Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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Reps Don’t Coach Their Peers Enough (and How You Can Change That)

Chorus.ai

If you’re in sales management, leadership, or enablement, you have to have already read our coaching ebook and blog series! If not, here’s a great breakdown for you: We first published The MASTER Guide: How to create a coaching culture in your sales team. (No great cultures happened overnight. So we propose some pretty wide-ranging measures for you in this one.).

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Your Reputation Arrives Before You Do

The Sales Hunter

Before a prospect meets with you, they do one thing: Google your name and your company! They want to see what the Internet says about you. How well or poorly does the Internet speak of you? Watch my video on this here! It’s not good enough to just have a social media reputation that isn’t stupid. Today, it’s about having an image that says you’re smart.

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Declare Independence From Your Own Obstacles

Anthony Cole Training

As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire.

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6 Reasons Marketing And Sales Should Work Together

Women Sales Pros

Strategies To Drive Sales It’s an age old problem, the friction between marketing and sales. In most organizations they are like oil and water with marketing feeling like they are doing all the heavy lifting – developing campaigns, strategies that tap new prospects and taking market awareness to a whole new level. While sales feels like marketing just gets in the way of the important work – the actual sale.

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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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How To Keep Communication Style Bias From Derailing Your Sales Process, with Paul Watts, Episode #117

Vengreso

Subscribe to Selling With Social. Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Google Podcasts. Is your sales process experiencing unneeded hiccups or roadblocks because you’re not taking into consideration the communication styles of your prospects and buyers? If you don’t understand the 4 primary communication styles, it’s very likely. That’s why I asked Paul Watts to be my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial.

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Customer Interaction – Engage with Customers on These Social Media Platforms

Vengreso

Should salespeople connect with buyers or customers on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook? It depends on several aspects. Yes, you want to be as top-of-mind as possible when it comes to digital selling. However, you need to be cautious of offending your customers if you have opposing belief systems. In the video below, Vengreso CEO Mario Martinez, Jr. and CVO Viveka von Rosen dig into this topic.

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Here's My Free Networking Template for Tracking New Connections

Hubspot Sales

You know what sucks about networking? Keeping track of everyone you've spoken with. I attend events, send emails, tweets, the whole networking nine-yards. But it often feels like I'm shooting shotgun pellets into the distance in the middle of the night. Having a "handy" stack of business cards doesn't remind me how or when I met the person. "Connecting" with everyone on LinkedIn doesn't share the specifics of what I talked to them about.

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The Buyer’s Journey: Seek a Solution

KO Advantage Group

As previously mentioned in one of my blog posts, the buyer's journey has five stages: awareness, seeking a solution, collaboration, decision, and experience. Customers go through these phases when looking for a particular product or service. Since we’ve briefly discussed the awareness stage before, let’s move on to the next: seeking a solution. The awareness stage gets your foot in the door.

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Create a Sales Plan That Actually Works (Tips + Template)

Sales Hacker

True success always starts with a plan. And for sales success, nothing beats a strategic sales plan. Designed specifically to help your sales team drive more sales, a sales plan can show you where you’re at, where you want to be, and even more important, how to get there. The question, of course, is how to create a sales plan that actually impacts sales.

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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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A Normal Close Rate – And How to Improve It | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

?????????????????????I often get asked: what is considered a normal close rate and how do I improve it? What’s Considered a Reasonable Close Rate?

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TSE 1121: Your Price Is Right: How to Stand Your Ground Against the Lowest Bidders and Protect Your Margins

Sales Evangelist

We’ve all encountered price wars against the lowest bidder, but today we’re going to talk about how you can stand your ground, protect your margins, and earn the price that you’re worth and how that will help you grow your business. Chris Perry works with Market Sense, a Sandler Training franchise, that helps business attrackt, assess, hire, and on-board world class sales people.

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Weekly Roundup: Lead Qualifying Hacks + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "SETTING GOALS IS THE FIRST STEP IN TURNING THE INVISIBLE INTO THE VISIBLE". -TONY ROBBINS. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Simple Lead Qualifying Hacks [VIDEO] — LeadG2. Sometimes when you generate leads via inbound marketing, you can get a lot of information about your prospects and leads when they fill out a lead capture form. It really depends, though, on what you're willing to ask.

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How to Succeed at Sharing the RACI Stuff [Podcast]

Sandler Training

This year, on Fridays, Dave talks about the attitude, behavior, and techniques of successful sales managers as he shares his thoughts on the 49 Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders. Listen Time: 13 Minutes.

