The Power of Social Selling (+ 7 Rules for Storytelling in Sales)
Sales Hacker
AUGUST 14, 2019
Membrain
AUGUST 11, 2019
This is a truthful and proven guide for how to ask for referrals. You won’t read that referrals are easy or that all you have to do is ask. What you will read are lessons and insights that I have gleaned from working my referral system with clients for the past 23 years.
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Anthony Iannarino
AUGUST 13, 2019
In Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition , I wrote a chapter on Capturing Mindshare, or building and supporting a general theory about why your dream client should change. That section is practical and tactical, and it is also what is necessary for B2B sales now. You have to do the work develop business acumen and the kind of theory you’ll find in that chapter.
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No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 14, 2019
There’s always a silver lining to getting sacked. I didn’t plan to start my referral business so soon. But then I was fired. Yep. Just like that, my manager gave me the news. I had a sense something might be going on, since I’d recently lost a big deal to a competitor. But I didn’t expect to be fired. I left the office, went home, and took my dog for a hike.
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Score More Sales
AUGUST 16, 2019
Let’s get some sales activity going! How great will you feel when you connect with the right buyers and have a strong conversation today? Here are a few great resources we like. Cold Calling Tips from Gong’s research – 17 Proven Techniques. 21 Cold Calling Secrets From the Sales Masters. Cold Call Objection Handling – Outreach (is gated). 14 Actionable Cold Calling Tips and Techniques – Sales Hacker.
The Sales Heretic
AUGUST 14, 2019
I was hungry. I had just checked in at the Sheraton hotel in Tampa, Florida, where I was conducting a sales training seminar the next day. Now, normally when I’m traveling, I like to get out of the hotel and find a good, local restaurant to eat at. But this evening, it was late and [.].
SBI Growth
AUGUST 13, 2019
Customer Experience (or CX) is at the forefront of how B2C companies are competing and winning. B2B firms are waking up to the importance of CX, and many are on their transformation journey. However, Harvard Business Review outlines that many.
The Sales Hunter
AUGUST 13, 2019
How effective are your emails? You want to think that the email you just wrote is perfect and sending it out to 100 prospects will result in at least 90 meetings. If this is you, there’s no need for you to read any further; however, I suspect this is not your case, so let me share my techniques for using email to prospect. Watch my video to learn how to use email to prospect: Use email as simply one of your contacting tools.
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MTD Sales Training
AUGUST 13, 2019
When we talk to buyers, we often ask what inspires them to remain loyal to suppliers. Many suppliers actually think it’s good value, cheap prices and quality products. But the answers we get often prove that those things only get you to first base. They get you onto the playing field and are the basics that will only get the door opened. What is it that makes buyers really want to do business with you?
Zoominfo
AUGUST 16, 2019
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Anthony Cole Training
AUGUST 13, 2019
In this article, we discuss the similarities between Super Mario World and life in sales. After playing, I realized that I had an opportunity to make it through to the next level but I wasn’t doing what was necessary to convert that opportunity into a win. I rushed through. I took risks that weren’t worth it, but I made them anyway, because it was the only play I had.
The Sales Hunter
AUGUST 16, 2019
You can run, but you can’t hide. You can fake it, but you won’t make it. The era of thinking that you can behave one way in one situation and a different way in another is long gone. Your reputation arrives before you do. It continues to amaze me that salespeople think they can craft this perfect image with customers but behave like a jerk in other situations.
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SBI Growth
AUGUST 15, 2019
One of the most significant mistakes B2B companies can make is not utilizing third-parties to help manage their customer experience platforms. An expert in the customer success industry joins us to discuss the benefit of having a third-party perspective. In this.
Connect2Sell
AUGUST 14, 2019
If you’re a sales manager, keep reading! This post will also help you understand what’s reasonable to expect from HR and how you can become more effective by accessing expertise from others. Mostly, though, today’s post is intended for the HR team members who interact with the sales division.
