Sat.May 11, 2019 - Fri.May 17, 2019

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A Partner Strategy Without Sales Operations Alignment Is Destined for Trouble

SBI Growth

Are Your Sales Operations Chaotic? It is a story told time and time again. As a Sales Operations leader in your organization, every day feels like an uphill battle. You have KPI’s to hit and leadership is looking for results.

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Timing is Everything

John Barrows

The more experienced I get in business the more I realize how important timing is with almost everything. I can’t tell you how many ideas I’ve heard about (or come up with myself) that were great ideas at the time, but failed because the market wasn’t ready for them. Good Ideas, Bad Timing. My former company, Basho, developed an app that plugged into Salesforce and gave you insights/triggers on customers and contacts that you could directly input into pre-made, customizable templates and then tr

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How to Magically Move Prospects into a Buying State of Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Most lies are truths to the people who state them. Take climate change for example. Climate change is clearly a real thing. The planet has been warming exponentially since the ice age! But to think that humans are responsible or that humans can stop it, or we'll be dead in 12 years if we don't, is ludicrous. My statement is a lie to people who don't agree with it, but rings true to people who do agree.

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Your Numbers Suck

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. You hear it said a lot in different fields of endeavour, “their numbers” or “his numbers” suck. Told in the abstract about a ballplayer you can understand what they mean. Given that the subject of the observation usually is not present, it remains more a descriptor with no direct impact on the subject. However, when a manager tells their rep, “your numbers suck,” it has an immediate and lasting detrimental impact.

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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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Who Makes a Great Prospect? 4 Questions You Must Answer

The Sales Hunter

You cannot afford to waste your time with prospects that will not become your customers. Your time is too valuable! All prospects are not the same. The sooner you know who is good and who isn’t, the better off you will be. By getting answers to these four questions, you’ll also help turn them into better customers by offering them more value. Too many salespeople wait too long to get answers to these questions and it leads to having a pipeline that’s essentially a sewer line.

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10 Reasons Why Salespeople Hallucinate

Understanding the Sales Force

I was in the basement of our home looking for something when I saw it. It moved left to right, low, between the stored Christmas trees. I took another look and this time it moved right to left. Each time I moved, it moved. I breathed a sigh of relief when I realized it wasn't a critter but a shadow that I was casting. I saw something that simply wasn't there.

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How the Best CEOs Drive Their Strategy to the Sales Force

SBI Growth

Most companies have ambitious plans for growth. However, few ever realize them. According to the Harvard Business Review, seven out of eight companies in a large corporation failed to achieve profitable growth. Yet 90% of the companies in the study.

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Walking the Tightrope of Sales Compensation Modeling

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Dave Egloff, Senior Director at Gartner For many organizations, sales commissions are the highest variable expense and unfortunately, very challenging to forecast. That is an uncomfortable fact — the chief sales officer’s highest variable expense might be the most challenging to predict. While most CSOs scrutinize compensation designs and the tie between rewards and sales strategy, very few are paying attention to how the sales compensation plans are modeled.

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Monday Motivation Video: Are You Giving Referrals?

The Sales Hunter

I bet you love getting referrals, but do you love just as much giving them? The next time you get a call for a job that just doesn’t quite fit you and your area of expertise, refer them to someone you know that does. By doing so, you’re helping others but also getting yourself excited. I am a better salesperson when I am eager to give referrals, because I know I am helping others see and achieve what they didn’t think was possible.

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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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Friday Five – When Prospective Buyers Disappear

Score More Sales

You know what happens – great conversation with a future customer of yours, and then the conversation goes silent. Radio Silent. They don’t return your calls or emails – even if you had multiple interactions. What to do?

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What CRO’s Need to Ask to Land the Next Big Job

SBI Growth

You’ve led successful enterprise sales teams. Navigated through troubled waters to grow revenue and margin. Now, you’re looking for an even bigger challenge. As an experienced CRO, you now have your opportunity. You’ve been through an extensive vetting process. The.

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How a Manual SEO Audit Can Improve Your Sales Funnel

Sales and Marketing Management

The world we live in today is one where the intangible has never been such a vital part of daily life. Empires are built on information. Empires are also toppled because of information. With the introduction of the internet into our lives, we have never had such unprecedented access to information before. And with that being said, it’s never been easier to connect businesses with prospective customers.

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Close More Sales with this One Training Tip

Mr. Inside Sales

Do you want to be a top producer in sales? If yes, then do what I did: Get the best training you can and use what you learn. Enroll yourself or your team in next week’s 7-week online training program. See it here. All sessions are recorded so you can watch—and re-watch them—at times that are convenient for you! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”.

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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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Promoted! How to Manage a Successful Sales Team

Connect2Sell

You’re a new sales manager, and you’ve inherited a high-performing successful sales team. All you have to do is make sure you don’t mess it up !