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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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What To Put And Not To Put On Your Marketing and Sales Resume

InsideSales.com

Because a marketing or sales resume can make or break your career, knowing how to write a resume for a job is essential. Here are the three biggest mistakes in resume writing to avoid at all costs. RELATED: Hacks to Hiring the Right Inside Sales People In this article: People Still Fail in Writing a […]. The post What To Put And Not To Put On Your Marketing and Sales Resume appeared first on The Sales Insider.

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10 Expert Tips on How to Be a Successful Real Estate Agent

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

Real estate agents are more than just good salespeople.

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Mindset For Selling Success

Pipeliner

Creating Confident Salespeople. Tom Abbott, founder of The Sales Optimisation Company, speaker, consultant, and author helps companies build high-performance sales teams through training on his 7 pillars and 29 strategies for selling success. In this interview, Tom talks about the importance of discipline as well as mindset for selling success. This Sales Expert Interview covers: Why is a mindset for selling success so important and how do I fortify it?

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How To Prepare For Your Next Negotiation

The Accidental Negotiator

A thorough negotiation preparation process requires plenty of time Image Credit: Photo Monkey. The next time that you start a negotiation, what will be running through your mind? If you are like most of us, you are excited to get started and you have a fairly clear idea what negotiation styles and negotiating techniques you’ll be using to get what you want out of this negotiation.

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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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Reps Don’t Coach Their Peers Enough (and How You Can Change That)

Chorus.ai

If you’re in sales management, leadership, or enablement, you have to have already read our coaching ebook and blog series! If not, here’s a great breakdown for you: We first published The MASTER Guide: How to create a coaching culture in your sales team. (No great cultures happened overnight. So we propose some pretty wide-ranging measures for you in this one.).

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How Email Triggers Can Generate More Sales

LeadFuze

To overcome the issue automating your emails is one of the best ways to increase your sales. You can send emails to the right person at the right time. It is not activated all the time, but whenever a particular event occurs, or your website indicates something, it is sent automatically to the users. It is a reaction of the action taken by any particular user on your website.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote by Henry Kaiser – Episode 162

criteria for success

Today's quote from Henry Kaiser is about problem solving. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! Henry Kaiser Quote This month's theme highlights the importance of problem solving! And today's quote comes from Henry Kaiser, an American Industrialist and the father of modern american shipbuilding. He said: "Problems are only [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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The Simplest, Easiest Skill, 95% of Salespeople Don’t Know from Andrea Waltz

Sales Lead Management Association

Yes, this is another rag on what our parents did wrong and from Andrea Waltz we understand the limits this has imposed on salespeople.

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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 Small Retrofit

Selling Energy

Have you ever been in a situation where a prospect doesn’t want to approve an energy efficiency project because they think it’s too small? Maybe the prospect says they want to wait until they do a major retrofit of the whole building before making any changes? This is a fairly common objection, and it’s one that you should be prepared to dispel at a moment’s notice.

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The Negotiation Tactic Sabotaging You Every Time You Close.

MJ Hoffman

We’re in the final weeks of the quarter. I guarantee almost every salesperson who sends out a contract today will use the last day of the year as the expiration date. It might seem logical to give your prospect several weeks to review and sign your proposal, but this is a huge mistake. The Problem With Giving Prospects a Long Time to Sign. Salespeople typically opt for expiration dates several weeks in the future because they don’t want to put too much pressure on buyers.

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Why Joining a Hyper-Growth Company Can Accelerate Your Career

Highspot

Most people love free catered lunches, ping-pong tournaments, and team outings to the ballpark — but these perks aren’t the workplace differentiators they used to be. Competition for talent is fierce, and modern companies are pulling out all the stops to attract and retain the best people. While I enjoy kombucha on tap as much as the next person, these types of benefits were not at the top of my priority list when I began my job search last November.

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Insight on the Sales Tech Stack (of the Present and Future)

The Bridge Group

Gartner's 2019 Current and Emerging Technologies in Sales is making the rounds on LinkedIn. I’ll be honest, I spent quite some time trying to grok what it was saying. I’m more of a numbers person than a visual learner, so I made a bit of a remix. I thought I’d share it here to get the community’s feedback. First, I spreadsheet'd their data out by adoption , current ROI , and future importance.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Never Make the Mistake of Allowing Your Champion to Sell for You

Anthony Iannarino

One of the most important trends in B2B sales today is the customer’s strong desire for consensus before moving forward with an initiative. Another trend, one that closely follows consensus, is an increase in the number of stakeholders who believe they can do the work of shepherding a deal through their organization without the help of a salesperson, the result of which is rarely positive.

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