Wed.May 17, 2023

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8 Mistakes That Destroy Credibility With Prospects (& How to Avoid Them)

Hubspot Sales

The average buyer in this day and age is shrewd — naturally skeptical of salespeople and having certain standards reps have to measure up to. That makes establishing credibility central to the success of any sales effort. But maintaining that kind of trustworthiness and legitimacy over multiple sales conversations can be easier said than done — a lot of reps run into hitches, hiccups, and human errors that undermine their credibility with prospects.

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What B2B Sales Leaders Can Learn from the Revolution in Golf Metrics

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales leaders can use a data-driven analytics strategy used in golf to make decisions about sales support investments. The post What B2B Sales Leaders Can Learn from the Revolution in Golf Metrics appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Do You Say “Complex” When You Mean “Lazy”?

Membrain

Although my company explicitly serves the “complex B2B sales” market, I’ve never really liked the word “complex.” In its correct definition, “complex B2B sales” is an accurate description of a particular type of selling.

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Nutshell Announces New Mobile App Updates 

Nutshell

You spoke, and we listened—Nutshell just released new updates for our iOS and Android apps! The changes will make the in-app experience better for all Nutshellers on the go. Our product team fixed bugs and crashes and added new features that will make it easier for our customers to access what they need from their mobile devices and stay on top of every deal.

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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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3 Strategies to Position Sales Teams for Growth

Allego

As the pressure for sales teams to succeed increases, so too does the need for sales leaders to develop their sellers’ skills and potential. But there are a couple problems preventing them from doing so. First, many sales leaders rely on an outdated sales leadership approach. The old-school method of hiring sales reps, pushing them through onboarding that provides only the “need-to-know” basics, and sending them into the field no longer works.

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How to Write Sales Emails That Stand Out with Will Allred

Sales Hacker

Writing good emails is vital in sales, and every salesperson has their own email tactic. But you only get one shot at getting your sales emails opened, so it’s critical to do it right. In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, our host Colin Campbell welcomes Will Allred , the co-founder and COO of Lavender. They talk about the potential application of ChatGPT in sales, why frameworks are better than templates, and how to personalize your email sequence.

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How To Unlock The Full Potential of Your Team

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sales management is tough. On top of the economic uncertainties and dynamic changes in the market they need to deal with, sales leaders must also grapple with people issues like employee turnover, waning engagement, and time pressures that get in the way of onboarding, training, and coaching. When sales leaders are especially time-starved and overwhelmed, I often share something I once heard Naval Ravikant (investor and entrepreneur) say that stayed with me.

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Managed WordPress Hosting vs. Regular Hosting: Which Is Right for Your Small Business?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Managed WordPress Hosting vs. Regular Hosting: Which Is Right for Your Small Business? Your small business site won’t bring in new business if customers can’t access it online. Web hosting providers offer the digital infrastructure required to make your site publicly available and accessible.

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25 Executive Interview Questions to Help Find the Right Fit

Hubspot Sales

Executives can make or break your company. Great execs help steer the ship with sustainable strategies, while those that aren’t the ideal fit create more stress than success. As a result, the right executive interview questions are critical. The questions let teams understand how executives think, where they take action, and what they see as their role within the company.

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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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Are You an Active or Passive Networker?

Adaptive Business Services

This past January I passed ownership of my networking group, NetWorks! Boise, to her new owner. I created this group in October of 2007. I had a good run but I’m also getting a bit long in the tooth and it was time to focus on my other passion, training businesses on how to best leverage Nimble CRM. NetWorks! was designed to be what I would call an “active networking group”.

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Conveying the Urgency of Acting Now

Selling Energy

Conveying the cost of delay is a well-worn sales technique. You can use rebate program expiration dates and other time-sensitive cost-saving measures to your advantage. You have to be careful about selling on fear of price increases because that can come off as high-pressure selling. Of course, if there are legitimate time constraints related to price, it’s OK to emphasize the value of acting quickly.

