SBI Growth
JANUARY 18, 2018
Top CEOs understand that their role is to provide their company with an executable strategy. Strategy is the allocation of time, money, and people. The best CEOs are masters of where to place bets, invest their time, and divest from.
Score More Sales
JANUARY 18, 2018
As a champion for more women in sales and sales leadership, I could not have been more pleased to see this article written by Microsoft Inside Sales Chief of Staff and Microsoft Women Board Co-Chair Rahki Voria aptly titled Why We Need More Women in Sales.
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MTD Sales Training
JANUARY 18, 2018
One of the key motivational drivers for many salespeople is the desire for advancement and growth. This could involve seeing their territory sales improve, helping a new product through its launch or possibly farming an account for new business. For some, though, it would be seen as real progress if they were to be promoted to a management position.
A Sales Guy
JANUARY 18, 2018
It’s a sales manager’s job to know whether or not a salesperson is going to make quota or not and part of the process is understanding what deals are real and will close, and which won’t. Deal reviews are the critical tool for sales managers to determine the probability of a salesperson is going to be successful or not in making quota.
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.
Hubspot Sales
JANUARY 18, 2018
Sales forecasting is a necessary -- but sometimes painful -- part of preparing for the upcoming fiscal year and managing sales goals along the way. Since leaders can’t use a crystal ball to predict the future, they are left analyzing quantitative, and sometimes qualitative, data to anticipate future sales. This sales forecasting process becomes problematic when sales teams and executives confuse “optimistic goals” and “accurate forecasting.”.
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Openview
JANUARY 18, 2018
Every sales manager wants their team to close bigger deals. How much would revenue go up if your entire team was closing deals like your best sales rep? What if every rep was prospecting as well as the rep generating the most leads? Your team’s success starts with you. Let’s talk about how to become the manager of a sales team where every rep performs at their absolute best.
Hubspot Sales
JANUARY 18, 2018
Canned Responses Gmail. Canned responses is a Gmail feature allowing users to create and save multiple email templates in their inbox. You must enable this feature in your Gmail Settings, and create templates, or "canned responses," before using this feature. Repeatedly copying and pasting the same email response is a nightmare. If you don't have dedicated sales automation software you can still save time by using Gmail templates (also known as “canned responses”).
Increase Sales
JANUARY 18, 2018
To improve business results, many organizations use the SWOT analysis. For many years I have used a revised SLOT analysis when it comes to ensuring people secure the desired results. Today, the word disruption is very much in evidence through the business and even personal worlds. The combination of algorithms and technology continue to disrupt how business has been conducted.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 18, 2018
Sales conferences hold a very special place in my heart. This is not only because I am the Director of Sales at an event software company, but also because I know I have a lot learn—and in-person events are my favorite way to get that learning done. Sure, there are plenty of great resources on the internet but nothing beats getting face time with prospects, peers and colleagues about their latest success and failures when it comes to working in this field we call sales.
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Pipeliner
JANUARY 18, 2018
If you want a better understanding of what truly motivates people who are looking to buy, here’s a great story–backed up by one of my favorite poems. I was recently working with a group of sales professionals when an interesting moment of truth was brought to light by a discussion that broke out. I was working at convincing this group that they were too caught up in product features when they were selling.
Babette Ten Haken
JANUARY 18, 2018
When customer retention processes become a sanctioned sales spectator sport, everyone suffers. Especially those valuable clients who are abandoned once the contract is signed. What could go wrong, post-sale? Besides, the post-sale care and feeding of those valuable clients is SEJ: Someone Else’s Job. After all, sales professionals are compensated for acquiring customers, not baby-sitting them, right?
Pipeliner
JANUARY 18, 2018
Off the Cuff Instant Interview Question: You emphasize in your writings that a salesperson must strive to be different. How would you advise a salesperson who is being forced to follow “best practices” and yet considers they could do a better job if left to their own devices? The reality is that sometimes a salesperson is confronted with a culture that encourages sameness — copying best in class sales organizations, following academic pedagogy, complying with consultant expertise and
The Center for Sales Strategy
JANUARY 18, 2018
Personal recommendations are a powerful thing. Good or bad, they have the power to persuade us in one direction or another. Think about it—when most of us have little to no knowledge about a particular company or product, we typically ask those whose opinions we trust: family, friends or coworkers. As we all become more and more connected, most of us have also begun to rely on digital reviews.
