Sat.Aug 05, 2017 - Fri.Aug 11, 2017

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Why Peer-to-Peer Selling Works for Everyone

No More Cold Calling

Don’t let account based selling teams cold call. You know it’s true: All things being equal, we work with friends. All things not being equal, we work with friends. And when we need a specialist, we ask a friend. Account based selling teams find it increasingly challenging to reach their target prospects. No one answers the phone anymore, and buying committees have increased on average from 5.4 to 6.8 members.

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Be The Play

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Being a holiday Monday here in Ontario, thought we’d look at something that can get you to think enough not to distract from the sun and water, yet enough to count. So for that our topic for today is that there two views (often more, but at least two) into every issue. As a seller, be that an individual rep, a specific VP or an entire company, must be full cognizant, understand the other view if they are to succeed.

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Five Ways Live Chat Can Increase Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tony Medrano Discovering how to efficiently locate, convert, up-sell and retain top customers are critical success metrics for any growing company. The best customers make four times as many purchases (Source). The top 1 percent of clients spend five times more per order than the bottom 90 percent. Most leaders of online retailers know this, but rapidly changing consumer behavior and technological innovation make perfect execution difficult.

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How Top B2B Marketing Leaders Engage at QBRs

SBI Growth

World class B2B marketing organizations actively engage in Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings. For many marketing leaders the sales team’s QBR is an afterthought. To prepare, review the marketing strategy introduction of the How to Make Your Number in 2018 .

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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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Successful Strategy Execution

Steven Rosen

Successful Strategy Execution. I was recently interviewed on Influential Entrepreneurs by Mike Saunders, about successful strategy execution. Click on the link to listen to the interview on Business Innovators Radio Network about the Revolutionary Focused Strategy Execution Program. Request a complimentary copy of The Strategy Execution eBook for Successful Strategy Execution .

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How to save the life of a tradeshow sales lead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. And yet, have you ever seen an ROI report on tradeshow activity proving this huge investment is paying off? If they exist they are as rare as Beluga caviar.

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How NOT to Listen to Your Customers

The Sales Heretic

The legendary rock band U2 played a concert recently at the nearly-brand-new Levi’s Stadium in San Jose, California. And the fans complained. Not about the band. By all accounts, U2 played a tremendous show. What made the concert-goers furious was the venue—Levi’s Stadium itself. On social media, fans complained vociferously about long security lines, interminable [.].

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No One Will Motivate You. Only You Can Motivate You.

The Sales Hunter

Quit walking around complaining about how your boss or management does not motivate you. It’s not going to help, because let’s be clear — nobody can motivate you! Only you can motivate yourself. The best anyone can do is create an environment for people to motivate themselves. If a person doesn’t want to be motivated, […].

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Experts Top Tips to Create Effective Cold Email Messages

Score More Sales

What are the top tips to success when it comes to crafting cold email messaging? Do you even believe there are strategies for success sending cold emails? There are.

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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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Want To Be A Successful Salesperson? Don’t Do These 5 Things!

MTD Sales Training

You’ll have read lots of information on what you need to do to improve your sales. I have thought about it from a different perspective and come up with things that you shouldn’t do! Keep away from these concepts and you should avoid a lot of the traps associated with failure, many times without even knowing the reasons why. Don’t Do Things That Will Make You Someone You’re Not.

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How to Grow Revenues with Customer Success

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Natalie Fedie, a Vice President of Customer Success who knows how to grow and retain customers. Today’s topic is dedicated to the topic of Customer Success. Natalie and I leverage the How to Make.

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Selling to the C-Suite: How Do I Get Started?

The Sales Hunter

One of the most difficult things you can find yourself having to do is to connect with the CEO or any other senior level person in an organization. Thinking you can use the same approach you use with others in a company is simply not going to work. In my book, High-Profit Prospecting, I devote several […].

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Prospecting Dynamics

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 6. In this segment of Proactive Prospecting Summer, we look at the importance of the unspoken in prospecting calls. Telephone prospecting, after all, is an exercise in communication. If we take the experts at their word, communication is roughly 60% body language, the one thing we don’t have working for us on the phone, or e-mail, or LinkedIn; 30% intonation and expression, and only 10% the words used to communi

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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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6 Inspirational Sales Quotes That Will Keep You Going

MTD Sales Training

One thing that you can be certain of is that you cannot be successful on your own these days. You need a coach or a mentor to assist you to achieve those aspirations and opportunities that may come your way, but be missed if you try to do it all yourself. That’s why I keep my eyes and ears open for people who can help me achieve more, be more and accomplish more.

