No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. Yep, most of us are lazy and lack discipline. I’m including myself here. It’s a lonely world for account executives. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 16, 2020

There are comparisons of apples to oranges, red or green, black or white, stop and go, and the most relevant and current of all, liberals to conservatives. In today's article, I'll share a hot/cold comparison of my own, but this one is about sales candidates. Back on January 9, my article about why 3 good salespeople failed and 3 so-so candidates succeeded , used the results of a top/bottom analysis to identify the reasons why.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Author: SMM Sales managers rely on meticulous onboarding programs, continuous coaching and extensive product instruction to instill confidence in their sales reps. Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this article, we discuss the "5 Keys to Sales Coaching", or 5 critical steps you must know and execute in order to get the best effort and results out of your salespeople, to help increase sales in 2020 and beyond.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 16, 2020

Episode 42: Up-selling & Cross-selling, Improve Your Lack of Confidence & A Quote From Elanor Roosevelt. In this episode we look at upselling and cross-selling in the sales environment. Our Skills Pill takes a look at what to do when we feel we are lacking confidence, and our Inspire Me quote comes from Elanor Roosevelt. Take a look at this episode on [link].

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 16, 2020

Let’s dive into history again this week and find out what made Mark Twain a terrible businessman and investor even though he was a brilliant writer. Because after all, no matter how successful you are, you’re capable of making terrible business decisions. Quick backstory: Mark Twain famously wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was one of the highest-paid authors of the 1800s.

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Sue Barrett

JANUARY 16, 2020

People love certainty, especially when it comes to business. Which is why sales forecasting and sales pipeline management can often be the bane of sales leaders and their sales teams’ lives with senior management constantly on their backs wanting to know what deals will land and when, and when the revenue will start to come […]. The post Crowdsourcing Sales Forecasting to deliver better certainty appeared first on Barrett Sales Blog.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

Forgive my pure indulgence. This is primarily for me to help sort out some thoughts and deal with my profound grief. In the past 18 months, two of the people most important to me have died slowly. The first was my youngest sister, Kathy, who passed away about 18 months ago. The second is my best friend, mentor/hero, and wife of 38 years, Kookie. Kookie passed away two days ago.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Building trust with clients should be at the forefront of every organization’s thinking and planning.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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LevelJump

JANUARY 16, 2020

Over the last few months, we’ve gone deep on Outcome-Based Enablement. For the sales enablement function to become a mission-critical part of the go-to-market team, it needs to prove its impact on revenue. And we believe that enablement programs built outcome-first are the best way to achieve that. And while most agree, many are a little fuzzy on exactly how to actually do Outcome-Based Enablement.

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Force Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

As many of you know, I am a huge college football fan. I love the National Championship game (and playoffs) regardless of who is playing because there is so much “life” going on during the games. This week’s game between LSU and Clemson was no disappointment. Many of my friends turned the game off in the third quarter when LSU went up by ten. It is amazing that in the second quarter, LSU was down by ten points and looking like they were going to have a very tough night.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

Showstoppers…we’ve all hit them before. A specific technical detail, a question about a competitor’s feature, or a hiccup that stops a deal dead in its tracks. We’ve all been there and we all hope to avoid them at all costs. What if I told you there was a reliable way to minimize these showstoppers from coming up ever again? In a world with buying committees, long security processes, and competitors who all look and sound the same, being a solo seller has become a lot more challenging.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

The world goes through constant cycles. Lately, there have been a lot of “Aha, we’ve discovered the secret” posts and eBooks on Product Led Growth and the role of sales people. We can go back in history, as far as you choose, learning this hot new discovery is actually not very new. We have seen it in mobile devices, PCs, financial services, every segment of software, design tools, analytics, consumer products, food/food service, social platforms, and on and on and on.

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Nimble - Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

Let me ask you a quick question- What makes you click on an article you see online? The headline, right? Only 20% of people who read your headline will check out your entire piece. Well, it’s quite obvious that with the fast-paced marketing world, this percentage is going to decline even more. Why? The internet […]. The post How To Create An Actionable Headline For Your Marketing Campaign appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Richardson

JANUARY 16, 2020

Sales productivity measurement remains a challenge for leaders. This fact is something of a paradox because sales leaders enjoy access to a wider array of tools than ever before. Herein lies the problem: sales productivity measurement becomes confusing as leaders deliberate over which analytics to monitor. This challenge intensifies amid the sprawling data enmeshed within Byzantine CRM systems.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s not often that a radical idea enters the sales world and significantly alters the way that things are done. However, there are many assumptions about the traditional approach to sales management that are not correct, and a radical idea was needed to make things optimal. The Radical Approach: In many different areas of work, there is a well-defined division and process of labor amongst employees.

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Richardson

JANUARY 16, 2020

Why does sales productivity need a set of best practices? The answer: consistency. A defined set of best practices means that sales professionals have a consistent framework for determining where to focus their efforts. This consistency allows leaders to understand what works and what doesn’t across the entire selling organization. As a result, they can make changes at scale to improve sales productivity.

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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.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 16, 2020

Your marketing department provides you with a slide deck outlining what is changing in your client’s world as a way to start a conversation with your dream client. They intend to help you pass “ the relevance test ,” proving you belong in the room with your contacts. You hope—and your contacts hope—you are a peer, someone who knows enough to provide sound advice and counsel.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 16, 2020

McClain Smith, Director of SMB & Sales Development at Lucidchart, believes that curiosity can advance deals with prospects — but only if it’s genuine. He also states that being passionate about something makes someone a better salesperson — but only if it’s authentic. How exactly did McCain learn that these traits can facilitate better conversations through every phase of the sale cycle?

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G2Crowd - Sales Blog

JANUARY 16, 2020

If the sales field is one thing, it’s complex.

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Xactly

JANUARY 16, 2020

The average quota attainment is 53%. Discover why becoming a data-driven sales organization is crucial to optimizing sales planning and driving higher performance.

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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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Highspot

JANUARY 16, 2020

For companies who have already invested, the impact of revenue enablement is clear: it drives strategic growth; elevates customer conversations across sales, account management, and marketing; and empowers go-to-market teams to outperform in highly competitive markets. More tangibly, revenue enablement delivers a more than 7 times return on investment and 50% greater productivity for sales reps.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 16, 2020

In search of greater levels of sales efficiency and customer engagement, organizations have spent the last 20 years implementing myriad new technologies. Many of these technologies focus on automating marketing functions or sales operations — CRM, sales activity management, forecasting, customer service success management, contract management systems, and more.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 16, 2020

What Is The DISC Assessment Profile And How Can It Help My Sales Team? The DISC Assessment profile is an important training opportunity for any sales team. It is one of the tools many sales reps have started to utilize as its reputation for personality assessment has grown among sales leaders and their companies. So what is the DISC Assessment and how can it help your sales team?

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

If you aren’t a college football fan you may not know that Steve Ensminger is Offensive Coordinator and Joe Brady is Passing Game Coordinator of the recently crowned CFP National Champion LSU Tigers. While there are many takeaways from the team’s 2019 campaign that are applicable to business and sales, I believe sales managers, and leaders in general, can especially learn much from Ensminger and Brady.

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One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 16, 2020

For the past few years, when the sales industry discusses sales technology trends, artificial intelligence (AI) rises to the top, although it has yet to take a foothold in the industry. In fact, the topic inspires confusion and hesitation across the marketplace, with concerns ranging from AI taking over jobs to worries about the quality of an organization’s data.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 16, 2020

In search of greater levels of sales efficiency and customer engagement, organizations have spent the last 20 years implementing myriad new technologies. Many of these technologies focus on automating marketing functions or sales operations — CRM, sales activity management, forecasting, customer service success management, contract management systems, and more.

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Carew International

JANUARY 16, 2020

Happy New Year! We understand that sales leaders are always looking for insights to drive improved personal or sales team performance, but also lack the time to research relevant topics. We are kicking off 2020 with a collection of our top 5 leadership blogs from the past year: Facing the Hardest Part of Leadership. Sales Differentiation and The Winning Ways of Trader Joe’s. “Listen, Learn… then Lead” Leadership Development A Must for Well-Rounded Managers.

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