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Why Do People Buy?

Partners in Excellence

I can already picture half the readers. Raising their eyebrows, perhaps rolling their eyes, thinking, “Well Dave, the answer is obvious…… ” The obvious answer is to address needs, perhaps to solve a problem. Once that is acknowledged, the more sophisticated immediately leap to understanding the buyer’s journey. Too many focus only on the “seller’s journey.” hoping the buyer is interested in riding along.

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Why Great Salespeople Are Like Curious Children

Anthony Cole Training

Child: "Can I have ice cream for dinner?".

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Sales Burnout is Real. So Are These Top Indicators and What to Do About Them

Sales Hacker

Sales is a hyper-social, customer-facing role that can get highly stressful. In this article we talk about the top indicators of sales burnout and how to tackle them. We all know Sales is the job for the people person — the high-flying, always-on-the-go charmer that’s on the phone, in meetings and/or closing deals. The same goes for recruitment — you’re constantly talking to people, helping them find their next big opportunity.

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Finally!  Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching

Understanding the Sales Force

You must have heard the joke that 73.6% of statistics are made up! I have read and even reported that sales leaders who coach their salespeople see a boost in revenue of around 27%. It sounds like a realistic number but I have not seen any science to back it up. Until now. Check this out!

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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7 Disruptive Emotions That Sabotage Your Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jeb Blount Rejection hurts. In fact, it’s one of the most painful of all human experiences. And when you choose a career in sales, you are actually signing up to seek out rejection. The best salespeople master techniques to get past the noes and keep pushing toward the yeses – but in the process, they must field a lot of emotional turmoil. Here’s the thing: Rejection (along with its less extreme cousin, objection) triggers your fight-or-flight response, releasing a wave of disruptive emo

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The Why?

John Barrows

I’m re-sharing this post from last year because I really want to highlight that Sales, when done right, is the best profession in the world. When done wrong, it’s the worst. Unfortunately, I’m starting to see a lot of old school bad sales (think Glenngary Glen Ross) come back into the mix today and it’s concerning me. If you think that Sales is like the Wolf of Wall Street or Boiler Room, please rethink why you’re doing what you do.

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Is Poor Territory Design Undermining your Sales Managers, Contributing to Undesirable Turnover, and Hurting Overall Sales Growth?

SBI Growth

It’s the beginning of a new year, you are looking at a map of the United States hanging on the wall of your office.

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The Best Tools Are Created To Fix A Tedious Task – Like This

Fill the Funnel

Why are technology and tools coming into the market at an ever-increasing pace? I believe the primary reason is that the best tools are created to fix a tedious task. My expression for years has been “tech the tedious” Developers are learning to seek out the frustrating, time-sucking, repetitive tasks that are necessary in our […].

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Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur

For Entrepreneurs

In today’s blogpost I would like to introduce my partner for Zero to 100, Stephanie (Schatz) Friedman. Stephanie has been an executive in 3 successful startups and was most recently the SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Xamarin which has since been acquired by Microsoft. Stephanie joined Xamarin as its first non-engineering hire in.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Vendor Neutral Announces First Twenty SalesTech Vendors to Enter the Certified 100™ Program

SBI

Vendor Neutral Certified 100 Program Has Reached Twenty SalesTech Vendor Participants in Record Breaking Time. Making the Sales Technology Decision-Process Easier for Sales Executives, Sales Ops, and Sales Enablement leaders. Boca Raton, FL – September 5, 2018 – Vendor Neutral , which offers practical resources and advice on the SalesTech selection process, today announced that an additional 10 new vendors have joined its Certified 100 Program.

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Do You Seek the Better Solution?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job or Clientele. The pressure of meeting quota or needed income has many overlooking the better solution. Similar to the proverbial ‘rush to judgment,’ we experience a ‘rush to sell.’ Being on the buying end becomes highly annoying plus raises doubt and fear for working with the seller. My Story. Finding the better solution should apply to all professions and endeavors.

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Change–Never More Than Three!

Partners in Excellence

We all know how difficult it is to change. Whether it’s our own personal habits/behaviors, those of our teams, our organization/company, or getting our customers to change. There endless pithy quotes both about the importance of change and the challenges of change. There are 1000’s or articles (add one more to the stack) about how to drive change.

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Here’s The 7 Deadly Sins of B2B Sales and Marketing Email Outreach

Drift

Take a minute to think about why you send cold sales emails. To spread the word about an offering? To build links? To share some news or prompt an action? If there’s one goal all sales and marketing teams can agree on, it’s to start a conversation. Now consider this: The average person receives 125 business emails a day. Even if you’re clear on campaign goals, your email won’t get eyeballs unless.

