Sat.Feb 27, 2021 - Fri.Mar 05, 2021

article thumbnail

How to overcome fear in sales

Membrain

Sales is not a profession for the weak of heart. From the first cold call, to the last presentation and request for closing, every step of the sales process is fraught with potential peril.

article thumbnail

Understanding Talent and Fit with Better Interview Questions

The Center for Sales Strategy

Do you want to conduct better interviews and ensure you make smart hiring decisions? Preparing better interview questions to determine talent and fit will help you improve this step in your selection process. The first, and most important, step is to have your candidate complete a validated talent assessment specific to the role you are filling before you meet with them.

Hiring 120
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2020: What Winning Sales Organizations Did Differently

ValueSelling

As you well know, 2020 had a tremendous impact on sales leaders, salespeople, and learning and development professionals. The rapid shift to virtual selling and the collapsing delta between B2B and B2C buying behaviors fundamentally changed how most of us interact with customers and prospects — and the results weren’t always pretty.

B2C 131
article thumbnail

Pandering Is Easy – At One Point You Need To Sell

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. The customer and their success are central to B2B sales, and the best way to that is with your expertise. It’s not by pandering or pretending that the prospect is always right as many try to do. You do have to accept that if the customer is right and always in the know, then you are nothing but an order taker. And you can tell order takers often from the way they approach taking the order.

LinkedIn 369
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Employers Engage Recovery Coaches to Achieve Workforce Sobriety

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Beth Siegert What are the effects on the health and well-being of our work force during the pandemic? Pre-COVID-19, it was reported that one in four individuals experienced a diagnosable mental health condition annually. Since COVID, employees are manifesting a wide variety of psychological problems, including a large increase in substance misuse and other addictive behaviors.

Coaching 317

More Trending

article thumbnail

Sales Manager Rule #1: Coaching to Improve Skills

Steven Rosen

Chris committed to coaching to improve the skills of his sales team. is a district sales manager who just took my Focused Sales Coaching online program. He has done well implementing the program and is so close to being a great sales manager. But until he truly understands the fundamentals of improving skills, he will struggle. I have been working with Chris as his sales executive coach.

Coaching 284
article thumbnail

Big Data and Your Email Marketing Campaign

Zoominfo

Big data is everywhere around us, shaping the way businesses run. It’s used by companies of all types and sizes for a variety of tasks, ranging from employee benefits administration to cancer research. Big data is vital in the functionality and productivity of an organization’s web presence. Improving the way you harness and use big data will benefit your marketing strategy by helping you reach the right people at the best time with relevant content.

article thumbnail

My Simple COVID Relief Plan Actually Provides Relief

Understanding the Sales Force

Today's post has nothing to do with selling, but is indirectly related because some of the businesses that have been hurt by the pandemic and the government's shut downs have sales organizations. In the US, the so-called COVID relief bill passed the house and we learned that only 9% of the 1.9 Trillion dollars in the plan goes to actual COVID relief.

article thumbnail

How Real Sales Learning Happens

Sales and Marketing Management

Some companies are augmenting current training practices and, as by-products, improving hiring, onboarding, best-practice dissemination and performance management as well as selling skills.

Hiring 228
article thumbnail

How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

article thumbnail

The 5 P’s of Sales Talent Motivation and Retention

SBI Growth

The most difficult challenge leaders will face in 2021 is motivating personnel. Even with a new prospect or a new project, for most employees, the outlook is another year of virtual meetings that highly resembles 2020. In this environment, how.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Sales Intelligence Tools to Use for Your 2021 Campaigns

Zoominfo

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies. It’s no wonder that 43% of salespeople in 2020 used sales intelligence tools, compared to 28% in 2018.

Hoovers 264
article thumbnail

Lack of Business Acumen?

Steven Rosen

Is a Lack of Business Acumen Impacting Your Sales? Expectations on salespeople have undergone enormous change. The number of sales reps has declined significantly over the last four years. Declining sales have not only forced the industry to reduce the number of sales reps but has also created the need to better focus on customer needs. The days of adding sales forces are dead, and companies are struggling to find ways to deliver value to their customers.

article thumbnail

Recruiting and Hiring Salespeople: The 5 Minute Interview

Anthony Cole Training

How important is it that your new salespeople be great on the phone? Assuming the answer is "very important" then your candidate screening process must begin with the 5-minute interview.

Hiring 182
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Axonius nabs $100M at a $1.2B valuation for its asset management cybersecurity platform

Openview

Remote work has become the norm for many businesses in the last year, and today a startup that has built a cybersecurity platform to help manage all the devices connecting to organizations’ wide-ranging networks — while also providing a way for those organizations to take advantage of all the best that the quite fragmented security market has to offer — is announcing a major round of funding and a big boost to its valuation after seeing its annual recurring revenues grow ten-fo

Scale 199
article thumbnail

Content Marketing Strategy: Are You Winging It?

