February, 2017

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7 Obstacles to Executing with Excellence

Steven Rosen

Why Companies Fail to Execute. I find it shocking that statistics show that 60%-90% of companies fail to execute their strategies. HBR quotes a survey where more than 400 global CEO’s found that business execution excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders. The CEO’s were from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Execution headed the list which included 80 issues which included innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth.

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[VIDEO] How to Structure a Successful Sales Team

DiscoverOrg Sales

Does this problem sound familiar? We spend an enormous amount of time searching for and then hiring what we think to be “A” players. We then invest time (hopefully) training those reps before releasing them into the wild, only to ask them to do several different roles. We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles making them B or C players at both.

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Why a Good Economy Can Be Bad for Sales Teams

No More Cold Calling

A strong stock market often makes salespeople lazy. Will the Dow Jones index hit 20,000? That’s the question I asked myself as we welcomed in 2017. I remembered when it first hit 10,000 in 1999 and then continued to rise. And I remembered early 2009, when it dropped by more than 6,000 points. That’s the thing about the economy. It goes up and down. Now that the Dow has hit 20,000, more questions arise, including the one we’d rather not think about: Is our current year-over-year, month-over-month

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Never Let A Good Plan Get In The Way Of Success!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . In some sports and other skills based endeavours, for example figure skating, you can score points for artistic merit, and you also get scored on execution. Sales on the other hand is more like hockey or football (North American), while Artistic Merit is admired, execution is key, but the only measure that counts at the end, is the outcome, did we win, or, well really, what else is there?

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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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21,000 People Agree That These are the Top 5 Traits of the Best Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright BeeBright. Readers are always referring me to articles that list top sales traits, that discuss what makes salespeople great, that name the most important selling skills, or that otherwise contradict the science-based findings and statistics that I share in my articles. In that regard, today was very much the same when a reader referred me to this LinkedIn article that revealed the Top 5 Traits of the Best Salespeople.

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Coaching Difficult Salespeople

Steven Rosen

Free Sales Management Training Webinar. All sales managers find coaching difficult salespeople challenging. In this webinar, there will 5 case studies of difficult salespeople. The master class will be interactive with participants’ feedback and possible coaching solutions. Join me on Feb. 9 th @10:00 PST/1:00 EST . For Sales Management Case Studies: Coaching Difficult Salespeople.

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17 Places to Look for New Prospects

The Sales Heretic

Wondering where your next sales lead is coming from? Wonder no more! There are lots of places to find potential prospects—some in the physical world and some in the digital. Here are—in alphabetical order—17 of them: 1. Associations 2. Chambers of Commerce 3. Directories 4. Facebook 5. Google ads 6. Industry events 7. Instagram 8. [.].

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What Is the Most Effective of Account-Based Sales Strategies?

No More Cold Calling

Hint: It has nothing to do with digital. . At least 67 percent of the buying process is complete before buyers ever contact your company. Believe that, and your account-based sales strategies are doomed from the start. There are many widely quoted but ill-advised statistics floating around that suggest business buyers don’t really need salespeople anymore—that we should just wait around for prospects to do their research and then call us when they’re ready to buy.

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Rejection In Your Face

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . In the late 1990’s or early part of the last decade, I remember reading a piece about a study in one of the Scandinavian countries, who were early adopters of text messaging, SMS. It pointed to the fact that more and more young people were choosing to initially interact with potential dates using SMS, one of the key reasons that rejection was easier to deal with when it was not direct, in your face.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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20 Time Management Tips for Full-Cycle Inside Sales Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-06. Author: Matt Stanton. Teaser: Time management is a required skill for inside sales reps. Managers should look for good time management skills when hiring new reps, and they need to be aware of lagging sales productivity or bad habits. Spotting these trends early gives managers the chance to provide coaching and training before revenue goals are at risk.

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Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight – Match Your Sales Strategy to Revenue Growth Drivers

SBI Growth

How many times has sales missed revenue growth goals? More often than not, the root cause is a sales number that was set incorrectly. Corporate strategy is the main culprit. The sales team will consistently achieve success when your corporate.

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Review - Heart and Sell by Shari Levitin

Score More Sales

There are a lot of sales books out there and it is SO easy to skim them quickly and summarize that they are like other books I read about selling every month.

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Using Voicemail to Prospect: Yes it Works, When Done Right!

The Sales Hunter

I’ve heard all the arguments, both pro and con, about using voicemail to prospect. With that said, here are a few of the things you need to do if you want to use voicemail effectively when reaching out to prospects or customers. If you’re wondering, the ideas I’m sharing below come from my book, […].

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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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2016’s Most Prospected Companies By State

DiscoverOrg Sales

No matter our company or our role, I think I can safely say we ALL receive numerous prospecting emails and calls every day. Some of the messages we receive are well-crafted, on the mark, and personalized to our issues, and others….well, they just aren’t. Have you ever noticed that there are spikes in the number of prospecting emails you receive when: You change jobs?

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What’s The Difference Between A Cold Call and Warm Call?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . The simple answer is that one is scheduled, and the other is not. Some may add that in a warm call the recipient may be aware of the person calling and the reason for the call, usually in the form of a referral. Some may add that one can “warm up” a call by doing research and having something relatable for the recipient, so they don’t blow you off as quick.

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4 Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-17. Author: Mert Yentur. Teaser: At some point, everyone who has ever been in a meeting experiences the terrible symptoms of this rapidly spreading epidemic. Here are four ways that you can distinguish your presentations and avoid letting your sales fall victim to the PowerPoint plague. At some point, everyone who has ever been in a meeting experiences the terrible symptoms of this rapidly spreading epidemic.

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How to Leave Voicemails that Generate Results

Pointclear

Have you ever scheduled a meal for you, your significant other and close friends? Did it take more than one or two phone calls, emails and texts to settle on a date, time and venue? Of course! Multi-touch, multi-media and multi-cycle processes multiply results. Done right, you can expect that 20 – 40% of the leads you generate to be the result of a call back or email reply.

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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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Use These 3 Cross Selling Questions To Generate More Business From Existing Clients

MTD Sales Training

People who manage sales have to achieve growth. There are different ways that this can be achieved: Sell more to existing customers. Prevent existing customers from going to a competitor. Find new customers. Sell new products. For many people in sales the challenge is to grow their customer base by finding new customers. However, what many salespeople fail to recognise is the potential within their existing customer base.

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Sales Motivation Video: Are You Strategically Thinking or Tactically Responding?

The Sales Hunter

How do you spend your day? Strategically thinking or tactically responding? Top-performing salespeople and, for that matter, any successful person knows the value of being able to set their agenda when it comes to how they will spend their time. I watch too many average salespeople spend all day doing nothing but reacting tactically to […].

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The Definitive Guide to Campaign Planning

SBI Growth

Today we are going to demonstrate how to capture the attention of customers and prospects with great marketing campaigns. Campaign budgets are limited and these campaigns need to generate revenue. Today’s show provides the definitive guide to campaign planning from.

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What If Prospecting Were Cancer?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Not to be overly dramatic, but most people who find out they have caner or any terminal disease, will immediately seek a cure, take steps to change their lifestyle or habits to alter their fate. Rarely or ever would they ignore it or make changes to unrelated things as a means of healing the illness.

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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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Four Marketing Pillars to Build a Business as Strong as The Parthenon

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-20. Author: Scott Wilson. Teaser: Every business should employ a combination of marketing pillars to uphold the pressure of its success, and together produce significant results. Every business should employ a combination of marketing pillars to uphold the pressure of its success, and together produce significant results.

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Why Measuring Success on Cost Per Lead is a Huge Mistake

Pointclear

In the search for the holy grail of marketing KPIs, we want ones that correctly emphasize ROI over lead cost, tie lead generation to overall revenue and profits, identify the most successful marketing initiatives and deliver insights that can be leveraged to run future high-return activity. Cost-per-lead is not the correct metric for measuring marketing initiative success for the following reasons: It incorrectly incents volume over quality.

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8 Lessons From Online Dating For Email Marketers

DiscoverOrg Sales

Earlier this year I tried my hand at email marketing here at DiscoverOrg. I figured it’d be pretty easy. After all, you’re just dropping some buzzwords into a few compelling sentences, right? Wrong. Not only was writing a good, short, email message to prospects difficult – it felt familiar. Where had I felt this severe frustration in writing a really convincing AND brief message?

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Leadership is a Lifestyle Lived with Passion

The Sales Hunter

Leadership is the desire to succeed and the passion to serve. Leadership is not a job. It’s a lifestyle. Leadership is about making an impact on others. Leadership is not what you do in public, but rather what you think in private. Leadership without passion is management. Leadership is having the drive to achieve […].

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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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The Mental Model of a Growth-Focused CEO

SBI Growth

SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers this advice to business leaders in a recent Harvard Business Review article: “Give the people a compelling vision and find a way to hit the accelerator harder.” Not an easy task in a company with.

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11 Quick Tips On Effectively Preparing Your Sales Pitch

MTD Sales Training

At some point in the sales process we need to make our pitch. This is an area where most salespeople could do a lot better. Most people in sales present a standard pitch that all their customers get to hear. This doesn’t work! People are different and buy for different reasons. When people buy things buyers have what we call buying criteria. These are the overriding reasons for buying that are most important to them.

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Ghost In the Machine: Marketing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-24. Author: Jason Lark. Teaser: No matter how abstract or technical machine learning might seem, understanding how to apply data-driven technology to enhance your marketing campaigns is something that modern marketers must become familiar with. Here’s what you need to focus on to get the right results. No matter how abstract or technical machine learning might seem, understanding how to apply data-driven technology to enhance your marketing campaigns is something that m

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