Fri.May 15, 2020

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11 Concepts For Managing Yourself and Your Employees During Change

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog, we discuss the notion that effective sales leadership requires leaders to meet the challenge during times of major change.

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Tiger Teams ? How Market Leaders Are Organizing Internal Talent for Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

The need for agility in the execution of customer pursuit efforts has never been greater. With revenues virtually falling to zero in many industries, CEOs and CROs (including your competitors) are working to maximize revenue from their customer base. This.

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7 Ways to Reassure Client-Facing Teams in Turbulent Times

Allego

No one needs to be told that times have changed dramatically in just the past few weeks. It’s staggering how quickly things have been turned on their heads. Those who can are working remotely. Many of our personal and professional connections have been cut off. We’re all just trying to figure out the best way to communicate and collaborate with each other.

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Business as (Un)usual: Best Practices for Salespeople Amidst COVID-19

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Sean Persha The coronavirus outbreak has thrown all industries into extremely precarious states, with businesses around the globe grappling for ways to pull in revenue despite widespread uncertainties. In the current climate, it’s a particularly peculiar time to be a salesperson; how can we pitch to customers who are most likely facing their own fair share of financial hardships?

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How B2B Buying Has Changed – And How Sales Teams Must Adapt

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.

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Would you nominate me?

Mr. Inside Sales

I need your help! . Each year, the AA-ISP recognizes outstanding service providers with their annual Service Provider Directory “SPD” Awards. . If you have benefited from my material or blogs and scripts I provide, then would you be willing to take a minute to nominate me? There are two categories below that would help me tremendously: . 1) To nominate for Service Provider , please go here: .

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18 Sales Mistakes To Avoid At All Costs

MTD Sales Training

We’re all looking for the silver bullet technique when it comes to increasing our sales but we can also learn a great deal from those salespeople who make the most mistakes! We’re often looking for “what to do.” Just as powerful is knowing “what not to do.” Here’s 18 sales mistakes that poor salespeople make. How many are you guilty of?

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The Promotion Gap for Women: Yes, It Still Exists

Zoominfo

“Taking your seat at the table doesn’t work so well, I thought, when no one wants you there.” These words from investor and business executive Ellen Pao, who unsuccessfully sued former employer Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination, no doubt resonate with many women struggling for recognition in corporate America. [The data in this blog was pulled in January 2020, before COVID-19 created drastic changes in employment—especially for women.

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Honing Your Remote Selling Abilities

Engage Selling

Has your team started honing their remote selling abilities? That is, are you and your sales team prepared for the inevitable “virtualization” of sales that was already well underway prior to the pandemic?

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16 Technology Trends Shaping eCommerce in 2020

Hubspot Sales

If the first few months of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s that uncertain times can call for quick pivots to sales and marketing plans. Businesses have had to evolve quickly with trade shows, events, and in-person sales meetings being canceled for the foreseeable future, likely throwing a wrench in many 2020 sales and marketing strategies. But even as we are navigating our new normal, there is one place that is experiencing an incredible boom in traffic: eCommerce websites.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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.

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Weekly Roundup: More Productivity Predicted in 2021, Accelerate Virtual Selling + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If your run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.". -Michael Jordan. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Workers Will Be Way More Productive in 2021 Than in 2019– Inc. As The New York Times pointed out, allowing employees to work from home and creating a quieter and more private workplace will result in happier workers, which means they're more likely to remain engaged and even get more oo

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The differences between electronic and digital signatures

PandaDoc

In today’s digital world, the signing process for a paper document is time-consuming, wasteful, and, quite frankly, unnecessary. So, it makes sense that with the rise in popularity of the electronic document, electronic signatures have become the new standard for brick-and-mortar and remote businesses alike. They’re more convenient for the signer, paperless, and perfectly suited for any business that is conducted remotely.

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Sandler Rule: Sales is a Broadway Play Performed by a Psychologist

Sandler Training

How do your prospects feel after sitting across from you in a sales call? The post Sandler Rule: Sales is a Broadway Play Performed by a Psychologist appeared first on Sandler Training.

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My Advice for the New World of Sales Onboarding – Leveraging Readiness Technology to Ensure Success

Mindtickle

Prior to COVID-19, in the “old world,” sales readiness leaders and teams had one main responsibility: to deliver and personalize an adaptable learning experience across the life cycle of a seller. The goal was to achieve a perfect combination of knowledge and skills and behaviors in the field that would translate to more deals closed. Old-world sales readiness teams managed onboarding by hosting cohorts of new hires at their headquarters for live training.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Outreach

Sales outreach is an art and a science. The art is what you bring to the table—your flair for conversation, your work ethic, your dedication. We bring the science—proven tactics, strategies, and methods that really work. In this eBook, we’ll cover: How you should respond to inbound leads Tactics for engaging outbound leads (cold calls, email automation, and gifts) The key to keeping a prospective account alive for the long haul Buckle up!

