Tue.Nov 29, 2022

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"Spirited" Has So Much in Common with Most Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week we watched Spirited, the new Apple TV Plus take on the old Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Story. In this lighthearted film, Will Ferrell is the Ghost of Christmas Present and Ryan Reynolds is the 2022 version of Scrooge. This Scrooge is a funny, selfish, materialistic, song and dance man, who is irredeemable. Can Will Farrell's character redeem Ryan Reynolds' character?

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Hear how Matt Fok grew his company leveraging existing customers

Alice Heiman

Matt Fok came up with his idea for eZ-Xpo, before the pandemic. He thought, what if you could continue the dialogue started at conferences virtually? Since his company was already selling an eLearning platform, he simply went to his existing customers to validate the idea. And then the pandemic hit. His founder-led sales approach paid off as he uncovered more and better ways to address the market need.

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How to Manage The 3 Career Stages of Salespeople

The Center for Sales Strategy

Parenting small children is not easy. I recall when my daughters were toddlers and how exhausted my wife and I were at the end of the day. We fantasized about when they would be older and more independent. We imagined parenting would be a lot easier. Well, as I prepare for my oldest daughter's wedding in two weeks, I can tell you parenting older children is different, but it's not necessarily easy.

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Do You Have the Essentials to Prepare for Retirement Properly?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay. Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Have the Essentials to Prepare for Retirement Properly? The baby boomer age range is 58-76, according to Google. Many are preparing to retire and want to know what they need to do to make the transition as smooth as possible. Many people of varying generations will ask, do I have the essentials to prepare for retirement properly in the next few years?

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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 Read Notes in a Virtual Meeting and Stay Engaged

Julie Hanson

How to Read Notes in a Virtual Meeting and Stay Engaged. It’s painful to watch someone read from notes or any kind of a script during a virtual meeting. As an audience member it feels inauthentic, less like a conversation and more like a one-sided monologue. It also makes you appear unprepared. But the advent of virtual meetings and new tools, like teleprompter apps or transparent notes would seem to allow presenters more discreet access to these memory aids than when in person.

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Episode 50: Why Are Lead Gen Companies Bad at Lead Gen

Sales Hacker

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. Join Kristina Finseth (Sr. Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker.

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10 Elevator Pitch Tips

Selling Energy

An elevator pitch is how will you capture someone's attention in 15 seconds or less. It needs to be sensitive to what that person's segment is, what their organizational orientation is, and their role within that system. This also applies to where they are in their career. Ask yourself: are they a young buck trying to gain access to the boardroom? Are they nearing retirement?

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Why Most Businesses Crumble Under Growth

Grant Cardone

A lot of businesses fall apart once they grow past $2 million in value. Both Grant and I have experienced it firsthand. In this clip, Grant and I talk about why smaller businesses often crumble under their own weight. We also share how Cardone Ventures can help business owners avoid that collapse. To connect with […] The post Why Most Businesses Crumble Under Growth appeared first on GCTV.

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Strategies for Cyber Security Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

“We need more salespeople for our anticipated growth,” said the CEO of an enterprise cyber security firm. The digital transformation and remote work environments create heightened security concerns among end-users and growth opportunities for providers. Enterprise providers like Microsoft, Cisco, and Amazon Web Services are all searching for experienced salespeople with cyber security expertise.

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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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What to Keep Top of Mind When Selling in a Down Economy

The Sales Readiness Blog

Over the last few months, economic uncertainty has increased significantly due to a combination of factors including geopolitical tensions, supply chain issues, and stubbornly high inflation rates.

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ARR vs ACV: Differences in Metrics & Formulas (Annual Contract Value vs Annual Recurring Revenue) for SaaS

Close

We’ve talked in other posts about the importance of metrics in business growth, sales management, and overall success, so if you follow the Close blog, you may already know what Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and Annual Contract Value (ACV) are. (Spoiler: we’re gonna review them in-depth below!

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LinkedIn Skills are Your Ticket to Sales Success

Frontline Selling

Salespeople want to be found on LinkedIn. Sales managers want clients to find them on LinkedIn. It’s that simple. Millions of professionals use LinkedIn for prospecting, thought leadership and engagement, with the hopes of piquing the interest of a prospective client. Clearly, sales people are always looking for clients and sales but sometimes the client comes to you because your profile resonates with them.

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What Makes a Memorable Product Demo and Why is it Important?

Product Management University

Product demos are one of the most critical components of strong product marketing and sales for SaaS organizations. A great product demo creates an urgency to buy, while a bad product demo sends prospects running. Software product demos can also be incredibly valuable for startups who don’t have the luxury of a formalized product marketing function or dedicated sales engineers. .

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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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How to Prepare For Any Media Or Podcast Interview (video)

Pipeliner

Susan Harrow is a renowned media trainer, marketing strategist, and the author of “ Sell yourself without selling your soul. ” And for over 33 years, she’s trained thousands of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and assault leaders by solving the world’s most pressing problems to turn their message into money using media appearances. In this expert insight interview, our host John and Susan discuss “how to prepare for a media and podcast interview?”.

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Nonverbal communication: Why it’s such a hot training topic

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Over the past year, the demand for training in nonverbal communication has nearly tripled, according to the latest annual report by the online learning company Udemy. The report compares consumption of its courses between July 2021-June 2022 with course use in the previous 12 months. Enrollment in nonverbal communication training shot up by 268%, Udemy said.

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Return on Sales Ratio: Formula, Definition & Calculation Guide

Close

The Return on Sales Ratio is one of the key metrics when determining a company's profitability. Learn how to best calculate and increase ROS.

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Fuel Growth Podcast: Embracing a People-First Culture

SugarCRM

On this episode of the Fuel Growth podcast series, my co-host ot to sit down with 6Sense ’s Chief People Officer, Terese Lam. 6sense is a predictive intelligence platform for marketing and sales that uses artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and machine learning to detect anonymous buying activity, find hidden buyer behavior to capture more revenue, and help marketing and sales teams develop campaigns with more intelligence.

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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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How to Use Social Media for B2B Sales in 2023

Close

Wondering how social media for B2B sales should play into your business strategy? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Green Leads CEO Mike Farrell joins Amir Reiter on the Transform Sales Podcast

Green Lead's B2B

CloudTask's CEO, Amir Reiter spoke to Green Leads CEO Mike Farrell, about his career path, the right go-to-market strategy, the pros and cons of the new tech stack coming out, demand generation, and what you should look out for when buying or selling your product or service. CLick Here to Watch & Listen. Click here for more Green Leads podcasts.

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8 Steps to Crafting an Effective Go to Market Strategy

Klozers

Go to Market Strategy – Top Question from Google What is a Go to Market (GTM) Strategy? A go-to-market strategy (GTM) is a detailed plan made to successfully introduce a product or service to the market. A strong GTM strategy involves target audience identification, a marketing plan, and a sales strategy. GTM strategies should identify. Read more.

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The 12 Best Sales Forecasting Software in 2022

Hubspot Sales

Today, 57% of sales reps inaccurately forecast their pipeline, according to data from Chorus. To reduce the probability of such inaccuracies, sales forecasting software has become an indispensable part of the professional sales kit. This post shares 12 forecasting software that can help you predict, monitor, and optimize your deal pipeline. Simply put, sales forecasting software help the organization predict how much they’re going to make and when.

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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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Can You “Connect The Dots” With Your Customer?

Partners in Excellence

Every function, every job in an organization is somehow connected with their organization’s strategies, goals, and objectives. Every organization has goals—revenue, earnings, growth, market penetration, geographic penetration, product/offering growth, how they are perceived by customers, how they are perceived in their communities, expansion, competitive positioning, and on and on.

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4 Tactics for Sales Success After a Company Merger

Allego

Company mergers are exciting. Two companies come together to form one new entity that is greater than the sum of its parts. It can mean greater financial strength, which can lead to higher market share, more influence over customers, and reduced competitive threat. At the same time, however, mergers are highly stressful and full of challenges. Reaping the rewards does not come easily.

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Sales Prospecting Into Healthcare: How We Overcome the Top 5 Challenges

Frontline Selling

Sales prospecting in 2022 is harder than ever. While selling to healthcare organizations has always been a challenge, the pandemic has every person working longer, more arduous hours – leaving little time for emails or phone calls that aren’t relevant to them. That’s where FRONTLINE Selling shines. It takes 3x more activity to connect with prospects than it did prior to the pandemic.

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How Execs Buy: The Enterprise Software Buying Process

Emissary

How has the enterprise software buying process transformed as organizations fully exit pandemic-era approaches and prepare for potential economic challenges in 2023? Emissary surveyed over 1,000 executive-level buyers within our human intelligence network , narrowing down data to those (673) who had recently participated in a technology purchase of over $250,000 USD.

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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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How Execs Buy: The Enterprise Software Buying Process

Emissary

How has the enterprise software buying process transformed as organizations fully exit pandemic-era approaches and prepare for potential economic challenges in 2023? Emissary surveyed over 1,000 executive-level buyers within our human intelligence network , narrowing down data to those (673) who had recently participated in a technology purchase of over $250,000 USD.