Sat.Nov 18, 2017 - Fri.Nov 24, 2017

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Agreeing To Disagree May Work at the Thanksgiving Table, But Not in Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Michelle Huff and David Satterwhite Ahh, Thanksgiving, the holiday of turkey and stuffing, pumpkin pie, football games, cozying up by the fire… and praying that Grandpa Joe and your brother Lucas don’t get into it over politics or some other divisive topic. Most families are likely to adopt an “agree to disagree” policy in an effort to keep discord off the festive table.

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Thanksgiving and Gratitude, in our own Words

DiscoverOrg Sales

We love coming to work each morning. We’re grateful for the daily trust of our customers, for the encouragement and camaraderie of our colleagues and coworkers, and for the community that welcomes and makes a space for us. DiscoverOrg is a special place to be, and we have much to be thankful for. Before the rush of the holiday season, before the end-of-year hustle takes over completely, a few DiscoverOrg customers and employees have something to say: Henry Schuck, DiscoverOrg CEO and Co-founder.

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3 Sales Thanksgiving Turkeys

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. While the president may be set to pardon a turkey today, I am not sure we should be so generous when it comes to some offences committed by some in sales. While we may not be willing to pardon or forgive, it seems worthwhile to look at some turkey moves sellers, at times including myself, make in the course of their day. Awesome. While there are many words used in sales that should be banned (not just from sales, but the planet), there are some that are just irritating and eith

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Sales Motivation Video: Can I Prospect at the End of the Year?

The Sales Hunter

Now is a great time to prospect and create relationships that will pay off with great opportunities in the new year. NOW is the ideal time to speed up, not slow down, in your prospecting efforts. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach can help you excel in your sales […].

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Why we don’t know what motivates us best. Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! I’ve got bills to pay! Sales manager: Sounds good. Thanks for the input. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps.

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Change Their Direction – Not Their Mind

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No one likes objections when prospecting, rejection in any form is never fun, but when it cost you money and opportunity, it’s even worse. If you are in sales, you need to quickly figure out how to best deal with objections in a way that leads to more opportunities. Some choose to hide from it, using things like e-mail, where the rejection is less direct, in the form of no response, to the first or 15 th attempt; personally, I prefer to deal with objections to lack of engageme

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5 Little-known But Essential Email Follow-up Secrets

MTD Sales Training

5 Little-known But Essential Email Follow-up Secrets is a guest post written by Forster Perelsztejn. . Forster gathers sales data at Prospect.io in order to deliver powerful and insightful advice to salespeople. Ever seen this stats collection that says that 48% of salespeople never follow up with a prospect? Yeah, it’s fake , but still, most salespeople are bad at following up.

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What You Should Know Before Opening a European Office

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Deirdre Moran, VP of Emerging Technologies, IDA Ireland The advent of online sales has certainly upended the traditional model of selling high-tech products but doing business over the internet only goes so far. Ultimately, fast-growing U.S. companies will likely need on-the-ground sales teams planted in foreign geographies to expand revenues and support overseas customers – particularly if your sales are high touch, require extensive post-sales support or involve regulatory consideratio

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The Ultimate Guide to Writing LinkedIn InMails That Get Results (With Examples)

Hubspot Sales

What if you tripled your typical email response rate? People are three times likelier to reply to a LinkedIn InMail message than a traditional email -- so if you’re going to reach out, an InMail might be the way to go. What Is LinkedIn InMail? You can only send LinkedIn messages to your first-degree connections. To contact someone who’s not in your network, you’ll need to send an InMail.

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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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Why Do People Make So Many Lead Generation Mistakes?

No More Cold Calling

Doing more means selling less. Wondering how to generate leads—not just smoke-and-mirror leads, but only qualified leads? Every account based selling rep asks that question, and pretty much every survey of sales leaders confirms that lackluster lead generation is also their chief concern. No question about it. Finding those qualified leads takes time and resources, and it’s getting tougher and tougher to reach decision-makers.

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Know The Prospective Buyer

MTD Sales Training

Know The Prospective Buyer. Understanding and dealing with different personality types. Buyer Traits. While every person is different, you will find that most prospective customers fit into certain categories. We will examine how to recognise each one, and then provide tips on how to deal with them. These tips, of course, are not concrete rules that apply to every personality and every situation.

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Why A-Player CMO’s Exercise Extreme Ownership

SBI Growth

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7 Holiday Email Templates for Salespeople

Hubspot Sales

‘Tis the season for sugar plums and stalled deals. You release emails into a void darker than Black Friday, and the only thing you’re collecting is OOO auto-replies. And while regular people enjoy slices of pie and seemingly endless vacation, you’re enjoying a second helping of “Bah Humbug” and sweating your looming number. Sound familiar? To help, I’ve pulled together seven email templates with eye-catching subject lines and get-to-the-point messages for more opens and higher response rates --

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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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What Ski Instruction Taught Me About Coaching Sales People

A Sales Guy

Many of you have heard me talk about ski instruction and how I’m a PSIA Level 2 Certified Ski Instructor at Vail. Beyond being a blast to do, like most things, parts of what I’ve learned teaching has bled into my sales consulting and coaching salespeople is a perfect example of that. I talked about it in my presentation at Hubspot’s Inbound 17 conference this past September.

