Sat.Nov 26, 2016 - Fri.Dec 02, 2016

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Or – You’re Just A Boring Prospector

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I get to listen to a lot of phone calls made by a whole lot of B2B sales people. Some are selling bleeding edge services to prospects with bleeding edge expectations, others are selling traditional products that are as exciting as watching paint dry, or listening to call recordings. There are always things we can change and improve from a skill and techniques standpoint, in fact, I consider a week less productive from a sales development success

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Companies Rush to Get This One Thing in Place for their Sales Teams Before January

Understanding the Sales Force

I've been writing about the importance of having a milestone-centric sales process for a decade and Objective Management Group's (OMG) data is showing that companies - and their salespeople - have finally begun to make some serious progress in this area. Ten years ago, only 9% of the sales population was following a formal, structured sales process.

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Eleven Ways to React When You Lose the Sale

The Sales Heretic

Everyone loses a sale now and again. It’s the nature of selling. Heck, in my career I’ve lost more sales than I can count. But the way you react to losing a sale impacts how well you do on your next sales opportunity. And all your future opportunities. With that in mind, here are eleven [.].

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Why Sales Leaders Need Vacation—and Why They Don’t Take It

No More Cold Calling

What does it say about you and your team if you can’t unplug? During the upcoming winter holidays, most of the business world will shut down. It’s vacation time, family time, rejuvenation time. If you’re planning to work through the “most wonderful time of the year,” or if you haven’t taken at least most of your vacation time this year, ask yourself why.

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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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Pipeline Insurance

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Insurance is one of those things that everyone has but nobody really wants. In some ways, we feel that we are throwing money away, until that rainy day or unforeseen event arrives, and we are all too happy to have the insurance. As much as we hate the experience, we do it because we know that it’s the best way to ensure that we don’t have a sever disruption, financial or other, that will negatively impact our lives.

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Dear CEO: The Era of Accountability Starts in 2017

Pointclear

(Photo Courtesy of Kenny Madden). This cartoon was sent to me in response to a blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I just love the simplicity of it; not to mention that it absolutely captures what is wrong with marketing in many if not most companies today. While marketing technology and marketing automation software are not totally to blame, they have made it easier to get more poor quality leads to sales faster than ever before.

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November Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Are you fully booked for Q1? Closing the sales year with a bang is nice, but if you’re not already getting a jump-start on business development for 2017, you’re running behind. The last quarter of the year is 25 percent about closing business for this year and 75 percent about building a robust pipeline for next year.

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Optimize These Two Sales Metrics and Watch Your Closure Rate Jump

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-11-29. Author: Mrigank Tripathi. Teaser: Two sales metrics are active and relevant to every conceivable business model. They are the most significant metrics and also the simplest, yet they inevitably get overlooked. Do so at your own peril. Two sales metrics are active and relevant to every conceivable business model. They are the most significant metrics and also the simplest, yet they inevitably get overlooked.

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Does Your Sales Organization Match Today’s Buyer Preferences?

SBI Growth

Today’s topic is how to organize the sales team. Joining us is Mike St. Clair, Vice President of Sales for Rentokil North America. Mike is responsible for revenue and market share growth throughout the US, Mexico and Canada for pest.

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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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Sales Motivation Video: What Are You Thankful For?

The Sales Hunter

Have you taken the time to list what you are thankful for? This week, I encourage you to do this every day. Having an attitude of gratitude can have profound impact on your life, professionally and personally. Check out the video to see what I mean: Copyright 2016, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales […].

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Being Comfortable Is for Babies Not Top Sales Performers

Increase Sales

Top sales performers who I know are the least comfortable people. They are always going beyond their comfort zones, stretching themselves especially when it comes to sales prospecting. Credit www.gratisography.com. I was reminded of this consistent characteristic when I read Mike Weinberg’s posting, Stop Over Analyzing Your List and Get in Front of Your Strategic Target Prospects Now!

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How to Shift to a Remote Work Model

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-11-28. Author: Alexa Lemzy. Teaser: Remote workers are more common among businesses of all sizes. But managing a remote team comes with its particular challenges. Here are some key steps to make sure your remote workers operate at peak efficiency. Remote workers are more common among businesses of all sizes. But managing a remote team comes with its particular challenges.

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The CEO’s Role in Driving Interlock Between Product, Marketing, and Sales

SBI Growth

On this week’s SBI Insider Video Podcast we discuss strategic alignment. Specifically, how internal, and external alignment is the key to increasing the probability of making your number. My colleague George de los Reyes and I discuss the impact that strategic alignment.

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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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10 Strategies to Get More Out of Linkedin

The Sales Hunter

Are you really doing all you can to use Linkedin to its fullest? You definitely need to join groups where your prospects are most likely to be. This includes industry oriented groups, geographical business groups, and academic groups. One quick note: When you join a group, be sure to turn off notifications. The last thing you […].

