Tue.Jul 17, 2018

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3 Activity Management Best Practices For Agile Field Sales Teams

Repsly

As a sales manager, you’re always looking for areas where your team can boost performance. With all of the activities that you and your reps do in a given day, how can you iterate and adapt your process to get the best results?

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Humans vs. Technology in Sales

Pipeliner

Technology and sales enablement has become really important aspects of today’s sales environment, but there is danger lurking in trying to automate areas that should be left to humans. Technology Does Not Replace Humans. Everything in today’s business environment seems to be about technology, the latest developments, content marketing, microblogs, engagement, SEOs, etc.

System 61
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3 Excellent Strategies to Kick-Off Your Sales Career

Jeff Shore

By Jeff Shore. Congratulations. You’ve begun your journey into the wonderful, scary, thrilling, ill-defined, mysterious world of sales. Here’s the bad news: ain’t nobody gonna take you by the hand and tell you how to be successful. That’s also the good news, because it is best left to you to determine how you define success. You will want to figure that out on your own.

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10 Webinar Metrics to Measure Success

Zoominfo

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service.

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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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6 Reasons Why Duplicates in Your CRM/Marketing Automation Platform May Cost You a Fortune

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Warren Fowler The logic behind an online business is relatively simple – you are trying to acquire as many leads as possible and then convert them into real customers. However, this process is everything but easy. Online sales can face all sorts of problems, with duplicates being one of its worst enemies. Henry Staggers, a CRM specialist at Best Essays, recently noted: “Duplicates are multiple entries for the same person or organization in your marketing and CRM automation software.

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3 Things To Spice Up Summer Sales

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. On the run this week, so I thought I would share a quick but important thing you should incorporate into your prospecting, followed by a couple of things you need to know about and act on. It’s Later Than They Think. So we have turned the corner to the home stretch, 2 quarters down, 2 to go, and you’re stuck behind “Well it’s summer vacation time you know!

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How to increase your sales conversion rates (Q&A webinar)

Close.io

Here's the recording of today's webinar about how to increase your sales conversion rates (and stop leaving leads on the table). Tune in below! One of the most painful problems that often haunts B2B founders and sales teams, is getting a high-value lead all the way to the finish line on a deal. just to see them change their minds or even worse, go silent.

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Do You Influence Decisions to Your Favor?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: The stereotype decision-maker can make our lives difficult and put us out of favor. The worst is when some choose to intimidate salespeople. What most vendors overlook is widening their perspective of who can influence decisions to their favor. Successful selling is dependent upon kindness and respect for all. Below are four brief snippets of corporate influence experiences.

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The Extreme Productivity System: Keys, Habits, and Hacks

RAIN Group

Becoming more productive can make a dramatic difference in your work, sales success, and overall happiness. Think about it. How do you feel after a day where you've been exceptionally productive and pushed important projects forward? You feel invigorated, motivated, engaged, and ready for the next challenge. Compare that to an unproductive day where you couldn't focus or spent the entire day working on tasks for others.

System 75
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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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Prospecting Podcast: High Fives with Amy Volas

LeadIQ

By: Ryan O’Hara. Ryan O’Hara and Amy Volas dive into prospecting in the recruiting world, and how to practice good form to book more connections.

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Three Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

The Center for Sales Strategy

If you’ve wanted to update your LinkedIn profile, but each time you start, it feels like an overwhelming task, remember that the best profiles on LinkedIn were not written in one session, but layered in over time. Your LinkedIn profile is one of the first signs of your professional brand that a prospect or potential business partner will find online.

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#SalesChats: August 2nd 9am PT with Elinor Stutz

Pipeliner

Never give up, but find a better way! If there’s any factor that keeps someone out of selling, it would be rejection—and a person simply gives up before they start. It can be even worse if someone has been selling for some time, but the constant rejection finally gets to them and they give up. Giving up can also happen right in the middle of a sales cycle.

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New eBook: Building Sales Capabilities for the Digital World

Mindtickle

As technological disruption and change impacts companies and ultimately, their revenue, it’s absolutely crucial for your sales enablement strategy to be adaptable. But with a team of seasoned sales professionals who have years of experience under their belts, just starting to make that change can seem daunting. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, […].

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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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Tips for Qualifying Sales Leads Faster

SalesLoft

Do you want to spend more time booking meetings and closing deals? Of course, you do! The ability to quickly qualify sales leads enables us to do just that. To efficiently qualify a sales lead, a salesperson must conduct research, utilize sales tools, and have a checklist of targeted questions prepared for the discovery call. It’s no secret that qualifying leads can be challenging.

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Technology Only Gets Us So Far

Partners in Excellence

I’m a great fan of much of many sales technologies. There are tools that dramatically improve efficiency. These allow us to get more accomplished, more easily and in less time. There are tools that give us greater insight into the customer–both the enterprise and individual. We can leverage customer searches of our sites, the materials they have downloaded, and communications they may have had to give us better insight into their interests.

