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Virtual Selling: What Can Go Wrong?

Anthony Cole Training

If you consider all the things that you do as a salesperson throughout the day, you’ll notice you spend a lot of time virtually prospecting, qualifying, closing, and building relationships.

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5 pricing rules I wish I’d known earlier

Membrain

Presenting your price with confidence is vital with costs going the way they are in today’s economy. How can you maximize your revenue and avoid buckling under requests for a discount?

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The Key to Key Accounts

Selling Power

How organizations handle key accounts is crucial to their success. In this blog we explore the key to key accounts.

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The Why Of It All  

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Quota attainment remains under 60%, closed forecasted deals aren’t much better. One has to ask what is being enabled by the new breed of soothsayers. A structured and enabled mess is still a mess. As with most things it is rarely about the what and the how, success is always about understanding why.

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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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How to Craft a Consistent Audio Presence Across Today’s Top Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Screen fatigue is real. Sonic branding can be used to break through the noise and distinguish your brand from your competitors. The post How to Craft a Consistent Audio Presence Across Today’s Top Platforms appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Four C’s of Great Salespeople: Part 3

Anthony Cole Training

We have identified the four Cs of great salespeople and how mastering these traits will lead to better relationship selling and advanced selling skills. This week we are focusing on the critical trait of Courage. There are two primary challenges for salespeople that require the most courage.

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Top 10 Sales Coaching Quotes

Steven Rosen

Sales is a team sport and like in any sport, a sales team without a great coach is a team that will never win, regardless of the talent and skill of its individual members. Effective sales coaching is about helping your salespeople get better at what they do. Below you will find 10 Sales Coaching Quotes that I find insightful and inspirational. Many come from sports coaches who understand the power of great coaching.

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How Coaching and Development Drives Sales Growth

Sales and Marketing Management

A survey of more than 150 B2B sales leaders identified the mindsets, attributes and behaviors that differentiate the best in the sales profession. Here are five skills that sales leaders must help their reps develop to enhance their performance. The post How Coaching and Development Drives Sales Growth appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 60 – Olivier Rivière

The Pipeline

Incudes OVERTIME segment. Olivier helps Sales and Marketing leaders and their teams at companies operating in COMPLEX B2B and B2G ENVIRONMENTS improve SALES PERFORMANCE and CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT for RETENTION and GROWTH. Working with Sales or Marketing organisation with KAM/GAM programme, a Sales Enablement & Effectiveness Team or a Sales Academy.

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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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One Question to Learn Buying Motive

Mr. Inside Sales

How is your first quarter turning out so far? Closing lots of business and exceeding your quota? Or are you struggling to catch up and hoping for a strong March? If you or your team is struggling, a cause might be a fundamental flaw that many sales teams suffer from: failure to understand—and pitch to—a prospect’s unique buying motive. Let’s review the sales process briefly: Recognizing all buyers of products and services have specific needs (buying motives) they are looking to fulfill.

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11 Podcasts to Help Your Sales Leaders Elevate Sales

Alice Heiman

It’s no surprise that podcasts have grown in popularity over the past few years. Podcasts are a convenient way to stay up to date on current industry trends, learn new things, and of course, they can be entertaining (not all of the podcasts I like are sales-related!). . But there are hundreds if not thousands of sales and business podcasts out there.

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Are You Following Through on Your Corporate Social Responsibility Pledge?

Sales and Marketing Management

More than half of Americans say they factor value alignment into their purchase decisions, according to Forrester. The problem is that many brands’ idea of CSR is little more than shallow engagement with socially conscious business practices to curry favor. The post Are You Following Through on Your Corporate Social Responsibility Pledge? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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My top 7 anti-Salesforce rants, all in one blog post

Membrain

It’s no secret that I believe Salesforce has outlived its ranking as a top-rated sales tool. It was a game changer when it came out, by moving CRM to the cloud, but it’s grown top-heavy, expensive, cumbersome, and, frankly, makes life hard for salespeople and their leaders.

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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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Simple Strategies to Increase Win Rates

Force Management

Whether you've recently launched a sales initiative or are simply looking for ways to support your sales team as the quarter progresses, one thing is certain — you've got numbers to hit. While driving a lasting change to front-line numbers takes consistent effort and leadership , find simple strategies to help your sales reps improve on core areas of sales effectiveness.

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The New Sales Channel

Partners in Excellence

Channels “partners” have been a part of sales ever since sales have existed. Channels are a high impact route to market, they enable us to connect with customers we can’t easily connect with. They provide capabilities, amplifying our offerings, enabling our channel partners and us to create greater value to the customer. They may provided deeper expertise in certain areas than we can, consequently, driving higher levels of success.