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What to Improve Your Sales Skills? Then Go Beyond Most Sales Training

Increase Sales

Most sales training and much of the sales coaching focuses on how to improve sales skills. To reach that next level of sales success may require going beyond current, almost cookie cutter, robotic sales training. If current approach to developing sales skills is still not securing the desired results, then maybe something is missing. What is missing is how to recognize and leverage the uniqueness of each salesperson.

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Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-12-02. Author: Michael Lundberg. Teaser: Your blog could regularly attract 1,000 or more visitors a day and it wouldn't help your business if none of them turn into customers. Follow these tips for turning a blog into a business generator. Your blog could regularly attract 1,000 or more visitors a day and it wouldn't help your business if none of them turn into customers.

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Goal Planning for 2017 Made Easy (Webinar: Dec 8)

Mr. Inside Sales

It’s that time of the year again – goal planning for the New Year! If that task seems intimidating to you, or, if you didn’t make any of your goals this year because they were either too ambitious or hard to follow, then I’ve got great news for you. Nest Thursday, my colleague, Laura Posey, is going to give my readers a free Webinar entitled: “Goal Planning for 2017 on One Sheet of Paper.”.

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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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It’s Not What You Say. It’s the Results Your People Achieve.

The Sales Hunter

Recently I was with a sales manager who is anything but a sales leader and, for that matter, shouldn’t even be a sales manager. I’ve met with him 3 times and each time he raves about how good a manager he is. It’s all about how he is so good with his team and customers. […].

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Sustainable Sales Success - Tip #17 Humility

Increase Sales

Sales success today definitely requires leaving your ego at the door. Being humble, demonstrating humility is essential. This does not mean you as the salesperson is a doormat. No what it means is you are authentic because you are more focus on the potential ideal customer or sales lead than yourself. The word humility comes from the Latin word humilitas , This word can be translated as humble.

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6 Ways You Can Fulfil Your Prospect’s Needs

MTD Sales Training

Many salespeople struggle to find the best way forward when they have to work with existing clients because they still put the emphasis on their own products and services. The more successful salespeople spend their time identifying the real needs of the businesses they are working with and creating opportunities for them to advance their businesses.

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The Flavors That "Sales Ready" Leads Come In

Pointclear

(Cartoon courtesy to Kenny Madden). I once worked with the then SVP, Marketing of a large public company who was frustrated with sales. Big surprise. At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. They could choose one of the following: 200,000 targeted contacts (name and title) in the right vertical (no email addresses). 100,000 companies with up to three executive contacts in the right company (no email addr

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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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Prospecting Using Linkedin

The Sales Hunter

If Linkedin isn’t creating for you the prospects and business you need, then it’s time to ask yourself if you’re using Linkedin correctly. It’s easy to think all you need to do is buy one of the Linkedin premium services and suddenly you’ll have all the business you need. False assumption! Yes, having one […].

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Stop, Take a Step Back and Gain Clarity Around Your Purpose

Increase Sales

So what’s your purpose if you are in sales, leadership or some other role? People are so busy working IN their lives, they fail to stop and take a step back to work ON their lives. Credit www.gratisography.com. When we understand our individual purpose, we gain clarity and this supports us as we move intentionally forward. Isn’t it funny we use words all the time and think we know what they mean?

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Chicken Little and The Impact of Dol (pt.1)

Anthony Cole Training

As the story goes, Chicken Little gets hit on the head and declares the sky is falling.

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Sales Strategy: Winning the Business

SBI Growth

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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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The 3 Types of Content All Good ABM Strategies Need

A Sales Guy

Have you noticed? Most content sucks. Yup, I said it. Sorry, in too many cases it is true. Marketing content designed to generate leads is weak, uninspiring and offers little value to the target market. When was the last time you found or even downloaded an exquisite ebook, or attended a great webinar or was offered a compelling study? Exactly! Most content today is average at best.

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Time to Rethink Our Sales Fears

Increase Sales

Sometimes by rethinking what we believe to be true, we can change our results. This is especially true for our sales fears. Credit www.gratisography.com. Being in sales is not easy. Salespeople are confronted with a lot of fears from meeting strangers to going to places uninvited to not earning a sale after weeks of follow-up. They sometimes never know what is behind the doors they walk through.

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So, You Want To Be A Manager? A Coaching Conversation

Keith Rosen

Ever been approached by someone looking but not ready for a promotion into management? Here’s a five step process on how to facilitate this conversation to ensure people distinguish fact from fiction and know exactly what they’re signing up for. Have you ever had one of your direct reports, often the ones that were closest to graduating college come to you and say, “Boss, I want a promotion.

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