Wed.Oct 21, 2020

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How to Work in Crazy Times

Jill Konrath

Virtually everyone I talk to these days is feeling overwhelmed. We're all struggling to find a way to work--and have a good life--in this crazy world we're in now.

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How to Capture the Attention of Your Market

Anthony Cole Training

In today’s world of marketing and sales, a significant key to generating leads is a company’s ability to get potential buyers to find them. There is an entire industry dedicated to inbound marketing and social media management with companies such as HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot.

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What to Do When Your Client Abandons You

Shari Levitin

Selling, especially in today’s virtual world, not only takes tenacity, but also creativity, a sense of humor, and an innate sense of how and when to change the emotional state of the customer to get their attention, earn their business, and then keep both! These days, your customers are crazy busy and on information overload. It may not be that they’re not interested; it’s just that your priority isn’t your customer’s priority until you make it so.

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How to pluck the best salespeople directly from the tree

Membrain

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply stretch out your hand and have the world’s highest performing salesperson appear before you by magic, eager to join your team?

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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.

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8 Ways to Blow Your Customers’ Minds

Alice Heiman

What is the CEO’s role as “CCO – C hief C ustomer O fficer” in these challenging times ? I started thinking about this for each of my clients. I thought, “What could the CEO do right now for the top 10 to 100 customers?”. What could the CEO do that would BLOW the customers’ minds? . Your Key Accounts. How are you handling your key accounts these days?

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3 Ways to Improve Your IFM's

The Center for Sales Strategy

Your IFM's should be the most productive and most important time spent with your sales reps every week. For those unfamiliar with the acronym IFM, it stands for Individual Focus Meeting. What is an IFM? It's what our team at The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS) calls your weekly one-on-one meetings with your salespeople ( CSS loves to create an acronym for more common sales terms to keep you on your toes.).

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False Choices

Partners in Excellence

My good friend, George Bronten, posted a survey on LinkedIn. He posed the question, “Which of the following workflow is more important, Prospecting, Opportunity Management, Account Development, Partners.” My immediate reaction to this is, “This is a false choice, we have to do all of this!” The reality is that we have to do the complete job–as individuals and organizations.

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5 Biggest Sales Mistakes to Avoid [MUST-KNOW]

Marc Wayshak

You’re probably making these 5 biggest sales mistakes, and you don’t even know it. Watch my latest video to learn exactly what sales mistakes to avoid—for good. The post 5 Biggest Sales Mistakes to Avoid [MUST-KNOW] appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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Presales vs. Sales: What's the Difference?

Hubspot Sales

Every salesperson knows landing a closed-won deal is one of the most important aspects of the job. However, with so much focus on the deal itself, it can be easy to overlook the necessary steps it takes to even reach a successful deal. When companies place too much emphasis on closing sales without ensuring their teams have the operational support they need, it may hinder their ability to grow in the long run.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #41 – There Are No Bad Prospects, Only Bad Salespeople [PODCAST]

Sandler Training

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them. This year, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book, Dave will revisit each of the original 49 Sandler Rules and give updated… The post How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #41 – There Are No Bad Prospects, Only Bad Salespeople [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training

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Talking About Virtual Selling

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been asked to participate in a podcast on virtual selling. I’m looking forward to it, it’s an important topic. When I was originally asked, I replied, “What do you mean by virtual selling?” I think that’s a fundamental question, one that I’m not sure I know the answer to. But I think I know what “Virtual Selling,” isn’t.

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What the Frack: How to Mine Your (Sales) Pipeline and Break Into New Markets in 3 Easy Steps

Sales Hacker

The pandemic has unearthed new markets for almost every industry that are just waiting to be tapped. But with quota looming, sales professionals need a solid plan in place to quickly and efficiently identify and sell to new and existing audiences. This is where fracking comes in. If you’re wondering what fracking has to do with increasing your mid-pandemic sales , don’t worry, we’ll (hydraulically) break it down for you in three easy steps, so you can mine your sales pipeline for all it’s worth.

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Planning speed and accuracy take off at BIGLIFE

Anaplan

Airline loyalty programs are being forced to evolve to meet today’s turbulent business environment. Fortunately for BIGLIFE, the platform that runs BIG Loyalty (which started out as AirAsia’s frequent flyer program), that evolution started long before COVID-19. Over the last few years, BIGLIFE has become a comprehensive lifestyle platform that offers its members rewards that […].