Zoominfo

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s why it’s essential to understand the reasoning behind all that content. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

Strategy 257
article thumbnail

SBI’s CEO Celebrates Black History Month and DEI

SBI Growth

At SBI we strive for all of us to reach our full potential by being diverse by nature, equitable by design, and inclusive by choice. Our curiosity to understand, value, and celebrate our unique strengths will improve outcomes for our people and our clients. This is.

article thumbnail

How Managing Is Done Now

Engage Selling

Too many leaders today are still stuck in a “behind the desk” mindset. They fixate on managing data rather than on managing their relationships with people. That must change because now—more than ever—the quality of your outcomes in sales are … Read More » The post How Managing Is Done Now first appeared on The Sales Leader.

Data 164
article thumbnail

Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

article thumbnail

Employers Engage Recovery Coaches to Achieve Workforce Sobriety

Sales and Marketing Management

What are the effects on the health and well-being of our work force during the pandemic? Pre-COVID-19, it was reported that one in four individuals experienced a diagnosable mental health condition annually.

Coaching 120
article thumbnail

3 Ways to Secure Your CRM and Avoid Security Risks

Zoominfo

Hackers can steal personal information about your employees, customers, and vendors. One security breach can cause irreparable damage to your brand image. Data breaches hurt your internal and external relationships, and, ultimately, your ability to generate revenue. Hackers can even engage in competitive espionage by stealing financial information, and details about planned projects.

CRM 253
article thumbnail

Has role specialisation in B2B selling gone too far?

Membrain

Largely inspired by the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor, and made real by Henry Ford and others, the age of mass production introduced the concept of role specialisation in the pursuit of manufacturing efficiency.

B2B 147
article thumbnail

Our Best Content to Share With Your Sales Teams

Force Management

We’re regularly updating our robust content library, focused on sales best practices. Many of the topics come from our own prospects and customers who are dealing with sales challenges as they look to accelerate growth, drive more pipeline and capture value throughout the sales process. Many sales leaders find value in sharing this content with their sales teams.

Pipeline 135
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Figuring Things Out!

Partners in Excellence

Sadly, the trend in developing sales people skills is toward a higher level of prescription. We provide email sequences, we script conversations and talking points. We try to formularize all the activities our sales people do with customers. But the world is complex, what our customers face is complex, what our people face is complex. Things change constantly, each customer situation is unique–to them, at a moment in time.

article thumbnail

How to Create a Lead Generation Strategy for SMBs

Zoominfo

Regardless of your organization’s size, increasing your customer base and brand awareness is essential for continuous success. And for a small to medium-sized business (SMB) to maintain that success, they need to focus attention on growth strategies, including lead generation. Lead generation is the practice of capturing interest from potential buyers to purchase your product or service.

article thumbnail

How Many No’s Should You Get?

Go for No!

Once people learn they should “go for no” the very next question is usually: exactly how many no’s should I be getting?? Ray Higdon, the co-author of our book, Go for No! Network Marketing famously got 20 no’s a day. He was prospecting like mad. No one was there to tell him how crazy that was. Although, it worked and he got massive results by taking massive action.

Workbooks 139
article thumbnail

The 7 Key Qualities That Define the Entrepreneur Mindset

Hubspot Sales

Some salespeople are just built differently. They demonstrate exemplary tendencies and particularly productive tactics — reps that put another degree of effort and strategic thought into their day-to-day responsibilities. These model reps' approach to their work is shaped by something known as the entrepreneur mindset — a special frame of mind that separates certain salespeople from their peers.

Remedy 140
article thumbnail

The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

article thumbnail

Podcast 187: Joe Caprio On The Future Of Sales Demos

John Barrows

Our guest this week is Joe Caprio, Co-founder of Reprise. John is consistently talking about how bad most demos are for prospects and Joe’s research proves that the frustration that we experience as demo attendees is often shared by the people that are actually doing the demos. Joe and Reprise are preaching heavily against the traditional ways of doing these demos and he’s sharing with John where they’re headed.

article thumbnail

28 Effective Tips for Shortening Your Sales Cycle

Zoominfo

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy. Today we’re sharing tips and tricks to shorten the sales cycle, broken down by stage.

article thumbnail

The 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Closing Deals

Predictable Revenue

Dave Kennett, CEO at Replayz, joined us to chat about what often goes wrong at each opportunity stage, and how to replicate the behaviors of top performers instead. The post The 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Closing Deals appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

Closing 127