The Pipeline

OCTOBER 2, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. I was in the audience for a panel looking at sales, and the future of sales (yes, another). What made this a wee bit more interesting is they actually had some buyers on the panel, bringing a level of reality often absent from such affairs. One CEO made a comment that at first seems basic, but when expanded on his experience, it was easy to see why we as sellers think we are doing something, the buyer completely misses, or misinterprets.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Sales is an admirable role in your organization because nothing happens until someone sells something. You can have the most incredibly designed product or service – and if you don’t sell enough of them, ultimately your business is doomed.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Joining the SBI podcast show is Nick Mehta, CEO of software company Gainsight, the global leader in the customer success category. Many CEOs are moving their revenue models to recurring revenue as this type of revenue creates higher enterprise value than.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Image Copyright iStock Photos. I just returned from the local car dealer. Have you ever noticed how happy people are when they are buying things? What about you? How did you feel the last time you took delivery of your new car? Was it the new car smell? The finish? The wheels? The look? The brand? What about the last time you bought a new smartphone, tablet or notebook computer?

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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.

Sales Cycle

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Though many salespeople despise prospecting, it’s an important part of sales. Unfortunately, the majority of reps use ineffective and outdated sales prospecting techniques, instead of the effective practices that could actually lead to a higher volume of better qualified leads (and make them more partial to prospecting). Just like every other aspect of the sales process, you need to put in the effort and focus required.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

One of my guiding principles is that every business is a people business. It doesn’t matter what your industry is or what you do -- if you are not relating to the people you deal with, talk to, manage, or lead, your career will be a long, hard slog. That’s why building rapport is essential, especially when you’re forging a relationship and selling over the phone.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 2, 2017

. Six years ago, sales enablement at Iron Mountain had no consistent process or alignment with other departments. “We had a blank canvas in terms of where we were going; anything we did was going to be an improvement,” said VP of sales enablement, Kevin Starner.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

You have your list of names and phone numbers. Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep-up talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. But before I give you the keys to the castle, let’s look at a typical cold call.

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Aviso

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Welcome to the beginning of Q4. Some of you may have crushed it last week. Some may have had a nail biting quarter close that led to gong ringing and champagne popping at the eleventh hour. Some of you may have fallen short. Regardless of which category you fall into, we’ve repeatedly seen that the […]. The post 3 Questions to Ask Yourself at the Beginning of a New Quarter appeared first on Aviso.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Recently, I asked my colleague Dan Sally, a HubSpot and sales veteran, what he thinks is the most important skill a sales rep should develop. His response was profound. "It’s the ability to determine, out of all the people you speak with, who is actually going to buy something from you," he said. Our idea of what defines a great salesperson has evolved throughout the years.

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Vainu

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Are you one of those sales reps that spend only one-third of your day actually selling? Does the rest of your day go to administrative tasks that could have easily been automated? Or are you managing a team with sales reps that spend hours and hours logging deal-related activity in the CRM system and searching for decks hiding somewhere in an unnamed folder on their computer?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In the early days of any business, your main goal is just to hustle and get customers. If you’re part of the founding team, chances are you’ll be out there making calls yourself, sending emails, scheduling appointments, qualifying customers, and closing deals. And it makes sense. There’s no point in building a team when you don’t have the revenue to cover the costs yet.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Brain Waves ; Transform your sales team to higher levels of performance. Ok, let me confess right off. Brain Waves is not my word, search on it and you will find many references to technical concepts that I have read about for the past 15 years. Recently I happened to have heard a sports talk radio host discuss Brain Waves in terms of what winning football players must exhibit, he specifically discussed using powerful Brain Waves to get into the head of their opponent allowing the one player to

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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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Hyper-Connected Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2017

One of my favorite albums from my favorite bands is Question the Answers by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. You probably haven’t heard of it, but I love it. (Mostly, by the way, because of how it spoke to me about my life when it came out. Anthony Bourdain said, “Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The sales automation suppliers are catching onto the idea of leveraging technology for sales coaching. I’m not a complete dinosaur, I think there is a huge place to leverage technology to complement coaching by managers. However, I worry about some of the approaches being promoted displacing the person to person interaction and the real value of coaching.

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Close

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We all want to build strong, long-lasting relationships with influential people—whether they’re CEOs, investors, advisors, or your personal heroes.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Jeb Blount reviews More Sales, Less Time by bestselling author Jill Konrath. Regardless of individual role or prior experience, salespeople universally struggle with the same thing; there is never enough time.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Prospecting may come in shapes and forms. Should you send an email beforehand? Or should you just call right away? These and more on this episode today. First off, we’re starting a new thing where I’m utilizing more videos. Done Tuesdays at noon on our Facebook Group, The Sales Evangelizers where I will be answering questions there […] The post TSE 672: How Can I Set Myself Apart When Making a Cold Call?

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Choice in goal setting is about truly owning the goal as our own. SMART goals have been with SMB sales professionals and owners for over 50 years.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For sales and marketing teams at business-to-business technology companies, the calendar is divided into two unequal parts: Dreamforce and the rest of the year. For one week in the fall, tech workers pull on their logo’d polos, pressed denim and crisp white sneakers, and march through the halls of the Moscone Center where more than 100 “household”-name vendors unleash their flashiest marketing creative and practiced sales narratives.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A/B testing for sales emails has become pretty standard in most sales processes. Whether your reps test different subject lines or compare the use of GIFs versus plain text, testing confirms which messages generate the best responses from your prospects. But today’s salespeople shouldn’t be restricted to A/B testing email alone. They should be able to test and optimize every channel of their sales process, including their phone calls.

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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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