Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2019

Sales forecasting… Did you just shudder? How about pipeline reviews? Heart start to race a few beats? For most sales reps and leaders, this is an important part of your role — and yet pipeline reviews are one of the most dreaded meetings on the calendar. This article won’t give you the silver bullet to answer your manager’s questions about your deals but it will give you a bulletproof methodology to get within 5% of your actuals.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 18, 2019

Your video marketing doesn’t work for me. Salespeople and content marketers, I don’t like watching your videos. I have to put my earbuds in, and that breaks my concentration. Video is not my learning style. I can read and get your point much faster than I can listen. The caption below your video is distracting to me as well. I will, however, read a well-crafted summary or transcript of your remarks.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 18, 2019

There are ideas a sales leader must refuse. Allowing these ideas to take hold can decelerate growth, distract the sales force from their real work , and result in a poor sales performance. They can also start a vicious cycle, a downward trend that is difficult to reverse. Allowing Sales Reps to Become Operators : There are always going to be people within an organization who will ask for help from the sales team.

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Engage Selling

JULY 18, 2019

Have you given sufficient thought to building confidence in your sales team? It goes without saying, but confident salespeople perform better than those who lack confidence.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 18, 2019

Sometimes I wonder if our ability to measure almost everything is what gets in the way of us actually paying attention to what might be the most useful metrics. I’ve spoken with plenty of sales managers who are frustrated these days because someone upstairs has fallen in love with a new measurement, a new report, or a new way to look at familiar data.

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Nimble - Sales

JULY 18, 2019

Today, remote jobs are becoming more and more popular. Many companies prefer hiring remote employees because it is more profitable for them. However, you need to make their work as effective as possible. How can you do that? What should you do to organize effective online collaboration for sales teams? Let’s move on to discussing […]. The post Why Online Collaboration is Pivotal for Remote Sales Teams appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

The post How to Drive More Growth from Customer Expansion Conversations by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. Not customer expansion. But the sale isn’t over just because your prospect becomes a customer. There’s still ample opportunity to grow revenue from customer expansion—nurturing your existing customer relationships, helping them see the value of expan

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

Let’s try a thought experiment. You will see some of the assumptions are very simplistic, they will become obvious as we move through the thought experiment. They don’t impact the thought experiment. For the moment, suspend your judgement and bear with me. The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent.

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Sell Courses Online

JULY 18, 2019

The post The 7 Best Screencasting Software in 2019 (Includes Free Options) appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Capturing and sharing a video recording of your screen can be the quickest, easiest and most effective way of sharing knowledge in many different situations. And to help you with this, there is an entire range of screencasting software in the market, which offer a variety of features on top of basic screen recording capability.

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Pipeliner

JULY 18, 2019

What to look for while setting up a sales office in a new territory. Setting up a new sales office can come with a number of different challenges. Firstly, the market dynamics in the new territory can be dramatically different from what you are used to in your role. Add to this the pressures of finding the right office location, hiring the right candidates, and setting up the right goals and targets for your team to achieve.

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SalesLatitude

JULY 18, 2019

Your sales metrics are crucial for gauging your team’s performance and ensuring accurate forecasts. You’re a sales leader, so you’re very likely keeping track of progress at least on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis. But are you measuring the right things? Over the years, I’ve learned to pinpoint two types of sales metrics I often see managers use: lagging activities (bad) and leading indicators (good).

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PandaDoc

JULY 18, 2019

If you’ve listened to one of my webinars lately or read a previous blog post of ours, you know I’m all about giving away our secrets in hopes of bettering sales teams worldwide. If you can apply what works for us here at PandaDoc to your sales process and be successful, I’m all for it. Isn’t everyone a believer in good karma? Earlier this year, we hosted a PandaDay in our San Francisco and St.

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G2Crowd - Sales Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It used to be that if you wanted to rent an apartment, you would look in the classified ads of the local newspaper.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

On the surface, your sales organization looks like it’s doing everything your shareholders or board expects: Your revenue attainment is up, and more salespeople are exceeding their goal than you’ve seen in the last five years. But if you peel these layers back, how are your sellers performing individually? Are your win rates or quota attainment rates what you forecasted them to be?

