Sat.Jun 04, 2016 - Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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‘Perspectives, People and Progress’ and the part we can all play…

Bernadette McClelland

It was over three decades ago that I stood on the top of one of the World Trade Centres, marveling at the dizzy heights around me, in awe of an expanse as far as the eye could see and almost holding in my hand the miniature like Statue of Liberty far into the background. Thirty five years later these world monoliths are no longer, and instead I have the opportunity to reflect and share a very special moment with thousands of other people who are at Ground Zero.

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Are Shorter Sales Presentations Better?

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-06-06. Author: Ben Rigsby, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, ECOS. Teaser: Salespeople have a more narrow window than ever to capture an audience’s attention, but assuming shorter is better risks skipping critical information for no reason. Here are a few keys to finding the sweet spot between brevity and effective communication.

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The 3 Words That Will Galvanise You To Sales Superstardom

MTD Sales Training

I’ve just finished listening to another Tony Robbins CD. He’s someone who I’ve always admired, not only because of his knowledge and awareness of what makes us do what we do (although he’s up there. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Forget Presenting and Start Engaging #Webinar

The Pipeline

June 9, 2016 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET. Communication is central to sales success, and communication is a multi-faceted experience. Sure the message is key, a bad message can set you back; while a great crystal clear message, delivered on target can be a crucial to your success. But what happens with a perfectly crafted message that misses the mark, does not land the way it was intended?

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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10 Best Sales Questions to Use When Talking with a Customer

The Sales Hunter

One of the best things any salesperson can do is develop a list of 10 questions they feel comfortable asking. The questions have to fit your personality and your market and allow you to move the process forward. Below are what I’ve found are the 10 best sales questions you can use. The questions […].

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How To Bond With Your New Client Just After The Close

MTD Sales Training

In sales, our natural goal is to make as many people or businesses as we can more successful or profitable than they are currently. That’s the bottom line…it cements the long-term relationship. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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#Notafact

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I just can’t help myself, but sport analogies are so great when it comes to making some points about sales. You know when your team is down by some outrageous score, no hope of a come back, Jesus or not, just like the Raptors in game 5. But still you have fans yelling “Defence, Defence, Defence” as though the louder they yell, the more times they yell it will somehow make a real difference, as though they can make the rally “trend”.

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Why Ego Is Not a Dirty Word And Why You Should Nurture Yours

Bernadette McClelland

In the imitable words of the Skyhooks song: “If I did not have an ego I would not be here tonight. If I did not have an ego I might not think that I was right. If you did not have an ego you might not care the way you dressed. If you did not have an ego you’d just be like the rest”. (For those wanting a little Australian culture). The thing is we all have an ego.

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The Whole Truth - Why CEOs Need to Know What Makes Sales and Marketing Click

Pointclear

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. The two organizations don’t understand each other, and often point fingers: Sales says marketing delivers bad leads; and marketing says sales doesn’t follow up.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Sales Motivation Video: What Sales Leaders are Doing Friday Afternoons

The Sales Hunter

Do you know what sales leaders are doing Friday afternoons?! They are selling! Unlike so many other salespeople who start to see Friday afternoons in the summer as a time for taking it easy, sales LEADERS are out there making things happen. As we head into summer, you have to make a decision. Are […].

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Do Facts Matter?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I recently took in a discussion where one of the panelists addressed the question of preference and decision making. Specifically, individuals’ tendencies (or lack thereof) to change their mind once they have developed a primary preference. The Decision Journey. The gist of it was that as people begin the decision journey, especially in instances where they know they will have to make a decision, be that a purchase decision, one person to date v

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How Valuable is Your Value Proposition?

Score More Sales

How many times have you heard someone describing their company’s value proposition only to hear them spew out features and benefits of their services or products? Having a strong value prop is one key to making the “short list” when companies are searching online and need to narrow down their search before engaging.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

Pointclear

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales.

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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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Voice Mail: 5 Proven Techniques That Get Your Calls Returned! (Part Two)

Mr. Inside Sales

Last week I gave you the first Three Proven Techniques to help you increase your chances of getting your calls returned. Now let’s look at the final two: Proven Technique Number Four: Combine your voice mails with an email campaign for maximum effectiveness. The number one law in all marketing is repetition. That’s why Coke-a-Cola still buys millions of dollars of ads every year.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Do You Have to be a “Born Salesperson” to be Successful in Sales?

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: Recently […].

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Taking ATS to New Levels: A Bullhorn & DiscoverOrg Partnership

DiscoverOrg Sales

For staffing companies, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is one of those tools with which salespeople and recruiters have a love-hate relationship. Yes, it makes things considerably more efficient and quite a bit more streamlined than mountains of paperwork and file folders. But there’s also a cost behind automating the core sales and recruitment processes.

