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Is This Mental Trap Making It Harder for You to Close Deals?

Jill Konrath

The first time I heard the call-in radio interview with the "deer crossing lady," I couldn't believe it. Tears of laughter were streaming down my face. The more she talked, the worse (or perhaps better) it got.

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Getting Culture Right: Five Lessons for Merger Success in the Sales Department

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: David Sill In August 2017, the DiscoverOrg sales team was working at top speed, well aware that Q4 was right around the corner, when our CEO announced the acquisition of a formidable competitor, RainKing. A sort of panic set in: this meant merging two sales teams that had been accustomed to going head to head. This situation presented a challenge precisely because each team was so effective – and not surprisingly, so competitive.

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CEOs Would Be PISSED OFF If They Knew This Secret!

Membrain

I spend a lot of time with CEOs, boards, and top executives. Inevitably, profitable growth is a key issue, universal to almost all.

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“1250 Dials, 50 Conversations, 2 Meetings….”

Partners in Excellence

I was intrigued watching a LinkedIn video from a prospecting expert. He touted his great results, showed videos of him making prospecting calls. I suppose it was to promote his expertise in prospecting. He was leveraging all the best predictive dialing and software technologies, exploiting his glibness/provocativeness on those conversations he had. His numbers, roughly 1250 dials, roughly 50 conversations, roughly 2 meetings.

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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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Don’t Accept Those Time-Sucking Continuances

Pipeliner

Stop celebrating continuances. Your sales process has specific steps to progress from opening to closing the sale. There is no step in that process where sellers sit on the sidelines. So why do sellers breathe a sigh of relief or rejoice when they get a continuance? The dictionary definition of continuance is “an act of continuing or remaining in the same place.

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Why Salespeople Only Use 35% of Marketing Collateral

Bigtincan

Marketers spend a ton of time, money, and effort creating digital sales collateral for their sales teams. In fact, I would argue it has never been easier or more cost effective to generate videos, images, PDF brochures, mini-apps, etc. Never! Yet, despite all the systems and repositories, time and time again salespeople ask their marketing team if they […].

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Weekly Recap, April 7, 2019

Selling Energy

Here are our favorite sales-enhancing tips from this week's Selling Energy Blogs.

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Leadership Qualities: What Does It Take to Become a Great Leader?

Anthony Iannarino

No one ever said that being a good leader was easy. A leader’s actions are constantly scrutinized and their leadership qualities help get them through good times and bad. Employees look up to, respect and work very hard for these qualities – which is why it’s so important for every great leader to work hard to hone their leadership qualities. Leaders Overcommunicate.