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How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #19 ? Never help the prospect end the interview

Sandler Training

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them. The post How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #19 – Never help the prospect end the interview appeared first on Sandler Training.

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How SAP CPQ Integrates with Other Key Software Solutions

Canidium

SAP CPQ is a powerful configure price quote solution with the ability to transform your sales processes by shortening sales cycles, cutting costs, reducing mistakes, and so much more. Using CPQ technology as a stand-alone technology will make a massive difference in the way your sales team operates, however, if you truly want to get the most out of your SAP CPQ solution, there are a variety of critical integrations with other business operations tools that will boost your sales even further.

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Transcendent Leader

Pipeliner

Organizational vitality is when the people of an organization are energetic and have a sense of meaning and purpose in the work they do. One measure of organizational vitality is employee engagement , which is strongly influenced by leadership. It’s tough for employees to be engaged and participatory if the leaders aren’t also engaged and participatory.

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Three Keys to Virtual Training Success: Not All Providers are Created Equal

The Brooks Group

If there’s anything the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s this: There are no quick fixes, slap-dash measures, or shortcuts in life, or in business. Though it is human nature to want our personal and professional lives to bounce back up as quickly as they dropped into the abyss, your business’s recovery from the pandemic will take a deliberate, strategic, and paced effort to yield financial rewards.

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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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Betting On The Home Team! {Repost from 2018}

Pipeliner

How Remote Working Can Increase Productivity, Commitment, and Efficiency. [NOTE: I wrote this in Nov 2018 and I am reposting as it seems even more relevant today!]. I will admit right out of the gate that anyone reading this who worked for me in some of my previous roles will be surprised to hear that I have become a huge advocate of the remote working.

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How to Address the 'We Don’t Have the Money' Objection

Selling Energy

Virtually everyone in the business world today is dealing with economic uncertainty. You’ll likely hear a common objection, “We don’t have the money right now.”.

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6 Marketing Ideas For Growing Your Small Business in 2020

Nimble - Sales

In an oversaturated market like the one we’re facing today, it’s tough for a small business to set itself apart from all the competitors offering similar services and products. A well-planned and thorough marketing strategy can help you establish a unique position for your business on the market in a way that will ensure growth. […].

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Inspirational Quote by Dale Carnegie

criteria for success

Today's quote from Dale Carnegie is about prioritizing your goals. Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! Dale Carnegie Quote. Dale Carnegie is an American author, most famous for his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. He said: “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”. – Dale Carnegie.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Breakup with the Breakup Email in Sales

Anthony Iannarino

Occasionally, after a salesperson has tried to acquire a meeting with their dream client, mostly having used email as the only mode of communication, they send their prospective client a “breakup letter.” Sometimes the breakup letter looks like a cry for pity, and other times it seems more like an ultimatum, a strategy some believe to be appropriate when a client goes dark during the sales conversation.

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Selling During COVID-19: How to Be a Video Master | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

In today’s selling environment, we’re using video more than ever before. And in some markets, video is the only way we can engage in face-to-face interaction with our customers.

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Why Verifying Email Addresses is Important and How To Do It

Fill the Funnel

Surely you must have an email list. Hopefully, you have been building and nurturing for years. The question for you now is “Have you cleaned your mailing list?” If the answer is “not really” or rather “never”, you might be losing out on a great opportunity of maximizing your email marketing results. If you do […].

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The Daily Briefing: May 15, 2020

Chorus.ai

Watch the Video. On today’s Daily Briefing, Jim Benton was joined by Bob Perkins , Founder, and Chairman of AA-ISP. They discussed the next evolution of inside sales, especially over the next eight weeks as we look towards reopening the economy. From shock to adjustment to acceptance, to flourish? Like everyone else, inside sales has had to transition to remote work seemingly overnight.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Why Verifying Email Addresses is Important and How To Do It

Fill the Funnel

Surely you must have an email list. Hopefully, you have been building and nurturing for years. The question for you now is “Have you cleaned your mailing list?” If the answer is “not really” or rather “never”, you might be losing out on a great opportunity of maximizing your email marketing results. If you do […].

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Sandler Named to ?Top 20? List for 11th Straight Year

Sandler Training

Training Industry, one of the most trusted and respected sources of information on the business of learning, recently selected Sandler Training as one of the top 20 sales training companies. The post Sandler Named to “Top 20” List for 11th Straight Year appeared first on Sandler Training.

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The Power of Placing the Buyer First

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

A LinkedIn Studio video from Seismic’s Head of Enablement. At Seismic, we live and breathe our own core value proposition: to unite marketing and sales teams in delivering the most compelling stories throughout your buyers’ journeys. When leading our internal Enablement efforts, this buyer-centric approach flows through all of our Enablement efforts to ensure we are putting the buyer first, always.

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