Mon.Nov 27, 2017

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Focus on the Real Drivers of Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Bryan Adams, the co-founder and Managing Partner for Integrity Marketing Group. Matt and Bryan use the How to Make Your Number in 2018 Workbook to share emerging best practices. Access the latest hbspt.cta.

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7 Habits Of Highly Successful Business Development Managers

MTD Sales Training

A habit can be defined as ‘any behaviour that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously’. When we work on something continuously, we start to lay down a pattern of behaviour that is reflected every time that specific situation occurs. This behaviour becomes the norm for us and we see it as such; a normal way of doing things. So, what should a business development manager (BDM) develop as habits, the normal way of behaving?

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Tell Them It’s OK To Say NO!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No one like to be the bearer of bad news, this includes buyers. I know some sellers may find that hard to believe, but even when another product aligns better with their objectives, human nature kicks in, and delivering the news that you lost, is not pleasant for most buyers. So what do they do, they either pass the buck to someone else, like procurement, or avoid your call for weeks, hoping you’ll eventually get the hint; or any number of ways to avoid an unpleasant task.

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Sales Motivation Video: Leverage Your Strengths to Increase Your Selling Skills

The Sales Hunter

What do you do the best? What are your strengths? You need to leverage what you do best, because it will ultimately make your selling skills better. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach can help you excel in your sales career! Invest in yourself by checking out my coaching program today! […].

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How B2B Buying Has Changed – And How Sales Teams Must Adapt

A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.

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How to Deal with Other Quotes, Proposals, and Competition

Mr. Inside Sales

The only worse than getting the competitor stall at the end of your presentation (something like, “Well, we’re looking at other quotes…” etc.) is not knowing how to handle it. In my new book: Power Phone Scripts: 500 Word-For-Word Questions, Phrases, and Conversations to Open and Close More Sales , I teach you exactly what to say in the hundreds of selling situations you get into, including this competitor situation.

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How to use a sales pipeline to boost revenue

PandaDoc

If you’re just winging it through your sales pipeline process without a steady stream of leads – and an understanding of how to move them through each stage – you’re leaving money on the table. This process is crucial to your company’s success and keeps new opportunities at your fingertips. According to HubSpot research, 72% of companies with less than 50 new opportunities a month didn’t achieve their revenue goals , while only 4% of companies with 101 to 200 new opportun

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How to Develop a Great Sales Hunter

The Center for Sales Strategy

My recent article on how to hire a great sales hunter stirred up great conversations about how to coach and develop those hunters once they are onboard. Great stuff, so I want to share it with you! The best way to grow an organization is to grow each of the people within that organization, including your sales hunters. Great managers do this by keeping the natural behaviors of these people top of mind and committing to a handful of strategies to maximize their strengths.

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5 Keys to Successfully Selling to Fortune 500 Companies

Hubspot Sales

How to Sell to Fortune 500 Companies. Identify your target contacts by responsibility rather than job title. Map the decision-making process. Expect an extended sales cycle. Provide value. Establish credibility. Fortune 500 companies are in their own league. Not only will successfully selling to them give your business a significant revenue stream and huge credibility boost, it can also lead to lucrative referrals.

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Sales Tips: 10 Sales Pros Reveal Their Best Sales Advice

BrainShark

Sometimes it’s important to take a step back and focus on the fundamentals of selling. We asked 10 sales experts to think about the best sales advice they’ve received that’s proved to be tried and true over their careers.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Knock Knock, Who’s There? Augmented Reality in Door-to-Door Sales

Zendesk Sell

At Base, we are always on the lookout for the latest and greatest trends and thinking about how they can be applied to sales. Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about augmented reality. Augmented reality (AR), not to be confused with its sister technology virtual reality (VR), refers to the insertion of virtual elements into real-world scenarios through mobile devices, screens and even eyeglasses.

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Digital Disruption Will Lead To Extinction For Analog Sales Leaders

SalesforLife

With the rapid change in the B2B sales landscape, being a sales leader today is more difficult than ever. The statement “sales has changed more in the past 10 years than in the past 100 years" couldn't be more true than now.

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Video: The Answer You Need to Hit Your Goals this Year

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

Ask the right question to understand what your customer needs to do to ensure their success between now and the end of the year. As a result, they’ll give you the answers you need to create and deliver value. Focus on their goals so you can achieve yours. The post Video: The Answer You Need to Hit Your Goals this Year appeared first on Paul Cherry Sales Training & Coaching.

