Sat.Apr 29, 2017 - Fri.May 05, 2017

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Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team

Steven Rosen

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently deliver outstanding results. Given limited budgets, you need to figure out how to maximize your ROI?

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New Analysis Shows the 5 Biggest Gaps Between Top and Bottom Sales Performers

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright Cybrain. It didn't take very long for this to happen. When Objective Management Group (OMG) announced that it was making its findings data available to the public, we knew that it wouldn't take long for someone with a flair for analytics to dig in and come up with something cool. Last week, John Cousineau, creator of Abicus, got me on a video conference and shared what he came up with.

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Importance of 1st Impressions from Sales Leadership Training Companies

Score More Sales

I saw a question this week in a sales community on LinkedIn. A member was looking for a referral for sales management training. What struck me hard was that he said he’d reached out to four companies who offer sales management training services. Three days had gone by, and only one of the companies had reached out to him.

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When Asking for Referrals Can Hurt Account-Based Sales

No More Cold Calling

Avoid this digital danger zone! As comedic director Woody Allen once said, 80 percent of success is showing up. Some readers might not know who Woody Allen is, and that’s OK. Just trust me: He was absolutely right on this point. Showing up matters, especially for account-based sales pros—whether it’s showing up in the right place at the right time, showing up to learn, or just showing up to connect.

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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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10 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Selling

The Sales Hunter

The number of people who are out there offering solutions via email to help you sell without ever having to pick up a phone or face rejection is driving me nuts. The only thing these people are doing is fleecing scared salespeople. They’re taking their money by selling them a dream that goes “poof”shortly […].

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Participants vs. Observers

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Ask sales people why they lose deals and most will offer either price or some aspect of the product that led to their demise. I bet the over 40% B2B reps who fail to attain quota in a given year will also lean on the same crutch. While I understand the defence mechanism, you have to wonder when they will face the truth, and actually consider that it is the way they sell that leads to the results they get, nothing else.

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2017’s Top 4 Sales Trends

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kate Kirby, Content Strategist and Marketer at Conga “Sell more. Sell faster.” Surely you heard some variation of that directive during 2017 sales kickoff season. The question is, how? Through constant innovation, companies test, shift and change their approaches to sales, with the ongoing mission of accomplishing those twin goals. In assessing the evolution of the sales process over the past year, we have identified a number of emerging trends that innovative companies are leveraging to

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What does Do Nothing Really Look like for your Prospect?

Sales 2.0

Who is your biggest competitor? If you’re in IT sales is it IBM. Apple, Google, Wipro, some dudes in Bulgaria? Probably not. You’re biggest competitor is Status Quo Inc. Boy those guys are tough to beat! The thing is a lot of the time our prospect will choose the status quo, aka do nothing vs. any super-cool company out there, including ours. You thought you had this opportunity rolling.

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Where to Invest an Extra $1M in Marketing Budget

SBI Growth

The million-dollar question is where would you invest an extra million dollars in discretionary budget? In Interview after interview with top B2B Chief Marketing Officers, the universal response has been Content Marketing. Why? Top marketing leaders know that satisfying the.

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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.

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Where’s You Next $1,000,000 Deal Coming From?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . To do something right, you need to set time aside to understand things, to come up with a plan, and then finally doing it. All of these are elements of success, and they all require time to complete. This is why I want the sellers I work with to not think about time management, a really silly concept, but instead focus on time allocation.

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April Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Think winning is acknowledging a prospect’s pain? Think winning is focusing on a prospect’s desired outcome and then demonstrating how your solution gets results they can bank on? That’s not winning. That’s just playing the game—the same game every other salesperson is playing. Prospects are bored, and salespeople have become a commodity.

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Sales Motivation Video: The Best Way to End the Day

The Sales Hunter

The best way to end the day? On a positive note. Sounds good, right? It is good! And not as hard as you may think. In the below video I tell you exactly how to do it. Follow this one routine and you will see increasing success in sales and in life! Copyright 2017, […].

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A front-row seat at a failed business experiment

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM Downtown Project (DTP) is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s effort to rebuild Downtown Las Vegas into the most community-focused large city in the world. He invested $350 million of his own money, started recruiting entrepreneurs in 2012 and put a five-year timeline on the project. Business journalist Aimee Groth lived through the first three years of Hsieh’s “community as a startup” experiment.

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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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The Ultimate Catch eBook

DiscoverOrg Sales

We’re on a boat! Well, actually, it’s a fishing boat. We’ve got a captain, a crew, and a gigantic net – because we’re angling for the ultimate catch. We’re fishing for leads, thanks to the ultimate account-based everything team. Ultimate Catch: Your Guide to Account-Based Orchestration is a clever ebook from LeadMD. It maps aligned sales and marketing teams to the positions on a boat and describes how they work together to catch the biggest fish.