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Flexibility: The Key to Co-Creating Insights and Solutions

Connect2Sell

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How to Manage a Sales Team Remotely

Showpad

Remote workforces were one of the biggest trends of the 2010s, as many employers and employees embraced work from home. Now, remote workforces are the new normal during the pandemic. They also promise to be a major workforce model in the future. This structure provides many benefits, but can complicate things a bit for sales operations. While any business function and process will need to acclimate and adjust to the lack of in-person interaction, sales in particular thrives on experiences and en

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?? How to Overcome Any Physical or Emotional Obstacle

Pipeliner

We tend to think of some obstacles as impossible to overcome. But the human body and mind work in surprising ways. So, in today’s Expert Insight Interview, Jessica Fox discusses how we can overcome any physical or emotional obstacle with the right mindset. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. The post 🎧 How to Overcome Any Physical or Emotional Obstacle appeared first on SalesPOP!

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5 Online Selling Tips to boost your Business Remotely

Awarathon

Publish Date: 22nd Oct, 2020Publish By: Sagar Pradhan, Growth Marketer Many sales reps have been working from home for more than a couple of months now. During these days, many sales teams across various sectors have developed remote selling hacks, which will help their sales reps perform better, even without attending the person’s meetings. These […].

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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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8 eCommerce CRM Tools That Can Help You Manage Your Customers

Nimble - Sales

Whether it’s a physical shop or an eCommerce site, it pays to have an efficient customer relationship management system in every type of business. You have to take care of your relationship with your buyers because it could lead to a better conversion rate and repeat orders. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll […]. The post 8 eCommerce CRM Tools That Can Help You Manage Your Customers appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Four Ways to Improve MEDDICC Execution to Ensure Results

Force Management

Company leaders are moving quickly to make sure their their qualification process is set up to ensure their sales teams can execute against it and they can effectively predict the business. In our recent webinar, How MEDDICC Helps Drive Revenue Predictability , John Kaplan explored how companies are using MEDDICC today to drive revenue predictability, despite market uncertainties.

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Actionable Insights: Turning raw data into automated workflows

Vainu

It's a sign of the times. Everyone has easy access to data on pretty much any company (and anything) in the world today. That's not the problem. The real problem with data is knowing what to do with data. What everybody needs is… actionable insights. Without insight, sales and marketing efforts are a shot in the dark, no better than cold calling. When your teams can consistently act on hard-earned insights, they can create relevant messages and content to build relationships with the right peopl

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Why Great Entrepreneurs Start Out in Sales

Adaptive Business Services

In an age of entrepreneurism, it’s becoming a common theme that some of the best startup founders come from sales. It’s an idea that seems to prove itself true repeatedly, and it’s one that you can see in the numbers even here in Idaho, where Adaptive Business Services is based. Though Idaho is not necessarily the first state that comes to mind when one thinks of startup culture, and successful founders don’t often advertise that they come from sales, some of the patterns we see in the state bac

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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I Suck In Prospecting!

Partners in Excellence

I’m embarrassed to admit this. I have some real prospecting problems. It’s embarrassing, I write about prospecting a lot, I speak, I coach people, we run prospecting workshops. But there’s a part of prospecting, I’m embarrassed to say, that I’m really horrible at. I’m a terrible prospect. It’s embarrassing. I’m supposed to be pretty good at this stuff, but I’ve discovered I’m probably one of the worst prospects around.

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WEBINAR: John Barrows speaks at ZoomInfo’s “Tips for Today’s Sales Calls: A Buyer-Centric Approach”

John Barrows

The post WEBINAR: John Barrows speaks at ZoomInfo’s “Tips for Today’s Sales Calls: A Buyer-Centric Approach” appeared first on JB Sales.

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How to Grow a Brand Ambassador Program at Scale

Repsly

Brand ambassadors are an excellent way for CPG companies to expand awareness and reach a wider target audience. In its most basic form, the main role of brand ambassadors is to represent, promote, and engage your brand and its product within their local communities and networks.

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How to Succeed at Being Indistractable

Sandler Training

Mike Montague interviews best-selling author, Nir Eyal, on How to Succeed at Being Indistractable. The post How to Succeed at Being Indistractable appeared first on Sandler Training.

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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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Learning In The Flow Of Work For Sales Organizations

Richardson

The often referenced 70-20-10 learning framework is built on the premise that 10% of workplace learning is, or should be, propelled by formal training; that 20% is, or should be, enabled by learning directly from others; and that 70% of workplace learning is, or should, come from the employee’s learning through workplace experiences. Although there is almost prima facie acceptance of the 70-20-10 concept, there has not been a great deal of formal research on its validity or effectiveness.

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Study: Trainees learn better from success, not failure

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

The idea that we learn at least as much from failure as from success is engrained in our culture. Just look at maxims like “Learn from your mistakes” and “Failure is a great teacher.” But what if failure isn’t actually such a great teacher, at least in some contexts? Recent research out of the University of Chicago’s business school suggests that this is the case.

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Brush Up on Your Sales Skills

Selling Energy

No matter where you are in your career, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is resting on your laurels. There is always room for improvement, or at least reminders to keep your momentum and maintain good habits.

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