July, 2017

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Why Your Account Based Selling Teams Are Lagging Behind

No More Cold Calling

Can sales managers influence the buying process? It’s common knowledge that revenue is a lagging indicator. You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. If they don’t, you lose. There’s no in-between. Then why are so many account based selling teams given revenue targets and let loose? Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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How to Know When to Give Up on a New Hire

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kevin F. Davis If a hiring mistake costs you three months’ time, that’s not good. If you don’t realize you made a hiring mistake for a year or two, the damage can be catastrophic. Include a “second hiring date” in your process. I advise companies to have a standard policy that defines the first 90 to 180 days (and maybe a little longer) as a trial period.

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Why Discounting Your Price is a Bad Idea

The Sales Hunter

The customer is not refusing your price because it’s too high. They’re refusing it because the value is too low. The real reason you had to cut your price is because you failed to match the value you offer to the outcome the customer was desiring. I just bought a new suitcase and I paid […].

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30 Interesting Non-Selling Subjects to Make You Better at Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

I was sitting next to a guy who knows that our son is one of the best ball players in his age group in New England. He is from the former Soviet Union and when he told me that he tought his son to play catch I was confused. I said, "You didn't play baseball growing up - how were you able to teach him?".

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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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Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 1

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Many in sales look at summer as a time where they can slow down a bit, reflecting what they believe to be the pace of things around them. That’s just wrong on so many levels, that we’ll leave it to others to analyze, our focus is Execution, improved Execution. So rather than following the 80% of your peers who go into summer mode, I instead invite you to use the summer to improve your prospecting skills so can remain in that 20% that drives the

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How Digital Dependence Derails Account Based Selling Teams

No More Cold Calling

Twenty years ago, I would have told you referrals couldn’t possibly be more important for account based sales development. I was wrong. Today, they’re even more important—and more powerful—than they were back then. Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation.

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Stop Selling and Start Teaching to Improve Demand Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ray Kemper, Chief Marketing Officer, Televerde Customer relationships. They’re the engine that fuels successful selling, right? Well, not always. In fact, good customer relationships are usually the result of a good sales engagement. You’ve demonstrated your ability to provide a superior solution and value while showing you’re the right fit for the customer’s culture and needs.

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Attributing Revenue to Non-Digital Interactions

SBI Growth

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein’s famous aphorism originally applied to scientific principles but it’s valuable in many walks of life. For example, as a B2B marketer you want to track revenue attribution.

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12 Reasons They Didn't Like You Enough to Buy From You

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright iStock. Everyone has had this happen.probably more than once. You worked hard and smart, thought you did a great job, expected to win the business, but didn't. Later, you learned that the prospect "Didn't really like your style.". It's not at all unusual, but it is almost always misinterpreted. Salespeople tend to take this personally by internalizing the comment as, "They just didn't like me.

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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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Call Camp – 1:00 PM ET

The Pipeline

Today is the day, I’ll revealing the #1 sales faux-pas that kills deals in Call Camp. Trust me, every rep needs to know this. During this live coaching session , I’ll be breaking down real sales calls, and providing best practices like: How to ask effective discovery questions. Ways to change your narrative on the fly. 3 steps you need to offer the right solution.

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Sellers: Win By Getting to "No"

Score More Sales

In selling, we've been trained that getting potential customers and clients to say "yes" is the most important part of negotiation. It's time to rethink that strategy.

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3 Ways To Wake Up From A Sales Slump

MTD Sales Training

No matter how long you have been in sales, you will inevitably experience the ups and downs of the business world and create opportunities from them or suffer from the pain of lost sales. It would be wonderful to always maintain a high profile with all your customers, and be on top of your game at all times. But what about the times when things don’t go according to plan?

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How to Make B2B Data an ROI Catalyst

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-22. Author: Hila Nir. Teaser: Believe it or not, your current customer data is actually the secret source of future growth. Organizations constantly claim to be “customer-first”; now you have a chance to put that aspiration toward your organization’s growth. Believe it or not, your current customer data is actually the secret source of future growth.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Account Based Selling Teams Should Never Pitch

No More Cold Calling

“A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?”. If you’re familiar with American baseball—and any good at riddles—you’ll know the answer. For everyone else, the answer is a catcher and an umpire. I’m a big baseball fan, and I’ve often pondered how much account based sales reps could learn from the game.