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Predictable Revenue

JULY 18, 2019

Trust in the salespeople has been eroding for years. That’s because consumers have gravitated to familiar and effective channels from their personal buying process such as online reviews and referrals from their community. The post A window into the future: how Bevy Labs’ Steven Broudy sees sales evolving…and what we should do about it appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Closer's Coffee

JULY 18, 2019

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate”. – John F. Kennedy. I have been a parent for many years now. One of the things I have discovered during this portion of my life is that teaching kids how to advocate and negotiate for themselves is a key life lesson. Recently, while reflecting on my time as a parent, it occurred to me that being a good negotiator is also an absolute must in sales.

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Carew International

JULY 18, 2019

The Importance of timely responsiveness to customers & leads. In today’s fast-paced, digital world, landing new business requires high performance in three key areas: initial inquiry response time, good exploratory practices and proactive follow-up. Carew recently published articles about the importance of responsiveness for excellence in sales and leadership.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2019

Inaccurate commission payouts can wreak havoc on sales performance and productivity. Learn just how much sales compensation errors can cost your company.

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Sales Evangelist

JULY 18, 2019

Visnostic selling translates your information from vendor-speak to client-speak, and sellers who understand the fundamentals of visnostic selling will change the way they think about sales. Kimberlee Slavik has been a top performer in sales for more than 20 years, and she recently released a book called Visnostic Selling. Her goal is to help sales and marketing professionals harness the power of neuroscience by translating vendor-speak into client-speak.

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Email remains a strong driver of marketing mileage. With email, you have a way of distributing your content, ads, and promotional updates straight into your customers’ inbox. Since the open rate of email is quite high at 46% on mobile, you’re sure that people are made aware of your marketing messages. Email also has a tangible impact on your business, acting as the biggest source of return on investment (ROI) according to 59% of marketers.

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Sales Lead Management Association

JULY 18, 2019

Start listening now, catch past episodes while you wait for the live-streamed broadcast. So many great hosts! 9 am - INSIDE Inside Sales by VanillaSoft hosted by Darryl Praill Guest: Alice Heiman Put Your Best Face Forward 9:30 am - Revenue Optimization Radio by Altify hosted by Patrick Morrissey In.

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Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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Smart Calling

JULY 18, 2019

Over the years Art has attended hundreds of sporting events while on the road doing training. Many of those events were popular and sold out. But he scored tickets at, or below face value. Hear his techniques, and the sales lessons learned, that you can use too. Listen Here. The post Sales Lessons From Buying Hundreds of Tickets to Sold Out Games appeared first on Smart Calling Blog.

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Selling Energy

JULY 18, 2019

Catching someone’s attention with an email can be tough. It’s not unusual for the average professional to receive 100 to 200 emails a day, maybe even more. As a result, email is quickly dismissed.

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Email remains a strong driver of marketing mileage. With email, you have a way of distributing your content, ads, and promotional updates straight into your customers’ inbox. Since the open rate of email is quite high at 46% on mobile, you’re sure that people are made aware of your marketing messages. . Email also has a tangible impact on your business, acting as the biggest source of return on investment (ROI) according to 59% of marketers.

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criteria for success

JULY 18, 2019

Interested in how to adapt to change? You're in the right place. In today’s competitive and ever-changing business culture, change is inevitable whether we like it or not. You can let it hit you over the head like a ton of bricks. Or, you can ride the wave and embrace the change for the betterment [ ] The post 3 Ways to Adapt to Change in Business appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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SalesLoft

JULY 18, 2019

What are the odds that 3 brothers all end up in sales? How does that even happen? Jeremey and the McDonough Brothers – Jeff, Jim, and Mike – discuss their career journeys and what they have learned along the way. Get ready for triple the guests, triple the actionable advice, and triple the fun in this unique episode of the Hey Salespeople podcast.

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Lessonly

JULY 18, 2019

Fun news: We just launched the first three episodes of the Better Work video series. Each video centers on a chapter topic, with a special guest to bring new energy and ideas to the conversation. Each episode stands on its own, so start with whichever one you are most interested in! Here they are: Share Before You’re Ready. Ben Battaglia discusses the difficulty of sharing before you’re ready, especially as a first-time manager.

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SugarCRM

JULY 18, 2019

Define your target customer and deliver the right marketing message at the right time to increase revenue. In today’s world, digital technology rules. With every beep , tweet , and ding , infinite amounts of information are harassing consumers, giving them the power and accessibility to educate themselves and take control of their buyer’s journey.

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