Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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A Practical Playbook for Account Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

Looking to give a your sales a boost? There is a renewed interest in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and it currently has two definitions: 1) a strategy for marketing to existing clients for the purpose of cross-selling or expanding presence within an account, and. 2) an alternative to “buyer persona marketing,” whereby named accounts are micro-segmented with messaging that is hyper-specific to their needs.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Strategic Leader vs. Tactical Manager

The Sales Hunter

Ask yourself, “Are the decisions I make tactical or strategic?” I see far too many leaders spending all of their time making tactical decisions. By this I mean decisions that impact such things as today’s business, this quarter’s volume, a person’s work schedule, etc. All of these types of decisions do need to be made, but are they […].

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The Old Gray Mare, Your Sales Funnel, Ain't What She Used to Be

Increase Sales

The sales funnel has dramatically changed because of the Internet and technology. New research from McKinsey Decision Surveys revealed consumers are moving outside of the marketing and sales funnel with its traditional touch points. The findings reaffirm the marketing goal to reach sales leads at the moments that most influence their decision to buy.

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Escalating Dependency on Regional Sales Leaders

SBI Growth

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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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Using Predictive Analytics for a Scalable Sales Process

SalesLoft

We all know that personalization has become the key to sales success. And the best way to prioritize personalization to the right people in your sales pipeline is by using predictive analytics. The addition of analytics to your process may be a new trend for departments like marketing and service, but keep measuring predictive analytics is nothing new to data-driven sales teams.

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Putting Aside Our Agenda For The Customer’s

Partners in Excellence

Gary Peyrot asked a great question recently, He had read, “ What Would Happen If We Saw Things The Way Our Customers Saw them? “ He ask, “How to you approach the solution from the customer’s point of view, ……do you need to purposefully put aside your own agenda?” It’s a question that actually hits to the root of the challenge every sales person faces.

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CPQ Software – Who Needs It?

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ or Configure-Price-Quote tools offer multiple benefits to users. This morning I saw an article that listed the top 10 or so solutions, and I wondered how effective CPQ solutions are in reality. Lots of hype, lots of trade-journal coverage, but, I wonder if companies are really taking advantage, and are they finding a demonstrable advantage using CPQ software?

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TSE 367: One Great Contact Led To All Of This…

Sales Evangelist

Last week, I shared with you a stupid example of prospecting I’ve done that didn’t prove to to be effective. It basically involved throwing spaghetti against the wall to see which one sticks. It’s dumb, I know. It wasn’t planned properly. So obviously, it didn’t generate great results. Today, let me share with you a […] The post TSE 367: One Great Contact Led To All Of This… appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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CPQ – Who Needs It?

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ or Configure-Price-Quote tools offer multiple benefits to users. This morning I saw an article that listed the top 10 or so solutions, and I wondered how effective CPQ solutions are in reality. Lots of hype, lots of trade-journal coverage, but, I wonder if companies are really taking advantage, and are they finding a demonstrable advantage using CPQ software?

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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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TSE 368: Persistent Intelligent Following Up

Sales Evangelist

How often do you follow up? How many times do we actually tend to neglect to do that and just leave money on the table? Here’s the hard fact: You could be losing sales that you don’t know about – all because you failed to follow up. Today, I’m sharing with you a tool […] The post TSE 368: Persistent Intelligent Following Up appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Productivity Increase: What is it Worth to You?

Sales Gravy

What happens when you say those words is that the decision-maker starts envisioning their employees with more smiles on their faces, a little lift in their steps, and a general raise in the level of the entire company’s energy.

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TSE 369: Sales From The Street-“Ask The Right Questions”

Sales Evangelist

Asking questions is an integral piece of sales in order for you to uncover your prospect’s true challenges. But how much of your time do you actually spend on developing questions that will allow you to move forward along your sales process? We have an interesting topic on today’s Sales from the Street as Dave […] The post TSE 369: Sales From The Street-“Ask The Right Questions” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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5 Sales Enablement Insights from Jim Ninivaggi, Brainshark’s New SVP of Strategic Partnerships

BrainShark

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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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TSE 370: TSE Hustler’s League-“The Unconsidered Need”

Sales Evangelist

In today’s episode, we have yet another excerpt from our discussion at TSE Hustlers League where I spoke about a study I found in the book The Three Value Conversations where it orbits around the concept of what you can do with the insights you know. How do you create or share the unconsidered need to […] The post TSE 370: TSE Hustler’s League-“The Unconsidered Need” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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5 Skills of Great Sales Leaders

Klozers

Great Sales leaders have a difficult job. Unlike most other positions in a business, Sales People are often the most difficult to find, hire and retain, but they are an essential part of any B2B sales machine. Sales & Professional Selling itself can seem complicated as there are so many different areas of sales, and Sales Leadership is no different.

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TSE 371: How To Become A More Persuasive Seller

Sales Evangelist

How do you become a persuasive seller? You need to understand that there’s so many dynamics involved in selling that it’s not just about what you’re selling but HOW you’re selling. Today, we have another awesome guest, Cole Hatter, who’s going to share with us tons of valuable, interesting, practical information that you absolutely need […] The post TSE 371: How To Become A More Persuasive Seller appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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