Fri.Aug 10, 2018

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The Best Way To Generate New Leads

MTD Sales Training

A salesperson on one of our workshops was bemoaning the fact that he had to make between 100 and 150 cold calls a week. He wanted our opinion on how to get more leads without having to cold call. My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be.

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Are You Paying Your Hunter Sales Reps for Deals They Already Won?

SBI Growth

In my experience, hunters will do anything for a buck. Why then, would you pay them to shoot fish in a barrel? Whether you’re an established player entering a new market or a new entrant into an established market, your commercial.

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Inside Sales Force Management Closing Techniques & Training Ideas

Mr. Inside Sales

Inside Sales Management: Are you Measuring What Matters Most? By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com. Learn about successful inside sales force management closing strategy, process techniques, training ideas, prospecting tools and best practices for managers and representatives. If you’re an inside sales manager , then you know all about metrics. In fact, whenever I consult with new clients, the owners and managers automatically begin showing me their call monitoring reports.

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The 13 Best Real Estate Websites for Selling a Home in 2018

Hubspot Sales

A 2017 survey by the National Association of Realtors® reported 51% of buyers found their homes on the internet, 30% found homes through an agent, and a dwindling 7% discovered their eventual home through a yard sign or open house. This should tell you one thing: if you’re selling a house in 2018, you don’t just need to be on the internet, you need to be on the right real estate websites.

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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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Fix The 5 Reasons Sales Hiring Is So Hard to Get Right

Women Sales Pros

We work with companies, small and large, suffering the same issues when it comes to hiring. They all have difficulty attracting, selecting and on boarding the right salesperson. Hiring the wrong salesperson not only wastes countless hours, it will likely cost the company three to five times the hire’s annual compensation when they don’t work out. Sales is the most difficult hire.

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Listening IS NOT The Most Important Sales Skill

A Sales Guy

I often hear people say; God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason. This fun little phrase is used to argue the point that salespeople need to listen more and talk less. I get the point, but it’s not accurate from my perspective. What it really should suggest is that people should tell less, not talk less. Telling is very different than talking.

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Weekly Roundup: How Inbound Can Turbo Charge Your Outbound Sales Efforts + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- WHAT'S MOTIVATING US THIS WEEK -. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize. how close they were to success when they gave up.". -THOMAS EDISON. - DON'T MISS THIS -. > How Inbound Can Turbo Charge Your Outbound Sales Efforts — LEADG2. Outbound sales tactics are alive and well. The key is that your sales organization can't survive relying solely on this alone.

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Facebook Live Video: Not Hearing Back From Prospects?

Engage Selling

Not hearing back from prospects? Waiting by your phone, hoping it will ring? Being ghosted by prospects can be frustrating, but here’s what you can do about it. Don’t be discouraged when you don’t hear back from prospects.

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Transforming Managers & Salespeople into Sales Leaders – Webcast Interview with Keith Rosen

Keith Rosen

?. In this interview with Ken Lundin, Keith Rosen, MCC discusses his last book, Own Your Day , as well as his upcoming and highly anticipated book, Sales Leadership. Grab a notepad and be prepared to walk away with some solid strategies to live with intention not by reaction, hyper-accelerate productivity, create life balance to own your day, and become a transformational sales leader.

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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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Account Management: The Missing Step | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

????????????????????????????Many of you have read a lot of the work we’ve done on account management. But here’s what really critical about account management. Plan. Execute. Measure. Review. These are the four steps of account management.

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Want to Strengthen the Buyer Experience? Start with Content that Matters

Showpad

Research shows that the number of people involved in the average B2B sale is growing and all of those people are doing more research on their own. Consider the stats: CEB says that an average of 6.8 people are involved in an average sale compared to an average of 5.4 in 2015. Forrester reports that nearly three-fourths (74%) of buyers are conducting more than half their research online.

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Learn to Ask Million Dollar Sales Questions

Pipeliner

Ask Effective Sales Questions. Million Dollar Sales Questions can be used to connect, direct, and sell more effectively. Julie Holmes discusses how to ask the best sales questions in this expert sales interview with John Golden. This expert sales interview explores sales questioning: Why questioning is important. Good questions versus bad questions.

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Want to Strengthen the Buyer Experience? Start with Content that Matters

Showpad

Research shows that the number of people involved in the average B2B sale is growing and all of those people are doing more research on their own. Consider the stats: CEB says that an average of 6.8 people are involved in an average sale compared to an average of 5.4 in 2015. Forrester reports that nearly three-fourths (74%) of buyers are conducting more than half their research online.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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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Better Sales Role Plays Part 4: One Skill At a Time [VIDEO]

Funnel Clarity

Role playing is an indispensable tool for sales people to improve with colleagues. It allows your team to practice techniques in a low-stakes, comfortable environment. In this video, Abin Dahal, Funnel Clarity Inside Sales Representative and Tyler Vance, Funnel Clarity Account Manager break down the fourth of four steps you can take to improve the quality of your sales role plays.

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TSE 896: Empower Yourself First Before You Can Empower Others

Sales Evangelist

In order for your organization to operate at its best, the people within must be empowered. The team must feel confident working together and it must believe in the process. But believing in the process begins with the leadership, which is why you must empower yourself before you can empower others. On today’s episode of […] The post TSE 896: Empower Yourself First Before You Can Empower Others appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote from Reid Hoffman – Episode 72

criteria for success

Are you interested in learning about innovative sales ideas? Today's quote from Reid Hoffman explores going it alone versus being part of a team in terms of innovation. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration. Reid Hoffman Quote In this episode of Let's Talk Sales, it's all about this month's [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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The Highs and Lows of Prospecting

LeadIQ

By Jeremy Leveille. Prospecting can be hard for anyone. I’ve been doing sales since 2011, and after a while you develop a strategy to cope with rejection from a prospect. My strategy: I prospect more … (kind of). I deal with rejection weekly. In this video, I talk about the ups and downs of prospecting, and give a little advice on how to deal with rejection or rude prospects.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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The Cap-Ex Loophole

Selling Energy

On Tuesday, we discussed the landlord/tenant dynamic and the metric to focus on when presenting an expense-reducing capital project to a landlord. Today, I’d like to delve into a bit of bonus landlord/tenant content that I cover in the Efficiency Sales Professional™ Certificate Boot Camp and our new Selling in 6™ mobile-learning program.

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The Highs and Lows of Prospecting

LeadIQ

By Jeremy Leveille. Prospecting can be hard for anyone. I’ve been doing sales since 2011, and after a while you develop a strategy to cope with rejection from a prospect. My strategy: I prospect more … (kind of). I deal with rejection weekly. In this video, I talk about the ups and downs of prospecting, and give a little advice on how to deal with rejection or rude prospects.

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Embrace The Chaos!

Pipeliner

Finding Personal and Professional Success Despite Uncertainty. Bob Miglani is an expert on how to embrace the chaos. He came to America from India as a child. His family opened a Dairy Queen, where he learned that if you work hard, everything will take care of itself. He went on to a corporate career with tremendous success, becoming the top salesperson at his company.

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The Carrot, the Egg, and the Coffee Bean – Author Unknown

Selling Fearlessly

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that, as one problem was solved, a new one […].

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

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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Do You Use Same Day Delivery?

Smooth Sale

NOTE: Today’s Infographic is provide by Jake Smith, National Sales Manager for Go People. Jake is excited about the prospect of e-commerce, and how Go People can deliver the courier service of the future to businesses all around Australia. Business Agility and Personal Development Are Requirements for Success. Whenever you believe a plateau is achieved, seek out help for getting your next climb in order!