Sat.May 05, 2018 - Fri.May 11, 2018

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The Sooner You Lose the Sale, the Better

Mr. Inside Sales

Last week I was speaking with a service provider who wanted to joint venture with me. They have a CRM solution they wanted to me to market to my list of subscribers. After the initial conversation, next steps were outlined and they sent me more in-depth info on their product to evaluate. After exploring their solution, I decided they weren’t a good match for my vertical.

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Sitting in a Classroom or Using their Mobile Phone: How do Reps Learn Best?

Allego

The last time you wanted to know how to cook a Thanksgiving turkey did you: Look it up in a thick Betty Crocker cookbook? Pull up a YouTube video on it? If you answered ‘b’ then me too. In fact these days video is the place most of us start when we want to learn something on the fly. What does that mean for your sales team? You’re more likely to capture your employees’ attention if you integrate video into your training strategy.

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Do Women in Sales Really Lack Self-Confidence?

No More Cold Calling

Don’t believe everything you hear about women. Women don’t speak up, don’t apply for jobs unless they meet 100 percent of the requirements, go unnoticed, and lack confidence. That’s why more of us haven’t broken through the glass ceiling yet. At least that’s what we’ve read in article after article. I’ve even written about how women in sales lack confidence.

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21 Salespeople Reveal the Worst Sales Advice They Ever Got

Hubspot Sales

Bad sales advice is shockingly common -- and you don’t want to find out you’ve been misdirected the hard way. After all, every mistake means it’s harder to achieve your sales goals. Yes, some mistakes you have to make firsthand. But if you’re eager to learn which suggestions you should never follow in the first place, read on for the worst sales advices these 21 salespeople say they ever received. 1) “Focus solely on activity.”.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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How the Fastest Growing Startups Build Their Sales Teams

Openview

To achieve explosive growth, technology startups need to have world-class sales teams. From smart cities and driverless cars to artificial intelligence, big data and SaaS, 2018 is ripe for companies to achieve record revenue and profits. That is, if they have the right sales team in place. A company’s success depends on the ability of its sales teams to deliver sustainable, predictable revenue at scale.

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Voice-Mail – The Original Inbound Appointment Machine

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. I do a lot of work with organizations trying to improve their prospecting, and the piece they look to from me is the telephone component of a robust prospecting routine. The ones that do best are the companies where the leaders understand that they need their people using all tools available to them, not cherry pick the ones they like while ignoring the ones they don’t hate, like the phone.

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5 Reasons Your Team is Failing to Coach

Steven Rosen

Most sales executives realize the value and importance of sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. To Coach Or Not To Coach? That Is The Question. . Here is what the data shows: Only 14% are spending enough time sales coaching. Only 7% are effectively sales coaching. Less than 1% are doing the right kind of coaching and debriefing.

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12 Easy Fixes for Your Bad Sales Habits

Zoominfo

Under constant pressure to meet quota, productivity is at the forefront of every sales rep’s mind. Yet, regardless of the many sales productivity tips and tricks published online, 65% of B2B organizations say they still struggle with sales productivity ( source ). Although the sales productivity quandary can be attributed to many different factors—it’s largely due to bad habits formed after years of sales experience—bad habits you’re likely not even aware of.

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Sales Enablement Defined

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Bob Junke Recently, I had the honor of being asked by the Sales Enablement Society (SES) to offer my definition of sales enablement as an alternative to the one the SES Definition Working Group came up with. My definition follows, along with the reasons for it and application of it. I hope you find it beneficial. Defining sales enablement is important.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Up Your Listening Game to Boost Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

We tend to think of talking as the most important element of communicating, and thus, the most important element of sales, leadership, relationships, etc. But communication is a two-way street, and as Tony Alessandra points out in his book, Charisma, “When you want to win someone’s confidence, listening is just as important as speaking. Good [.].

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5 Keys to Execute a Successful Sales Re-Org

SBI Growth

Weeks and months of planning go into defining the optimal sales org design for your organization. Countless meetings and analysis comparing the benefits of hunter/famer, stratification, product specialization or other org designs. Time is spent defining the role SDR’s, Sales.

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The Marketer’s Guide to B2B Growth Hacking

Zoominfo

Growth hacking—though, not a new concept, has swept the business world in recent months. The term refers to the use of experimentation and creativity as a means to ignite a company’s growth. Growth hackers skip the big-budget production of conventional marketing in favor of low-cost alternatives that grow and engage their user base. Traditionally, growth hacking has been associated with small budget, tech start-ups.

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What Successful Cold Email Campaigns Have in Common

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ryan Myers Landing sales meetings from a cold email exchange takes persistence and a data-driven approach to crafting the right messages and responses. For example, did you know that simply personalizing cold emails can increase their open rates by as much as 100 percent ? The more emails are being opened, the higher your chance landing a meeting from them.

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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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Open-Ended Questions for Sales Set You Apart From Your Competition

Connect2Sell

Through research with buyers and sellers spanning over 25 years, I’m convinced that there’s one tool, above all others, that accelerates sales cycles and win rates. It’s why I recommend building your skills in asking open-ended questions for sales success.