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PODCAST 16: From Idea to Scale — The Inside Story of Building Gong.io

Sales Hacker

On episode 16 of the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Amit Bendov , CEO and Co-Founder at Gong.io about how to scale a tech startup in 2018. He walks us through the inside story of how he developed the idea for Gong — the market testing and market feedback he used to design and refine the product. Tune in to listen to insights from Gong about the ideal types of outreach and how to structure sales conversations.

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How To Use Your Prospecting Lists on Social Media

LeadIQ

By Ryan O’Hara. We come across and work with email prospect lists all the time from various sources. Sometimes from a sponsored event or a webinar we hosted, other times it might be from a list we exported from our CRM, or from when we use LeadIQ to build a list from across the web. What comes next however is critical. Sure you could do calling or emailing, but did you know you can put your prospect lists to work on social media with Twitter and Facebook.

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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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How to Turn your SDRs into Top Performing Account Executives

Funnel Clarity

It’s an ideal situation for almost every sales leader to promote from within the sales organization. As Ali Powell , Account Executive (AE) at HubSpot writes, there aren’t many companies “out there who hires BDRs just to hire them. The goal is to promote BDRs to AEs and keep you in the sales org to move your way up.”.

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Sales Enablement – What’s Your Definition?

Bigtincan

In the world of sales enablement software, there are practitioners, managers, contributors, purchasers, critics, administrators, and of course the all-important end-users – sales and service professionals who depend on this advanced software to “Learn faster, sell smarter, and win more”. There has been much discussed, reviewed, and written about this category of software over the […].

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TSE 878: Why Making Customers More Successful is Key to Business Growth

Sales Evangelist

Successful customers are the greatest recruiting tool available to small businesses. If your customers can deliver the message that your work is incredible, that’s much more effective than your blog post that says the same thing. Making customers more successful is key to business growth. Today on The Sales Evangelist, […] The post TSE 878: Why Making Customers More Successful is Key to Business Growth appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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New eBook: Building Sales Capabilities for the Digital World

Mindtickle

As technological disruption and change impacts companies and ultimately, their revenue, it’s absolutely crucial for your sales enablement strategy to be adaptable. But with a team of seasoned sales professionals who have years of experience under their belts, just starting to make that change can seem daunting. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, […].

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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 879: Stop Selling & Start Leading-“Innovative Seller”

Sales Evangelist

As a seller, you’ll come across many people who are hesitant to change. Whether they’re prospects or others within your company, sales leaders must recognize the importance of change and the reason for it. More importantly, innovative sellers will use their influence to convince others as well. On today’s episode we’re talking about the book […] The post TSE 879: Stop Selling & Start Leading-“Innovative Seller” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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The Six Critical Ingredients for the Best Account Plan Ever

Revegy

Are your account plans helping your teams meet their quotas or are they missing the mark? Without comprehensive, well thought out account plans, companies are missing out on major revenue opportunities and risk losing some of their largest clients. Leading sales organizations at companies like JDA Software and more applied a visual approach to their account planning process and immediately uncovered expansion and new pipeline opportunities that were previously hidden.

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Training Remote Employees Can Be Hard – Here Are 6 Tips

criteria for success

With the growth in people occasionally working from home, as well as working remotely full-time, training remote employees is a critical skill. Have you ever been one of the few people dialing in remotely when everyone else on your team was together attending a training? It’s not a great experience. Here are 6 key things [ ] The post Training Remote Employees Can Be Hard – Here Are 6 Tips appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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How To Use Your Prospecting Lists on Social Media

LeadIQ

By Ryan O’Hara. We come across and work with email prospect lists all the time from various sources. Sometimes from a sponsored event or a webinar we hosted, other times it might be from a list we exported from our CRM, or from when we use LeadIQ to build a list from across the web. What comes next however is critical. Sure you could do calling or emailing, but did you know you can put your prospect lists to work on social media with Twitter and Facebook.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Lead Generation

Selling Energy

This year we added marketing to our offerings, teaching students about how they can utilize blogs, social media, digital media and print materials for their business needs. Of course, this goes hand in hand with lead generation, which involves networking events and asking for referrals, both of which are underutilized. In my opinion they should be second nature when it comes finding new customers.

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The 7 facets of sales enablement

Mereo

This is a blog takeover by Tamara Schenk , research director at CSO Insights and sales enablement leader, analyst, speaker and author. Sales enablement still means different things to different people. The purpose of any definition is to establish a common understanding and to give a term identity. Here is our definition we developed at CSO Insights, based on research, the work with our clients and based on own experience: Sales Force Enablement — A strategic, collaborative discipline. designed

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Lead Generation

Selling Energy

This year we added marketing to our offerings, teaching students about how they can utilize blogs, social media, digital media and print materials for their business needs. Of course, this goes hand in hand with lead generation, which involves networking events and asking for referrals, both of which are underutilized. In my opinion they should be second nature when it comes finding new customers.