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Usings AI To Gain A Competitive Edge In B2B Sales

Alice Heiman

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Will your sales organization utilize it or will they be left behind? AI is having a big impact on B2B sales by empowering salespeople to focus on what they do best: building meaningful relationships with their prospects. But wait, don’t worry about AI replacing human sales reps! Usman Sheikh, Founder and CEO of xiQ, a Silicon Valley-based AI-powered SaaS platform explains how AI can be a game-changer for sales leaders who embrace it as a tool t

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One Simple Tip to Increase Your Likability on Zoom

Julie Hanson

One Simple Tip to Increase Your Likability on Zoom “People do business with people they like.” Like most well-known adages, there’s a lot of truth in this. Part of your buyer’s decision-making process typically includes whether they want to enter into a business relationship with you. If it appears that the relationship is going to be somber, joyless partnership, you’ve given your competition a great opening!

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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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? The Future of Sales: How AI is Transforming the Industry

Pipeliner

In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Ryan Staley about the use of AI in sales and marketing. Ryan shares his experience with AI and how it can be used tactically and from a management perspective to get rid of time-consuming tasks and allow salespeople to focus on more high-value activities. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and owning the technical and business use case components of AI and warns that companies that don’t embrace AI will get replaced by those who do

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Top 5 Common Email Outreach Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

SendBuzz

Email marketing campaigns help the businesses to grow and keep your brand in the public eye. But without an email strategy your email marketing efforts could go down the drain. Then the big question here is what are some email marketing mistakes that are done by marketer and sales reps. This is realized by the marketers and sales rep when the metrics like click-through rate and open rate are lower than anticipated, we start to wonder: “Did they receive it, but didn’t open it?

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Don’t praise your people for their smarts – praise them for their work

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

“You’re a real smart cookie!” This may sound like a good way to praise one of your people for a job that took thought, imagination and hard work. But it’s not. In fact, it may well do the opposite of what you wanted to achieve, demotivating the person rather than motivating them. What’s the reason behind this surprising effect?

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The Anatomy of a Successful Cold Email Outreach Campaign

SendBuzz

With the continuously evolving markets many new marketing landscapes like digital marketing have brought into the light various marketing strategies like SEO, paid search, social media and content marketing. These strategies are now used to achieve various marketing objectives. But, even if there are numerous channels and possibilities, not every business has the means to take advantage of them all, especially when it comes to lead creation.

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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 Best Coaching Website Builder of 2023: Top 5 Reviewed

Sell Courses Online

To grow your coaching business, you need to have a website that showcases various things—testimonials, course offerings, free resources, … The Best Coaching Website Builder of 2023: Top 5 Reviewed Read More →

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5 Ways to Utilize AI for Sales Forecasting

Close

In this guide, we’ll look at five ways to use AI for sales forecasting to help you improve the accuracy of your forecasts and close more deals.

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Copper alternatives: 6 CRMs to assess for smooth-sailin’ sales teams

Nutshell

Copper CRM is a good choice for sales teams that live and breathe G Suite, but what about those of us who prefer a bit of software freedom? Copper CRM, formerly ProsperWorks CRM, is a unique CRM that is specifically designed to be used with Google products, like Gmail and Google Docs. Copper is used by over 30,000 companies, including some biggies like Shipt, Hello Fresh, and Atlassian.

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Overcoming Objections – a Q&A with Our Top Tips

Marc Wayshak

Objections are arguably the single most dreaded aspect of selling. Most salespeople spend their entire careers attempting to avoid objections from prospects. And when they do encounter sales objections, they scramble to overcome them. Overcoming objections is such a critical part of sales that I decided to sit down with our Head Sales Coach at Sales Insights Lab, Tiffany Torres, for a wide-ranging talk about it.

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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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The Future of Sales: How AI is Transforming the Industry (video)

Pipeliner

How AI Can Revolutionize Sales and Marketing Growth Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of fascination for many, and it’s no surprise why. In this podcast episode, Ryan Staley, founder and CEO of Whale Boss, shares his experience with AI and how it has become a game-changer for sales and marketing growth. Ryan believes that AI has a lot of use cases, and it all depends on the role.

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Infographic: 5 Ways to Win Buyers Over

RAIN Group

There's such a thing as being too close to a problem, and we see that as a frequent challenge when it comes to improving sales performance. In our recent study of nearly 400 sellers and sales leaders, we asked sellers how challenging they find various selling skills/behaviors. For the 16 skills we asked about, less than 55% of sellers found each very challenging.

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