Fri.Apr 13, 2018

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Networking breeds relationships.and sales.

Jeffrey Gitomer

How long does it take to establish a networking relationship? There is no set answer. It takes time. How much time does it take to show a prospect you are credible, honorable, have a good company and can deliver consistently? It takes time.

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What Does It Take To Be A GREAT Sales Coach?

Anthony Cole Training

Email jeni@anthonycoletraining.com to request a sample of the Coaching Findings form from the Objective Management Group’s Sales Effectiveness and Impact Analysis.

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Cold Calling Sucks—But Only if You Suck at It

Mr. Inside Sales

There is a lot of talk these days about how cold calling sucks. And I agree—it can be brutal. When I started my career in the financial industry, I had to make more than 150 cold calls every day. Sometimes, I’d be so beaten up by 11 am that I just wanted to go to lunch and never come back! I knew that if I continued like that, I wouldn’t make it in sales, and I knew that something needed to change.

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Is Your Mind Limiting Your Thinking?

The Sales Hunter

Over the last four weeks I’ve logged trips to South America, Asia and a host of cities throughout the United States. We like to think we can handle it all. I say “we,” because I suspect you’re just like me. Problem is we can’t handle it all. Our mind can only deal with so much before the brain begins to twitch, the scalp begins to itch and the burning sensation in the left leg returns.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Elevator Selling. New Heights in Networking.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Going up? More than 10 floors? I challenge you to try to get a business card or lead on your next elevator trip.

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3 Tips to Find Sales Talent That Can Engage with the Modern Buyer

SalesforLife

Who is the “right” sales talent in today’s business environment? The modern buyer is drastically different and the buying cycle has changed significantly as well. As buyer expectations and demands shift, sales professionals must master new sales methodologies such as social selling and digital selling in order to keep up.

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How to Leave Sales Voicemails People Actually Want to Respond To

Hubspot Sales

Has your name ever been on a salesperson's call list? Did you receive a lot of voicemails from that salesperson over the course of a few weeks? Think back to those sales voicemails. Were they valuable? Did you learn anything that helped you? Or were the voicemails a carbon copy of the company's elevator pitch? I probably receive about 20 calls a day from various salespeople.

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Designing A Sales Pipeline 101

Troops

When your salespeople walk into the office every day do you think they get excited about shifting numbers around in a spreadsheet? Does the idea of building new sales models make them salivate? Do they talk to their friends about the 1 percent improvement in their close ratio? I don’t think so. They do think about ripping through the market like a whirlwind, snatching up every new opportunity that crosses our path.

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Weekly Roundup: Tips to Get an Unresponsive Prospect Talking Again + 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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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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5 Steps to Simplify Your Sales Incentive Plan

MarketJoy

Share. Get a Free Quote. [contact-form-7]. An ideal sales incentive plan should be simple. It helps sales representatives to understand the correlation between their performance and their payout. Simple sales incentive plans are easy to administer and offer motivation. How to simplify your sales incentive plan. Here are a few tips on how to simplify your sales incentive plan: 1.

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Social Selling Meaning

The Digital Sales Institute

If a business can outline their social selling meaning in relation to the overall sales process, they are ahead of the curve in becoming a social business. In other words, they see social selling and digital selling as an integral part of their sales strategy. Many sales leaders still struggle to put into words their social selling meaning or may just not understand the role social selling now plays in everyday sales interactions.

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Author, Speaker, Consultant, Sales Pro or Business Owner – Must Read

Fill the Funnel

Author, Speaker, Consultant, Sales Pro or Business Owner – Must Read Are you an author, speaker, consultant or business owner? If so, these next few pages are a must read. I think we can all agree that one of the top-performing ways to gain new customers is by testimonials from your existing customers. Yet we […]. The post Author, Speaker, Consultant, Sales Pro or Business Owner – Must Read appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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3 Key Ingredients for Cultivating Customer Loyalty

Carew International

When it comes to cultivating customer loyalty, sales professionals can only harvest what we sow. There is no action or effort of greater strategic importance than building a foundation upon which a productive, long-term customer relationship can thrive and grow. The process is not necessarily easy, but it is simple, starting with these three key ingredients: Trust.

