October, 2016

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Can Millennials Sell?

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-10-03. Author: Lance Tyson. Teaser: Most assumptions we make about millennials in the workplace are wrong. More important, anyone who wants to be managing a successful organization 10 years from now needs to figure out a way to harness the strengths of this generation, rather than pointing out the perceived deficiencies. Most assumptions we make about millennials in the workplace are wrong.

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How Productive Is Your Sales Stack?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . It’s Monday, a great day for great sellers, the week is ripe with possibilities and opportunities, and how it turns out Friday, is almost entirely up to you and the decisions you make, and the actions you’re willing to execute, or choose to avoid; it’s what makes sales great. But this Monday is that much more so, in fact if you’re inclined (you don’t have to be), you can look at this Monday as sales version of what stock market players call R

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3 Small Components That Will Elevate Your Sales Success

MTD Sales Training

I came across a great quote the other day from Jeff Gitomer, the proficient sales writer from the States. He said that ‘Great salespeople aren’t born or made; they evolve over time based on their. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Bust Out of a Sales Slump

The Sales Heretic

Everyone experiences slumps occasionally. Not that that’s much consolation when you’re stuck in one. All you care about is how to get out of it. Listen to my appearance on Breakthrough Radio with Michele Price. In this short segment, I discuss what to do when you find yourself stuck in a slump. And not the [.].

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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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3 Email Deliverability Mistakes You’re Making Right Now

DiscoverOrg Sales

We guess that if you spend any significant effort on email marketing, then you’ve seen these recent trends in the last 12-18 months: plummeting open rates, dwindling click rates, and skyrocketing bounce rates. One glance at your inbox – personal or work – probably confirms what you secretly don’t want to admit: Email marketing is dead. It’s an overcrowded space with increasingly complex technical components blocking success.

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Breaking Down Silos and Building Bridges

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-10-21. Author: Chris Benedetto, Director of Marketing, Sales Automation, Pegasystems. Teaser: Sales, marketing, customer service and onboarding/operations functions are often running as disparate business systems that are not conducive to creating the holistic experiences that today’s customers expect. Savvy companies can build bridges between siloes to create positive experiences that will catapult them towards success.

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Stacking Your Productivity

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Earlier this week I posted about the how your sales stack stacks up, (couldn’t resist) How Productive Is Your Sales Stack? Exploring how many companies and sales leaders are actually contributing to their team’s’ lack of success by overloading them with “sales tools”, the “Stack”. While many are sold, and think they are buying “productivity tools”, they are in fact hindering productivity, revenue success and growth.

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4 Quick Tips On Increasing Your Longevity In Sales

MTD Sales Training

The average life expectancy of a multinational organisation is approximately 40-50 years. So says Arie De Geus in his book ‘The Living Company’ (Boston, Harvard Business Press). He based this premise. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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I Admit it - Why Words in Selling Really Are Important

Understanding the Sales Force

In the past I've written about how words aren't that important. Here are two such articles: [link]. [link]. But today, I'll play politician, reverse my position, and talk about why words are very important. I've written about the importance of words before too. [link]. When it comes to words, there was probably nobody more clever than the comedic genius George Carlin.

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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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Building the Modern Field Marketing Organization

SBI Growth

SBI recently spoke with Tracy Hansen, the Chief Marketing Officer at Renaissance Learning, the world leader in cloud-based assessment, teaching and learning solutions. Tracy has deep field marketing experience and built a new team from scratch that launched this year. Field marketing.

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11 Things You Need to Know When Using Voicemail as a Prospecting Tool

The Sales Hunter

The telephone is still a great prospecting tool, despite what some naysayers might want you to believe. Voicemail is a great extension of it and can get you connections you’d never get any other way. In my new book High-Profit Prospecting, I devote several chapters to the discussion of the telephone and voicemail. Here are […].

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The Meetings and Events Whisperer

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Ray Bloom is the founder and chairman of IMEX Group, which organizes the largest worldwide exhibitions for the incentive travel and meetings industry, including IMEX America, which is scheduled for Oct. 18-20 in Las Vegas. Sales & Marketing Management caught up with Bloom recently via email. Ray Bloom is the founder and chairman of IMEX Group, which organizes the largest worldwide exhibitions for the incentive travel and meetings industry,

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When Will We NOT Need A Session About More Women in Sales

Score More Sales

Yesterday it was a proud time to present ideas about ways to diversity your sales team to gain ROI at the biggest technology conference in the world, Dreamforce. Those on my handpicked panel are all successful sales executives and in two different sessions, we shared ideas that work to grow revenues by harnessing inclusion to build a greater sales team than you currently have.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Use This Small Change In Mindset To Drive Your Sales Forward

MTD Sales Training

I came across some interesting research about ‘emotional drivers’ the other day. Dr Dan Short of Arizona, USA, conducted a series of research studies that were intriguing as much as they were. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Variability and the 14-Letter Dirty Word – Accountability

Anthony Cole Training

Several years ago, as part of our sales team evaluation, the skills, tendencies and effectiveness of the sales leadership team was also assessed. The findings indicated that of the 224 leaders, 23% had at least 60% of the skills required to be an effective performance manger. Of the 5 sales management skill sets required - coaching, motivating, recruiting, mentoring and performance management – this last one, performance management, is where the team “scored” the best.

