Mon.Feb 19, 2018

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Why Fear Is Holding Back Your Sales Performance and Your Gut is the Answer

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tony Hughes When I sell, there's usually something nagging at my conscience that I'm avoiding. I start the day and there's someone I'm afraid to call. Maybe the timing isn't right or they're too senior. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, becomes didn't. Yes, I'm human. But to transcend, I use fear as a guide that points me to what I should do next. Repetition is the mother of skill, but it also gives us another profound gift which is the development of 'gut instinct.

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Cold Email, Warm Leads: Where Does Good Data Come From?

DiscoverOrg Sales

Have you ever crafted an awesome email sequence … and watched in disappointment as less-than-awesome results rolled in? High email bounce rates are a campaign killer. We’ve all been there. We’ve bought lead lists and tested them. We’ve seen lists with a 40% bounce rate ( yes, really ), and many others around 15% … but few people in sales and marketing rely on lists alone.

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Sales Motivation Video: Are Your Habits Holding You Back?

The Sales Hunter

What habits are you clinging to out of tradition? Are they giving you the sales success you need? There is likely something in your life that you need to be doing differently. What is that something? I can’t answer that for you, but I know you can. And your ability to answer it will have […].

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48 Shocking Social Selling Statistics

Zoominfo

There’s no way around it: Social media has drastically changed the way modern companies do business. As a society, our constant need to be connected has expanded our pool of potential customers and made them infinitely more reachable. But, what do you really know about social selling? The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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SBI’s Top 10 SaaS Metrics

SBI Growth

The recent explosion of business intelligence and analytics tools has resulted in organizations measuring everything under the sun even if it is unclear what the metric is telling you or how to best leverage it. We often find that the.

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Coaching Sales Reps to Reach Higher-Level Decision Makers

Topline Leadership

A common complaint I hear from sales managers is that their sales reps are stuck selling to low-level decision makers: supervisors, purchasing agents, clerks. People at those levels are often concerned only about price. Coaching sales reps to reach higher-level decision makers will make closing the sale more attainable. The post Coaching Sales Reps to Reach Higher-Level Decision Makers appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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SalesTech Video Review: @OlonoAI

SBI

Olono is a Sales activity management system that both managers and sellers use to increase average quota attainment (AQA). That’s the ultimate goal right? Making sure more salespeople hit quota than ever before. Olono does this in a totally NEW way with minimal set-up and configuration. We’re talking minutes, not hours or days. Visit Olono.

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The Secret to Finding Your Next Sales Superstar

The Center for Sales Strategy

Superstar salespeople have a unique combination of talents that lead to excellence, and this combination of talents is very rare. It can be tough to find the people with all of the right "stuff" who have the potential for greatness.

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Customer Service Makes Sales Amazing

Pipeliner

Exceptional salespeople recognize that they have dependencies and that their success depends on the performance of others in the delivery chain, particularly customer service. But in my experience engaging the frontline service team as a regular source of customer and market information doesn’t occur often enough and is not seen as a particularly high sales priority.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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3 Ways confining Customers boxes you in from discovering Unmet Needs

Babette Ten Haken

Are you unintentionally confining customers to thinking inside your organization’s box? In reality, they may not want or need your current product or service mix. Yet you persist in trying to convince them of the validity of your product or service offerings. Because you are stuck thinking inside the box. And while your offerings, or your startup concept, may be perfectly valid to you , customers simply do not need it or want it.

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What To Do When Customers Ask for a Discount (+ Why You Shouldn’t Give Them One)

Close

Everybody wants a deal. Especially your prospects. And while you probably think giving 10% or 20% off isn’t a big deal, giving discounts just to win business can cost you more than money. It can kill your company.

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Sales Tips: 3 Ways to Handle Objections

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: 3 Ways to Minimize Objections. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company.

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How to Build Trust in the Age of Technology

Selling Power

Sales leaders need to empower their teams to build credibility in prospect and client relationships. You can do this by creating a culture of trust within the sales team.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

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

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If Prospecting Is The Toughest Part Of Selling, Why Do We Put Our Least Experienced People In Those Roles?

Partners in Excellence

Many people believe prospecting is the toughest part of selling. I’m actually not sure I believe that, but I do believe prospecting is tough. Our customers overwhelmed with just doing their jobs. Add on top of that, the fact they are constantly deluged with messaging from innumerable companies competing for attention and their budgets. Getting through all these barriers, engaging customers who may not want to be engaged, who may not be interested or care is a huge challenge.

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Winners Do Differently

The ROI Guy

New research highlights that winning sales reps do things quite differently, especially when it comes to discovery, financial justification and collaboration. This, according to a new survey of over 700 B2B purchases by The Rain Group analyzing what distinguished the winning sales reps from the runner-ups. The analysis found that the best sales reps won deals by engaging differently, having advanced their winning maturity through three different levels: Connect, Convince and Collaborate.

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The Must-Know Keys to Any Great Case Study Presentation

Marc Wayshak

The case study presentation is everything, while feature and benefits presentations are old-school. In this video, discover the must-know keys to any great case study presentation—so you can start to dominate the competition. Check it out now! The post The Must-Know Keys to Any Great Case Study Presentation appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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Amazing New Study on Buyer Behavior

Pipeliner

The RAIN group has just released a powerful new white paper on a subject near and dear to all sales hearts: prospecting. The study detailed in this white paper set out to find: What is it like for buyers to be sold to every day? Do buyers truly give people meetings that they’ve never met before? If so, what does the seller do to get them to take a meeting?

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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TSE 772: How Can I Improve My Listening Skills?

Sales Evangelist

Ideally, as sellers, we should only talk 30% of the time during a sales conversation and let the prospect or customer talk about 60% to 70% of the time. You want to make sales? Then you have to improve your listening skills! However, in the real world, I find that many salespeople talk and talk […] The post TSE 772: How Can I Improve My Listening Skills?

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How to validate a market for your next sales funnel

Outbound Works

Building a sales funnel costs time and effort. You might be getting contractors in for content creation, or planning to plow significant sums into ads on Google, Facebook or other platforms. To go to all that effort and find you’ve made a funnel that doesn’t perform? It frankly sucks. And it blows all your projected […].

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7 Things You Should Do After Attending a Business Conference

Circleback

Getting out and meeting people is vital in letting the world know about your business, making networking a mandatory chore, and at that point, attending events and conferences becomes customary. However, meeting people at an event is just the first step. You initiate a conversation, get to know a little bit about the prospect, and exchange cards. But after that, it is the actions you take after an event that build meaningful connections.

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“….Must Have Previous SaaS Sales Experience”

Partners in Excellence

I was speaking to a colleague the other day, he was looking for a job. He was a very successful salesperson, unhappy in his current role. He commented, “What’s all of this stuff about ‘SaaS?’ All the jobs require SaaS sales experience.” It is puzzling how “SaaS” or “XaaS” seems to have a disproportionate mindshare in the sales world these days.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Secret For Success – Feed A Starving Crowd

Tony Hughes

If you were in the business of selling fast food, what would be the single biggest factor that could drive massive success? We all know about product, price, promotion, position. and these are all important but what you want is a starving crowd. This is at the heart of an insight delivered by Robert Coorey at an event I was part of today. It is especially relevant for sellers because the biggest competitor we face today is buyer apathy or the status quo that often results in the delaying or aban