Sat.Jan 14, 2017 - Fri.Jan 20, 2017

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

On a recent trip to Pennsylvania, PA, I ticked off a bucket list item and stayed on an Amish dairy farm.The learnings were incredible. How a community still maintains ‘the old ways of doing things’, yet adapts enough to be part of the greater community, especially from an economical perspective, was such an eye opener. Of course, those who refuse to adapt even slightly, are still very much alive and well, just diminishing in numbers.

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3 Steps to Mastering the Art of Focus

Steven Rosen

Success Starts with Mastering Focus. Are you determined to make 2017 the year you will have breakthrough results? In my previous video, I talked about FOCUS being the key factor for success. I don’t care if you are the CEO, an executive, manager or sales rep, you are inundated with back to back meetings, phone calls, and voice messages, literally hundreds of emails, and numerous texts.

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The Fastest and Easiest Way to Reach Sales Greatness

Understanding the Sales Force

One of the things I hear an awful lot is, "Dave, how do you write so many articles?". 1,600 articles in 10 years equates to an average of about 3 articles each of the 48 weeks that I work. The secret behind that kind of prolific writing can actually help you too - to find and close more business , sell more consultatively , qualify more thoroughly , and earn more money.

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Just Do It?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . No, I am not questioning the message behind Nike’s well known slogan or mantra, nothing to do with Nike at all. I am talking to and about sales people who regularly fail to follow through on expectations they set for people they work with, but most importantly, prospects and customers. We have all familiar with old sales adage: “Under Promise – Over Deliver”, well it seems many sales people feel that only applies to some things, some actions, bu

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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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Is Who You See Who I See?

Bernadette McClelland

I’ve grappled with some people’s styles over the years and people have probably grappled with mine as well. It’s human nature. Outside of the fact that we have many profiling tools, there are some behaviours that many of us notice – either online or in person – where we wonder if there is something wrong with the way we see people, if there might be something amiss with ourselves, or if there really is justification in the names we mutter under our breath about the way some people show up.

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3 Sales Management Blunders You Must Eliminate to Hit Quota Consistently

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-16. Author: Mike Scher. Teaser: Getting reps to consistently reach, or better yet, exceed quota requires sales managers to own the shortcomings of their teams and help them improve. Here are 3 behaviors sales managers must abolish in order to lead a successful team. Getting reps to consistently reach, or better yet, exceed quota requires sales managers to own the shortcomings of their teams and help them improve.

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3 Reasons Your Voice Mails Fail

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Voice mail is not going away, mostly because people will have to answer their phones rather than being able to screen calls and preserve their time and sanity for things other than bad prospecting calls. Leaving you to make one of two choices: Not to telephone prospect, thereby avoiding the dreaded voicemail.

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How often is being a ‘tryhard’ costing you gold?

Bernadette McClelland

Every so often each of us might see or hear or notice someone literally ‘trying too hard’ to sound too cool for school, look a certain part and not measuring up, or seeming to be that square peg trying ever so hard to fit in the round hole. A Five Seconds of Summer sing, ‘I pierced my lip so she thinks I’m cool. I ripped my jeans and dropped out of school.

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Top 30 Social Sales Influencers

Score More Sales

Almost three years ago, I was named to a list of Top Social Sales Influencers – I came in at #12 on the list which had been researched by an influencer marketing agency for an up and coming sales tech tool company, KiteDesk.

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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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Top Tips When Taking A Client to the Super Bowl

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-18. Author: Tony Knopp. Teaser: By the end of this weekend, we'll know which teams are headed to the Super Bowl. Taking prospects and clients to a game can be a powerful way to deepen and advance your relationship. Keep these do’s and don’ts in mind to make sure the experience is a positive one that will make them remember you and your company for a long time to come.

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The Customer Is Rarely Right

The Sales Heretic

One of the most common clichés in business is “The customer is always right.” It’s a staple of books and training seminars on sales, marketing, and customer service. And it’s dead wrong. While today’s buyers certainly have access to more information than ever before, there are still plenty of things they typically don’t know, and [.].

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When You’ve Been Given the Stage and Mic’d Up– Now What?

Bernadette McClelland

Imagine you’d been given your own perfect audience and then handed a microphone. What would you do? Would you stare at it, wondering how it even worked? This device whose role is to increase the volume of the human voice – purely and simply? It’s not like the mask with the horn shaped mouthpiece that was invented to amplify sound in the ampi-theatres of Greece, nor the megaphone that followed, or even the ‘lovers device’ with two cups attached by a cord that some of us called walkie talki

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Text Messaging for Prospecting?

The Sales Hunter

The last few weeks I’ve had several requests from salespeople asking for my advice on text messaging and whether or not it should be used. Some people say you shouldn’t use it, while others say to use it. Here’s my response: I have nothing to lose and a customer to gain by texting someone. Boom! […].

