Mon.Jul 24, 2017

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4 Ways to Have Complete Confidence in A Sales Rep’s Forecast

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kosoglow, VP of Sales, Outreach Unlike most professions, sales has a standard that literally dictates success or failure. It’s called quota. The ability to hit quota on a consistent basis is a requirement of success, and the key is understanding how to predict what revenue number one will end up at in a specific sales period. In industry speak, this is called forecasting, and most reps fail at it because they don’t trust the pipeline their CRM presents.

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Inaction Risk

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Risk is a big factor in sales, and there are many ways to manage, mitigate and manoeuvre risk. One can argue the biggest risk for both buyers and sellers is unforeseen risk, by any involved in the journey. But there is a big difference between unforeseen risk, and ignored risk. If you are breaking down the game tape after each meeting or sale, you should be in a position to continuously identify and or anticipate likely or common risks that come

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Your Comfort Zone and Your Success

Mr. Inside Sales

“Everything you want in the world is just right outside. your comfort zone. Everything you could possibly want!”. – Jennifer Aniston, actress. I once heard a joke that goes like this: “The only reason there are matinee movies in large metropolitan cities is for commission sales reps who have hit their comfort zone income early in the month.”. I remember my thoughts when I first heard this.

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Scheduling an Appointment With an "Uncloseable"

Pointclear

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. They listed those that they had had success with on top. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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How to Build a Better Sales Team with Better Salespeople – 3 Critical Steps

Anthony Cole Training

When talking to presidents, executive sales officers and sales managers, I consistently have heard these 5 comments:

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Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Fill the Funnel

“Wasted days and wasted nights” That is how a recent conversation started with a colleague. It immediately reminded me of the Freddie Fender song by the same name. Why do business owners and successful entrepreneurs continue to take the advice from friends and colleagues about technology and its implementation. Is it because they say, “Oh. […].

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What Behavior Does Your People Model Promote?

A Sales Guy

Every business has a people management model of responsibilities and oversight. The duties are split out into departments, managers, teams, individuals, until all of the tasks are assigned between production and oversight, and compensation plans are issued based on the division of duties. But have you ever considered what behaviors your people model is actually promoting?

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The Science of Campaign Planning

SBI Growth

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When Hiring for Sales Enablement, What’s the Best Fit – Product Marketing or Sales?

Mindtickle

Sales enablement is currently at a nascent stage, which means it can be difficult to find good quality people with enablement experience. Many often fall into sales enablement roles because someone suggests it to them or perhaps they’ve taken on some of the functions of the role as part of their position in sales or marketing. It’s something we’ve been thinking about a lot at Mindtickle as we help sales organizations scale rapidly, so when our co-founder and CRO, Mohit Garg, asked this question

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Your 3-Step Plan For Moving from VP of Sales to CEO

SBI Growth

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Sales Tips: Seller Opinions vs. Buyer Opinions

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: "Solutions" - Your Buyer's Opinion or Yours? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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The Importance Of Establishing A Cadence

Partners in Excellence

It seems in nature, as well as business there is a rhythm to the way things work. Disrupt that rhythm and problems start to occur. We use all sorts of terms to describe that rhythm. In science we describe this as a “steady state.” A system, whether it’s a physical process, chemical process, is in balance with the right flow. Sometimes scientists use the word “equilibrium.” In nature, there are all sorts of rhythms–the tides, the seasons, sun rise/set, curr

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3 Tips for Better Email Reply Rates

SalesLoft

“Why aren’t people responding to my emails?”. During my time as a Salesloft Implementation Success Manager, this was one of the most commonly asked questions I received. And it was always a tough answer to crack. Unfortunately, there isn’t a magical email template that guarantees responses. Many different factors play into whether an email is even read to begin with?

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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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In Conversation with Nancy Maluso

Mindtickle

This post is based on a webinar with Nancy Maluso, Research Director for SiriusDecisions. You can listen to the entire webinar here. SiriusDecisions empowers marketing, sales, and product professionals to make better decisions, execute with precision and accelerate growth. Nancy Maluso has built and managed successful teams in the technology industry and now brings her passion for improving sales productivity to her research at SiriusDecision.

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It Takes a Village: How to Get Your Entire Company to Enable Sales

BrainShark

See why sales enablement leaders need to rally the troops and get all customer-facing workers conversation-ready.

