Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 25, 2019

Without an effective sales enablement strategy , your sales team can say goodbye to meeting quota at the end of the year. That’s because sales enablement is a framework for predictably increasing sales productivity by providing content, training, and coaching to sales professionals. Just as steel is the framework of modern industry—enabling everything from overseas travel to seventy-floor skyscrapers—a sales enablement framework should be at the center of your sales team’s growth strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 25, 2019

There's no doubt about it -- startups are expensive. If you're looking to validate a market, prove out a pricing model, or put together the right team, you'll need resources. Time and money are the most common resources for startups -- and the more you have of one decreases the amount you need of the other. Businesses with a small burn rate often don't require much funding to get started because they're cash efficient.

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Eyeful Presentations

JANUARY 25, 2019

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy. There are legions of zombies presenting at business events and meetings across the world right now. These zombies tend to be pretty benign, but chances are that at some point this week, your schedule will be mangled, and valuable time wasted listening to one of their ilk drone on…and on…and on.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent article, we defined the right Key Performance Indicators for Customer Experience. If you have invested the time to collecting this information, your next step is comparing yourself to other companies. Before we compare your Customer Experience to other.

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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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Vengreso

JANUARY 25, 2019

Do you feel overwhelmed when you log in to LinkedIn Sales Navigator? If your sales preferences aren’t set correctly, you could be wasting valuable efforts sifting through a jumble of distracting leads in your feed. It’s time to go all Marie Kondo on your sales prospecting and tidy up! In the video below, you’ll hear from Vengreso’s Director of Training and Coaching, Stan Robinson, Jr.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 25, 2019

?????There’s an expression floating around these days that I love: corporate promiscuity. What exactly is that and how does it relate to us as sales leaders?

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 25, 2019

Do you want proof you need to change in life? Well, I want to prove it to you. First—a quick story. Last summer I did a major overhaul of my website. The result has been positive with the speed drastically increased, customers happier, and sales way up. It got me thinking about how you must continually change, adapt, and refocus in life to stay ahead in the game.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2019

Quick Links 1. Magic Bullet Questions 2. Learning Questions 3. Experience Questions 4. Motivation Questions 5. Leadership Questions 6. Miscellaneous. You may want to bookmark this page for future interviews. Making a great hire comes down to the interview questions you ask your sales candidates. And so many sales leaders get them wrong. They stick with generic , run-of-the-mill questions such as “Why should I hire you?”.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Building strong sales relationships is all about trust and demonstrating how the product/solution will make the customer’s life better. But is traditional selling getting you where you want to go? If you’re looking to close more business and feeling stuck, try injecting some human-centric problem solving into your sales process. What is human-centric problem solving?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 25, 2019

- MOTIVATION -. "DON'T BE AFRAID TO GIVE UP THE GOOD TO GO FOR THE GREAT.". -JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Calling All Sales Pros: The State of Sales Pocket Guide is Here — LinkedIn. The only thing better than a comprehensive report is possibly all the “good bits” in said report being wrapped up in a handy pocket guide for on-the-go perusal.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 25, 2019

Today's sales executives need to become sales enablement participants and champions, writes Brainshark Chief Readiness Officer Jim Ninivaggi.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2019

This is you: you put in huge effort to get prospects on the phone. When you do, they hang up. You send clever emails to your prospects, and they get immediately deleted. Your prospects are inundated with cold calls and emails, and don’t give a rat’s ass about yours. “Standing out” to get your buyer’s attention is harder than ever.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 25, 2019

Stage-to-stage duration measures the average amount of time it takes for opportunities or deals to move from one stage to the next.

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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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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 25, 2019

How to Get New Value Out Of Your Videos Gathering Dust If you have been doing any kind of marketing, sales or promotional activity over the last 5+ years, you probably have videos sitting on your hard drive, YouTube channel and maybe on your website. This new tool will allow you to take every one […]. The post How to Get New Value Out Of Your Videos Gathering Dust appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 25, 2019

You can’t improve something until you can measure it—that’s why tracking sales KPIs is an important task for effective sales leaders. Sales KPIs are your guide to staying focused on what matters most and improving your sales team’s performance. This post will cover what KPIs are, why they’re important, and which ones are the most critical to track. What Are Sales KPIs?

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criteria for success

JANUARY 25, 2019

Today's quote from Warren Buffett - and it might sound familiar! If you're actively listening to our podcast, you will notice that we have done an inspiration on this quote before. We thought it was such an impactful quote that we wanted to give you another perspective on it. Read on to learn more about [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote from Warren Buffett – Episode 120 appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 25, 2019

We’re already a month into 2019! Here at SalesLoft, we like to see these early months fly by because it means we’re that much closer to Rainmaker ! This year, it’s in Atlanta, March 11-13. If you’re in sales and sales engagement is important to you, this is THE conference for you. It’s three days of the sales industry’s leading minds and sales practitioner rockstars, all in one space, focused on educating and enabling each other to learn more, do more, and be more.

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Selling Energy

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you’ve attended my sales training or are a frequent reader of this blog, you know I'm a big fan of using savings-to-investment ratio (SIR) to showcase the benefits of expense-reducing capital investments (see last month’s “ The Power of Savings-to-Investment Ratio ”). It’s a simple way to showcase how many dollars of present value you would receive for each dollar invested today.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 25, 2019

People struggle with why they aren’t where they think they should be in their career and their life. They don’t always have the capacity to figure that out what has been holding them back for themselves. If you find yourself stagnated or not achieving the goals that you have set for yourself it is because of these traps that you have fallen into. Anyone can change the trajectory of life and at any stage of their life.

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Eyeful Presentations

JANUARY 25, 2019

The world today is full of distractions. Technology, work practices and the general hubbub of life means that attracting and engaging an audience has never been so difficult. However, there is a way to break through the white noise of modern life. We, as humans, love a great story. We like telling them, like hearing them and have an uncanny ability to find them everywhere.

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CloserIQ

JANUARY 25, 2019

The CloserIQ Weekly Roundup features a list of the best content we’ve been reading recently. We’ve compiled some of our favorite reads to help you advance in your sales career and build top sales teams. Featured Article. 7 Things to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps with No Experience. Hiring candidates for entry-level sales positions can feel like a perilous endeavor.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 25, 2019

Author: Ellie Chapman Content marketing used to be a tactic which was strictly reserved for B2C marketers, but that hasn’t been the case for a while. Even if your customer base includes other businesses, you should make sure to provide them with high-quality content. First of all, it establishes you as a source of authority in your industry and changes your audience’s perception of your business.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2019

It’s that time again! That wonderful time of the year where the sales thermometer resets to zero and your sales team pounds the pavement to deliver 150% over last year’s quota! Gather the troops, get them jazzed up and on the phones so they can quintuple the previous year’s results! Right? That’s up to you. As a sales leader, the Sales Kick Off (SKO) is that crucial moment of the year where you have a chance to build camaraderie, motivate your teams, and deliver a vision that is both audacious a

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 25, 2019

We’ve all experienced that sinking feeling in sales as we near the end of another month … so how do you deal with the pressure of hitting your quarterly number? It’s not easy, especially without the proper guidance. Brian Manning, SVP & Head of Growth at PatientPing , works to help startups grow their ideas and he is here today to share insight on how to deal with the pressure of hitting your quarterly numbers.

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