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Do Customers Really Have A Buying Process?

Partners in Excellence

It’s become common “wisdom” that we have to align align our sales process with our customers’ buying processes. I write about it constantly, as well as hundreds of others. It’s become almost a mantra in all the literature and training programs. I suppose it’s easy to want to believe customers have buying processes.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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CPQ: Remanufacturing and Finding Value in the Circular Economy

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ can help simplify the blending of remanufacturing into your overall production process. If you have had an occasion to purchase any electronic items recently, you may have noticed more and more options for selecting remanufactured products. Remanufacturing has been around forever, but it is enjoying a rather robust growth as an industry unto itself as well as a functional part of the complex manufacturing process.

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Clinging To The Past

Partners in Excellence

Both we and our customers struggle with change. Think, for a moment, how many times you may have said, or you’ve heard within your organization or from your customers: “But we’ve always done things this way…… ” “If it ain’t broke……” We live in business and personal worlds characterized by turbulence and change.

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CPQ: Remanufacturing and Finding Value in the Circular Economy

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ can help simplify the blending of remanufacturing into your overall production process. If you have had an occasion to purchase any electronic items recently, you may have noticed more and more options for selecting remanufactured products. Remanufacturing has been around forever, but it is enjoying a rather robust growth as an industry unto itself as well as a functional part of the complex manufacturing process.

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TSE 712: Say Thank You Throughout The Year

Sales Evangelist

There’s nothing like expressing gratitude towards other people. A simple thank you is fine, but wouldn’t it be nice if you show your clients how much you really value them? We all want to feel appreciated. But instead of doing the generic things, make it personal. I highly recommend you do the Platinum Rule. The […] The post TSE 712: Say Thank You Throughout The Year appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Inbound Marketing Plus Outbound Prospecting is a Powerful Combination Podcast

Sales Gravy

In this interview Jeb Blount and Douglas Burdett discuss why marketers and salespeople need to get up front and personal with proactive outbound prospecting on the Marketing Book Podcast.

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The World Doesn’t Owe You Anything

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post The World Doesn’t Owe You Anything appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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Resist The Temptation To Send Pricing

Sales Gravy

If you really want to save your time and energy and the time and energy of your prospects, STOP sending out information prior to determining their true needs, goals, budget, etc… It’s a disservice to them, and it’s most certainly a disservice to yo

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Half of sales reps view prospects’ Facebook profiles before meetings

SugarCRM

Most of us know by now that social media posts aren’t private. Advertisers, your colleagues, and even the CIA might be watching what you post. In the era where customer data is gold, the sales rep you just spoke with may have also checked out your recent Facebook posts. In our SalesTech survey , more than half (53%) of sales reps said Facebook is a valuable research tool when it comes to preparing for meetings with prospects.

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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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Coach Your Team To Leverage The Win

Sales Gravy

All too often, sales managers do not sit down with a salesperson who has closed a winning deal and leverage the win as an opportunity to have a second-level feedback discussion with the sales rep.

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Low MQLs? 7 Digital Marketing Tricks to Keep Leads Coming Back for More

DiscoverOrg Sales

It’s easy to give up after a few tries. You run ads, bring in leads, and then follow up. But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. That’s not necessarily a bad practice. After all, upselling existing customers represents a lot of revenue potential for your business. But your business can’t survive on existing customers alone.

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Using Consultative Sales to Close Fortune 100 Companies

Nudge.ai

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Bryan Silverman , Manager of Business Development and Chief of Staff for Crowdtap. Bryan has been responsible for selling into Fortune 100 & 250 companies while at Crowdtap and has shared his best practices for using a consultative sales strategy. Throughout the interview, you’re going to get key insights such as: Developing and executing a consultative sales strategy.

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Low MQLs? 7 Digital Marketing Tricks to Keep Leads Coming Back for More

DiscoverOrg Sales

It’s easy to give up after a few tries. You run ads, bring in leads, and then follow up. But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. That’s not necessarily a bad practice. After all, upselling existing customers represents a lot of revenue potential for your business. But your business can’t survive on existing customers alone.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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5 Keys to Get Prospects to Trust You and Then Buy From You

Understanding the Sales Force

For most of 2017 those of us in the US have been inundated with political news. That means lots of talking points (or spin) and of course talking points and selling go hand and hand, right?