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21 of the Best Online Course Platforms (and Counting)

Sell Courses Online

The post 21 of the Best Online Course Platforms (and Counting) appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Online courses are a rapidly expanding industry and will continue to grow as more and more students turn to online learning. This is terrific news for anyone who wants to share their knowledge with others and make a profit. In addition, the technology has made it really easy for you to host & sell online courses and so, the barrier to teaching online has come down significantly.

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What you think you know about the buyer's journey is wrong

Membrain

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the “buyer’s journey.” We’re all supposed to be mapping it so that we can align our marketing and sales with it. Supposedly this is going to make us exponentially more effective.

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How to Become a Consultant: 9 Steps to Doing it Right

Hubspot Sales

How to Be a Consultant in 9 Simple Steps. Identify your area of expertise. Set goals. Make a website. Get certified. Choose a target market. Decide where you’ll work. Network. Set your rates. Know when to say "no". Do you have a well-developed network? Are you self-directed? Do you have an impressive portfolio filled with client success stories? You might be ready to become a consultant, but it can be difficult to know where to start.

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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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The SaaS Metrics Blueprint: How to Define, Measure and Display What Actually Matters

Sales Hacker

This is part of the Winning By Design Blueprint Series in which we analyze and provide practical advice for SaaS sales organizations. In this blueprint, we’ll breakdown how to structure your SaaS metrics, and measure the right data for your business. Many organizations are excited about the amount of data that is flowing into their platform. However, with the explosion of data, they soon are lost on how to interpret it.

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6 B2B Sales Trends to Watch in 2018

Vainu

This is already the third time we’ve put the crystal ball on the table to predict the future of B2B sales. In the past, we have accurately predicted the rise of sales automation , artificial intelligence and several other things. There are also trends that we have missed and predictions that didn't quite happen (yet?). Most sales organizations still have their hands full dealing with previous trends, but we're still very excited to announce our six new trend predictions.

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The Selling Coach: The Evolution of the Salesperson to Coach Customers to Succeed – Part 1

Keith Rosen

Sales training isn’t dead, it’s evolved. Instead of training salespeople with recycled techniques your competitors are using, developing high performance sales teams requires transforming the traditional salesperson into The Selling Coach. To become a top performer and outsell your competition, the Selling Coach attracts more business and loyal customers by coaching their customers to succeed.

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27 Top Books for CEOs and Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

Being a CEO or entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. You’ve got to have a firm handle on the market and your product -- while inspiring employees and influencing stakeholders. Sound like a tall order? It is. So, if you see the letters “CEO” in your future, it’s never too early to start preparing with these 27 powerful and inspiring books. Start your education now and your business and employees will thank you later. 27 Best Business Books for CEOs and Entrepreneurs.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

Winners make things happen. Losers make excuses. Regardless of the field, this time-tested principle consistently rings true. In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult.

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How to Hire a Great Sales Hunter

The Center for Sales Strategy

Simple life lesson: One of the best ways to find exactly what you need is to know exactly what you’re looking for. We regularly work with hiring managers and recruiters to clearly define the role they are working to fill so they know exactly what they need for superstar performance. This morning I received an email from a sales manager asking which talents he should look for to hire a strong sales hunter.

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Takeaways from the 2017 Sales Enablement Society Conference

Membrain

Late last year, I wrote about something which happened in Palm Beach, FL when the Sales Enablement Society was officially formed. 100 of us arrived at the Breakers, not knowing exactly what to expect, but knowing there were looming problems requiring our collective attention. A few weeks ago, about 280 of us from around the globe descended upon the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson, TX to continue examining the issues.

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The 9 Best Sales Tools for Small Businesses

Hubspot Sales

What Are the Best Sales Tools for Small Businesses? CRM. Documents tool. Inventory and order management software. Invoicing software. Survey tool. Personalized video creation and analytics app. LinkedIn Premium. Meetings app. Email management tool. As the daughter of two small business owners, I’ve seen firsthand how difficult the SMB world can be -- and how the right tools can make the difference between success and failure.

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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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Analysis of 2 Million Emails Reveals an Alarming Trend Taking Over Your Sales Reps’ Inbox

Sales Hacker

Email is one of the bigger mysteries of business. It’s one of the main means of communication for companies – every company has email. For sales reps, it is a key channel to get first appointments and share documentation or contracts. For many, email is essential to succeed. Yet managers typically have no clue what is going on in the inbox of their employees.

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3 Easy Questions That Get Marketing and Sales On the Same Page

Hyper-Connected Selling

How do you create sales and marketing alignment? How do you get the sales team and marketing team to actually work together? There’s a lot of talk about the increasing need to align sales and marketing functions within organizations. More and more, customers are expecting a seamless experience. And it’s getting harder and harder to split the different parts of the customer life cycle between the sales team over there, and the marketing team over here.

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Rethink How You Select The Right Target Accounts With Social Proximity

SalesforLife

When selecting the right accounts to go after, remember to choose wisely. How you and your sales organization identify which accounts to target will dictate your time, effort and deal velocity.

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