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I Need Some Help

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Despite the state of discourse in general these days, in a one on one settings, like a sales meeting for instance, most people are helpful by nature. As a sales professional, we need to walk the line of leveraging that to help us make a sale, while not taking advantage of it. I know some days it is hard to convince you that people are helpful, especially when someone just hung up on you, or you’ve run out of ideas how to get a response from someon

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The Best Way to Sell Is With a Story

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tony Agresta Most salespeople could teach a course in rejection. They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. “It’s not a high priority for us”. “I already have a solution”. “How’s this really going to help me?”. The best prepared salespeople have a comeback ready to go.

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10 Mistakes that Kill Sales Calls

SBI Growth

Sales Leaders miss or make the number one sales call at a time. Yet they typically don’t pay enough attention to each call. They look at each rep’s performance to quota. They review the pipeline. These are difficult to control. Sales leaders can.

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Why Do Salespeople Use Facts and Logic to Combat Objections?

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright iStock Photos. The easy answer to the title question is that they have been trained to do that since they first arrived at sales kindergarten. Whether talking points, bullet points, inarguable facts, competitive differences, ROI, value proposition, brand promise or cost of ownership, these words and phrases have been reinforced since day 1.

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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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Gaining and Maintaining Momentum

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. It has been a while since I have had the opportunity to speak with Michele Price , but I recently found this segment we did. I am sharing it today as we head into the last week of October, and are looking to se how we can maintain momentum to finish off the year right, and carry that momentum into next year.

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Year-End Mistakes You Need to Avoid

The Sales Hunter

How are you looking to finish your year? There’s time left, but we need to be careful for fear of making a fatal mistake that dooms the year. A few years ago I was working with a CEO and his 8-person sales team to help them close the year on target. The CEO was blunt […].

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Sales Reps are CRITICAL to Company Success

Score More Sales

Your sales reps – be they inside sellers, field sales, or otherwise are critically important to the success of your planned revenue growth for a very simple reason: A significant portion of the buying journey is done without sales involved and that won’t change.

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Is it better to in-source or outsource sales lead generation?

Pointclear

This is the second of a 2-part series that borrows Miller Lite’s super successful Tastes Great, Less Filling campaign theme to make a point about sales lead generation. Just as the beer pleases two constituencies (those who want their beer to be both full bodied and light), the outsourced approach to lead generation, qualification and nurturing pleases two kinds of marketing and sales leaders.

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10 Ways Sales Managers Motivate And Demotivate Their Teams

MTD Sales Training

A sales manager on one of our leadership programmes was asked what he considered to be his biggest priority at work. We thought he would have said ‘hitting targets’ like everyone else had said on the programme. This sales manager said something rather intriguing. He said that his biggest priority had to be keeping his team motivated and inspired. That was because, if he managed to achieve a highly-motivated team, it was much easier to achieve his targets.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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What is Your Distinct Point of Difference?

The Sales Hunter

This week I had the opportunity to work with the team from SEN Design Group and some of their members. The conversations were stimulating, as everyone was bringing amazing insights to the conversation. What I found interesting is the more time I spent with them, the more I came away realizing the need to have […].

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30 Ways to Boost Sales in Q4

Score More Sales

Need a dose of inspiration to boost sales before the calendar year is over? Working to hit that stretch goal? How about a way to move a stalled sales opportunity to closure?

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How much does outsourced lead generation cost (vs. keeping it in house)?

Pointclear

Tastes great, less filling—that’s not only one of the greatest campaigns ever ( AdAge says it’s 8 th on the list), it has a corollary in the sales lead generation space. Just as Miller Lite excels in two conflicting arenas (palatability and how full it makes you feel), outsourced teleprospecting does as well. By outsourcing your lead generation, qualification and nurturing activities you get better results for less cost, and I can prove my claim.

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How To Get Past Gatekeepers

MTD Sales Training

The Gatekeeper : the secretary, receptionist or personal assistant, whose job it is to “screen” your call and stop you from talking to the decision maker. We all understand the importance of talking to “The Decision Maker”. Talk to someone who is not qualified and you’re wasting your time! If you are in B2B sales then you have come face to face with gatekeepers and a “screen” and learning to get past these guardians of the gold, is a mission-critical objective in your sales career.

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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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Sales Motivation Video: Sales Prospecting and the 4th Quarter of the Year

The Sales Hunter

Fourth quarter?! How did that happen? Don’t slow down on your prospecting now. Yes, you need to be closing deals, but you ALSO need to be adding fresh prospects to your pipeline at the same time. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach can help you excel in your sales […].

