Sun.Dec 01, 2019

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Sales people need to act like personal trainers, not bartenders

Membrain

In a recent article for the CEB, Andrew Kent posed the question “Are your reps bartenders or personal trainers?” It’s a great question, a wonderful analogy, and a concept that deserves a broader exposure.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset. An opportunity to review what worked and what didn’t in the prior year while also creating the positive momentum needed to achieve sales goals for the year ahead.

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How To Reset Your Personal Algorithm For Success

Anthony Iannarino

Because I travel frequently, I download a lot of content. Most of the content I keep on my smartphone is video content from YouTube , which I treat as audio content. When I am traveling, I almost always have my headphones on, so I can block out the noise and listen to something useful. YouTube (really Google) carefully monitors what you watch and updates its algorithm to bring you more of what you watch, or in my case, more of what I listen to.

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How To Reach Your Sales Quota During The Holidays [INFOGRAPHIC]

InsideSales.com

Meeting a sales quota during the holidays can be very challenging for the sales reps. After all, they want some vacation time, too. Here’s how sales managers can help. RELATED: Why Your Reps Are Not Hitting Quota And How They Can W/Ron Hollis @XANT. In this article: The Importance of Sales Goal Setting for the Holidays. What Is a Sales Quota? | Sales Quota Definition and Types. 8 Ideas to Help Sales Reps Reach Their Holiday Sales Quota.

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How B2B Buying Has Changed – And How Sales Teams Must Adapt

A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.

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Data, Data Everywhere….

Partners in Excellence

“Water water everywhere, Nor a drop to drink…” is a famous line from Coleridge’s “The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.” At a recent lunch, my friend, Tim Ohai, and I were talking about problems we see with too many managers. Today’s tools provide sales people and leaders more data than we have ever had before. We can measure about every activity we undertake, every engagement with our customers.

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Success Is Easy

Pipeliner

Debbie Allen, Certified Speaking Professional, is ranked in the top 5% of business speakers worldwide. She has been a professional member of the National Speakers Association for 25 years and has presented before thousands of people in 28 countries around the world. She is a best-selling author of 9 books including, Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters, Skyrocketing Sales, The Highly Paid Expert and her newest book published by Entrepreneur Press, Success is Easy.

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Weekly Recap, December 1, 2019

Selling Energy

Here are our favorite sales-enhancing tips from this week's Selling Energy Blogs.

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