The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 3, 2019

In the past media sales organizations employed a tried and true approach to solving dips in revenue. Here’s a summary of the approach: When revenue is down, develop a product, service, or tactic, and sell more! Unfortunately, these days this approach is more tired and untrue than tried and true. Selling more is not the solution to the current challenges faced by media organizations because it’s a new day, and it is not filled with rainbows and unicorns.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

Author: Lance Tyson In the hypercompetitive field of sales, escalating goals have become standard. In over two decades that I’ve worked in this industry, I’ve never encountered an organization that said to me, “You know what? This year we’d be fine with flat or declining sales.” Everyone wants to see that hockey stick curve of escalating sales performance that will take their organization to unprecedented levels of success.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 3, 2019

Most of the CEOs and sales leaders I speak with agree that their sales organizations need to be more effective at taking a consultative approach to selling. At the same time, they insist that they talk about it often and that their salespeople are doing OK with a consultative approach. OMG's Sales Force Evaluation usually reveals that they aren't doing much more than talking about it, as their scores for the Consultative Seller competency are quite low.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 3, 2019

Today, our customers are bombarded with sales, marketing, and advertising pitches from companies all hoping to win their business. They’re overwhelmed, or, in most cases, they simply tune us out.

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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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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2019

Leadership is a complex array of skills and attributes and it can be difficult to sum up in a concise definition. Some people believe that leaders are born, not made. Others think one can develop and hone leadership skills, just like any other ability. I happen to fall into the latter category. I have helped dozens of up and coming sales pros to help them become better, more effective leaders.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 3, 2019

This week we are very excited to announce the launch of Hey Sale speople , a podcast hosted by the one-and-only Jeremy Donovan, SalesLoft’s VP of Sales Strategy and self-proclaimed sales nerd. If you have a passion for the art and the science of sales, are looking to further your career, or just want to hear some great, practical tips, this is the podcast for you.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 3, 2019

Building Businesses Strategically. When building businesses, it’s important to first make sure you have an edge. Also, what works for one person raising money might not work to fund your business. Joel Block runs a real estate hedge fund and speaks to corporate audiences across the country. In this interview, he talks about the importance of revenue and sales in building businesses as well as other areas to focus on.

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Showpad

JUNE 3, 2019

What is augmented reality? Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that integrates digital information and images within video or a real-world setting. Different from virtual reality, where the environment is completely computerized, augmented reality adds computerized elements to existing environments. Investments in augmented reality technology are expected to reach $60 billion by 2020, according to Harvard Business Review.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 3, 2019

Why Most Sales Training Fails. If you aren’t training your sales team, this creates a huge opportunity cost for your business. Having a strong salesforce can help you stay one step ahead of the competition, among many other things. So if sales training is so great, why does it often fail and not produce real results? Host John Golden interviews Rob Jolles to get to the bottom of the real problem with some sales training programs.

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Predictable Revenue

JUNE 3, 2019

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Pipeliner

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone is a leader; Intentional Leader’s impact creates significance in others. As a child, I loved going to the lake, picking up a stone and skipping it across the water. I would do it for hours and count how many times the stone impacted the lake. Each skip of the stone created ripples, spreading across the water without end. What a word picture!

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Xactly

JUNE 3, 2019

OpenSymmetry, a leading implementer of sales performance management (SPM) solutions, is an Xactly partner and proud Premier Sponsor of Xactly Unleashed 2019.

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Frontline Selling

JUNE 3, 2019

It may be an unpopular opinion that summertime is a great time for sales prospecting. But summertime, despite all the out-of-office responses and intermittent communication, can be a great time. The post Why Summertime is Great for Prospecting appeared first on FRONTLINE Selling.

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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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Richardson

JUNE 3, 2019

Successful business models today are fundamentally different than those of previous decades. At one time, companies could sell a product and build revenues behind protective barriers. These barriers insulated the company from threats. The high cost of technology, long innovation periods, and developmental lead time all meant that competitors had many walls to scale if they wanted to grab market share.

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Sandler Training

JUNE 3, 2019

Hamish Knox, Sandler trainer and two-time author, shows you how to succeed with the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques needed to be more successful at selling across the executive level. Get the best practices collected from around the world for using your executives to sell to the prospect's. Listen Time: 28 Minutes.

