Vainu

APRIL 1, 2019

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InsightSquared

APRIL 1, 2019

“How am I doing?”. Most sales reps are genuinely driven not by money, but by success. They are dying to know how they are doing. Regardless of their generation or experience, your reps want to know if they are on the right track to hit their goals. So, how do we do this? Because this is a huge topic, we are going to focus this blog specifically on ramping your reps.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2019

I have written many articles about Sales DNA, the combination of strengths that support sales process, sales strategy and sales tactics; or, when it appears as a weakness and sabotages ones ability to execute.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

I was onsite training in Montreal , Canada last week—a software company, hi everyone! —and one of the sales reps brought up today’s quote as we were reviewing calls during the training. The call was a closing presentation—a demo, really—and after about an hour of slides and features and benefits, the rep was anxious to set next steps: schedule another demo call, schedule another Q & A session, etc.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2019

Author: Kevin F. Davis It goes without saying that your top salespeople are the backbone of your team. Sure, they keep the sales rolling in, but they also play a key role in keeping your entire team motivated. When your top few are hard at work, the rest of the team aspires to their greatness. However, those top salespeople aren’t robots – they go through burnouts and times where they just need an extra boost of motivation, themselves.

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 1, 2019

It is always good to hear about the women who have gotten into a sales role in a company where there is or has been a male majority sales team. The opportunities in a sales career are some of the best compared to any other corporate role. It can also be a tough grind, a difficult ramp up, and in some companies, tricky being a strong, confidant seller looking to rise within the organization.

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Costello

APRIL 1, 2019

After more than seven years working on Sales Development teams and 3 years of training and consulting these teams as the Founder and CEO of Tenbound, David Dulany had built quite a network in the Sales Development space. “We used to do quarterly networking meetups in the San Francisco area,” David recalls. “And the idea for a conference just started organically from here.

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Anthony Iannarino

APRIL 1, 2019

If the whole is more than the part, it naturally follows that the part must be something less than the whole. The component parts of a professional pursuit plan (i.e., prospecting sequence or cadence ) add up to something more than any one medium or message. I am romantic about the telephone. It reigns supreme among all the tools one might use to acquire a meeting.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 1, 2019

Often, clients come to us when their sales are not where they want to be, and the first thing they say is that they need us to come in and do sales training. Yes, sales training will help, but alone, it won't be the only thing that helps improve sales performance. In this video, I discuss four words you need to remember to help your team improve sales: TRAIN.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 1, 2019

A common issue among many sales organizations is the lack of a formal sales process. While it’s possible to improve a sales organization without having a universally followed sales process, there’s a limit to how much they can progress. To get the maximum benefit out of other methods, a business needs a formal sales process before anything else. Ergo, this five-step guide to creating and instituting a sales process.

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Nimble - Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

Research by firms such as Forrester and Temkin have found that customer journey mapping is moving front and center for many marketing and customer experience professionals. Why? Because the more you understand your customer’s journey the better you can address opportunities to improve key decisions based on business results such as product/service adoption, customer service, […].

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Lead response management, or LRM, doesn’t have to be a headache thanks to these best practices. Check out how companies are currently faring on their response to leads based on the best practices we’ve laid out in our Lead Response Audit study. RELATED: Lead Response Secrets: 3 Tips From Winners of Best Lead Response 2018 In […]. The post Lead Response Infographic – How Many Touches To Make A Sale appeared first on The Sales Insider.

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Sandler Training

APRIL 1, 2019

Clint Babcock, Sandler trainer, shows you how to succeed with the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques needed to be more successful when you have been ghosted by your prospect. Get the best practices collected from around the world. Listen Time: 27 Minutes.

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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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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Technology and automation can enable each of us to be much more efficient, and sometimes more impactful/effective. In our company, we couldn’t achieve what we do without our technology stack. In some ways, it’s an appendage we couldn’t manage to live without. Having said that, it’s not the technology that drives performance. Think about it for a moment.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 1, 2019

The world of sales is moving so rapidly it is hard to keep up. And, with the average 18-month turnover of sales leaders, it is more important than ever to know what levers to pull to improve effectiveness. Should you focus on AI, technology, enablement or something else? These are issues that high-performing leaders consider and act on. I hope you find value from my take on the four trends that will improve your success in 2019.

