The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Salesandmarketing.com. If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. Telling people they’re not meeting expectations and inspiring them to turn things around isn’t easy. In fact, most of the time, it’s downright uncomfortable.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Sure, it’s hectic. You’re busy closing out the year, but you also have lots of invitations for parties, client events, and other business networking opportunities. This is the best time to build your referral network. Make the most of it. Attend everything you can, enrich relationships with people you know, and meet new people. Get to know people personally, first.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The average lifespan of a Revenue Leader is less than two-years. Why? Most of the time the Leader’s departure is related to poor revenue performance or inadequate return on Sales & Marketing dollars. In the following article, we will outline.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In today’s marketing landscape, personalization has quickly become the gold standard—and for good reason! In this content-saturated marketplace, personalized marketing is the only way for companies to stand apart from the competition. Luckily, as technology advances, it’s easier for marketers to personalize their efforts. . Today, we show you 26 B2B personalization statistics: Your prospects and customers want personalized content. 1.

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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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As technology advances, so has the real estate industry. And videos have become key tools for realtors to share their listings and introduce themselves to prospective clients. Real estate mogul, Barbara Corcoran , began by recording videotapes of her listings. They were initially recorded on VHS tapes, but she found the greatest success when she uploaded the videos to her website.

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Jeff Shore

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

By Amy O’Connor. Sales leaders wear many hats. Probably too many hats in my humble opinion, but that’s a different topic altogether. Out of all the hats that a sales leader wears, perhaps the most important hat would don the word “coach” on the front. Great sales leader understand the value of coaching and carve out designated time for one-on-one development with their sales professionals.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The other day, I published a post, “ Are Traditional Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore? ” It’s generated a lot of great ideas and good discussion on both sides of the topic. One of the premises I had in the article is that the skills/challenges we face in driving change within our own organizations, and that those customers have within their organizations are not much different than the conversations/engagement that sales people and buyers have.

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Keith Rosen

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Jonathan Farrington, Founder of Top Sales World and renowned author interviews me on the unfortunate status of management and sales leadership today and why my book is the new standard for all sales leaders. WARNING : You’ll need a strong stomach to digest these shocking statistics, as you learn why more salespeople will not hit quota this year.

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SalesLatitude

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The pressure is on: If the end of your sales year is December 31, then you’ll need to close all possible deals in just a few short weeks. You know you must spend your remaining time wisely. But do you know which deals really will close by year-end ? You definitely don’t want to be in a situation where you find out at the last minute that the person signing is now on vacation skiing in Lake Tahoe and can’t be reached to finalize the contract.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Raise your hand if you’ve ever daydreamed of starting a business with your best friend. Maybe you had the conversation after three-too many happy hour sangrias or maybe it’s something the two of you have been discussing for years. Jennifer Paschall and Gita Vasseghi, co-owners of No Mo-Stache , managed to turn this longtime dream into their reality.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Let’s set a scene. Company raises money and is now ready to “scale the sales team.” Their current seller has done a great job, so the natural inclination is to assume that we want to replicate that person and sales will continue to grow, right? “John is our best AE– I need 10 more Johns!”. Fast forward 1 year later: “Oh no, my entire sales team looks the exact same…”.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Scale How To 74

Guru

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

InVision is a digital product design platform that powers exceptional user experiences. As sales enablement manager at InVision, Mike Garber provides the sales team – which is completely remote – with the knowledge and training they need to communicate effectively in market. We sat down with Mike to talk about sales enablement as a practice, and how to train teams to have better conversations with prospects.

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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Can we talk? Your employees are confused about their customer retention roles. And if your employees are confused, think about how their confusion translates. Into customer experiences, customer success and customer retention. First, ponder whether your hiring processes focus on hiring employees to fulfill customer retention roles. . You have an A, B and then Z model.

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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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Cincom Smart Selling

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

CPQ software offers several distinct advantages to product development teams wrestling with the evaluation of new product ideas. New products … Continue reading "How to Cut Product Development and Rollout Costs with CPQ". The post How to Cut Product Development and Rollout Costs with CPQ appeared first on Cincom Blog.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

At many organizations today, there is a disconnect between the ongoing sales training and enablement activities and the sales strategy. For example, while the company seeks to expand into new markets, the sales training continues to focus on buyers in existing markets. This severe disconnect results in lost sales opportunities and lower revenue. Key Sales Enablement Tools to Align Sales Training with Strategy.

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Training Strategy Scale Face-to-face 59

Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As a franchisor, there are many responsibilities that fall on you. The most important, which sets the foundation for a successful franchise, is training. Without the proper guidance, you cannot expect your franchisees to help grow your business in the way that you envision. As an owner, you may tend to focus more on everyday […].

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Artesian Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

“It’s really important I get this right for you”. This statement from Richard Mullender in the closing section of his Keynote, discussing the secrets of communication and how to really listen to customers, perfectly sums up the success of Connections 2018. The Artesian team got it right for our audience. Connections 2018 – a focus on addressing head on the ‘risky business’ of sales today was held on Wednesday 28 th November at 33 Holborn, London – boasted high-calibre speakers and br

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Do you have a process for connecting your targeting process with setting sales goals? Once you’ve established a targeting process and identified your ideal targets, it’s important to ensure that your targets are tied to sales goals. You’ll need to build a goal-setting and compensation plan that focuses the team on generating and working appropriate [ ] The post 4 Ways to Incorporate Targeting When Setting Sales Goals appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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Selling Energy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Have you ever been to a live stand-up comedy show in a packed comedy club? If not, I strongly recommend it. There is a palpable energy created when people gather for the communal experience of laughing together. When the crowd is really going, laughter rolls through the room like a wave.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The best sales kickoffs are oriented around one simple and powerful objective: enabling salespeople to engage more effectively with the customer. Too often, sales kickoffs get hijacked by marketing or product teams. This is an event where these teams can interface with all of sales once a year — and the result, many times, is an over-eagerness to overload sales with as much information as possible while they have their eyes and ears and can lock them in a windowless room to data dump.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Die SugarCon 2018 in Las Vegas war für mich wieder ein echtes Highlight, auch weil es darauf fokussierte, was wirklich wichtig ist: Das Business! Und während der Präsentationen und Gespräche wurde mir eins klar: „Je mehr sich Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleiben sie gleich.“ Klingt vielleicht widersprüchlich, heißt aber: Geschäft bleibt immer noch Geschäft.

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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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Lessonly

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It was a great week in San Francisco at Zendesk’s annual user conference, Relate. Sadly, the smoke from the fires just north of the Bay Area filled the air outside, but that didn’t deter a couple thousand Zendesk users from coming together to learn. The goal remains the same for all Zendesk users—to create better experiences for the customers they serve.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of research, and collected our own data and analytics on what causes sales professionals to win. We’ve seen certain patterns emerge. Things like engaging the customer early in their process, ideally being the organization driving their thinking drives higher win rates. Other areas that one would expect is demonstrating superior value in both the solution and how we engage the customer in their buying process drive higher win rates.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Online sales presentations have become a critical part of almost every B2B sales process. Presenting online reduces many of the cost and time barriers associated with traditional in-person presentations, while modern conferencing technology makes it possible to deliver all of the benefits. . Yet modern technology also presents unique challenges to the sales presentation.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

An integral piece in your sales performance management process is developing a compensation plan that is data-based and results-driven. Your compensation plan affects everyone and everything in your company. Your reps depend on the plan to direct their selling behaviors and provide financially for their families, while your CEO expects it to reflect corporate goals and enable revenue growth.

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