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Why Flexible Slides are the Key to Conversational Sales

Jill Konrath

Recently I interviewed Luke Goetting, Director of Puffingston Presentations for an Engaging Presentations video series I did with Prezi. His expertise is in "transforming stale business presentations into visually engaging stories." That's why I asked him to share his thinking with you.

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Sales Strategy: 2 Ways to Determine if You’re Already Behind on Your 2012 Sales Plan

SBI Growth

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How Sales Engagement Solves 7 Major Business Pain Points

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Manny Medina, Max Atschuler and Mark Kosoglow The days of old-school communications have passed. In their stead, we have new modern sales communications that are data-driven, personalized, relevant, omnichannel, sequenced, and fully optimized for today’s sophisticated buyer. The following are the seven major business pain points solved by sales engagement: Business Pain Point #1: Not Optimizing for the Modern Buyer.

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Surprise! All Intuition Isn’t the Same

No More Cold Calling

Did you know we have three different types of intuition? “Darn, I wish I’d trusted my gut.” I won’t even try to count the times I’ve said that. Eventually, most of us learn that trusting our gut makes sense—which is a non sequitur, because making sense is not intuitive. Making sense is systematic and sequential, and intuition is the opposite. It’s a feeling.

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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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Environmentally Friendly Prospecting

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No, I am not going to talk about green selling or climate change, not even sales change. The focus here is the actual environment of the buyer or environments. Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. The environment where what you sell will be used, consumed or processed.

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What Is An Emotional Selling Proposition & Is It Better Than A Unique Selling Proposition?

MTD Sales Training

Emotional Selling Proposition – have you got one? We all know that sales are based mostly on emotion and the decision is backed up with logic. That’s the law of the salesperson! So, do we often come up with emotional selling points in our proposals? Do we develop our emotional selling propositions as well as our unique selling propositions? You’ve heard of a USP right?

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The Future of Sales Enablement in the Tech Sector

SBI Growth

Customer centricity and stiff competition in the tech industry are changing how sales enablement operate. Teams need to focus on sales reps solving customer challenges instead of simply selling products and services. Sell Solutions Instead of Products. Traditional sales enablement motions are.

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Using the Power of a Duracell to Help You Hire Perfect Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Apparently, Duracell 9 volt batteries are the picture of consistency. Last night, all 7 of our upstairs smoke detecters starting squawking within about 30 minutes of each other to indicate that their batteries needed to be replaced. Given that the Duracells were installed in those units on the same day 4 years ago, one would hope that there are more things that we could rely upon to be as consistent and predictable.

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Weekly Sales Management Tip #15: You Can Never Over-Communicate

Steven Rosen

During a cycle of change, you need to clearly and concisely communicate where the organization is heading to help your salespeople understand the future. What does the new structure look like? What are the new roles and responsibilities of the team members? Discuss the rationale for the change. In times of change do 3 things: Communicate, communicate and communicate!

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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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Don’t Be So Quick to Answer!

The Sales Heretic

We tend to think of conversations as: one person speaks, then the other responds, back and forth, back and forth. For that reason, in sales conversations, we typically feel the need to address an issue as soon as it is raised, whether it’s via a question or a statement. But that can frequently be the [.].

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Hidden Obstacles Can Sink Your Best Customer Experience Efforts

SBI Growth

You have a variety of channels to meet customers along their journey. You know they are reading your emails. They are actively downloading information and filling out forms. They even had conversations with your representatives and are “very satisfied” with.

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Promoted! New Sales Manager Tips for a Smooth Transition

Connect2Sell

Instead of selling, what’ll you do all day long as a new sales manager? Not knowing the answer to that question will lead you astray. You’ll end up becoming the “sales prevention manager” instead of a sales manager if you get in the way of sellers making sales. You want your sellers to develop so they can make more and bigger sales -- and eventually become a better seller than even you.

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6 Outdated SEO Tactics to Avoid At All Costs

Zoominfo

The Internet has long been the dominant outlet used by businesses to reach their target audience. As a result, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has stepped into the spotlight as a vital digital marketing tactic. For those who aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO is the art of increasing a website’s visibility and traffic through organic (non-paid) search engine results.

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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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Who Is The Best Person to Motivate Me?

The Sales Hunter

Motivation doesn’t come from me, your boss, your spouse, or anybody around you. Motivation comes from within. It’s your destiny. It’s how you choose to see things. Motivate yourself this week, because you are the one who determines your success. Copyright 2019, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results.

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How a CEO Inspires Cultural Change

SBI Growth

Today Nestor Benavides, CEO of EMG, joins us to discuss how a CEO can establish new forms of communication that not only drive the culture but deliver continuous improvement. Nestor reviews how he shapes a culture that empowers his team.

