Sat.Mar 19, 2016 - Fri.Mar 25, 2016

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Why Isn’t Your Team Getting Enough Qualified Sales Leads?

No More Cold Calling

Sales leaders’ chief concern is lackluster lead generation, according to new CSO Insights study. Greg had barely taken his seat when he told me his greatest challenge was getting his sales reps to generate enough qualified sales leads. His company was a fairly new player in his industry, and they were competing against “the big guys.” So, his salesmen and women were struggling to engage prospects who didn’t even know their company existed.

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5 Ways to Overcome Stress in Sales and Business

The Sales Hunter

All of us experience stress to one degree or another. We’ve all heard where some stress can be good for you, because it keeps you focused. But at the same time, we all know what can happen when we’re too stressed. Here are 5 Things you can do to help minimize stress and allow […].

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Want More Sales? Then Impress The Top Buyers

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-03-25. Author: Tim Ussher, Chief Procurement Officer. Teaser: Corporate buyers can be king makers. So why are so many buyers continuously exasperated by unprepared salespeople who miss important signals and waste their opportunities? Here are 3 tips for impressing buyers. Corporate buyers can be king makers. So why are so many buyers continuously exasperated by unprepared salespeople who miss important signals and waste their opportunities?

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Good Things Happen To Those Who Call – Sales eXecution 329

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Over and over different sales people tell a success story that starts with them saying “I got lucky the other day, I called this guy, and he is ready to move forward.” Or “I’ve been calling this guy every few months for the last couple of years, and I finally got a meeting with him.” While luck may have played a small role in it, especially the first scenario, the fact remains that even luck has to be met half way.

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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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Sales Reps Succeed When Leaders Lead

Score More Sales

If you are a typical sales team you have a top percentage of sellers who will do great things no matter what is going on in the organization and with leadership. But after that small percentage, everyone else is affected by the structure and consistency of sales leadership.

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How to Leverage the Power of Video for Sales and Marketing Synergy

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-03-21. Author: Jennifer Kady-Sullivan, Marketing Executive, Allego. Teaser: Video is a key emerging medium for businesses to address collaboration and training challenges in today's distributed, digital landscape. For sales and marketing teams in particular, video is an increasingly helpful way to not only deliver, but enable a higher absorption and thus retention, of relevant content.

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Always Be Connecting: 5 Personalities to Prospect

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales, at its core, is simply making connections and relating to other human beings who have a problem – one that they hope you can solve. This can make sales very personal, and everyone has their own unique closing strategy or skillset that helps them (and their offering) stand out. However, it’s important to remember that every lead you prospect to also has a unique personality and communication style, and it’s essential to quickly match up “vibes” if you want to start building trust.

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4 Steps to Score More Referrals

Score More Sales

Do you have a specific plan among your sales team for referral business? This means that the idea of setting the stage for referral business and in asking for referrals is incorporated into your sales process. For most companies, referrals are done by the very few sellers who understand their great value. It is NOT a component of the prospecting process – or sales process as it COULD be in many sales organizations.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Failure is a Viable Option

The Sales Hunter

Welcome to the Executive Sales Leader Briefing, a new blog series I am doing every Friday. If you want to receive the Executive Sales Leader Briefing in text form in an email early Friday morning before it is published on the website, go to this page to sign up or complete the below information: I […].

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Ten Ways to Soften the Price Objection and Keep Pitching

Mr. Inside Sales

Many sales reps get thrown off their pitch when a prospect objects to something early on during the close. For example, if when talking about the price of a product or service, the prospects says something like, “Oh, that’s way too much,” many sales reps don’t know how to respond – and often do the wrong thing. The wrong thing in this case is to stop and try to overcome the objection.

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Why is Storytelling Important in Sales?

DiscoverOrg Sales

In a parent/teacher conference for my second-grade daughter, I learned that an important skill for a developing reader is the power to visualize, or the ability to have a running picture in your mind as you read along. A short while later, on a plane ride, I thought about how that acquired skill by a reader has more to say about the ability of the writer to fulfill her duty.

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Was That Face To Face Meeting Really Necessary?

MTD Sales Training

Have you ever experienced this scenario? You’re on the way to the sales meeting with a prospect or client and you’re stuck in a jam. That one-hour journey swiftly changes into two hours. You frantically make calls to the client apologising for the delay as the sat nav screams at you that your life is inexorably ebbing away while you sit there. For sales questions at all stages of the sales meeting process – click here to download ‘450 Sales Questions’ You finally arrive, hot, b

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The Should Be Most Feared "C" Word in Sales

Increase Sales

Ask any salesperson about his or her most feared “C” word in sales and you may hear competitor or even cost. Salespeople are so focused their competition they ignore this “C” word and consequently fail to understand the ramifications within this word. Commodity. Let me explain. Think back to a recent business to business networking event you recently attended.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Qualify for Interest

Mr. Inside Sales

Today it seems to be harder and harder for sales reps to qualify for interest and to identify buying motives. One thing making this so difficult is the decision tree: often there are many different levels of decision makers (committees, bosses, regional managers, corporate, etc.), and sales reps often just skip any attempt to qualify for interest. Instead, they just send their information or schedule their demo and hope for the best.

