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Mixing Phone Conversations With Social Listening for B2B Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike Scher The cold call is not dead, but it is living and breathing differently as social platforms become more important. It’s no longer enough to call a prospect, leave a voicemail and wait. In order to reach, pitch and ultimately close a deal, sales professionals need to be engaging with prospective decision-makers (6.8 per B2B buying decision) across social media platforms.

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Sales Motivation Video: What Happened to the Leads and Prospects You Had?

The Sales Hunter

Who has fallen off your bandwagon? Do you have prospects who possibly got in touch with you at one time or who you simply haven’t connected with in quite awhile? Now is the time to boost your sales motivation and call the prospects who have possibly fallen off your radar. Check out the video to […].

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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. But they’ve also shown that paying too little can be worse than paying nothing at all.

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Buzz Words Don't Sell

Increase Sales

Believe it or not, some believe that adopting the most current buzz words will dramatically their increase sales. Right now the most popular buzz word is sales enablement. Before that we had trusted advisor, consultative sales, development specialist, relationship expert, you get the drift. In many instances, buzz words tell others how you do what you do and not what you do.

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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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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. But they’ve also shown that paying too little can be worse than paying nothing at all.

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[Video] Top 5 Reasons to Stop Forecasting in Spreadsheets

Aviso

As a member of the sales or sales operations team, delivering an accurate forecast is one of the most important things you can do for your organization. Yet, knowing how critical it is to get the number right, far too many organizations still trust their forecast to CRM and spreadsheets — even when research shows […]. The post [Video] Top 5 Reasons to Stop Forecasting in Spreadsheets appeared first on Aviso.

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Hyper-Connected Selling Idea #3

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post Hyper-Connected Selling Idea #3 appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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“Amping Up” Your Pipeline Reviews

Partners in Excellence

Managers spend an inordinate amount of time in pipeline reviews. Largely, I think this is the result of lack of clarity of what they want to accomplish in pipeline reviews or too great a focus on the numbers and not what produces the numbers. (but these are topics for other articles.). Probably 95% of all pipeline reviews I sit in are wasted efforts.

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TSE 662: Don’t Insult Your Prospects

Sales Evangelist

Building value with a prospect is a common challenge among many salespeople. And at the core of this is showing respect to your customers. This week, I got the chance to speak at the Eastern Minority Supplier Development Council where I spoke about sales, specifically about how we can build value in every single conversation […] The post TSE 662: Don’t Insult Your Prospects appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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.