The Pipeline
JANUARY 11, 2022
By Tibor Shanto. I’ve read several pieces offering suggestions that now is the time to develop the right plan for the year ahead. One can argue about the timing, some, me included, would say the planning should already have been done. January, or any first month of a fiscal year, should be used to hit the ground running, not planning. But if you’re going to plan, there is more to it than Territory or Account Planning.
Anaplan
JANUARY 11, 2022
What is S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning)? S&OP, or sales & operations planning, is a monthly integrated business management process that empowers leadership to focus on key supply chain drivers, including sales, marketing, demand management, production, inventory management, and new product introduction. With an eye on financial and business impact, the goal of S&OP software […].
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Force Management
JANUARY 11, 2022
Product-led growth (PLG) is leading many B2B companies to drive rapid revenue success. While PLG solutions can propel organizations forward efficiently, this approach also brings specific and complex challenges of its own. If your company is aiming to scale revenue, your cross-functional team may already be considering shifts to go-to-market (GTM) distribution efforts and strategies.
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 11, 2022
We know to master any skill, it takes practice. It may be Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours to mastery. Or we look at what great athletes, artist, musicians, and others do. They are constantly practicing to improve their skills and capabilities. We know that to get really good at anything, we have to continue to work on developing our capabilities to do the things that produce the outcomes we hope to achieve.
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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.
Zoominfo
JANUARY 11, 2022
Conversation intelligence software has quickly progressed from “nice to have” to an essential piece of the sales tech stack. Most teams who have tried conversation intelligence quickly understand how it enables sales reps to spend more time selling and helps them close deals faster. But for sales teams that haven’t experienced conversation intelligence firsthand, it can be hard to understand why so many reps consider it crucial.
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The Center for Sales Strategy
JANUARY 11, 2022
It’s often said that an organization’s most valuable resource is its people. An increasing number of leaders are turning these words into action by investing in training and skill development for their workforce. In fact, employee development is quickly becoming one of the biggest trends in the workplace for 2022. Companies who make it a cornerstone of their culture will be well positioned to hire and retain top talent in a competitive job market.
RAIN Group
JANUARY 11, 2022
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: “Put me in front of ten buyers and I'll close seven of them. All I need is more meetings.” I hear this from sellers all the time. They're convinced they'll get the hits if they just get more at-bats. But where are those at-bats going to come from? No salesperson ever hit home runs by sitting back and waiting for the phone to ring or their email to ding.
Smooth Sale
JANUARY 11, 2022
Photo by Jason Leung via Unsplash. Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: 8 Powerful Marketing Strategies to Help Grow Business in 2022. Note: Gajendra Singh Rathore provides today’s guest blog, 8 powerful marketing strategies to help grow business in 2022. He is a digital marketing expert associated with T oronto’s Digital Marketing Agency. He is always eager to learn, experiment, and implement.
Allego
JANUARY 11, 2022
Welcome to The Adapter’s Advantage : Breakthrough Moments that Lead to Success. In episode 37, Marc McNamara, founder & chief enablement officer of The Enablement Group, explains the impact of the knowledge economy, the value of personalized content for sales teams, and how to master the art and science of sales communications. Listen and Subscribe Now: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn.
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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.
Smooth Sale
JANUARY 11, 2022
Photo via Visuals ~ Unsplash. Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Ivan Serrano provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Increase your sales via social media.’ Ivan Serrano is a web journalist living in the Bay Area of California. Ivan Serrano mainly focuses on social media, small business, and finance. When he isn’t planted at his desk writing something up, he’ll be wandering around town practicing photography or watching his favorite sports teams with his friends. . __. 7 Tips and Tri
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 11, 2022
Sales is not an easy topic for academia to teach, in part because it’s so cross-disciplinary. You have to know about marketing, persuasion, technology, and strategy — to start with. Not to mention this: Does the sales organization even know what the heck it’s doing? powered by Sounder. In this episode, we chat with Frank Cespedes , Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (and former instructor of our CEO, Manny Medina ), about why sales poses such a hurdle for academia and how those challenge
ValueSelling
JANUARY 11, 2022
What better way to kick off winter in the northern hemisphere than with something a little tropical? Specifically, a tropical thought experiment.
Selling Energy
JANUARY 11, 2022
From the minute you hop on a zoom meeting with a new prospect, you’re being evaluated on your demeanor. No matter how valuable your product or service is, if your prospect detects something amiss, your odds of closing the sale plummet. So how do you make sure you are making the best possible impression? Try out your smartphone’s camera and take a “selfie” video of your online presentation.
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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.
