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The Change Game

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . No matter how one slices it, sales is a game of change. If you are the incumbent, the best way to avoid a client to change vendors, is to continuously introduce change in how your product helps the client achieve their objectives. If you are not the incumbent, then it is all about regime change. Both require that you capture and maintain the buyer’s focus, and have them adopt the change you represent.

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A Marketing and Sales Blind Spot?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? When marketers and salespeople align on something —  anything! — our first instinct is to celebrate it as a victory. Not so fast. Findings from a new Corporate Visions survey provide a snapshot of marketing and sales “alignment” that provides more questions than answers.

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How to Sell Better: Lesson 8 – Learn to Ask Why

A Sales Guy

Why? Kids are great at asking why? They accept the fact they don’t know very much, so they just move through life, like an information sponge asking why about everything. It’s kinda liberating if you think about it, if you accept that you don’t know anything. If you’re OK with the fact that you don’t know, then asking why is the natural thing to do.

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Do These Limitations Unknowingly Restrict Your Sales Success?

Increase Sales

In sales, there are many limitations to sustainable sales success. What I have discovered through years of experience reinforced by actual data from the Attribute Index, there are four somewhat hidden limitations that restrict sales success as well as in life in general. Sales Success Limitations. Self Esteem (Self-Acceptance) – How do you appreciate your own unique self worth?

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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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Why CEOs Should Care About Content Marketing

SBI Growth

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How to Disrupt Entrenched Competitors and Win the Business You Deserve!

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

FREE Web Seminar Date — Thursday, October 12, 2017 Time — 11 AM Eastern Time • 8 AM Pacific Duration — 60 minutes (including 10-min Q&A) Speakers — Paul Cherry & Patrick Connor How often does this frustration occur? You initiate a new sales opportunity and the prospect says, “We’re happy with our existing supplier.” Why is this? Your offer is better – even superior – to what they’re using.

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Reinvent Sales Training or Risk Wholesaler Irrelevance

Allego

The asset management industry’s ongoing evolution is creating significant change for distribution leaders. Fund wholesalers in particular are under enormous pressure. A recent Ignites newsletter article ‘ Wholesale Change: Skilled People ‘Are Going to Have to Reinvent Themselves ’ summarized how funds’ data-driven sales processes, growing product/platform complexity, increasingly time-pressed advisors, and the internet’s erosion of wholesalers’ information advantage make a hard job even harder.

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TSE 663: Persist: How To Beat The Things That Make Us Quit

Sales Evangelist

Feeling down lately? Been getting rejection after rejection? Are you on the verge of giving up? Don’t give up just yet otherwise you could be missing out on greater opportunities to come. Persistence is key. Today’s guest is Dr. Clarence Lee, Jr. He is the author of Persist: How to Beat the Things that Make […] The post TSE 663: Persist: How To Beat The Things That Make Us Quit appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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End of Quarter Do’s and Don’ts for Sales Enablement Leaders

BrainShark

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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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Sales Tips: Next Salesperson Up

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Next Salesperson Up. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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SELLING CHANGE IS HARD – UNLOCK COGNITIVE BIASES THAT BLOCK CHANGE

Insight Demand

The value to buy your product is overwhelming and yet the customer decides not to buy. At times like these, it’s important to remember that customers are not rational decision making machines. They are human beings with built in cognitive biases that make them highly resistant to change. The status quo and optimism biases, for example, prevent customers from making the sensible decision to buy your product.