MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

No matter how long you’ve been associated with sales, you’ll never know it all. We’ve worked with sales managers and directors who have been involved in sales all their working lives, sometimes over 40 years, and the evidence of bad leadership exists in the wastelands of their past, through poor motivational techniques, overload of their teams and a determination to prove no-one is as good as they are.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s strange to think that the talk you have going on in your head can and will affect your success in any endeavor – but it’s true.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I still conduct a limited amount of training with some of my personal clients. We work with companies in more than 200 industries, from startups to multi-billion dollar corporations, that call on every possible vertical and decision maker, in nearly every geography across the globe. I find that even the most seasoned and resistant of salespeople get to this point: When they realize how much more there is to selling, how much more effective they can be, how much more business they could generate,

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Author: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group Breaking through and setting sales meetings with C-suite buyers is tough. They’re off-the-charts busy, bombarded with sales messages, and gatekeepers keep them well insulated. Yet, many sellers are successful in breaking through and setting initial sales meetings with the C-suite. In a recent RAIN Group Center for Sales Research report , we asked buyers how they prefer to be contacted by sellers and what influences their decision to connect with some s

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the current social and political environment, can you even imagine what it must be like to be a salesperson working to sell memberships for the NRA? How about selling guns for Smith & Wesson, Glock, Colt, Sturm Ruger, or Beretta? Many of you have worked for companies that had less than desirable products and/or reputations and you know how difficult that can be.

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Go for No!

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Sales is all about failing. If you sell anything, you’ll agree. In an article entitled, The Fail Your Way to Success Method of Cold Calling , Jeffrey Gitomer states that the cold call itself won’t usually get you a sale but that what it does give is just as important: a follow up opportunity. He says there is a long term benefit as well: this teaches you that most sales are made after the seventh “no.” This is at the heart of “our “ go for no ” philosoph

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Books About Starting a Business. The Founder's Dilemmas. In the Company of Women. Start with Why. The Power of Broke. The Four. Side Hustle. Crushing It! The Lean Startup. Be Obsessed or Be Average. Profit First. Passive Income Streams. Behind the Cloud. Will It Fly? Lucky or Smart? The Barefoot Executive. The Art of the Start 2.0. The E Myth Revisited.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The best salespeople are driven, not desperate. Obviously, you don’t want to be perceived as “desperate.” Not by your friends, your co-workers, or your romantic partner. And hopefully, never by your clients. After all, customers often arrive at a purchasing decision based more on how they feel about the salesperson and less about the actual solution.

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SalesforLife

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Social selling is so much more than a simple prospect mining tool for salespeople to use in their spare time. While companies may feel squeamish about encouraging their sales force to leverage social content, it’s effectiveness is undeniable.

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SalesStar

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As the founder of modern management, Peter Drucker, once said , “What gets measured gets improved.” Without a set of sales KPIs and an effective system to track and monitor them, a sales team is operating without knowing where the goal posts are.

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Babette Ten Haken

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Have you encountered an organization with absentee landlord leadership? Regardless of whether you sell, engineer or serve clients, there are 2 scenarios I have encountered when working with small to mid-sized companies (SMBs). These situations always raise the red flag that I am observing absentee landlord leadership. And in my Leadership Playbook, that is not leadership at all.

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Close

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Picture this: You’re the founder of an early stage SaaS company. You’ve been prospecting and going after your first few clients, when all of a sudden, a massive enterprise company starts waving cash in front of you. They found you and they want to buy what you’re selling.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Sales managers in the media space are faced with the challenge of hiring sellers who sell integrated solutions. No longer is hiring a one trick pony—a master negotiator who secures large shares of available opportunities—the recruitment and selection gold standard. Hiring great negotiators who can also develop business by selling integrated solutions is now standard operating procedure.

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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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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

There are many different reasons behind why a prospect or customer makes a B2B purchasing decision. But all of those reasons typically fall under 4 basic Buying Motive categories. Why is it important for your salespeople to understand these categories? If your reps can quickly recognize the buying motives of their prospects and customers, they can tailor their sales presentations in a way that will move the buyer into action. .

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

When you’re vocal and visible, and you’re putting your business right out there on the internet and social media, you invite quite a lot of attention from people selling things. I’ve made my living (as well as my profession and my business) from the sale of products and solutions. I’m actually quite receptive to sales calls—but with one caveat, as you’ll see.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Get any group of sales people together and we start exchanging war stories. Usually, they involve how we saved a deal, usually it’s at the last moment, usually it’s a huge noteworthy deal, and too often it involves a pricing action (“We sweetened the deal for them… ”). Listen to any sales kick-off speaker and, usually, there are a few stories about their own sales heroics—the big deals they won that got them to this stage.

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Marc Wayshak

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I share this sales advice in popular publications such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Inc., and Entrepreneur. Here are 14 of my sales advice articles that are trending today. Check out my personal comments about how each article can help you crush your sales goals! The post 14 Trending Sales Advice Articles appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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Selling Power

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here’s how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for revenue-generating sales processes can transform your sales forecast for the better.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Many organizations like yours have developed spreadsheet-based ROI / TCO tools to help financially justify solutions to frugal buyers. Often these spreadsheets are developed by a field subject matter expert, out of necessity based on one or more client requests, and then shared or distributed to value / sales specialists, reps and channel partners to use in engagements, and even share with customers.

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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Are you afraid of cold calling? Are you afraid of reaching out a new customer? Or are you scared to try out a new position in your organization? How about following up on a customer who hung up on you? Today, I talk about some fears that could be holding you back and how you […] The post TSE 777: Don’t Lets Your Fears Keep You Stuck appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Many sales managers don?t like having the difficult conversations who does? But as a leader, it is part of your role. You?re a top sales producer that has been rewarded with a promotion to sales manager. You?

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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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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a sales professional, one of your biggest hurdles is how to be brave especially in the face of rejection. During this episode, Emily Ann Peterson shares with us how she tackled her obstacles as a musician and how she used her creativity as an instrument to build her business. Listen and learn how you […] The post TSE 778: Why and How You Need to Develop Bravery as a Seller appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Nothing can turn your audience or prospect off faster than using fat words when they?re hungry for skinny ones. Or vice versa. I learned this exciting concept from Dr. David Palmer, a Silicon Valley negotiations expert.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

According to 451 Research. “SaaS is expected to grow sharply to nearly one-quarter (23%) of all enterprise workloads by mid-2018.”. While this should be good news for sales professionals in the industry, changing buyer demographics and behaviors are making selling SaaS solutions more complicated than ever before. More business functions depend on SaaS capabilities, which means that multiple stakeholders are playing a role in the buying process.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I just returned from what I can only describe as a truly remarkable SugarCRM Sales Kickoff in Sorrento, Italy. I have helped plan and present at no less than ten (yes, TEN) sales kick off events at SugarCRM, but this year’s event was different in a lot of ways. For one, we brought even more Sugar business partners than ever before, both from the delivery and technology side.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The post The Top Four Trends Disrupting Sales in 2018 appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a busy sales rep, you don’t have a ton of time to spend perusing blog posts. After all, you have calls to make, quotas to hit, and demos to run. But, what if we told you a quick reading break might actually increase your sales productivity? We won’t go so far as to say you should skip important meetings or spend half of your day reading blog posts—but we definitely recommend that you spend a few minutes every day catching up on industry news and sales blogs.

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SalesHandy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Writing successful Sales Follow-up emails is tougher than you think! You know pretty well that first email has been ignored. So, you already feel like you just sliced open an avocado only to be faced with the ultimate betrayal. You are already in a defensive position. But, what you may not know is that many sales people face these kind of challenges all the time.

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