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How work from home changes management

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Managers who create intricate business plans and put significant effort into developing short- and long-term goals for their teams and individual employees often revert to managing by time. The shift to working from home has forced many managers to adopt new approaches. It’s a change for the better, says Laura Vanderkam , a consultant on time management and productivity, and the author of “The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home.”.

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The Journey Needs To Be Completed

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. We all know the expression “ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” All well and good if you’re an ancient prophet without a quota, but in sales, it’s not good enough. In sales, we have to worry and plan for the next step well in advance. And then the one after that, and all the rest of the 1,000-mile cycle. So, when pundits tell you the hardest part is getting started, it actually is not, it is finishing.

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3 Keys to Dealing with Difficult Prospects

Mr. Inside Sales

I listen to a lot of calls each week that my clients send me. This week, I listened to a closing call from one of their reps, and here is how the prospect opened the call: Prospect: “Let me just tell you upfront that we’re looking at a lot of different options right now of which yours is just one…”. Then: “And also, I’m not the decision maker on this, I’m just an influencer.

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How a Chief Customer Officer Applied SaaS Best Practices to Drive Exponential Growth

SBI Growth

For many services companies who achieve exponential growth within narrow timeframes, they often find themselves lagging in critical operational areas, including go-to-market. Jarrod Johnson, Chief Customer Officer at TaskUs, found himself in a similar situation but was able to remain as.

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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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11 Ways to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

Score More Sales

During times when business can be happening slower, in a slowed economy, finding any way to speed things up is important. What if there was some science around helping your buyers buy in a better way, or an easier manner? One of the reasons I did some heavy research seven years ago was that as a sales trainer and consultant, I could not show enough ROI for the time and money clients were investing in our work.

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How to Measure the Success of Lead Generation

Zoominfo

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. While MQLs don’t translate to immediate revenue or even pipeline contribution, the value isn’t equivalent to open rates, page views, and the like.

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How to Shape Your Sales Motions Using a Data-Driven Framework

SBI Growth

As you continually work on fine-tuning your sales organization, how can you best ensure that every prospect interaction contributes to a cohesive customer narrative that, ultimately, maximizes your sales? Through our work helping leading companies grow their revenue year after.

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5 Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group Negotiation is everywhere: in selling, setting salaries, getting the labor union back to the table, figuring out where to go out to dinner.even getting your kids to go to bed. Since negotiation is everywhere, so is negotiation advice. Harvard professor Steven Pinker once said, “Much of the advice from parenting experts is flapdoodle.”.

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7 Things Companies Do to Thrive Anywhere, Anytime

Anthony Cole Training

Regardless of the current state of business, it is easy to get caught up in managing day-to-day tasks. It's also easy to lose focus on the end goal and continue to take the necessary steps to move your business forward.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Your Guide to Choosing a B2B Data Provider

Zoominfo

Many B2B data providers claim to have the “best” data. But have you ever stopped to think about where these companies get their data and what makes it better than the rest? Data is a big investment – and as a buyer, you should never trust a data provider without first understanding where that information comes from. Today we’re looking at three major B2B data sources and discussing the pros and cons of working with each.

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Data Science and Sales Operations: Driving Greater Predictability Together in Uncertain Times

SBI Growth

For Sales Operations leaders on a calendar year, we are rapidly approaching annual planning season. As if it wasn’t difficult enough to identify where your organization’s growth will be derived from next year while trying to forecast the back-half of.

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16 Things Successful People Don’t Say

The Sales Heretic

A while back, I wrote a post listing words and phrases that successful people say on a regular basis. Just as important as what successful people say, however, is what they don’t say. High achievers understand that just as the right words can solve problems, heal wounds, create connection, and move people to action, the [.].

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Change Your Attitude with These Sayings

Mr. Inside Sales

How often do you feed yourself empowering statements? Getting positive and staying optimistic takes constant feeding, constant reinforcement. Consume these sayings; pass them around the office; print out your favorite ones and get in the habit of cultivating a “Can Do” mindset: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Elliot. “We see things as we are, not as they are.

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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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Nonprofits Enjoy Prosperous Funding, Thanks to ‘Social Impact’ Investors

Zoominfo

When one thinks of industries that attract large investments, fields such as software, energy, and pharmaceuticals come to mind. But according to new research from ZoomInfo, it’s the nonprofit and charitable industry that has drawn the most funding since 2019 — north of $70 billion total from January 2019 through May 2020. Figure 1 : The nonprofit industry took the top spot by total investment amount.

