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10 Quick Tips On Gaining The Ultimate Competitive Advantage

MTD Sales Training

Sales is one of the most fluid of industries, mainly because of the massive amount of changes that it has been involved in over the years. The only consistent factor that has existed has been change. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Selling to Sales – Like Cooking for Chefs

DiscoverOrg Sales

At the end of 2015, we realized to grow the way we had forecasted to our Board of Directors, we needed better data on our prospects and customers. What a stupid realization given that we are solving this exact issue for 2,000+ customers. Unfortunately for us, there was nobody in the marketplace who was providing a solution for OUR target market. For years we’ve provided in-depth intelligence on the IT, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance departments of companies, but we wanted to talk to Sales D

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The Best System to Reinvigorate Your Thinking

Score More Sales

A day off, or a long weekend can be the perfect time to get new creative thoughts. These thoughts can solve difficult problems you have at work. Best-selling author David Allen has written and spoken for years on ways to be more productive. He says that the greatest human fear is to be out of control. We tend to not want to jump into thing we might goof up.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: It’s Time We Stop Blaming the Sales Team

The Sales Hunter

This week I had another discussion with a sales executive where he went off on saying how his sales team was terrible and the reason the company was going to miss its 2016 numbers. Specifically, he was saying how the team spends too little time prospecting and too much time taking care of existing business. Does this […].

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How B2B Buying Has Changed – And How Sales Teams Must Adapt

A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.

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Dissonance The Tuning Fork For Sales Risk

Increase Sales

In selling, the sales leads provide many signs. Some are obvious and others not so such as dissonance and sales risk. In listening to a webinar by Anthony Iannarino, he mentioned dissonance within sales conversations. As soon as he said this, I began to wonder if dissonance is like a tuning fork for sales risk. The closer the risk moves to the sales lead, the louder the dissonance becomes.

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2017 Annual Sales Kickoff Meeting Planning Guide - Themes, Agenda Ideas and Best Practices

HeavyHitter Sales

    When I was a vice president of sales, one of my key responsibilities was to ensure that our annual sales kickoff meeting was a complete success. I wanted everyone to leave the meeting trained on our new products, well-versed about the competition, and most importantly, re-energized to get back into the field to sell.  Today, I have keynoted and conducted sales training breakout sessions at hundreds of sales meetings and annual sales kickoffs.

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Want to go to Dreamforce? Here’s How to Convince Your Boss.

SalesLoft

Dreamforce is almost upon us. San Francisco’s hotels are filling up with reservations for conference goers faster than your inbox with Dreamforce related emails (but not too much faster). Conference goers will start filling up their agendas next week which means the time is now to claim your spot. But what if your boss still needs some persuading in order to send you to Dreamforce ?

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2017 Annual Sales Kickoff Meeting Planning Guide - Themes, Agenda Ideas and Best Practices

HeavyHitter Sales

    When I was a vice president of sales, one of my key responsibilities was to ensure that our annual sales kickoff meeting was a complete success. I wanted everyone to leave the meeting trained on our new products, well-versed about the competition, and most importantly, re-energized to get back into the field to sell.  Today, I have keynoted and conducted sales training breakout sessions at hundreds of sales meetings and annual sales kickoffs.

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Why Your Reps Are Selling Less | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

Seeing a decreasing trends among your reps? This could be why. Want to drastically increase sales in your organization? Pick up your copy of Nonstop Sales Boom.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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TSE 392: How Can I Not Get Intimidated by Executives

Sales Evangelist

Talking to executives can be too intimidating especially when you’re new to sales. Getting in front of people who are “more important” than you can be real challenging but this is a limiting belief that can hold you back. So you have to do something about this. That’s why I’m sharing with you strategies to […] The post TSE 392: How Can I Not Get Intimidated by Executives appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Mastery Program: Articulate Value like Star Performers In 3 Months

Insight Demand

With Insight Demand’s Sales Mastery Micro eLearning program, Sales Leaders can feel confident that their sales team will be able to articulate value like the top performers in less than 3 months. The program will be 100% customized, and it is based on proven best practices of the star performers. With our program’s video practice and coaching, salespeople can practice articulating value more easily, and managers can coach to the proven best practices of your star performers.

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TSE 393: Tips for Building a High Performing Team and Steps to Build a Career from the Ground Up

Sales Evangelist

As with many other sales people, our goal is to perform well. Today, I’m bringing on George Santino so he can teach us how we can be better working on a team whether you’re the leader of the team or part of a team. He gladly shares with us his stories and experiences he has […] The post TSE 393: Tips for Building a High Performing Team and Steps to Build a Career from the Ground Up appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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TSE 394: Sales From The Street-“I Used to Hate Cold Calling”

Sales Evangelist

Cold calling is a challenge that pretty much every salesperson has faced at one point in their life. In today’s episode on Sales from the Street, Therrion White talks about the challenges he faced with cold calling and some strategies he put into place and not let this barrier get in his way to success. […] The post TSE 394: Sales From The Street-“I Used to Hate Cold Calling” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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TSE 395: TSE Hustler’s League-Whiteboarding Concept Part 1?

Sales Evangelist

Today, I’m going to share with you a concept named Whiteboard Conversations. I got it from an amazing book called The Three Value Conversations. But first, picture this out: You go to a prospect, work your thing, do your presentation, get finish and leave. Follow up with the prospect in a couple of days. You remind them about […] The post TSE 395: TSE Hustler’s League-Whiteboarding Concept Part 1?

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TSE 396: Emailing Influencers & Getting Responses

Sales Evangelist

Emailing influencers is easy, it’s getting them to respond to you that’s the real challenge. So how do you actually do this? How do you actually get influencers to notice you? How can you make yourself stand out from all these other people who are trying to get to them? Today, my guest Jason Treu […] The post TSE 396: Emailing Influencers & Getting Responses appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.