Mon.Sep 10, 2018

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Why You’re Not Closing Sales (and How to Fix It)

MarketJoy

Sales is the toughest job in the world, but it can be an incredibly rewarding and lucrative job too- if you know how to do it. Unfortunately, most salespeople focus on how to sell more instead of how to become better at sales and that’s why they keep making the same mistakes again and again. It doesn’t matter whether you’re experienced or a newbie It doesn’t matter whether you have been selling for days, weeks, or years if you’re making the mistakes given below they can harm your performance.

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A Great Way to Establish Trust & Create Value: Think Like an Owner

The Center for Sales Strategy

Getting that first appointment with a new business prospect is difficult because most sellers do not take the time to establish trust and create value in the mind of the prospect. Unknown salespeople do not have the best reputation in the minds of new business prospects because of the less than honest actions of some sellers. An essential element to overcoming this hurdle is establishing trust and creating value— one way to do this is to think like an owner.

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Facing Objections (and Staring Them Down)

Selling Energy

Overcoming objections is a large part of what we teach at Selling Energy, so a book on the subject by the likes of bestselling author Jeb Blount ( Fanatical Prospecting ) is a must-have to supplement our classes.

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Allocating Capital Using LTV/CAC Analysis: It’s Not Brain Surgery – or Is It?

SBI Growth

As CEO, your job is to be the brain of the corporate body. You direct the body through strategy to take action. You also make sure the body parts have the right resources and focus (time, talent, and money). Done.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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Cold calling: How to respond to "I don't have time"?

Close.io

Unless you’re cold calling someone whose office is on fire, there’s a good chance they have time for you. Nine times out of ten, “I don’t have time” is just polite-speak for “you’re not a priority right now.” If prospects were really busy, they’d simply hang up—or ignore your call altogether. So how do you make your cold call a priority? Prove you’re worth their time.

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8 Critical Questions to Ask Yourself as You Build a Sales Incentives Program for 2019

Sales Hacker Training

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a strong sales incentives program will help you attract and retain A-list sales talent, so it is worth putting in the legwork to create a strong plan. .

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A Short and Sweet Case for Enterprise SPM

Xactly

Sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation management (ICM) are often used interchangeably. While at one time, these two terms did essentially mean the same thing, SPM now encompasses far more than just compensation. SPM refers to sales planning, comp management, performance optimization—and everything in between. Along with the evolution of SPM, sales and finance teams are gaining more opportunity to take control and influence their sales processes and revenue outcomes.

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Can On-Demand Sales Training Replace Classroom Training?

Sales Readiness Group

On this Q&A episode: "Can on-demand sales training replace classroom training.

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An Introduction to Brand Archetyping for Social Selling

LeadIQ

By: Ryan O’Hara. Let’s play a little game! Real quick, I want you to take 30 seconds, and think of some of your favorite products and brands. Remember brands and products can be anything ranging from shoes or clothing you wear, to the coffee/beer you drink, all the way to the bands, people, and tv shows you like. Think of brands and products you are fiercely loyal to.

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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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Business Growth leverages Profitable Leadership Communication

Babette Ten Haken

Business growth either leverages profitable leadership communication. Or it showcases collaboration gaps. You have heard the expression: “The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.” How many of your clients have voiced this sentiment, when attempting to traverse execution of pre-sale promises and their post-sale service delivery and execution?

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The Effort Behind Effortlessness in Sales

Pipeliner

Effortlessness in Sales: How to Make Your Job Look Easy. Effortlessness in sales is an elusive idea. One of the kindest comments that can come from those we work for is this: “You make what you do look effortless.” It doesn’t matter if you are a professional speaker, a salesman, a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker; when anyone hears that phrase, it can’t help but make you feel like you’ve done your job well.

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What is Selling – Definition

The Digital Sales Institute

What is selling and the definition of selling is a question is a valid question often asked by newer people to the profession. Selling involves many different activities and actions which depend on the customers situation and where in the sales journey you are at. What is selling to a new prospect has a different definition to up-selling to an existing customer.

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7 Sales Skills You Can Dramatically Improve Using Gong.io

Gong.io

Improving sales skills is one of the main reasons people use Gong.io. Think of your sales methodology as a race car — it’s the vehicle that brings you from first call to close. . Think of your sales skills fuel for that sales process. Without the right sales skills to fuel it, it’s just an expensive piece of metal. Sales skills (and specifically, effective sales conversation skills ) make the process go forward.

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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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The 5 Foundational Elements of an Executive Sponsor Program

Altify

This is an extract from the Executive Sponsor Program section of my book: Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World. Executive customer visits are often clumsy attempts to close a deal that the account manager has not been able to close on their own. These types of meetings often do more harm than good; the account manager is undermined, the executive is relegated to the position of salesperson (or sales manager) and the customers can rightly feel offended if the only time they get

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Cold calling: How to respond to "I don't have time"?

Close

Unless you’re cold calling someone whose office is on fire, there’s a good chance they have time for you.

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TSE 917: Why Your B2B Inbound Leads Are Not Closing

Sales Evangelist

When your marketing department rounds up good inbound leads for your sales reps, but your sales don’t increase, it can leave you confused. If the leads are highly qualified, it can leave you confused about why your b2b inbound leads are not closing. On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, we’ll discuss the common reasons […] The post TSE 917: Why Your B2B Inbound Leads Are Not Closing appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Creating a Learning Culture with Arianna Miskel – Episode 81

criteria for success

Creating a learning culture in your organization? Well, you won't want to miss this episode of Let's Talk Sales! This month on the CFS blog, we're writing about creating and fostering a learning culture within organizations. In this episode of Let's Talk Sales, I interviewed our Sales & Marketing Coordinator, Arianna Miskel. She just wrote [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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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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The 5 Foundational Elements of an Executive Sponsor Program

Altify

This is an extract from the Executive Sponsor Program section of my book: Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World. Executive customer visits are often clumsy attempts to close a deal that the account manager has not been able to close on their own. These types of meetings often do more harm than good; the account manager is undermined, the executive is relegated to the position of salesperson (or sales manager) and the customers can rightly feel offended if the only time they get

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Best Practices for Creating a Call Recording Disclaimer

ExecVision

Disclaimer: We are not lawyers and this post is not legal advice. Consult your legal team before beginning any call recording program. If you make outbound calls into two-party consent states , you can record them so long as you remain compliant by disclosing that you are recording the conversation. There are a variety of ways to disclose you are recording the call, however some methods are not compliant in every state.

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Why it’s Absolutely Silly to Pay Any Attention to Critics

Selling Fearlessly

One of my favorite quotations is from President Theodore Roosevelt. It goes like this: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose […].

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News Test

DialSource

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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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A Guide to Latent Semantic Indexing and LSI Keywords

Zoominfo

Since the advent of the search engine, SEO tactics have been in a constant state of evolution. Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending who you ask—it’s no longer enough to rely on blog comments, keyword stuffing, and directory listings to get your content on the front page of Google search results. In order to appeal to modern search algorithms, there are many new considerations content creators and website managers must make.

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INBOUND18: What I Saw and Why You Should Attend Next Year

KO Advantage Group

I’m still on a high from INBOUND18 ! I was fortunate enough to be selected to at last year’s conference, INBOUND17 , and it was a delight in its own right, however, this year was something else. INBOUND17 opened up a lot of doors for me. After my presentation, I was able to help a number of entrepreneurs and businesses alike and that urged me to hire my first employee.

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