Mon.Nov 06, 2017

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Improve the Productivity Rates of Your Sales Team

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Steve Bonvissuto, the Executive Director for Innovation at MarketSource. Steve answers questions out of SBI’s 2018 hbspt.cta.load(23541, '74afaaa6-ba2a-4936-a1ed-8fe80db57c38', {}); to share his deep knowledge of strategic sales systems. To follow along flip to.

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The Art of Failure

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Cate Gutowski Failure is something we don’t talk about enough in business. In fact, it’s practically a four-letter word. In the industrial world, we’re trained that failure equals incompetence, which equals…out of a job. Yet, Silicon Valley startups teach us that failure is cool. Some even wear it as a badge of honor. In the software world, failure equals cool, which equals job security.

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When In Doubt – Err on The Side Of More!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. I find too many sales people, despite the image they may project, are way too conservative in their approach to selling. While this may not be a pronounced issue for those tasked with managing or servicing current accounts, with the only expectation being “organic” growth. What is organic growth any way, is that like growth we would have gotten even without any help from the account manager, or is the level of growth achieved even with the meddl

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How to Operationalize Account-Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

If prospects don’t fit your Ideal Customer Profile, they shouldn’t become leads. You already know this. But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. If you’re having trouble converting leads – or getting leads at all – here’s your simple, three-step process to keep your eye on the ball.

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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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How the Best Sales Leaders Make the Number

SBI Growth

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The Greatest Sales Pitch I’ve Seen All Year. It’s Drift’s and it’s brilliant. Here’s why.

Openview

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Medium here. A few weeks ago, I met a CMO named Yvette in the office kitchen at OpenView. She was chewing on a bagel during a lunch break from the VC firm’s all-day speaker event, and she was clearly upset. “How in the world,” Yvette said, reaching for the cream cheese, “am I going to inform my team that our entire approach to marketing is wrong?”.

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Increase Your Odds of a Successful Sales Hire by 368%

Understanding the Sales Force

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How To Manage A Sales Team: 12 Expert Tips For Success

Sales Hacker

If you want to learn how to manage a sales team, you’ve come to the right place. You’re about to get actionable insights from top experts who have all been there (and done it) before. Managing a sales team is definitely a challenge, but until you have managed or been on a sales team building revenues at +20% MoM AT SCALE, you may be in for a swift and rude awakening.

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Sales Tips: 5 Tips for Handing Negotiations

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: 5 Tips for Handling Negotiations (and Saying NO). By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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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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Top 3 “I Wants" That Millennials Use

The Center for Sales Strategy

The impact of the millennial generation is making headlines everywhere! As a sales manager, you may have read a blog or two on how to manage or even hire millennial talent. But now the headlines are about how millennials are impacting business, from a consumer’s point of view. If you have a hand in marketing or sales, you may be experiencing disruption within this loosely-defined generation as well.

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16 top sales leaders and entrepreneurs share their best sales advice and tips

Close

Over the past two months, we've interviewed 50+ top sales leaders to get their best sales advice, tips, and strategies that have transformed the way we sell today.

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Sales Enablement Spotlight: Best-In-Class Social Selling Vs. Status Quo

SalesforLife

Enablement teams are being pressured to produce frameworks, courses, programs at a dizzying pace, and many times without the adequate resources (people, technology, budgets) to scale.

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Is sales training the problem?

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. Have you ever heard the comment, “Why can’t we just train the sales team?” after you were just asked to create a new workflow? I hear it in my day-to-day work and sometimes it can be an acceptable solution. But, all too often it’s touted as the end-all be-all solution when the problem isn’t a lack of training, it’s confusing processes, or there is a lack of management.

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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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The Danger in Dungeons & Dragons

Hyper-Connected Selling

I always wanted to be a dwarf warrior. It makes sense that the nerdy, not-really-athletic, 12-year-old me wanted to be a strong, badass adventurer when I played Dungeons & Dragons with my cousins. Since I was never one of the popular kids, I had a chance through role-playing games to stretch out my imagination and try on different personas. I could learn how to work with others and how to problem-solve.

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Where to Find Us at Dreamforce 2017

SalesLoft

It’s that time again. The Superbowl of SaaS. The Bonnaroo of B2B. The Everest of events season. The one and only Dreamforce week. For the 4th year straight, Salesloft will be joining the 100,000+ attendees descending on San Francisco this week to experience everything that Dreamforce has to offer. We’re so excited to see our world-class customers, visit the booths of our incredible partners, and meet some brand new faces looking to learn more about the future of the sales industry.

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Live Webinar: Personalize Your Email Campaigns to Drive Engagement, Retention & Revenue

EyesOnSales

Live Webinar: Personalize Your Email Campaigns to Drive Engagement, Retention & Revenue. Did you know that 86% of consumers will be more interested in products and services that deliver personalized messaging? Campaigner has teamed up with FullContact to help enrich your customer data and generate more highly personalized campaigns. Join us on Thursday, November 9 th at 1 p.m.

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Coach Your Team For Success In The Digital Business World

Sales Gravy

"We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders" John Phillips, SVP of Logistics, Pepsico Digital evolution has changed how organizations conduct business.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Debunking 10 Independent Contracting Myths

Hubspot Sales

A look into 10 myths about independent contracting.

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First, You Need A Blueprint

Sales Gravy

If you were going to build a dream house, you would use a blueprint, right? With a good plan, even workers who don’t share a common language can create a masterpiece. What if you had a blueprint for building your company?

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The 3 Things I Learned at the Sales Enablement Society Conference

The ROI Guy

Alinean’s Dan Sixsmith recently attended the annual Sales Enablement Society Conference in Dallas, with a wealth of other sales enablement experts and practitioners. These are the top 3 top things he learned, all involving ways to improve your sales conversations for maximum effectiveness: It’s Not Me, It’s You! Buyers are looking for sales reps to be strategic partners and trusted advisors, yet prospects rate only 18% of sellers as measuring up to this new standard (USC, 2017).

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3 Tips to Write a Prospecting Email That Gets a Response

Hubspot Sales

How much do you really know about your prospects? Maybe you don’t need to know how they take their coffee, but you do need to know enough about to get in their heads. If you want to get responses to your outreach emails, you need to offer your prospects value. But before you decide which benefits your emails should focus on, first understand your prospects’ desires and pain points.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

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.