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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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A super power for sales pros

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Dan Siedman. Teaser: What if your sales reps could read buyers and know if they're being truthful or deceptive - or better yet, to know which emotions they're feeling during a conversation so they could adjust their presentation accordingly? That power exists. What if your sales reps could read buyers and know if they're being truthful or deceptive - or better yet, to know which emotions they're feeling during a conversation so they could adjust th

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Evolve Your Marketing Strategy to Avoid Extinction

SBI Growth

Your marketing strategy should build on insights from the external marketplace while remaining in alignment with the corporate strategy. It requires a choice of which market channels to invest in and which ones to forgo. Marketing’s operational plan must equip.

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Sales Advice from Pablo Picasso

Mr. Inside Sales

I read a great quote from Picasso (yes, the famous painter) the other day, and it really resonated with my sales philosophy. Here it is: “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”. You’re probably wondering what that has to do with sales, and it’s simple: Most sales rep’s instincts are to adlib when they get an objection or when they get into a sales situation that isn’t going their way.

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Sales Motivation Video: Why These Three Assets are Crucial

The Sales Hunter

What are your 3 greatest assets? Ask that question of salespeople and some of the common answers are things like what they sell or their customers or their experience. Wrong answer! The 3 most important assets any salesperson has or that matter anyone else has are their MIND, TIME and NETWORK. We will only achieve […].

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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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A Marketing Tool that Should be in Your Mix

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-01. Author: Brad Rawls. Teaser: Prospective clients will likely discover a lot about your business before you ever have a real conversation with them. Public relations is about creating the right impression before prospect hear your sales pitch. Prospective clients will likely discover a lot about your business before you ever have a real conversation with them.

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Undercover the Inch-wide, Mile-deep Buyer Behavior Opportunity

SBI Growth

Today in this post we will demonstrate how to inject buyer behavior into product strategy. As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the product strategy section and review the.

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What Is Sales Truly About?

Increase Sales

The marketplace is filled to the brim with sales training, sales books to sales coaches. Yet at the end of the day, what is sales truly about? Credit www. pixabay.com. My father taught me sales was about buying. You as the salesperson had to build a relationships between you and the prospective buyer or even center of influence to be successful. He believed focusing on selling was a big error and allowed the ego to interfere in the buying/selling bridge.

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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part I

Anthony Cole Training

I’ve written on this subject, talked about it at workshops/keynotes and presented it to our clients in our Sales Managed Environment ® Certification program for over 20 years. But, here I go again and for good reason – it’s still a problem. It’s still in the news. It’s still something that we get asked about when we present at the Community Bank CEO Network and other venues.

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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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Deconstructing Sales for Go-to-Market Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-01-20. Author: Jeff Harrell. Teaser: Whether you’re a startup or more established business, there are times the sales team needs to be refocused. This is required when a new market opportunity emerges or your company launches a new product and suddenly your sales team is treading in unfamiliar waters. Whether you’re a startup or more established business, there are times the sales team needs to be refocused.

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Is Your Corporate Strategy Pushing the Executive Team to the Edge?

SBI Growth

The CEO can work effectively with executive leadership teams to meet aggressive business and revenue goals. The Revenue Growth Methodology fills a significant gap by focusing on the needs of sales, marketing, and product leaders in a way the corporate.

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Here’s Why Your Prospects Aren’t Buying From You…

MTD Sales Training

This blog post is not going to cover how to handle objections, instead we are going to cover the underlying reasons why prospects don’t buy from you. Objections are, after all, just reasons and points that your salespeople need answer to satisfy the prospect that your product does the job. Let me go through the 4 reasons why your prospects don’t buy from you.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Is Risk an Asset or a Liability?

The Sales Hunter

Yesterday I found myself in two conversations regarding business plans for the year. In both cases we found ourselves talking about risk with relationship to time. The issue was how much time should be devoted to large deals that have a low likelihood of actually happening. What I found interesting is the differences of opinions as […].

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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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Our AE’s Would NEVER Have Been Persistent Enough to Uncover This Opportunity

Pointclear

We recently turned over a huge opportunity to one of our clients. When we explained the number and type of touches this lead required, the president of that company said: “our AE’s would never have been persistent enough to get this opportunity.”. Here are the facts: We worked the lead from August – December of 2016. It took thirty-two total touches from start to finish.

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The Right Go-to-Market Strategy for Your Product Launch

SBI Growth

Today in this post we will demonstrate how to integrate your product strategy with your go-to-market strategy. As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in 2017. Turn to the product strategy Go-to-Market section.

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11 Quick Tips On How To Best Prepare For A Sales Pitch

MTD Sales Training

At some point in the sales process we need to make our pitch. This is an area where most salespeople could do a lot better. Most people in sales present a standard pitch that all their customers get to hear. This doesn’t work! People are different and buy for different reasons. When people buy things buyers have what we call buying criteria. These are the overriding reasons for buying that are most important to them.

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