Fri.May 24, 2019

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Build a Good Image for Your Company & Sales Will Follow

Pipeliner

Set the clock back over 100 years and you’ll find that companies didn’t care about their brand image for the longest time. If products worked, then consumers bought them. Firms that sold merchandise people didn’t care about either adapted or vanished. Nobody in the world of marketing really focused on the personality they projected.

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Kick ’Em to the Curb: Proactive Ongoing Disqualification For Faster Decisions, More Deals

Sales Hacker

I have bad news… Deals aren’t qualified just the one time and then locked down as golden opportunities forever more; they need to be constantly tested and retested, with the goal of exiting (either one direction or the other) as soon as possible. My team and I interviewed 50+ sales leaders at companies like Dell, Workday, Oracle, and Cornerstone.

Scale 101
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How Important is Credibility to the Sales Process?

The Sales Hunter

Maybe the right question is: how do customers define credibility? The issue is that customers can’t see someone’s good intentions; they only see the results. This is the big issue when it comes to credibility and why oftentimes there is a disconnect between a salesperson and the customer. A salesperson can have the best intentions but still fail to deliver.

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Sales Operations Manager: What They Do, How Much They Make, & More

Hubspot Sales

Would you like to become a sales operations manager? Or are you considering hiring one? Research from CSO Insights found that 79.1% of organizations in the technology industry already have a dedicated sales enablement initiative or function, compared to an average of 50% across other industries. If you're like these companies, who need to create effective sales systems so salespeople can be productive and effective in their roles, then it's likely time to hire a sales operations manager.

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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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Managing and Cultivating Productive SDR/AE Relationships (ft. Mark Kosoglow)

Chorus.ai

In this jam-packed episode, Joe brings in Mark Kosoglow , VP Sales at Outreach , to discuss the BDR/AE handoff process. What's the best way to create a great customer experience from the first call to the discovery meeting and beyond? Listen to get a glimpse into some of the processes and perspectives that Mark uses to make the BDRs and AEs successful at Outreach.

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How to Build a High-Performing Sales Team: 5 Steps

Hubspot Sales

"If you can find good people, they can always change the product/service. Nearly every mistake I've made has been in picking the wrong people, not the wrong idea." - Arthur Rock. Selecting sales personnel is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, challenge for any organization. Failure to achieve revenue targets, manage customer relations, and deliver service can be traced directly to hiring salespeople unequipped to carry out their assigned roles.

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Of Course Selling Is About Relationships

Anthony Iannarino

If selling is not about relationships , why then does your existing client call you to bring you in to help them when they take a new role at a new company? Is trust not a part of commercial relationships? What underlies your ability to get access to your contacts that they universally deny other salespeople? Why do they give you time and deprive others?

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We Create Our Own Gatekeepers | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

?????????????????It’s important to remember that we create the gatekeepers—they’re all in our own mind. If we create them, we can get rid of them. What Do I Mean by That?

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Four Traps You Can Fall Into While Doing Sales Negotiations

The Accidental Negotiator

In a negotiation, both sellers and buyers can fall victim to decision-making errors Image Credit: Vlastimil Koutecký. When we are engaged in a negotiation, no matter what negotiation styles or negotiating techniques are being used we can make the mistake of falling into common cognitive traps if we are not careful. These traps are sneaky and if we are not on the lookout for them then they can sneak up on us and they’ll end up holding us back from accomplishing what we are trying to do in this ne

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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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Weekly Roundup: How a Multi-Channel Approach to Prospecting Influenced 73% of our Sales Pipeline + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "SUCCESS IS WALKING FROM FAILURE TO FAILURE WITH NO LOSS OF ENTHUSIASM". -WINSTON CHURCHILL. - AROUND THE WEB -. > How a Multi-Channel Approach to Prospecting Influenced 73% of our Sales Pipeline — Hubspot. These days, there's a lot of talk about influencing sales through social media or "social selling." However, I firmly believe you must measure what's effective in order to be successful.

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How to Succeed at Mentoring to a Success Profile [Podcast]

Sandler Training

This year, on Fridays, Dave talks about the attitude, behavior, and techniques of successful sales managers as he shares his thoughts on the 49 Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders. Listen Time: 10 Minutes.

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Managing and Cultivating Productive SDR/AE Relationships (ft. Mark Kosoglow)

Chorus.ai

In this jam-packed episode, Joe brings in Mark Kosoglow , VP Sales at Outreach , to discuss the BDR/AE handoff process. What's the best way to create a great customer experience from the first call to the discovery meeting and beyond? Listen to get a glimpse into some of the processes and perspectives that Mark uses to make the BDRs and AEs successful at Outreach.