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Stop Talking Past the Close

Mr. Inside Sales

How many tie-downs and trial closes do you or your team use during their presentations? If you’re thinking, “What’s a tie-down? What’s a trial close?” then you’re in trouble…. In an earlier blog , I introduced the term, “Spray and Pray” as way to describe how many sales rep’s presentations go. They get the prospect on the phone, go through a PowerPoint slide presentation, drone on and on for a half hour or more, rarely checking in their prospect—and if they do, it’s a weak, “does that make sense

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The Modern Recruiter’s Guide to Candidate Sourcing

Zoominfo

New technology affects the way every industry operates – and recruiting is no different. Over the last decade, the role of the recruiter has changed drastically thanks to advancements on the web. While evolution is always a good thing, many in the recruiting world have wondered: is the act of strategic candidate sourcing dead? This debate picked up steam in 2013 when recruiting expert John Sullivan declared sourcing a dying practice.

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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 Leadership Lessons from OutBound

The Sales Hunter

Many of you reading this blog post are aware of one of the largest sales event that I have the honor to co-host each year called OutBound. Today is the last day of the conference and just like in years past, the response has been amazing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. I am humbled by your comments. Let me share a few of my thoughts from what I’ve learned learned this week: First, we never know who we will impact.

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Why Trade Shows Are Worthy of Your Marketing Budget

SBI Growth

If you have been to a trade show in the last 2-3 years, you know that trade show booths are becoming more and more spectacular. As a spectator just a few weeks ago, I attended one of the largest medical.

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Standing Out From The Crowd, Tactics Buyers Use On You & A Quote From Vince Lombardi

MTD Sales Training

Episode 31: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: How to make yourself stand out from everyone else. Tactics that your buyers can use on you. A quote from Vince Lombardi. Click on the link below for the podcast where you can also download/subscribe via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher and Acast. [link]. The post Standing Out From The Crowd, Tactics Buyers Use On You & A Quote From Vince Lombardi appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Marketing for Financial Advisors

Zoominfo

Due to the legal issues with compliance, many financial advisors choose to avoid the headache and stay away from digital marketing. This is a wasted opportunity. There are ample marketing solutions that can help you increase your online presence while staying FINRA compliant. So, whether you’re just starting out or trying to grow your business, there are a host of marketing tactics financial professionals can employ to increase their market share.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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LinkedIn Voice Messages

John Barrows

You may have heard about the benefits of LinkedIn voice messages. Many sales reps, including Morgan, are using them with great success. Of the 125 Morgan has sent, he’s seen 50 responses and booked 25 meetings. That’s a 40% response rate, and 20% success rate in getting next steps. Here’s how you can get started with LinkedIn voice messages. Who you can send them to.

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The Link Between Pricing and Customer Experience

SBI Growth

Wondering what is the next emerging best practice in Customer Experience? Monetizing service. This is in addition the typical Customer Experience benefits of decreased churn and higher cross-sell/ upsell. Listen to how a sales leader leverages Customer Experience. Stay Ahead of the.

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Can We Make A Sale Out Of Nothing Developing A Sales Strategy & A Quote From Patricia Fripp

MTD Sales Training

Episode 26: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: Can we make a sale out of nothing? How to develop a sales strategy in 5 easy steps. A quote from Patricia Fripp. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Can We Make A Sale Out Of Nothing Developing A Sales Strategy & A Quote From Patricia Fripp appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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2 Selling Shortcuts That Will Always Work

Understanding the Sales Force

Do shortcuts work in sales?

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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

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Before You Respond, Make Sure You’ve Got the REAL Objection

Women Sales Pros

There are, of course, right ways and wrong ways to respond to buyer objections. This blog post doesn’t go into that. Instead, this post focuses on a fundamental first step that most sellers forget when responding to an objection. Unless you take this critical step, no response to the objection will really be adequate. You’ll lost valuable time and blow “hot air” no matter how eloquent and technically correct your response may be.

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9 Things Terribly Wrong With Sales Today: Lack of Coaching

A Sales Guy

. Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture , . Lack of Coaching. . Too Product-Centric. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. Not enough training in the industry/space. Too much activity management. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. Not enough humility. I tackled the Bro-Culture in the first of this series because I feel culture is critical to change.

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The Benefits of A Robust CRM Process, How You Can Really Understand Your Buyer and A Quote From Thomas Edison

MTD Sales Training

Episode 30: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: The benefits of a robust CRM process. How to really understand your buyer. A quote from Thomas Edison. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post The Benefits of A Robust CRM Process, How You Can Really Understand Your Buyer and A Quote From Thomas Edison appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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