The Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. I hate objections, and I bet you don’t wake up looking to be rejected first thing in the morning, and then have to work the rest of the day. However, like working out, those of us willing to get up at 5:00 AM to get ahead of the day, we work through the routine adding sets, increasing pounds, and more. As with most things in prospecting and sales is the same, to develop a routine you can and willingly implement.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

What do you say when you get this objection while prospecting ? If you’re like many sales reps, you accept this stall and become a willing participant in the follow up drama that ensues. And you know how frustrating that is. Let’s face it: This blow off is just a variation that prospects have been using for years. It used to be: “Can you send me something in the mail?

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2019

The following is a post by Scott Van Almen, Life Sciences Sales Director at Allego. Scott is also CEO of Versatile Performance Solutions, and is a consultant and master facilitator in the medical device industry. Research shows that boosting the effectiveness of your front-line sales managers’ coaching is the single biggest driver of higher win rates, yet over a third of managers we recently surveyed felt they don’t do enough of it.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 21, 2019

A product leader at a recent client of mine expressed a frustration that most product leaders can relate to. His organization had recently invested heavily in developing a new product that targeted a growing segment of the company’s customer base.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Many sales reps still have trouble handling the initial resistance statement: “We’re all set,” or “We already have a dealer/supplier/vendor for that.”. If you struggle, too, then you’ll love the proven response below. Adapt them to your style and product or service, and start getting past this common objection. “We’re all set”. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

"The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind." This quote, from marketing guru Seth Godin, sums up the importance of good data in making better decisions. Failing is a natural part of life, what matters most -- especially for salespeople -- is how you move forward. Think about the last time you made a quick decision that yielded disappointing results.

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Vengreso

MARCH 21, 2019

Subscribe to Selling With Social. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. Many who have been in the sales industry for years are beginning to experience what Greg Moore calls a “tectonic shift”: the future of selling looks very different than the past. That’s because the digital age has enabled buyers to be more in control of the buying process than they’ve ever been.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Have you been in an interview and asked your prospective employer which sales metrics they value most? That answer is probably, " Yes. " What if I asked you if you’d ever questioned your interviewer about their sales velocity? If you answered " Yes " again, you already know how important this calculation is to understand the growth mindset and overall health of a sales organization.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2019

Creating a winning sales pitch has never been more challenging. In a recent report, sales expert Marc Wayshak found that only 24.3% of 400 surveyed sales reps exceeded quotas last year, and that 61% consider selling harder than it was five years ago. Prospects expect sales pitches to be highly personalized, too. But with the rise of automation tools , sales is more of a “numbers game” than ever, so personalizing a pitch can seem like an impossible task.

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Nimble - Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

“Mentoring, paying it forward, and giving back to the community are all important things for us.” – Neal Schaffer Mentorship is a much-needed resource in the business world, especially in the realms of sales and social selling. If you want to create more mentoring experiences for others you need to scale your mentoring efforts. You […]. The post How To Create More Mentoring Experiences in the Sales World appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 21, 2019

We know questions are critical to our success as sales people. Sadly, we ask too few, choosing instead to pitch our products and solutions, hoping the customer has some interest in considering them, though we often don’t know why. Most modern selling programs talk about the importance of questions, but too often they focus on the wrong questions: Do you have funding for this project?

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Engage Selling

MARCH 21, 2019

Financial compensation doesn’t have to be the only approach to commission. There’s another, perhaps more valuable approach which can further motivate your sales team to produce results. It’s time. Think about it.

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Shari Levitin

MARCH 21, 2019

I, like most of you, struggle to define happiness….happy is a word we throw around a lot. The pursuit of happiness is etched into the American psyche right there next to liberty and even life. But what does happiness really mean, and more importantly, how do we achieve it? The post Roundup: Top 3 Sales Videos of Q1 appeared first on SHARI LEVITIN.

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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 Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s no doubt—lead generation that is clear-cut, clean, and specific is ideal. When we picture lead generation working at peak performance, most of us envision the salesperson being handed a lead that is already pre-qualified and only a small step from closing. Smooth and easy! But don’t fool yourself into thinking that every lead generated by inbound marketing will be so straightforward.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 21, 2019

Most sellers don’t want to think about their sales process, let alone their ‘Big Deal’ sales process. Even tenured account executives believe that sales is more ‘Art’ than ‘Science’, comes naturally, and that every sales situation is unique. Let the sales leaders think about it, the sellers just want to sell. Sellers, wouldn’t the below benefits be helpful?