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What’s the point?

Sales 2.0

What’s the point? The point is a good thing to know before you set out on an epic journey. And let’s face it most sales jobs are epic journeys. They’re not easy and they go on for a long time. There’s a ton of sweat and some tears involved in most of them. Epic! I’m going to be writing approximately ten posts next on how to prepare for such an epic journey.

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The B2B Sales Rep’s Guide to Getting Past Gatekeepers

Zoominfo

Sales reps often refer to receptionists, assistants, and phone operators as gatekeepers—and for good reason. These professionals have the job of screening calls, deciding what’s important, and ultimately, who gets through to their boss—the decision maker. Essentially, gatekeepers hold the key to B2B sales success. If you can’t convince a gatekeeper you’re important, you can kiss that sale goodbye.

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7 Ways to Use Facebook to Help Your Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rachel Summers Facebook marketing is a must for any business that wants to achieve marketing strategy goals. Using Facebook allows you to improve customer service, reduce marking costs and optimize your brand. There are three simple yet core goals when using Facebook for business. No. 1 is increasing Facebook likes, new followers and subscribers that can nourish the community.

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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 Keep Your Prospect Engaged In Your Meetings

MTD Sales Training

One thing many salespeople tell us is that, when they are in a sales meeting, the prospect often will derail the subject or cause objections to be raised. In fact, they do anything but agree to buy the product! It’s not surprising that often the prospect will be disengaged from you. They are trying to see if the product you are selling is going to be right for them and they run the risk of making a decision that may be counter-productive.

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Go for the “No” Early in the Sales Process

Anthony Cole Training

There are multiple keys to successful selling. In a blog from last July, I discuss 5 very important activities that drive sales success! Any discussion about successful selling has to include your productivity and effectiveness as well as closing more business. But working harder isn’t always the answer to selling more. Being more productive and effective in your work will lead to more sales and more profitable sales.

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Contact Data Hygiene and the Future of Branding

Zoominfo

Branding. If you’ve worked in business for any period of time, you likely hear this term thrown around a few times a day. But branding is a fluid, subjective concept that we don’t always take the time to quantify—a must in today’s competitive business landscape. Today, we explain the importance of a data-driven branding strategy and why contact data hygiene is the key to branding success.

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World Class Pipeline and Forecast Management

SBI Growth

Many CEO’s today lack confidence in their sales leaders to produce an accurate forecast. They have learned to apply algorithms to de-risk the number. This is a roller coaster ride that happens quarter after quarter of inconsistent forecasts. This problem.

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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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Overcoming “I’ll Think About It”, Improving Emotional Intelligence, Brian Tracy on Dreaming Big

MTD Sales Training

Episode 15 – Overcoming “I’ll Think About It”, Improving Emotional Intelligence, Brian Tracy on Dreaming Big. This podcast includes: How to overcome the “I’ll Think About it” barrier from a prospect. What you can do to improve your emotional intelligence. An inspire me quote from Brian Tracy on Dreaming Big. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Overcoming “I’ll Think About It”, Improving Emotional Intelligence, Brian Tracy on Dreaming Big appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Prospecting or Selling: Which One Really Drives Sales Growth?

Anthony Cole Training

I’m stuck this morning. I’m reading “ Building A Story Brand ” by Don Miller and I'm looking over my own book “ The Best Prospecting Book Ever Written ”. Don points out in chapter 7 that in order to get a prospect to push the ‘buy now’ button they have to trust that everything is going to turn out okay. That means that they have to trust you and everything you’ve said and presented to them.

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Sales Tech Game Changers: How to Increase Your Sales Forecast

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Jon Kondo , Co-Founder & CEO of OpsPanda. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Jon: The easiest action a Sales Leader can take today to increase their forecast is to employ fine-grained, data-driven sales capacity planning that continuously aligns their

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How Sales Operations Contributes Valuable Insights to Product Management

SBI Growth

Great companies know how to educate the market about their products. But what if the buyer isn’t buying from you, even if they’ve been educated? What if Marketing has actively informed the market with a sound content marketing strategy? In.

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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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May 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series—these monthly blog posts published by ZoomInfo highlight some of the great work our writers have contributed to outside publications. Today’s post is our 9 th installment in the series and includes blog posts about passive candidate recruitment, data-driven e-commerce, sales metrics, account-based selling, and more!

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Why great salespeople make terrible managers

Close.io

How do you find a great sales leader? In most organizations, it goes something like this: A rep hustles, grinds, and outperforms. Leadership takes notice, and thinks, “how can we spread their magic to the rest of the team?” So they make them a sales manager. Which feels natural, right? Putting a killer sales rep in a management position means they can share their unique insights and techniques with the rest of the team.

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What Causes a Disconnect Between Salespeople and Sales Tools?

SBI

There’s so much talk about Salespeople refusing to use sales tools. I’ve heard people reason that salespeople are lazy, that they aren’t tech savvy, that they’re stubborn. Those things may or may not be true for your sellers. Regardless, those aren’t the reasons salespeople don’t adopt tools. It’s really not complicated.