Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 17, 2022

Top producers have mastered many skills. However, we know that all salespeople, including top salespeople, still struggle with 3 primary sales challenges.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 16, 2022

As commercial leaders are being pushed to grow at unprecedented rates, recent SBI research suggests that 57% of their highest-performing sellers are pursuing other opportunities. While neither sales processes nor SalesTech impacted sellers’ intent-to-stay in this same study, the tools a team uses can have a direct impact on a seller's pipeline volume, their sense of territory fairness, and their satisfaction with professional development — the three areas with the greatest impact on seller reten

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 16, 2022

Sales teams that adapt to the new world order will win. Those that insist on using the same tactics they’ve always used are essentially trying to do the impossible – travel back in time. The post 3 Strategies to Adapt to the Changing B2B Sales World appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 15, 2022

So there will be Major League Baseball in 2022. Suddenly the b g and moaning about the owners has stopped and everyone is just happy that baseball is back. Speaking of baseball and bringing sales into the discussion, let's talk about coaching. First the baseball. When my son was home for winter break, I asked him to rank all of his baseball coaches, an exercise that he found quite interesting.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 12, 2022

Congrats to those companies & individuals who sent in their prospecting scripts for review. I received many scripts and went ahead and reviewed ten (instead of just the three). One error I kept seeing was reps’ mishandling asking for the right person when they didn’t know the right contact’s name. Usually, they asked it this way: Gatekeeper: “Thank you for calling the Johnson company.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 15, 2022

Salespeople are by nature highly competitive. But internally, their competitive nature can lead to conflicts if they contest who owns which accounts, contacts, opportunities, and the like. Instituting clear and concise rules of engagement can help alleviate this friction. The post The New Rules of Salesforce Collaboration – Better Collaboration, Better Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Membrain

MARCH 13, 2022

If you’ve been following my blog series, you’ve learned some best practices for phone prospecting, as well as mistakes to avoid on the phone. Last time I shared some shortcuts to make things more efficient for you. You’ve got a great foundation, but now it’s time to build the structure of your phone prospecting campaign.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 12, 2022

By now, I hope you have all been incorporating your prospect’s name in your email subject lines. If you have, then you are already getting more prospects to lock onto your email, and that will mean more prospects will read them. The second part of a compelling subject line is to make the rest of it intriguing to your prospect. Here are some examples: Subject Line #1: “John, quick question about your manufacturing process…”.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

Frenemy: A person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental rivalry. If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” You’re kind of like friends because they distribute your ads, and kind of like enemies because you’re both self-interested. You’re each trying to make the most money possible and that can create conflicting interests. “The more profitable experience for search engines is more people clicking on ads.

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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 and Marketing Management

MARCH 14, 2022

Capturing the attention of the increasingly elusive B2B buyer has become harder than ever as more sales interactions happen in digital channels, buying committees continue to grow and buyers conduct more self-guided research. The answer lies in building a full-scale, comprehensive sales enablement strategy. The post 5 Ways Marketers Can Close the Engagement Gap with Sales Enablement appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 17, 2022

I’m fascinated by studying lazy sales people! Let me qualify that a little, I’m fascinated by studying lazy sales people that consistently achieve their goals. There seems to be a “macho” mentality in too many sales people/leaders. They express pride in how many calls they make, how many dials, how many emails, how much social selling engagement, how they are leveraging the tools.

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Force Management

MARCH 16, 2022

The greatest leaders are the ones who never let their team rest on their success, or wallow in defeat. At the end of the quarter, avoid screaming at the scoreboard. The final score only gives you the end result. It doesn’t tell you the whole story. It’s your responsibility as a sales leader to help your team uncover and address execution challenges.

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KLA Group

MARCH 15, 2022

Website development projects can be the real-life version of Chutes and Ladders. Make all the right choices, you climb up, up, up. Prospects find you in online searches. Your web copy converts visitors into prospects. But the danger of one bad roll is always lurking in the background, ready to catapult you back to the […].

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 17, 2022

Data visualization is a valuable tool in creating and retaining trust between businesses and consumers. Here are three ways to improve relationships with customers via data visualization. The post Why Data Visualization Is Vital in Forging Customer Relationships appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 18, 2022

? How can you differentiate yourself and beat the competition? I’ve noticed how common it is for us as sellers in today’s marketplace to assert that we’re different from our … Read More. The post How to Beat the Competition | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 14, 2022

Learn the top five reasons why AEs should be included in the SDR training process, and how greater communication between these roles can help you close more deals. The post Should AEs Be Training and Onboarding SDRs? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 17, 2022

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. The author is an expert in their field and a Crunchbase user. We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 14, 2022

Perhaps as a sales manager or sales executive, you have pondered the question, "Is it time to restructure my sales operation?". When you're not getting the results you need from your sales team, it's certainly tempting to consider restructuring how you're going to market.

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RAIN Group

MARCH 16, 2022

The best sellers do more than just close sales. They reshape buyer thinking and drive change through the value they provide. We call this insight selling , and it hinges on the concept of cognitive reframing.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 15, 2022

Simeon Atkins joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss leveraging ABM for more effective sales development outreach. The post Leveraging ABM to Reach Prospects That Are Actually Worth Your Time appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Julie Hanson

MARCH 16, 2022

As a presenter or speaker, it’s unsettling when your audience looks bored in your virtual meeting. When confronted with blank faces, inattentive or distracted body language it’s easy to rush through your material, over check-in, and generally behave in a way that creates the very boredom you seek to prevent! So what do you do? First, it’s important to know that virtual audiences tend to be more passive in general so your perception may not be the reality.

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In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 15, 2022

Successful social selling can lead to significant growth for your business. In fact, the right tactics can do more than sell products, but provide a foundation of credibility and confidence that will bolster your brand as a whole. This all sounds very appealing, but how can you actually go about enhancing your own social selling efforts? Let’s look at a few methods that separate the pros from the rest of the pack.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 16, 2022

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. The author is an expert in their field and a Crunchbase user. We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc.

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Sandler Training

MARCH 17, 2022

Here are some of the key questions we coach salespeople to be prepared to ask in the initial phases of a conversation with a prospect. The post 15 Powerful Questions Salespeople Can Ask “Before We Get Started” appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Membrain

MARCH 16, 2022

Almost every CRM on the market today touts the benefits of a “360-degree view of your customer.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 16, 2022

Each week, more Americans listen to podcasts than have Netflix accounts. Since it began in the early 2000s, podcasting has grown drastically and steadily. Just from 2018 to 2021, podcast listeners have increased by 29.5%. Thus far in 2022, 51% of the population has listened to a podcast, with over one-third of Americans listening to podcasts regularly.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2022

Adding new tech can cause a chaotic whirlpool of new processes to follow and not to mention—one. more. thing. to. remember. Sales Ops just wants to make the sales process (and the sales teams lives) easier with sales tech stack. But how do you add to the stack without causing your team stress? The post Expanding Sales Tech Stacks: More Chaos or More Structure?

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Pipeliner

MARCH 16, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Adam Hartung discusses why all business people need to pay more attention to trends. Adam Hartung has an excellent track record on using proprietary frameworks for predicting business success — The Phoenix Principle and the Status-Quo Risk-Management Playbook. He has made keynotes and presentations to companies worldwide and was the #1 leadership columnist for Forbes.com for eight years with over 50 million readers.

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