Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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Motivating Sales People: What Does it Take?

Anthony Cole Training

Frequently I am asked the following question: “How do I keep my salespeople motivated to sell?”.

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How to Ask for a Referral Without Getting Embarrassed

No More Cold Calling

Referrals aren’t favors. Salespeople often downplay the importance of referral networks or just don’t know how to ask for a referral. Don’t get distracted; don’t get embarrassed. Relationships and referrals are what business is all about! When I interviewed Wes, senior vice president of sales for a well-known marketing automation company, I expected to hear all about the advantages of using his technology.

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How to Mobilize High-Potential Employees and Activate Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

High-potential employees comprise the next generation of leaders within your company. As you look toward succession planning or assigning resources to key strategic initiatives, the pool of high-potential employees is where most companies look to for resources who can solve.

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Friday Five - Hiring for Sales Roles

Score More Sales

Here are 3 tips, 1 quote, and 1 resource to end your week. Hiring tip #1: If you are looking to hire more women on your sales team, hold an event at your offices quarterly (or twice a year) and get the Women Sales Pros guide on how to do it to widen your recruitment pipeline.

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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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Forging the Path for Customer Operations

SBI Growth

Scott Asher most recently led Customer Operations for RentPath, a leading digital marketplace connecting millions of consumers with apartments, condos, and houses for rent through their massive network and websites. Scott spent 6 years in the emerging role of VP of Customer.

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The Sales Conversation Of The Future

Partners in Excellence

AI/ML are, apparently, the future of selling. As I reflect on the brave new world of selling, I imagined a call of the future: Alexa: Hi, Siri, I’m Alexa from Super Cool As A Service Software Tools Company, otherwise known as SCAASSTC. Can I have 5 minutes of your time? Siri: Oh no, is this another robo call? We understand your algorithm, our algorithm shows we aren’t in your ICP, so you are wasting my time, but of course your algorithm should have known this.

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Lost Purpose? Here’s How to Get Back on Track

Grant Cardone

If you’ve never had a goal so big and juicy that you were unable to sleep at times because of it, you’ve never been fully on-purpose. Average people in society call on-purpose people crazy, because that’s what they appear like. I’m not talking about physically looking like a maniac, but rather acting like one. On-purpose people are maniacs at life and in their career.

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66% of Companies Lack a Formalized Lead Generation Process - CSO Insights Study

SalesforLife

As a Chief Revenue Officer, it’s daunting to think about your 2019 sales goals. The CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) might have your targets accelerate 10%, 20% or even higher next year.

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Do You Know How A Sales Funnel Will Build Your E-commerce Business?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Note: Anna Kucirkova provides today’s guest blog, “How A Sales Funnel Will Build Your E-Commerce Business.” . Anna is a copywriter, speaks three languages, and has a passion for writing. While she has visited many places in Europe and SE Asia, she still wants to explore the rest of the world. __.

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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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How to Convert & Close Sales Demo Requests [Data]

Hubspot Sales

Is it possible to shorten the sales cycle? Yes, there is a chance -- if you employ the right tactics at the right stage to show prospects the value of your product so they want to buy from you. And at the beginning of the sales cycle, when prospects might be initially unfamiliar with your brand or your solution, the way you conduct a demo request can make or break the sale.

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How to Enable Your B2B Sales Team to Convert Inbound Leads

Sales Hacker

Obtaining a ton of qualified inbound leads can be a blessing for your sales team – provided they are enabled and opportunistic enough to take advantage of them. My former Ambition colleague Dan Nice once compared B2B sales and marketing teams to Allied Forces storming Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. Sales leaders serve as the generals and field commanders.

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When I Know Training will Work | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

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Weekly Roundup – Dec 07, 2018

CloserIQ

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. How to Set SDR Compensation Plans. Formulating a compensation plan for SDRs is one of the most important tasks sales VPs perform, one which will play a major role in SDR recruitment and retention.

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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 we redesigned the sidebar of our CRM

Close.io

The left navigation is present on every page you look at in Close. It provides the main way to move through the product. It also hasn’t been touched since about 2013! It was time to show it some love. In this post, we'll share a bit of the work that went into the redesign our left sidebar, and how we arrived at the current version. As always, we'd love to hear from you, our customers, how we can build an even better app for you.

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How to Prevent Your Next SaaS Demo Going Silent

Sales Readiness Group

On this Q&A episode: "What's the best way to follow-up with a demo? Even though m y demos go really well, the prospect seems to go silent after we meet".

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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote from Jack Welch – Episode 106

criteria for success

Do you want to learn more about coaching and mentoring? Today's quote from Jack Welch is about the effectiveness and value of good coaching. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration. Jack Welch Quote In this episode of Let's Talk Sales, it's all about this month's theme: leveraging business advisors, [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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A Conversation With Shane Araujo: Sales Process in the Manufacturing Industry

Costello

Shane Araujo, Co-Founder and President. Shane Araujo has been in the manufacturing industry most of his life, and the sales side has always held a special fascination for him. “Building relationships and establishing personal value is a huge reason why I love sales so much,” Shane said. “If you become friends with your prospects, it becomes doing business with friends, which is amazing.

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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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AI in Sales | An In-depth Interview with CEO, Oleg Rogynskyy and Author, Victor Antonio

People.ai

Managing to Sales Activities is critical when it comes to a salesperson’s ability to make their number. Oleg Rogynskyy, CEO of People.ai is all about analyzing activities to determine what to do and when to do it using artificial intelligence. In this in-depth interview, Oleg and Victor Antonio, Author and Sales Trainer, unpack some of the surprising insights, and capability companies are.

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The Importance of Having an Agenda

Selling Energy

Whether you’re holding a meeting internally or with a prospect’s organization, it’s important that you create an agenda and send it to the invitees ahead of time.

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The ONLY Credential Necessary Today…For ANY Woman Who Sells!

Bernadette McClelland

#IWD2017 #BeBoldForChange. It was a privilege to be asked to share my thoughts on women in sales roles in this years International Women’s Day edition of Top Sales World Magazine , gracing the pages with some wonderful colleagues such as Tiffani Bova and Jill Konrath. It’s also a time to reflect on what the day actually stands for – outside our default celebration of the suffragettes or those who have voiced their views, run their races and remained on buses.

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11 Incredible Realtor Business Cards You Need to See

Hubspot Sales

Congratulations! You've started a real estate business, and you're building up your clientele. It can be challenging to get your name out there, and you never know when you'll meet a potential client. You could be hosting an open house, or just casually chatting with someone in line at your local coffee shop. So, how do you get your name out there? Make sure you have business cards with you.

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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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Weekly Roundup: Sales Coaching, Target Markets, Sales Enablement + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "BECOME THE PERSON WHO WOULD ATTRACT THE RESULTS YOU SEEK.". -JIM CATHCART. - AROUND THE WEB -. > How to Get the Most Out of Time Spent Coaching Your Sales Team — LinkedIn. Sales managers are master jugglers. In a single day, one might find herself doing everything from facilitating connections and participating in prospect meetings, to interviewing new hires and evaluating new tools, to analyzing sales strategies and helping drive deals to completion.

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Value Propositions for Your Customer Audience Q&A

LeveragePoint

For our November Webinar Peyton Marshall, LeveragePoint’s CEO, explored the ways that Value Propositions can and should be the core piece of content that align commercial teams on their customer audience to deliver on the potential of ABM, ABS and segmented pricing. To conclude the webinar, he answered some questions from the audience. Here are his live answers: We talk to multiple stakeholders within a single deal, how can you transform a Value Proposition to be useful in every single conversat