July, 2016

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This Is the Biggest Lead Generation Mistake on Social Media

No More Cold Calling

A LinkedIn connection is not a sales lead. It happened again. I accepted a LinkedIn invitation from someone I didn’t know, sent a personal response to greet my new connection, and immediately received a cold calling message from someone looking only for lead generation: I’d love to talk and hear about you, what’s happening in your business and how you think I can contribute to your success.

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The One Small Mindset Change That Rockets Sales Success…

MTD Sales Training

I’ve always admired Jim Rohn. His insights into the deep philosophies of life always touch a nerve and his laid-back delivery is one that I admire. His untimely death has left a big gap in the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What Happened When The Boss Showed His True Colours

Bernadette McClelland

The Boss walks through the door, he steps onto the platform, he opens his mouth and words of wisdom, inspiration and life lessons spew forth, weaving us into the world of musical euphoria. Cyndi Lauper sings about it, The LGBT crowd wave their flags around it. And Bruce Springsteen will not sing because of it… What is the theme? Their TRUE COLOURS!

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A One > Two Combination That Still Delivers Sales

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Much of the discussion around social selling vs. traditional selling, or even old school selling like cold calling, has distracted many from the central issue, successful selling. When was the last time someone congratulated you on landing a big account and asked you “BTW, Ann, did you use social or other selling to win this deal?

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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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Not Just For Kids: How Gamification Can Help Fill Your Channel Pipeline

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-25. Author: Lynn Smith, COO, Focused Impressions. Teaser: Gamification has taken the business world by storm. It's the concept of injecting competitive elements of games into non-game environments to increase user engagement and drive results. It does so by relying on two dynamics - measurement and competition - to improve performance.

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10 Ways to Start Your Prospecting and Make it Enjoyable

The Sales Hunter

Let’s face it. You can’t prospect if you don’t start, and starting is the problem too many salespeople have. The number of excuses salespeople can come up with range from logical to just plain avoidance. Here are 10 things you can do right now to help you stop procrastinating on doing the prospecting you know […].

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“We’re Happy With Our Current Supplier”…What Now?

MTD Sales Training

This is an interesting and, for some salespeople, a ‘killer’ response from a prospect when you are presenting your solutions. Your product may be the best in the market…you may have all the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Want to Grow Your Business with Bigger Deals and Bigger Customers?

Steven Rosen

My friend Barbara Weaver Smith, founder and CEO of The Whale Hunters, has a new book and I want to encourage you to get it. It’s called Whale Hunting with Global Accounts: Four Critical Sales Strategies to Win Global Customers , and it’s for fast company entrepreneurs, sales VPs and sales managers, large account sales team leaders from inside sales and field sales—whether you’re already managing global accounts or you haven’t yet gone global with your biggest accounts.

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7 Steps to Developing an ‘A’ Player Profile

SBI Growth

Developing an ‘A’ player profile is a direct result of aligning your talent strategy with your corporate, product, marketing and sales strategies. Simply put, you cannot construct an ‘A’ player profile without strategic alignment. Building an ‘A’ player profile is 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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How to Gain Visibility into Your Mobile Sales Team with Unified Communications

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-08. Author: Stephen Davis. Teaser: In many ways, technology has turned even inside sales reps into independent businesspeople. There is less day-to-day interaction between managers and reps in the field. Unified communications (UC) systems can help shine a light on the daily performance of your mobile workforce. In many ways, technology has turned even inside sales reps into independent businesspeople.

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Baseball Loss and Sales Rejection

Score More Sales

Top sports teams know a secret that we can all use in business and especially sales. You don’t always win. Sometimes you lose. If you don’t dwell on the loss you can win again tomorrow. I was thinking about this again recently when I heard that the Red Sox had lost 21-2 to the Angels at Fenway Park.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Yes, You Can Fire a Customer!

The Sales Hunter

Welcome to the Executive Sales Leader Briefing, a new blog series I am doing every Friday. If you want to receive the Executive Sales Leader Briefing in text form in an email early Friday morning before it is published on the website, go to this page to sign up or complete the below information: A […].

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How To Deal With The Foul & Abusive Prospect

MTD Sales Training

Have you ever had that time when a prospect has been really horrible to you? I mean aggressively horrible, even resorting to swearing or downright nasty comments? It does happen, and unfortunately. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Top Ten Characteristics of Top Sales Producers (Part Three)

Mr. Inside Sales

Last week, in Top Characteristic Number Two, I introduced the concept of scripting out the very best responses to the selling situations and objections you get into 80 to 90% of the time. I urged you to practice, drill and rehearse these responses until they become automatic. The point here is that you are practicing the right responses. You see, the thing about practice is that it doesn’t make perfect, as everyone has heard.

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Sales Strategy: Where Does Sales Training Fit?

SBI Growth

Organizations spend large amounts of money on sales training every year. But are they getting their money’s worth? Sales training is a $70 billion dollar industry. Every sales team should be making their number with that kind of investment in.

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Three Things that Keep Sales Managers from Making Intelligent Decisions

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-08-01. Author: Reza Mohsin, CEO of Speakeasy. Teaser: Creating processes that deliver the information you need, when you need it, with minimal investment of time and effort is essential to understanding how your teams operate. Sales managers can help make this happen by employing the right tools for their teams – tools that simplify the sales process instead of making it more complex.

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[Missed Connections] Referral Selling Insights from July

No More Cold Calling

Tired of watching your sales reps spend hours on the phone, calling prospects who rarely ever call them back? Or wasting time pestering strangers on social media, who never asked for—and don’t want to hear—their sales pitches? Then it’s time to stop the cold calling madness. During the “Turn Cold to Gold” webinar I hosted earlier this month, I polled the audience to uncover their greatest lead generation challenges.

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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 Motivation Video: What is Your Definition of Success?

The Sales Hunter

Confident people do not allow other people to define success for them. You need to define success for yourself! Write down your definition of success. Then ask yourself if you are achieving this. Your goals should equip you to be successful, and when you are successful, you will be more confident. Copyright 2016, Mark Hunter […].

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A Practical Playbook for Account Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

Looking to give a your sales a boost? There is a renewed interest in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and it currently has two definitions: 1) a strategy for marketing to existing clients for the purpose of cross-selling or expanding presence within an account, and. 2) an alternative to “buyer persona marketing,” whereby named accounts are micro-segmented with messaging that is hyper-specific to their needs.

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10 Questions ALL Sales People Must Ask Themselves At The End Of The Month

MTD Sales Training

I love the expression “Questions are the answer”. It reminds us all that the quality of the answers we get in life are determined by the quality of the questions we ask. Much of what we experience in life goes over our heads, created by things that are out of our control. What we focus on will get us our results. And that focus is very often derived by the questions we ask.

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Take Charge of Corporate Strategy with These Execution Tips

SBI Growth

You have a strategy in place, but is it getting executed? In order to hit your revenue growth goal you must make sure you are connecting your strategy with execution. We recently spoke with Kermit Randa, the CEO of PeopleAdmin.

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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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The trick that makes sales training stick

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-29. Author: Dan Siedman. Teaser: Most training focuses on learning objectives as the outcome. In the selling world, your outcome should be behavior change. Learning objectives? Who cares if you have the smartest sales pros on the planet and they don't put what they know into practice? Most training focuses on learning objectives as the outcome.

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Do Women in Sales Lack Confidence?

No More Cold Calling

The greatest challenge for many women leaders isn’t gender discrimination; it’s self-doubt. Women in sales don’t have to think or act like men to become rainmakers; we have the natural-born skills and grit it takes to be top-tier sellers. We know how to build relationships. We are hardwired to be nurturers, connectors, and collaborators. So it’s no wonder that men say the best salespeople they know are women.

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Sales Motivation Video: What Are Your 18-Month Goals?

The Sales Hunter

I don’t want you thinking just about 2016! I want you thinking about your 18-month goals too! When you look out 18 months, it changes the way you use your time (your greatest asset!) Ultimately, it also changes the questions you ask and the customer relationships you build. Check out the video to see what […].

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What Sales Managers Do That Make Them So Ineffective

Understanding the Sales Force

Earlier this week I wrote an article on why so many sales managers are so bad. In today's article, I'll share what makes them so ineffective. The easiest way to explain this is to start with a baseball analogy. Our son, who is now 14, is a very talented baseball player. In addition to me, he has been coached in some capacity by approximately 15 other baseball coaches with varying degrees of effectiveness.

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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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Use These 2 Examples To Uncover Prospect Needs

MTD Sales Training

You’ve probably been on courses where you’ve discussed the different types of questions that are available to you. You’ll have heard of open questions and closed questions. You’ll be familiar with probing questions and possibly leading questions, too. But the truth is that this can bog you down into thinking you’ve got to vary your questioning type and it can lead to confusion and a lack of flow in the conversation.

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Why Field Marketing is on the Hook for 40% of the Sales Pipeine

SBI Growth

People buy from people. Ultimately, there is no substitute for face time. This means organizations need a world class field marketing program. SBI recently interviewed Kim Salem-Jackson, the senior vice president of worldwide field marketing at Informatica about this topic.

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It’s Not Your PowerPoint, It’s You

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-28. Author: AlexAnndra Ontra. Teaser: What's wrong with PowerPoint? In and of itself, nothing. It's how we are using it that's counterproductive. What's wrong with PowerPoint? In and of itself, nothing. It's how we are using it that's counterproductive.

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