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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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5 Ways to Maximize Your Selling Team’s Time and Get Epic Results

SalesLatitude

Wherever you are in the sales cycle, it’s crucial to maximize your selling team’s time to get the results everyone desires. Your selling team is your internal resources – the people you rely on every day to help you work sales opportunities that have a high percentage shot of closing. And those resources are shared, so they are often stretched thin.

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Are You Providing Clarity for Your Customers Purchase Decision?

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. From the consumer’s perspective, making a buying decision can feel like mental gymnastics. Should they do this or that? Bend or twist? Leap or spring back? Buying is often confusing and overwhelming. Enter the sales hero – a sales professional who senses the distress and saves the day. That’s you! To be a sales hero, you must help your customer achieve clarity and certainty in three critical decision-making areas.

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Overcoming Sales Objections and Roadblocks

Frontline Selling

This article contains the ‘best of the best’ answers from Jason Stone, Director of Sales for FRONTLINE Selling and Adam Shapiro, President of SalesReformSchool, who conducted a series: The Sales Cycle. The post Overcoming Sales Objections and Roadblocks appeared first on FRONTLINE Selling.

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How Measuring Success is Different in Digital

The Center for Sales Strategy

Measuring the results of an ad campaign or a marketing push is important. How else will you know if the effort was a success, and if the investment produced a profitable return? In the past, it was often tough to measure, causing uncertainty and frustration among both buyers and sellers. In the digital age, I could argue that it’s gotten too easy to report campaign metrics.

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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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How to Recruit the Next Generation of Women Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

When I was a junior in college, I knew I wanted a meaningful career, but, like most college students, I didn’t where to start. As I observed my peers, several career paths rose to the top as the careers to pursue if you were an ambitious woman with a business degree: accountant, consultant, or banker. None of my friends ever mentioned or pursued a career in tech sales, so neither did I.

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How do Clients rate Your Post Sale Customer Retention Performance?

Babette Ten Haken

How would you rate your own customer retention performance? You know. How well you, yourself, perform once the deal is won, the contract comes in-house and is played out in real-time? That critical time-period, the post-sale handoff of the contract for execution, involves more than a digital document passing through a CRM. Listen in on my latest video about post sale customer abandonment, and how it negatively impacts customer retention.

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Stop Delaying Things!

Engage Selling

If you follow my work, you may be familiar with my belief that the most critical part of the sales process is between getting someone to say yes and when that order actually comes in.

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3 Cliché Sales Tips That Are No Longer Valid

Accent Technologies

You’ve likely heard some of these trite B2B sales sayings. Let us explain why you most definitely should not follow them. The internet is an excellent source of advice about B2B sales. However, for every piece of sound wisdom, there is sales advice that you should definitely not follow. Check out these nuggets of knowledge to see if any of them 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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Sales Onboarding Content that Cuts Ramp Time in Half

Allego

What if you could reduce sales onboarding time while increasing its effectiveness? How much better would the training experience be, and how much would it add to your bottom line? Onboarding design and implementation is classic sales enablement. But sales organizations onboard new employees differently now than they did just five years ago. Back then, lengthy in-person ‘firehose’ training sessions were the norm; today, learners require a more personalized approach that’s easily consumable at an

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Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur

For Entrepreneurs

In today’s blogpost I would like to introduce my partner for Zero to 100 , Stephanie (Schatz) Friedman. Stephanie has been an executive in 3 successful startups and was most recently the SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Xamarin … The post Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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The Best Tools Are Created To Fix A Tedious Task – Like This

Fill the Funnel

Why are technology and tools coming into the market at an ever-increasing pace? I believe the primary reason is that the best tools are created to fix a tedious task. My expression for years has been “tech the tedious” Developers are learning to seek out the frustrating, time-sucking, repetitive tasks that are necessary in our […].

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How to Hire and Retain Your Best Salespeople

Selling Power

How can you hire the right salespeople and retain them? Consider these tips.

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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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3 Reasons Why You Need a Corporate Learning Culture

criteria for success

Looking to create a corporate learning culture? First you need to know why having a learning culture is important in the first place! Learning doesn’t stop once you stop going to school. It definitely shouldn’t stop after the onboarding process or a few years into a position. Outside of work we are constantly learning new [ ] The post 3 Reasons Why You Need a Corporate Learning Culture appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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Why Salespeople Fail at Empathy

Pipeliner

Defining Empathy and Understanding Why Salespeople Fail At It. Sales organizations understand the power of empathy and more sales managers are teaching this powerful EQ skill. They are well-intentioned but often miss the mark. In an effort to help salespeople make an emotional connection with prospects, they teach validation/paraphrasing skills, not empathy skills.

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Tried-and-True Sales Strategy to Motivate a Prospect

Selling Energy

Motivating a prospect is a specific and tricky business. Recently I shared an example on one of our monthly Mastermind Group Coaching Calls, which started off on the wrong foot but fortunately became a success story.