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B2B Sales Techniques

MTD Sales Training

Selling to businesses is an ever-changing kaleidoscope of ideas, techniques and co-operations that can enhance or destroy careers in a very short time period. If we are still selling in the same way we did last year, we are out-of-date and run the risk if being fodder to those companies advancing in the sales world. Your B2B sales strategies need to be constantly updated if you are to even maintain your position in the market place, never mind enhancing it.

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Transparent Negotiations: The Counterintuitive Way to Negotiate More Valuable and Predictable Deals

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Todd Caponi Negotiating an agreement with a client is often perceived as requiring the development of a completely different selling muscle: During the sales cycle, we’re doing things to add value to the buying journey, building trust and providing the information a buyer needs to make a confident, informed decision. . When the typical negotiation “event” happens near the end of the sales process, we tend to flip the script.

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How to Eliminate Misunderstandings and Closing Delays

Anthony Cole Training

In business, especially in sales; delays, misunderstandings, and communication can go awry. Sometimes, even with the influx of technology and communication tools, it is easy to misinterpret what a prospect, or salesperson, says.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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Is Your Ego Keeping You From Listening / Sales Leadership Lessons

The Sales Hunter

Show me an egotistical person, and I will show you a person who isn’t listening. If someone feels like they have all the answers and know it all, then why should they listen to anyone else? Primarily, to an ego driven person, everyone else is purely there to make them look good. That’s it! Big ego equals poor listener. I can’t say it any simpler than that.

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Ten Ways to Prepare for a Tough Negotiation

Women Sales Pros

By the time two parties to a negotiation are sitting across the table from each other, the negotiation may already be over. If you didn’t plan ahead, chances are that you’ve walked in to a fait accompli, a done deal, a ship that’s already sailed. If the other party has prepared in these ten ways and you have not, then you’re at an extreme disadvantage.

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Is free food at work a perk or a problem?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan At the height of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, much was written about the five-star-worthy cafeterias that high-tech companies created, offering free meals and elaborate snacks to keep their employees engaged and maybe even working extra hours. While the dot-com bubble burst, food as a perk persists. A recent New York Times article states, free food in the workplace “is almost obligatory, as businesses go to extraordinary lengths to provide food without charge, or at a s

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“Customer Propensity To Buy”

Partners in Excellence

For those people deep into analytics and understanding (usually) consumer buying behaviors, the concept of Propensity To Buy, is not new. It’s been around for decades. Propensity to buy is simply about determining the liklihood of a customer buying something. We use it in developing our websites, our web ad strategies, our marketing programs, and all sorts of things.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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6 Ways to Go from Satisfied to Loyal

Alice Heiman

I can’t imagine any business owner saying that satisfied customers were not a priority. . To use a term, I borrowed from Daniel Pink, I’d like to “flip” your thinking. Instead of thinking that your goal is a satisfied customer, start thinking a satisfied customer is just the beginning. A customer should never be anything other than satisfied; so, what should the goal be?

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Unique Selling Proposition: What It Is & How to Develop a Great One

Hubspot Sales

As a salesperson, you need to have the utmost confidence and belief in the product or service you're selling. If you don't believe in your product, it's likely the prospect won't believe in it either. One of the greatest football coaches of all time, Vince Lombardi , said, "Most people fail not because of a lack of desire but because of a lack of commitment.

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50 Ways to Fight Gender Bias in Sales

Women Sales Pros

Every week, someone asks me (at least once) about a specific situation a woman has had in the workplace – usually on a sales team – either to get some advice, tell what happened, or simply to share in a safe space about an incident involving them or someone they know. I’m happy to be a sounding board and while I have some solid opinions based on 30+ years in sales in male majority workplaces, I’m aware that I don’t have all the answers.

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Sales—Science Or Art?

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I read an article about sales being more science than art. Perhaps, I was a little unfair in my comments, but the author’s premises were flawed. I think we want to see sales being more like science because of what we perceive as the predictability and certainty that seems to exist in science. We want to be able to say, “If this……then that….,” applying rigorous formulas that drive our success.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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Sales Operations: The Guide They Never Gave You

InsightSquared

“What was your first job?”. It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Some of the answers include: Elementary school teacher. SDR. Recruiter. Pharmacy Tech. Insurance sales rep. Cosmetics consultant. Account Manager. Financial analyst. Why the wide range? Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses.

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8 Strategic Planning Models and Tools for the Customer-Focused Business

Hubspot Sales

What's a plan without a strategy? As the economist and business strategy guru, Michael Porter, says, “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”. With strategic planning , businesses identify their strengths and weaknesses and choose what not to do and which opportunities should be pursued. In sales operations, having a clearly defined strategy will help your organization plan for the future, set goals, and achieve goals.

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The Top 7 Sources to Find Leads

The Center for Sales Strategy

Before choosing which prospects to target, it’s best to generate a long list of leads so you can narrow to the best leads. Using the categories you’ve identified as a good fit your business, decide which sources on this list are right for you to generate your own list of leads.

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