Wed.May 31, 2017

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17 Things Not to Do at a Networking Event

The Sales Heretic

Networking is a powerful sales and marketing tool. But like any tool, using it improperly or inappropriately can lead to disaster. Here are seventeen things—all of which I’ve actually observed people doing—that you definitely don’t want to do at your next networking event. 1. Dress inappropriately 2. Show up late 3. Talk about yourself constantly [.].

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Cover the Market Completely with Indirect Sales Channels

SBI Growth

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Start with Why – 3 “Why” Questions to Increase Your Presentation’s Success

Julie Hanson

If you’ve ever sat through a presentation and thought, “Why am I here?” you are not alone. Most presentations fail to answer this most fundamental question until five, ten – even thirty minutes into the content. Presentations that do not quickly answer the question “Why?” are frustrating, confusing, and causes distraction-prone buyers to tune out.

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Opportunity Assessment: Is the Sales Opportunity Real?

SBI Growth

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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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3 Tips for Hiring Your Next Sales Rep [Video]

SalesLoft

Sales managers face a unique challenge when it’s time to hire new sales reps. The skills and characteristics that make a sales rep successful are often hard to uncover on a standard resume. Keeping that in mind, what type of experience should you look for when assessing an interviewee? Does their previous work place a potential hire at the top of your list?

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How to make sales calls [The Ultimate Guide] – Part 1

OnePageCRM

The ultimate guide to planning, conducting and tracking your outbound sales calls. Jump ahead to: Part 1 – Before the call – How to prepare. Part 2 – Making the call (8th June). Part 3 – After the call (15th June). Part 4 – Tracking and improving performance (22nd June). What are cold calls? Cold calling means you’re calling somebody you know very little about.

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Sales and Business Lessons from Mykonos (Part 2)

Engage Selling

Thinking back to my post on Monday, another lesson we can learn from Mykonos is the value of adding value.

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TSE 582: Reciprocity Still Works… Even at 7/11

Sales Evangelist

Does ethical bribe still work? How does the concept of reciprocity help you in generating more sales? Believe it or not, there are some social triggers that actually cause people to buy from you whether they like you or not. And that’s part of human nature. All this and more in our episode today. The […] The post TSE 582: Reciprocity Still Works… Even at 7/11 appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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It's So Annoying My Father Was Right: Hard Work Does Pay Off

Sales Gravy

When I got back to the office that Monday, I found that the top producers were already there and they had even written some deals already. When I was about to go home at 4:30pm, they were still there, in full swing.

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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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Success Story: PTC Powers Sales Readiness During Business Transformation [Video]

BrainShark

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How to Win Bigger Deals

Sales Gravy

By and large, bigger accounts spending bigger money have a bigger decision to make. Their risks are greater. So it’s less likely you can win a large client by meeting with only one “decision-maker.

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23 Creative Follow-up Email Topics To Keep Your Customer Engaged

Fill the Funnel

Creative follow-up email topics to keep your customer engaged will surely give you an idea or two to continue the email communication with a customer that has gone quiet. You know that “just checking in” emails are annoying and non-productive and rarely produce the desired result. Download this infographic and keep it handy for those […].

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Don't Let the Summer Tank Your Sales Productivity

Sales Gravy

Leverage Friday afternoons for phone calls to people you haven’t been able to connect with or with prospects who are tied tightly to a competitor. It happens every summer.

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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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Jeb Blount and Dr. Diane Hamilton on Emotional Intelligence Podcast

Sales Gravy

Increase your Emotional Intelligence even further with Jeb Blount's Best Selling Book, "Sales EQ.

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