Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2022

I find ideas and material for this Blog everywhere, especially when I'm not looking for them. Yesterday I received a daily email from a Paul Reddick, a baseball coach who was drumming up some business for his baseball institute. It resonated - not for its baseball coaching - but as sales coaching. Here's what it said: If your coach is talking about any of the pitching flaws that you see listed above….

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Helping buyers perceive the value that your company, product or service offers them is one of the most significant things you can do to ensure a positive buying decision. In fact, your ability to convey meaningful value is what keeps potential clients engaged and mo­tivated throughout the process and thus more likely to say yes. […]. The post To Convey More Value to Buyers, Ask The Right Questions appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. They would observe calls, ask questions to help the sales rep evaluate what worked well and didn’t work, and have the rep come up with ways they would commit to improving their selling skills. The most significant impact of COVID on salespeople was the shift from face-to-face to virtual sales calls.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Whether you want to get back on track and see conversions, or get your sales department to the next level, you can use psychology to boost those working in your sales department. The post Using Psychology to Motivate Your Sales Team appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Leading Your Team Post-COVID Recovery. In the last two years, COVID has significantly impacted every aspect of our lives. With the advent of vaccines and drugs to fight COVID, there is optimism that the worst is behind us. With the number of cases dropping and governments easing restrictions, we are now entering a new phase of the pandemic, namely post-COVID recovery.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 4, 2022

Social selling is the process of leveraging your social network to sell products or services. In fact, 78% of social sellers outsell competitors who don't use social media. The most important thing to remember when doing social selling is that each platform is different. What works on one platform may not work on another. It’s important to understand how each platform works before trying to sell on it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

In an era of tight labor pools, mass resignations and dramatic shifts to the role of the office, it's more important than ever to take a strategic approach to motivating and recognizing employees. The post The Great Motivation Reset appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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criteria for success

APRIL 4, 2022

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! On this week's episode, we are re-airing a conversation with Jerome Deroy–our first ever 3-time guest! Check out our previous conversations with him on storytelling here (Ep. 199 ) and here (Ep. 35). Jerome is the CEO of Narativ , an organization that helps companies engage their clients, staff, and leadership to take action and activate behavioral change.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Gallup studies show that employees who say they have a best friend at work are more productive and more likely to be engaged. The post Why Best Friendships at Work Matter appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 4, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Are You Ready To Reinvigorate Your Career? No job or business is ever perfect, but it’s best to acknowledge if you are ready to reinvigorate your career when stalled. We experience highs and lows in our endeavors that include happiness, disappointment, and a return to the enthusiasm with the prospect of something new ahead.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Three tips for making encouragement more impactful in the workplace. The post Encouragement Is the Essence of Strong Management appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. Join Kristina Finseth (Sr. Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Research indicates that workers who have participated in a recognition program that awards points that can be redeemed for rewards are more engaged and have a higher opinion of their employer. The post Points Programs Play Important Role During COVID appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 4, 2022

Andy Paul joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss why we need to do away with pushy sales tactics and adopt a humanity-first outbound sales process. The post How to Sell Without Selling Out appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Companies are trimming daily perks, but maintaining spending on incentives. The Incentive Research Foundation reports 2022 incentive trends. The post Recognition Remains a Priority Budget Item appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 4, 2022

We sat down with pro sales development reps and got insider information on what tech they’ve been using to crush quota. The post Top Outbound Sales Tools Your SDR Team Needs in 2022 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Happier employees are more likely to emerge as leaders, earn higher scores on performance evaluations, and tend to be better teammates. The post Happy Workers Are the Highest Performers appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Selling Energy

APRIL 4, 2022

In the business world, there is always an element of change at work in our lives. As your career progresses it’s possible to find yourself with a completely different set of priorities or a new outlook on your situation. It may be time to try something completely new. As scary as that next step may be, you don’t have to rush yourself. After reading the book When to Jump , you’ll understand why.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Learning from error is imperative to growth. Behavioral psychologist Ayelet Fishbach says managers and employees alike must embrace the positives of negative feedback. The post The Positives of Negative Feedback appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

With almost 800 million users, LinkedIn isn’t only for showcasing your professional skills, researching new employers, looking for jobs, or for getting career advice! The platform has quickly become a vitally important resource for B2B sales professionals too! Yet many sellers still don’t know how to take full advantage of their LinkedIn account’s potential to book more business, grow their sales pipeline and close more deals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2022

Sometimes, it's enough for a manager to simply make workers aware you know how hard they are working and you appreciate it. The post Sit On the Footlocker appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Marketing Report Sales 120

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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.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. Plan strategically, reinforce consistently, ensure buy-in. Simple, but not easy. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Strategic is one of those business buzzwords like synergy, disruptive, and transformative.

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Sell Courses Online

APRIL 4, 2022

… SamCart Courses Review (2022) – Is the Platform Any Good? Read the Post.

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KLA Group

APRIL 4, 2022

Sales prospecting and lead generation get a bad rap, especially in companies with small sales teams and where the principal still has a role in sales. I can’t tell you how many people I talk with who actively ignore revenue generation strategies. They tell me they don’t want to cold call or prospect. New business […].

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Pipeliner

APRIL 4, 2022

Multiple ways exist to demonstrate the value you provide prospective clientele. The demonstration arrives in ways of which many sales representatives are unaware. Below you will find the varying topics to consider that have significant influence in demonstrating the value you do or do not bring to prospective clients. The lack of one factor listed below may negatively influence the buyer to seek another vendor.

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Close

APRIL 4, 2022

Ever felt you needed to send a picture that would speak 1000 words? Now you can with MMS in Close.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 4, 2022

When most people think of objections, they think of what stops a deal from progressing. Today’s episode launches the next series on The Sales Evangelist covering the ins and outs of objections. How can you be well-equipped to handle objections with confidence and knowledge? Listen in to find out! What is an objection? Many salespeople associate an objection with a worst-case scenario, but that’s not always the case.

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Anaplan

APRIL 4, 2022

Supply chain, procurement, and finance teams face endless challenges.

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