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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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How Sugar Solves your IT Department’s Biggest CRM Challenges

SugarCRM

While sales and customer service teams live inside the CRM on a daily basis, it’s the IT department that is responsible for executing a successful deployment plan, and for the vital function of integrating the CRM with other tools like email and your ERP. In short, your core CRM selection team should work closely with IT to ensure the CRM can be (and is) set up correctly.

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Salt, Glass of Water and the Lake – Author Unknown

Selling Fearlessly

Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told he had a very sad life and asked for a solution. The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” – the Master asked. […].

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9 Networking Tips for Real People From a Real (Awkward) Girl

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

Okay. Time for full disclosure. I’m not cool.

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The #1 Reason Your Sales Aren’t Growing | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

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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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Faites de la préparation au RGPD votre résolution pour la nouvelle année

SugarCRM

Les entreprises à travers l’Europe et le monde entier vont regarder la nouvelle année avec un intérêt particulier. Que va apporter 2018 ? Quelles nouvelles surprises verrons-nous dans les paysages politique et économique ? Une chose est certaine : l’impact du nouveau Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données (RGPD) se fera sentir pleinement.

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6 Tactics to Become the Ultimate Dealmaker

Hubspot Sales

You’re almost there. You’re in a meeting with the decision maker, demoing your product, handling any question they throw at you, and winning the business. At least, that’s how it looks in your 4:35 p.m. daydream. Let’s face it, sales is sometimes easier said than done. So, how do the best of the best come home with the contract? Here are three tactics to bring home the business and make you the ultimate dealmaker.

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Why Great Pitches Come From Customers: 5 Questions for Pinpointing Why They Really Buy

Openview

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on LinkedIn here. A few months ago, the CEO of a growth-stage software company on the East Coast engaged me to align his team around a new strategic narrative – the high-level story they’ll pitch in sales, fundraising, recruiting, everything. After a half-day kickoff session with the team, the CEO and I had dinner at a crab restaurant, where he told me he was concerned.

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9 Terrible Sales Email Subject Lines You’ve Probably Used This Week

Hubspot Sales

Touching Base Email Subject Line. “Are you struggling with [challenge]?”. “Any luck with [goal]?”. “[Mutual connection] said we should talk”. “Some ideas on driving recurring revenue”. “Hi [name], [question]?”. “[Prospect's name] -- do you have 10 minutes for a conversation?". "Hoping to help with X". " Will persistence pay off?". "[Pain point]. does this sound familiar?".

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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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Drowning In Information, But Where’s The Knowledge Or Insight

Partners in Excellence

Those of you who know or follow me know I’m an information junkie. My Evernote file contains 15000 notes, all coded and tagged so I can put my fingers on any piece of information I want. Daily, I get feeds from all sorts of services, several provide me information and news on people and companies I’m following. Service like LinkedIn keep me updated with activity of people I’m following on LinkedIn, I have my special Twitter groups.

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How To Make Sales Video That Don’t Suck

LeadIQ

By: Ryan O’Hara. It’s no secret that I love using video to sell and reach prospects. On LinkedIn, we’ve been killing it with getting engagement with prospects over video. Video can be a serious gateway to start conversations with people, and a really fun tool to use to prospect. I wasn’t always into making videos, but I was lucky enough to learn it when I was younger.

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Is E-Commerce Business Costing You Business?

Pipeliner

There are many reasons customers may be (virtually) walking away from your e-commerce site. It could be an ugly page design. It could be asking them for too much data. It could be unexpected costs. It could be one of many things—but this infographic will help you understand what they are so you can fix them! The post Is E-Commerce Business Costing You Business?

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