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Mobile Locker

JUNE 3, 2019

It’s every marketer’s nightmare: A piece of sales collateral is created by a sales rep. It could have been done on the fly. Or it’s something they plotted and planned for a long time. And it’s horrifying. Maybe it includes a company logo that hasn’t been used in years. Or it features clip art — […]. The post What Could Go Wrong? 3 Reasons Salespeople Should NEVER Create Their Own Collateral appeared first on Mobile Locker.

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Smart Calling

JUNE 3, 2019

It’s essential for us to have value statements for our prospects IF we want to have any chance at all of getting them interested. Art shares one of the best he ever heard, since it was timely and relevant. And he discusses exactly how you can do the same thing with yours to get more people responding to you, speaking with you, and ultimately buying from you.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2019

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criteria for success

JUNE 3, 2019

This episode's featured guest is Andy Paul. Andy founded The Sales House, an all-in-one sales education community for modern B2B sellers, and Zero-Time Selling, Inc. He's also the author of Zero-Time Selling: 10 Essential Steps to Accelerate Every Company's Sales and Amp Up Your Sales: Powerful Strategies That Move Customers to Make Fast, Favorable Decisions. [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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Sales Lead Management Association

JUNE 3, 2019

June 7: Account Based Marketing for Mid-Size Companies (Live Online) 10:00am–12:00pm PSTYou’re invited to expand your knowledge of ABM Best Practices that can dramatically improve your sales pipeline in the DMAnc.org's Live Online workshop, Account Based Marketing for Mid-Size Companies.We’ll share ABM go-to-market step-by-step tactics and sales pipeline building strategies with supporting examples.

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Selling Energy

JUNE 3, 2019

In every situation, there needs to be balance , and our work lives are no exception. The books I’ve reviewed here often center on our individual potential - particularly our attitude, productivity, grit and leadership in the workplace.

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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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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 3, 2019

Sellers who want to succeed must ask themselves a vitally important question: Are you ready and prepared to have a value-rich conversation? I recently took a camping trip with my buddies to St. Louis, and though many of us were excited about the trip, we realized that being prepared was something completely different. Being ready for it suggests that you believe in your ability to get it done.

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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2019

Product managers with technical backgrounds have steadily increased over the years. Is this good or bad for the product management professions? It begs a lot of questions in which a yes or a no answer is entirely appropriate. Here are a few that come to mind. The Playbook: Is the transition into product management longer and more challenging if you’re technical than if you come from a customer-facing role?

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JUNE 3, 2019

Anxiety is a b h. And it’s amazing how much of it we create for, in, and by ourselves. I was thinking about this because as I’m about to become a new father I’m getting asked two questions a lot: Are you ready? Are you nervous? And the answer to both of those questions is “no” Stop Creating Stress. Now, believe me, I’m trying like heck to get ready.

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 3, 2019

People may learn a great deal on development courses, but when they return to the workplace they often have difficulty integrating what they have learnt into their day-to-day work. Quite […].

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Close.io

JUNE 3, 2019

Imagine two sales managers walk into a room. Sales Manager #1 wants to crush her quarterly targets and has an idea of what it’s going to take to get there. Who knows, maybe she’ll even take home a plaque for salesperson of the year. Sales Manager #2, on the other hand, doesn’t hope. She knows exactly how many leads need to enter her team’s pipeline every single day to get where they want to be 90, 180, and even 365 days from now.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 3, 2019

Having been in sales for the majority of my adult life, I have a lot of insight into what it takes to become one of the highest-paid people in the profession. There are some vital keys to success in sales and laying down the groundwork early can help you accelerate your career and become one of the truly successful, highly paid salespeople in no time.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Alyssa Merwin. She leads LinkedIn Sales Navigator in North America. She joined the podcast today to discuss the power of customer impact and how her journey to LinkedIn allowed her to break norms, show her vulnerabilities and become the leader in hiring. If you missed episode 59, check it out here: PODCAST 59: Assessing How Vs Why of Your Product w/ Scott Armour.

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