BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Bob Kelly, chairman of the Sales Management Association, breaks down several key trends around sales enablement and effectiveness.

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Vainu

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Customers come in all shapes and sizes. The type of data you look at and the methods you use to make sense of it should depend on the nature of your business and your ideal customer profile. When you're about to set up a framework for your data usage, you should first ask yourself about the resources you allocate to acquiring one single customer. Are your sales and marketing resources allocated to dozens, hundreds or thousands of customers or prospects?

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Chili Piper

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It seems like forever ago when I first took on the role of SDR. We used to have monopoly money that our sales managers gave out for various contests that we would later turn in for “cash” that was added to our commission checks. We tried everything. Spinwheels, shooting darts at objects on our manager’s heads, puzzles on whiteboards. You name it, we tried it.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

By Tibor Shanto. No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. Given that there so many words, every day bringing more, that the word we’ll focus on today is a proxy for words rather than just one guilty word. The word I am talking about is talk, and the often silly way sellers use words, but more specifically the obsession to be delivering words, talking, sometimes (usually), jusf for the sake of talking.

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Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Everyone knows that as a highly effective sales leader you should inspect the key leading and behavioral indicators of your team as a predictor of future sales success. What always amazes me is how many sales organizations just do the.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I've written extensively about how salespeople score in 21 Sales Core Competencies. Typically, both the articles and data are shared in the context of the difference between top salespeople and weak salespeople but rarely have I written about what happens after salespeople have been evaluated.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Personalization. It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world today. Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But, what we haven’t discussed are the risks of personalization—or more specifically, what happens when a campaign is too personalized.

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Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As everyone was preparing for the Y2K bug to close down the world, I was closing up my files, picking up my bag and saying my goodbyes to a company I had called home for some 20 years. A time and place that was pre-mobile phones…yes, where yellow phone messages were placed in wooden pigeon holes, where the first plain paper fax machine I sold was for a crazy $20,000, where the boys club ran rampant and a handful of women on the sales floor was a huge exaggeration of numbers.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Patrick Welch , President and CMO of Bigtincan. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION? Patrick: The Bigtincan Hub Sales Enablement Automation Platform redefines sales, marketing and service processes to enable teams to work smarter and faster together.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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John Barrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, during one of John’s month-long globe-trotting sprints delivering the Filling The Funnel and Driving To Close training on-site, we realized we were at terminal velocity. The number of customers and sales teams we could work within a given year was maxed. What’s more, customers had started asking for additional ways to deliver and access our training.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Most proposals follow a pattern of reviewing a customer need or desired business result and then presenting the solution that will deliver the desired result. I agree with that approach, but you will increase your closing ratio if you add a section in between those two. That section? Measures of Success.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When your salespeople head into a new quarter or year with a solid sales business plan, they’re more likely to improve sales forecast accuracy, attain quota, and effectively support your organizational goals. Unfortunately, many sales reps fail to prioritize planning. But with these 6 simple steps, your sales reps can identify their sales strategy and create a sales business plan that they can use to stay organized and crush their sales targets.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: The one sales strategy I found to work best is, I replay conversations. After each meeting, I review the high points of everything conveyed to me. . Examining conversations and the verbiage used opens ideas to new questions and ideas. The practice also alerts me to expressed sentiments that are not entirely understood.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

You know that always cheerful, chipper coworker whom you wish somedays would turn down the sunbeam while you’re grumpily reaching for your coffee and mulling over the giant pile of paperwork on your desk? It turns out, Sunny Sunshine may have the right idea. That’s the general consensus from neuroscientific research.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Cohort-based sales cycle measures the average amount of time between when an opportunity or deal is created, and when it is closed won, tracked by the created date of the opportunity.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Are you a sales leader looking to establish a continuous learning culture? Don't know where to start? That's ok! Creating a learning culture - especially one that lasts for years - doesn't happen overnight. Start by asking yourself these 8 questions to establish a continuous learning culture. The 8 Questions You Must Ask to Create [ ] The post The 8 Questions You Must Ask to Create a Continuous Learning Culture appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Pipeline coverage measures the amount of pipeline you have, relative to your quota for a given period of time. Sales Rep Scorecards calculate pipeline coverage automatically.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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LevelEleven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As a Dreamforce newbie, I’ve heard a lot of positive things about this amazing conference and couldn’t be more excited to attend! With that being said, I also know that Dreamforce is a beast and being prepared is crucial to making the most of the experience. So, I went looking for tips from Dreamforce veterans within LevelEleven. I have gathered their best advice to share with you, my fellow Dreamforce newcomers.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Deal-based renewal rate, calculated on a cohort basis, measures the percentage of opportunities renewed out of the total number that were up for renewal in a period.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To what extent should a product manager be concerned about the portfolio? Is there a portfolio product manager role? There are portfolio product manager roles, but all product managers share responsibilities for the portfolio. There are things you do to your products for purposes of customer retention and then there are things you do to your products in conjunction with other products to form solutions.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Cohort-based lead conversion rate measures the percentage of your leads that end up converting to opportunities, of the leads created in a certain period.

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Chili Piper

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It seems like forever ago when I first took on the role of SDR. We used to have monopoly money that our sales managers gave out for various contests that we would later turn in for “cash” that was added to our commission checks. We tried everything. Spinwheels, shooting darts at objects on our manager’s heads, puzzles on whiteboards. You name it, we tried it.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

ASP, or average selling price, is a useful metric that you can measure using data from Salesforce, Hubspot CRM, and Rekener's Sales Rep Scorecard app.

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Chili Piper

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It seems like forever ago when I first took on the role of SDR. We used to have monopoly money that our sales managers gave out for various contests that we would later turn in for “cash” that was added to our commission checks. We tried everything. Spinwheels, shooting darts at objects on our manager’s heads, puzzles on whiteboards. You name it, we tried it.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Opportunity push rate measures the percentage of your opportunities that are set to close in a period that end up pushing out to the next period.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Chili Piper

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It seems like forever ago when I first took on the role of SDR. We used to have monopoly money that our sales managers gave out for various contests that we would later turn in for “cash” that was added to our commission checks. We tried everything. Spinwheels, shooting darts at objects on our manager’s heads, puzzles on whiteboards. You name it, we tried it.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Dollar-based renewal rate measures the percentage of renewal revenue won out of the total amount of revenue that was up for renewal in a period.

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Value Opening Statements and “Elevator Pitches” Up until recently, value opening statements and elevator pitches were popular. Today we need to get to the point sooner and focus on our customers. So let’s do away with that “stuff.” You need to jump in to talk about the customer’s… Issues Challenges Problems Opportunities What’s relevant to your prospect?

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