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Sue Barrett

MARCH 21, 2019

Someone has to do the selling or you don’t have a business. I have met many people over the years who have great ideas, skills, processes or inventions but hate the thought of selling. They usually come from two camps: Camp 1: Those people who understand they have to sell in order to have a […]. The post Someone has to sell, or you don’t have a business appeared first on Barrett Sales Blog.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Aligning sales and marketing teams is a struggle for many companies. When departments aren’t aligned, it can trigger multiple problems. The sales department grows frustrated because they don’t have the necessary material (i.e., blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce.

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Anne Miller

MARCH 21, 2019

Ask any three colleagues from work what color they prefer for a car and why and you will likely get three different answers. Even if they choose the same color, they will likely have a different reason for their color choice. Ask a group of your friends what two traits they consider most important in a spouse or potential spouse (or date) and then to rank those two traits first and second and you will likely get an unexpected mix of responses.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 21, 2019

It is always better to have less but more highly qualified opportunities in your pipeline than it is to have a lot of poorly qualified ones. Resources and focus are better served where you have a realistic chance of success. This tool will help you evaluate opportunities and see if they are worth pursuing. The post Deal Assessment Scorecard appeared first on SalesPOP!

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criteria for success

MARCH 21, 2019

Are you looking to understand buyer behavior in sales? Well, you're in the right place! Listen, we all want to crack the code of how to increase sales. Yes, on the one hand you need to constantly engage in selling activity, but you also need to know a bit more about who you are selling [ ] The post Understanding Buyer Behavior in Sales: What to Look For appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 21, 2019

Professionals and performers rehearse. They prepare themselves to do their very best work when it matters most. In sales, it’s easy to pretend that we are too busy to train and to role-play our most important conversations, creating a state of stasis as it pertains to our effectiveness. One of the ways to create breakthrough effectiveness is to role play the different scenarios to improve and develop strategies and language.

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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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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 21, 2019

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Jeffrey Serlin, Head of Global Sales Operations at Intercom. The post The tie that binds: how sales operations inspire process, success, and adoption in leading organizations appeared first on Predictable Revenue - The Outbound Success Company. We help companies grow faster with Outbound Sales.

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Mobile Locker

MARCH 21, 2019

Have you ever REALLY thought about how challenging it is to run a real estate operation? Take a little time to do the math: Start with a network of real estate brokers and agents Couple that with countless properties including homes, condos, townhouses, lofts, apartments and businesses located in different cities, towns, school districts, and […].

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Smart Calling

MARCH 21, 2019

If you’ve been in sales for more than a few months, you likely have experienced this. If you’re new, you probably will. It’s a slump. When nothing seems to be going your way. The good news, is that it’s temporary, IF you apply the right thinking. Hear how one sales rep modeled what Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher John Smoltz did when he ran into a rough stretch of disappointing performance, and what you can do too.

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Guru

MARCH 21, 2019

Guru’s conference Empower will be here before we know it. Slated for May 7-9 in our fair city of Philadelphia, Empower will bring together support, CX, and sales leaders from 100+ high-growth companies (like Twitter, Etsy, and Zendesk, to name a few) for two days of learning, community building, and action planning.

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Sales Lead Management Association

MARCH 21, 2019

9am with Nick Avossa of Exago on INSIDE Inside Sales with host, Darryl Praill. Pat Morrissey and Nipul Chokshi, Lattice Engines discuss AI & The Rise of the Account Based Approach to Everything. Karen Mares and Susan Finch give you Revenue Saving Tips to Fix Broken Links & Typos on Rooted in Revenue. Tijana Muratovic joins Rhoan Morgan on Revenue Rebels talking about, Does Revenue Ops Affect Alignment?

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Xactly

MARCH 21, 2019

Discover how automating incentive compensation management (ICM) can improve the ROI of sales compensation.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 21, 2019

As you move closer to the end of a deal, you'll likely encounter more objections, and identifying key stakeholders is the secret to overcoming those challenges. As you move into deeper conversation with the prospect, you may not realize that there are other people involved in the process, even if you aren't directly interacting with them. Your job as seller is to find out who they are.

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