Thu.Jan 26, 2017

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Sales Teams Need Face Time—with Prospects and Each Other

No More Cold Calling

There’s nothing like getting the gang together in person. A colleague of mine in Europe complained to me that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the decision-makers he needed to meet. But the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. My colleague thought it was rather presumptuous of them to ask him to drop everything and hop on a plane.

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The High Cost of a Disengaged Work Force

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Companies can’t afford to ignore their workers’ lack of interest any longer. Engagement is a goal that can be achieved. Companies can’t afford to ignore their workers’ lack of interest any longer. Engagement is a goal that can be achieved.

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Closing Is Easy

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One of the most common things I hear from sellers is “Get me in front of the right guy, and I can close them”. Big deal, so could any monkey dressed in the right suit, that’s why the big money in B2B sales is made by those who can actually get in front of the right guy long before the closing monkeys show up, those who can OPEN.

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Why Social Selling is Neither “Social” Nor “Selling” to Most People

The Sales Hunter

What’s your definition of social selling? Ask 100 people and you’ll get 100 different answers. When I hear people say “social selling,” I want to choke because of how I see people defining and then doing “social selling.” Too many salespeople are trying to turn social selling into something it’s not as a way to practice […].

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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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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part III

Anthony Cole Training

In my series ( see previous posts ) regarding the constraints to growing sales, the two remaining topics are:

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Elevate Sales Operations From Number Crunching to Strategic Analysis

SBI Growth

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How to Frustrate Your Leads

Engage Selling

Picture this…you call into your bank for support. Upon dialing the number, you’re prompted by a machine to enter in your card number and other details.

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Laser-focus Sales on the Real Drivers of Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

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A Good Way To Improve Your Meetings

Fill the Funnel

Want to improve your meetings? Let’s face a simple fact – a leading component in the planning and execution of a meeting is simple inertia. We have our weekly meeting on Friday morning because we … have our weekly meeting on Friday morning. How could we not have this meeting? We’ve been doing it for […]. The post A Good Way To Improve Your Meetings appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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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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Rescuing Deals!

Partners in Excellence

Each of us has experienced it, we’re struggling winning a deal. It’s an important one for us and for the company, we look for help from our managers and others. Instead of providing help, the managers sweeps in to save the day. They take the deal away, rescuing it, saving the day! Whether it’s a “Superman” complex, ego, or simply desperation, this practice is devastating.

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Can You Solve Big Problems With a Single Product?

Product Management University

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. Can a single product really solve big problems that are strategic to a customer? For 80% of B2B products and services, the answer is generally NO! Kudos to the 20% that can. What’s the Definition of a Really Big Problem? In the B2B space, I define a really big problem as something target customer CEOs care about directly or no more than one degree removed from something on a CEO’s A-list.

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“P **g On The Ashes”

Partners in Excellence

A colleague had a wonderfully colorful term to describe situations we both found ourselves in. We were both senior executives in a large corporation. Often, we found ourselves on the phone with desperate sales people. A deal was about to close and they were worried about losing it. They were pulling out all the stops, trying to win the deal at the last moment.

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Sales Tips: Leaders Are Readers

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Leaders Are Readers. By Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. I was recently invited to address my son’s high school Accounting/Junior Achievement class to share with them my journey as an entrepreneur. Much to the horror of my kids, I accepted. While the talk went well, and I believe was well received, it ended on somewhat of a troubling note.

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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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CPQ Facilitates Multi-Channel Selling

Cincom Smart Selling

Multi-channel selling presents many challenges to sales and marketing managers and strategists. It also makes life difficult for some back-office operations. Finance, product management and engineering find themselves confronted by problems coming out of a complicated and diverse distribution network, and regulatory compliance managers are bewildered by the application of a product to mitigate some unfamiliar issue with a particular customer from an obscure market segment.