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Smart Calling

APRIL 1, 2019

This post could be the most amazing one I’ve ever put out. I had the unique opportunity to interview the best of the best in sales to find out what they do that makes them rich. I searched out and found the top ten sales reps from a variety of companies nationwide. Not just high performers, but the “superstars” whose numbers double and triple their closest peers.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 1, 2019

I can’t think of any concepts more misunderstood than price, pricing, and discounting. An alarming number of businesses price poorly. We even teach falsehoods about price at the college level. Let’s discuss five myths about pricing, and its Mr. Hyde alter-ego, discounting. I usually start breathing fire on this topic, so buckle up. If this starts feeling a little too close to home, don’t get mad.

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Xactly

APRIL 1, 2019

Sales tracking is the practice of measuring, monitoring and recording data generated by the sales process. Learn how sales software can help you develop insights that drive revenue growth.

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criteria for success

APRIL 1, 2019

This episode's featured guest is Tibor Shanto. Tibor has been a sales leader for over 25 years, helping companies achieve and improve their revenue goals. As a Chief Sales Officer at Renbor Sales Solutions, Tibor works with leading B2B sales organizations to improve critical aspects of their sales cycle; including shortening sales [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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KO Advantage Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Are you the type of entrepreneur or business owner that charge by the hour or time? Well, if you’re one of those people. I suggest you stop charging this way. Think about it. If you’ve been offering and doing the same services for years now (i.e., for 5 to 15 years), and you’ve become an expert in your field, then chances are you now work faster and better at it.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2019

The operations arm of your sales organization plays a crucial role in the success of the business. Alternatively, if your operations are not set up in a way that enables the success of your sales team, you’ll end up detracting from the most important objective: closing and retaining revenue. Attend this webinar and learn five major sales operational mistakes that may be costing you pipeline and revenue.

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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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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

APRIL 1, 2019

Research reported in Harvard Business Review confirmed what most people understand intuitively: Remote workers worry about being out of the loop. Offsite employees report that they often feel that decisions affecting them are made without their input, that they’re at a disadvantage when it comes to office politics, and that their contributions are often overlooked or ignored.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 1, 2019

We’re pleased to announce that Scout , Miller Heiman Group’s sales analytics platform based on the Strategic Selling with Perspective and Conceptual Selling sales methodologies, now integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365. The move came from marketplace demand and expands Scout’s reach. Along with the existing Salesforce integration, Scout allows even more sales professionals to see the move that moves the deal.

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Bigtincan

APRIL 1, 2019

Keeping employees happy can feel like a never-ending struggle. You develop a fun company culture, invest in reward systems to show their value, and yet still, something is missing. That missing element may be learning. Employees want to grow, both in their position and their career, and learning is an important part of that growth. […].

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Smart Calling

APRIL 1, 2019

Many people view attempts to sell them with skepticism. And rightfully so, since there is so much awful salesmanship being practiced every day. However, many things that are used by successful salespeople, marketers, negotiators as based on sound, scientifically-proven psychological and behavioral principles. Which you should be using too, in your own efforts to help people buy.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

APRIL 1, 2019

In Douglas Adam’s 5-book trilogy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide the Galaxy , there’s a running gag about the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The characters find out that the Answer is 42. But Adams also posits that the Answer and the Question are mutually exclusive. If you know one, you can’t know the other. So nobody can figure out what the actual question is.

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Selling Energy

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s easy to assume that the pressures of our jobs couldn’t get much worse, but imagine this -- what would it be like to oversee social gatherings at The White House? You’re dealing with larger-than-life personalities, visitors from other countries with various expectations and customs, and your boss is… well, the President of the United States. It doesn’t get more intimidating than that.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

APRIL 1, 2019

Research reported in Harvard Business Review confirmed what most people understand intuitively: Remote workers worry about being out of the loop. Offsite employees report that they often feel that decisions affecting them are made without their input, that they’re at a disadvantage when it comes to office politics, and that their contributions are often overlooked or ignored.

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