March, 2012

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15 Questions Your Prospect Wants Answered

The Sales Heretic

When it comes to making a buying decision, prospects have a lot on their minds. Whether they’re consumers or business buyers, they have a lot of fears, concerns and doubts. And as long as those uncertainties remain unresolved, they’re going to be hesitant to buy. The challenge is, prospects don’t always voice their fears and doubts. [.].

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3 Powerful Tips For Setting Appointments On the Telephone

MTD Sales Training

While setting appointments on the telephone seems to be becoming increasingly difficult, the need and importance of being able to pick up the phone and set quality appointments remains high. Yes, there are now many alternative prospecting avenues available to the astute sales person. However, in most sales processes, cold or warm, you still have to make a call.

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Sales Manager Coaching Blunders Revisited

Steven Rosen

Sales coaching is the management No. 1 activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to effectively coach. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers can make all types of blunders. Do You Want To Increase Sales Performance? Transforming your sales managers from good to great coaches can have a dramatic impact on sales.

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Let Me Know Who You Are: 3 Sales Tips to Connect

No More Cold Calling

T echnology is helpful, but the personal delivers. Here’s how not to use LinkedIn for your business-development. LinkedIn is a terrific sales tool. We learn about a prospect’s current business, where they used to work, where they went to school, their interests, travels, and how we’re connected. Leverage Your Business Development. LinkedIn is one way to connect, and selling is about connections.

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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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Value of Contact Strategy – Sales eXchange – 141

The Pipeline

While we talk about “a sales cycle”, but the reality is that a sales person could in fact have multiple cycles unfolding at the same time, all different in length. Based on your offering there could be different elements that come into play, different product lines, software vs. professional services, as an example. On the other hand, the zone ( active, passive or status quo ), the buyer has a direct influence on the length of the sales cycle as well; those actively engaged in the ma

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How to Find 30 Minutes of Free Time Every Day

The Sales Heretic

By guest blogger Mary Kelly, Ph.D. By better managing your time, you can free up 30 minutes every day while increasing your productivity at work, working more effectively, and decreasing your stress level. Being Busy Doesn’t Mean You Are Being Effective You may be busy, but are you really getting work done? Are you effective? Are you accomplishing? [.].

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Motivate For SHOW, Manage For DOUGH

MTD Sales Training

As a sales manager, director or otherwise, frontline supervisor of a sales team, you have many challenges. Motivating the crew to do their best is usually the primary goal and the area where most sales managers spend their time. However, in motivating the team, it is easy to overlook the individual sales person. After a [.

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Executive Coaching Can Bring You BIG Results!

Steven Rosen

In 2004 the Harvard Business Review, reported that Executive Coaching is a $1 billion industry. In certain countries as much as 88% of Companies use coaching. A few years later, it seems that it’s not slowing down any time soon. So what’s driving this growth? Results. Plain and simple. The case for executive coaching is that it’s working.

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Person to Person Is Back

No More Cold Calling

In an era powered by technology, connecting with the person still matters. Perhaps you remember Edward R. Murrow and the show, “ Person to Person ”. The Private Lives of Public People. Beginning in 1953, the Person to Person program developed out of “Edward R. Murrow’s belief that human beings are innately curious. That curiosity was intense regarding the private lives of public people, or visiting the extraordinary in the most ordinary environment—the home.

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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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Why Networking is Not Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

People love to tell me how they don’t need to prospect , because they already network, and that’s enough, in their opinion. Sure sounds good, doesn’t it? In reality, I’ve watched so many salespeople employ such a strategy, only to end up failing miserably. We all network to one degree or another. I meet a lot of people who I think the world of and with whom I enjoy spending time.

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Read this before your next meeting

Sales and Marketing Management

Meetings as a business tool get a bad rap, and it’s often a manager’s fault. When meetings become routine, participants stop preparing for them and they become lifeless and ineffective. But meetings matter because most relationship building and decision making still gets conducted face to face.

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How Much Profit is Fair? (On Breakthrough Business Strategies Radio)

The Sales Heretic

Do you wonder whether you’re charging enough? Are you afraid you’re charging too much? Are you reluctant to raise your prices but quick to offer a discount? If so, you’re like most people. You want to charge a fair price for your products and services. But just how much profit is fair?! Listen to my appearance on [.].

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4 Powerful Reasons To Walk Away From The Price ONLY Prospect

MTD Sales Training

Invariably, as a professional sales person, you will run across that prospective customer who is only concerned with the price. I am talking about that buyer who can only see how much the product or service costs and nothing else, including quality, service, longevity, reputation, or even the value of YOU. This prospect usually leaves you with only two options: 1.

