Sat.Jul 08, 2017 - Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Why Your Account Based Selling Teams Are Lagging Behind

No More Cold Calling

Can sales managers influence the buying process? It’s common knowledge that revenue is a lagging indicator. You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. If they don’t, you lose. There’s no in-between. Then why are so many account based selling teams given revenue targets and let loose? Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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Why Discounting Your Price is a Bad Idea

The Sales Hunter

The customer is not refusing your price because it’s too high. They’re refusing it because the value is too low. The real reason you had to cut your price is because you failed to match the value you offer to the outcome the customer was desiring. I just bought a new suitcase and I paid […].

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Stop Selling and Start Teaching to Improve Demand Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ray Kemper, Chief Marketing Officer, Televerde Customer relationships. They’re the engine that fuels successful selling, right? Well, not always. In fact, good customer relationships are usually the result of a good sales engagement. You’ve demonstrated your ability to provide a superior solution and value while showing you’re the right fit for the customer’s culture and needs.

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Attributing Revenue to Non-Digital Interactions

SBI Growth

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein’s famous aphorism originally applied to scientific principles but it’s valuable in many walks of life. For example, as a B2B marketer you want to track revenue attribution.

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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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What’s Your Buyer’s Closing Ratio

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . While it is important to understand your personal metrics, mostly as a means of improving your use of time, and to develop an ongoing improvement process. While many know some of their metrics and conversion rates, few take time to explore and understand their prospects’ closing average or ratio. It’s easy to see why, you find yourself in front of what appears to a willing prospect, sharing what they want to do, why they are thinking of doing it

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5 Ways Sales and Marketing Teams Should Be Mining Their Online Community

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Hunter Montgomery, CMO, Higher Logic Businesses increasingly rely on online communities as a vital channel for communicating with customers and giving customers a chance to connect with each other. Yet, according to a recent study, “The Business Impact of Online Communities” conducted by Leader Networks, marketers are at the helm of the majority of corporate online communities today.

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Sales Motivation Video: Two Most Important Words in Sales Success

The Sales Hunter

If you want greater sales success, then you need to rid your vocabulary of the words “if” and “then,” and replace them with “do now.” Yes! “Do now” are the words that represent the mindset you need to embrace if you are going to boost your momentum and sales motivation. Whether we are talking about […].

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An Endless Supply Of Tomorrows

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 2. A common question I am asked is “What are the characteristics or attributes of great sellers?” While there are a number, one key one for me is their view and utilization of time. Generally speaking you can put folks into two groups, the larger 80%, those who view time as a unending commodity, and as such can be frittered away with little thought or concern.

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3 Ways To Overcome Your Fears Before The Sales Meeting

MTD Sales Training

Do you sometimes find it strange that a sportsperson or experienced actor would admit to feeling nervous before a big performance or game? Surely their knowledge and familiarity with what they have to do would allay any fears they might have? Well, it shows we are all human. No matter how many times you may have performed, even at the top of your form, fear is one thing that connects us all.

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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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Building a Believable Revenue Attribution Model

SBI Growth

As marketing leader, you step into the CEO’s office with a preview of your presentation for the upcoming strategic planning meeting. You picture the conversation going one of two ways: The CEO congratulates you on speaking his language. Or he.

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Should I Leave a Voicemail When Prospecting?

The Sales Hunter

I get asked this question all the time. The argument people say is nobody listens to them, and even if they do, they never call back anyway, so it’s a waste of time. There are a lot of reasons I don’t agree with that, and they’re spelled out in my book, but one that […].

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The Lost Art of Closing

The Pipeline

Back in October of last year, I reviewed Anthony Iannarino’s The Last Sales Guide you’ll Ever Need. Not one to rest on laurels, Anthony is about to release his next epic, The Lost Art Of Closing. Based on the feedback from the initial book, this is sure to stir discussion and a buzz, and more importantly, help you close more deals. Today, you have an opportunity to pre-order the book , and get the jump on the also-rans.

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5 Steps To Follow When You’ve Done No Sales Meeting Preparation

MTD Sales Training

So you’ve arrived 30 minutes early and you’re sitting in your car ready to go in and visit a prospect and you’ve made the cardinal sin and have not done any sales preparation for this meeting! Shame on you! So you might have briefly scanned their website but that’s just about it. Well, here are 5 areas to prepare for the sale now so it will give you more focus: Know Your Objectives.

