Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Inside sales jobs are growing at a staggering rate, and it’s not hard to see why. Most companies offer uncapped commissions for their inside sales positions. Almost any lifestyle you can imagine for yourself is possible with an inside sales role. Whether you’re paying off college debt, saving to pay for your child’s tuition, or simply trying to hit your own financial goals, here’s what you need to know to have a competitive edge when selling by phone.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they know what they want. B2B companies need to switch from a mentality of “here’s what we’re selling” to “we understand what you need.

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Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Listening well improves business results, including sales. Consider these findings: A study of 267 leading U.S. businesses found that upgrading team members’ communication effectiveness is associated with a 30% improvement in the organization’s market value. Fortune 500s lose an estimated $15,000 per employee per year due to miscommunication. This adds up to over $50 million in annual losses.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they know what they want. B2B companies need to switch from a mentality of “here’s what we’re selling” to “we understand what you need.

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Last summer I visited Yellowstone National Park with my family. We looked forward to hiking, seeing cool geysers, and were hopeful we’d have the opportunity to see a real grizzly bear in the wild. Little did we know that on Day 3 as we rounded the bend during a hike, 150 ft away would be a mama grizzly and two cubs. Within moments, three out of the five of us hightailed it and ran.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In the retail world, talk of “purpose-driven organizations” is all the rage. Millennials and Gen-Z’ers, they say, care more about purpose than previous generations.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Wouldn’t it be amazing if every lead entered your pipeline convinced your product is for them, ready to sign on the dotted line? Well, maybe that wouldn’t be amazing — because then your customers wouldn’t need to be sold to , which is what you’re here to do. At times, you will have very engaged leads who have done their own research and are ready to buy right away.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Data is the key to accountability in SaaS sales. If you’re still living in the 1960s, when the only metrics you measured were deals closed, revenue earned and bottles of brandy polished off, it’s time to get with the times. We’re living in the 2020s now, and just about everything you can think of is trackable and measurable: calls made, minutes spent on the phone, emails sent, text messages sent, opportunities created, opportunities closed—all that’s missing is the brandy.

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Grant Cardone

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

WHAT IT REALLY TAKES TO BUILD AN EMPIRE. A quick story that you may have learned in history class… but the teacher probably never told you the real lesson you can actually learn from it. In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great set sail on a fleet of Greek ships to a narrow waterway in a part of modern-day Turkey called the Dardanelles. Crossing this small strip of water was a BIG deal… But why?

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

4 tracks. 50+ sessions. 100+ speakers. 2000 attendees. REV2020 , SalesLoft’s industry conference about where sales is going , is shaping up to be a truly transformational event. With so much great content planned this year, we want to dive into each of the educational tracks and highlight some not-to-be-missed gems from the lineup. The SalesLoft on SalesLoft track focuses on the platform roadmap, new capabilities, and best practices gleaned from SalesLoft’s own team members using the SalesLoft

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Quarterly business reviews are essential for understanding potential growth with existing customers, retention issues and future opportunities.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I’m sorry for whining, perhaps I got up on the wrong side of the bed. Lately, I’ve been inundated with discussions on Customer Intelligence. PR folks are blindly sending me announcements from providers of Customer Intelligence solutions–though it seems they’ve applied no customer or any other intelligence in their outreach. I’m deluged, every day, with emails and phone calls from sales people wanting to sell me Customer Intelligence solutions.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The majority of participants that attend a “typical” training program or workshop will forget 70% of what they were taught within two weeks. Our goal for the Talent Focused Management (TFM) workshop is to provide clients with strategies and tactics that they can actually put into practice immediately. Here are some takeaways from sales managers that will enlighten The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS) clients, as well as others, as to why —and how—not all workshops are created equally.

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Marc Wayshak

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Want to build rapport with your customers? The right way to do it might surprise you. Check out these 7 counterintuitive tips to build rapport with your customers. The post 7 Counterintuitive Tips to Build Rapport with Your Customers appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Want to grow revenue faster? RevOps. Want to speed deal cycles? RevOps. Want to improve rep effectiveness? RevOps. . Let’s face it, RevOps is “the answer” to many of the top challenges B2B organizations face today. But are you set up for success? . Whether you are building a RevOps function from scratch or scaling your RevOps team, you may find yourself in the difficult position of navigating the vast landscape of 7,040 marketing tech and 950 sales tech solutions to build the perfect RevOps tech

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

One of the benefits of a clearly defined sales process is that it provides you with a foundation for measuring results. If everyone is following the process and all opportunities are appropriately categorized, you’ll be able to learn a lot about what’s happening with your sales team. According to Wrike, 96 percent of world-class sales organizations know why their top performers are successful.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Winning Larger Accounts: A Big Fish Story. Fishing, it would seem, is not as simple as one would think. Sure, you could grab the gear you have collecting dust in your garage, lazily toss a line from a dock into a backyard stream, and eventually, you may grab a bite or two on the line. But what if you decided that, today’s the day everything’s going to change?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Trying to reach the masses by using marketing strategies that target many people at once can very effective for some businesses. With some businesses, it may not be the best approach because it could waste a lot of time and yield unsatisfying results. When targeting individual decision-makers in certain companies, a business might get better results and close more sales.

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Sandler Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Mike Montague interviews Tim Priebe, Founder of T&S Online Marketing, on How to Succeed at Using Books as a Sales Tool. The post How to Succeed at Using Books as a Sales Tool [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Guru

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We all know that onboarding is important. It sets the tone for new hires and can make or break their experience at a company. It’s not surprising that during this ramp period employees are at the highest risk for turnover. Per Glassdoor , organizations with a strong onboarding process improve new hire retention by 82% and overall productivity by over 70%.

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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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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Do you ever feel like most of your days are spent going to meeting s, assembling information for reports , a nd putting out fires? Do you w ish you had more time to focus on the things that will make the biggest impact? . W hat if you had more time each day to spend coaching your salespeople to close business? Just one more hour a day would be an extra 250 hours a year.

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G2Crowd - Sales Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Are you leaving no stone unturned in your quest to impress a new business client, but still feeling that something is still missing in your approach?

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Sandler Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them. The post How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #5 – Never answer an unasked question [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Nimble - Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Managers of small companies devote time to each customer. If the flow of potential customers is constantly growing and managers lack time to pay attention to each of them, it starts to be difficult to understand whether the client is ready for a deal and divide the effort and time between deals. Lead scoring best […]. The post The Best Lead Scoring Tools and Strategies for Teams in 2020 appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Embracing Leadership in a Management Dominated World. Leadership and management both have their roles in the professional world, but people are managed four times more than they are led. Embracing leadership can be challenging for many reasons, and can hinder progress and success in an organization. Tom Flick, interviewed by John Golden, discusses the ways that salespeople and business professionals can truly embrace leadership in a world where management is more prominent.

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RAIN Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

What are the best strategies for success in sales negotiations? What do buyers really want? Which tactics work best for buyers? For sellers? How is negotiating with procurement different? The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research recently studied 713 buyers and sellers in a major global study to answer these questions and more. We analyzed data from 449 buyers representing $2.59 billion in annual purchases and 264 sellers in over 26 industries across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

How to Hire Thriving Millennials in Sales. As millennials enter the job force, many of them are going into sales. There are new schooling opportunities, like the DuPaul University Center for Sales Leadership, that make a sales career even more viable for this generation of individuals. Robert Lambert, interviewed by John Golden, discusses hiring millennials in sales.

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