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Managing the Complex Product Spin-Off

Cincom Smart Selling

For any number of reasons, enterprises occasionally find it beneficial to either spin off or split off products, product lines, … Continue reading "Managing the Complex Product Spin-Off". The post Managing the Complex Product Spin-Off appeared first on Cincom Blog.

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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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3 Ways Sales Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Hit Quota

Drift

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Marketing AI Institute. Interested in contributing content to the Drift blog? Email Gail Axelrod at gaxelrod@drift.com. Artificial intelligence has the potential to unlock up to $2.6 trillion in business value in sales and marketing, according to McKinsey. That’s because AI is producing real results for sales organizations.

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Marketers are the Real Creators of Wealth in B2B Companies

Sales Lead Management Association

If company presidents were to measure the amount of revenue created per marketer, they would be astounded. Marketers and their surrogates, the agencies (on-line, branding, direct marketing, content creation, digital marketers, PR) telemarketing and trade shows are the hammers by which B2B marketers create wealth.

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Selling Energy to the Hospitality Industry

Selling Energy

As someone who does hundreds of speaking engagements a year all over North America and Europe, I spend a lot of time on the road. Every time I pass a Motel 6, I am reminded of the tag line they adopted in the mid-Eighties – “We’ll leave the light on for you.” In fact, for the chain’s 50 th anniversary, they began using the motto, “50 Years, the Light’s Still On.

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NEW! VEELO REPORT CENTER

Veelo

May 23, 2019. Portland, Ore. – Veelo, Inc. introduces a new Report Center with detailed content, training and administrative reports. This new product set addresses the data and insights businesses are looking for to drive better program outcomes. The Challenge with Sales Enablement Reporting “As an organization, we want to leverage our data to focus […].

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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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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote by Hannah Arendt – Episode 154

criteria for success

Today's quote from Hannah Arendt is about storytelling. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! Hannah Arendt Quote This month's theme highlights the importance of storytelling in sales! And today's quote comes from Hannah Arendt, a German philosopher and political theorist. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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What is Sales Collateral?

Veelo

Understanding Sales Collateral Tailored to Your Buyers Journey Sales asset management and content are part of every sales enablement strategy – and should be designed to support the salesperson at each stage of the buyer’s journey. It is often an overlooked area within organizations, with the majority of the content only serving lead generation tactics. […].

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Ramp is Coming Up! What to Expect at Ramp 2019

InsightSquared

The revenue operations event of the year, Ramp , is coming up in less than 3 weeks, so get ready! Join the InsightSquared team and 500+ revenue operations, sales and marketing leaders for two jammed pack days of networking, data-driven best practices and valuable insights from leaders in the industry. At Ramp, you’ll join our growing revenue ops community and bring back everything you learned to make a direct impact on your business, so you can spend more time improving sales and marketing proce

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What is a Sales Enablement Manager?  

Veelo

What they do, their job market outlook, and how much they make All analysts point to sales enablement being critical to the scale and success of any company. CSO Insights reports that companies with a dedicated enablement function see double-digit improvements in quota attainment (22%) and win rates (14%) compared to those without one. However, […].

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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.

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Zendesk Powers Rep Success with Engaging Learning and Interactive Practice

Lessonly

The post Zendesk Powers Rep Success with Engaging Learning and Interactive Practice appeared first on Lessonly.

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10 Tips for Sales and Marketing Content Alignment

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. As content continues to grow as a critical component in successful selling, organizations must now take steps to align around content as well. Content is extremely important in today’s selling environment. Because buyers are savvier and more educated, they expect salespeople to present them with content that is relevant to them in their buying journey.

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Using a Reverse Mortgage to Gain More Retirement Money

Pipeliner

Do you plan to retire soon or are you already retired? If so, you probably know retirement comes with many benefits, but it also comes with some challenges. One challenge is a reduction in your income. A reverse mortgage can help you combat that by allowing you to tap into part of the value of your home as actual money you can spend. Why a Reverse Mortgage is Only Good During Retirement.

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TSE 1101: Forging An Ironclad Brand

Sales Evangelist

Your brand tells your story when you're not in the room, and today Lindsay Pedersen shares tips for forging an ironclad brand with sales reps, entrepreneurs, and other business professionals. Lindsay is a brand strategist who helps professionals identify the single idea that their business stands for. She's passionate about working with leaders to harness the power of brand every day.

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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