Sat.Jul 06, 2019 - Fri.Jul 12, 2019

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Engaging Your Prospects Across Social Platforms

Alice Heiman

Where Are Your Prospects? . We need to meet our prospects and customers where they are. That might be at a trade show or event, at their office, on the phone, via email or on social media. Do you know if your salespeople are in the right places? It is possible that your customers and prospects may be using social media platforms that your sales reps are not currently using for business.

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Using Science to Hire Entry-Level Salespeople

Braveheart Sales

What are the best qualities to look for when hiring an entry-level sales rep – someone who will have to be taught how to sell…the right way? It’s a question I get frequently. Most hiring managers feel it’s only about their ability to overcome adversity or their extroverted personality that predict success. Think again! I reviewed the data on 82,167 salespeople who have one year or less in sales and found some precise measures that will predict success – these are the qualities that hiring manage

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The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

86% of all salespeople have beliefs that don't support ideal sales outcomes. That's important because beliefs influence behavior, and appropriate sales behavior drives results. Think about sales process, sales methodology, sales strategy and sales tactics. Salespeople who have the ability to execute those four elements of success are less dependent on their knowledge of selling than what they believe.

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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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Six Ways Of Dealing With A Client Who Won’t See You

MTD Sales Training

It may sound strange, but there will be people you know you can help who will refuse to meet with you! How dare they! Don’t they know you have their holy grail, the answer to their prayers, the very thing they have been looking for? Of course, the world doesn’t work that way, and there will be prospects and customers who will reject your advances and avoid you at all costs.

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In The Beginning

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Every journey has a beginning, middle and an end, and this is true for a buying cycle and sales cycle. And while it may work for Zen and motorcycles , in sales, it is not about the journey but the destination, the win. Everything we do as sales professionals needs to maximize that end and ease the journey for all involved. Many factors impact the journey and by extension, the outcome, including strategy, execution plan and more.

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Friday Five – Getting Your Buyers Attention

Score More Sales

We all have buyers and future buyers who stop replying to us – for a myriad of reasons. Some of the biggest reasons are: They just don’t see enough value to spend time communicating.

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Transforming the Seller Experience Through Sales Enablement

SBI Growth

Today Ray Oram, Global VP of Sales Enablement for IBM, joins us to discuss how to transform the seller experience. Traditionally, sales enablement groups have spent their time working on budgets, supporting sellers through training, developing digital assets, and knowledge sharing.

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How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today

Understanding the Sales Force

Big ones, little ones, sharp ones and stubborn ones. I was pulling weeds from the garden when it became crystal clear to me. The various weeds were like the many types of opportunities in most sales pipelines. Big ones, little ones, those that hurt (we're behind the competition) and those who are stubborn (they aren't sharing important information).

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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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Organizing and Putting Structure to a Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: David Bernard The organization of a sales team is always relevant no matter what size a business is, whether a start-up, an SME or a Fortune 500 company. As teams add salespeople to increase their depth of talent, it is important for them to take into account the overall team structure. This includes assessing the organization’s sales setup quarterly in order to make adjustments depending on employees’ skill sets and sales performance.

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Sales Coaching for the Sales Coaches

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we focus on Sales Coaching for Sales Coaches. Often, in sales, the sales manager is not held to the same standards as those on the sales force. While sales people are monitored on their calls, emails, CRM activity, and follow-up methodologies, the same cannot always be said for sales management.

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The Cost of a Bad Hire [Infographic]

Zoominfo

A key component of organizational growth is hiring—but, if you hire the wrong candidate you can do more harm than good. Although it’s a drain on resources to replace a bad hire, that’s the least of your worries. In fact, before you even realize you’ve made a bad hiring decision, the wrong person can wreak havoc on your department’s productivity, reputation, results, and even your revenue.

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Monday Motivation Video: Setting Your 2nd Half Sales Goals

The Sales Hunter

What do you need to do over the next six months to close out 2019 strong? Look at last week’s success as well as your upcoming goals and up your game. You need to aggressively prospect and sell now through October so that November and December are bigger than ever. Don’t let the summer slow you down! People are still buying and selling. Set your goals higher, so you can achieve higher!

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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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Entering a New Market? Avoid This Common Market Research Pitfall

SBI Growth

Often entering a new market represents a significant growth opportunity for a company. As the CEO setting the strategic vision deciding which markets to pursue and when is one of the most important decisions, you can make. Despite this, far.

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Promoted! Sales Manager Tips for Motivating Sellers

Connect2Sell

To address the myths, misperceptions, and misunderstandings about how to fire up sales professionals, let’s start with the most prevalent misguided sales manager tips for motivating sellers.

