Thu.May 30, 2019

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Do Women and Men Sell Differently?

Chorus.ai

Chorus.ai has been an avid supporter of having more women in sales roles. We now regularly host women in sales meetups ( in Boston last month, sign up for the next one in the San Francisco Bay Area ) and were also recently a sponsor at the Utah Women in Sales Rise Up conference. As a Conversation Intelligence platform, Chorus stores and analyzes millions of sales calls.

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Better Use Of Your Time

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. On Tuesday I posted about the need for salespeople to own their own time. Had a number of folks reach out to see what steps they can take to ensure they are maximizing from this resource. Based on a couple of calls, I decided to follow with a specific methodology for better use of your time. Get Out Of The Zone. As with most transformational things, we need to take specific and uncomfortable steps.

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Is Your HR Tech Stack Built for the Future or a Legacy Patchwork?

SBI Growth

A CHRO needs a tech stack that is enabled for 2019 and beyond. Why? Because the organization can’t be slowed down by the basics, and wasted time is lost opportunities. The HR tech marketplace is expanding at a mind-blowing pace and.

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How to Spend Less Time Leaving Voicemails

Zoominfo

There’s no way around it – voicemails are not an enjoyable part of a salesperson’s job. Not only is it a tedious process, but it’s largely ineffective in terms of getting a response. Consider these statistics ( source ): 80% of calls go to voicemail, and 90% of first time voicemails are never returned. The average voicemail response rate is 4.8%. 15% of the average sales rep’s time is spent leaving voicemails.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Why Monitor If You’re Not Going To Fix It? 5 Steps to Fixing Your CRM and Salespeople Issues

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we offer solutions for your CRM system and provide 5 concrete steps in helping your salespeople improve their numbers and ratios so that a sales manager can more accurately identify choke points in the sales process.

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What Kind of B2B Marketing Personalization Gets Results?

Corporate Visions

The post What Kind of B2B Marketing Personalization Gets Results? by Corporate Visions appeared first on Corporate Visions. In today’s world of big data and hyper-targeted marketing campaigns, most B2B marketers believe the more personalized your message, the better your results. Our research backs this up. 58 percent of B2B marketers we surveyed believed the highest effort personalization method is the most effective approach.

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The 6 Elements of a Truly Consultative Sales Process

Hubspot Sales

We know that best-in-class sales organizations use a consultative sales process. But what does that really look like? A sales process is consultative when the stages and actions align with the customer’s buying experience and are defined in terms of the customer relationship. It's only successful when sales leadership and the sales force execute with dedication and competence.

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Three Strategies to Build a Great Relationship with Your Internal Coach

Miller Heiman Group

As a sales professional, you need a game plan—a method for prioritizing your time and focusing your efforts on the deals that are most likely to close. But you also need a coach—someone who wants to see you win, because when you win, they win too. While you may be thinking of a coach in the traditional sense—as a personal mentor—you also need a different type of coach to build your book of business.

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How to Plan Sales Meetings that Engage & Motivate Your Team

The Sales Readiness Blog

If you’ve ever run a sales meeting, you probably know that most salespeople aren’t thrilled to attend. Good sales reps prefer to spend their time selling, not sitting in a conference room. After all, they can’t make quota daydreaming their way through a boring meeting.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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10 Social Media Management Tools Small Businesses Can’t Live Without

Nimble - Sales

Did you know that the number of Facebook users already exceeds 2 billion? And that the number of users who visit Instagram monthly reaches 1 billion? A good reason to rely on social media for promoting your business, isn’t it? On the other hand, social media management is not as easy as it sounds. Especially […]. The post 10 Social Media Management Tools Small Businesses Can’t Live Without appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Curiosity Killed the Cat, but Saved the Sales Rep

The Center for Sales Strategy

Have you ever noticed how many questions little kids ask? Every parent has a story to tell about the funny or embarrassing questions their kids have asked at the most inopportune times, all those occasions their child has scrunched up their little face and asked, “Why is Grandma so wrinkly?" or "Why do we have to go to school every day?" or "Why do I have to eat those gross green things?

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Sensemaking: Selling To Customers In The “Simple Quadrant”

Partners in Excellence

This post is the fourth in my series on Sensemaking. For links to the other posts in the series, go to: Sensemaking, The Big Issue Facing Both Our Customers And Us. In this post, I’ll do a deep dive into how we sell into organizations operating in the Simple Quadrant. As a recap, the Cynefin model is displayed below: The Simple Quadrant, is characterized by “known-knowns.” With a name like “simple,” people can mis-characterize businesses, thinking of them as simplis

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How Do YOU Respond?

Engage Selling

Take the time to analyze how you respond to things, both online and offline. Recently, I posted a new video on cold calling on LinkedIn.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Four Lessons for New Sales Professionals

Sandler Training

One of the most fun questions I like to ask salespeople is: “How did you find yourself in sales?” The answer is always an interesting one because I never hear the same answer twice. What’s the fastest way from point A to point B? A straight line, of course. But a straight line is not something that salespeople have the luxury of having in their careers.