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The Top Two Metrics to Drive Shareholder Value Right Now

SBI Growth

On this week’s SBI Insider Video Podcast we discuss how sales, marketing and product functional leaders can elevate the strategic discussion. The two most underutilized metrics that drive shareholder value are Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV). Championing.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Your Company and Artificial Intelligence

The Sales Hunter

This week I’m in San Franscisco with 170,000 other people attending the Dreamforce conference, the mega conference hosted by Salesforce. For the last 5 years, I’ve been one of the speakers for their Sales Summit, and what I’ve found interesting has been the level of discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on how we […].

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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As Go Your Sales Managers, So Go Your Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-10-07. Author: Bill Blades. Teaser: According to one survey, nearly 9 in 10 managers become such without any prior management training. No wonder so many managers fail to deliver value to those they manage. Here are some "musts" that sales managers have to bring to the table. According to one survey, nearly 9 in 10 managers become such without any prior management training.

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This Place Couldn’t Survive Without Me… Not.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Embrace These 2 Sales Concepts…Or You’ll Get Left Behind

MTD Sales Training

There are two concepts that are going to have a radical influence over the next 10 years of business, and unless we embrace them, we are going to be left behind by those individuals and companies who. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Please Be Careful if You Call Yourself a Salesperson

Increase Sales

One of the lessons I have recently relearned is there are a lot of people who believe they are salespeople. For me, a salesperson actively works to sell something be it a product, service or a combination of products and services. He or she does not rely on others to sell his or her solutions. For anyone to actively sell something, he or she must know what he or she is selling.

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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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Three Actions You Can Take Immediately to Drive Pipeline with Field Marketing

SBI Growth

SBI interviewed Kim Salem-Jackson, the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Marketing at Informatica. Informatica is the number one provider of data integration software, with over 5,000 customers. Kim has over 15 years’ experience in the discipline of field marketing. Watch as.

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Sales Motivation Video: What Are You Doing to Be POSITIVE?

The Sales Hunter

Are you intentional about hanging out with positive people? You have to make it a regular part of your life to associate with positive people, because the impact on your life and career will be phenomenal! This has been my experience, and I trust that it will be yours as well! Check out the video […].

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Companies Create New Strategies to Respond to Brand Bullying

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-10-05. Author: Jeev Trika. Teaser: Online reviews and rankings connect with so many disciplines – marketing, hospitality and, increasingly, lawyers and legislators – that virtually everyone now has a stake in them. But what seemed relatively simple as a brilliant business idea to connect companies and their customers through the value of review data and the communities that exchange it has become complicated by questions of fraud and defamation.

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How to Write a Simple yet Powerful Cover Letter (Part Two)

Mr. Inside Sales

Did you know that over 85% of resumes received by hiring managers arrive without a cover letter? While that may not mean much to you, it means a lot to the people reviewing and vetting resumes for the job you are applying for. Resumes that are sent in without someone taking the time to write a cover letter appear to the hiring manager to be submitted almost blindly.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Most Salespeople Are Wrong about the Concept of Being Willing to Walk

Understanding the Sales Force

At some point in most training programs we talk about being willing to walk away. In addition to being part of a Kurlan led sales training program, the willingness to walk away is a major focus of any training program on negotiation as well. But most people in sales don't really understand the concept of being willing to walk, how it plays out, and what to do when you get there.

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Add Amplification to Your Sales Strategies

Increase Sales

Sales strategies abound in today’s B2B and B2C markets. In many instances, the larger firms are ahead of the flow when it comes to including a new sales strategy into their sales playbook. Smaller firms especially those with under 50 employees lack the exposure to many of these up and coming ways to increase sales. Amplification is one such sales strategy that is often overlooked by SMB owners and sales professionals.

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The Competencies You Need to Lead Your Sales Team

Score More Sales

To be a real sales leader – not just a manager - you must be willing to look inward. Self-awareness is understanding everything about everything that makes you, well, you. LifeHacker wrote a great piece about self-awareness and how to be more self-aware.

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