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5 Ways To Ensure Great Sales Communications

MTD Sales Training

You’ll no doubt agree that one of the most important key skills you need to develop today as a salesperson is that of communication. Ok, it’s a well-banged drum, but I’m going to say it again anyway…you simply will not be the success you could be without having excellent communication skills, especially with clients. How can you start to improve, so that you have the best chance to make an impact and create high level communications with clients that will persuade them they are making a go

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Discounting – the Weak Link in Your Pricing Strategy for the Indirect Channel

SBI Growth

How do you influence sales people when you don’t directly impact their compensation? This is an age-old struggle many firms have had with the indirect channel…. The key we have found is to understand two key factors important to indirect.

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How to Use Surveys to Reach B2B Business Goals

Zoominfo

As a marketer, you must have a clear understanding of your audience’s needs and interests to remain current, improve customer experience, and ultimately grow your business. Unfortunately, many businesses are working with an outdated or surface-level view of their customers. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals.

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Tiered Commission Structures Explained

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The tiered commission structure is put into play when a company feels that the flat rate plan is not driving the desired performance, and wants to reward reps who over-perform. To higher levels of performance, they will offer commission plans that pay a higher amount for each tier of performance achievement. Note that this is often tied to setting a quota.

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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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Using Surveys to Reach B2B Business Goals

Zoominfo

As a marketer, you must have a clear understanding of your audience’s needs and interests to remain current, improve customer experience, and ultimately grow your business. Unfortunately, many businesses are working with an outdated or surface-level view of their customers. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals.

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6 One Millimeter Mindset™ Articles leverage Professional Experience

Babette Ten Haken

How we leverage our professional experience catalyzes not only the success of our customers. Also, how we catalyze our own professional success, as well. For starters, professional experience is more than the laundry list of jobs appearing on our professional resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Also, professional experience focuses on how we have our customers’ backs.

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How to Keep Your Sales Rep Turnover Down and Profits Up

MarketJoy

Sales are the lifeblood of every business and sales rep’s turnover can hurt sales. Sales rep turnover costs businesses billions of dollars a year. Most salespeople understand the importance of keeping their sales rep’s turnover ratio down to crush their sales goals, but very few are doing the necessary work to retain their sales reps. Keeping your sales rep turnover down doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming.

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Not Every Seed Becomes a Beautiful Flower

Hyper-Connected Selling

A few years ago I dipped my toe into gardening with an herb garden in my home office. I’ve continued every summer and this year I’ve branched out to a few pepper and tomato plants in the yard. When I first started I wrote a piece about the metaphor of planting seeds in your business. The goal as I saw it was to see the value in activities that could have a payoff down the line.

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TSE 913: Common Mistakes We Make Trying To Get Inbound Leads

Sales Evangelist

If you want to take advantage of inbound leads, you must create content for your website that attracts people. It must draw people who are researching and trying to find solutions. We must also avoid common mistakes we make trying to get inbound leads. On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Ken Tucker continues our […] The post TSE 913: Common Mistakes We Make Trying To Get Inbound Leads appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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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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Let’s Talk Sales! Interview with Brandon Bruce – Episode 79

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This episode's featured guest is Brandon Bruce. He is the Co-Founder and COO of Cirrus Insight, one of the Inc 500's fastest-growing companies in 2016. Cirrus Insight developed a powerful self-titled sales productivity plugin that integrates Gmail and Outlook with Salesforce. It's used by individuals and companies all over the world, including the Girl Scouts, [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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Influencing The Buyer – Sales Engagement Insights

Pipeliner

How Sales Engagement Insights Can Influence the Buyer. A report published by LinkedIn documents the findings from research commissioned with approximately 1,500 buyers and sellers to map Net Promoter Score (NPS) rankings with the level of individual seller engagement on the LinkedIn platform. You can download the full report here to draw your own conclusions but a key finding was that power is clearly in the hands of buyers today.

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Everything Is a Bet

Selling Energy

A study of executive decision-making behavior several years back found that the average CEO made 139 decisions in the average week, and that more than half of those decisions were made in nine minutes or less. Regardless of whether the stakes are high or low, these higher-ups need to process large amounts of information, weigh their choices and use their gut instincts literally in minutes.

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Happy Labor Day, Everyone!

Selling Fearlessly

In the United States, not since the Gilded Age has the separation in income earned between the CEOs of our major corporations—as well as a heck of a lot of other businesses, large and small—and the workers who toil for these companies been so great. I personally think that’s insane, unfair, bad business, and to […].

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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.