Fri.Jun 02, 2017

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Why You Need a Field Advisory Board to Make Your Number

SBI Growth

Today we’re going to demonstrate how to drive revenue per sales head up, and time to productivity for new sales hires down. Success for Andy, in making his number quarter after quarter and year after year, is tied to his.

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5 Steps to Develop An Awesome Remote Coaching Program

Steven Rosen

Making Remote Coaching Work in Sales Organizations. Coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. Sales managers that grow and develop their salespeople will grow their business. Best in class sales organizations understand that effective sales coaching is key to their success. With sales managers being pulled in so many directions it becomes difficult for them to be in the field.

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Take your competitors’ clients (It isn’t stealing if you earn their business)

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan, Editor, Sales & Marketing Management. Warren Buffett’s annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are pored over by millions of investors who hope to glean every ounce of wisdom the “Oracle of Omaha” has to offer. One philosophy Buffett has espoused for years is the idea of investing in companies that have an “economic moat” — a long-term competitive advantage that allows a company to earn oversized profits over time.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Contrarian Decision Making

The Sales Hunter

Are the decisions we make no different than what everyone else would make? If all we’re looking for is average, then that’s fine. The problem is average is just that — average. It doesn’t get you anywhere. Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and one of the earliest Internet gurus, shared some interesting thoughts about robots, […].

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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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Newly Hired Sales Leader? Why You Must Get Your Sales Strategy Right

SBI Growth

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To Call Or Not To Call, That’s The Question

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

Dear Paul, I can’t tell you how many times I come across good solid prospects (and customers) where it’s a great sales call but they cut short the conversation and say, “I’ve got to run now. Let me call you back this afternoon or tomorrow (or whenever).” Rarely do they follow through. These experiences make me want to scream, “Come on, folks! Do what you say and call me back.

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Promoting a Seller Does Not Make a Leader

Engage Selling

I talk often about a new performance-management culture taking hold in today’s B2All marketplace. To meet that challenge, not only must selling skills change, leadership skills must evolve too.

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Social Media is Essential to Account-Based Engagement {Research}

SalesLoft

It’s time we face the facts (and data!) that social media is here to stay. The majority of people can’t go a day without feeding into the social media frenzy. It serves as a new source to some, distraction to others, and a vehicle to drive business for the wise sales professional. In Salesforce’s Second Annual State of Sales report , 44% of sales professionals said it is very important, and often critical, to use social media when connecting with customers.

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With Due Respect to Alec Baldwin | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

Always be prospecting. Why do I say that? I can tell you that in 25 years of selling, I have never met a sales problem that can’t be solved without good prospecting skills.

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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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5 B2B cold email templates & samples that win sales in 2023

Close

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you’re in B2B sales, the world is against you. OK, maybe not the entire world.

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Closing Time: Learning Lessons From AI

Velocify

In the classic sci-fi film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” two astronauts find their lives in jeopardy when an onboard ship computer thinks it is smarter than the humans that built it and takes over their space mission. A central concept to the story was the danger of artificial intelligence (AI), capable of out-thinking and possibly overtaking its human creators.

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How Does Your Sales Enablement Program Stack Up? [Assessment]

BrainShark