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July 2019 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome new readers and ZoomInfo regulars to the latest edition of our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. For those of you who are new to the ZoomInfo blog, we regularly publish monthly round-ups to feature top B2B content from industry professionals, leading brands, and subject matter experts. . Today’s round-up features content about collecting better customer testimonials, building sales pipeline, executing data-driven business strategies, and more!

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The Coveted Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers

Anthony Cole Training

Becoming, and staying, a sales manager is hard work. Becoming an extraordinary sales manager is grueling and time consuming. It requires attention to detail, the ability to have tough conversations with those who are not meeting their numbers, the desire and commitment to grow yourself and your salespeople, and consistent activity and patience.

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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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Are You Even Ready to Prospect?

The Sales Hunter

How can you ever expect to achieve the results you need from prospecting if you aren’t prepared to prospect? Prospecting is tough enough, so you shouldn’t make it even harder on yourself. Watch this video to learn how you prepare to prospect to ensure you prospect effectively: The worst thing you can do is sit down, suddenly start making prospecting calls or sending out emails and expect results.

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How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course

Sell Courses Online

The post How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Online learning is a rapidly growing industry and it has presented a huge opportunity to those who want to create online courses and monetize their knowledge. While more and more knowledgepreneurs are launching new courses every year, a worrying trend has set in where a majority of the students never finish an online course.

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20 Motivating Sales Quotes to Empower Your Team

Zoominfo

As any salesperson knows, motivation comes and goes. At certain points, we are hyper-focused and driven. And on other days, we don’t even feel like picking up the phone. So the question is – where do we find the inspiration to climb out of these slumps? If you’re dragging today and can’t seem to drum up the motivation to get going, we’re here to help.

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The Buyer Yesterday vs. The Buyer Today

Anthony Cole Training

Today’s buyer isn’t your grandpa’s, or even your dad’s, buyer. They are coming to you much deeper into the sales process, meaning they are much more aware and informed than ever before.

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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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Sales is About Making a Significant Impact on Others

The Sales Hunter

Do you agree or disagree with the title of this post? If you agree, it is probably because you see sales not as just a job but as a lifestyle. If, on the other hand, you disagree with the title or you have issues with it, it is probably because you view sales as taking advantage of others. Video: Sales is Not a Job, Sales is a Lifestyle: To me, sales is about making a significant impact on others.

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3 Drip Campaign Emails With An Above 40% Open Rate

Hubspot Sales

When I first built my email list, I was ready to create some drip campaigns. Just one little problem: I didn't know what to say. I felt like a salesperson with this perfect prospect, but I couldn't find the words to convey how I could change this person's business. I started chatting with a few of my friends in sales to learn more about their best secrets and corresponding open rates, and David Sneider , Sendbloom's former head of growth and current CEO of Deco.Network, provided the following qu

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Epic Sales Presentation Failures

Women Sales Pros

When I say sales presentation, I don’t just mean any sales presentation. This is the big one. Maybe you’re one of three finalists for a 5X deal (i.e. five times larger than your average deal size). Perhaps retaining your largest customer depends on your ability to convey why your customer should remain loyal to you against a sea of competitors. When it comes to TOP Line Accounts , your biggest and best opportunities often include a sales presentation.

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When Less Is More

Partners in Excellence

It seems the universal answer to every sales performance answer is to do more. We’re chastised to close more deals, get more into the pipeline, spend more time with customers, spend more time–period, just do more. Regardless of where the challenge is, whether it’s our close rates, our average deal value, our sales cycle, our ability to create value, our pipeline volumes; the dominant solution is to focus on the top of the pipeline, prospecting.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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The Books That Taught Me How to Sell

Anthony Iannarino

I had brain surgery 90 days before I went back to working in my family’s business. At the time, I was not allowed to drive, a difficult obstacle to overcome when you have to book sales meetings—or if you need a few things from the grocery store. My younger brother would chauffeur me to appointments until the time I was frustrated by with the realization that my doctors would never release me to drive, even though I only ever had one seizure.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management

Hubspot Sales

When thinking about ways to boost your revenue and grow your business, you might consider evolving your product line, reaching your buyer personas in new ways, or launching a brand awareness campaign. But what about considering the people who are working to sell your products every day? Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily.

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60 Key @Microsoft Influencers to Learn from at #MSInspire 2019

Nimble - Sales

Microsoft Inspire, the annual conference that Microsoft provides for its global partner community, is just around the corner (July 14 – 18, 2019). Thousands of partners from more than 130 countries are expected to arrive in Las Vegas to learn about the product roadmap, the direction Microsoft leadership is headed, how to accelerate the digital […].

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