Pointclear

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For one client, it takes 9.82 touches to engage with a prospect. The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). This approach yields a 5% lead rate. Our leads are equivalent to what SiriusDecisions calls a Level 4 or 5 lead—well-qualified leads.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Best-in-class sales leaders are blurring the lines between professional and personal. As a result, they are outperforming sales bosses on a revenue-per-head basis by double digits. In a most recent Gallup study, engaged employees produce on average 20% more higher.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

By Tibor Shanto. No one is saying you are lying, I know you are not, but not lying and being believable are two different things. For sellers, it is less about telling the truth, and more about believability; if the buyer doesn’t buy the information and materials to support your offering, no matter how accurate or factual, they aren’t buying. I understand the challenge for proud marketing and sales professionals, especially those who may be breaking new ground, truly innovative, and driving mea

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Historically, sales professionals and marketers spent a lot of time chasing down prospects with a scant probability of getting an appointment, let alone winning business. For most of the companies I’ve worked at, the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is has been anecdotal at best … meaning that if you ask sales leader who we sell to, they’ll offer a few key titles, maybe a couple of industries.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Want to get your emails returned? Who doesn’t…. Many of us would settle for just getting our emails read! Let’s face it: prospects get hundreds of emails per week and there is a slim chance they are going to read – let alone respond to – an email from a sales rep. Luckily, there are 5 quick secrets to help your emails stand out and give you the best chance of getting them read and returned.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Bullard Chie.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Between ebooks, case studies, data sheets, proposals, and contracts, you probably send email attachments on a daily -- if not hourly -- basis. And that means you might be using the common phrase “Please find attached.” Other variations include “Attached please find,” Please kindly find the attached file,” Please find the attached file for your reference,” “Enclosed please find,” and the ultra-wordy, “Please find attached herewith.”.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

An Accenture study, written about in Forbes , found that 43% of employees who are about to quit their jobs cite lack of recognition from supervisors as the reason they would leave. Every time I read that stat I feel convicted that I don’t always show as much appreciation as I should. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the individuals on my team, it’s just that I have so many things fighting for my attention.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

How to Overcome Pricing Objections. Wait for the prospect to finish speaking. Pause for 3-5 seconds. Ask a question. Pose a follow-up question. Summarize their objection in 2-3 sentences. Clarify if you missed anything. Diffuse their concern. Click here to jump straight to the responses. Price objections are common in sales -- primarily because most prospects have learned pushing back on cost will get them a discount.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article I’m going to explain how to PROPERLY execute an effective trade show follow up campaign without being a blood sucking lead vulture. Before I get into the horrors I’ve experienced as an attendee, I thought I’d quickly share my top 10 steps to event follow up success – and then elaborate on each one further below. 10 Steps for Effectively Following Up with Leads After a Trade Show or Event.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Voicemail: Where deals go to die. Or is it? It’s true, those “ Just following up ” or “ Haven’t heard from you in a while ” messages won’t do much to move your deals forward. But a thoughtful, targeted voicemail can be just what you need to reinvigorate conversations and get deals moving again. Here are seven voicemails that go beyond “touching base” to inspire meaningful action.

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BrainShark

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Sales enablement is a space that continues to evolve. What we do, who we report to and how our success is being defined varies greatly from one organization to the next.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Your best and worst-performing email subject lines may seem like a random collection. But we’ve got good news for reps looking to increase their open and response rates: Successful subject lines actually share several common characteristics. Once you know the science of a compelling line, you can focus on the art. Perfect the seven essential components below and you'll have a high-performing sales email subject line on your hands.

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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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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Let’s chat, shall we? Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. First, they do not assume anything, including the validity of marketing and sales materials. Also, they dissect all data put in front of them to justify your selling position. Why? Because they doubt that business data sets are as robust, complex and accurate as are technical and scientific data sets.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A few of us have been having a conversation about whether adaptability and agility are important in sales. I think we are in uniform agreement it is important, however, my initial reaction was, “Why are we even asking this question, isn’t it a foundation to selling?” As I reflected on the issue, I get why it’s an important conversation.

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SalesforLife

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Without fail, each week I get a call or email from a company somewhere in the world that falls in one of these categories:

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Think Better. An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking. -a book review-. Published by McGraw Hill, this is must read for any salesperson, sales leader, President or any manager. Author Tim Hurson does a masterful job in leading the reader through the entire mental process of challenging the reader to think better. The sub-title uses the word “Guide” and indeed it is, I folded over23 pages with many underlined passages and marked up tools while I read this book, it is that engaging.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This free online course bundle is packed with 50+ lectures from the leading minds in sales. Never forget the lessons you learned at Sales Machine! The post Free Sales Machine 2017: Encore Online Course Bundle appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The customer of last year is no more. Digitization, automation and hyper-personalization have reached a crossroads – an ideal opportunity for companies to raise their services to a new level. That’s what Steven Van Belleghem, a Partner at nexxworks, argues in his latest work ‘Customers The Day After Tomorrow – How Customers Will Win in a World of AI, Bots and Automation’ Today, he gives us a foretaste of his new book with 3 undeniable trends that define the cust

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If sales people (especially in a consultative sale environment) don’t learn the fundamentals of a consultative sales process, they will just stay mediocre at best.

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Close

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Why do most startup pitches suck? Because they follow a flawed formula.

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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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