Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Define Amateurish. Amateurish behavior is when you display no skill or tact in a particular area. It means you're clumsy and inept. As a salesperson, you never want to be considered amateurish by your colleagues or prospects. It lowers your credibility and authority and kills your chances of closing a deal. Sales leaders and businesses are paying a hefty price for not developing the selling skills of their people.

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SalesforLife

MAY 25, 2018

Warning—if you’re in an ultra-competitive industry and/or sell enterprise deals, you need to lock down your social connections. These connections are basically a tracking beacon for RFQ, RFP, proposals, etc.

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Accent Technologies

MAY 25, 2018

Everybody wants a piece of the digital transformation pie, but nobody wants to start baking. Learn why it matters and how sales enablement fits in. Digital transformation was a huge topic at the SiriusDecisions 2018 Summit earlier this month. If you’re not too familiar with the term, SiriusDecisions has an excellent definition: “the application of technology for business change.”.

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SBI Growth

MAY 25, 2018

Should you cover the entire market or double down on your sweet spot? You’re a CEO who just missed the quarterly number for the 3rd time in a row. You know what happens next. You are on the hook to.

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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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MTD Sales Training

MAY 25, 2018

So you’ve achieved that great goal of getting a referral from a customer. This is the holy grail in sales; getting a warm lead without having to do the marketing to achieve it. How should you approach this referral? Here are some ideas: Basically, you need to know what links the two companies or people. What is the business relationship between your customer and the person they are referring you to?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Best Bluetooth Headsets. Jabra Steel. Jabra Motion. Plantronics Voyager 5200. Plantronics Voyager Focus UC. VXi BlueParrott B450-XT. Plantronics M55. Motorola Boom2+ Headset. Plantronics Voyager Edge. Plantronics Voyager Legend. LG Tone Free Headset. Samsung Level U Pro. Sennheiser Presence UC. Jabra Wave. Jabra Stealth. A salesperson’s right arm? It might be their Bluetooth headset.

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Fill the Funnel

MAY 25, 2018

It took less than one day for this to happen: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in lawsuits on day one of GDPR You are probably tired of hearing, reading and thinking about GDPR. My post earlier this week stimulated lots of activity, emails and phone calls so I know that you are aware […]. The post Think GDPR Is a Joke? $8.8 Billion in Lawsuits on Day 1 appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Entrepreneur Blog. Seth Godin's Blog. Both Sides of the Table. Wise Bread. All Business. A VC. Copyblogger. The Entrepreneurial Mind. Gary Vaynerchuk's Blog. Kabbage Small Business Blog. Entrepreneur's Journey. The 4-Hour Workweek. Women on Business. The Suitcase Entrepreneur. Whether you’re ready to stop dreaming and start doing, or still in the planning stage of turning your ideas into a full-time job, these blogs for entrepreneurs are the right place to start.

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Women Sales Pros

MAY 25, 2018

In many instances, we limit ourselves in how we go about selling into large accounts. Sales managers work diligently to “even out” territories ensuring everyone has a chance to make lots of money. But in the end, sales people struggle to reach their full sales potential. Why? Because their biggest enemy is their own perspective. Here are two main scenarios illustrating the point.

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Openview

MAY 25, 2018

Here’s a fact that should get your attention: The number of CEOs who left their jobs at U.S.-based companies hit 132 in January 2018 alone, the highest monthly total since February 2010, according to global outplacement consultancy and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. In 2017, they noted, there were 1,160 CEO exits. “But I don’t sell to CEOs,” you might say.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2018

Sales training and sales coaching are two of the best ways to improve the sales performance of your team. But sometimes people aren’t really sure what the difference is, or even if there is one. As it turns out, they are in fact two entirely separate things - dealing with different areas, approaches, and levels of involvement. Being aware of the distinctions will help you determine which you need to use and when, and will help improve the development of your sales team.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 25, 2018

When you think about who creates the content your salespeople and other customer-facing professionals use to engage prospects and customers, you probably think about your marketing team. For many leaders, marketing is synonymous with content. Whether it’s branding, demand generation or website creation, marketing is all about content. But you might be surprised to discover that marketing only creates about 39 percent of the content salespeople need.

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SalesLoft

MAY 25, 2018

A smooth customer journey is the responsibility of the seller, not the buyer. There are many ways to create a pleasant buying journey, but it’s critical that each touch point along the journey is seamless. Leaving a lasting impact and positive experience for the buyer begins with the discovery phase and communicating the value your solution can offer individual prospects.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2018

Time is the only non-recoverable thing that each of us controls. We waste it, it’s forever lost. We waste our customers’/prospects’ time, we’ve cheated them out of their most precious commodity. We let our customers/prospects waste ours–we’ve enabled them to de-value us and what we can do to help them. Ironically, we seem to treat time in quite the opposite way.

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Pipeliner

MAY 25, 2018

Coaching the Customer to Elevate the Quality of their Decision Process. Jeffrey Lipsius wants you to coach the customer. Salespeople often spend more time looking at their own sales record, as opposed to their customer’s sales record. But, customer buying performance is significant, and something that should be taken into heavy consideration. This isn’t just another conversation about how to coach salespeople.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 25, 2018

We hope you've had a great week! It's Friday, and today we're sharing what we've been reading online this week! Here are our "best" from around the web.

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Engage Selling

MAY 25, 2018

???????????????Today, I’m decreeing a ban on corporate marketing materials for salespeople. I want to ban salespeople from using them, ban marketing teams from producing them, and maybe even ban the entire industry. Why?

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Selling Energy

MAY 25, 2018

When you find yourself in a new company or exploring a new territory, the first thing you have to do is build rapport. Make sure people know who you are and what you specialize in.

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Artesian Solutions

MAY 25, 2018

The time has finally come, after 4 years of planning and two years of preparation the General Data Protection Regulation is here. Perhaps you’re ready and full of confidence, or perhaps tomorrow feels a little like doomsday – especially if you’re one of the 80% of organisations that Forrester predicts are not yet GDPR compliance ready. During the build-up and preparation, businesses have asked many questions about the regulations and how they will work in practice.

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Selling Fearlessly

MAY 25, 2018

Today’s post is one of my favorite poems. I think it’s INCREDIBLE! I hope you’ll print it out and keep it with you at all times. Yeah, it’s that good! When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the […].

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SugarCRM

MAY 25, 2018

We’re less than 24 hours into the GDPR era and already Facebook and Google have been hit with lawsuits and many major U.S. news sites are down in Europe. Are we having fun yet? Here’s a positive: now that it’s May 25th, 2018, we’ll no longer be subjected to, “GDPR is Coming” emails, articles and blog posts. Yep, at long last GDPR has finally arrived.

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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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