MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It’s not easy these days managing a sales team. There’s the external pressures of competition, legislation changes, the economy, client expectations, product development and the like, along with the internal concerns of salesperson morale, budgets, target-setting, product quality and many other things that can affect performance. So, what should sales managers concentrate on to still maintain some kind of control and bring about results that they are responsible for?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our guest today is JD Miller, the General Manager and Head of Sales for BravoSolution. JD has led four organizations through a successful transformation. Most recently, JD lead the sales and marketing team at BravoSolution through an incredible transformation to.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Author: Hanna Läikkö Every business has moments on its journey when it’s time to reflect on past achievements, and think about what the future holds. These are defining moments, so how can you ensure the process is truly effective, generating the most impactful ideas to future-proof the company? . Business design, a combination of creative and strategic thinking, is increasingly being deployed at these vital moments in corporate development. .

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Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, my co-authors for Stop Selling & Start Leading , are the creators of the body of work known as The Leadership Challenge®. Jim and Barry have spent decades researching leadership and understanding exactly what it is that leaders do to make themselves more effective with their followers. As it turns out, these are the very same behaviors our buyers want us to exhibit more frequently.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When we launched Nutshell, intuitive design was our priority. We understood that CRM fails when it’s clumsy, time-consuming, or frustrating. Since then, we’ve worked to expand Nutshell’s powerful reporting and build new integrations , but we’ve also budgeted time to learn, polish, and evolve Nutshell’s design—keeping us far ahead of the pack. Earlier this month, we launched a significant update to Nutshell’s layout and navigation.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In this article, you’ll learn how to align your event sales strategy to your marketing team’s activities to maximize your event success. At Bizzabo we have a motto, sales is a team sport. Never is that more true than when attending a professional sales conference , trade show or networking event. And, if your team does not include the Marketing team, you’re likely making a huge mistake!

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SalesFolk

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Here’s a question that’s going to become more and more relevant over the next decade: How do you manage employees when you’re working with a remote team? When I started SalesFolk, one of the first things I made sure to do was create definite ideas around how employees would communicate and collaborate remotely, whether with me or one another, in groups or one on one.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Cold Calling is the top sales skill you should be developing to gain a competitive edge, not just for prospecting and landing meetings with C-Level decision makers , but at every stage of the funnel. Especially, in 2018 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is imminently threatening your job. Let me rest my case: 1. Social Selling is an epidemic. But it’s not social to hide behind your computer.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Confident people tend towards success. This is especially true in sales since customers and prospects will immediately trust a salesperson more if they are confident and knowledgeable. As the leader of a sales team, you can help your team members build their confidence and achieve sales success with these 7 tips. 7 Tips for Building Confidence in Sales. 1.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This is a real life cold email example, fully broken down step by step, to show you exactly what NOT to do when engaging your prospects. For more actionable guides like this one, check out our Executive Content Blueprint Series in collaboration with Winning By Design. Real Life Cold Email Example: Full Breakdown. This cold email was received as follows (desktop vs. phone).

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This was a really exciting conversation for a lot of reasons. Perhaps the biggest reason is that my guest, Debbie Dunnam , Corporate Vice President of Inside Sales at Microsoft, walks her talk. Her passion, enthusiasm, leadership, and authenticity shines through. In this post, I’ve summarized key highlights from my conversation with Debbie. Tune in to hear the entire interview!

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SalesforLife

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

“What about if we learn more about Tweeting?”. “I see other social selling training companies talking about Facebook and Snapchat?”. Welcome to the social selling charlatan trap! Don’t get caught in FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and make sure your sellers are social media proficient. That does absolutely nothing to highly influence your sales objectives.

