Mon.Oct 08, 2018

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Which 4 Sales Competencies Best Differentiate Top from Bottom Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

The difference between great salespeople and weak salespeople has been debated for years. The articles in my Blog typically address these differences with science and data to support to my position.

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How Smaller and Businesses Can Use Salesforce to Keep Up with Large Enterprises

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jon Robinson Some of the biggest companies in the world use Salesforce to meet their business needs. Adidas, ADP and T-Mobile all utilize the customer relationship management (CRM) platform to streamline and optimize their sales processes, but many of Salesforce’s customers are also startups and small-medium businesses (SMBs). While other CRMs can be easily outgrown as a company gets larger, Salesforce offers solutions that can be scaled and upgraded to meet the needs of any business – f

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The Challenged Customer

Partners in Excellence

Our customers (and us) live in worlds characterized by information overload, rapidly changing circumstances, increasing demands, rising management expectations, scarcer resources, increasing scale, disruption, distraction, and complexity. It’s impossible to avoid feeling overwhelmed, unbalanced, and distracted. Getting things done, getting the support and resources to move forward is increasingly difficult.

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There are 100 billion Customer Types. Go Figure.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Selling is not about defining the type of buyer you're facing. There are a millions of types of buyers. Ever see those "four types" of buyer things? The Driver. The Amiable. The Idiot. The Big Idiot. The Big Idiot is someone who thinks there are four types of people, and you can somehow pigeon–hole them into characteristic categories that will make them buy.

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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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Necessary Evil: B2B Digital Planning

SBI Growth

Look across your digital tactics and channels…do your buyers go there? Is their engagement worth the challenges involved in creating these? How do you know? Let’s first define Digital Planning (or Digital Marketing) – Leveraging digital channels to reach customers and.

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3 Essential Types of Interactive Content

Zoominfo

We recently explored the idea of interactive content in the blog post, “ 3 Creative B2B Lead Generation Tactics.” In the original post, we explain that interactive content is specifically tailored to facilitate engagement with your prospects. Unlike its traditional, static counterpart, interactive content is inherently participatory and provides prospects with an immersive and compelling experience.

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Our Customers’ Stories

Partners in Excellence

Storytelling is important. None of us live in a world of data and logic, as much as we might pretend that we do. Stories are important. Stories provide contexts to teach our customers and help them learn. They provide a basis for helping our customers understand how we might help them. They help customer learn through understanding the stories of people and organizations who have faced similar issues.

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A Guide to Turning NO into YES!

The Center for Sales Strategy

"No. No, no, no. No!" Have you ever had someone tell you "No" before? Whether you're a sales manager coaching your sales team to success, or a salesperson eager to reach your goals, you've more than likely been told "No." BUT. that doesn't mean it's over. It just became a challenge. Are you ready to take on that challenge? The next time you present a proposal and hear “No,” try some of these tactics designed to change the outcome.

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Engagement Experience fuels Customer Experience

Babette Ten Haken

The quality of engagement experience is essential for fueling ongoing, high-quality customer experiences. First, the act of engaging customers encourages both customers and sellers to exchange energy with one another. Like a chemical equation, is the desired reaction balanced and controlled? Or, is the quality of the engagement forceful and overwhelming?

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Has Social Media Changed Sales Management? Not Really.

Selling Power

The only legitimate sales management function that seemed to be improved by social media was recruiting and hiring new salespeople.

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InsightSquared Welcomes FunnelWise Customers to the Family

InsightSquared

FunnelWise, a company that aimed to provide better analytics and visibility into sales and marketing funnel performance, is shutting down their operations in a few months. To ensure continued success and access to insights for their clients, we are excited to announce that FunnelWise chose InsightSquared as the solution for their largest clients. Welcome to the InsightSquared family, FunnelWise customers!

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Managing startup teams: Parenthood, death, and other personal issues

Close.io

As a startup founder, your team is your most valuable asset. Yet in the day-to-day of building a company, it’s easy to forget they’re also individuals—ones with families, loved ones, and lives outside of work. And when serious events happen in their personal lives, you need to be ready to support them fully. Or risk losing them forever. Whether it’s a death in the family or a new addition to it, how you treat your team members during pivotal life moments will dictate how they feel about you, the

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Selling Your Prospects On Their Dreams with the Magician Archetype

LeadIQ

By: Ryan O’Hara. If you’ve been following our blog lately, we’ve been talking a ton about finding your voice for social selling. We talked about brand archetypes , and gave some examples of it working. If you sell ad tech, maybe you are helping a marketer hit their revenue goals. If you sell to IT, maybe you are speeding up a customer’s website and decreasing their website outages.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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If You Want To Be Great in Sales, Forget This Right Now

Pipeliner

Forget that you’re in sales. Cast off this old-school notion; you need to do other more important things to be successful in the sales profession. Selling doesn’t come first, it comes last. Sales is not the means to the end, it’s the end. It’s not the antecedent, it’s the consequence. The biggest problem I see is that “get the sale” drives sales behavior as opposed to creating the right climate which consistently results in a sale.

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5 Powerful Open-Ended Questions For Your Sales Cycle

KO Advantage Group

When you meet with a client, do you come prepared with a few questions to ask before, during, and after the meeting? We’re not talking about just simple questions here. We’re talking about intelligent questions that ask for answers with substance. As much as possible, prevent yourself from asking close-ended questions that only gives you a “yes” or “no” answer.

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Trends at Dreamforce 2018

LevelEleven

In the world of technology, changes are being made almost daily. That’s why going to a conference as large as Dreamforce each year offers a unique opportunity to see first hand the trends that arise. This year, LevelEleven had many great conversations about where the Salesforce landscape is currently and where people see it going. We have gathered three of the biggest trends from #DF18 and here’s what they mean for you: Not as Sales Minded.

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Zero to 100 – Photos from the SFO Sept 2018 event

For Entrepreneurs

Thanks to all of you who helped make the Zero to 100 event in San Francisco such a great success. Please find below a selection of photos from the event:… The post Zero to 100 – Photos from the SFO Sept 2018 event appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

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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Let’s Talk Sales! Sales Management eBook Interview with Charles Bernard – Episode 89

criteria for success

Sales management can be tough! Are you a sales manager that is looking to troubleshoot your problems? Well, you won't want to miss this episode of Let's Talk Sales! This month on the CFS blog, we're writing about solving problems for sales managers and sales leaders. In this episode of Let's Talk Sales, I interviewed [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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Your Virtual Edge

Corporate Visions

5.7 million. That’s how many sales professionals are currently in the U.S., according to a market-sizing survey done by InsideSales.com. Just over 47% of these salespeople are inside sales reps, while just under 53% are outside. So, what’s the average sales call look like? Well, Inside salespeople have the word “inside” in their title, so of course all of their meetings with prospects and customers are remote.

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Four Ways To Make Your Voice Mail Message Stand Out From the Clutter

Smart Calling

Want to enhance your chances of a voice mail message being remembered, maybe even evoking a return call? 1. Back it up with a written message by an assistant. Ask the screener, assistant, or anyone in the area to scratch out a brief note for the prospect. For example, “Pat Walters left a voice mail regarding cutting maintenance expenses by 25% and will call back tomorrow.”. 2.

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How Can Chatbots and Browser Fingerprint Automation Nurture Your Anonymous Visitors?

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

Chatbots are overhauling how brands interact and connect with their customers across various platforms.

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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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Zero to 100 – Photos from the SFO Sept 2018 event

For Entrepreneurs

Thanks to all of you who helped make the Zero to 100 event in San Francisco such a great success.

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TSE 937: The Questions You Ask Are NOT Building Trust

Sales Evangelist

Sometimes as sales professionals, we unintentionally erode the trust we have with our clients. The way we pose a question or the way we treat our clients can prevent us from closing a deal. Sometimes the questions you ask are not building trust. On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, we continue our month-long […] The post TSE 937: The Questions You Ask Are NOT Building Trust appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Tapping Big Potential

Selling Energy

In every situation, there needs to be balance, and our work lives are no exception. The books I’ve reviewed here often center on our individual potential - particularly our attitude, productivity, grit and leadership in the workplace.

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So, are You Oblivious to What You Should Clearly Know and Understand?

Selling Fearlessly

I once took a friend of mine, Dave, to a Cubs game; it was about six years ago. At that point we’d been friends for 54 years—went to high school together, were club brothers, stood up for each other when we got married. Dave is 75 now, a longtime successful businessman. I’d describe him as […].

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Book Mike Now for Your 2019 Sales Kickoff!

Mr. Inside Sales

Looking for a dynamic speaker for your sales kickoff event? Book Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales, early to ensure your 2019 sales kickoff gives your team both the motivation and the sales skills they need to make next year your best year yet! Click here to watch the video and forward to those in your company who are planning your 2019 sales kickoff or convention!

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Groove & LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Groove.co

Send InMail and connection requests directly from multi-step campaigns within Groove In sales, it is so important to collaborate with your team, to use smart tools and resources so you can be at your best, and to make meaningful connections with your future customers. That’s why earlier this year, we announced our integration with the LinkedIn Sales Navigator Application Platform (SNAP) program, and the exciting new features from LinkedIn Sales Navigator that would live right in Groove’s Omnibar

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Anatomy of a Price Increase: A Nutshell Oral History

Nutshell

On June 1st, 2018—after a massive team effort—Nutshell rolled out a 15% price increase for customers on our “Classic” subscription. This is the story of what happened before, during, and after that price increase, through the perspectives of everyone who was involved. What did it take to execute an initiative that was simple on paper, but complex in practice?

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