Thu.Nov 16, 2017

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An Executive View of Campaign Strategy & Planning

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Randolph Carter, the VP of Marketing in North America for Rentokil. Randolph answers questions out of SBI’s 2018 hbspt.cta.load(23541, 'b3b0ba05-3172-4e97-8fd8-29d6273cafc2', {}); to share his deep knowledge of campaign strategy and planning. To follow along.

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Now Is The Time To Get Ahead Of Then

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. With the end of the year in site, only six hopping Saturdays till Xmas, we sometimes face hard choices as to where to put our efforts. Put everything we have in closing and renewing what’s here and now; or ensure that I am well set for the next quarter, or year. Unfortunately, and often for all the wrong reasons, including guidance from a manager, the former wins out.

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Message to Account Based Selling Teams—Your KPIs Are Messed Up

No More Cold Calling

Are you Stephanie? “I came across No More Cold Calling while looking for resources for our next blog and I knew I had to reach out immediately, kudos on a fantastic blog. My name is Stephanie, I’m on an account based selling team, and I’m reaching out on behalf of a growing startup. This month, we’re looking to secure sponsorship placements with five prominent blogs and No More Cold Calling jumped straight to the top of our list.

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What Great Sales Managers Do Daily

MTD Sales Training

How come so many sales managers who are highly intelligent and experienced are still unable to motivate their teams to achieve great results? What happens to great salespeople so that when they become sales managers they fall by the wayside? Much of the success of sales management comes down to daily routines that build great teams and support successful individuals.

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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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B2B Sales Lead Generation Pros Who Listen, Learn

Pointclear

" The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said" –Peter Drucker. Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate sales leads have picked up an essential trade secret. While what we do for a living is talk, a more important part of our job is to listen. Think of those annoying robo calls. During the last election, I seemed to get one an hour.

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Why A Promise Statement is more than a Value Proposition

Babette Ten Haken

A professional promise statement clearly defines what you promise to deliver, over time, to clients. At face value, this statement sounds like a value proposition, doesn’t it? Except, many value propositions are commoditized, to clients’ ears. Besides, these statements are created by organizational committee (or the marketing department). As a result, these statements often lack breadth and depth.

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5 Ways to Stop Sending A**hole Emails

Hubspot Sales

I get so many a **e emails. You know the kind -- they start with, “ I was hoping to get you on the phone, ” or “ We’ve never met, but I’d like to tell you about what X company can do for you, ” or “ I wanted to touch base before the weekend. ” These emails have one thing in common: They’re centered around the rep’s needs, not their prospect’s. Salespeople live and die by their inbox.

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3 Steps to Boosting Your Sales Team’s Confidence

Engage Selling

Want to know two things that never go together when it comes to salespeople? Low confidence and high sales results.

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Sales Training: The Illusion of a Quick Fix

The Center for Sales Strategy

These days, you can find a quick fix for almost anything. There’s the 21-day fad diet, the 3-step skin care plan, and the 24-hour credit repair. We’re impatient by nature, and we want the kind of solution that turns everything around now. While some of these quick fixes may work in the short-run, most are not sustainable and they leave you in worse shape than you were before.

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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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Why These Emerging Industries Are Starting To Adopt Social Selling

SalesforLife

Within the past five years, we’ve seen the emergence of social selling from a buzzword to now table stakes within many sales organizations. Just like any channels whether it’s email or call, if you provide a sales organization with a network of contacts then they’ll inevitably figure out how to leverage it effectively.

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5 Mistakes That Can Sink Your Sales Kickoff

BrainShark

Sales kickoff sets the tone for the rest of the year. Here are 5 common mistakes that can derail sales kickoff and ways to avoid them.

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Effectiveness And Efficiency Are Not Natural, But They Are Learnable

Partners in Excellence

Every organization continues to focus on how to drive the highest levels of performance. Broadly, there are two primary areas that drive performance: Effectiveness And Efficiency. Effectiveness focuses on “Are we doing the right things with the right people at the right time?” A lot of sales training focuses on improving our effectiveness.

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Product Update: Improved User Management

Zendesk Sell

Today we’re releasing the second component to the Base User Management update. This second release improves upon the user management experience for administrators and also introduces flexibility for managing teams. Here’s what you can expect: Improved user hierarchy visualization and navigation. Our previous user hierarchy view could be difficult to navigate for large enterprises with a high volume of users.

