Sat.Mar 25, 2017 - Fri.Mar 31, 2017

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What Awesome Sales Leaders Are Doing to Lead Their Team to Succeed

Steven Rosen

Awesome Sales Leaders. It would be great to understand what awesome sales leaders are doing to lead their team to succeed? As a sales leader, there are only so many levers you have at your disposal to impact team success. However, you know that where you put your emphasis can have a dramatic impact on sales outcomes. Here are the top five areas that I have seen successful sales leaders focus on, to outperform their competitors.

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Adapting an ABM Approach for Account-Based EVERYTHING

DiscoverOrg Sales

This post is an original piece from guest author, Brandon Redlinger, and first published on DiscoverOrg’s blog on 3/27/2017. Brandon is the Director of Growth at Engagio, the Account-Based Everything platform that orchestrates human connections. He is passionate about the intersection between tech and psychology, especially as it applies to growing businesses.

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March Sadness

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I recall reading Skip Miller’s “ProActive Sales Management”, where he states: “If you, as a sales manager, do not know if you are going to make the year after the first quarter, the battle is over. Now you better be lucky.” I should think we can include front line sales people. Given the “advancements” in sales technology since the above statement was made, there is no reason why sales people should not be in a position to know how their year wi

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Are You Making Your Prospect Uncomfortable?

The Sales Heretic

A female friend called me recently to tell me a story. She had arrived home from work around dusk. As she approached her house, she noticed two men walking through the neighborhood. She pulled into her driveway, opened her garage door, and parked in the garage. As she exited her car, the two men approached [.].

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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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The Power of Connecting Others in Sales

Score More Sales

Best selling author, journalist, and speaker Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book in 2000 called The Tipping Point. It is a great read for anyone in business, and one of the things it covers is different archetypes of people, including mavens and connectors.

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Cooking With Sales

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I am not sure if it truly qualifies as serendipity, but I had a couple of experiences one day recently that confirmed some sales basics that we choose to ignore at times. After leaving a meeting, I heard an interesting report and discussion on CBC Radio. They were looking at the cooking and eating habits of Canadians.

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Growth Begins with Data—and Your Competitors Already Know It

DiscoverOrg Sales

Cracking a tough sales account was once like striking oil. The first good sales rep on site won exclusive mining rights. Sales reps aiming to displace the current provider were stuck dialing into dead-end corporate switchboard phone numbers, getting stonewalled by gatekeepers, never to reach their buyer’s voicemail box—let alone pitch their product to a decision-maker.

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Learning to Sell Through Storytelling

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-03-29. Author: Mark Magnacca. Teaser: Closing a deal depends on the salesperson’s ability to make a prospect feel as though their unique story is being heard. Sales reps must learn how to effectively encapsulate the value of what they are offering within the context of a prospect’s pain point, as this is the best way to truly connect with them.

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Speed Up Your Prospecting to Protect Your Best Asset

The Sales Hunter

Two weeks ago, I was looking for assistance on a project and was looking to hire a company to take it over. One of the companies I spoke with on the phone was courteous and nice, but they didn’t get the job. The reason is simple — they didn’t ask the tough questions. After […].

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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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March Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Women’s History Month is almost over, but women make sales history every day. There’s a new generation of women in sales, and not just in entry-level roles. Take a look at growing tech companies like Terminus, where the VP of Sales, Tonni Bennett, is a woman, and where every member of the sales team is enthusiastic and committed to doing their best for their customers.

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3 Ways Sales Management Can Coach and Develop Sales Reps

SBI Growth

SBI conducts hundreds of field observations and interviews with sales reps and managers every quarter. We call these Day in the Life Of, or Dilos. There is a major theme consistent across most sales forces: The Coaching and Developing of front.

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Wring Inefficiency from Your Proposal Process and Win More Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-03-37. Author: Lewis Miller, CEO and President, Qvidian. Teaser: The RFP process holds great potential for organizations dedicated to doing it the best they can. Engage with this process and you will reap the rewards. The RFP process holds great potential for organizations dedicated to doing it the best they can. Engage with this process and you will reap the rewards.

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Lists and the Rest of the Story

Pointclear

There is no such thing as a good list. I am sure that my opinion about lists makes purveyors of lists unhappy, but it is the truth. For the most part, lists suck. There are reasons: Chief among the reasons is that lists are incredibly expensive to keep clean. People change jobs, big guys buy little guys. Big guys buy big guys. Big and little guys shut down.

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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 Motivation Video: It’s Time for More H2H in Sales!

