December, 2016

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Getting Out Of Your Sales Box

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Given today is Boxing Day here in Canada, and that I am off enjoying the holiday (the bargains), I thought it was a good day to reprise a piece from 2010 about thinking out of the box. Enjoy! There is a lot of talk in sales and in marketing about ‘thinking out of the box'; this is big with me because I am sure that when they put me in a box I’ll be dead, and that’s not good.

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Why Sales Leaders Need Vacation—and Why They Don’t Take It

No More Cold Calling

What does it say about you and your team if you can’t unplug? During the upcoming winter holidays, most of the business world will shut down. It’s vacation time, family time, rejuvenation time. If you’re planning to work through the “most wonderful time of the year,” or if you haven’t taken at least most of your vacation time this year, ask yourself why.

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Seven Business Failures You Can Learn From

The Sales Heretic

Failure leads to success, if you learn from it. But what’s better than learning from your failures? Learning from someone else’s failures! Listen in as Jeff Shuey (Chief Evangelist at K2), Andrea Waltz (author of Go For No), Stewart Rogers (Director of Marketing Technology for VentureBeat), Finka Josie Jerkovic (Leadership Empowerment Coach), Yared Akalou (Design [.].

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Is Your Personality Selling For You or Against You?

The Sales Hunter

Do you use your personality to help you communicate more effectively? How many times have we found ourselves running from the person who has zero personality? Sales is about connecting with the other person. It’s about creating confidence, and that means allowing both parties to feel comfortable with each other. Where does your personality fit […].

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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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6 B2B Sales Resolutions Worth Making in 2017

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-12-28. Author: Anna Johansson. Teaser: More than half of the nation will make goals to improve their health and wellbeing in the new year. It’s the perfect time for you to make some resolutions for your business. More than half of the nation will make goals to improve their health and wellbeing in the new year. It’s the perfect time for you to make some resolutions for your business.

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Resolve to be a Contender Not Column Fodder

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . If you are in B2B sales, you have, knowingly or not, been column fodder. I often ask sales people if they know what that means, and for the most part most do not. While some of you may know what I mean, others may not so let’s define. It is a situation where a buyer has decided that they will give the business to a specific, usually favoured, vendor.

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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #6: Nurturing Triples Marketing’s Return

Pointclear

Lead nurturing triples marketing's ROI, but only if done properly. I propose that nurturing is the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. A new era of accountability starts in 2017 and nurturing (additional contact using multiple touches and multiple media—including phone, voicemail and email—across multiple cycles) is well worth the time and modest increase in expense.

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My Favorite (Brian Tracy) Goal Setting Technique

Mr. Inside Sales

Happy New Year! How is the goal setting going? If you are feeling a bit overwhelmed with setting goals in each area of your life, or if you are overwhelmed now that you have set goals in every area of your life and you are already wondering where you’re going to get the time to do it all, then you’re not alone. I’ve been goal setting for years, and while I (and the rest of the world) may get pumped up by all the wonderful things I’m going to accomplish and all the changes I’m going to make, what

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8 Things Top Performing Salespeople Do Each January

The Sales Hunter

You’re ready to make this your year to break out from the pack and become a top performer. Thinking about success is simply not going to be enough. It takes a plan and one of the best things you can do is emulate what other top performers do. 1. Don’t build your plan to […].

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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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The Accidental Sales Project Manager

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-12-12. Author: Jason Morio. Teaser: A recent survey revealed that two out of three North Americans who lead projects are not project management certified. With proper strategy and planning, sales professionals who face the challenges in playing this accidental project manager role can avoid chaos and work smarter. Here are some tips for managing like a pro and navigating through projects while balancing timelines, quality and cost.

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Cracking the Competitive Advantage Code with Customer Experience Differentiation

SBI Growth

Today’s topic is understanding how to make the customer experience a competitive differentiator. As a guide to the conversation, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the customer experience design phase on pages 130.

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December Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. You may not have heard, but 2017 will be the year of referral selling. Why? Because as quotas continue to rise and competition gets stiffer, sales managers will have to accept that technology shouldn’t be the main artery to reach prospects. Technology doesn’t close deals. People do.

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5 Sales Activities that Lead to Success: Are Your Salespeople Assertive Enough?

Anthony Cole Training

Assertive (not aggressive) salespeople win more business than others. They care so much about doing the right thing for their clients that they are willing to risk the relationship and the deal in order to make sure the prospect or client makes the right decisions. Does that describe your people? Are they assertive?

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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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Avoid this “Ghost” of Christmas Future

Mr. Inside Sales

For December, I’m reading the classic tale: “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. Oddly, I can’t remember ever reading it, though I’ve seen countless versions made for TV and movies. It’s fantastic, just like most books are that have been made into movies. Dickens is a superb writer, and there is a reason this is a “classic.”. While reading this, it reminded me of an encounter I had that was a chilling reminder of the bad “Ghost of Christmas Future” I narrowly avoided all those years ago.

