September, 2017

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An Inside Look Premiere: A True Story of Executing Account-Based Everything

DiscoverOrg Sales

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). But there’s a lot of confusion about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s really involved an account-based program.

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Executive Coaching Helps New Leaders Succeed

Steven Rosen

Executive coaching helps make the difference between the success or failure of a new leader. Have you recently promoted or hire a new Director or VP? Then you are heavily vested in ensuring that the new leader is highly successful. The business impact of a successful integration of a new sales or marketing leader can catapult a commercial business unit to new levels.

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Who Is Your Best Prospect?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . On Monday, I posted about understanding and knowing the very next thing that needs to happen if a specific opportunity is to move forward to becoming a client. Because I wanted to focus on a specific question, I glossed over the question I am sure many had as I set out a scenario, specifically when we ask sellers: “Who is your best prospect?”.

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Can Women in Sales Overcome Unconscious Bias in High-Tech?

No More Cold Calling

Women in sales have everything they need to succeed. Daily headlines remind us that unconscious bias exists in its most virulent form. We know bias is there, but we can’t confront it until it’s stated and proven. It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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With a transient workforce is there still team spirit?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Gordon, Senior Vice President Sales, Rymax Marketing Services, Inc. Recently I was asked to attend a manufacturer’s sales meeting. And as I sat there I felt like Bill Murray in the movie “Groundhog Day.”. The same predictable speeches. The participants eyes glazing over midday. The disappointing welcome gift that no one wanted. The time and money that was spent on the meeting was being wasted as the meeting followed a predictable course.

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How to Get New Salespeople to Take Off Like a Rocket Ship

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright iStock Photos. Several of my recent conversations with sales leaders have focused on how to quickly and effectively and efficiently get new salespeople up to speed and help them to have an immediate impact. Quickly and immediate are relative to the learning curve and the sales cycle but are still the key outcomes. Most companies combine some kind of classroom training with self-directed online training, shadowing an experienced salesperson and coaching.

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How Many Days Should a Sales Manager Spend in the Field Sales Coaching?

Steven Rosen

Sales managers who spend more time in the field sales coaching outperform those that don’t! I was sitting in with a customer who is a sales force excellence expert and he asked me, “what do you see in the industry in terms of the number of days that sales managers are expected to be out in the field sales coaching ?” I thought that this was a great question.

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Risk vs. Uncertainty

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Risk and certainty are not the same, but listening to the way many speak, it is easy to get the impression that even native English speakers often mix and interchange the two. In most instances or conversation this misuse (or abuse) of the two may not matter or have tangible consequences, but in sales, well, they do.

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Why There Is No Silver Bullet for Account Based Sales Development

No More Cold Calling

It’s time to sharpen your sales tools. Every salesperson in their right mind wants to grab every possible tool to accelerate account based sales development, look smarter, shorten prospecting time, and score meetings with decision-makers. But some tools are sharper than others. If it takes eight to 12 touches to reach a prospect, that tool is too dull.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Setting Your Strategic Direction

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rich Horwath Think back to your childhood. Can you recall a time when you got lost? Maybe it was at the mall, a supermarket or museum. Maybe it was just for a few moments. Do you recall the sinking feeling in your gut? Were you anxious, frightened or downright terrified? And do you remember the joy that came when you were reunited with your mom or dad?

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Piloting Revenue Attribution – How Top CMOs Quantify Marketing Impact

SBI Growth

The buyer’s journey does not follow a linear course. Without revenue attribution, you are exposed—unable to allocate time, money, and resources to the marketing efforts that produce top-line results. If you can’t quantify the collective impact of marketing touch-points, you.

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17 Essential Sales Assumptions

Jill Konrath

Yesterday, Dianna Geairn (The Irreverent Sales Girl) and I were musing about some of our big sales wins. As we talked, we realized that our underlying assumptions—about prospects, our roles and factors that could hinder success—were crucial to our performance. In very short order, we identified 17 sales assumptions and why making them helps you win more deals.

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9 Reasons Why Salespeople Lack the Urgency Necessary to Succeed

Understanding the Sales Force

I was in the right-hand lane of very slow moving traffic because of a lane closure ahead, marked by orange cones. I was along side the cones in the lane where traffic was merging left. All of a sudden, a police siren and flashing lights were upon me but I had nowhere to go. Cars were in front of me and to the left of me with cones to the right and the cop was right on top of my rear bumper.

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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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What Has To Happen Next?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. A simple question at first glance, but when you ask people in a given vocation or profession, it is staggering how many different answers one gets, and more stunning is the number of people who can’t give you a clear answer. Most read way too much into the question, and try to come up with elaborate responses that go well beyond and away from the question.

