Sat.Jun 09, 2018 - Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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Sales’ Product Epidemic

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No doubt addiction is a terrible thing, regardless of whether one is addicted to drugs or any dependency addicts struggle with, it has a heavy human toll, both on the victim, those around them, and the unintended devastation experienced by those who depend on the addict. In the mid-West, this addiction is to opioids, in Sales the addiction to ‘product’ is as severe and crippling.

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How To Build (And Scale) A Successful Sales Team

Sales Hacker

I get asked this same question several times a week.—”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. Sometimes, it comes from companies after several failed attempts. The truth is, there’s only one way to do it right, and if this is your third try, lucky you, I’ll share the formula with you.

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Why Business Hustle cannot afford to take a Summer Break

Babette Ten Haken

Got your business hustle on? Or, do you let things slow down and slack off during summer months? You may be missing the most opportune times for networking and growing your business. For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere reading this post, the summer months are most welcome. Here in Ann Arbor, MI, winter seemed to hang around forever. Then Spring showed up for approximately 24 hours (or less), everything sprung up from the ground, bloomed and leafed out.

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A map that might save your sales job

Sales 2.0

Congrats you have a brand-new “greenfield” sales territory! Unlimited opportunity, untouched accounts, no other reps vying for your business. Not to mention our products are the most awesome thing ever invented. Boy, you are going to coin it in! Not! Let me translate. Congrats, you have been dropped in the middle of a huge desert. We decided to make this more challenging by not giving you any water.

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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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What 15K Demos per Year Taught Us About Converting Inbound Sales Leads

DiscoverOrg Sales

“When I first started at DiscoverOrg two years ago, I joined a group of six other Sales Development Reps (SDRs). We were all green to the role and new to sales in general. We had a team lead, whose job was daily cheerleading – but the role of ‘manager’ on the Inbound team didn’t exist.” This is a story we tell to all new hires , to show how quickly we have grown and how far we’ve come.

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How to Grow Your Referral Network

No More Cold Calling

Salespeople are only as good as the people they know. When is it time to toss the technology and start talking to people? When internet leads and a call script no longer reap new business. When it interferes with the most powerful tool in your toolbox—you. Don’t get me wrong. There’s a lot of great sales technology out there, and it would be dumb for sales reps not to use it.

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4 Steps to Create Your Sales Philosophy

Connect2Sell

This is a message for sellers who sometimes feel like they have to set their own values and standards aside in order to do the work of selling. What you need is a Sales Philosophy.

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Building Your Own Online University

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Dan Seidman Ten thousand baby boomers turn 65 every day. This is why a start-up company hired me to build their training department. The firm was targeting the senior market by offering solutions to keep these older people safe in their own homes rather than empty bank accounts to move into senior housing. I could relate, as I just had two elderly parents move into assisted living at a cost of $8,700 a month.

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4 Foolproof Ways to Beat Price Objections

Zoominfo

As a B2B sales rep, you already know objections are an unavoidable part of your job. Yet, as we explained in a recent blog post , there are many tips and tricks sales reps can use to bypass common objections during the sales cycle. Research shows price objections are the number one objection sales rep face—but half of all price objections are phony ( source ).

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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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How to Cold Call for Sales | Cold Calling Techniques that Really Work

Mr. Inside Sales

Cold Calling—3 Mistakes You Need to Avoid Now. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Discover cold calling tips, best practices and techniques to avoid and learn ways that really work on how to make effective B2B cold calls for sales. With all the technology out there, some people like to say that cold calling and prospecting are dead. But just ask account managers and inside sales managers if they still have to prospect and cold call to develop leads and they’ll tell you absolutely!

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What Role Does Your Marketing Team Play in The Revenue Desk?

SBI Growth

There is an emerging best practice in Key Account Management that successful B2B firms are quickly deploying. The best practice is a “Revenue Desk”. In this blog, I will outline the role of Marketing in this critical new Key Account.

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The Two Types of Tech Companies and How Each Should Sell

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Adam Boggs and Andrew Dornon Ironically, the engineering advantages that distinguish many technology firms in the marketplace can be one of the biggest detriments to selling. Whether companies operate as innovators in their respective technology fields who drive the marketplace (technology leaders) or focus and develop in a specific niche market (focused players), tech organizations can get bogged down by these advantages without having defined sales processes, leading to struggles with

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Recruit Top Talent

Zoominfo

Fact: Global spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach $57.6 billion in 2021, according to market research firm IDC ( source ). As adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) grows, innovative ways to use AI in the recruiting field continue to emerge. Yet, as talk of AI grows, more recruiting professionals have come forward to voice an underlying fear that these systems and technologies will eventually replace human recruiters and completely automate the hiring process.