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Wake Up! It’s 2017! Your Old Habits Must Go!

The Sales Hunter

I found myself reading a magazine… yes, a magazine! Wow, how old school is that? I was struck by an article about how it’s important at this time of year to organize your office. The article listed step-by-step instructions as to how to be more efficient. The author said to have a file folder (what […].

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The Numbers Attached to Disengagement

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: If you haven't seen the numbers attached to the cost of employee disengagement, it's time you take a look. If you haven't seen the numbers attached to the cost of employee disengagement, it's time you take a look.

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New Product Launch Wake Up Call

SBI Growth

Today’s topic is how to launch new products successfully. To follow-along, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017 and turn to the product strategy section. Flip to the Product Launch and Messaging phase on pages 143 – 146 of the.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Crash and Learn

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . While we are all caught up in the cheer of the season, it is important to remember that sales is not always peace, love and joy. In fact, when you consider closing averages in B2B sales, it is most likely that we are bound to have more disappointments than joys as measured by that figure. Some have put the number of sales qualified leads to close, as low as 16.4%, across all B2B; I am sure if you take out the outliers, it is likely a more presen

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Introducing the Glossary for Sales and Marketing Tech

DiscoverOrg Sales

If you’re in sales or marketing, it’s likely you’ve come across a new SaaS platform or startup in the past 6 months that begs your attention. Perhaps this intriguing tech flaunts a new approach to an old strategy or intertwines words like “predictive” and “intelligence” into its elevator pitch. As technology continues to plunge sales and marketing professionals further into transformative innovation and new opportunities, we must define the new terms taking us there.

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How to Sell A Pencil – Or Any Product or Service

Mr. Inside Sales

NOTE: While this article talks about using this technique as an interview question to determine what kind of sales rep you’re about to hire, it’s also a great technique for managers to use to diagnose what is wrong with reps who may not be hitting quote consistently. Call them in, one by one, and see how they do…. If I gave you a pencil and asked you to sell it, how would you go about it?

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Sales Motivation Video: Do THIS and Do It Well

The Sales Hunter

Do you know what happens when you focus on ONE thing at a time and do it well? You get better results! Multi-tasking may sound like a great approach, but ultimately it can slow your momentum. Check out the video to see what I mean: Copyright 2016, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Motivation Blog. […].

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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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Mind the GAPs to Increase Engagement

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Scott Crabtree of Happy Brain Science offers the mnemonic device Mind the GAPs to help business leaders remember how to improve workplace engagement. Scott Crabtree of Happy Brain Science offers the mnemonic device Mind the GAPs to help business leaders remember how to improve workplace engagement.

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Driving Revenue Growth Through Sales Execution

SBI Growth

Scott Tapp is the executive vice president of global sales, marketing, and field operations at PGi. He recently spoke with SBI to share his secrets to flawless sales execution. It’s an eight-step process. /1 Hierarchy of Objectives How does Tapp cascade.

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5 Year-End Awards from Top Sales World

Understanding the Sales Force

I am always honored when my work is recognized and this year is no exception. The judges at Top Sales Awards named Objective Management Group (OMG) the Top Sales Assessment Tool for 2016. That marks the 6th consecutive year that OMG has won the Gold! We believe that we have developed the best Sales Assessment tools in the world but it is gratifying when others validate that belief for us!

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You’re the New VP of Sales…Now What?

DiscoverOrg Sales

Congrats, you’ve just landed your first VP or Head of Sales role. Now what ? I’ve met with hundreds of heads of sales over the years, and it’s easy to pick out the ones who are going to be successful and the ones who aren’t. The successful ones have one obvious thing in common: they are maniacally focused on building a revenue engine for their companies.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.

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Most Popular Article of 2016

Mr. Inside Sales

If you are a subscriber to my weekly ezine, then you know I publish a new article every week. That’s fifty-two new tips, scripts, strategies, and current techniques to help you succeed selling over the phone. It’s not surprise, then, that the most popular article I wrote in 2016 is one that gives you, the front line sales rep, a proven way to overcome some of the resistance you face each and every time you pick up the phone to make a cold call.

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The Role Sales Leaders Play in Customer Relationships

The Sales Hunter

In creating a culture for success, the sales leader plays a key role with customers, but it is not at the end of the year when everyone is chasing the last order to make quota. The manager who only appears before a customer at the end of the quarter or year, looking to close an […].

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4 Pillars of a Highly Engaged Work Force

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Engagement isn't having a lot of programs that give people stuff, says Autumn Manning, co-founder and CEO of YouEarnedIt, a technology company that provides a platform (software as a service) for real-time recognition. She offers her company's four pillars for building highly engaged work forces.

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