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This Is Why Customer Experience Is WAY More Important Than Your Product

MTD Sales Training

Harvard Business Review (HBR) discussed an interesting concept recently (Sept 2016) where they were comparing what customers actually buy and what sellers offer to sell. Of course, people don’t buy the product for what it is (hence features and advantages are becoming less salient to consumers) but they do buy what it will help the customer to accomplish.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: The Lies Sales Leaders Tell Themselves

The Sales Hunter

Sales leaders are quick to rationalize away things they know they need to do. They do so by convincing themselves a situation is improving when it isn’t or they think that with luck something will turn around. You know what I’m talking about. I’ve been there. Early in my sales management role, I was […].

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5 Reasons Sellers are Leaving Your Organization

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” It stings that much more when the individual is a top performer whose experience fell short of their expectations.

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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 Qualifying for Timeline is Important

Mr. Inside Sales

Okay. So I’ve been in sales longer than some of my clients have been on the planet. I’ve made thousands and thousands of prospecting calls, and thousands and thousands of closing calls. I teach, train, write books on phone scripts, and develop customized phone scripts and inside sales training programs for sales teams worldwide. You’d think that I would never get tripped up by or neglect the fundamentals of sales, right?

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How an Executive Provides Clarity of Objectives

SBI Growth

Today’s topic is focused on creating clarity for revenue growth when developing your corporate objectives. Our guest knows a thing or two about providing strategic clarity to sales and marketing leaders. Joining us today is Dennis Hummel, the President of.

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Why Are So Many Managers Determined to Prevent Sales?

The Sales Hunter

It’s time we salespeople who are fully committed to making it happen start to call out managers who simply don’t get it. It’s time to get these barriers to success removed once and for all. An inside sales team I was working with a few years back was on the verge of breaking through […].

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5 Phrases You SHOULDN’T Use With Your Prospects

MTD Sales Training

How do you build up trustworthiness before meeting with a client or prospect? Of course, you can write blogs and articles on LinkedIn, send personalised emails and refer back to previous visits. This builds credibility with prospects and gives them a reason to trust you. But this trust isn’t always earned, even when you are building the relationship.

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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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[VIDEO] Top Qualities of High-Growth Companies: A Conversation with Henry Schuck

DiscoverOrg Sales

Join DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Shuck and Justin Withers, VP of Product Management and Marketing, for a conversation about what drives high-growth companies. DiscoverOrg released a Growth Drivers survey of high-growth companies , analyzed key findings, and found some surprising commonalities among these rising stars. So relax, get comfortable, and listen in as Henry and Justin discuss what fuels growth at companies who outpace the competition.

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Why Qualifying for Timeline is Important

Mr. Inside Sales

Okay. So I’ve been in sales longer than some of my clients have been on the planet. I’ve made thousands and thousands of prospecting calls, and thousands and thousands of closing calls. I teach, train, write books on phone scripts, and develop customized phone scripts and inside sales training programs for sales teams worldwide. You’d think that I would never get tripped up by or neglect the fundamentals of sales, right?

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No guru, no method, no leader

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan If reading books by or about great business leaders is enlightening and inspiring, reading about business leaders who have attained significant success almost in spite of themselves is engrossing in a whole different manner. That’s the sort of tale that Aimee Groth spins in her book “ Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh’s Zapponian Utopia.

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Is AI impacting Inside Sales Rep Revenue? Mike Plante of InsideSales Says it Is.

Pointclear

Why it’s Important: “The companies that lag behind in adopting new ways of selling and marketing are slated for the trash heaps of failed businesses.”. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. Because of this, CRM Radio and the sister program SLMA Radio, have been interviewing executives on the subjects of the marketing and sales uses of Artificial Intelligence.

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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.

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Your Customers Are Telling You to Reconsider Inside Sales

SBI Growth

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Do You Really Want to Increase Sales?

Increase Sales

How many times have I heard “I really want to increase sales” or “I need to sell more?” Yet the results speak for themselves as the majority of salespeople do not meet their sales quotas or sales goals. The want is a human desire. It is both external and internal. Until the internal desire is truly emotionally energized reinforced with logical thinking, it will only be a want never a fulfillment of that burning desire to increase sales.

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What You Don’t Know Can Kill Sales Growth

Anthony Cole Training

I had a conversation this week with 3 executives that run bank-owned investment programs.

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