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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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Why Pre-Call Research Is A Must, How To Beat Procrastination, Aristotle On How to Be Excellent

MTD Sales Training

Episode 18 – Why Pre-Call Research Is A Must, How To Beat Procrastination, Aristotle On How to Be Excellent. This podcast includes: Why you must do your pre-call research. Different ways to beat procrastination. An inspire me quote from Aristotle on how to be excellent. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Why Pre-Call Research Is A Must, How To Beat Procrastination, Aristotle On How to Be Excellent appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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What Do You Do When Your Deal Desk Is Failing ? Set up a Revenue Desk

SBI Growth

The idea of a deal desk is nothing new to many sales organizations. The need to treat critical and non-standard deals separately has rapidly given rise to this specialized function over the past few years. So, what happens when you.

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10 Best Electronic Signature Apps in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Best Electronic Signature Apps. PandaDoc. DocuSign. Adobe Sign. HelloSign. eSignLive. SignNow. SignEasy. RightSignature. KeepSolid Sign. Signable. How much time do you waste signing documents? You format and print off a document, sign it, scan it into your computer, and (usually) reformat it again before sending. As a one-off, this doesn’t sound too bad.

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The Attendees Guide to B2B Event Preparation

Zoominfo

Industry trade shows and professional events are an excellent way to learn new skills, network with others, and revive your creativity. But, these events can also be overwhelming—with multiple tracks, different sessions to choose from, and long days filled with non-stop activities. Because most industry events come with a cost—time away from your desk, budget, travel, etc.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud! With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings.

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Sales Tech Game Changers: How to Improve Sales Enablement & Readiness

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Brendan Cournoyer, VP of Marketing for Brainshark. Connect with him on Twitter or LinkedIn. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization?

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How to Leverage RFPs Through the Influencer Channel -That Baby is Not Yours!

SBI Growth

The Influencer Channel is often overlooked. If utilized correctly, it can help you: Learn about opportunities earlier in the sales cycle, Win more deals, while also…. Increasing the cost of sales for your competition. This combination is the sales equivalent of a hat-trick.

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How to Send a Follow-Up Email After No Response

Hubspot Sales

How to Send a Follow-Up Email After No Response. Ask yourself if you included a close in your first attempt. Never forward or cut and paste an old email. Don’t follow up too quickly. Adjust your close. Avoid the temptation to send a breakup email. How many times has a deal been going along without a hitch until, suddenly, it’s not? One week of silence passes, then two, and you’re left wondering what you did wrong and if there’s any way to fix it.

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Selling to startups: What you need to do to get the most our of your startup customers

Close.io

Most B2B startups initially sell to other startups before going after more established companies. And for good reason. Startups are approachable, quicker to close, and more forgiving when things go wrong. But is selling to startups really a good growth strategy in the long-term? Want to upgrade your sales process in just 30 days? Sign up for my free Startup Sales Success course.

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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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Why Relying on Referrals is Detrimental

KO Advantage Group

Referrals are a great way to build business however they can drown out potential clients. Relying on this one thing forever in the business world will be detrimental to your future growth. As the world changes so do the ways we do b usiness. It may have been a solely referral world before the new millennia but business needs constant adaptation. Movement.

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Is Now the Time to Hire a Chief Customer Officer?

SBI Growth

The Chief Customer Officer is one of the newest roles to join the C-Suite in the past few years. Their charter is to drive customer-centricity throughout the enterprise. They are a customer advocate who cares about providing a good customer.

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Episode #069: Persistence Pays with Jeff C West

Jeff Shore

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Jeff C West, author of The Unexpected Tour Guide, talks with Jeff about the importance of persistence. When a sales professional first starts in this business of sales, there are lots of things you don’t know. Learning how to connect with your customer’s emotions is one of the more important lessons.

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GDPR for sales: 10 things sales reps need to know about cold emailing and calling

Close.io

If your sales process relies heavily on cold emailing or calling prospects, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) isn’t great news for you. At its most basic, the GDPR changes the way outbound sales teams can collect and use personal data like email addresses, names, and other info about prospects. So, whether you buy lists of leads to fill out your pipeline, scrape prospects from LinkedIn, or automatically add new inbound contacts to your sales funnel, the sales strategies

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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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Sales Enablement, ?Build It And They Will Come?.?

Partners in Excellence

Sales enablement is a “hot” issue in driving sales effectiveness/performance. Hundreds of millions are being invested in “enabling sales people.” Whether it’s new software tools, programs, content, training, processes, dedicated sales enablement professionals and executives are creating and delivering an endless array of things to “help” sales people.

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Establishing Interlock between Marketing, Sales, and Product

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Jamey Heinze, the Chief Marketing Officer at iGrafx. Jamey has a unique background with significant experience in sales for the first 1/3rd of his career, and then product management for nearly a decade, and now as.

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How Do You Find the Good Through Sales Adversity?

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. ?My husband is amazing in so many ways. He is smart, talented, driven and caring. His career has primarily been in homebuilding, but during his “finding himself” years and while considering pursuing medicine as a career path, he worked briefly at a hospital in Washington DC for a transplant consortium. Simply put, he was the person who went in to speak with a family while their loved one was dying or had recently passed to discuss organ donation.