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Crucial Selling Take Aways from the 2017 Home Run Derby Lead to Sales Greatness

Understanding the Sales Force

Did you watch the Home Run Derby on Monday night? I've never seen anything like it. You could see thunder and lightening through the glass wall in left field as thunderstorms raged while all the home runs were being launched. Wow, what a show! Of course, my mind always looks for a correlation to selling and there are some good ones here. The sales equivalent to the Home Run Derby wouldn't really work - buyers lining up to place orders with the greatest salespeople on the planet.

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Lie To Me Like Everyone Else Does

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Revenue, finding it, winning it keeping it, is more than sales, and certainly more than just one says. Winning growing and retaining clients (the source of revenue), may be centered around sales, but involves other key groups. Some like marketing, may not have as much direct contact with prospects/clients as customer support, implementation and others.

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The Power of a Daily Sales Pow Wow

Score More Sales

Sales professionals deserve strong sales leadership. Sales pros work best in an environment where they know their actions are seen and appreciated.

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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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Use This 3 Step Process To Start Asking The Right Sales Questions

MTD Sales Training

If ever there was a key skill that you need to study and improve upon it’s asking the right sales questions. You need to unearth the pain, the desire and the motivations that will get your prospect to take action. Now in an ideal world your prospect will answer your questions EXACTLY the way that you want them to so that your product/service benefits match them like fitting a hand into a glove!

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4 Ways to Have Complete Confidence in A Sales Rep’s Forecast

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kosoglow, VP of Sales, Outreach Unlike most professions, sales has a standard that literally dictates success or failure. It’s called quota. The ability to hit quota on a consistent basis is a requirement of success, and the key is understanding how to predict what revenue number one will end up at in a specific sales period. In industry speak, this is called forecasting, and most reps fail at it because they don’t trust the pipeline their CRM presents.

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Marketo Append & Clean: Big Changes for a Favorite Data Management Tool

DiscoverOrg Sales

There are parts of the job that marketers can perform on autopilot, but data management – enriching and cleansing data – has never been been one of them. That’s changing. Significant enhancements to our Marketo connector, including new Append & Clean functionality, give marketers a whole new level of automation accuracy, and control over their database.

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Sales Motivation Video: Two Most Important Words in Sales Success

The Sales Hunter

If you want greater sales success, then you need to rid your vocabulary of the words “if” and “then,” and replace them with “do now.” Yes! “Do now” are the words that represent the mindset you need to embrace if you are going to boost your momentum and sales motivation. Whether we are talking about […].

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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 Do You Sell?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 4. In this part of the Proactive Prospecting Summer series, we look at improving how we communicate early in the call. Clear concise communication is key to sales, especially in the pressure packed first few seconds of an unscheduled prospecting call, yes, a cold call.

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The Number 1 Thing Salespeople Should Do

Jill Konrath

What's the #1 thing you should be doing to drive more sales in today's crazy-busy world? It's something I've been thinking about a lot these days.

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3 Ways To Overcome Your Fears Before The Sales Meeting

MTD Sales Training

Do you sometimes find it strange that a sportsperson or experienced actor would admit to feeling nervous before a big performance or game? Surely their knowledge and familiarity with what they have to do would allay any fears they might have? Well, it shows we are all human. No matter how many times you may have performed, even at the top of your form, fear is one thing that connects us all.

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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan How technology is fueling workplace recognition. Here are some startling statistics that put our infatuation with technology and mobile devices in perspective: 40 percent of U.S. males age 18 to 34 and 33 percent of U.S. females in that same age bracket say they would ideally buy everything online. (Source: DDB Worldwide). Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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4 Intelligence Styles of Successful Sales Professionals

DiscoverOrg Sales

The speed and complexity of the modern marketplace is the domain of intellectual agility. Jeb Blount, author and sales acceleration specialist, knows well how successful sales professionals (ultra-high performers) possess four types of intelligence that are tightly intertwined – each connecting, affecting, and amplifying the others: IQ : how smart you are.

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If You Want Different Customers, You Have to Look at Yourself

The Sales Hunter

One of the elements I enjoy is coaching salespeople and sales managers. In this role, I get to see up close what makes people tick. I’m always surprised when people ask me why they aren’t able to attract the really great clients. My response always begins with the need for the salesperson to first look […].

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Stop Leading The Witness

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One of my favourite genres is court or trial based stories, could be a movie, play, TV program, but especially novels, where the author has room to fully explore elements and take one to unexpected places. These are usually larger than life, and even when the plot is viable, the settings, are exaggerated, full of symbolism than reality, all with the goal of drawing in the audience.

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