InsideSales.com

AUGUST 1, 2019

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 28, 2019

Losing fast, having the courage to walk away from a deal that you are highly unlikely to win is tough for everyone. But it’s actually one of the important things you can do to drive your sales performance. In the past 4 weeks, I’ve walked away from 2 deals. The first, I knew I could win. It was a very small deal, but the CEO was putting constraints around the project that were unreasonable, they hampered our ability to produce the results he expected.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2019

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Xactly

AUGUST 1, 2019

Measuring sales performance accurately is important to drive growth. Learn what metrics you should track for better insight into your sales organization.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Engage Selling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Are you pushing the sale too hard with your prospects and clients? Look, we all know sales is about persistence. Sometimes though, sellers don’t know when to slow down on that persistence and actually repel the client away.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Some will have iterations based on the role of someone in the decision process. Others may reflect the size of the target company or a couple of other demographics. But there is a singular erroneous assumption that goes into pieces, making them all but useless, and often get in the way of selling.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2019

In today’s technology and data-driven landscape, marketers are under constant pressure to prove the value of their efforts. But with the amount of data and analytics we have access to, it can be difficult to differentiate between the important marketing metrics and the not-so-important marketing metrics. If you’re struggling to report on the success of your marketing campaigns, we’re here to help. .

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SBI Growth

JULY 28, 2019

Driving effective cross-functional interlocks is a best practice for B2B organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth. However, one interlock that often gets overlooked in go-to-market transformations is the relationship between Sales and Pricing. Too often, Sales views Pricing as a.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 28, 2019

Author: David L. Varner We ask for things all the time…asking your dog to sit and stay, or your kids to go bed. Do you get what you want? Simply stated, it’s asking someone to do something. Here’s another: Rule One in sales is: “Did you ask for the order?”. Sound familiar? How many times have you said, or heard this? What’s the typical answer? Do you get a sheepish look and a long “Um….?”.

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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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Connect2Sell

JULY 31, 2019

his series has focused on a wide variety of topics that will help you succeed as a new sales manager. That’s the short-term view. In this post, we’re looking longer term, too, so you’ll be preparing yourself for your next-level job even as you settle into this one. New sales manager training should focus on both – your success in the new job AND your ongoing development for whatever comes next.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” Here’s a simple fact: you can’t close a sale until you have someone to sell to. So what does it take to successfully prospect? As I’ve worked with thousands of salespeople and written the book, High-Profit Prospecting, I have narrowed it down to what I like to call the “10 Keys to Prospecting”: Check out the video where I discuss these 10 keys: 1.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2019

If you are a CEO whose company sells exclusively to the end-user of your product or service and you are confident that is the optimal go-to-market motion, this article isn’t for you. However, if you are a CEO who: Is actively considering.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 1, 2019

Author: Chris Mason So many of us begin our sales careers as representatives of a company, product, service or all the above. We learn the tricks of the trade, the importance of customer service, the power of relationship building and what it feels like to win and lose. Many are content to continue in that representative position for the entirety of their careers, which can be rewarding both personally and financially.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 28, 2019

[link]. Check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: [Video Overkill] Am I the Only One Who Would Rather Read? Salespeople and content marketers, I don’t like watching your videos. I have to put my earbuds in, and that breaks my concentration. Video is not my learning style. I can read and get your point much faster than I can listen.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2019

Do you have lousy customers? Ask yourself that question and be serious about your answer. If you’re saying yes, then why do you think your customers are lousy? Are your customers lousy because your sales process attracts the wrong customers? Learn more in this 35-second video: When you prospect, you’re not only helping the customer discover why they should buy from you, but you’re also validating if you should even sell to them in the first place.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2019

Brad Christian, Chief Customer Officer of Market Force, joins us to share the true meaning of customer experience. Brad and his team at Market Force have become masters of customer experience and have shared some of the best-practices that impact.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 2, 2019

“It is never too late to be What you might have been.”. George Eliot. “Leo Tolstoy observed, ‘Faith is the force of life.’ Faith is also the force behind successful selling. The optimistic salesperson conveys an attitude of confidence to the buyer. The result? Lots of closings. But the pessimist talks himself—and the customer—out of the sale. The result?

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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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MTD Sales Training

JULY 30, 2019

One of my consultants was carrying out a ‘discovery’ session with a sales team recently, to discuss what areas they find most challenging when it comes to selling their products. One gentleman stood up at the start of the session and said, ‘I’ve been selling for over 30 years…what can you teach me?!’. My consultant simply asked him if he had changed his way of selling over the years.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 28, 2019

Set a course of action to achieve your long-term goals. That is the only way you’ll know if you got there and achieved something. Don’t wander through life and just take whatever falls in your lap. Go out and get it! Where do you want to be professionally and personally in 5 years? What do you need to start doing today to get you there? Success doesn’t happen by chance.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you have followed my blog, read our sales newsletters or listened to our audio sales brews , then you’ve heard me talk about success formulas. The concept is pretty simple. If you follow the steps and execute the required activities to the required standards, you will be successful. Well, guess what? It doesn’t always work that way, especially if you are missing critical pieces of the process.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

We spend an enormous amount of time trying to hire sales professionals that we think are “A” players. . We then (hopefully) invest time training those reps before turning them loose on the phones … only to ask them to do several different roles. . We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles, making them B or C players at both.

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Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals What is Data Hygiene?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 29, 2019

“Rejection is an inevitable consequence of selling. Ironically, this fact is good news for the disciplined salesperson. If personal rejection were not an integral component of the sales process, anyone could sell; superior sale people would be commonplace. But the reality is this: Superior sale people are quite uncommon and thus demand a high premium in the marketplace.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 31, 2019

In most companies, we find that the bottom 40% of producers are responsible for less than 20% of the total sales production (in many cases less than 10% of new business- even when we take out new hires with less than 2 years of service).

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Gong.io

JULY 31, 2019

Are you looking for a rich list of sales questions you can use today? Sweet, because we have you covered. . Not only that, but you’ll also learn how and when to use these questions. In fact, we’re going to start with that foundation. Master sales pro know that this skill is as important as what they ask. It sets the tone to conversational. Take the advice below and shift your line of questioning.

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Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

Marketing

Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2019

In today’s technology and data-driven landscape, marketers are under constant pressure to prove the value of their efforts. But with the amount of data and analytics we have access to, it can be difficult to differentiate between the important marketing metrics and the not-so-important marketing metrics. If you’re struggling to report on the success of your marketing campaigns, we’re here to help.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

You probably spend a lot of time cultivating valuable connections by prospecting on LinkedIn , and it’s likely that at some point, you’ll want to download those contacts’ information to further nurture those connections. But how do you do that? Where do you get started when exporting LinkedIn contacts -- and then what? Read on for step-by-step directions with helpful, up-to-date screenshots.

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John Barrows

JULY 29, 2019

This week’s podcast guest is James Buckley. He’s a familiar face on the podcast and we were lucky enough to spend some time with James as a team before recording this episode. James “SayWhatSales” Buckley is that guy you see on every social media feed you’ve got. He’s a Sales practitioner who is growing a killer team at RingLead , as well as the Uncrushed podcast host.

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