Sat.Jun 16, 2018 - Fri.Jun 22, 2018

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What Do You Mean No?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. For such a small word, ‘NO’ seem to cause a lot of havoc. Tidal waves of fear leading salespeople to imagine they will spiral endlessly to failure just at the sound of NO. Amazing how a two letter word leads to so much more than it was meant to when the prospect uttered it. Don’t Let Your Mind Run. With all deference to the book Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory , our mind runs way off course when triggered by this minuscule word.

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Weekly Sales Meetings Suck. Here Are 5 Ways to Improve Them

Sales Hacker

Summary: For effective sales meetings, just make it relevant and productive again. The weekly sales meeting — you know the one. The whole crew gets together for what amounts to an hour-long discussion around menial housekeeping items or which sales rep got a little closer to nailing a sale. Certainly it’s important information in its own right.

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Five Tips for Being a Better B2B Sales Manager

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. Leading a team of salespeople in a world of ever-changing purchasing trends, a proliferation of new engagement channels, and highly educated customers, is stressful. It requires patience, agility, and a lot of motivational guidance. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable.

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The Ultimate List of Sales Discovery Call Questions

Hubspot Sales

Closing calls are sexy. They’re the calls where a deal gets moved across the line, contracts get signed, and you earn your commission checks. But closing calls are a bit of a fait accompli. Depending on who you sell to and what you sell, you could have already spent 10 to 20 hours with your prospect. You should have a good idea of whether the deal will close and for how much.

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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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3 Ways Sales Can Help the Marketing Team (and Help Themselves)

DiscoverOrg Sales

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. Sound good? Awesome. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? To improve quality of marketing leads, here are three key pieces of information sales must share with the marketing team: Raw feedback from customers and prospects.

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19 Ways to Follow Up Without Being a Pest

The Sales Heretic

You already know that effective follow up is crucial to closing sales. But how can you follow up with prospects without annoying them to the point where they scream, “Leave me alone!” The key is to deliver value in your follow up efforts. Provide your prospects with information, entertainment, or other items of value to [.].

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Letting Others Shine Can Get You Sky-High Referral Rates

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Ruhlin Decades ago, sales professionals hit upon a mantra to understand how to woo prospects: “What’s in it for me?” But too many salespeople today forget that this question comes from the customer’s point of view, not their own. Want proof of this attitude reversal? Look no further than a recent DiscoverOrg study on buyer personas. The study’s eye-opening findings include the fact that only 35 percent of salespeople were rated “good” or “excellent”; by contrast, 65 percent received

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The Latest Data Shows That Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought

Understanding the Sales Force

When you watch the news these days, it seems like all you hear is Russia, Immigration, North Korea, FBI, DOJ, liars and leakers, and the latest celebrities to be disgraced by their behavior. You would think there wasn't anything else going on! You might be having a similar experience with my recent articles as I have been sharing lots of data about salespeople - to the degree where you might think that nothing else matters.

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7 Ways You Can Succeed With B2B Live Video

Zoominfo

In recent years, B2B live video has exploded in popularity as a viable marketing tactic. Live video isn’t just a hot trend– it’s changing online content as we know it. In fact, live-streaming currently accounts for two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020 ( source ). And, other video streaming statistics support this.

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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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Dust off some CRM records

Sales 2.0

This is a series of posts aimed at helping you survive in a new sales territory. Maybe you get a new sales job or took over a new “greenfield” opportunity in your existing position. Either way you’ve got a big challenge ahead. In my last post, I talked about using all your relationships: your mum, cousins, accountant, friends etc. to get you introductions to target account in your new territory.

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Data Proves Sales Coaching is Weak

Score More Sales

After reading a recent post from Dave Kurlan about The Latest Data Shows that Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought made me want to immediately publish a plea to company leaders and heads of sales to enable sales managers to do more and better coaching. Using research from 9,000 sales managers and their sales teams, the findings are grim.

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Should Your Next Sales Leader Come from Inside the Organization or from the Market?

SBI Growth

You require a change in sales leadership. What is the best path? Should you hire from within, specifically, from the existing sales team, or should you go outside the organization and hire from the market? The choice is tricky, you.

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42 Tweets from the 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit

Zoominfo

On June 18 th , 2018 ZoomInfo held the 3 rd annual Growth Acceleration Summit —a premier B2B sales and marketing conference that allows the best and brightest in the industry to network, learn, and enjoy the city of Boston. This year’s professional event featured industry legends, experts, and best-selling authors like Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Jay Baer, Grant Cardone, Neil Patel, and Michael Brenner.

