Fri.Feb 16, 2018

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Already Think Your 2018 Quota is Mission Impossible?

SBI Growth

When setting a yearly quota, all too often leadership defers to a top-down approach. Territory potential, industry dynamics, and the skill-set of the sales team are not taken into consideration. Reps get overwhelmed and nothing gets achieved. Here is what.

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7 Secrets for Better Digital Marketing Content

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Christina Battons Business in contemporary time has taken a digital direction. Firms are quickly loosening their grip on traditional modes of marketing such as billboards. They are rapidly embracing the opportunities in the online space. It is no wonder that some have been branded names such as “tweeting firms.”. There are various platforms for marketing on the digital front.

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The Digital Transformation of a B2B World

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Mark Lister, the Chief Digital Officer for Ness Digital Engineering. Mark is a transformational leader, helping to bridge corporate, marketing, and sales strategies to the digital engagement of prospects and customers. Ness designs and builds digital platforms.

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Sales Leadership: Do Others Think You’re Having Fun?

The Sales Hunter

Nearly every week, I’m somewhere speaking to an audience of salespeople and leaders. People are always interested in my background and how I wound up doing what I’m doing. They’re also quick to say how it is obvious I thoroughly enjoy what I do and I’m having fun. The question that comes next always surprises […].

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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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The 8 Best Email Apps for Writing Great Messages

Hubspot Sales

Best Email Apps. Crystal Knows. Detective by Charlie. Hemingway. Just Not Sorry. HubSpot Sales. Sortd for Gmail. Shift. Inbox by Gmail. Ah, emails. Love 'em or hate 'em (I fall into this camp), emails are crucial to sales, and reps have to be good at writing them. But emails are a difficult medium to master. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone.

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15 Bad Sales Habits & How to Break Them in 2018

Hubspot Sales

How to Break Bad Habits. To break bad habits, begin by defining the behavior you want to change and identifying what triggers that behavior. Then, create a concrete plan for changing the behavior, and ask someone to hold you accountable. Finally, reward yourself when successful. After a long day of sales calls, juggling what feels like a million prospects, and filling out endless CRM fields -- it’s easy for salespeople to slip into bad work habits.

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Using a Buyers Map to Unstick Deals | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??Today, I want to talk to you about a process that we’ve been using with our clients that is helping them close more deals. We’re using a buyers map to help unstick opportunities that are stuck in their pipelines.

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Best Practices of the Most Successful Digital Transformation Projects

SalesforLife

If you believe that the world today is a very different place than what it was even four years ago, there's a new set of hard data to back you up. Businesses all over the globe are struggling to keep pace with an unprecedented rate of change in technology and culture. New research shows that many firms are not satisfied with their attempts so far and that only a few transforming organizations have both measurably improved their performance in the market and were able to hold on to those improvem

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Who Are We Designing Our Marketing/Sales Strategies To Serve?

Partners in Excellence

Every day, we are pummeled with experts talking about how to make sales people more efficient. The most fashionable ideas seem to be around extreme specialization/mechanization of selling. These pundits often cite applying manufacturing principles to designing our sales engagement strategies. Some cite the grandfather of lean/agile manufacturing principles, the Toyota Production System (TPS).

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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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Exploring the Sales Leadership and Strategy Track at Rainmaker 2018

SalesLoft

Four tracks. 50+ sessions. Over 100 speakers. More than 1000 attendees. Less than 2 weeks away. Rainmaker 2018 is shaping up to be a truly transformational conference. With so much content on offer this year, we’re going to spend a little bit of time diving into each track to highlight some of the not to be missed gems from the line-up for each track.

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CPQ Has Redefined the Sales Manager’s Job

Cincom Smart Selling

At one time, managing sales was a matter of looking at the annual revenue target and making adjustments to the capacity of the sales force by adding or taking away head count. Today, corporate sales management is more focused on how best to enable a selling process that both serves the customer effectively and delivers more revenue and higher margins.

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How to Handle Difficult Sales Calls Like a Pro + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

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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TSE 771: Jeffrey Gitomer – Setting Goals & Developing a Sales Mindset

Sales Evangelist

During this episode, I was able to bring back on our VERY first guest, Mr. Jeffrey Giomer. He shared with us thought about effective planning, goal setting, and motivation. Listen to it and see how it can apply to you and your business. The post TSE 771: Jeffrey Gitomer – Setting Goals & Developing a Sales Mindset appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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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Your Buyer Left? What Now?

Smart Calling

So you’ve beaten up pretty badly for the day. Your prospecting yielded zilch, and you’re gazing up at a quota number that seemingly appears helium-filled, floating a bit more out of your grasp every day. Scrolling through your account list, looking for a member of the 20% club of your account base that represents 80% of your business, you’re searching for a slam dunk that will book you some quick numbers so you can bob at least up to quota sea level.

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Export your contacts and deals to an Excel file

OnePageCRM

There is a now an additional option to export your data in your preferred file format from OnePageCRM. Along with the ability to download to a CSV file, users can now export all contacts and deals to an excel file. Benefits of exporting from OnePageCRM: To backup or share: You can export all your data from OnePageCRM, if you would like to have a backup or maybe you need to share with other team members.

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Account-Based Selling: 5 Things You’re Doing Wrong

Hubspot Sales

Account-based sales (ABS) is one of the year’s most buzzed-about buzzwords. You’re reading about its many merits, your boss is referring to it in meetings, and you might already be implementing it in your sales strategy. But account-based selling can be an expensive, time-consuming business. So, before you go all in on ABS, make sure you’re taking the right approach, getting buy-in from your executives, and avoiding these common mistakes. 5 Common Mistakes in Account-Based Sales. 1.

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Want to Sell More? Behave Like a Friend

Pipeliner

In recent years, I’ve heard many variations on this theme: “I won’t tolerate this anymore! I’m fed up!” People simply don’t want to be sold to. We’ve all had enough of unwanted phone calls, both at home and at work. We’re tired of slogging through unsolicited emails. We really wish we’d see the end of intrusive social media messages. It’s time that companies treated us with some respect.

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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