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SalesforLife
JANUARY 18, 2018
When you add new sales reps to your team and don't have an account list ready for them to start calling on, it doesn't mean they have nothing to do. In fact, they can start building a leads list on their own leveraging your existing customer base and toolset. Here are six steps to help your new hires get started from day one without an accounts list.
Repsly
JANUARY 18, 2018
It’s 2018, and as a brewer, you feel like you’re drowning in beer -- and not in a good way. At this point in the game, there are over 5,000 breweries in the U.S., and that number will only continue to grow. Out of that 5,000 only a few will achieve the success they set out to find. So how do you make sure that your brand can stay afloat among all of this competition?
Close
JANUARY 18, 2018
Leaders like to communicate strength. In good times and bad, they project confidence almost by default. Whether they’re founders, CEOs, or sales managers, they operate as if they’re powered by unending supplies of courage.
SalesLoft
JANUARY 18, 2018
Our first user meetup of 2018 was a hit. Thank you San Francisco users for coming out to the Salesloft office to share with us your experiences, challenges & best practices. YOU are the reason we are here, YOUR feedback helps us grow. Looking Forward. As we’ve mentioned, we are taking on New York City next. Hosted by SportRecruits, we hope all you NYC-ers join us in Brooklyn January 24th at 6:00 PM (EST) for a night of food, drinks, networking, and of course, Salesloft.
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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.
Cincom Smart Selling
JANUARY 18, 2018
The third part of our CPQ Perspectives series will focus on the manufacturers and the makers—those folks who manufacture the products we buy and sell. While we have talked about CPQ for manufacturing companies many times , in this piece, we will talk about those folks who actually participate and manage the manufacturing process itself. What matters to manufacturers?
Braveheart Sales
JANUARY 18, 2018
Ever since CEB (now Gartner) published The Challenger Sale in 2011, the book has attracted much publicity. It provides five different profiles (detailed here ) based on research of 6,000 individuals. They are: Challenger. Lone Wolf. Hard Worker. Problem Solver. Relationship Builder. The research in the book indicates that individuals with a Challenger profile will outperform all other profile types.
Sales Gravy
JANUARY 18, 2018
If you're going to bypass mid-level gatekeepers, you have to be strategic, and you also have to use the right tone & pace, so you can be perceived as someone who truly cares about their needs. It's inevitable.
Engage Selling
JANUARY 18, 2018
Referrals don’t work. That’s what a client of mine recently told me.
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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.
Sales Gravy
JANUARY 18, 2018
If your pipeline is not coinciding with revenue, you?re likely to be questioned about it at some point which is all the more reason to keep it true and tight. Sales pipeline. If you are in sales, you?ll be asked about yours on a regular basis.
Groove.co
JANUARY 18, 2018
Part 1: Target Accounts. Account based sales (ABS) is an approach that allows you to focus on specific target accounts and collaboratively execute your sales strategy. This is a team effort where sales leaders, marketing, SDRs and AEs carry out orchestrated sales activities. This is the first in a series of posts where we’ll examine how you can use Salesforce to ABS-enable your sales team — and where the limitations of Salesforce are.
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 18, 2018
Author: Adrian DeGus When it comes to starting up a company and building a brand, visuals and an overall visual representation of your brand is very important. How your company is perceived depends a lot upon how it's seen. So when it comes to branding your company, first you need to take the time to think about an image for your company, both in branding and an overall visual that gives potential customers a specific perception of what your company offers.
No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 18, 2018
It’s still who you know that counts. Let’s set the record straight: You can’t depend solely on referrals to fill your pipeline. Whoa, did I really say that? As you probably know by now, my point of view is that referral selling is the most powerful account based sales development strategy, and it’s the only effective use of salespeople’s time. So, it makes sense that people think I believe referrals are the only way to ensure qualified sales lead generation.
Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.
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