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Motivating Salespeople Involves Knowing Them

Anthony Cole Training

How well can you relate to the following situations: producers not meeting sales expectations, there aren't enough opportunities in the pipeline, too few of the people are carrying the sales production load for the entire team? In almost every sales organization, these three situations exist no matter how many sales meetings are held, what CRM system is used or how closely the sales team is managed- these problems persist.

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Prospect in August if You Expect to Make Your Number in December

The Sales Hunter

Want to make your number in December? It depends all on your sales prospecting NOW! You have to be prospecting now, and be sure the prospects are truly prospects and not “suspects.” Quantity in your sales pipeline doesn’t matter nearly as much as quality. Making (and exceeding) your number in December will be exponentially easier […].

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What do B2B Buyers Want (and Why Don’t They Like Salespeople)?

DiscoverOrg Sales

The number of factors at play in purchasing decisions are too numerous to count – ranging from pricing, to product features, to reputation of the vendor, to the sales experience and so forth.n The tendency is to focus on concrete failure points that are easy to explain such as differences between products or to blame scapegoats such as the salespeople who lost the deals.

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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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Current Prospecting Tips that Work

Mr. Inside Sales

Do you hate prospecting by phone? “Who doesn’t?” is probably your answer. And who can blame you. First you have to deal with gatekeepers, receptionists, office managers, etc. Then, if you do finally get through to someone, you get blow offs, resistance, and the old, “Just email me something, and I’ll look at it.” Yeah, right. Imagine if I told you many of the ways you’re approaching your prospects are actually causing the objections you’re getting?

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Always Set a Next Action

Score More Sales

One idea that can help sales reps is to always set a next action :

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Your Pipeline is Plugged and It’s Hurting Your Sales

The Sales Hunter

Everyone wants a full sales pipeline. There’s not a sales manager in the world who isn’t continually beating up their sales team to get more into their pipeline. News flash! It doesn’t matter what you put into your sales pipe that counts! What counts is the speed with which it moves through the pipe! […].

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Which is More Valuable: A Lead or Subscriber?

SBI Growth

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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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Why The “Hustler” Mentality Is Holding You Back

Fill the Funnel

Many people get the idea that performing their best work on projects and tasks requires them to work non-stop on it, to “hustle” as the ubiquitous Gary Vaynerchuk amongst others has promoted. I say, don’t listen to that advice – in the long run it will turn out badly. It most frequently will lead to […]. The post Why The “Hustler” Mentality Is Holding You Back appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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How to Improve Sales:  5 Keys to Coaching Sales Improvement

Anthony Cole Training

Companies are constantly trying to figure out how to drive organic growth by:

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How to Sell Better, Lesson 1 – Want to Sell

A Sales Guy

I got this crazy idea yesterday morning to start a How to Sell Better series. It just came to me, and it sounded like a good idea. I don’t know how long it’s going to last or how many posts it will be. I’m gonna take it day by day and see where it goes. Remember the movie Forest Gump where Forest (Tom Hanks) just started running? Well, it feels kinda like that.

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The 5 components of a Channel Management Strategy

SBI Growth

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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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Procrastination Is The Killer App

Fill the Funnel

When you procrastinate, you do it in an effort to avoid an unpleasant or less desirable task you want to avoid doing. You think that if you avoid doing that task, it will be easier to complete the project you are working on. In truth, procrastination only makes you work harder to accomplish the project […]. The post Procrastination Is The Killer App appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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Developing Management And Leadership Talent

Partners in Excellence

I recently wrote, “The Sales Manager’s Job Is Different,” addressing the impact of making the wrong decisions in selecting Front Line Sales Managers (FLSM). Too often, the “easy” solution is to take our very best sales people, promoting them into FLSM roles. Usually the results are devastating, they may be great sales people, but they don’t recognize the FLSM job is different.

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The #1 Way to Decrease Anxiety and Gain Leverage in Sales Negotiations

RAIN Group

Alison Brooks and Maurice Schweitzer, two researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted an experiment to induce varying levels of anxiety among negotiators. One group was subjected to the not-so-melodious screeching strings from Psycho. The other group was treated to calming Water Music by Handel. After listening for a while, the groups were sent off to conduct simulated negotiations.