Sat.Jan 10, 2015 - Fri.Jan 16, 2015

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Forget Social Selling, and Sell Socially

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . There are two trends unfolding of in sales which to date have accidentally intersected, which should be proactively encouraged and facilitated by B2B sales organizations. The first not so new, but gaining and likely to continue to gain momentum in the coming years, is the migration by many to inside sales teams, especially types of sales that only a few years ago may not have been seen as feasible for a number of reasons.

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2015 Sales Jumpstart Series: Switching Gears in 3 Simple Steps

Bernadette McClelland

'2015 Sales Jumpstart Series: Switching Gears in 3 Simple Steps You don’t have to be blind Freddy to notice that the sales landscape is changing at an accelerated pace and has no intention of slowing down. * Has anyone figured […]. The post 2015 Sales Jumpstart Series: Switching Gears in 3 Simple Steps appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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[Message to Management:] Stop Babysitting, Start Coaching

No More Cold Calling

'You’ll never have time to coach your team if you’re doing their jobs for them. Coach your salespeople. Are you tired of hearing that message over and over again? Maybe you don’t have coaching skills. Maybe you figure you hired top reps, so they should be able to succeed on their own. Or maybe you don’t have time to coach your team because you’re too busy solving all their problems.

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Earthquakes Hold the Key to Accurate Sales Forecasts

Understanding the Sales Force

'I love finding cool new apps for my iPad and I''m always looking for the next great weather app. I recently downloaded eWeather HD and as I poked around, I found something I had never seen before and it has a huge tie-in to sales management, the pipeline, and accurate forecasts!

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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Does Length Matter? – Sales eXecution 281

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Does length matter, or is it more a question of how you do it? Get your mind out of the gutter for a second, and thing length of sales cycle. I was recently approached to write a piece examining how to reduce the length of the sales cycle, or as some like to say increase the velocity of a sale, something I have written about in the past.

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Sales Management Tip #27: Manage Your Own Motivation

Steven Rosen

'Happy New Year. To start the year I thought I would share one of my favourite Sales Management Tips. Whether you are a new or tenured sales managers it is critical that you manage your own motivation. Welcome to management. As a rep you lived in a highly supportive environment. In management the environment is less supportive and filled with stress.

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How To Turn Failure Into Success In Sales

MTD Sales Training

'Let me say something that, on the face of it, may sound puzzling. You learn more when things are going badly than when they are going well. Go on, admit it…that’s an interesting statement (even if. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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10 Questions to Ask Regarding Your 2015 Sales

The Sales Hunter

' Below are 10 questions you need to ask yourself about your 2015 sales plan. 1. Do you have enough solid customers to allow you to not just achieve your goals, but also to power past them? (Plan now to power past your goals to help offset any fallout along the way.) 2. Is your business […].

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Are You Cursed with Knowledge?

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2015-01-12. Author: Kathryn Roy. Teaser: If we are any good at our job, we immerse ourselves in learning about our industry, including what analysts say about it. But the Curse of Knowledge surfaces when we are steeped in a technical domain that causes us to stop recognizing when we use words or ideas less familiar to others. If we are any good at our job, we immerse ourselves in learning about our industry, including what analysts say about it.

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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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Digital Relevance: Developing Marketing Content and Strategies that Drive Results

Pointclear

'Ardath Albee’s new book Digital Relevance: Developing Market ing Content and Strategies that Drive Results was published by Palgrave Macmillan (January 6, 2015). I was privileged to review an advanced copy this past October and absolutely loved it. I will break up this review into three sections: What Buyers Want. Developing Marketing Content. Strategies that Drive Results.

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Lack Of Sales Getting You Down? Try This…

MTD Sales Training

'I had an email from a salesperson recently, saying that he had (in his words) “become downhearted, demotivated and discouraged” about his job, as he wasn’t hitting targets and his boss was. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Are You Wasting Your Customer’s Time?

The Sales Hunter

'Recently I bought a new car, and I will admit that buying a car is not something I relish. The last thing I want to do is to spend more than 10 minutes buying it — OK, maybe 20 — but that’s it. I’m not a car nut, and truth be told, I couldn’t […].

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The High Cost of Winning

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2015-01-16. Author: Gary Summy. Teaser: Winning the deal is always the desirable outcome in any sales campaign. Or is it? Winning the deal is always the desirable outcome in any sales campaign. Or is it?

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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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Why Are Your Sales People Not Selling As Expected? (Part 2)

Anthony Cole Training

'The Free Dictionary: fail. (f?l) v. failed , fail·ing , fails v.intr. 1. To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit. Why are the people that you hire, train, coach, pay and invest in, failing to perform at levels that are less than expected? Generally, when you hire someone, fold them into your organization or acquire a team of sales people, what you think you are getting is: People that hav

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Rainmaker 2015 – The Year of the SDR

Score More Sales

'I’m in Atlanta thrilled to be at an event with a fresh perspective. Before I say anything, monitor tweets from #Rainmaker2015 and you’ll learn a lot about sales from my smart colleagues who will be presenting all day. Salesloft, a very successful and fast-growing Atlanta startup is a company with two products and they BOTH help you sell and be more productive.

