The Sales Heretic
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
In my last post, I warned against using six weak approaches to closing a presentation. Whether you’re introducing a new product at a trade show, addressing your team at your annual sales meeting, or making the case for your company to your dream client, you want to end with a bang, not a whimper. How [.].
The Sales Hunter
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Your success in prospecting is not going to be based solely on the app or hack you buy or download and spend too many hours learning how to use. Your success is going to be based on the conversations you have with prospects. It’s time to quit thinking one more tool is going to bring […].
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Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Author: Irina Jakovleva Building a business cemented in the customer experience is table stakes in today’s connected economy for both B2B and B2C organizations. In fact, a recent report from Gartner found that 89 percent of marketers expect that customer experience will be their primary differentiator in 2017. If a vast majority of marketers consider CX to be their secret sauce in winning and maintaining loyal customers, they need to make sure they have the right strategies in place to align all
Score More Sales
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
In a long sales career there are many opportunities for negotiation. Companies and products with poor value propositions make it hard on sellers to hold full price.
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A dramatic shift has occurred in the B2B landscape. Buying has transformed radically in the last half-decade, causing growth rates to plummet, customer acquisition costs to skyrocket, and churn rates to surge. For SaaS companies relying on traditional sales strategies to grow revenue, these trends will only become worse, as they now falter in the face of modern purchasing paradigms.
SBI
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Oh, year-end analysis. How I love thee and hate thee. Let me count the ways…. This is the time of year when executives become hyper-sensitive to numbers and are asking a flurry of questions. What revenue will we close the year with? What was our ROI on that new tech investment? What did we do this past year that was most effective at moving the needle?
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SalesforLife
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
What percentage of your organization’s marketing efforts are focused on the top of the funnel? If you don’t know, now might be a good time to re-evaluate your current strategy. While ramping up your blog publishing schedule and keeping a healthy social media presence are essential to growing traffic, they will do little to nurture cold leads into sales-ready opportunities.
The Center for Sales Strategy
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Do you read online reviews? Of course you do. Most people check out customer feedback before committing to buy a product or service these days. There is an entire industry dedicated to reputation management. The question is: what are you doing to manage your own reputation as a sales professional? Here is one simple method that can help you. I have sat with hundreds of salespeople who tell me stories about what their customers have told them in various conversations.
Hyper-Connected Selling
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Tim was excited for his wife. She got a promotion with a new title and a nice raise. The only problem: They had to move from Atlanta to Denver. He’s a freelance website designer and can work from anywhere, so he figured he can work from Denver just as easily. But once he gets there, he realizes that the network of colleagues, clients, and cohorts he had been plugged into is now missing.
InsightSquared
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Earlier this year we teamed up with LinkedIn to highlight the basic characteristics of professionals in three critical operations roles — sales, marketing and business operations. Unlike other specialized professions that require advanced degrees or technology certifications, there is no “typical” career requirements, or career path, in operations.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker
Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.
Chorus.ai
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Thousands of top performing sales reps already use Chorus.ai to automatically record, transcribe and summarize their meetings. As more and more reps and managers joined the platform, we discovered that Chorus was becoming about more than just helping reps be more focused on calls (no more notes!), or improving their selling skills. Teams were sharing tens of thousands of moments with their teammates and managers.
Nudge.ai
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Today we interview Doug Gould , an experienced partnership development executive who has worked in B2B roles with incredible companies like Microsoft , Xamarin , and Cloudability. Throughout the interview, we highlight key insights for: Selling to Fortune 50 Companies. Building Your Partnership Programs. Growing Your Partnership Programs. Interview With Doug Gould.
Tom Hopkins
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Time planning isn't just adding tasks to the calendar. Planning time to plan your time is essential to achieving success in every area of your life. The post Planning Time Planning appeared first on How to Selling Skills. Related posts: Planning the Achievement of Goals. Time Planning is Worth Your Time. Pay Attention to What You’re Thinking About.
Sales Evangelist
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Today’s discussion places its focus on younger sellers, specifically how to prevent burnout as a millennials seller. But older sellers can benefit from this too. Tim Cole is an award-winning CEO. He has helped launch 20 new brands to the market and has been instrumental in 6 legitimate blockbusters. A key player in the pharmaceutical industry, […] The post TSE 703: How to Prevent Burnout as a Millennials Seller appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.
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Badger Maps
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
Sales Hacker
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
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SugarCRM
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
No matter the industry you’re in, whether you’re B2C or B2B, operating in an online-driven environment or a traditional brick and mortar store, in the end all businesses share the same goal: you want your sales teams to bring in more revenue. Typically, sales teams become very focused on completing their task lists quickly and in a way that they can reach as many customers as possible.
RAIN Group
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Most sales are won and lost based on one key factor: You. You hold the keys to your sales success. Competitors don’t win because their offerings are more impressive. They win because they deliver a superior sales experience. You can too.
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