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New SBI Research Reveals Why CEOs With Sales Experience Outperform Their Peers to Maximize Enterprise Value

SBI Growth

August 4, 2020 | Dallas, TX – Sales Benchmark Index (SBI), a management consultancy specializing in B2B revenue growth, today announced the publication of their latest research report, “Maximizing Enterprise Value Through CEO Selection.” CEOs with sales experience grow revenue.

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How to make complex sales as simple as possible but no simpler

Membrain

In science, according to a quote attributed to Albert Einstein, “everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”. This same principle applies to the sales profession. An overly complex sales system wastes time and money. But an overly simple sales system, ironically, does the same.

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Best Discovery/Probing Question Ever

Anne Miller

Not actually a question, here’s a very simple, yet powerful, way to get prospects to open up about the real issues, goals, hopes and concerns they have that will affect their decision to work with you. “Tell Me more about that…”. That’s it. Like an iceberg, that simple phrase leads people to go beyond their surface statements and reveal the deeper issues, concerns, perceptions, politics, etc. underlying those statements.

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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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How ZoomInfo Can Help Your B2B Recruitment Efforts

Zoominfo

When in doubt, turn to the data — that’s our rule of thumb at ZoomInfo. That’s because no matter what department or industry, success comes down to data and the decisions you make with it. Today we’re going to take a look at how to use important data insights — from our platform — to combat the main obstacles recruiters face in their day-to-day workflows.

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On Measuring Sales Performance

Partners in Excellence

It’s becoming increasingly complicated to measure sales performance–particularly in complex B2B sales. We are used to setting quotas and measuring our progress against those quotas. But our measurement systems are getting increasingly complex. First, as we look at leveraging teams to sell complex deals, I hear increasing concerns with, “Who do we credit?

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This is Why You Should Talk to The People You Know

Alice Heiman

Talk to the People You Know. What are your salespeople doing all day? Is it productive? Are they getting results? . Do they dial the phone 100 times and reach one person? . Do they send hundreds of emails to get a 1% response rate? . How much is this costing your company? . Instead of cold outreach, why not talk to the people we know? We know so many people and we all have a large network , but we don’t tap into it or utilize and leverage it the way we should.

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Can a Sales Process Help Sell Value?

Membrain

Discounting and selling in bad economic times seem to go hand in hand, and they shouldn’t. Selling value is the way to avoid discounting. The mindset of the salesperson plays a role. Here’s another way to help sellers avoid discounting and sell value – A repeatable sales process.

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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 Measure the Success of Lead Generation

Zoominfo

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. While MQLs don’t translate to immediate revenue or even pipeline contribution, the value isn’t equivalent to open rates, page views, and the like.

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Our Customers Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was in a discussion with a group of outstanding sales people. They were talking about how to align their selling process with the customer buying process. One of the sales people asked, “How do we learn their buying process?” Some readers may think, “Isn’t this obvious?” After all, classically, we know we have to do discovery, what are their needs and requirements, who’s involved, what is their decision-making process, what alternatives are the con

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How to scale sales enablement and be more effective amid restricted resources

Showpad

How do you scale sales enablement? And what’s your role as an executive? Welcome to the fourth post of this blog series for executives, where I will take you on a scalability journey. We already covered a lot of ground in this series, and I only mention it here because these previous blog posts are an important foundation for our scalability discussion today.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Sales Analytics & the Best Tools for It

Hubspot Sales

The term "sales data analysis" can sound a bit overwhelming — all three words, individually, can be imposing in their own right. "Sales" is a difficult line of work to master. "Data" conjures up images of rows upon rows of numbers that could be exhausting to pore through. And "analysis" sounds like a process that requires skills you might not have and considerable effort you'd rather not put in.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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A B2B Sales Rep’s Guide to Selling to the C-Suite

Zoominfo

Have you ever tried to set up a meeting with a senior-level contact? If so, you know how tough it can be to connect with busy executives, To add insult to injury, executive-level assistants are trained to be gatekeepers. They are paid to protect the C-level from unnecessary interruptions— meaning, if you don’t reach your intended target directly, your message might never make it to them.

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Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 6 Featuring Tim Murray

Allego

Welcome to Adapter’s Advantage: Breakthrough Moments that Lead to Success. In this episode, CEO Tim Murray describes how his search for a new challenge led him from the automotive industry in Tennessee to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Tim had an impressive career with ARC Automotive, where in his last role he was VP and CFO. After ten years in the industry, he was looking to jumpstart his career.

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Manage a large sales team virtually and build a kick-ass discovery process

Predictable Revenue

How to run a large sales team virtually - from your cadence as a leader, to the difference between coaching and training, and keeping the sea of faces on your team zoom calls engaged. The post Manage a large sales team virtually and build a kick-ass discovery process appeared first on Predictable Revenue.