Mon.Feb 12, 2018

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22 Ways To Critique Your Sales Meetings

MTD Sales Training

One of the best salespeople I ever worked with gave me a hint into his working life and what made him so successful. He once said to me, “Sean, what do you do after a sales meeting that ensures the next one will be even better?”. That question struck me because, basically, I hadn’t considered it much before. I used to simply write up my notes, put them on the CRM system and carry on from there.

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Rethinking Inside Sales – Don’t Be Left Behind

SBI Growth

The business world is rapidly changing, rendering past experiences less and less valuable. Old thinking is dead and new thinking has arrived. The days of staffing Inside Sales with low tenured and low cost resources is over. Pointing these resources.

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For the Love of Marketing – A Guide to Date Night [Infographic]

Zoominfo

Are you looking for a date this Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you’re looking to have the perfect night with your significant other? Need to find a special place for dinner with your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife? It’s simpler than you think. All you need to do is apply your marketing skills and you’ll end up having the best Valentine’s Day to date!

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Cold Calling: Stop Pitching the Gatekeeper

Mr. Inside Sales

Note on today’s blog post: Due to the many requests I have received for more scripts on selling techniques, I am postponing my series on motivation and awareness. I hope you enjoy today’s cold calling tip. I was talking with a client last week about some of his new employees. He told me that some of them are struggling to get through to decision makers, and he thought it was because they were “pitching the gatekeeper.

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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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15 Job Interview Questions to Ask a Sales Manager Candidate in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Tell me about yourself. How comfortable are you with data analysis? What do you think are the necessary skills and qualifications for success here? Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What would you say? What do you think motivates reps the most?

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20 Best Business Books of 2017

Hubspot Sales

20 Best Business Books of 2017. Principles. Invisible Influence. Reset. Finish. Weird in a World That's Not. Tribe of Mentors. Lead and Disrupt. The Four. Pause. Unshakeable. Originals. Adaptive Markets. The Potential Principal. The Captain Class. Hacking Innovation. Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Technically Wrong. Insight. The New Rules of Work. The Power of Moments.

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Why Your Confused Customers are not Retained Customers

Babette Ten Haken

Do you have confused customers? You just may be creating customer instability instead of executing a rock-solid customer retention strategy. Let’s explore. Take a walk around your organization, regardless of whether you are a solopreneur with subcontractors, a SMB or a large enterprise. What does the internal landscape look like, in terms of consistent delivery of products, services and post-sale support?

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8 Valentine's Day Email Templates Prospects Love

Hubspot Sales

February 14 is typically a holiday for B2C marketers -- not salespeople. But that’s to your advantage: A Valentine’s Day-themed email will stand out in your prospects’ work inboxes, make them curious, and ultimately, earn you the opens and replies you’re looking for. Two major caveats. First, keep your industry and specific audience in mind. Humor tends to flop with some personas.

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6 Professional Sales Challenges for 2018

Pipeliner

Each year, Richardson Sales Training asks sales professionals about the sales challenges that they anticipate in the coming year and complies their responses to create its annual selling challenges study. Survey participants indicated a need to better articulate value in a market characterized by competition and multiple decision makers on the buying side.

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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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Dynamic Training Is Turbocharging Sales in 2018

SalesforLife

What do personalization tech, social networks and content portals all have in common? User-directed action. All three represent the large-scale culture shift away from undifferentiated, mass-market broadcasting and toward greater individual control over the speed, form and scope of content they interact with on a daily basis.

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How to Sell Commodity Products – How to Sell a Product that Seems Like a Commodity

Marc Wayshak

Is your product or service perceived by prospects as a commodity? Learn how to sell your product in a way that will help it stand out from the crowd and therefore sell at a higher price. The post How to Sell Commodity Products – How to Sell a Product that Seems Like a Commodity appeared first on Sales Speaker Marc Wayshak.

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Sales Tips: How to Improve Selling Experiences and Avoid Wasting Time

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Improve Selling Experiences and Avoid Wasting Time. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company.

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Finding New Business: 6 Blogs to Help You Fuel Your Funnel

Funnel Clarity

Closing a few exciting new clients in January is a great start to 2018. As salespeople, we know that the other critical activity to start the year is finding new opportunities to fill the funnel.

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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.

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Online Or In-Person: Which Is The Best Selling Strategy?

Sales Gravy

In this economy, asking whether you need to sell online or in person is like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg. I was keynoting at a conference last week, when a member of my audience approached me to ask a question.

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The Serious Advantages of Online Sales Training

Pipeliner

There are many who argue that online sales training isn’t worth the time or effort. However renowned sales thought leader, author and veteran sales trainer Dr. Richard Ruff begs to differ and has become one of online sales training’s leading proponents. Today, sales training can be: Faster. Less expensive. More effective. One of the reasons is the innovations in technology.

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Making Appointments That Stick

Sales Gravy

?When cold calling, how can our sales team make strong appointments that stick?? Setting appointments have two common problems: Initial interest (?No, thanks, we already have someone who takes care of that.? etc.) Cancellations/No-Shows.

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How to Hire Better Salespeople and Decrease Turnover

The Center for Sales Strategy

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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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#1 Foundational Skill for Sales Success

Outbound Works

Careful – the next sentence is going to be a test. This is an article on sales skills. Understanding your product is important – foundational even. Understanding your market is maybe more important. Understanding your buyers is even more important than that. But, any knowledge you gain, any data you compile, any buyer […].

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What is Your Company’s DNA?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Andy Cunningham Who are you as a company? And why do you matter? Two simple questions and quite possibly the two most important ones that business leaders face today. The answers, however, are anything but simple. To respond, you must fully understand what – at at its core – your company does, what your value proposition is to your most important customers, how you are positioned vis-à- vis your competition, and how to tell your story in a compelling way.

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30 Better Alternatives to the “Just Checking In” Email

Hubspot Sales

“Just checking in” emails are the worst. If you’re sending an email, it’s obvious that you’re checking in -- you don’t need to say it again. In addition, “just checking in” emails don’t provide any value to the buyer. They don’t care that you want to get in touch with them, especially if you haven’t already provided them with a compelling reason to do so.