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Repsly

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Smart Lunches’ mantra is: “Right lunch, right kid, right time. “But before Repsly,” says the company’s Manager of Delivery Operations, Matt Ellis, “we were one step away from crossing our fingers and hoping.”. For Smart Lunches, everything depends on execution. The Boston-based company delivers more than 5,000 healthy lunches to schools along the East Coast in just a four-hour window.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you’re like most well-adjusted people, the term business networking probably conjures images of awkward conversations, uninvited solicitations, and way too many sweaty palms. But your career, and more importantly, your business, relies on your ability to nurture relationships.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Today’s sales stacks are composed of a wide array of powerful tools. From CRM to video, call, and direct mail, it’s likely your team is leveraging these tools and more. Hypothetically, you’d think that as you add tools, you also add productivity. But think about what goes hand in hand with every new tool? Login credentials. Support issues.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Or, it’s not what you sell, but how you sell. When you call someone and don’t receive a return call, what thoughts go through your head? When you send an email to a prospect and receive no response, how do you feel? In conversation with sellers, they often tell me that their biggest source of pain and frustration is the feeling that potential customers are ignoring them.

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Chorus.ai

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

One of the biggest challenges when creating novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) is building the technology so that it can adapt to a wide range of ever-evolving real-world problems. Over the past two years, Chorus.ai has developed a unique platform that transcribes and measures what the best sales reps are doing so that it can surface winning sales patterns for managers to replicate across teams, and alert executives in real-time when deals are at risk.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

As a business owner, you have to create a business brand. A personality that resonates well with your customers. During this episode, Fabian Geyrhalter shares with us just how to do so and offers some valuable insights from his book, Bigger Than This: How to Turn Any Venture Into an Admired Brand. Listen and learn […] The post TSE 768: How To Develop An Effective Brand Personality That Sells appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

No one likes to be sold to and no one likes to hear a sales pitch! However, people do like to be engaged, listened to and helped. The other day I was driving in the car with my eleven year old daughter. For those of you who don?

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Sales Result

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I receive a lot of love letters from recruiters asking for first dates to chat about “exciting sales opportunities”. The position is not a career progression opportunity, but a similar business development role at a different company. Clearly, these recruiters don’t expect me to be faithful employee.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Sales prospecting can be tedious, intimidating, and terribly discouraging. Yet, it still has to be done. Why not make a game out of it and get past the boredom? You?ve probably heard the saying that it takes 10 ?no?s? to get one ?yes,?

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Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

“You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me!”. Some readers might recall the source of this infamous confusion. It came from the movie Wedding Crashers. In sales, we mimic this noxious craziness every day without batting an eye. We hire salespeople and drop a heavy quota on their shoulders. We pay them a base salary, and put a chunk of their compensation at risk.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The entire piece of GDPR legislation is more than 250 pages long and is probably most appropriate of your legal team. However, even shortened and “dumbed-down” GDPR guides contain many terms that you need to understand to implement a compliance strategy. So, we’ve created glossary of key terms to know to help you decide which of the obligations of GDPR apply to your organization.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve seen quite a bit about sales productivity in the last few weeks. And for good reason—sales productivity is the theme of our 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit! So, to get you in the right frame of mind and prepare you for our upcoming event—we’re giving you 15 of the best blog posts about sales productivity.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Scaling Your Business: 6 Essential Steps. Identify Milestones. Focus on Risk Reducers. Increase Bookings. Find Your Ideal Customer. Optimize for the Buyer. Don't Hire Salespeople Too Early. When leading a young sales team or startup, it’s easy to focus on two things: product-market fit and scaling the business. David Skok, of Matrix Partners , argued at SaaStr Annual 2018 that businesses should connect the two by searching for repeatable, scalable, and profitable growth.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

SaaStr Annual 2018 just wrapped up in San Francisco. After 3 days of non-stop networking, listening to incredible speakers and having many Braindates , I finally have a chance to sit down and reflect on what I learned at this mind-blowing event. . I had carefully plotted out my 3-day schedule with a mix of sessions about Scaling, Start-Up Funding, and AI, b ut, to my surprise, that’s not what I did.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Trade shows are an exciting opportunity for sales professionals to develop relationships with prospects and show off the latest products and services. People can check out different demonstrations, network, and even enjoy the occasional sponsored concert or hosted bar. Yet through all the excitement, how do you connect with new contacts? We asked Jake Shaffren, our Director of Sales Development at DiscoverOrg and trade-show prospector extraordinaire, how he approaches the process.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

So what makes good quota-setting so challenging? We see 10 issues that make a difference when setting quotas. Knowing the causes and leveraging these success factors could help you set clear quotas for your organization. 1. See Beyond a Single Number. When executives design a good sales compensation plan, the team steps back and admires the final product.

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