Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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Customer Success: Fundamentally Advance Your Business Strategy

SBI Growth

Either you’re launching Customer Success or have already started on this journey. This type of transformation involves many people, departments, and functions. To be successful, a change management program is necessary. While an established framework, John Kotter’s 8 step change management.

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Success Does Not Use a Timeline

The Sales Hunter

At 34,000 feet over the Pacific, on my way to Hong Kong, I did something I rarely do — I watched a movie. I found myself immersed in the movie “Darkest Hour,” the story of Winston Churchill during World War II. The movie shows truly a dark period of time for the United Kingdom. The […].

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8 Ways to Respond to the Objection "I Want to Think It Over"

Hubspot Sales

You have invested a significant amount of time, money, and energy into an opportunity. Then the buyer says they want to “think it over.” What should you do? Maybe it’s easier to begin with what you shouldn’t do. All too often, salespeople simply agree to postpone the decision and check in later. If we’re feeling particularly brave, we may even suggest a date and time for the next contact.

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3 Ways To Achieve Repeatable Quota Attainment

Gong.io

You’ve established your sales process and you have a structure in place to help your team achieve quota attainment. But with any sales machine, you should consistently to check see if all the moving parts are working and repeatable. How? There are hundreds of ways to measure sales performance, so be sure to choose wisely. But, under most circumstances, it comes down to a few things… How Many Leads are You Receiving?

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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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7 Effective Sales Prospecting Email Templates You Can Start Using in 2018

Hubspot Sales

We all know how hard it is to get started on a project when there’s no guarantee of success and every possibility of failure. That’s how prospecting can sometimes feel, especially if you’re using outdated sales tactics that drive buyers crazy. We know prospecting can seem daunting, and a string of unreturned calls and unanswered emails is discouraging, to say the least.

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One of Your Greatest Sales Tools Might Be in the Office Down the Hall

Xvoyant

Today's blog post comes to us courtesy of Iva Williams, Customer Experience Manager at Xvoyant.

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What Makes a Good Sales Manager Great?

Pipeliner

Frequently I am asked by management teams to attend their sales meetings, to give feedback, and to participate in how my customers are developing their revenue engines. These meetings are often designed around team building events on a beach or at a resort with a golf course. Sometimes they are dialed down meetings, designed to set the vision for the company; others are an opportunity to relax with their colleagues.

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3 Ways To Achieve Repeatable Quota Attainment

Gong.io

You’ve established your sales process and you have a structure in place to help your team achieve quota attainment. But with any sales machine, you should consistently to check see if all the moving parts are working and repeatable. How? There are hundreds of ways to measure sales performance, so be sure to choose wisely. But, under most circumstances, it comes down to a few things… How Many Leads are You Receiving?

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Sales Management, We Have a Problem

Pipeliner

The current level of sales management is failing companies. It is failing customers and it is failing the employees. Average tenure of a sales leader has dropped from 26 months (bad) to 18 months (horrible). 80% plus want to meet with a sales person only after they have developed the need and a shortlist. 6.7% of people say they trust very highly information from a sales person.

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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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Weekly Roundup: Sales Weaknesses That Cripple a Sales Rep's Ability to Qualify + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

We hope you've had a great week! It's Friday, and today we're sharing what we've been reading online this week! Here are our "best" from around the web.

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The One Weekly Meeting You Need to Drive Sales and Marketing Alignment

People.ai

When we’ve talked with sales and marketing leaders who’ve maintained alignment with one another, we’ve found one recurring element that’s been in place—a joint, weekly dashboard meeting. During a recent data-driven marketing meetup, our panelists shared what these meetings look like within their organizations. Read on for key takeaways from marketing leaders at Demandbase and Mixpanel who’ve.

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Poisoning Mother-in-law – Author Unknown

Selling Fearlessly

A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many of her mother-in-law’s habits. In addition, […].

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How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome in Sales

Hubspot Sales

What is Imposter Syndrome? Imposter syndrome is the fear of being found out as a fraud or the feeling you don't deserve your success. Those with imposter syndrome often go to great lengths to hide it, which can be paralyzing to future success and present decision making. But, there are ways to fight it. Find out how in this article. An early mentor once described sales as a "Transfer of confidence from you to your potential client.".

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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.