The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 19, 2022

You scheduled a meeting with a strong Target account. You're excited about the meeting as this has the potential to be a big prospect, but when you arrive, the first thing you hear is “You have 10 minutes. What are you pitching me today?”. If you're in sales, this is something you have likely heard before… and it's frustrating to hear. Basically, the decision maker is saying “I’m busy and I don’t believe you will benefit me or my business in any way.

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Bernadette McClelland

JULY 19, 2022

I’ve been off the grid pretty much for the majority of the past twelve months. Oh, sure I’ve posted articles and posts here and there and curated and commented on my colleagues posts, but something else has been at play. I’ve needed to find my groove, get my mojo back and step into the brilliance that I know I have to offer. Have you ever had those moments?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2022

B2B buyers control the sales process more than ever. Sales organizations must be able to effectively engage customers everywhere and every time they decide to engage with a supplier. The post How to Align Omnichannel Marketing with Sales Enablement appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

JULY 19, 2022

Data and operations teams spend a considerable amount of time manually collecting and cleaning information. But thanks to ZoomInfo’s new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), things are quickly changing. ZoomInfo customers who use AWS can now receive ZoomInfo’s industry-leading B2B data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), significantly improving data quality while eliminating the time-consuming process of cleaning datasets by hand.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Vengreso

JULY 19, 2022

Subscribe to Modern Selling on the app of your choice! From missed quotas to high customer churn , to even lower conversion rates – sales teams have their work cut out for them in this hypercompetitive post-pandemic landscape. This is why, now more than ever, the role of the sales leader cannot be ignored. But, the question often becomes, as a sales leader, what should and can they do to not just motivate their sales teams, but actually drive substantial and consistent growth for their organizat

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Anaplan

JULY 19, 2022

Supply chain leaders must learn from the baby formula shortage A chaotic 2020, packed with unprecedented disruptions, dramatic climate events, and the first major global healthcare crisis in a century, rocked supply chains everywhere. Consumer awareness of the supply chain and how it impacts our communities and daily lives erupted virtually overnight.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 19, 2022

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay. Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Business Mentoring To Help Companies Grow. Today’s collaborative blog provides insights into the question, ‘Business mentoring to help companies grow.’. The success of a company depends on the care of employees. Business mentoring will help expand thought because it is one of the main competitive advantages an organization can offer in the market.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

When we launched a new product in September 2020, our go-to-market team was determined to do so in a data-driven, highly iterative manner. Conversation intelligence vendors were putting out a ton of “Labs” content at the time, so I spent a year running the most popular one — Gong Labs — on our discovery and sales calls. What we learned came as a big surprise.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 19, 2022

I’ve been following a fascinating discussion led by David Masover on LinkedIn. David provokes the discussion with a question, What Makes Sales So Hard? There’s a lot of discussion, with many very powerful and fair points. People talk about the pressure to perform, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of conflict, getting people to listen, pressure to achieve goals, and so forth.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Connecting with prospects is harder than ever. Personalization may capture someone’s attention, but you have to be creative in order to win their business. Looking for new ways to stand out? Hear insight from these experts around how they use creativity to rise above the noise and stand out from their competitors. From custom swag boxes to out-of-the-box sends, we’ll look at both techniques for fostering creativity as a leader and being creative as an individual sales practitioner.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 19, 2022

If you’re not already taking advantage of digital payments, it’s a promising untapped opportunity that's accessible to most online businesses — and B2B businesses should invest now. E-commerce (accepting virtual payments) has already grown significantly among B2C brands, and the digital payment market is predicted to more than double by 2026 , growing from a market size of $80B to $180B.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Celine North with us. Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Celine brings more than twenty-five years of experience to Boardable, which is a platform that allows board members to engage easily. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. powered by Sounder.

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Accent Technologies

JULY 19, 2022

The post 5 Revenue-Driving Sales Forecast Categories to Focus On appeared first on Accent Technologies.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2022

So much of successful selling centers on questions. However, the best salespeople know these can never be fishing expeditions. Sure, you ask questions to elicit information. But the right, targeted questions can differentiate closed deals from lost opportunities. For most sellers, there is a distinct difference between qualifying and need-analysis questions.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JULY 19, 2022

Ever have a “Customer From Hell”? You know, the kind who constantly pesters you — often unpleasantly — for additional service that wasn’t in the original deal, or attention to issues that they consider life-or-death but you know not to be serious at all? When you have a customer like that, the conventional wisdom is that you should “fire” them – get them off your books so you can turn your attention elsewhere.

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Outside Sales Talk

JULY 19, 2022

Casey is a sales development coach and keynote speaker that helps companies build customer relationships and not just transactional deals. He is the host of The Quarterback DadCast, a podcast that offers stories, advice, and wisdom for fathers looking to improve their leadership skills and emotional intelligence.Casey is also the author of the book, WIN the RELATIONSHIP, not the DEAL. . .

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Pipeliner

JULY 19, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Jason Scott discusses the transformative power of getting stuff done. Jason Scott is a leader who jumps in to take care of people and get things done. He went from being a navy rescue person to spending over two decades as a CEO of 12VC , leading global transformation efforts for companies like DIRECTV, Trader Joe’s, and Blizzard Entertainment.

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SalesHood

JULY 19, 2022

Definition The best sales training programs help sales reps learn and improve their selling techniques, skills, and processes. The ultimate goal is improving top line revenue growth. Essential selling skills are key to building customer relationships and consultative selling skills. Some of the best sales training programs also focus on sales management training, [ ] The post What is Sales Training?

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Pipeliner

JULY 19, 2022

The upside of living in difficult times is that they force you to take a closer look at your sales process. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Joel Stevenson, the CEO of Yesware, a leader in sales productivity software. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. The post 🎧 Errors in Sale Business Structures that Keep You From Being More Efficient appeared first on SalesPOP!

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The Sales Readiness Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Leadership and management skills often get confused and interchanged when talking about developing more effective front-line sales managers (FLSMs). But there are some key differences.

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Apptivo

JULY 19, 2022

What’s New! Apptivo has enhanced the existing feature by adding your requests and needs to make your work done. Switching from one app to another to assess one task might be super handy. So, our team has thought about it and made the necessary upgrades to the Tasks app. What do you think of carrying the backup of the Sales Receipts on your devices? Well, we got your response and therefore we introduced the Bulk Export option in the Sales Receipts app.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Selling Energy

JULY 19, 2022

“If you're not networking, you're not working.” – Denis Waitley.

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SugarCRM

JULY 19, 2022

You have ambitious global growth strategies designed to drive business and customer success. To sustain this growth strategy, most organizations have implemented technology solutions that grant defining processes to guide users towards their needed actions. But how do you get your sales team to follow these processes and perform at their best? Automated customer-facing business processes in the CRM help its users navigate large sets of information and make the right decisions.

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Apptivo

JULY 19, 2022

Introduction. In a digital world, every aspect of business has transformed; marketing is no exception. Marketing in the past had always been a hit or miss: it was not customized for any group or individual. It was designed to reach everyone, including those who were not interested in the marketed products, or those who were not the intended target audience, or those who could not afford the products.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 19, 2022

Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten a bill, and then had to dig through the company’s website just to find out how or where to pay it. Imagine if you could just teleport straight to the payment screen, with all the purchase details already filled in. That’s exactly what payment links do. If you’re a customer wondering if you can trust a payment link, or a business thinking about adding pay-by-link to your site, put your hand down and read on.

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