Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 18, 2017
Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Many of the most important strategic skills that help sales professionals master their craft are ones that help them navigate more nuanced interpersonal situations, rather than convincing someone to buy a product or service.
No More Cold Calling
MAY 18, 2017
Want to land and expand? Stop trying to get around the gatekeeper. If account-based sales reps want to reach C-suite prospects, the secret is calling at night or on weekends, when their gatekeepers are off duty. Seriously?! This is just the latest stupid advice I’ve read about how to bypass the gatekeeper and get decision-makers on the phone. “Expert” tips like this send me out the door screaming.
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The Pipeline
MAY 18, 2017
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Sellers are a wonderfully optimistic lot, having drank the Kool Aid about their “solution”, believing that they are indeed the cavalry coming over the hill to heal all that pains their potential prospects. This unbridled optimism and energy works great when you have a willing audience, say a play, where the audience comes with interest and openness to the message.
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.
Increase Sales
MAY 18, 2017
The thick dust on most strategic plans is quite common. Even though strategic plans are a valuable tool for SMB owners, executives and even salespeople, they continue to be filed on shelves collecting dust. Then executive leadership appears to be suddenly confused because results are not being achieved. Now many SMBs don’t have these forward thinking documents and retreat to some isolated bogus marketing plan which usually ends up creating more misguided decisions resulting in more misdir
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Repsly
MAY 18, 2017
Everyone knows about consumer marketing, but how are those companies getting those products in front of consumers in the first place? This is where trade marketing comes in. Trade marketing managers are the first line of sales, making products appealing to the distributors, brokers, and retailers in charge of selling them to consumers.
The ROI Guy
MAY 18, 2017
More stakeholders than ever are engaged in enterprise buying decisions. According to Gartner, the average enterprise technology buying team now includes more than 13 people ! This includes seven to eight who are actively driving the buying effort, and five to six people who occasionally get involved, particularly in validation checkpoints, reviews and approvals.
MJ Hoffman
MAY 18, 2017
The age of “Always Be Closing” is dead. Or is it? Sleazy sales tactics and aggressive closing techniques don’t work on modern buyers, so reps must embrace a different kind of closing mindset. That’s why I train salespeople to “close” at the end of every interaction with their prospects. You shouldn’t ask for the order until the time is right — but you should ask for incremental commitments.
Sales Evangelist
MAY 18, 2017
Today, we’re pulling out another snippet from one of our sessions over at the TSE Hustler’s League. It’s a great community of members, new to sales and experts alike, and we all come together because they all want to sharpen their skills, increase their opportunity rates, and to close more deals. This week’s topic is […] The post TSE 575: TSE Hustler’s League-“Executive Language Part 1” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.
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OpenSymmetry
MAY 18, 2017
In my role at OpenSymmetry, I often meet clients when they are hurting and help them imagine a new future state. As I work with companies to weigh different best-of-breed Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) platforms that might be optimal for their situations, I frequently witness companies grasp the robust capabilities of these solutions and immediately try to start sprinting to that ideal end state straight out of the gate.
Hyper-Connected Selling
MAY 18, 2017
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Platinum Rules for Success
MAY 18, 2017
Earning trust and building relationships with people is a skill that a lot of people are trying to master. Influence is one of the most powerful and important ways to accomplish this and grow sales. It is one of the most important skills to have in business and to help reach your goals. This week, Gregg Baron breaks down three main ways to be an effective influencer and improve your skill set.
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