experience

Showpad

Put yourself in your customers’ shoes for a hot minute. You’re a leader who has to figure out how to solve a big problem in your department. The choices are risky and poorly defined, and you’re going to have to get buy-in from a mob of stakeholders with competing priorities. But you’re not ready to call in vendor help because you don’t want to get chased by sales teams and dumped into some annoying marketing drip campaign. .

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Just Exactly How Do You Use A BATNA During A Negotiation?

The Accidental Negotiator

Negotiators need to know what they can do with a BATNA Image Credit: Kari Nousiainen. In order to be successful during your next negotiation, you are going to have to make sure that you use all of the negotiation styles and negotiating techniques that are available to you. One of the most powerful tools that we all go into a negotiation with is our Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement (BATNA).

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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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9 Social Media Automation Workflows To Increase Qualified B2B Leads

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Learn how to use social media automation workflows to optimize your social media presence by automating your content publication, engagement, analysis, and management.

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Mentally Program Yourself to Become a Prospecting Expert | A.J. Vassar - 1535

Sales Evangelist

Prospecting is a critical element of the sales process. After all, how can you expect new business if you aren’t finding new prospects who can benefit from your product? In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by entrepreneur and speaker AJ Vassar to discuss how to prepare yourself for better prospecting. Salespeople need new clients in their pipeline.

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10 signs it’s time to hire a sales consultant + 7 mistakes to avoid

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When should you hire a sales consultant? Learn the key signs your team needs one, plus 7 mistakes to avoid for a smoother process.

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Mentally Program Yourself to Become a Prospecting Expert | A.J. Vassar - 1535

Sales Evangelist

Prospecting is a critical element of the sales process. After all, how can you expect new business if you aren’t finding new prospects who can benefit from your product? In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by entrepreneur and speaker AJ Vassar to discuss how to prepare yourself for better prospecting. Salespeople need new clients in their pipeline.

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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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5 Networking Tips for Using LinkedIn on Mobile

Green Lead's B2B

Events, conferences, and tradeshows are back, which leads to a good reminder of how to network at these events. While walking around a networking event the other night I noticed everyone's nametag was just a name (no company). Once around the room I realized this was a great way to use LinkedIn on my iPhone. (iTunes/Google App Store: LinkedIn). It is a networking secret weapon.

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Ghosted at the end of the deal cycle? Keep late-stage deals from going dark with these four tips

DocSend

No matter how you slice it, being a sales rep is hard. You have engaging conversations with prospects, ask all the right questions (giving all the right answers!), and build custom proposals to meet budgets and needs—only to find yourself ghosted after final contracts are sent. If you’ve found yourself nodding along, you’re not alone—far from it. In our recent webinar, we discussed current trends in hybrid and virtual selling environments and the challenges reps face when trying to close deals.

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5 Networking Tips for Using LinkedIn on Mobile

Green Lead's B2B

Events, conferences, and tradeshows are back, which leads to a good reminder of how to network at these events. While walking around a networking event the other night I noticed everyone's nametag was just a name (no company). Once around the room I realized this was a great way to use LinkedIn on my iPhone. (iTunes/Google App Store: LinkedIn). It is a networking secret weapon.