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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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Your Guide to B2B Marketing Campaigns that Generate Revenue

SBI Growth

Today’s show is a rare opportunity to hear from an entire B2B marketing leadership team on a key topic that will make or break the year for most companies. We are going to demonstrate how to design marketing campaigns that.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Sales Leadership and the People You Attract

The Sales Hunter

Whom do you attract? Earlier this week I was at the National Speakers Association Annual Conference — #Influence17. Each time I go I’m amazed at who I meet. From hallway discussions to the main sessions, it’s about connecting and learning from others. Walking to a session, a good friend stopped me and asked if I […].

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Be a Rock Among Pillows

Anthony Cole Training

My pup, Rocky, loves to lay on top of pillows. ALL pillows. He doesn’t care if they are round, square, flat, cushy, or even sewn on and attached to the back of the couch- he will find a way to lay on them. And though it irritates me to no end to walk into a room to find all of my decorative pillows haphazardly thrown around, I must appreciate Rocky’s determination.

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Get Rid Of Empty Pipelines Once And For All

MTD Sales Training

So, you have finally closed the big one! You have been working on that sale for a long time and no one believed that you could close it, but you did. However, now you look up and see your pipeline is empty. Now you are short on leads, prospects , appointments and generally everything. When your pipeline runs dry, it’s like being stranded on the beach and up to your ankles in troubled waters.

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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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Salespeople Must Accelerate Response or Fail

Pointclear

I read and reread Andy Paul’s book Zero-Time Selling , and gave it to my sales reps. We discussed the 20 chapters in sales meetings each week, with a different representative taking 2-3 chapters and highlighting what he or she had learned. We expected everyone in the sales team to chip in. In the book, Andy discussed 10 essential steps to accelerate every company’s sales.

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Your Abundance Is Far Greater Than You Realize

Increase Sales

Isn’t it funny that we fail to recognize the abundance within our lives? We have so much and yet many feel they have so little. I was watching a video about a young person who was born with limited height, with no arms, with no fingers, abandoned at birth and in spite of this scarcity she learned to play the piano with her toes and use her voice to sing.

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Quarterly Business Review: How Effective CEOs Do it Right

SBI Growth

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Technology Moves Forward With You Or Without You

Fill the Funnel

Technology moves forward with you or without you. How do you handle that? Do you choose to embrace the changes and the pace that technology is driving our economy and our society? Or do you choose to hold back, using the old, “proven” tech that you learned many years ago and are still getting results […]. The post Technology Moves Forward With You Or Without You appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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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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How Proactive Listeners Sell More, Coach Better and Win Big – Part 1

Keith Rosen

Authentic, clear, collaborative communication is the conduit to greater success. Yet, if we know listening improves relationships, trust and results, then why are most problems and breakdowns attributed to poor, ineffective listening? Here’s how proactive listening can accelerate success and just maybe, even solve world peace. Except from one of Keith’s future books and his ground breaking, award winning program, The Seller Coach.

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The Real Reason for Failed Mission Statements

Increase Sales

Yesterday I heard another sales and marketing expert misspeak about mission statements. His webinar probably drew thousands and hence now thousand more salespeople, SMB owners and entrepreneurs potentially will fail in their quest to increase sales and grow their businesses. What this expert did as many other so called experts have done is confuse mission with vision. .

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Is Sticking with Geographic Sales Territories A Mistake?

SBI Growth

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Power Of The Pixel

Fill the Funnel

For the past two years, many have been chuckling behind my back since I started talking about my growing enthusiasm for Facebook as a sales and marketing platform, especially for B2B sales. When I mentioned Pixels, and advertising on Facebook to generate leads and sales they scoffed. When I told them that they could drive hundreds […]. The post Power Of The Pixel appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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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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Fire Uncoachable Sellers Immediately

Engage Selling

Not all sellers who are behind on their sales targets should be terminated. But, any seller who is behind and uncoachable should be terminated immediately. Uncoachable sellers are unable to improve because they are unwilling.

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To Increase Sales Is Both a Want and a Need

Increase Sales

Desires are strong emotions. The want to increase sales is a desire. Additionally, needs can be emotional as well as logical. I need to increase sales because my job supports myself, my family, pays my rent or mortgage, etc. What happens is in many instances salespeople and sales managers fail to leverage both of these motivating factors. There is one psychometric or talent assessment that looks to “the want and the need.” This instrument is based upon the work of Dr.

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How to Get Employee Buy-in After Organizational Changes

SBI Growth

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