Anthony Cole Training
AUGUST 15, 2019
Facing stalls and objections throughout the sales process is a common occurrence for many salespeople. What we find is that, often, it is due to ineffective qualifying and not asking for the prospects commitment to take action prior to presenting a solution.
The Sales Hunter
AUGUST 11, 2019
Take one item this week and go all the way with it. You’ll gain a lot of satisfaction and joy when you just do one thing very well. Success will come if you narrow your focus to one task. Doing so will not only increase the level of competence and confidence you have in yourself but also the level of competence and confidence others have in you.
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.
Mr. Inside Sales
AUGUST 16, 2019
There is a disturbing trend I’ve heard with the companies I’m working with. And it starts when prospects begin asking for a lower price or a “deal,” or for a reference before committing, or for a free trial to demo services or products. The problem I’m hearing is that sales reps—both newer reps and even some seasoned reps—immediately drop the price or offer a trial, or readily hand out references thinking that this is what will close the sale.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 16, 2019
GDPR: The 4-letter word that kept marketers up at night. There was a lot of confusion and anxiety surrounding the upcoming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which went into effect on May 25, 2018! If you’re still wondering how it impacts you as a B2B marketer, a year later, read on. Does GDPR Apply to U.S. Companies? The GDPR does apply outside the EU in some circumstances, but it does not apply to everyone.
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 15, 2019
It was an interesting conversation. I was meeting with a very thoughtful sales executive. He was about to make some pretty big investments in training and in technology tools. I asked him why he was making those investments, he replied, “We really need to raise the skills and productivity of the sales people. They aren’t performing as they should be, we need to up their game.” I then asked, “Is it the absence of those specific skills and that technology that is impacting
SalesforLife
AUGUST 12, 2019
At Sales For Life, we’re huge proponents of strategy over execution. Here’s why. The number one prob lem sellers have with pipelin e creation or business development is that they and their managers believe that doubling, tripling, or 10x-ing down on activity levels is the only way to increase pipeline. (That being said, there are many organizations where sellers aren’t doing enough to influence a sales outcome).
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.
Nutshell
AUGUST 14, 2019
You’re days away from the end of the sales quarter, and you’ve been hustling to reach your quota all month. You’ve got a long list of calls to keep making. Tons of clients to connect with. And major goals to reach. IT IS CRUNCH TIME. So you pick up the phone to make your first call of the day, and then you feel it. There’s no hiding the growing tickle in your voice, and you’re sure by the end of the day it will become a major strain and turn your most powerful sales
Zoominfo
AUGUST 11, 2019
B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service.
The Center for Sales Strategy
AUGUST 15, 2019
Salespeople seem to always have so much to do, yet never enough time to get it all finished. Recently I had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with about 30 different salespeople over the course of a 2-week period. During each of these meetings, the salespeople revealed that they could benefit from some priority management or time management lessons.
Force Management
AUGUST 14, 2019
There are a lot of organizations out there that tout what makes them different from the competition. However, at times, that differentiation is simply talk and no action. What's on the PowerPoint slides fails to translate to the real-life customer experience. You can't just proclaim differentiation as an organization. You need to be able to justify it and demonstrate you really do what you say you do.
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Membrain
AUGUST 14, 2019
Everybody knows teenagers make bad decisions because their hormones are messed up. But surely once we reach adulthood and start making business decisions, we’re long past that, right?
Nimble - Sales
AUGUST 15, 2019
Who could have predicted that social media would become such a massive influence on how we live our lives? The clothes we wear; the fragrances we buy; the brands we love; the services we choose; even the events we attend. You could say that social media has a creeping influence on every aspect of modern […]. The post How Video Marketing Can Maximize Your Conversion Rate on Social Media appeared first on Nimble Blog.
Anthony Iannarino
AUGUST 14, 2019
They say good judgment is the result of prior lousy judgment. That idea has proven true for me over the course of my life in sales. The following stories of nine mistakes are all true, and the name of the person responsible is known to you and cannot be changed to protect the guilty. Buying Clients : I was very young with a flush expense account to entertain clients or prospects.
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