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Sales Leadership Summit Addresses B2B Trends and Challenges

Sales and Marketing Management

Leadership Summit 22, sponsored by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals is set for March 8-10 in Chicago. The conference will feature thought-provoking keynote presentations, workshops and panel discussions on key trends and challenges facing today’s B2B sales leaders and their teams. The post Sales Leadership Summit Addresses B2B Trends and Challenges appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Leverage Your Perspectives

Engage Selling

Do you know how to strategically create, foster, and leverage your perspectives? Learning how to be Right on the Money means learning field-tested strategies to adapt fully and thrive in today’s permanently changed marketplace. That’s why I launched this four-part … Read More » The post How to Leverage Your Perspectives first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Is the SDR Model Truly Dead? Industry Experts Weigh In

Predictable Revenue

Industry experts join the Predictable Revenue panel to weigh in on the SDR model–what works, what doesn’t, and how to leverage the system for success. The post Is the SDR Model Truly Dead? Industry Experts Weigh In appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Weekly Roundup: 2022's Economic Slowdown + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.". - AROUND THE WEB -. > The Top 3 Things to Consider for 2022's Economic Slowdown– The Great Game of Business. In 2021, industrial sectors experienced Accelerating Growth, creating crunches on capacity, exacerbating concerns surrounding the labor market, prompting a willingness to purchase raw materials at higher costs than perhaps would have otherwise been desired.

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Marketers Plug Into Our Beliefs and Biases to Get Buy-in

Sales and Marketing Management

What kind of beliefs and biases should marketers build their brands around? The following four vectors of what’s called “cognitive ease” can be used to design your brand message. The post Marketers Plug Into Our Beliefs and Biases to Get Buy-in appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Recruit and Retain More Women to Your Sales Team

Zoominfo

Women across the globe are still battling the effects of the pandemic, both at home and at work. Careers quickly stalled for those required to care for children or ailing parents, causing about 2 million women in the U.S. to leave the workforce in the first year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic — nearly twice the shortfall seen among men. No previous recessions have so disproportionately affected women.

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Customizing for Every Customer: How 1:1 Personalization Drives ROI

Personalization has moved beyond segmentation. It’s now a proven strategy to transform customer relationships, drive business growth, and increase marketing ROI. In this eBook, Salesforce explores why it’s important to communicate with your customer as an individual and how you can: Create personalized experiences across channels with data, AI, and machine learning Increase the ROI of every site visit Build customer loyalty with trust By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact infor

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Go-To-Market Strategies to Reach Revenue Targets

Predictable Revenue

Christina del Villar joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how a go-to-market strategy can help you boost outbound sales and hit your revenue target. The post Go-To-Market Strategies to Reach Revenue Targets appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Share Company-Wide Knowledge for Free With Guru's New Light User Role

Guru

We’re officially introducing Guru’s new free user role: Light users. This user role makes it easy for you to get your entire company on the same page and into the same knowledge base.

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Do Your Customers Feel Appreciated?

Janek Performance Group

Today, most calendars list appreciation days for everyone and everything. Cat appreciation (August 7). Dog appreciation (August 26). Llamas (December 9). Teachers, nurses, customers (May 3, May 6, April 18). That’s right. We should appreciate customers on April 18, but do we take them for granted the rest of the year? Sellers should appreciate customers every day.

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Failed Sales Strategies: Why They Happen

Engage Selling

Frustrated with failed sales strategies? You put together a robust sales strategy—a strategy that you worked extremely hard on and believed to be near flawless—only to see it fail in the long run. Frustrating, right? In my years of consulting, … Read More » The post Failed Sales Strategies: Why They Happen first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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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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10 Ways to Encourage Employee Development

The Center for Sales Strategy

In this revamped corporate world, organizations are increasingly investing in employee experiences. The emphasis is on employee reskilling and upskilling with the view to build competitive advantages that will help organizations navigate the future. This explains why businesses are aligning their growth strategies with employee development. Employee learning and development are now at the core of key priorities that any organization has.

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Churn Reduction: 5 Powerful Strategies For Preventing Customer Churn

Gong.io

The world has changed dramatically. As Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight said, “even though our jobs might have felt hard before going remote, they definitely seem like smooth sailing in hindsight.” . And the key to thriving in today’s economy, according to Nick? Driving more sales from customers. (Some things in sales never change!). Nick joined a small army of Gongsters for a conversation on strategies to reduce churn. .

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What Type of Sales Training is Right For Your Team?

Janek Performance Group

Congratulations to your company for surviving the pandemic. Things sure looked bleak for a while. You might have needed to lay off staff, but you made it through the downturn. Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. That’s the good news. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities.