Sat.Feb 25, 2017 - Fri.Mar 03, 2017

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Top Sales Performers Who Behave Badly

Steven Rosen

Having a team of top sales performers is great! Well maybe. Sports teams that have many great players don’t always win championships. Less talented teams who have great chemistry and are committed to doing whatever it takes to win usually come out on top. When I coach sales managers on how to get the best out of their team, I realize that not all top performers are the same.

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The Ultimate Guide to World-Class Product Marketing

SBI Growth

Our show today demonstrates how to increase pipeline attribution, customer loyalty, and customer lifetime value through product marketing. Too often product marketing teams are focused on features and functions. Our conversation today is focused on associating product marketing excellence with.

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Questioning The Path You Are On

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . The fate of an unscheduled call to a prospect, a cold call, is determined in the first few seconds of a call, one can argue even before that. By before that, I mean the hundreds if not thousands of practice calls the prospect has had to hone their craft and perfect their means of blowing us off. One can argue that the callers, the sales people have also had the opportunity to practice; true, but there is practice with a goal and purpose in mind.

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3 Things Great Sales Managers Do Differently

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-03-03. Author: Kevin F. Davis. Teaser: Is the current level of skill and attitude of your sales team good enough to exceed your 2017 revenue growth goals? If not, you need to do three things right now to lead yourself and grow others more effectively. Is the current level of skill and attitude of your sales team good enough to exceed your 2017 revenue growth goals?

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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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3 Important Ways Account-Based Sales Teams Can Stay Relevant

No More Cold Calling

What does it take to increase sales in today’s uncertain business environment? This is a time of great change and uncertainty. Now more than ever, sales leaders and their account-based sales teams must be prepared for change. Political systems around the world are in a state of upheaval, and we’re not sure where we stand. Our economy is on the upswing (mostly), but we know that could be temporary.

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Losing Track of a Buyer Not Yet Ready to Buy

Score More Sales

Recently we shared a post 5 Ways – Don’t Leave Money on the Table and this week we break it down by one item at a time. Losing track of a prospect is one of the biggest ways to lose a sales opportunity because research shows that only 3% of buyers are ready to buy at any given time. The remaining 97% is either not going to buy or will buy at a later time.

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Creating a High-Five Culture

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-02-27. Author: Larry Kendall. Teaser: How do you build a High-Five Culture? Simple: Hire sales associates who aspire to be 5 percenters and coach them to success. Here are observations of the top 10 attributes and activities of top salespeople. How do you build a High-Five Culture? Simple: Hire sales associates who aspire to be 5 percenters and coach them to success.

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Sales Motivation Video: Do Your Professional and Personal Goals Complement Each Other?

The Sales Hunter

Have you ever worked on a team where not everybody has the same goal? Early in my sales career, I was part of a sales team that, to put it mildly, wasn’t aligned. Each of us had different goals. Some wanted to kick back and relax, others wanted to get promoted and others were just […].

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Competition a Bear? Explore New Avenues of Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Today’s show will demonstrate how to create new markets through new products, attract new customers to an existing product, and convince current customers to buy more of an existing product. This is a deep dive on product strategy. To follow.

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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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Are you the Beatty or Dunaway of Your Sales Team?

Score More Sales

The 2017 Academy awards were nearly over when a huge mistake was made in announcing the last award – for Best Picture. People wait all night – all year – to hear those final awards for best actor, actress, and film. This year, actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had the honor of announcing the big Best Picture winner. Many loyal Score More Sales blog readers are in their 20’s and 30’s - you may have no idea who those old folks were.

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February Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Can you really convert 70 percent of prospects into customers with referral selling? That kind of conversion rate is unheard of with other account-based sales strategies. Yet, my “feet on the street” research shows that when salespeople receive referral introductions to decision-makers, they secure new clients at least 70 percent of the time.

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Sales Myth: If I Provide Great Customer Service, I Will Never Have to Prospect

The Sales Hunter

Sure, that sounds great. Providing great customer service is what every company and salesperson feels they need to be doing. The sales myth is the more focus that is placed on taking care of existing customers and providing them with great service, the less need there will be to prospect. The myth becomes the rule […].

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Prevent a Revenue Miss – Take a Closer Look at Your Territory Alignment

SBI Growth

Today we’re going to discuss territory alignment and demonstrate how to balance customer requirements, company revenue expectations and sales rep workload to grow revenues. As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in.