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[Podcast] How Qubole Leverages Sales Readiness Technology to Deliver True Value to its Customers (Episode 21)

Mindtickle

?. In this 20 minute podcast, Brazier outlines: How Qubole uses sales enablement drive productivity per sales rep. Why technology is crucial to accelerate sales readiness and bring true value to your business. How to leverage sales kickoffs to ensure your reps’ positioning cutting edge. His best advice to anyone creating sales enablement initiatives.

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9 Basic LinkedIn Lead Generation Tips for Salespeople

The Brooks Group

Social media has become so much a part of our everyday lives, that it often crosses the line between business and personal. Of course, you don’t want your salespeople spending their time scrolling through Facebook videos of dancing gorillas or goats doing yoga, but LinkedIn is another story. LinkedIn is a powerful tool for salespeople, and the social platform is a natural fit for anyone hoping to generate sales leads.

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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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Sales Disrupted: Preparing your Sales Organization to IPO

Mindtickle

Preparing to IPO is a massive task. It’s not enough to have the legal paperwork and financial reporting ready, your business also has to be able to demonstrate that it’s up to the task. As Joe Sexton, who helped prepare our customer AppDynamics for its IPO journey, has said : “you have to act like a public company before you actually become one.”. When it comes to your sales organization that means ensuring you have all the necessary rigors in place from your sales process to culture.

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Launch of The Alignment Blog Newsletter!

Jeff Davis

I'm excited to announce the launch of The Alignment Blog Newsletter! Its goal is to become the best-curated source of information for CEOs and Sales/Marketing leaders to stay informed about the latest thought-leadership on sales and marketing alignment. With the increased focus on helping these functions work together better to drive revenue, it is more important than ever for business executives to have access to data-driven content that helps give insight on how to do things differently.

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In Conversation with Nancy Maluso

Mindtickle

This post is based on a webinar with Nancy Maluso, Research Director for SiriusDecisions. You can listen to the entire webinar here. SiriusDecisions empowers marketing, sales, and product professionals to make better decisions, execute with precision and accelerate growth. Nancy Maluso has built and managed successful teams in the technology industry and now brings her passion for improving sales productivity to her research at SiriusDecision.

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Setting Prospecting Objectives

Sales Gravy

Every business and business person has Objectives. If you change your narrative from pain to Objectives, you will be communicating to, and heard by a greater segment of the market.

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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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[Podcast] How Qubole Leverages Sales Readiness Technology to Deliver True Value to its Customers (Episode 21)

Mindtickle

?. In this 20 minute podcast, Brazier outlines: How Qubole uses sales enablement drive productivity per sales rep. Why technology is crucial to accelerate sales readiness and bring true value to your business. How to leverage sales kickoffs to ensure your reps’ positioning cutting edge. His best advice to anyone creating sales enablement initiatives.

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TSE 622: Number One Sales Tip To Performing Your Best On Every Sales Call

Sales Evangelist

As a salesperson or an entrepreneur, you have to be consistent if you want to see significant results. Today, I’m sharing with you some insights into how you can become more consistent in your efforts to finally achieve your goals, make sure each call counts, and get the close that you want. Practice is […] The post TSE 622: Number One Sales Tip To Performing Your Best On Every Sales Call appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Disrupted: Preparing your Sales Organization to IPO

Mindtickle

Preparing to IPO is a massive task. It’s not enough to have the legal paperwork and financial reporting ready, your business also has to be able to demonstrate that it’s up to the task. As Joe Sexton, who helped prepare our customer AppDynamics for its IPO journey, has said : “you have to act like a public company before you actually become one.”. When it comes to your sales organization that means ensuring you have all the necessary rigors in place from your sales process to culture.

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Which Sales Category Do You Fall Into?

Sales Gravy

It’s up to you. You don’t have to end up stuck in the same position, with the same company, until you eventually end up on this year’s redundancy list.

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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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When Hiring for Sales Enablement, What’s the Best Fit – Product Marketing or Sales?

Mindtickle

Sales enablement is currently at a nascent stage, which means it can be difficult to find good quality people with enablement experience. Many often fall into sales enablement roles because someone suggests it to them or perhaps they’ve taken on some of the functions of the role as part of their position in sales or marketing. It’s something we’ve been thinking about a lot at Mindtickle as we help sales organizations scale rapidly, so when our co-founder and CRO, Mohit Garg, asked this question

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Why Be Mediocre

Score More Sales

My mantra in my early 20s as a single parent and a sales rep was “It takes work to be mediocre.” I was told that many times by one of our sales managers at the first technology company I sold for.