Gong.io
JANUARY 11, 2022
Most companies’ narratives revolve around products, features, and value propositions. And while those are definitely important, there’s a much bigger opportunity to build emotional connections. When you think about category-defining companies, they’re overwhelmingly the ones who engage their customers’ emotions through storytelling. Throughout my leadership career, I’ve held countless sales kickoffs, all-hands meetings, and keynotes.
Julie Hanson
JANUARY 11, 2022
I didn’t set out to write the Top Sales Book of 2021, as you can see from the dedication printed in the front of Look Me In the Eye: “To all the salespeople, business leaders and entrepreneurs who never set out for a life on camera, may this book make your journey more enjoyable and more rewarding in every way.” Julie Hansen. Let’s face it. Nobody got into sales to become an expert on lighting, sound quality, or speaking to a camera.
RAIN Group
JANUARY 11, 2022
In a hybrid sales environment, you need to be able to meet and engage buyers wherever they are. If you want to generate the best opportunities and set yourself up for success in 2021, you need to prepare. And there’s no better way to prepare than by using data-backed findings on what’s working (or not!) for the most successful sellers. The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research has been leading proprietary research to discover the most effective strategies and tactics in sales for nearly two decad
Appbuddy
JANUARY 11, 2022
As marketers, we’re used to facing new challenges—but last year took the cake. . We fielded ongoing curveballs from COVID-19, dealt with the impacts of new industry forces like Apple Mail Privacy Protection (MPP), and tried to meet ever-rising consumer expectations. . I’m excited to see what new challenges and opportunities 2022 brings. But starting the year without a concrete list of goals is a recipe for underwhelming performance.
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In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B
Pipeliner
JANUARY 11, 2022
Have you ever wondered how health insurance works if you’re self-employed or own a small business ? There’s no denying that health insurance can be a significant expense when you’re a business owner. However, there are several ways to find affordable coverage. Here are seven affordable healthcare options to consider if you’re self-employed or no longer have access to a group plan. 1.
Mindtickle
JANUARY 11, 2022
Well, 2021 is in the books. If you’re like most sales enablement teams, you’ve onboarded tens (or even hundreds) of sellers globally, enabled and certified your revenue teams on new messaging, positioning, and product knowledge, and crushed your 2021 revenue goals. But 2022 marks a new year, with aggressive goals and challenges, and without some changes to your resources, processes, or technology, you might be unsure you can do it.
Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center
JANUARY 11, 2022
The old saying holds that “power corrupts.” But what if that weren’t completely accurate? What if a better way of putting it were “power makes you blind”? The latter is actually what modern neuroscience tells us – and this fact has huge implications for leaders and managers of organizations. The science comes to us from two noteworthy sets of experiments carried out over the past couple of decades.
ClozeLoop
JANUARY 11, 2022
ClozeLoop's B2B Sales blog keeps you up to date with the latest in sales management, sales techniques, and sales enablement. View our amazing post "The Three Burnout Personalities with Sharon Grossman, Ph.D." by Hilmon Sorey.
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Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.
Sell Courses Online
JANUARY 11, 2022
… 10 Top Teachable Alternatives for Every Scenario (2022) Read the Post.
SugarCRM
JANUARY 11, 2022
Personalized marketing is a must as consumers of all types crave a more tailored buying experience. Marketers needed a strategic approach to define and target key accounts, so Account-Based Marketing (ABM) emerged and quickly became highly regarded as one of the most successful B2B marketing strategies. How does it work? Instead of throwing your message out to the universe and seeing who responds, ABM dictates that you should go after a defined list of accounts.
Gong.io
JANUARY 11, 2022
So you want to write better sales emails? Close more deals? Grow your career in sales (and top the leaderboard)? If that doesn’t describe you, maybe you should not be in sales? But if it sounds aligned with your goals, keep reading. The most successful salespeople send the best emails. They know that email is not dead. They understand the power of an attention-grabbing subject line, a suck-you-in opening sentence, an OMG-I-have-to-click CTA.
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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
Vengreso
JANUARY 11, 2022
Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice! With the pace of how we sell rapidly changing, the modern seller must perfect a host of strategies to meet the modern buyer on the platforms they frequent, with the right messages. Using unique sales strategies like value-based selling is quickly becoming a hot topic among the top sales leaders.
Vengreso
JANUARY 11, 2022
Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice! With the pace of how we sell rapidly changing, the modern seller must perfect a host of strategies to meet the modern buyer on the platforms they frequent, with the right messages. Using unique sales strategies like value-based selling is quickly becoming a hot topic among the top sales leaders.
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