Sat.May 26, 2018 - Fri.Jun 01, 2018

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A Proven Approach to Handle the “I’m Not Interested” Objection

Mr. Inside Sales

There has been a lot of talk recently about “Objections.” What they are, how to prevent them, how to deal with them. That’s great, but you may be asking yourself: What do I actually say or do to overcome or get around them? For those of you who have been reading my blog for years know, I’m all about giving you and your team proven, word-for-word scripts and talk tracks so you can successfully deal with the common objections and resistance statements you get, day in and day out.

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Driving Sales Growth and Asset Management – A Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious

Anthony Cole Training

Velfredo Perato -- the 15 th century economist -- demonstrated time and again the 80/20 rule. Yes, sometimes it's a 70/30 rule or a 60/40 rule. That is the obvious. There is nothing blinding about that. The blinding glimpse – the glimpse that causes you to blink like you are being blinded -- is when you look at the opposite end of the 80/20 rule.

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5 Tips to Help Prevent Burnout in Salespeople

The Center for Sales Strategy

Last year, Harvard Business Review estimated the turnover in salespeople to be around 27%. In an industry that’s seeing almost double the turnover rate than the overall labor force, it’s essential for managers and leaders to not only know how to recruit great talent that’s an excellent fit for your team, but also how to retain sales talent and improve their performance over the years.

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The Best Way to Fire a Client

Engage Selling

As much as we all wish that each client we work with turns out to be a dream, we often need to come back down to reality and face the facts.

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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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Top 10 Reasons Your Prospects Don’t Make Optimal Choices

SBI

If your prospects are so smart, why don’t they always make optimal choices? There are many books on the subject of “choice.” One of my favorites is The Paradox of Choice, Why More is Less, by Barry Schwartz. Having too many options is one cause of sub-optimal choices, and there are others. Confirmation bias and the reliance on heuristics (the use of mental short-cuts to reduce the complexity of decision making) are two decision-making influences well defined in psychology.

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How to Win the Talent War: Women in Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Cristina Gomez The war for top-performing sales talent has begun. By 2026, the number of open sales positions is projected to grow by more than 3 percent , putting the pressure on sales leaders and HR teams to attract top talent. In fact, according to CEB, now Gartner, sales leaders across the globe report sourcing quality sales professionals as a top challenge and priority for 2018.

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An ABM Program Can Make Capturing Marketing’s Revenue Contribution Even Easier

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Sangram Vajre, Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder of Terminus. Sangram is one of the 21 B2B influencers to watch by the B2B News Network. And many in the audience know Sangram as the founder of the #flipmyfunnel.

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New Data Shows Sales Weaknesses Cause Powerful Chain Reactions in Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

I have written extensively about Sales DNA over the years and today we will view Sales DNA from the perspective of sitting inside of a chemistry lab. Sales DNA is the combination of strengths (or weaknesses) that support (or sabotage) the execution of sales process, sales strategy and sales tactics. Objective Management Group (OMG) measures and includes the 6 most powerful of those strands of Sales DNA in its 21 Sales Core Competencies.

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Showcase Value in All Your Sales Process Stages

Connect2Sell

Can we talk about your sales process? It seems that every organization has invented its own sales process stages. Some of them are extremely complex; Others are as simple as three steps. Whatever your process looks like, the most important thing is to understand where your buyer is. You need to align your sales process with your buyer’s process to be relevant and to create value.

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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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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Compelling stories gain the trust and understanding of others, and make them open to new ideas. Stop selling products or services and start selling stories. Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. But where to begin?

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Third-Party Lead Generation and GDPR Compliance

Zoominfo

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here and mandates major changes to the modern marketer’s B2B lead generation efforts. Most marketers are (or should be) well on their way to GDPR compliance when it comes to website and landing-page form language, data transfer procedures, and documentation. Less understood, though, are the ways in which the GDPR affects B2B marketers’ third-party lead generation campaigns.

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How To Go From Salesperson To Sales Consultant

MTD Sales Training

You will be aware of the changing nature of sales, driven by the ever-evolving requirements of businesses and their decision-makers. The old way of selling (cold-call, qualify, present, resolve, close) is being superseded by the consultative and insightful approach of analysing needs and wants before creating options for a successful future for businesses.

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Don’t overpack your tool bag

Sales 2.0

It might seem odd that the bloke that coined the term “Sales 2.0” is telling you to go easy on the tools you use for selling but that’s the case. Sales 2.0 became synonymous with using technology to sell better. And you can use technology to sell better but you can also use it to sell poorly. The common problem is that the common tools we’ve developed to make us more productive at work often end up making us less productive.

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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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Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kostas Chiotis Be honest: what’s the first thing you do in the morning? Probably, you silence the alarm, curse the gods that invented work, and check your email and social media updates from your mobile device. We live in an overly connected world. Today’s consumer is glued to the smartphone. Studies suggest that young adults use up to three different devices every day and many feel naked if they leave the house without their phones.