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VIDEO SALES TIP: Your Customer is an Onion! What?!

The Sales Hunter

'I know, it sounds crazy, but you need to view your customer as an onion. And you need to ask questions accordingly. You ask questions, and then based on what they say, you ask follow-up questions. Repeat this enough and you will peel through the layers of the onion to get to […].

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Sales Tips for the Ages - 4 Things That Really Resonate

Understanding the Sales Force

'Copyright: 123RF Stock Photo. Friday, I made a stupid mistake and accidentally published a Blog article around mid afternoon. I had intended to schedule it for Monday morning but clicked the publish button instead of the schedule button. Subscribers and followers don''t typicaly read business articles on the weekends and while this would not normally pose a problem, this wasn''t a typical article and the response was not a typical response.

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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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Why Are Your Sales People Not Selling As Expected? (Part 1)

Anthony Cole Training

'Some of your sales people are selling as expected… and some of them are not. If we buy into the theories of Italian economist, Pareto, then we buy into the concept/ idea that 80 percent of the wealth is owned/managed/held by 20% of the people. Occasionally, someone (me) writes about this principal as it applies to selling and sales teams. My purpose over the next several blog posts will be to answer the question: Why Are Your Sales People Not Selling As Expected.

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Is Your Action Plan to Increase Sales an Incomplete Puzzle?

Increase Sales

'The first of the year is in full swing. Are you of the many who is returning to his or her action plan to increase sales? Did your action plan for last year not materialize or achieve what you wanted? How about the previous year? Have you wondered why? Having worked with many salespeople to entrepreneurs including small business owners it seems every sales action plan is really an incomplete puzzle missing at least one if not several or more pieces.

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Sales Motivation Video: Hit the Prospecting Trail Hard

The Sales Hunter

'Don’t think for one moment that you have to “get ready” to start prospecting. Nope. A better approach is to hit the prospecting trail hard now. Building momentum early in the year is one of the best decisions you can make toward a successful year. Check out the video to see what I mean: […].

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Do You Seriously Believe You Can Do That. Seriously?

A Sales Guy

'Do you seriously believe you can exceed 200% of quota? Do you seriously believe you can be the CEO? Do you seriously believe you can get into that account? Do you seriously believe you can raise 100 million dollars? Do you seriously believe you can get a job with Warren Buffet? Do you seriously believe you can have your bosses job in a year? Do you seriously believe your idea can change everything for your company?

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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The Next 'Can't Miss' Game Changer for Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

'I just read the following blog post by Dave Kurlan and I immediately asked for his permission to repost it here. I''ve known Dave for 20 years and have represented his product and service all those years. He started blogging when blogging wasn''t cool. His organization is a marketing and product machine. Dave is truly a subject matter expert when it comes to hiring better sales people (link to our site), assessing sales organizations to answer 17 critical business questions (link to his site fo

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The You Go First Leadership Challenge

Increase Sales

'You go first. Have you experienced what really is a leadership challenge? I remember this from my childhood. My young cousin would push me and say “You go first.” And I usually did so, in spite of my fears. One of these times was scaling down a very steep hill to explore some caves during a summer vacation. Another time was diving off a pier and swimming across a very wide and deep channel into a small harbor.

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Why Prospecting Programs Don’t Work and How to Fix It

The Sales Hunter

' The vast majority of salespeople fail to achieve the level of success they know they’re capable of because their prospecting process simply doesn’t work the way it should. Few things will demotivate a salesperson faster than not having good prospects. I’ve been researching this issue for more than 15 years, and below are the […].

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Adam Hollander, CEO of @FST_Games

SBI

'This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. We ask the same questions of every executive so readers can learn about their unique positioning and their vision for the industry. . This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. Nancy: What does FantasySalesTeam do?

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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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Why Aren’t Your Sales People Selling as Expected? (Part 3)

Anthony Cole Training

'Years ago, I contacted David Kurlan, President of Objective Management Group, to discuss contracting with his company to become a distributor of his sales evaluation product. Dave, (Dave, correct me if I’m way wrong) had developed this product and had been working on distributing it for about 5 years. My distributor # is 64 which means that I was not in the initial group of distributors in his network.

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Are You Where You Want To Be?

Increase Sales

'One of the questions I have asked for almost the last 20 years is this simple one of: Are you where you want to be? Credit: Gratisography. Very few people answer in the affirmative. Most respond with a shake of the head and a litany of why they are not where they want to be. What I now know is 98.2% of those I have worked with do not know what they do well.

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De-Icing Delays and a Medical Emergency: Not the Way to Start Your First Flight

The Sales Hunter

' First Monday of the New Year and I was feeling jazzed. I am looking forward to a huge year. To me there’s no better way to start the year than by getting on an early morning flight to do a keynote to open up a company’s annual sales meeting. It was 6 a.m. We […].