No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 3, 2017

Sales symptoms are prospecting traps. You’d be surprised how often I hear, “My account based selling team can’t close.”. Closing is never the problem. “Never” is a bold statement, but savvy sales leaders will nod their heads in agreement. Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. It’s prospecting that’s hard. Then why do so many account based sales reps overlook critical sales activities that occur earlier in the sale process?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 3, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 5. Last week in the Proactive Prospecting Summer series, we looked at how to respond to the question of “What Do You Sell”. Arguing that the response needs to align with buyer/prospect expectations, meaning the statement should be about the business outcomes achieved, not the means of achieving them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2017

Author: Mark Magnacca A distributed workplace is increasingly becoming the norm in most organizations, particularly with sales and marketing departments – a trend that is enabled in part by technology advancements that have made it viable, though not necessarily ideal, for teams to work together while being geographically dispersed. Despite the investment in these collaborative technologies, when you consider that the typical sales rep is on the road and away from any formal office environment f

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Jill Konrath

AUGUST 3, 2017

Last Friday I was interviewed for an upcoming Salesforce documentary on The Story of Sales. Velanie, a make-up artist, had been hired to work her wonders on me before filming began. I felt like a movie star.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2017

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Repsly

AUGUST 3, 2017

Imagine a room full of 100 shiny, new food and bev brands. If you were to revisit this room in just two years, only 15 would be left standing. With so many companies competing for a spot on the shelf and in shoppers' homes, 85 percent of all new consumer products fail within two years. Even for brands that have already "made it" and established themselves in their category, the fight for market share at the ever-shrinking number of retail stores is relentless.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2017

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2017

A friend and I were sharing our experiences in forecast meetings. Each of us has participated in hundreds of these, there seems to be a consistent pattern: Sales Manager: “Are the deals you’ve committed to the forecast going to come in as forecast?” Sales Person: “Sorry boss, this $1M (fill in your amount) deal with X corporation is going to fall out… ” Sales Manager: “We need to backfill that $1M, we have to make the number, what do you have to back

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Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 3, 2017

So you’ve gone through your customer discovery phase, now what? Today’s guest is William “Skip” Miller. Skip was previously here on the show back in Episode 639. If you haven’t yet, listen to it as he talked about effective discovery. Today’s episode is Phase II where he talks about value below and above the line, […] The post TSE 631: How To Engage Executives In Meaningful Conversations That Will Close The Deal appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 3, 2017

After a great launch, the next step is the interview step to discover the customer’s before and after state, along with the risk and rewards to take any action to gain the after state.

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Factor 8

AUGUST 3, 2017

Factor 8 is hiring bad-ass sales coaches! If helping reps improve is your favorite part of the job, you love to train and call coach, and you agree that inside sales is harder than field sales…read on! For the first time in ten years, Factor 8 is offering a chance to join our amazing team of high-energy, expert Inside Sales Advisors and Trainers as full-time trainer employees or contractors.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 3, 2017

Reflection is a companion to predetermination actions because you are thinking about what specifically needs to be done before you take determined action.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 3, 2017

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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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Tenfold

AUGUST 3, 2017

A CRM is an agent’s bestfriend as much as girls have diamonds for theirs. And the numbers prove this fact quite well: A 29% increase in a company’s sales revenue is made possible by the implementation of a CRM ; agents are fully mobilized and organizations will experience a 26.4% increase in agent activity due to the inclusion of social media and mobile network channels; and lastly, 65% is the total average of agents who have been consistently reaching their quota upon the adoption of a CRM.

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