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When Paper-based Sign-offs Become Turn-offs

SBI

There is often little margin for error when working and closing a deal. Unfortunately, it’s at the finish line where many sales opportunities stumble and fall, preventing the successful close of the deal. Crossing the finish line is still a long, drawn-out affair for many sales reps, with delays that often stretch the process into days or even weeks—plenty of time for all their efforts to unravel.

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The 5 Most Important Sales Performance Metrics Every Rep and Manager Should Track

Hubspot Sales

As a sales manager or leader, your problem probably isn’t too little data. It’s too much data. After all, with the latest tools we can measure everything -- and we do. From the percentage of reps using your CRM and cohort retention rate to average time to hire and sales velocity, there’s a nearly endless list of metrics, reports, and data points. Let’s be honest: It’s overwhelming.

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How To Identify A Weak Sales Manager

MTD Sales Training

There are few things more exasperating than employing someone who you have to micro-manage or continuously direct to get results. That person who started off so well, or had all the right things on their CV, starts to make you wonder why you picked them in the first place. So what are the identifying marks of a weak sales manager ? How can you, as Sales Director, determine the signs that have to be dealt with?

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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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Want to Beat 2018 Estimates? Start Changing the Game in Q4.

SBI Growth

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Sales Is All About Facilitating the Angst of Change

Increase Sales

Sales is all about change. You want your sales prospect to change by buying your solution. How will you facilitate that change will speak to your sales success or failure. Facilitate is an incredibly powerful word and one that many salespeople tend to ignore. The roots of facilitate are Latin in origin (facere) and translates as “to do” or “to make.” From facere, the word evolved to “facilis” or translated to “easy.” In other words, facilitate i

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Sales Compensation: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. Not only are salespeople notoriously good at figuring out and exploiting loopholes in the pay structure, but there are tens of different variables to balance. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Salary only. Commission only. Base plus commission.

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12 body language signals only the best salespeople can read

Nutshell

The ability to read body language signals and respond accordingly is an important weapon in a salesperson’s arsenal. As a salesperson, you should be actively seeking to “hear” your prospect’s body language, as much as you’re listening to the words they’re saying. On some level, we humans naturally pay attention and react to body language. When you see someone smile, you know instinctively that they’re happy (or at least indicating positive feelings to you).

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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10 questions your Key Accounts will be asking you!

SBI Growth

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When The Manager Is The Problem Performer

Partners in Excellence

Every organization has challenges with problem performers. However, too few address these performance issues–at least until the impact of the problem performance is devastating to the organization. A problem sales person can, easily, have an adverse impact of over a million dollars. The “cost” is not just the lost opportunity in their own territories, but the drag they create on their peers and managers has an impact, as well.

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15 Funny Email Subject Lines Begging to Be Opened

Hubspot Sales

Your prospects’ email inboxes are inundated with ordinary subject lines all day, every day. “ Hope you’re doing well ,” “ Just checking in ,” and “ Wanted to follow up ” fill their screens faster than Gary Vee drops the F-bomb. Thirty-five percent of email recipients report opening emails based on the subject line alone. And headline experts at CoSchedule recommend hitting on people’s curiosity to get that magic click.

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The business of telling stories (and how to do it)

DocSend

If you’re in the business of marketing or selling products, then you’re also in the business of telling stories. Investor and entrepreneur Ben Horowitz once said , “ You can have a great product, but a compelling story puts the company into motion.”. As marketers and sellers, we put the product story to work every day. We use it to forge connections with prospects.

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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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The Four Most Important Skills For Sales Operations Professionals

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. I get asked, “What should I look for when hiring someone for Sales Operations?” or “What skills should I have to break into Sales Operations?” a lot. Thinking about the best and worst Sales Operations professionals I’ve worked with over the years, I’ve come up with four skills that the best have and the worst lack.

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I’ve Been Negligent

A Sales Guy

I know, I know, I haven’t posted a blog post in over 2 weeks. I think this is a record for the longest stint without a post. Why? Why has it been so long? I could give you a million reasons, but the truth is I just haven’t been inspired. I like to offer value to the readers of this blog, and I just haven’t felt it lately. I’ve been writing on A Sales Guy for almost 9 years.

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18 Empathy Statements That Put Your Prospect at Ease

Hubspot Sales

Sales is evolving. The days of fast-talking, railroading salespeople is gone. Today’s buyers won’t stand for being bullied into a deal. That’s where the empathy statement comes in. If your idea of empathy is throwing an “ uh-huh ” or “ I see ” into your conversations every few minutes, think again. Below, I’ve rounded up a few empathetic statements every salesperson should use.