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Time Available For Selling

Partners in Excellence

Do your people have enough time available to sell? Some of you are thinking, “Dave, this is crazy, that’s how my people are supposed to be spending their time!” But a variety of research reports indicate typical time available for selling is 30-40%. We’ve conducted studies of Global 100 companies and found time available for selling as low as 17%!

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Inspire Greatness: The Path to Passionate Sales

Sales Result

Passion is one of the most critical elements to a salesperson’s success. The question is not whether or not passion matters (it absolutely does!), but how to ignite and maintain that passion in your sales team. There are a myriad of famous sales quotes that talk about passion and motivation, and there’s a reason for it.

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Where Many in Sales Are Missing Sales - Part 2

Increase Sales

This is the second part of a two part series. Beyond missing sales because of a lack of due diligence as well as seeking the quick sale, there are other sales gaps. #3 Missing Sales Gap. In sales, each salesperson should know his or her ideal customer or client. Who do they work best with? This knowledge includes both demographics and psychographics.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Trends in the world of sales – podcast

Sales Training Connection

Podcast – Sales Trends. Recently I had the pleasure of being a guest on Andy Paul’s great interview series – Accelerate! – that explores the world of sales. The topics we covered ranged from the merits of account based selling to the success factors for implementing sales models such as SPIN selling. We thought you might enjoy tuning in – Dial up the interview at.

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What Customer Problems Do You Solve, Not What Do You Do!

Partners in Excellence

I was leading a discussion about value propositions with a group of product developers and marketers. We were getting ready to launch a new product, I was helping develop the launch plan. I posed the question, “What customer problems do you solve?” The answers followed the same pattern as virtually every other group in which I’ve posed that question.

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Are You Using SnapChat for Sales?

A Sales Guy

My snapcode. Be sure to take a picture of this and add me on SnapChat. Alright, most of you know I’m a huge advocate of social selling. It works, I advocate salespeople use it and learn how to incorporate it into their selling process. In case anyone still finds it necessary to debate, here are two studies I’ve done that highlight the impact of social selling on quota attainment and sales team success.

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Where Many In Sales Are Missing Sales - Part 1

Increase Sales

Salespeople, especially those in SMB, are always on the hunt to increase sales. I am not sure what is going on in some of their minds, but my sense is quite a few are missing sales and probably more than they ever realized. Take for example real estate sales. Having been in the process of selling our home, I never knew how many real estate people are truly clueless about selling and the overall sales process.

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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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Sales Leadership: Why Winners Win!

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership Thoughts: Why Winners Win! Salespeople must be trained on the emotional elements of success at the same level that they are trained in pure sales skills training. Last week after speaking at a conference a person mentioned to me she really enjoyed the topic; Why Winners Win. It is one of my favorite parts of the keynote and the four points I make wrap up many of the beliefs I hold, so I thought I would share them with you today.

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Your “Business Justified Solution” Is Insufficient To Win The Business!

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been talking to a team of people about Value Propositions. They need to start providing business justification to their solutions–demonstrating their business value and differentiation. It’s exciting to see their excitement in doing this. Too few sales people understand how to do this, or take the time to present a business case for their solutions.

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“You Want to Be Average? Stay Average.” An Interview with John Barrows

SalesLoft

There are hard working people in this industry. And then there’s another level of hard working people like John Barrows. John is sales trainer to the world’s leading tech companies. Through his extensive experience and the lessons learned throughout his years in the brutal, unforgiving world of sales, John’s goal is to provide the sales training that’s been historically lacking in the sales development community. “It’s amazing to me that sales is the No. 1 professio

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The Implication Permission Based Email Marketing Reveals

Increase Sales

Years ago I learned to grow an email list was essential SMB marketing strategy to expand one’s marketing presence and increase sales leads through nurturing marketing. To do so required a permission based email marketing service such as A.Weber. By having a double opt in email service, only those who actually signed up for your email such as a newsletter would receive it.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud! With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings.

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14 Best Practices for Making Sales Kickoff a Success

Mindtickle

Your sales kickoff is one of your most important initiatives, with the potential to motivate your reps to achieve phenomenal success this year. How do you inspire, educate, motivate and celebrate your sales team in a way that helps them not only achieve but exceed their revenue targets for the year? Some of the most successful minds in the business share their secrets to a successful sales kickoff. 1.

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Finding Customers Who Aren’t Looking

Partners in Excellence

There’s no doubt that digital media, rich content, search and other technique drive huge demand. Ideally, these create inbound leads which are wonderful for everyone. With inbound, we have some level of awareness and possible interest. We have some context in which to engage. It’s compelling–both for the customer and for the sales person.

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How To Mirror Your Prospects Through Sales Personalization, A Sales Tips Video

SalesLoft

Sales personalization is now a “need-to-have” skill in order to be successful in sales development. It’s important to find a way to stand out when you are on the phones, sending emails, and day trading attention like Gary Vaynerchuk. Here at Salesloft, we want you to be able to understand personalization at scale. There’s always room for new integrations in your sales process that will help you close more deals and make your sales team even more productive.

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