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Are You a Sales Dog or a Sales Wolf?

Pipeliner

In the world of sales, you have a choice to either follow the path of the Sales Dog or the Sales Wolf. The Sales Wolf aggressively chases their prospects and will do anything and everything necessary to reach their targets. They may be successful in the short term, but their tactics fall far short when it comes to building long-standing, trusting relationships.

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14 proven ways to speed up a slow sales cycle

PandaDoc

A slow sales cycle is kryptonite to good sales teams. It hinders accurate forecasting, hurts team morale, and slows growth. That last point is especially important. In today’s highly competitive business environment, it’s the fastest-growing technology companies that end up dominating the market. So, to be the best, you need to speed up your sales cycle.

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The Most Effective Ways to Market Your Property

Pipeliner

Are you planning to rent out your property? To generate tenant interest, it is essential that you curate an effective marketing strategy to market your property which will allow you to generate consistent income and make the most of your investment. If you’re unsure how to market your property, you should consider these top tips which will help you advertise and engage potential renters.

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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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Top 5 Business Storytelling Books

criteria for success

All month long, we've been talking and writing about the importance of storytelling in sales. By now, I'm pretty sure we've convinced you to improve your storytelling skills! Perhaps you've already employed some of our suggested best practices. If so, tell us about your experiences in the comment section below! Top 5 Business Storytelling Books [ ] The post Top 5 Business Storytelling Books appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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5 Tips to Improve Responsiveness & Improve Customer Experience

Carew International

In the world of professional sales, our priorities can be identified by how we spend our time – the amount of time we devote to customers and, just as importantly, our response time when customers reach out to us. In fact, there is no greater indication of respect and commitment than our responsiveness to customers. But in an age of unrelenting calls, texts and emails, it can be extremely challenging to stay on top of every customer engagement.

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Why Smart Content Will Improve Your Inbound Marketing

Leading Results Rambings

Inbound marketing is using educational, valuable content to draw people who need your products/services to you. Smart content is a “weapon” in your inbound marketing arsenal and is more powerful and flexible than other types of content. Why? Because it changes/adapts based on the viewer. Smart content allows you to improve your visitor targeting and create an individualized experience.

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AI to Meet KPI, ROI goals for Life Sciences Organizations

Bigtincan

Historically, it has been challenging for sales and marketing teams in the Life Sciences industry to capture KPI and ROI metrics against sales presentations and marketing collateral. Marketing surveys and advisory boards have been employed to provide guidance but are no substitute for robust field data. With the coming of age of sales enablement and […].

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Why Smart Content Will Improve Your Inbound Marketing

Leading Results Rambings

Inbound marketing is using educational, valuable content to draw people who need your products/services to you. Smart content is a “weapon” in your inbound marketing arsenal and is more powerful and flexible than other types of content. Why? Because it changes/adapts based on the viewer. Smart content allows you to improve your visitor targeting and create an individualized experience.

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Engineers' Corner: Xactly's Switch to Headless Chrome

Xactly

Xactly recently switched from PhantomJS to Headless Chrome. Here's everything you need to know about the switch and the gains in performance and stability.

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Why Smart Content Will Improve Your Inbound Marketing

Leading Results Rambings

Inbound marketing is using educational, valuable content to draw people who need your products/services to you. Smart content is a “weapon” in your inbound marketing arsenal and is more powerful and flexible than other types of content. Why? Because it changes/adapts based on the viewer. Smart content allows you to improve your visitor targeting and create an individualized experience.

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What a Pit Stop Crew’s Urgency Can Teach Sellers

Mereo

Across the board, I have witnessed a plague among sales professionals and at times sales leaders. The talent seems there. The structure aligned or aligning. The solution valuable. Yet, the sellers fall short in reaching targets, meeting quotas and scaling goals. The issue often boils down to something missing among salespeople and overall culture: a lack of urgency.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Key Takeaways from Sales Leaders at Empower 2019

Guru

Empower , Guru’s first ever conference, was two days of nonstop learning and fun in Philadelphia. Revenue team leaders – spanning sales, customer experience, and support – converged at World Cafe Live to share insights, best practices, personal stories, and more. In addition to keynote sessions that covered topics like how to leverage learning momentum, the power of organizational health, and how to put the customer at the center of everything, we also broke out into two designated tracks geared

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Do Women and Men Sell Differently?

Chorus.ai

Chorus.ai has been an avid supporter of having more women in sales roles. We now regularly host women in sales meetups ( in Boston last month, sign up for the next one in the San Francisco Bay Area ) and were also recently a sponsor at the Utah Women in Sales Rise Up conference. As a Conversation Intelligence platform, Chorus stores and analyzes millions of sales calls.

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The rocket demo: how to effectively sell your product in 30 minutes with veteran entrepreneur and sales coach Dan Martell

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Dan Martell, renowned coach to SaaS founders. The post The rocket demo: how to effectively sell your product in 30 minutes with veteran entrepreneur and sales coach Dan Martell appeared first on Predictable Revenue.