No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Account based selling is an art, not a science. Attracting key accounts is the #1 challenge for account based selling teams. (No big shocker there, right?) Their charter is to land and expand within their named accounts while fending off substantial competitors and navigating an increasingly complex buyer landscape—while simultaneously coordinating an internal team to devise a strategy and assign a myriad of tasks.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Author: Jay Mitchell There are endless blogs you can read on how to be a better salesperson. Do a quick Google search on the topic and you will find list upon list of tricks, hacks and sales “secrets” to closing deals and making millions. Sure, there is merit to some of these short cuts and quick tips; heck, we have a blog of our own sharing techniques that work for us.

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The Sales Heretic

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The fourth quarter is already upon us. Are your sales where you’d like them to be? Want to finish the year strong? Listen to my appearance on Breakthrough Radio with Michele Price. In this 35-minute-long interview, we discuss: • The biggest myths about selling in the fourth quarter • The first thing you need to [.].

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To make your forecast for the new year, look at sales for the coming year in terms of units. How many units must be sold? Review the existing pipeline and your closing ratio. Now you have the number of units that will be sold in the coming months without lead generation. This is the basis for projecting the number of leads needed to make the forecast from sales leads for the new year.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the B2B marketing arena, Account Based Marketing (ABM) is on fire these days, and it isn’t showing signs of cooling off anytime soon. This practice of focusing on a smaller, albeit more lucrative, set of best-fit accounts and measuring success based on revenue generated, is quite the pivot from how many B2B marketing teams used to measure success.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Slumps happen to everyone. No matter how good you are or how long you have been in sales, sooner or later you're going to hit a sales slump. And they always seem to come at the very worst times. (Actually, when is it ever good to go into a slump?) It’s never exactly the same, but it sometimes looks like this: You've put a lot of time and energy into a prospect, and thought for sure he or she would say yes—but the person gives you a NO.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 12, 2017

If your business name makes people do a double-take when they see it, you’re doing something right. We asked 10 Nutshell customers to tell us the origin stories behind their unique business names. Some of them have personal meaning, some have local significance, some were just pulled out of thin air— and all of them are awesome. SplitMango. “Apart from being an available domain name at the time we started out, SplitMango is just a really cool name.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Most salespeople are thrilled to land a meeting with a C-level executive. What is C-level sales? C-level sales involves meeting directly with executives at a prospect's company. Because they tend to have budget authority, you can close a deal quickly. It also means you have less time (sometimes just one meeting) to make your case. These decision makers have a lot of influence yet barely any time -- so if you want to earn their business, you’ll have to use every minute effectively.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Are you blind to the major turnoffs you may be exhibiting to your clients and prospects?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2017

How much of today’s well-intended sales “enablement” actually enables seller productivity? The answer is both surprising and frustrating. At CEB, now Gartner, we often refer to today’s sales environment as “The World of More,” spanning more people, priorities, perspectives, processes, and procedures than ever before. All translating to increased “seller burden” as reps struggle to simultaneously manage greater solutions complexity, organizational coordination, and customer dysfunction.

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Vainu

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The Internet — it is the Wild Wild West of information. As anyone who has spent time on the Internet knowns, there are statements delivered as facts that circle the World Wide Web all the time that contain no real facts behind them. People get suckered into believing these statements all the time. We’re all guilty of it. Over the past year, my colleagues and I have noticed a number of myths present in B2B sales and marketing discussions.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

CPQ software enhances the buyer experience and offers a unique opportunity to accelerate the process of turning prospects into buyers. Prospects have needs. Early in a buy cycle these needs are less fully developed and lack specificity. As the buy cycle evolves, the prospect acquires knowledge about their needs and also about possible solutions to mitigate the pain associated with those needs.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Repsly

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When you think of your “fam,” you probably think of people like your old high school buddies, the members of your recreational soccer team, or maybe your actual family. But what about your coworkers?

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

CPQ software enhances the buyer experience and offers a unique opportunity to accelerate the process of turning prospects into buyers. Prospects have needs. Early in a buy cycle these needs are less fully developed and lack specificity. As the buy cycle evolves, the prospect acquires knowledge about their needs and also about possible solutions to mitigate the pain associated with those needs.

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Lead411

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prospecting for new clients is perhaps the most challenging and yet most crucial task in any business. Without viable leads, a business will soon fail. Here at Lead 411 , we know a thing or two about prospecting for hot leads, and we have multiple ways of notifying you when a business is primed to buy new products and services. One way you can find out if a company is ready to buy is by examining their hiring trends.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Still scared of picking up that phone? Sellers need to build habits. You have to learn new skills, reinforce, and build on those skills. This semester of the TSE Hustler’s League has two tracks. The first track focuses on business development and track two focuses on increasing value and close rate. Overcoming the fear of […] The post TSE 680: TSE Hustler’s League-“Know Your Product” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Contact Monkey

OCTOBER 12, 2017

You’ve been asked the same question – for the 450th time this month. Sometimes it feels like we spend all our time at work answering the same questions over and over again. It is part of everyday life, no matter your role at work. Enter Email Templates – a productivity hack you never knew you needed. Make the most of Salesforce Email Templates with ContactMonkey Templates.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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Hyper-Connected Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The post Hyper-Connected Selling Idea #8 appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Some may remember the first video/song ever played on MTV, was The Buggles. Video Killed the Radio Star. The message was clear, we are visual creature, and prefer a visual presentation over other means. This is why some singers who were great at singing and expressing themselves via vinyl or CD struggled to make the transition to video, while others, who were so so when it came to singing, but had a great presence and could “please” the screen.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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