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What Do They Need YOU For?

The Sales Heretic

Sales has changed. These days, buyers can get virtually anything they want online. And not just consumers, but business, government, and educational buyers as well. Which brings up an important question: What do buyers need you for? If you don’t have at least one good answer at the ready, you have a problem. Because if [.].

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3 Ways You Can Avoid the “First Kiss” Mishap in Sales

Jeff Shore

By Ryan Taft. Every one of us, at some point in time, has been a part of that awkward moment called, “The first kiss.”. You know what I am talking about. At the end of a first date, you found yourself at the front door saying goodnight wondering if that magical first kiss will happen. It is certainly an awkward moment, right? Women across the country have shared with me in seminars that if a guy waits too long during that awkward moment, the kiss doesn’t happen and the man is banished into the c

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How to Sell Smarter than Automated Communication and Artificial Intelligence

John Barrows

Cars can drive themselves. Filmmakers can replace actors with CGI. Conversations can be automated with a computer program. For years, we’ve needed a human element to get where we want to go, to build connections with people, and to communicate with others, and everywhere you look, that human element is becoming more and more irrelevant. What’s more, it’s starting to wreak havoc in the sales industry.

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The 8 Talents Every Salesperson Needs to Succeed

The Center for Sales Strategy

Have you ever heard about Katie Francis, who shattered the 30-year-old world record by selling 21,477 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in 2014 ? On weekdays, Katie put in about seven hours every day selling cookies. So she rested on weekends, right? Nope. She put in 12 hours a day on the weekends! Since then, she's sold a record of 100,100 boxes of girl scout cookies in her seven years as a girl scout.

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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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The Sales Velocity Equation: Your First Personal Sales Ops Exercise

Sales Hacker

One of the most enlightening and personal sales operations exercises that any rep can do is to build their own sales velocity equation. In fact, even before sellers join a company, it can be extremely helpful to ask your prospective employer about the current sales velocity of their organization. This way, you’ll understand what kind of “sales engine” you’re about to start driving.

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AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now

Mr. Inside Sales

Quick: Can you tell me, in three sentences or less, exactly what AI is and how it is going to impact your sales career or company? If not, then don’t feel bad. It’s kind of like when the word “cloud” started being used to describe cloud-based computing. No one really understood it, and even fewer people trusted what they heard about it. Welcome to that moment again, only different.

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Our Need To Sell Is Irrelevant To The Customer

Partners in Excellence

As sales people, we are driven by our need to sell. Whether it’s the drive to win, attainment, commissions/earnings, or pressure from our managers, we have a high need to sell. Unfortunately, our need to sell is absolutely meaningless to customers. In fact, the more strongly we execute on that need, the more we alienate our customers. Regular readers know I’m prone to analogies.

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Closing the Gap Between Sales and Marketing Starts With Better Communication

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Courtney Beasley, Director of Marketing at Walker Sands Successful and repeatable sales processes hinge on the alignment of your organization’s sales and marketing functions. In fact, when sales and marketing are aligned, companies experience a 25 percent increase in revenue. But when sales and marketing are out of sync, companies often struggle to close deals and nurture lasting relationships with customers.

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How to Build Trust and Generate Leads with a Referral Program

No More Cold Calling

Because what you’re already doing isn’t working. Your lead generation tactics aren’t driving bottom line revenue. That’s a fact. I’ve just returned from three conferences, and the #1 challenge I heard sales pros repeat again and again was how to get leads in the pipe. Everyone complained that they didn’t have enough leads, or at least not enough qualified leads.

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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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6 Tips to Build a Better Career Page for Your Organization

Zoominfo

In today’s digital world, recruiters use a variety of platforms for candidate sourcing. But, there’s one place that nearly all applicants will end up: The career page on your company website. In fact, recent studies show that 77% of job seekers visit company websites to look for jobs, and career sites are the top source of hires at 27.35% ( source ).

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New Data Shows How Relationships and the Need to be Liked Impact Sales Performance

Understanding the Sales Force

In my most recent article, I shared data that showed a chain reaction would occur when salespeople have more than one major weakness in their Sales DNA and the second major weakness is their tendency to become emotional. As a trigger, the first major weakness causes the salesperson to become emotional, at which time their listening skills become compromised.

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7 Ways Recruiters Can Find Great Passive Candidates (& 3 Things to Avoid)

DiscoverOrg Sales

You already know how to recruit active candidates. They’re easy to find. They’re the ones with the ready-to-go resume and up-to-date website. They’re attending networking events, following your company on social media, and applying for your open positions. However, if your active candidates are not the right candidate, recruiters have to go beyond those seeking employment now to strengthen their company’s workforce – by building a pipeline of passive job seekers.

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6 Questions To Ensure You Build Value For Your Customers

MTD Sales Training

You know well how customer don’t buy on price alone. The risk that is taken when they buy the cheapest option is sometimes too great and so other components are taken into account when decisions are made. We often say that we should sell the concept of value, as it appears in the eyes of the prospect. But how can you generate that value? How do you know what would be valuable to a client?