The Sales Hunter

That’s right! Whether you are in B2B or B2C, what you MOST need to be in is H2H — Human to Human! This week I want you to remember that sales success is about personal relationships. Be passionate about human to human connections and dialogue. Here’s to great selling! Check out the video to see […].

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Stop Inflicting Reps with a Tough Mudder of Internal Red Tape

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Biju Baby, a Vice President of Global Sales Operations who knows a thing or two about supporting revenue growth. His company has seen an impressive 54 quarters of sequential revenue growth and Biju has.

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Learning to Sell Through Storytelling

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Magnacca Earning a prospect’s trust is essential when it comes to the art of the sale. It’s human nature to want to make a connection with the person we’re buying from – to feel like our needs are understood and that the sales rep cares about more than just a commission. Therefore, closing a deal depends on the salesperson’s ability to make a prospect feel as though their unique story is being heard.

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Managing Millennials

Mr. Inside Sales

Sales management has always been a balancing act between supporting people to achieve more, and pushing them to go beyond what they think they are capable of. In today’s environment of motivating, encouraging and driving performance from the “so-called” millennial generation, there is even more to balance. Today’s millennials are an interesting blend of being super smart, intuitive, and demanding.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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3 Reasons Why Sales Get Stuck – And 3 Steps to Keep Them from Getting Stuck

Anthony Cole Training

Even if you are not in “sales”, you’ve actually been in sales your whole life and you’ve had sales get stuck in the pipeline. No? You don’t think so. Well, let me provide a few examples to clarify.

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Create Products that Fly Off the Shelf

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Tom Banta, a Senior Vice-President of Product Management and Development who knows a thing or two about creating products that people can’t imagine living without. Tom led product development at BMC Software and it’s.

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Use This Method To Help You Overcome This Common Objection

MTD Sales Training

One of the biggest objections sales people face that causes most discussion is the issue of price. The holy grail of salesmanship is how to find the best way to convince their customers to pay the price they want for their services. Remember, price is always associated with value, so if the price issue is raised often, think about how you are building value initially.

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Correct Course Now: 10 tips to keep 2017 on track

Sales and Marketing Management

by: Matt Heinz. You know what they say about best-laid plans, right? Even if you started 2017 with specific, measurable goals, what happens when you fall behind? What happens when those best-laid plans meet the battlefield of business? What happens when things don’t always go the way you intended? Here are 10 things you can do to get back on track. 1.

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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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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: You Can’t Fake the Coaching

The Sales Hunter

This week I had several coaching calls with the same person, and each time it centered around the other person’s desire to be an effective coach themselves. The person I was talking with spends his time working with others, coaching them to perform at a higher level, yet at the same time he is in […].

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What's So Wrong with this LinkedIn Invitation?

Increase Sales

LinkedIn is a great social media site to increase business contacts and when done well will increase sales. Yet there is a correct way to write a LinkedIn invitation to connect and so many wrong ways to write a LinkedIn invite. This morning I received this invite (I have deleted any specifics to ensure the sender’s anonymity): Please accept my connect request.

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7 Ways To Make Your Brand Stand Out Against The Competition

MTD Sales Training

Brand is often described as ‘a variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic’. Apple’s brand, for instance, is characterised by the statement ‘Think Different’. It creates a label in people’s mind that attracts them and builds trust in the product or services. No matter what your brand is, you can make it stand out against competitors by putting the emphasis on what differentiates you.

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Sales Operations: The Guiding Light to Resource Allocation

SBI Growth

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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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Want to Close at Full Price? Start with Prospects Who Can Pay Full Price.

The Sales Hunter

You can’t take a Walmart shopper and turn them into a Nordstrom customer. It simply is not going to happen, but that is exactly what too many salespeople think they can do. If you want full price, you need to spend your time prospecting customers who can pay full price. Are you one who […].

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3 Simple Actions to Take Today to Change Your Sales Results Tomorrow

Increase Sales

Over the course of nearly 40 plus years in business, I have been fortunate to meet many much smarter people than myself. One of those individuals is Ray Overdorff who recently shared three (3) simple actions to change one’s sales results. #1 – Commitment to be a Better Communicator. Sales regardless of all the hype by so called experts is 100% about people buying from other people.

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Sales Performance Management (SPM): Building an Effective Strategy

Cincom Smart Selling

Four tips for building a more productive sales culture through sales performance management strategies. Having a strategy in place for sales performance management is key to the success of any organization in every market. In order to effectively build a sales performance management strategy that will deliver the highest ROI to your organization, you must first understand your goals and the value your offering can provide to your market.