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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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7 Ways To Coach & Mentor Your Sales Team

MTD Sales Training

When sales managers have opportunities to develop their sales team, it’s something they should throw their whole time and attention at, as they seldom have the chance to get out of the fire-fighting mode and spend time working on. So what are some ways to ensure success in this important part of the sales manager role? Here are some tips and ideas: 1) Set aside quality time.

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Cold Calling Techniques: Overcoming & Handling Common Sales Objections

Mr. Inside Sales

Overcoming Objections: “We are already working with someone.”. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Learn cold calling techniques for handling and overcoming the most common objections in telemarketing phone sales including the best call rebuttal responses for “not interested.” One of the main reasons sales reps dislike prospecting and cold calling is because of all the sales objections they get.

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The Product Leader?s Secret Weapon: The Win-Loss Call

SBI Growth

Jeff Bezos is famous for his “customers come first” philosophy. In a world where choices are ample, and the customer rules, Bezos has done amazingly well putting the customer first. He has developed a systematic way to understand and anticipate.

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Investing in Marketing Tech: 7 Key Considerations

Zoominfo

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. The problem is, with so many technologies crowding the market, companies struggle to determine which tools are the best fit.

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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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What is Leadership Coaching?

Steven Rosen

What is Leadership Coaching? Leadership coaching is the fastest growing phenomenon today! Leadership coaching is a detailed process designed to help facilitate leadership development and personal growth resulting in improved performance of executives. Leadership coaches lead their clients towards the fulfillment of specific professional goals. Today’s executives are experiencing unprecedented change.

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How To Keep Generating Fresh Leads

MTD Sales Training

Your pipeline is your Holy Grail for future leads. If you don’t keep the leads coming in thick and fast, you run the risk of sales running dry over the next weeks. So, what would be the best ways to keep fresh leads coming in and generating opportunities for new business? Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, a

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Major New Advances in Applying Market Intelligence to Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

On this episode of SBI TV, Matt and Marc Osofsky, CEO of Aberdeen, demonstrate the importance of Market Intelligence. Why is this important for your company? Many companies are flying blind, and this is especially true with B2B companies. Company leaders.

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11 Easy Morning Motivation Rituals to Kickstart Your Day

Hubspot Sales

Morning Motivation. Get up early. Eat a good breakfast. Optimize your alarm. Work out. Start with "Why". Remind yourself of your wins. Do something that makes you happy. Remind yourself of your goals. Make your bed. Journal. Meditate. It takes grit to be in sales. You will get rejected by prospects multiple times a day, there are some months when you won't hit your number, and losses are just part of the job.

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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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Will ?Demo Automation? Work for Your B2B Sales Organization?

SBI

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. Like a lot of presales leaders, he was in a resource crunch, being asked to more with less. He had a mandate to decrease costs to improve profitability by increasing margins.

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Sales Benchmarks: The 30/50 rule for cold emailing & cold calling

Close.io

One of the hardest things about being a sales rep is knowing if you’re doing a good enough job. But what is “good enough?” You might feel like you’re crushing it with your cold email campaigns only to find out your competition is getting double your response rate. In sales, knowledge is power. And while you might not be able to get your competition’s exact metrics, knowing industry benchmarks can tell you where your sales efforts are working, and where they’re lacking and need your attention.

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Using a Product Roadmap to Win Deals and Differentiate in the Marketplace

SBI Growth

A product road map generates some of the most contentious debates in the product life cycle. While this is reality today, it can not only be avoided, but can be a strength. You hear “I can’t share it because Sales.

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6 Rookie Sales Call Mistakes That Make Prospects Hang Up ASAP

Hubspot Sales

As a sales rep, you’re no stranger to rejection. You’ve made hundreds if not thousands of prospecting calls in your career, and regardless of how well you prepared or how perfect the prospect was for your offering, some of those dials resulted in hang-ups. Getting hung up on occasionally is an unfortunate consequence of being in sales. Nothing to obsess over.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Use This Tool to Calculate Lead to Revenue

Pointclear

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. Problem is, most lead to revenue calculators out there are overly simplistic. A useful lead to revenue calculator includes all critically important metrics—including the impact of lead qualification and lead nurturing—on bottom line results.

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The keys to maintaining a great culture within a remote sales team

Close.io

If you’re not restricting your potential employee pool to one location, you’re able to hire the best of the best no matter where they live. On top of that, you don’t need to pay for a giant office space, meaning employees can be compensated better; your employees don’t have to suffer through a morning commute, giving them more time to execute; and everyone has the freedom to work wherever they feel comfortable.

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Your Data and Governance Processes Are Slow and Inefficient, What Now?

SBI Growth

As a chief executive, you need access to real-time, credible, actionable intelligence. Unfortunately for many organizations, data is spread across siloed legacy systems. In order to grow revenues faster than your industry and competitors, you need a culture-shifting strategy centered.