Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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When to Pivot from an Indirect to Direct Sales Model

SBI Growth

A indirect selling model has plenty of benefits. Startup companies generally leverage channel partners to get instant scale without inheriting fixed cost. Hiring a direct sales team is expensive. A fledgling company looking for additional capital to bring on headcount.

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Intent Data Turns a Buyer-Centric World From a Curse into a Blessing

Sales Hacker

Intent data has become one of the hottest topics in the B2B sales and marketing space. However, it remains under-utilized by many sales practitioners. A 2018 ABM Benchmark Report found only 25% of companies were using it. Let’s explore what it is, why it matters, and how to make the most of it. What the heck is intent data? Intent data is a relatively new term our industry has adopted to encompass signals and data about prospective buyers or businesses actively researching products or serv

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How to be great at sales and still get sacked

Sales 2.0

This is one I’ve seen several times over my (getting long) career. Someone is one of the top performers in a sales team and they still get sacked. How is this possible? The trick is be super customer-focused and take the opposite approach when dealing with people in your own company. The person that achieves this trick often says “I’m too busy selling to deal with the political nonsense in my company.”.

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Do Words Make a Difference for Women in Sales?

No More Cold Calling

Watch what you say, and do what you say. . “I want you to know it hasn’t gone unnoticed that there are no women on our sales team.” That comment came from the CEO of a fast-growing software company. Not only were there no women, but the sales team was all white men of a certain age. He wanted to hire saleswomen, he told me, but women rarely applied for the job.

Hiring 280
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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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7 Questions to Build Rapport in Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group Before buyers will open up to you about their needs and desires, they have to first be comfortable with you. Comfort (and trust) begin with rapport. Building rapport is sometimes dismissed as a ploy to make a superficial connection with a buyer. You shouldn’t make superficial connections, you should make genuine ones.

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Pitch Perfect: Selling into Human Resources (HR)

DiscoverOrg Sales

A candid interview with Jill Konrath and David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Vlocity (via Salesforce and Mulesoft). Workplace services. Compensation. Recruitment. New employee orientation. Human Resources owns a growing piece of the budget pie – but how do you break in? Sales leader Jill Konrath has some pointed questions about the buying process for HR leaders, so she interviewed David Kingsley , Chief People Officer at Vlocity (formerly Head of Global People & Places at MuleSoft,

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How To Map Out Your Buyer’s Journey Pre & Post-Sale

MTD Sales Training

Here’s a question to get you thinking: What do you need to do today, tomorrow and next week that would have the biggest impact on your business growth? It’s a far-reaching question that determines how and where you should be spending your valuable time. It focuses on what are the most significant areas for you to concentrate and focus on that will bring the biggest returns.

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How Does Your Buyer Strategy Change When Applying It to Customers vs. Prospects?

SBI Growth

It’s early November, and only a few weeks away from Thanksgiving. For some, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to reflect on what they are thankful for in life: friends, family, the food on the kitchen table—a smoked chipotle turkey with stuffing and.

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Last Day Madness on the Sales Force - That's One Kind of Urgency

Understanding the Sales Force

The 2018 World Series is in the rear view mirror, my family can go to sleep at a normal time again, and sports fans can finally devote their attention to Basketball, Hockey and Football (and soccer okay? You got me to say it). I'm still getting calls and emails asking if I've come down from cloud 9 over the Red Sox world-series victory but I keep explaining that I was never on cloud 9.

Sports 209
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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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How Badly Do You Want Others to Succeed?

The Sales Heretic

I’m going to talk about basketball for a moment, so if you’re not a basketball fan—or a sports fan in general—just bear with me. The point I want to make is important, and it will help you boost your organization’s sales and performance. Last week, history was made in the National Basketball Association. In a [.].

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13 Musts from an Accidental Salesperson

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Lee Shawback I fell into sales in 2008 kind of by accident. At the time, I had a consulting business that revolved around the plastics industry, injection molding to be specific. I got a call one day from a company I had known for many years. They asked me what I thought about joining their employee owner team in sales. Having my own business was my dream and I didn’t want to give that up just yet.

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How The CEO Can Jump-Start The Customer Experience Transformation (CXT)

SBI Growth

As The CEO, you obsess about your Customer. You also know you need to transform your Customer Experience. You are aware that customer expectations have risen, however, your company has not evolved to address them. You are committed to CX.

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Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI?

Pointclear

Thinking back on my career, I realized early on that marketing spending of any sort, whether for people or programs, must be rooted in my ability (and our marketing department’s ability) to justify the expense. Nothing else made sense to me then or now. If you intend to spend the investor’s money (AKA company money) based on notions and intuition, without a plan to report the results, you are misleading management.

Lead Gen 184
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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 to be great at sales and still get sacked

Sales 2.0

This is one I’ve seen several times over my (getting long) career. Someone is one of the top performers in a sales team and they still get sacked. How is this possible? The trick is be super customer-focused and take the opposite approach when dealing with people in your own company. The person that achieves this trick often says “I’m too busy selling to deal with the political nonsense in my company.”.

How To 150
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Step 1 for Managing, Training & Selling with Emotional Intelligence

Connect2Sell

It's human nature to focus on self. On top of that, the perception (fair or not) is that sellers are even more self-oriented than people in most other professions. To overcome this perception and temper that human nature, sales managers and sales trainers who want to enable sales may find real value in developing a stronger orientation to others. This is part of what I call selling with emotional intelligence.

Training 157
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How to Get More Value From Your B2B Data Purchase

Zoominfo

Data is a big investment for any company— but, if you research vendors and invest intelligently, it can have a dramatic impact on your company’s financial success and growth. However, if you’re not smart about your purchase, bad data quickly becomes a costly mistake. Don’t let your data come back to bite you. Check out our tips for getting the most out of your next B2B data purchase. 1.

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Your Future Self Cannot Be Trusted! 

Anthony Cole Training

Today, I want to talk to you about time management vs self management. Now, here's one thing we know about time, it manages itself very, very well. In fact, you don't have to worry about time managing itself, what you do need to worry about, at least what we see around the country as we coach and train salespeople, is the concept of self-management.

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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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Gap Selling – Available for Preorder

A Sales Guy

Well, it’s finally arrived. Gap Selling is available for pre-order on Amazon. The most relevant, impactful and insightful sales book since The Challenger Sale: No blue suits, blue shirts, blue ties or blue sheets. No gimmicks or tricks. No 90’s selling tactics. No, not your dad’s sales book. Gap Selling is selling for the 21st century.

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Book Review - Eat Their Lunch

Score More Sales

The subtitle says only part of what this new book is about: “Winning Customers Away from your Competition”. For me as someone who reads nearly every new book on professional, B2B selling I felt Anthony under-promoted the huge issue of KEEPING clients. It is an issue of mammoth proportion, and one I grappled with when I sold products and services that could be easily cancelled (SaaS software, for example) or that were in a competitive industry.

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How to Build a Better B2B Sales Tech Stack

Zoominfo

B2B sales leaders are constantly looking for tools and technologies that offer insight into their team’s productivity—tools also known as Sales Force Automation (SFA). The problem is that SFA tools, particularly CRM, only facilitate measurement, rather than the sales process itself. This is not to say reporting and measurement aren’t paramount to achieving company growth; it absolutely is.

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Free Sales Training: 6 of My Favorite Sales Tips

John Barrows

There is no shortage of free sales training resources out there. Today there are more videos on YouTube than you could watch in your lifetime and more books on Amazon or Audible than you could ever get through even if you read one a day. Unfortunately, there is no magic resource that will automatically help you become a master sales rep, but we can work on getting a little bit better each day.

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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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5 Ways to Be Gracious, Express Gratitude and Grow

Alice Heiman

The Giving Season. I can feel the season changing. The air is finally getting colder, the trees are almost bare, the leaves are crunching beneath my feet as I take my morning walk and as I walked into Whole Foods the other day a giant inflatable snow globe was being set up. You know what that means. The holiday season is here, the season of giving. We give thanks, give gifts and give people way too much to eat.

Referrals 124
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Sales Tech Game Changers Quarterly Magazine Released: 10 Executives Tell Us How Their Solution Changes the Game for Sales

SBI

game chang·er. noun. an event, idea, or technology that causes a significant shift in the current manner of doing or thinking about something. “a potential game changer that could revitalize the entire US aerospace industry”. The Smart Selling Tools community knows about our weekly Executive Interview Series. Each interview is an opportunity to learn about different solutions and what way they’re changing the game for sellers.

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7 Ways to Improve Your B2B Job Descriptions

Zoominfo

As important as it is for job candidates to make a good first impression, it’s equally important for the hiring company to do so, too. To help you impress job applicants and attract top talent, we give you seven ways to improve your B2B job descriptions. With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process.

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11 Simple Questions to Assess the Maturity of Your Sales Team

Openview

In my experience, at the $1 million ARR stage, most SaaS companies find themselves in one of two buckets. Either their sales organization is firing on all cylinders or falling apart at the seams. You can guess what happens to the companies who have sales teams that are knocking it out of the park. Customer acquisition increases as they continue to execute strategies and tactics that they know work well and shed the ones that don’t.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Time Is the Enemy of High-Quality, Complex Deals. Team Selling Is the Solution (Interview with Tim Sanders)

Troops

When you’re working a high-quality B2B deal, the biggest enemy to success is time. We interviewed Tim Sanders , CEO of Deeper Media and author of several sales and business books, including Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Will Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges to ask him more about closing big, complex deals. “Big sales are just problem-solving exercises,” Tim told us.

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How to Write a Proposal

RAIN Group

"Can you send me a proposal?". Sellers love to hear these 6 words from buyers. Once you submit a proposal, you can move forward to the win. While a good proposal summarizes what you've already discussed and agreed to, a proposal is, at its core, a persuasive document that communicates to buyers why they should buy, and why they should buy from you.

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7 Ways to Improve Your B2B Job Descriptions

Zoominfo

As important as it is for job candidates to make a good first impression, it’s equally important for the hiring company to do so, too. To help you impress job applicants and attract top talent, we give you seven ways to improve your B2B job descriptions. With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process.

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