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4 Reasons Women in Sales Rock at Account Based Selling

No More Cold Calling

Women know how to build relationships that matter. You may have already heard about the Google software engineer who wrote a 10-page memo explaining why women are incapable of doing a man’s job in Silicon Valley—namely that we’re neurotic and lack professional drive. I was appalled that anyone could have such venomous thoughts, let alone put them in writing.

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A Marketing and Sales Blind Spot?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? When marketers and salespeople align on something —  anything! — our first instinct is to celebrate it as a victory. Not so fast. Findings from a new Corporate Visions survey provide a snapshot of marketing and sales “alignment” that provides more questions than answers.

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Now is the Time to Finalize Your 2018 Strategic Planning

SBI Growth

Now is the time to finalize or stress-test your strategic plan, and there’s no time to waste. The NFL season kicks off tonight and before you know it, Thanksgiving will be around the corner. Average and poor performing companies tend.

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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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3 Ways NOT to Sell B2B [NEW REPORT]

DiscoverOrg Sales

Spoiler alert: The statistics you’re about to read are not very encouraging. When we commissioned a study that asked 270 B2B buyers about their feelings on salespeople, the response revealed … shall we say, room for improvement. That’s because, in part, technology has changed the role of the salesperson, and a lot of sales professionals haven’t yet changed along with it.

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How Salespeople Must Run Stop Signs and Red Lights - Legally

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright iStock Photos. There is one simple thing you can do each day that will dramatically improve your sales effectiveness. But you don't think it's possible to do what the title says, do you? Well, it is not only possible, it's crucial - and not only that you do it, but that you do it often and start doing it today. Okay, so maybe I'm not talking about driving a car.

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The Change Game

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . No matter how one slices it, sales is a game of change. If you are the incumbent, the best way to avoid a client to change vendors, is to continuously introduce change in how your product helps the client achieve their objectives. If you are not the incumbent, then it is all about regime change. Both require that you capture and maintain the buyer’s focus, and have them adopt the change you represent.

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Quit Blaming What You Sell as the Reason for a Sales Slump

The Sales Hunter

Salespeople are quick to call me to ask how they can be successful in sales when they’re stuck selling what they believe is something their customers don’t want. It’s time to stop blaming what you sell as the reason for your struggles. Not only is it time stop blaming what you sell, but it’s also […].

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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3 Ways the Best Leaders Set Themselves Apart

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mayur Ramgir Great leaders are in great demand, whether a coach for a football team, a CEO for a corporation or a general for the Army. But in many cases people are mistaken about what makes a good leader. Often, leadership is viewed as being able to establish resources and priorities to acquire worthwhile goals. While that’s part of it, true leadership involves a lot more than that.

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12 Keys To Being a Better Communicator

The Sales Heretic

The top salespeople—and top executives—in every field are amazing communicators. They have a gift for getting their ideas across and persuading others. Except that it’s not a gift. It’s a set of learned skills that anyone can master. Here are the twelve things great communicators do that you can do as well. 1. Ask questions [.].

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[SURVEY] The B2B Buyer Persona: 30 Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Target Buyer

DiscoverOrg Sales

First, the bad news: Most B2B buyers don’t trust salespeople. They don’t think salespeople do a good job of explaining how a product helps their business specifically. And they don’t think salespeople can converse with the senior executives who sign off on major purchases. The good news? These 30 findings from our extensive study tell salespeople exactly what to do to change this dynamic, and how to win back the respect and partnership the B2B sales-buyer relationship needs to be mutually succes

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Why You Should Care That Sales Motivation Data Correlates Perfectly With Sales Effectiveness

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright iStock Photos. What was your reaction when you saw that the water in Tampa Bay was sucked away by Hurricane Irma? How about when you saw the total eclipse? Or the Cajun Army rescuing thousands in Houston? Now, I don't want to equate my news with the enormity of Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma, but when I first saw the data, my reaction was exactly the same.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.

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Social Ends When The Phone Rings

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. The reason you need to integrate social selling, traditional phone work, and other elements of prospecting, is to ensure that you are covering all bases the process of converting a stranger, into a bonified pipeline opportunity. This means using the right tool at the right time, not as some would have you believe, using one tool “über alles”; but rather using the right tool for the task at hand along each step of the process.

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Increasing Lead Generation to Opportunity Ratio -  Several Steps Required!

Anthony Cole Training

We’ve been doing a fair amount of research into lead generation through our primary source, Hubspot. We’ve had a long business relationship with them because they provide a great platform for all things that are digital marketing and associated data. One thing we will begin to take better advantage of is their CRM application. This will allow us to tie our marketing efforts directly to a client management AND pipeline management system.

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How to Enable Sales Reps to Win Over the C-Suite

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Ninivaggi, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Brainshark Nothing strikes more fear into sales reps than C-level pitches. I can remember countless times when sales reps approached me with that “deer-in-the headlights” look on their faces, seeking my advice. Who can blame them? C-level pitches are nerve rattling and require a different approach, preparation and mindset.