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Twelve Ways to Screw Up a Handshake

The Sales Heretic

Shaking hands is such a sales basic that it’s amazing how often people get it wrong. And a bad handshake doesn’t just start a relationship off on the wrong foot (so to speak)—it can haunt you forever. Because people remember bad handshakes. A poor handshake can even cost you the sale. What exactly constitutes a [.].

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The Content Marketer’s Guide to Predictive Analytics

Zoominfo

In modern-day marketing, data is the new oil. The more customer data you capture, analyze, and act upon, the better you get at creating influential marketing narratives. In fact, 63% of marketing executives feel strongly that data-driven marketing is crucial to success in our hyper-competitive global economy ( source ). But—as the best content marketers will tell you, analyzing and applying customer data is complicated and time-consuming.

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Are You Social Enough? May Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling last month. “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 69 now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” That Ellen DeGeneres quote is my opening line in the recent SAP Podcast on the “ 5 Do’s and Don’t Do’s of Social Selling ,” hosted by Bonnie D. Graham of SAP.

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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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No Time like the Present to Upskill Your Sales Team to All “A” Players

SBI Growth

Just as many people are shocked to hear they have a newborn on the way, there are equally as many surprised Sales Leaders learning something important about their organization by the end of H1. That is, you have an abundance.

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6 Tips to Optimize Your Next Offsite Meeting

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM It’s easy to get into a rut with offsite meetings that occur annually or more often. To get full engagement from your team and optimize the return on investment, Jessica Doucette, who directs marketing and B2B events at Impartner Software in Salt Lake City, offers these tips. Set clear meeting goals. Employees can’t take the right actions unless you set clear meeting goals before the offsite takes place.

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A Marketer’s Guide to Optimizing Web Content for Voice Search

Zoominfo

B2B companies take note: Use of voice search is on the rise. In fact, 41% of U.S. adults use voice search on a daily basis ( source ). This search trend presents a unique opportunity for your company to jump ahead of the competition and generate more organic traffic to your business websites. Market research firm Gartner predicts that by 2021, early adopter brands that redesign their websites to support visual and voice search will increase digital commerce revenue by 30% ( source ).

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The 6 Hidden Sales Weaknesses That Limit Sales Results Webinar

Bernadette McClelland

The 6 Hidden Sales Weaknesses that Limit Sales Results. Join me at 4:00pm on June 14th for a terrific live presentation on the hidden sales weaknesses that limit sales results from Objective Management Group Founder and CEO Dave Kurlan. Most companies fail to generate all of the possible revenue. While some do better than others, most companies fall well short of their potential.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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How to Transform Your Indirect Sales Channel

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Joe Vitalone, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Razberi Technologies. Joe is the top expert at developing and executing a sales strategy at scale through channel partners. Joe has previously been a featured guest on SBI.

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The Follow-Up Thank You Email That Got Me Hired In One Week

Hubspot Sales

Just like in the world of sales, the follow up advice out there can be a little conflicting. You don't want to annoy the interviewer, but you also don't want to be forgotten, right? So whether you're applying for a job or following up with a prospect, it can be a little confusing on whether or not you should follow up. Regardless of what advice you read, it's proven that a follow up is important.

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Account-Based Marketing (ABM): A Complete Guide

Drift

A long, long time ago, in a time known as “the 2000s,” marketers were obsessed with casting these super-wide nets in the hopes of pulling in as many leads as possible. Blogs became content farms, covering topics that were meant to attract anyone and everyone. As far as marketers were concerned, the more traffic they could send to their sites, the better.

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Burn Your Ships: A History Lesson About How to Be a Great Leader

The Center for Sales Strategy

If you are a history buff, you may know the story of Cort é s and the burning of his ships. In the year 1519, Hern á n Cort é s arrived in the New World with six hundred men and, upon arrival, made history by destroying his ships. This sent a clear message to his men: There is no turning back. Two years later, he succeeded in his conquest of the Aztec empire.

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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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3 Key Steps To Getting the Most Out of Your Resources

SBI Growth

SBI has been studying how top performing organizations allocate resources to achieve near and longer-term results. Given no organization has enough resources to do everything, tradeoffs are required to manage resources and expectations across marketing, sales and customer success. The.

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4 Things Causing Your Top Sales People to Bolt

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. Are you familiar with the old adage: people don’t quit companies, they quit people? This seems rather harsh, but often it is 100% spot on. While I know that there will always be practices within your organization that are out of your control, there are certain aspects of why you are losing good salespeople that are totally within your sphere of influence.

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Melissa Rosenthal, Cheddar EVP & Former Buzzfeed VP Creative on Bold Reinvention

Close.io

Episode #10 of our interview series featuring women in sales. Follow & Share the Series [Links]: YouTube | Soundcloud | iTunes | All of Our Guests. Melissa Rosenthal is the Executive Vice President at Cheddar Inc. Melissa was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative People Under 30. In 2010, Melissa joined Buzzfeed, where she became a key contributor to the early success of BuzzFeed’s branded content advertising model, and created the site’s first ads.