Fri.Oct 09, 2020

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How to Overcome the Email Stall

Mr. Inside Sales

What do you say when you get this stall while prospecting? If you’re like many sales reps, you accept it and become a willing participant in the follow up chase that ensues. And you know how frustrating that is. Let’s face it: This blow off is just a variation that prospects have been using for years. It used to be: “Can you send me something in the mail?

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Account Executive Inc.

Sales 2.0

If you’re an AE, I recommend appointing yourself a small business owner. Just like most small business owners you probably feel like you have no time. You may also feel unsupported by your company and that you need to do everything yourself. Just like small business owners there are things you can do to make this situation a lot better. By doing so you will (a) sell more, (b) get a bigger commission check, and (c) be less stressed.

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How to Turn Your Company Into a Referral Machine

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. They can provide companies with perpetual revenue, and they can solidify your organization’s reputation as a great company to work with. When customers or other companies refer people to you, your company is viewed as more trustworthy in front of those leads, and because of that trust, you can expect a faster – and more successful – sales cycle.

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Protected: Podcast 168: Kyle Racki On World-Class Proposals

John Barrows

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Podcast 168: Kyle Racki On World-Class Proposals appeared first on JB Sales.

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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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Sell Like an Incumbent Even When You’re Not

Engage Selling

Your customer today is in a tough spot when making decisions. If you’re a seller trying to convert new prospects into buyers, you’re feeling the effect.

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INTERVIEW With Top Sales World – What Top Managers Are Doing to Lead Successful Teams in a Remote Workplace

Keith Rosen

In this interview with Top Sales World, Jonathan Farrington and I discuss the ongoing reactive scramble companies are experiencing as they desperately try to reinvent themselves. But it begins with your people. As the late, great John Lennon would say, “All you need is love.” Here’s what top managers are doing to lead successful teams in a remote workplace.

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Future of Sales

InsideSales.com

What does the future of sales look like over the next 5 years? According to Gartner, it looks a lot like what XANT is already doing on Playbooks! In an article published this week by Gartner titled Future of Sales 2025: Data-Driven B2B Selling to Drive Digital Commerce , they reveal, “ 60% of B2B sales organizations will transition from experience- and intuition-based selling to data-driven selling by 2025.” .

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Align Marketing & Sales Through Revenue Growth Focus (video)

Pipeliner

Why do we still talk about marketing and sales alignment? Because it hasn’t happened yet. In this Expert Insight Interview, Darrell Amy discusses how we can create alignment between sales and marketing by making them both focus on the revenue growth engine. Darrel Amy is an author of the book Revenue Growth Engine, growth strategist, and speaker. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: Delivering outcomes to the ideal clients.

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The Tenbound Outsourced SDR Industry Buyer Framework

Tenbound

Download PDF – Outsourced SDR Buyer Framework PDF With the currently competing trends of mass SDRs layoffs with the aligning explosion of Outsourced SDR companies showing up on the Tenbound Market Map increasing during this economic crisis, we get calls each week at Tenbound with essentially one question: Which Outsourced SDR company should we use for our company?

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Three Sales Lessons from Harris-Spence Debate

Anne Miller

I will leave it to you to decide who was more effective for their respective tickets at the Vice President debate Wednesday evening. However, from a strictly sales point of view, here are three Lessons Learned for anyone in sales. Be Real. No doubt both Kamala Harris and Mike Pence prepped mightily for their debate Of the two, though, Kamala Harris showed a much wider range of emotion and. energy in her responses which carried through to her facial expressions and into her body language.

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Untethering from the Desktop: 10 Tips for Enablement Leaders to Optimize Mobile Learning

Mindtickle

A mobile learning culture has never been more important than it is today. Over the last several months, my clients have had to adapt to the enablement and communication needs of a fully remote population. And in that time, the definition of a remote worker has been in a state of change, it’s certainly less traditional than it once was. I have seen my clients having to accommodate those who now have to support their children with virtual learning activities for school; tackle an increase of dutie

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Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 11 Featuring Courtney Ness

Allego

Welcome to The Adapter’s Advantage : Breakthrough Moments that Lead to Success. In this episode, launch training specialist Courtney Ness shares her experience as a commercial biotech and pharmaceutical trainer. Learn how you can adapt to remote selling, develop a virtual presence, and proactively set your company apart. Courtney Ness is the founder of Field Factor Training , which helps biotech and pharmaceutical clients reach their highest level of preparation for product launches.