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Selling Real Estate - The Door Opener Sales Syndrome

Increase Sales

Not many industries or organizations devote their time and dollars to determining what problems exist. The National Association of Realtors did just that. Their Danger Report released over a year ago revealed the number one problem with those selling real estate is their overall incompetence. Having recently engaged in selling our home, I can attest the majority of real estate agents (over 50%) are door openers not real salespeople.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Voice Mail: 5 Proven Techniques That Get Your Calls Returned! (Part One)

Mr. Inside Sales

If you’re struggling to get your voice mails returned, then you’re not alone. Industry stats show that less than 10% of voice mails to new prospects are returned. Because of this, finding the right voice mail message, and knowing a few proven techniques, can be the key to not only making contact with those hard to reach sales leads, but also in developing relationships and getting new accounts.

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Sheparding Our Customers Through The Buying Journey

Partners in Excellence

Over the past several months, Hank Barnes and I have had periodic discussions about the Customer Journey and mapping the journey. While many large consulting companies and other experts talk “expertly” about mapping the customer journey, creating content, experiences, and engagement. When you study their work, it’s usually focused on buying done by individuals.

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Move Prospects to Customers Faster

Fill the Funnel

I want to tell you about an amazing new graphics technology that launched just this morning called Pixal. This brand new graphics program uses the latest HTML5 technology to create amazing graphics and banners. . So what is so special about HTML 5 banners and graphics? . Did you know they will be required by Google shortly? . That your prospects respond to them?

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Why SMART Goals in Sales and Life Fail

Increase Sales

Credit: Gratisography. Most sales professionals have sales goals and in many instances these are mandated to be SMART goals. By the way did you know that Zig Ziglar was the first salesperson I found to talk about SMART goal setting? Just as a fresher the acronym SMART stands for: Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Realistically set high (Stretch). Time driven or target date.

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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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“People Buy from People” and Other Lies

Cincom Smart Selling

We’ve all heard it many times. It comes up almost every time you discuss B2B versus B2C selling. Someone feels compelled to profoundly state that people don’t buy from companies; they buy from people. They will inevitably go on to state with great conviction that even in a B2B scenario, people are doing the selling and the buying. Okay, I’m calling bull-pucky on this right now.

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Sales Leadership Dysfunctions — Anti Sales Attitudes

Partners in Excellence

My friend, Mike Weinberg, has been one of the most consistent and vocal spokesperson on the Dysfunction of Sales Leadership. He wrote a brilliant article about this, identifying 8 Sins that destroy sales cultures and results. Be sure to read his article. For a much deeper discussion, make sure you read his book, Sales Management Simplified. (It’s a perfect complement to Sales Manager Survival Guide.).

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How Do You Know If A Prospect Is Going to Buy? #heykeenan

A Sales Guy

We’ve all been there. The customer is saying all the right things, but we don’t seem to be able to get the deal to move. We work our asses off for days, weeks and even months but then we get the dreaded email, sorry we’ve decided not to move forward. In Take 16 of #heykeenan I break down how you can know if your buyer is serious or not.

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Sales, The Unproductive Workforce and Motivation - Part 2

Increase Sales

If you are a SMB owners or executive, have you ever had one of these three thoughts when your sales were down or not where you wanted them to be? My salespeople are not motivated to sell. My salespeople are lazy. Why in the world did I hire this salesperson? Possibly you implemented one of these solutions without noticeable or sustainable improvement in your revenue: Assigning sales goals or quotas?

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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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Sales training – it’s time to play beat the clock

Sales Training Connection

One important core question presently circulating among those who care about sales training is: What percentage of sales training ought to be done in the classroom vs. some form of guided self instruction? The obvious secondary question is what goes where – that is, what should be done in the classroom vs. what should be assigned to some form of guided self-study.

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All Your Help Is Killing Me!!

Partners in Excellence

Over the past years, sales people have become a prime target for “help.” It’s no wonder, sales people are key to the organization’s growth and revenue performance. But sales hasn’t been performing, the data around quota performance for sales people and organizations is appalling. On the other hand, sales faces huge challenges.

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The NEW Sales Leader – It’s about empowerment and enablement.

A Sales Guy

The days of telling sales people how to sell and how to do their jobs are over. Leaders, You need to spend less time telling your people what to do and more time helping them THINK about what they should do. It’s the 21st century, it’s time to stop telling and start enabling. If you are counting the number of calls your salespeople make, if you are having weekly meetings to check on how many appointments were set, and how many presentations were given – STOP IT.