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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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The Power Of “Yes, And…” In Coaching

Partners in Excellence

Too few managers actively coach. CSO Insights Data indicates the majority of manager spend less than 2 hours a week coaching—total! Too often, what managers consider as coaching is actually very destructive. It’s manifested in several ways: The manager is constantly in tell mode. The manager thinks he knows the situation better than the salesperson, rather than listening, understanding, and exploring; the manager starts telling.

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TSE 705: TSE Hustler’s League-“Don’t Focus on the Sale”

Sales Evangelist

Today’s episode is another snippet taken from one of our sessions over at the TSE Hustler’s League. If you haven’t yet, you’ve got to check out our awesome team of like-minded people. This semester, we’re covering two tracks – one is focused on business development and the other one is on building value and increasing […] The post TSE 705: TSE Hustler’s League-“Don’t Focus on the Sale” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Assessing Trust and Compatibility

Nyden on Negotiation

Accurately assessing trust and compatibility is not easy. It is often one-sided: a buying company will evaluate a supplier’s trustworthiness without understanding the supplier’s perceptions of the buying company’s trustworthiness. That’s why professors Gerald Ledlow and Karl Manrodt developed the Compatibility and Trust Assessment TM (CaT) to measure the strength of a business relationship across […].

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Social Selling Sucks (Time)

Sales Result

Most sales reps won’t get a good return spending their time on social media. Yet, many sales reps spend their whole day doing it anyways. At Sales Result, we believe in a balanced approach to prospecting and spreading your time across activities likely to yield a great return. Simply put, spend your time doing things you know will work.

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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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How to Build an Account-Based Selling Program Around Rapidly Changing Customer Behavior

Sales Hacker

The post How to Build an Account-Based Selling Program Around Rapidly Changing Customer Behavior appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Hyper-Connected Selling Idea #16

Hyper-Connected Selling

The post Hyper-Connected Selling Idea #16 appeared first on David J.P. Fisher.

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How to Increase Your Win Rate 2X with a Buyer-Aligned Sales Strategy

Sales Hacker

The post How to Increase Your Win Rate 2X with a Buyer-Aligned Sales Strategy appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Why Your Business Needs Great CRM

SugarCRM

With more powerful and advanced technology continuously emerging, standing out in the eye of the customer has become a unique challenge these days. Great technology alone doesn’t set you apart anymore; consumers and business buyers alike have gotten more buying power today than ever before. Thanks to digital disruptors, such as Amazon and Netflix, buyers expect you to know them, automatically suggesting the next show to watch or next purchase to consider barely after completing the last.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

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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How to Create Predictable, Scalable Revenue and Triple Your Growth Rate

Sales Hacker

The post How to Create Predictable, Scalable Revenue and Triple Your Growth Rate appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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When Does a Sales Management Process Become Micromanagement?

Funnel Clarity

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Sales Tech Simplified with @Katie_E_Bullard: How to Eliminate the Problem of Data Decay

SBI

In this series, we ask tech executives to describe the why and how of their solution. We call it Sales Tech Simplified. This week I interview Katie Bullard , Chief Growth Officer of DiscoverOrg. Nancy: Why does the industry need your solution? Katie: You may have heard terms like sales intelligence, marketing intelligence, intent data, predictive data, or similar: They generally refer to the same thing, which we refer to it as marketing and sales intelligence, and it’s revolutionizing the B2B

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Help Me Understand

EyesOnSales

Help Me Understand. By Richard F. Libin, President, Automotive Profit Builders and author of just released book “Who Knew?” APB.cc , rlibin@apb.cc. I don’t understand. Why does a business spend enormous sums of money to stay on the cutting edge of technology, marketing, and systems like CRMs etc., but then make it virtually impossible to do business with them?

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Sales Ops Takeaways from Dreamforce 2017

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Zahra Bukhari, sales operations manager at Localytics. If you had the opportunity to attend Dreamforce this year, you are probably still in recovery mode; 170,000 people, four days, 9 AM concerts, pie a la mode bars, a rock climbing wall – and we haven’t even started discussing the sessions yet. Now that I finally have had a moment to reflect on this year’s conference, I’ve had an opportunity to organize some of my top takeaways.