Thu.Sep 15, 2022

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Report: The Top 7 Reasons Salespeople Lose Deals in 2022 (& How to Fix It)

Sales Hacker

In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux. We surveyed 500 B2B sales reps in the United States and found: 77% of respondents are struggling in the early stages of the sales cycle. 96% of reps feel they need supplementary help in their daily

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Book notes: Success is in your Sphere?

Sales 2.0

I agree with Zvi Band the author of the book Success is in your Sphere that “relationships are our most important asset”. From everything I’ve seen, if you want to outperform in sales in the long run, you need to build your own network of people that know, like and trust you. No amount of technology or great messaging will get you even close to the salesperson with a top-notch Rolodex.

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Your SKO: How to Drive Long-Term Adoption & ROI

Force Management

With the season for sales kickoffs approaching, the current economy is likely a driving influence on your plan. Given the shifting market dynamics, ensure you use your SKO resources where it matters most, and equip your team to drive lasting results long after the SKO ends. Affecting real change on sales behaviors requires more than a two-day SKO event or one-off virtual training session.

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Do Your Sellers Have A Future?

Partners in Excellence

Too many leaders seem to have given up. They take high attrition rates/turnover as “the way things are.” They manage strategies around low tenure (11 months for sellers and leaders). Low engagement, the great resignation, quiet quitting are now business constants that leaders have to manage around. Some give excuses, “Well GenZ is like that, they are very mobile and won’t stay with any organization very long… ” But then we see the same issue with every other g

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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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Spam Traps: What They Are and How to Avoid Them

Appbuddy

Spam traps are email addresses with the sole function of identifying and catching, well, spammers. Unfortunately, anyone can fall victim to a spam trap if they aren’t careful about contact list hygiene, opening them up to a slew of potential problems. . The best defense in your arsenal is to keep up with email best practices. But first, here’s everything you need to know about spam traps (and more importantly, how to avoid them).

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Silly Me, I Thought It Is All About The Customer….

Partners in Excellence

A good friend reminded me of something I have gotten wrong. I was complaining about the mind numbing volume and stupidity of the marketing messages I get. My inbox is filled with emails with people pitching their products and services. I get at least a dozen voicemails, every day, promoting some sort of product we absolutely must have. Most are about products and services that are not applicable to our business—we don’t manufacture anything, so I’m really not interested in supp

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Why Text-to-Pay Is The Future, According to Podium’s Payments Lead

Hubspot Sales

Most of us use text messaging to communicate on a daily basis. We text to confirm dinner plans. We text about random thoughts or events that happen throughout our day. And we text to share information — whether it's an intriguing article we've read, or a funny YouTube video we've watched. So it only makes sense to allow your consumers to make payments via text.

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How to Find Your Internal Champion

Selling Energy

When you’re approaching a new organization with an energy project, you want to make sure you’re putting your project in front of the right people. We’ve talked about research , influencer maps , and other strategies for finding the decision-maker(s).

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3 Critical Sales Coaching Challenges—and Solutions

Allego

There’s no denying the impact effective sales coaching has on a business. According to Gallup, those who master coaching will see: 50% lower employee turnover. 38% higher employee productivity. 56% higher customer loyalty. In addition, Bersin and Associates found coaching has a 1.5 to 2 times greater impact on business results than pay-for-performance or standard performance assessments.

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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’s the Difference Between SMB vs Mid-Market vs Enterprise Sales? Guide & Examples

Close

SMB vs mid-market vs enterprise sales—should you be going after small fish or whales? Learn how enterprise sales is different from SMB or mid-market sales & how to choose the right market.

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10 Characteristics of productive sales calls

Apptivo

Time is valuable for everyone! Sales calls need to be efficient, effective, and productive for both the seller and the buyer. The seller has the obligation to provide value and must convey it at every opportunity, whereas the buyer invariably undermines the same. Failure to convince the buyer of value will result in the sales call not converting. Rarely does the buyer devote sufficient time for sales to make the pitch, especially if it is a cold call.

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How to Run Sales Meetings: Topics, Agenda Template & Ideas

Close

The purpose of sales meetings is to motivate and equip your team to do their best work. Learn how to prepare, structure, and run an effective sales meeting.

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WHAT IS PRODUCT-LED GROWTH (PLG) — AND HOW CAN IT IMPROVE YOUR REVENUE PERFORMANCE?

Mereo

Product-led growth (PLG) has been a rising strategy of late in the B2B sphere — especially within the private equity investment space when it comes to Software as a Service (SaaS) portfolio companies. According to the 2022 Product-Led Growth Index report , 58% of surveyed companies already were practicing PLG and 47% planned to double their investment in the year ahead.

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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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What is Lead Scoring & How to Successfully Use Lead Scoring Models

Close

Lead scoring is assigning values to your leads to indicate their conversion probability. Learn how to create a robust model around it.

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4 Ways CRM Software Is Helping Manufacturers Create Operational Resilience

SugarCRM

It’s no secret that the manufacturing industry has suffered greatly from the aftermath of COVID-19. While some of the key challenges for manufacturers today certainly existed before 2020, the pandemic ended up exacerbating some of those global supply-chain issues, shining a light on operational vulnerabilities and ultimately serving as a catalyst for change.

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Storytelling in Sales: Becoming the Trusted Guide

LeadIQ B2B Sales Prospecting

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Storytelling in Sales: Defining the Villain

LeadIQ B2B Sales Prospecting

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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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Storytelling in Sales: Your Reps are Not the Hero

LeadIQ B2B Sales Prospecting

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How to Use Storytelling in Sales to Create Memorable Cold Outreach

LeadIQ B2B Sales Prospecting

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