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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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4 Sales Team Weaknesses that Inhibit Revenue Growth

DiscoverOrg Sales

A few weeks ago, I spent Saturday afternoon playing Super Mario Kart on Nintendo Wii U with a friend of mine and our two six-year-old boys. After hastily picking my character, vehicle, and tires, I noticed that my friend was carefully cycling through different vehicle options. Somehow, he had enabled a dialog box with ratings for each vehicle attribute including: Speed, Acceleration, Handling, Drift, etc.

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New LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

Fill the Funnel

By now, most LinkedIn users have received the highly anticipated and debated “new user interface” As with most major updates, many are complaining, some are praising and most are just lost and confused. I think you will find the LinkedIn cheat sheet below to be helpful. If you have not noticed already, the feeding frenzy […]. The post New LinkedIn Cheat Sheet appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Leadership is About Impact and Influence

The Sales Hunter

I talk a lot about the role of leadership in sales and how the way others see you determines how they treat what you say. Leadership is about making a positive impact and influencing them in a manner that encourages them to achieve a greater outcome. The more we look at leadership, the more we […].

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The Five Second Rule

Mr. Inside Sales

Thoughts are things. As true as the law of gravity, this is one of the fundamental laws in the universe. Whatever you believe with feeling, you bring into your life. And like gravity, you don’t have to believe in it for it to always be working in your life. Take gravity for example. If you were to step off a ten-story building, the law of gravity would take over and you would fall ten stories to the ground.

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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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How Executives Steer Clear of the Expectations Treadmill

SBI Growth

Executives are hired to create value for their shareholders. It’s no secret that revenue growth is essential to a higher valuation. The dilemma lies in how to stay ahead of the curve. Gone are the days of slow and steady.

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Use These 4 Phrases When Overcoming These Sales Objections

MTD Sales Training

Usually when a prospect makes an excuse, it is because they have not been convinced that whatever you are selling to them, has sufficient benefit for them to change their mind. In order to combat this you should have included them in the solution from the very beginning. You should have been asking questions around what their current situation is, what problems they are facing, the impacts that the problem is causing, what they would like to achieve and so on.

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16 Tested and Proven Ways to Grow Your Email Subscribers

Fill the Funnel

Grow your email subscribers is one of the most effective marketing recommendations anyone can give. A list of engaged subscribers is one of the most effective and reliable marketing resources. A good list so valuable that it can’t be bought. Why? Because when subscribers sign up for your list, they’re signing up to hear from […]. The post 16 Tested and Proven Ways to Grow Your Email Subscribers appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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The Greatest Reward From Writing My Book (Not Taught)

A Sales Guy

I knew Not Taught could help people. That’s why I wrote it, but I’m blown away by how much. That was my motivation for writing Not Taught. I wanted to help people to find success. I wanted people to know that times had changed. I wanted them to know that we had left the Industry Age and entered the Information Age and because of that the approaches and methodologies they were using no longer worked.

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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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Don’t Let Executive Team Siloed Decision-making Stall Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Consensus-building is tricky. Ask any CEO who’s trying to get agreement from a bunch of successful executives with strong opinions and healthy egos. Nonetheless, the entire team has to be heading in the same direction to grow revenue faster than your.

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Use These Creative Sales Tactics To Get To The Decision Maker

MTD Sales Training

Sometimes do you just find it impossible to get through to the decision-maker? You call them, you write to them but they never get back to you? Well, over the years I have heard of some really creative and often radical ways to grab the attention of the decision-maker. So much so that they have given in and booked the salesperson into their diary! There was the time when I heard about a salesman who sent a box of Brazilian nut chocolates to the decision maker and attached was a message that went

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Why Do Sales People Leave Companies? - Management

Anthony Cole Training

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR A $450 BILLION PROBLEM.

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Coaching and Sales Growth In 2017

A Sales Guy

My new Forbes post is up. Like most of my posts, the ones I think are just OK, do really well, and the ones I think are homeruns, fizzle and die a painful death in obscurity. This post has been fairly popular. I knew it was an important topic, but I didn’t realize how much it would resonate with sales leaders and sales people alike. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

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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 Fear is Stifling the Careers of Sales VPs

SBI Growth

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Are You A Closer?

Engage Selling

Closing rates are ALWAYS the “topic of the day” during workshops, coaching calls and strategy sessions. What is yours? Is that high or low compared to average? What would you expect it to be? How can we make it better?

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New sales managers – starting off on the right foot

Sales Training Connection

New Sales Managers. Customers expect salespeople to know more today than ever before … and to know it at a higher level of proficiency. This difference constitutes an inflexion point. Customers now want sales reps who are trusted advisors not product facilitators. All this means that in order for a sales team to be successful in the years ahead, front-line managers need be highly skilled.