Sat.Sep 24, 2016 - Fri.Sep 30, 2016

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Stop Sabotaging Your Prospecting

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . We have all heard the expression that people make decisions based on emotion, then spend time rationalizing the decision. This interplay between our primal instinct and our later developed intellect, impacts sales success in other key ways. Our beliefs on a primal level have greater influence than we often realize, and despite our intellect and education, our beliefs will either limit us, or empower us beyond what many give them credit for.

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9 Quick Tips On Attracting More Business Between Meetings

MTD Sales Training

Many sales people between sales meetings or between calls are blinkered to the sales opportunities around them. They take too much time to reflect on previous meetings, and some sales people will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Social Stalking Is Not a Sales Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. Author: Joanne Black. Teaser: Just because someone agrees to connect on social media does not make that person a qualified sales lead. Just because someone agrees to connect on social media does not make that person a qualified sales lead.

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Are You Turning Off Buyers Just by Answering the Phone?

The Sales Heretic

The way you answer the phone seems like a trivial, irrelevant detail. Yet it sets the stage for everything to follow and creates a powerful impression that can either work for you or against you. Think about it—When you’ve called a company where the person who answered sounded bored or surly, did you want to [.].

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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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Riding The Prospecting Wave

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . There are many things that influence a sales cycle, some within our control, others not. Often we spend too much time, energy and emotion worrying about the things we can’t control, while deliberately ignoring and not attending to things we can control, and would make a difference if we did. Some elements or factors are not that back and white, while we may not control them, we can ride and leverage them to help us succeed.

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Sales 102 - The Pitch Deck, the Price Reduction and the Data

Understanding the Sales Force

Recently I met with a CEO whose salespeople were not closing enough business. We had just evaluated their sales force and I had the answers as to why their sales were so underwhelming. Before we could explain what was causing their problem, the CEO said something along the lines of, "We are going to create a new pitch deck and reduce our prices. That will solve the problem!".

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SaaS Sales Reps Are Bad At Explaining

Score More Sales

When you are in professional, B2B sales and go to a lot of business conferences you see a lot of trade show booths and marketing tables. These tables and booths typically have large monitors or big screen displays with whatever SaaS sales tool that booth is promoting.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: End-of-the-Year Sales Leadership

The Sales Hunter

We’re at the start of the 4th quarter of the year and that means we as sales leaders need to be stepping up our game. The month of October and the first week or two of November are the final weeks when we can expect people to be flexible and willing to meet. Today […].

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Why Sales Org Design is Critical to Your Sales Strategy Success

SBI Growth

Any sales leader’s success is dependent on two things. The first is strategy and the second is execution. Ensure that you have the right sales strategy by aligning your sales resources correctly. . Do you have the Right Rep in the Right Territory? It.

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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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6 Lessons on Partner Management from ‘The Martian’

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-09-26. Author: Dave R. Taylor. Teaser: In the movie “The Martian,” Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, has extremely limited resources and one slip could be the difference between survival and failure. The same is true of many channel partners who teeter on the very edge of business survival. Here are six lessons from "The Martian" that can help vendors recast their thinking on the dire straits many partners face, and how vendors can help make them m

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September Referral Selling Insights—Get Started for $47

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. “I don’t discount, and I don’t run fire sales.” That’s what I’ve always said. But sometimes, even when a program has helped people, it’s time to retire it and make room for new programs. It’s that time for my “Getting Started” package for individual salespeople.

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Are You “Opportunity Starved?”

The Sales Hunter

Too many salespeople find themselves without enough opportunities to keep their pipeline filled. One of the most brilliant salespeople I know and good friend Anthony Iannarino and I recently discussed the problem people have with prospecting. If we’re not willing to hold ourselves accountable to prospect, then why should we expect our prospecting to be […].

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Where Does Sales Enablement Belong?

SBI Growth

Sales Enablement is the new kid on the block for many organizations. The question has become, who owns Sales Enablement? The answer is stunningly simple: Sales. Sales Enablement needs to be a centralized function within sales for a number of reasons. Here’s.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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Make Your Sales Team Reflect Your Buyers and Grow Revenues

Score More Sales

The #SalesSummit at Dreamforce #DF16 Tuesday Sept 4th 1:30PM at the Marriott Marquis Yerba Buena Salon 9 Pre-register here.

