Thu.Oct 13, 2016

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Think Robots Will Replace B2B Sales Reps?

No More Cold Calling

Buyer 2.0 needs us more than ever. Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, explains why in this month’s guest post. Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Not so long ago clients looked to salespeople for information about our companies and products.

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Phone Prospecting – Cool and Not Cool

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . People talk about prospecting as though it is open to interpretation, it should not be. Prospecting is the act of engaging with someone with the purpose of initiating a sales cycle. It is not about trying to sell, qualify, or any of the things that will never happen if you do not engage. There is a singular purpose to prospecting, that is to engage.

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The Crucial Selling Skill That Nobody Talks About

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright 123RF Stock Photo. Earlier this week I received an unsolicited email from the founder of a company who introduced himself and asked me to try his new tool for speakers. By itself, this was not unusual because I receive 20-25 unsolicited emails per day. They want to optimize my website, sell me SEO services, provide me with online marketing tools, sell me the latest SaaS program, provide a guest article for my Blog, buy advertising on my Blog, sell me leads, book appointments for

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Top Three Must-Haves to Drive Forecast Accuracy

SBI Growth

SBI interviewed Evan Randall the Vice President of Sales Operations at Tableau Software. Evan is doing ground-breaking work in the area of forecasting accuracy. In this show we will go narrow and deep into this important topic. Watch as Evan breaks down.

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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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Social Media Pitfalls When it Comes to Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

Just because you can send out a blast of information via a social media site doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. When it comes to prospecting, the social media blast is many times the worst thing you can do. To prospect successfully you need to be able to create the one-to-one relationships that […].

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What Would Happen to Our Sales If We Had Crystal Clear Clarity?

Increase Sales

Funny think about sales, many people lack crystal clear clarity. These are the salespeople that scurry around B2B networking events, who stumble when ask what they do, and who complain about the inability to increase sales. Many salespeople as well as SMB owners think they lack the tools, the skills, the leads, the network of connections. Never do they recognize what is limiting their business growth, their professional growth and their personal growth is crystal clear clarity.

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How to Scale a Sales Team In The 21st Century – Part 1

A Sales Guy

We all wanna get big. We all want to grow up and be the big girls or boys on the block, right? Growth is what it’s all about in the world of business, especially in SaaS and technology. Take one look at TechCrunch, Mashable, and every other tech publication, and it’s clear. Growth is the goal. But there ain’t no growth without a highly functioning sales team.

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How Do You Sell to a Millennial B2B Decision-Maker?

Anthony Cole Training

A Guest Post by Salesloft.com.

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Where to Find Influencers In Your Industry

Fill the Funnel

Where to find influencers? That is always the first question I hear in my influencer marketing training program, and the main hurdle keeping people from getting started. I hope to convince you today that it is one of the easiest things to accomplish once you know where to look. If you want to take advantage of influencer marketing and leverage the huge followings of leaders in your business niche, the first step is to find them.

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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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Sales training – managing a conundrum

Sales Training Connection

Sales training. Here’s the conundrum … You have a 250 person sales team. You are a new, first time Sales Training Director. You replaced a sales manager who did no sales training for a long time. To add urgency, revenue numbers have been stagnant for too long. The VP of Sales now feels that sales training is definitely needed and it needs to be done in short order.

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What is Insight Based Selling (And How Does It Relate to Sales Prospecting?)

BrainShark

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Put a Stop to Overselling!

Engage Selling

It goes without saying, but sales can be one of the most stressful professions out there, period.

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Employee Onboarding Experts on Building a Great Experience in New Hire Onboarding

Mindtickle

Effective onboarding is the cornerstone of human capital management. There’s no doubt that it sets the tone and in many cases can also set the trajectory for new hires joining your organization. According to an Aberdeen Onboarding Benchmark report “new employees often feel that the attention they receive during the pre-hire stages is abandoned once they are hired.

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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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5 Sales Role-Play Tips for Success from the Theater

Julie Hanson

Sales Reps hate to role-play. But you knew that, right? Done well, role-play can be an exceptionally powerful tool in helping sales reps master communication skills and navigate many changes in products, customers, and competition they continually face. Unfortunately, approaching it with a gallows-like resolve as most sales reps do, limits the opportunity to get the real transformative benefits that role-play can produce.

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9 Sales Development Interview Questions to Know

SalesLoft

Preparing for a job interview is never an easy task, and it’s even tougher if you haven’t had much practice at it. And since sales development has a reputation of being a point of entry for many newbies in the workforce (even though it’s a quite rigorous role) the sales development interview process for the role is an interesting one. For the interviewee — whether new to the workforce, or a vet on the scene with just a new interest in a sales career — it has to start with the knowled

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Employee Onboarding Experts on Building a Great Experience in New Hire Onboarding

Mindtickle

Effective onboarding is the cornerstone of human capital management. There’s no doubt that it sets the tone and in many cases can also set the trajectory for new hires joining your organization. According to an Aberdeen Onboarding Benchmark report “new employees often feel that the attention they receive during the pre-hire stages is abandoned once they are hired.

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4 Ways to Make Sure Your Sales Kickoff Meeting Isn’t a Waste of Money

The Brooks Group

The New Year is right around the corner and there’s a good chance you’re in full planning mode for your 2017 sales kickoff meeting. Organizations dedicate huge amounts of time and money to this annual event, but does the event itself really generate the value and sales performance improvements necessary to justify the investment? Even the most well-planned events don’t count for anything if salespeople don’t improve their performance afterwards—and maintain that lift for the remainder of the yea

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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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TSE 421: Sales vs. Marketing…How To Make Them Work Together

Sales Evangelist

People quite often say that “sales and marketing” is like oil and water. They don’t mix together. They don’t get along. My guest today, Ali Mirza shares with us how you can make sure your sales and marketing teams are working cohesively for one goal: success in your company. Find out how you can align […] The post TSE 421: Sales vs. Marketing…How To Make Them Work Together appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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TSE 422: Building Effective Sales Habits

Sales Evangelist

Ever wondered why your productivity levels are fluctuating periodically? Well, oftentimes, we are all governed by habits. Whether good or bad, productive or not, they could either help you increase sales or decrease sales – your choice. Personally, I have transformed my habits to help me improve my performance and grow my business. In fact, […] The post TSE 422: Building Effective Sales Habits appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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TSE 423: 4 Questions You Must Answer Before Creating Any New Content

Sales Evangelist

Content is king – it’s a popular maxim which you’ve surely heard of several times. True, content can translate into sales if and when you do it right; otherwise, content will only remain as just that, plain words. So I’m bringing in Alzay Calhoun today as he shares with us how you can create content […] The post TSE 423: 4 Questions You Must Answer Before Creating Any New Content appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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TSE 424: Sales From The Street-“Selling High Ticket Product”

Sales Evangelist

How do you attract high-ticket clients especially when you’re just getting started as an an entrepreneur or a sales professional? Today, I’m bringing in Johnson Emmanuel, Founder/CEO of Clients Attraction, a company that helps businesses and entrepreneurs consistently attract qualified high-ticket clients. In this episode, Johnson shares with us some insights and strategies that he […] The post TSE 424: Sales From The Street-“Selling High Ticket Product” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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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TSE 425: TSE Hustler’s League-“Accountability”

Sales Evangelist

Do you work from home? Are you in a silo? Do you work by yourself? Or are you in the field selling on your own? Listen to this episode as I share some strategies that you can apply that will help you stay competitive even when you’re alone. How to stay competitive effectively even when […] The post TSE 425: TSE Hustler’s League-“Accountability” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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TSE 426: High Profit Prospecting With Mark Hunter

Sales Evangelist

Prospecting is one of the many things salespeople can do wrongly when it’s one of the most important aspects in your sales process that you have to precisely master. Today’s episode is just oozing with strategies, tips, insights, and whatnot that will not just blow you away but also blow your sales up, of course, […] The post TSE 426: High Profit Prospecting With Mark Hunter appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.