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How to Earn the Loyalty of First-Time Customers

Pipeliner

Turning first-time buyers into repeat customers and eventual brand loyalists is no easy feat. It takes a specific level of commitment on your part for customers to resonate with the brand. With social interaction restrictions being a hallmark of 2020, e-commerce has been booming, making this the perfect time to target those first-time customers. Since repeat customers have already interacted with your brand, you will have much less convincing to do than when you’re interacting with a completely

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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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TSE 1353: How 5-star Reviews Can Increase Conversion Rates

Sales Evangelist

How 5-Star Reviews Can Increase Conversion Rates Reviews are a great marketing strategy to increase conversion rates. Have you been using your reviews well? In this episode, let’s talk about reviews as a way to increase conversion rates. Brian J. Greenberg , aka The Salesman Who Doesn't Sell, has founded businesses in e-commerce, marketing, and financial services.

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The Value of Teaching Your Customers vs. Selling to Your Customers

Nimble - Sales

Before the internet, many sellers labored on an erroneous assumption that “the customer is always right.” Professional salespeople knew this was not so, but the also-rans bought into the myth to their detriment. The internet brought new myths and slogans to exploit, a crowd favorite being “Information Parity.” The theory is that before the internet, […].

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Untethering from the Desktop: 10 Tips for Enablement Leaders to Optimize Mobile Learning

Mindtickle

A mobile learning culture has never been more important than it is today. Over the last several months, my clients have had to adapt to the enablement and communication needs of a fully remote population. And in that time, the definition of a remote worker has been in a state of change, it’s certainly less traditional than it once was. I have seen my clients having to accommodate those who now have to support their children with virtual learning activities for school, tackle an increase of dutie

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New way to get clients for IT Outsourcing business

eGrabber

Are you in a software outsourcing Company looking for leads? What are you doing to market your engineers to decision-makers that have a budget to hire, but can’t find people? Because outsourcing companies are finding a lot of success using a new time-saving process where 90%+ of cold-email are to CXOs/VPs actively looking for talent they have. A process that might work for you at this point in time is sourcing leads from job boards.

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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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One Sales Interview Question Best Unasked

Pipeliner

Occasionally, I read selling advice so off-the-wall, so misguided, and so dangerous that I smack my head in disbelief. Here’s an example from an Inc. Magazine article titled, Recruiters, Share Can’t-Miss Interview Questions to Disarm Candidates. “We interview candidates for both our internal company and for clients throughout the US. If someone is interviewing for a sales position, we’ve found that this question provides a lot of insight: What is the most expensive item you’ve ever purchased?

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3 Tips for an Effective Follow-Up

Selling Energy

A famous comedian once said, 90% of success is just showing up. Many times in sales, at least 90% of your success is following up! Here are a few tips on how to stay in touch with a prospect.

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3 Proven Methods for Planning a Corporate Sales Training Program

Richardson

Planning a corporate sales training program means progressing from theory to execution. Sales leaders must become practical in their approach. Doing so means considering factors like technology, schedules, targeted selling skills , and desired outcomes. The planning stage is the most important opportunity sales managers have to influence the long-term performance of the sales team.

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Here’s What You Missed at TRANSFORM 2020

Showpad

Showpad just hosted the world’s largest sales enablement conference. Completely virtual. Completely free. . This post will recap TRANSFORM 2020 keynotes, breakouts and sessions and give you some new ideas about sales enablement you can put into practice right now. So if you happened to miss out on TRANSFORM, there’s no need to worry. We’ve got you covered.

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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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What Should Be On Your Negotiation Checklist?

The Accidental Negotiator

Negotiators who go into a negotiation well prepared both create and claim value Image Credit: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unplash. As negotiators, every time that we enter into a negotiation we hope to be able to use our negotiation styles and negotiating techniques to walk away with a deal that we can live with. However, in order for that to happen we have to have taken the time to prepare for the negotiation.

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The Closer | Leads are nice. Buying groups are better.

Groove.co

Subscribe. INDUSTRY NEWS Leads are nice. Buying groups are better. SiriusDecisions has nothing against leads. Without leads there are no opportunities, and without opportunities, what is the point, really? That being said, SiriusDecisions makes a strong case for sales organizations to shift their focus from leads to buying groups. Leads still play a play in identifying opportunities, but buying groups will seal the deal.

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4 Tips to Get to a Signed Sales Contract Faster

Sales Hacker

A verbal “yes” to a sale can feel exhilarating. But as sales professionals, we all know there’s never a reason to celebrate until you get a signature on the dotted line. Unfortunately, once the contract leaves your hands, the ball is no longer in your court. At this point, any radio silence can be deafening. Instead of pacing back and forth, waiting for your contracts to come back, how can you take back control of this process to get your sales contracts signed faster?

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Remote Ready Refreshed – All Hail the Weather Presenters (Pun Intended)

Eyeful Presentations

The weather has been a hot topic of conversation since we entered this ‘new normal’ of working from home. From slavishly watching reports on impending monsoons to fervent prayers for one final splash of sunshine, we’ve been hooked. This puts the weather presenter under pressure. In their 120 seconds of airtime, they need to clearly and succinctly share a significant amount of information, some of it relatively technical.

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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.