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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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Executive Coaching Pumps you Up!

Steven Rosen

Sales leaders need to remember that they too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. There are two critical areas that will help you pump up your leadership quotient. The most effective ways are by networking with a peer who faces similar challenges and utilising an executive coach. As a former sales executive I always understood the importance of investing in my own development and the advantages of networking, and yet I always found myself too busy to do either.

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The Multitasking Myth: Are You a Culprit?

No More Cold Calling

Juggling many activities decreases your productivity by 25 percent. I slip into multitask mode when I know I shouldn’t. I check email when I’m on a call, should be writing, on my phone (not, of course, while I’m driving). Are you a multitasking culprit? . Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project, wrote a great blog in the Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network: Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By.

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The Pipeline ? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Sales Process! ? Sales.

The Pipeline

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10 Sales Motivation Quotes to Get You Going! | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

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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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Sales 2.0 fact that can Kill your Sales Funnel

Sales 2.0

I keep reading this one: “buyers complete 75% of their sales cycle on the web before ever talking to a sales person” But just over the last few weeks of selling for our Internet start up I’ve found several examples where taking this data is best ignored. I’ve been on a wide-ranging mission to get into new accounts – most of them in the Fortune 1000.

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What Is The Difference Between A Sales Person And An Order Taker?

MTD Sales Training

We have all heard the phrases; an order taker or a sales person. However, what does that mean and what is the difference between the two? Take a look at this analogy… The Eagle and the Vulture The difference between a professional sales person and an order taker is similar to the difference between a [.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Steven Rosen

The new trend in executive development is coaching. Why? “ Executive Coaching is the fastest growing phenomenon today” So what is Executive Coaching? Executive coaching is a detailed process designed to help facilitate leadership development and personal growth resulting in improved performance of executives. Executive coaches lead their clients towards the fulfillment of specific professional goals.

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Make More Sales By Avoiding These Common Blunders | Jeffrey.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. Make More Sales By Avoiding These Common Blunders. Gitomer | March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share I’m about to share common mistakes that salespeople make. You make them, too. I am listing as many as possible so you can pick out the ones that apply to you specifically.

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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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The Pipeline ? Put Price in its Place

The Pipeline

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Prospecting Sales Leads: Quantity vs. Quality?

The Sales Hunter

Where are you getting your prospecting sales leads? And are you concerned about quantity or quality? Too many salespeople seem to believe in simply getting as many leads as possible. This might be true if you sell a low-cost, frequently-purchased good or service. The reality is most salespeople do not sell in this arena. I will then contend the focus needs to be on the quality of the prospecting sales leads, rather than on the quantity.

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5 ways to keep cut-rate competitors from stealing customers

Sales and Marketing Management

Few things frustrate salespeople more than competitors offering your current clients similar products or services at dramatically reduced prices. Sales coach Colleen Francis (engageselling.com) offers these five steps to close business without taking a huge bath on profits. Learn from history. Show your salespeople that prospects who only buy on price are not the best customers for your business because, in the long-term, they are not profitable customers.

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A Powerful Answer To The, “I Want To Think About It” Objection

MTD Sales Training

“I want to think about…” may be the most popular objection in the world, and still causes many sales people a lot of grief and substantial income. The reason behind the objection is usually that the sales interaction did not successfully inspire a sense of urgency in the prospect. As I have said before, you [.

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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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Getting Sales Decisions - Why Salespeople Struggle

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan If you were to remove the easy "yes" and "no" decisions that your salespeople hear during the course of the year, 80% of the opportunities that have been stalled in your pipeline would still be there. Why is it so difficult for your salespeople to get decisions made on those opportunities? The simple answer, the one you already know , is that those prospects aren't ready to buy.

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The 4 People in Your Sales Pipeline You Must Know

Score More Sales

In order to be most productive with the sales opportunities in your pipeline there are a number of people you need to know well. These people affect your chances of bringing deals to closure every day. Since a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, you may have 3 of these people covered, but that fourth one is going to do you in. You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long bu

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Are you words making you invisible to your buyers?

The Pipeline

Those of you who have read the book I co-wrote about Trigger Events , are familiar with the Selective Perception. A simple concept of how once you train the mind to look for specific things it will be much more selective in seeing those things. So if you know that a certain event paves the way for something positive for your sales success, you will selectively look for people experiencing that event; a promotion leading to a predictable change in suppliers, should lead you to look for people bei

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