May, 2017

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Why You Can’t Automate Relationship-Building in Account-Based Sales

No More Cold Calling

In this month’s guest post, Tim Hughes discusses social media offenses and how account-based selling teams can avoid them. You’re hosting a dinner party at your home. You invite some close friends and ask them to bring guests you don’t know, so everyone can forge new relationships and expand their networks. On the night of the party, your first guest arrives with two friends.

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How A Career In Umpiring Helped Me Develop My Sales Strike Zone

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Many of the most important strategic skills that help sales professionals master their craft are ones that help them navigate more nuanced interpersonal situations, rather than convincing someone to buy a product or service.

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Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team

Steven Rosen

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently deliver outstanding results. Given limited budgets, you need to figure out how to maximize your ROI?

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Deadlines Drive Deals

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . People generally have one of two relationships with deadlines, they either love them, and use them to be more productive. Or they hate them, ignore them, avoid them, or are terrified by them. The former is usually the more productive group. While productivity is normally defined as more units of output with the same or less units of input, the only thing we’ll mess with or alter in this post, is we will look at the units of input as being time.

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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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How Studying Baseball Video is Identical to Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright ColorCarnival. We just completed a two-day Sales Leadership Intensive and that's always a great experience for the sales leaders who attend. The focus is on coaching salespeople for impact and everyone learns what it takes to become so effective at coaching salespeople that they ask for more. It's been a long time since I have written an article that mentioned our son, the baseball player.

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17 Things Not to Do at a Networking Event

The Sales Heretic

Networking is a powerful sales and marketing tool. But like any tool, using it improperly or inappropriately can lead to disaster. Here are seventeen things—all of which I’ve actually observed people doing—that you definitely don’t want to do at your next networking event. 1. Dress inappropriately 2. Show up late 3. Talk about yourself constantly [.].

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Not All Revenue Growth is Created Equal

SBI Growth

I’m excited to introduce a Chief Executive Officer who knows how to direct his sales force to the highest opportunity revenue sources. Executive leaders of every function should prepare to take notes from today’s guest who will share how to.

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Sales Management Training Webinars

Steven Rosen

6 FREE Sales Management Training Webinars . The #1 driver of performance in sales organizations are front-line sales managers. Most CSO’s would agree with this, but they are not sure what to do about it. The STAR Sales Management Development Survey found that only 50% of sales managers were receiving on-going training and development in core skills.

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Don’t Just Do Something – Sit There!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . All too many people confuse activity or action with productivity or results. Think of how many times the best thing you can say about a movie or a game is that it was “action filled”. In sales, many often confuse activity with moving the sale forward or execution, bringing to mind the saying about the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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New Analysis Shows the 5 Biggest Gaps Between Top and Bottom Sales Performers

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright Cybrain. It didn't take very long for this to happen. When Objective Management Group (OMG) announced that it was making its findings data available to the public, we knew that it wouldn't take long for someone with a flair for analytics to dig in and come up with something cool. Last week, John Cousineau, creator of Abicus, got me on a video conference and shared what he came up with.

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#1 Way Account-Based Sales Reps Resolve the Gatekeeper Problem

No More Cold Calling

Want to land and expand? Stop trying to get around the gatekeeper. If account-based sales reps want to reach C-suite prospects, the secret is calling at night or on weekends, when their gatekeepers are off duty. Seriously?! This is just the latest stupid advice I’ve read about how to bypass the gatekeeper and get decision-makers on the phone. “Expert” tips like this send me out the door screaming.

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A State by State Review: Gender Diversity in the Executive Suite

DiscoverOrg Sales

I’d confidently say that most CEOs and Boards would be happy if they could point to these results consistently at quarterly board meetings: – Better financial performance. – Higher return on sales. – Higher return on equity. – Higher operating results. – Lower corporate fraud. – Increased collective intelligence. – Increased innovation. – Reduced conflict.

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One Mistake That’s Killing Your Sales Recruiting Efforts

SBI Growth

Recruiting sales personnel is a never-ending HR and Sales task. SHRM.org studies show a shortage of skilled workers to be a continual hot trend. This is compounded with a retiring Baby Boomer generation and global talent competition. You can’t afford.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Tell Better Stories, Make More Sales

The Sales Heretic

Stories are extremely powerful. Not only can they can be informative and persuasive, they can also be engaging, entertaining, and memorable. That is, if they’re told well. A poorly told story can lose the audience, and even lose the sale. So how can you improve your storytelling prowess? 1. Collect Your Stories In Advance The [.].