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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 Manage Expectations Around Marketing Vanity Metrics

Zoominfo

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! If you turn your attention to the metrics that matter, you can improve your marketing strategy and communicate the important insights to leadership.

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Sales Playbook and CRM Problems - What the Data Tells Us

Understanding the Sales Force

I can't remember a spring where the pollen was worse than in 2018. You go to the car wash and an hour later your beautiful car is covered in yellow crud and you're out $20. A waste. Perhaps you have an irrigation system with a rain sensor that tells the controller that your lawn and flower beds don't need to be watered today because it is pouring outside.

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Admin Inefficiencies are Dragging Your Inside Sales Productivity Down

SBI Growth

Inside sellers should perform essentially the same role as field sellers, the only difference being the inside sales team does not visit customers or prospects face to face. Role Corruption Results in Poor Sales Performance. With the inside sales team in the.

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Needs Assessment and Qualification Are Not the Same Thing

Connect2Sell

I've noticed that there’s an increasingly blurred line between the discovery process and the buyer qualification process. Discovery, also known as needs assessment or needs analysis, is meant to be about the buyer’s primary needs. By contrast, qualifying questions are about the buyer’s needs for you and your product plus their ability to buy at this time.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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6 Ways to Leverage Instagram for B2B Marketing

Zoominfo

B2B Marketers take note: Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users ( source ). As that number grows so does the opportunity to reach potential customers in new ways. If Instagram isn’t a core part of your B2B social strategy, it’s time to learn how to connect with your target audience on this popular platform. In today’s blog post, we’ll teach you a few easy ways to effectively promote your B2B company on Instagram.

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Artificial Intelligence AI & Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms

Mr. Inside Sales

AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now. By Mike Brooks, [link]. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms are Affecting Inside and Outbound Sales. Quick: Can you tell me, in three sentences or less, exactly what AI is and how it is going to impact your sales career or company? If not, then don’t feel bad.

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How to Enhance Your Senior Talent Review Experience

SBI Growth

It is essential for organizations to have the most talented people embedded in their businesses. Without their greatest assets, there is risk for major losses across the board. Key elements in preventing such loss are the: Approach Framework Timing of senior talent reviews. Consider.

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

Anthony Cole Training

In my previous blog article, I discussed the importance of looking at your sales production in terms of the 80/20 rule and flipping it so you can see the impact your bottom performers are having on your overall sales growth goal. If you have not already done so, click here to read the article.

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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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June 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome to our June B2B Blog Post Round-Up—a series where we highlight the great work our writers contribute to some of our favorite publications. This month’s edition features content related to ABM, branding, customer experience, marketing reports, and so much more. Let’s jump right in! 4 Lessons ZoomInfo Learned From Their Own ABM Campaign. If you worked in sales or marketing in the past year—you’ve already heard the news: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is an incredibly effective way to target

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Outsourced Tele-prospecting: 10% less cost, 90% more revenue

Pointclear

Remember the old light beer tagline: “Tastes Great, Less Filling”? It was a best of both world’s brand promise, and part of a hugely successful campaign. There's another win-win value proposition that applies to outsourced tele-prospecting: “Costs Less. Generates More.” Outsourcing inside sales really does save you money while at the same time providing you the leads and revenue you need to be successful.

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Is Your Product a Cash Cow, a Star, or a Turkey? and What to Do When You Know…

SBI Growth

As you allocate time and resources across your portfolio, you should start by identifying which of your products are “Stars”, which are “Cash Cows”, and which are “Turkeys”. How do you go about this? By graphing each product based on.

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7 Awful First Sentences That Are Killing Your Outreach Emails

Hubspot Sales

Whether you’re at a networking event, a party, a conference, or an office function, walking up to a stranger and introducing yourself can be terrifying. I don’t know about you, but I never stroll over without a detailed plan of what I’ll say and how I’ll say it. After all, people form a first impression of you in a tenth of second -- so as crazy as it sounds, a lame opening line could sabotage the entire relationship.

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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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It’s The Reaction Stupid – Not The Trigger Event!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Ten years ago I got involved in a project that eventually led to me co-authoring what became an award-winning book, Title. A lot has changed in 10 years, including how I view trigger events, their limitations, and how you can take some basic concepts, update them to give you a much more powerful way to engage a wider range of buyers than presented in the book.

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How to turn a bully prospect into a paying customer

Close.io

The last thing any inside sales rep wants to hear when they pick up the phone is: You suck! Sure, not every sales call is going to go smoothly. But when a prospect turns into a bully, listing off all the reasons your product and company is terrible. It’s hard not to feel discouraged and not know what to do. But there’s a mantra you can use in these situations to regain your confidence and turn a bully prospect into a paying customer.

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Please Stop Telling Me Comp is the Problem

SBI Growth

As sales leaders, we are all too familiar with the adage that compensation drives behavior. We missed our quarterly number on new logos, or the cross-sale of the new product launch is significantly lagging expectations, or perhaps the field isn’t.