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Top 14 Truths About Managing Salespeople & Increasing Sales

Anthony Cole Training

If you’ve followed my blog for any period of time, you know that there are several phrases that I use when discussing sales outcomes, sales management, recruitment and talent development:

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10 Prospecting Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make

The Sales Hunter

I hate to spend time pointing out issues, but sometimes the fastest way to get things moving in the right direction is by calling out the mistakes. Below are 10 prospecting mistakes too many salespeople make and there’s zero reason for anyone to be making them. Your objective should be to read them and […].

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How Newly Appointed Sales Leaders Can Get Their Sales Strategy Right

SBI Growth

On this week’s SBI Insider Video Podcast we take a look at newly appointed sales leaders. How can you be sure you make the most of your honeymoon period? The first 90 days are critical to your success. Watch as.

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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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Deliver Empathetic Energy Not a Passionate Sales Pitch

Increase Sales

Sometimes in sales, people confuse energy with passion. What ends up happening is the passion sounds like a sales pitch. When salespeople infuse emotional intelligence into their sales conversation, they now are delivering empathetic energy. Empathy is a measurable talent and can be further developed through emotional intelligence as well as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

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Variability in Performance – Let’s Talk Recruiting

Anthony Cole Training

Earlier, I stated that eliminating the variability of performance all starts with people, right? And then, I proceeded to tell you that I thought that eliminating variability starts with systems and process. Now, it’s time to talk about people and that means talking about recruiting. Here are the big ideas about recruiting: You don’t have to like it; you just have to do it.

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Sales Motivation Video: Ignore Negative Voices

The Sales Hunter

Who are you listening to? This is a vital question if you want to understand how to build tremendous sales motivation in your day. I challenge you this week to start ignoring the negative voices. Too many salespeople allow the negativity of people around them to take a toll on their level of achievement and […].

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Marketing Strategy: How New CMOs Achieve Revenue Contribution

SBI Growth

Generating marketing revenue contribution presents challenges for new CMOs. The traditional handoff of leads from marketing to sales is not working. Demand Generation must be integrated into the buyer’s journey from inception to a closed sale. We recently spoke with Mark.

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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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Are You Suffering from the Sales Entitlement Virus?

Increase Sales

Have you heard about the sales entitlement virus? Probably not even though this sales virus has always been present. Where this virus started is within customer loyalty. From the executive leadership team to the sales team, loyal customers were expected to continue to buy from the organization. I saw this over 30 years ago when I worked in the corporate sales world.

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Sales Strategy? Yes! Sales Approach? Yes! Sales System? NO!

Jeffrey Gitomer

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What is Your Company’s Prospecting Culture?

The Sales Hunter

Quit blaming salespeople for bad prospecting habits when you the sales manager have prospecting habits that are just as bad! Culture starts at the top, and if you want your team focused on prospecting, you too must make it a priority. Your role as a sales manager/leader is not to be the best prospecting […].

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Better Selling in Under 5 Minutes: “How to Handle the ‘I need to speak to someone’ stall.”

Mr. Inside Sales

Welcome to our new video series: “Better Selling in Under 5 Minutes.” We’re launching this series today to help inside sales reps and teams handle selling situations more effectively. Today’s topic is, “How to Handle the ‘I need to speak to someone’ stall.” If you like the video, please pass it on to other sales reps who can benefit from it.

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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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In Sales Thinking You Are Different Does Not Mean You Are Different

Increase Sales

Sales differentiation is not an easy task. With the Internet and all the experts in marketing (branding), having a unique message requires considerable work as well as having the ability to change as the market changes. Credit www.gratisography.com. Yesterday I received a handwritten postcard from a realtor. I was impressed by this direct mail marketing effort.

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Database Clean-Up: How to Avoid Blowing a Lot of Money and Your Career!

Pointclear

When evaluating the value of your database(s), is there a better, more effective alternative to either contacting all prospects in the databases or throwing them all out and starting over? Yes! You can save a lot of money and salvage the value of your database(s) by intuitively ranking the prospects in the database and testing them by calling into a sample of each segment.

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Email Prospecting: Your Emails are Likely a Bigger Waste of Time Than You Think

The Sales Hunter

Everyone wants to think using email to prospect is incredibly efficient and the only effective way to generate leads in today’s marketplace. Excuse me, but let me say it right now: Chances are your emails aren’t making the impact you think. Stop and ask yourself this question: “How does my prospecting email look on a […].