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A Stranger In Your Own Deal?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . It’s interesting to see how different sales people and organisations deal with lost deals. In light of the fact that most sales people including me, have an initial engagement to close ratio of less than 50%, meaning we lose more than we win, you’d think there would be more of a focus on understanding the reason for the outcomes of our opportunities.

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Phone Prospecting - the Key to Scheduling Meetings

Understanding the Sales Force

Cold calling is dead. Not. Cold calling doesn't work. Untrue. Cold calling is a waste of time. True if you suck at it. False if you're good at it. Back in the 20th century, when I first started cold calling, I hated it so much that I vowed to become so good at it that I could reach my new appointment goal in an hour instead of the 6 hours it was taking each day.

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Importance of 1st Impressions from Sales Leadership Training Companies

Score More Sales

I saw a question this week in a sales community on LinkedIn. A member was looking for a referral for sales management training. What struck me hard was that he said he’d reached out to four companies who offer sales management training services. Three days had gone by, and only one of the companies had reached out to him.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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When Asking for Referrals Can Hurt Account-Based Sales

No More Cold Calling

Avoid this digital danger zone! As comedic director Woody Allen once said, 80 percent of success is showing up. Some readers might not know who Woody Allen is, and that’s OK. Just trust me: He was absolutely right on this point. Showing up matters, especially for account-based sales pros—whether it’s showing up in the right place at the right time, showing up to learn, or just showing up to connect.

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Back Office Secrets to Free Your Sales Force

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Biju Baby, a sales operations leader who knows how to support phenomenal revenue growth. His company has seen an outstanding 54 quarters of sequential revenue growth and Biju has been an instrumental part of the.

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Nine Ways To Improve Your Business Image

The Sales Heretic

May is International Business Image Improvement Month. In honor of that, I thought I’d tweet out an article on the subject. But when I did a search for “how to improve your business image,” all the articles I found contained such hackneyed advice as, “Be active on social media,” “Update your website,” “Launch an ad [.].

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Are your prospecting calls a long run off a short pier?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Sellers are a wonderfully optimistic lot, having drank the Kool Aid about their “solution”, believing that they are indeed the cavalry coming over the hill to heal all that pains their potential prospects. This unbridled optimism and energy works great when you have a willing audience, say a play, where the audience comes with interest and openness to the message.

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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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10 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Selling

The Sales Hunter

The number of people who are out there offering solutions via email to help you sell without ever having to pick up a phone or face rejection is driving me nuts. The only thing these people are doing is fleecing scared salespeople. They’re taking their money by selling them a dream that goes “poof”shortly […].

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5 Ways to Jump Start Social Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ellen Barton, Marketing Programs Manager at InsideView Social selling can be a powerful means of reaching out to prospects and building brand loyalty, but pulling off social selling success isn't as simple as jumping on a social network and posting about brand products and offers. To effectively jump-start social selling, key stakeholders and sales staff will need to do more than just be present online.

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How Mastering Table Topics Can Help You Sell Better

Score More Sales

One of the BEST ways to communicate with others is to be able to think on your feet. It’s called extemporaneous speaking. Yea, I know – big word. It is the ability to respond “in the moment” often without preparation to a buyer when they throw you a curve as they reply to you in a normal conversation.

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How to Transition Channel Partners to Cloud Solutions

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Steve Blum, an executive sales leader who knows how to Make the Number with channel partners. I’ve known Steve for a long time and he’s always been on the leading edge of channel management.

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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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Are Your Salespeople Too Cheap?

The Sales Heretic

When sales managers and business owners hire salespeople, they’re typically looking for sales experience. Frequently, industry knowledge. And sometimes—although not often enough—attitude. But there’s another quality you need to be screening for: Are they cheap? Because if they are, they’re not going to be an effective salesperson for you. In fact, a cheap salesperson costs [.].

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Let’s Make A decision!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . We’ve all been there, a real-life version of the popular game show. You’ve done your work, and have arrived at that final fateful stage of the sales. Three possibilities, three doors: A positive Decision. A negative Decision. No Decision. While it is clear which door the individual sales person want, the question is how to get that.

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How to Avoid the Summer Sales Slump

The Sales Hunter

It happens every summer. The number of sales appointments that get cancelled goes up and the number of excuses people make goes up. The result? A sales slump. Summer is not the time to make excuses about things not happening. I like to view it as the time to make things happen, because other salespeople […].