The Pipeline

OCTOBER 30, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Yes, boys and girls, tomorrow being Halloween, it is the last day to get your Pumpkin Spiced Leads, come November 1, Starbuck rolls out their Christmas and Chanukah cups, and it’s all downhill from there. Now I know you’re thinking that Shanto has gone mad, but I plead innocent. In fact, I am just trying to fit in, using the Queens English in the most bizarre way to make a point, a point heavy on drama and embellishment, while short on meaning o

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Want some tips on cold calling? Here’s the cold calling cheat sheet! I must receive about 20+ emails each month that ask me for specific help and guidance on cold calling so here are some top tips: Sound Like A Human Being. Try not to sound like a robotic cold caller. That’s what 95% of the cold callers sound like. You need to sound as though you are just calling up a colleague for a chat rather than a “have I got a deal for you” salesperson!

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Author: James Hooker, CEO, Televerde Within the discipline of marketing, various tactics and strategies come into play for prospecting, branding, content development, social marketing, video, events and other channels. But how do these strategies and tactics vary when marketing a product vs. marketing a service? At the top end of the funnel, they look similar enough.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When it comes to icebreakers, “describe yourself in three words” is by far one of the toughest. You’re a complex person, with unique ambitions, experiences, preferences, and traits -- how are you possibly supposed to distill yourself down to three mere words? Unfortunately, get-to-know-you conversations aren’t the only time you’ll face this prompt. LinkedIn headlines are essentially the professional version: They ask you to describe who you are and what you do in just one line.

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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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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. A meritocracy states that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively based on ability and talent. Advancement in such a system is based on performance and/or demonstrated achievement in the field. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Commercial use limit. LinkedIn’s commercial use limit kicks in when you’re exceeding normal search activity, which LinkedIn interprets as hiring or prospecting. The limit resets at midnight PST on the first day of each calendar month. You’ll get a warning as you get closer to the limit. LinkedIn won't lift the limit if you request it. You will never see the exact number of searches still available -- and if you run through your searches too quickly, the warning may not show up.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

What does LinkedIn Basic come with? The LinkedIn Basic account lets you: Create a profile. Request and give recommendations. Search for other LinkedIn users and view their profile. See the last five people who viewed your profile. Save up to three searches and get weekly alerts on those searches. If you only use LinkedIn to network and find jobs, you should probably stick with LinkedIn Basic.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Never Ending Value, Evergreen Relationships, Lifelong Business How to create and employ customer and client strategies for continual business with your clients Alan Weiss and I are hosting a live event in February 2018 in South Beach, Miami to help you grow … Read More »

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

LinkedIn Sales Navigator Professional features. Send 20 InMail messages a month. See who’s viewed your profile over the last 90 days. Get sales insights. Run advanced searches. Browse unlimited profiles. Get lead recommendations. Save leads. Here's why each feature is valuable: InMail messages: Reach out to prospects who aren’t first-degree or second-degree connections.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you coach your reps to practice and reinforce what they learned during training, it’s these critiques that will lead to a change in their behavior – and improvement in their performance.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Should you buy LinkedIn Sales Navigator? LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a good choice for anyone who spends at least 25% of their time generating leads and prospecting. It comes with advanced search features, the ability to save contacts and accounts, and recommended leads based on the ones you've already selected. Before you make the call, consider what you can accomplish with LinkedIn Basic, how Sales Navigator's features will fit into your workflow, how much Sales Navigator costs, and how many s

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SalesforLife

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Growth doesn’t happen without change and change doesn’t happen without a compelling reason to shift off the status quo. Without change, your sales organization cannot open new opportunities, remain competitive or stay current to what the market demands. But the unknown nature of change can be scary! So why change? Well if you're working in most organizations, you may have noticed that sales goals are continuously growingly while hitting them becomes more continuously more challenging, buyers now

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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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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales Navigator Team features. Sales Navigator Team comes with all the features from Professional, as well as: 10 additional InMail messages per month (30 total). 10 PointDrive presentations per month. Team network warm introductions with TeamLink. CRM integrations. 25 out-of-network unlocks per month. Basic seat management. Usage reporting. For sales teams, LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team can be a huge asset.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It’s almost Halloween and as part of the spooky festivities, it seems like a lot of people in our office, and probably yours too, have been watching the Netflix show Stranger Things. Just because it’s Monday and you’re back in the office doesn’t mean you have to give up the Stranger Things addiction. In the Halloween/binge watching spirit, we created an infographic all about the stranger things happening in the sales industry.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Have you ever been misunderstood? Even in a time when you were 1,000% sure you explained yourself clearly? Of course you have, and it can feel maddening. But still, it happens. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening to your customers. You think you know exactly what they’re thinking and feeling… H ave you asked them? If not, you don’t fully understand the reasons why they’re buying.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This post is based on a webinar where Jonathan Hinz, Director of Product Marketing at Seismic and Daniel Kuperman, Director of Product Marketing at Mindtickle, discuss maximizing the impact of sales enablement with content and learning. You can listen to the entire webinar here. Today’s buyers are more informed before they meet with sales reps. They expect reps to be prepared to help them make an educated decision.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Sales Tips: Asking Sellers to Execute without Providing the HOW. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Sales Result

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Once a month like clockwork, I get a phone call that I always regret answering. The phone call is from Allen, a salesman from a digital marketing company. Allen’s company was my top choice as I shortlisted digital marketing partners. Unfortunately, my CEO had a relationship with another agency and was deadset on using them. I tried everything to get him to speak to Allen, but his mind was made up, and we were not going with Allen’s firm.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Should you take a full commission job? This isn’t an uncommon question among sellers. So I want to give you some insights today into how you can be successful at it as well as some red flags. Here are 8 things you need to make sure that you understand and have agreed to before accepting […] The post TSE 692: What You Must Know Before Taking a Commission Only Job Part 1 appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you’re a leader, a manager, a salesperson, or a problem-solver, one of the greatest assets you can have is your thirst for answers—your curiosity. The Curious Thing About Curiosity All of us have untold potential.

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Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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Nudge.ai

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you’re an enterprise salesman you know how hard it is to get deals closed, not to mention getting a global conglomerate in the door. So, today we wanted to give you a look into how Fernando Rodriguez-Villa has brought two global agriculture conglomerates on board at TellusLabs. Throughout the article, we’ve pulled out these key insights for you: Step-by-step process for discovering your target customers.

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Close

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you want to build a prospect’s trust, stop acting like a sales hero.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Have you ever noticed that the speakers/presenters who capture your attention the best are storytellers? Everyone loves a story!

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HeavyHitter Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

  I recently had the privilege to spend some time reviewing my latest B2B buyer persona sales research with Tiffani Bova, ‎ Global, Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist  for Salesforce.  Here’s some key excerpts from her Huffington Post article below titled,  “The Truth About Why Salespeople Win and Lose Deals.”.     TB: Tell me about this research project - how did you go about analyzing buyer behavior?

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In this six-part blog series OpenSymmetry and IBM outline the impact of Sales Performance Management Technology on each area of the business including Sales, HR, Finance and Executive Management. In this second post we focus on the sales leader. Effective SPM supports sales leaders in the development and implementation of sales plans by providing key data and metrics on past and current sales performance of their sales organisation.

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