Sat.May 19, 2018 - Fri.May 25, 2018

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5 Amateurish Behaviors That Kill Salespeople’s Credibility

Hubspot Sales

Define Amateurish. Amateurish behavior is when you display no skill or tact in a particular area. It means you're clumsy and inept. As a salesperson, you never want to be considered amateurish by your colleagues or prospects. It lowers your credibility and authority and kills your chances of closing a deal. Sales leaders and businesses are paying a hefty price for not developing the selling skills of their people.

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Is Your Buyer Part of the Solution?

Engage Selling

You need to know what’s going on in the minds of your buyers when it comes to the solution you’re offering. Confused about what this means, exactly? Let me explain.

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Top 3 Customer Retention Metrics

SBI Growth

“Our customer retention is excellent. We only lose 5% of customers per year, so our retention is 95%.”. Does this sound familiar? If so, you have probably also been caught off guard when your board double clicks on this number.

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10 Reasons Why Parents of Toddlers Make Better Sales Coaches Than Sales Managers

Understanding the Sales Force

Toddlers watch Sesame Street, play with blocks, take baby steps, constantly ask 'why', eat food that has been cut into tiny bite size pieces, love to start with dessert, and love to have fun. Their parents make sure they are comfortable, help them overcome their fears, work to prevent resistance and emotional meltdowns, and teach them as they go about their business.

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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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How to Use Your Social Media Channel for More Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kostas Chiotis Consumers are becoming increasingly swayed by social media posts when it comes to purchasing a product or service, making it a great platform for sales. Increasing sales via social media content, campaigns and outreach is really important part of a marketing strategy these days. But how do you convert your social media followers to purchasing customers?

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Success Is The Road Ahead

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. If you want a safe bet, always bet against the clowns who prophesy the coming decline in the ranks of salespeople, professional, or the usual types that call on you. For years people and “sales experts,” have been telling us that sales as a profession, was going to shrink dramatically and salespeople will be replaced by a host of more efficient and cost-effective alternatives such as automation, artificial intelligence, and more.

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Don’t Get Distracted by the Latest Sales Prospecting Techniques

No More Cold Calling

That bright, shiny object might be rustier than you think. If you’re researching the latest and greatest sales trends, you just might fall victim to the bright-shiny-object syndrome. Trends mean nothing unless you include your buyer in your research. Just because certain sales prospecting techniques are all the rage, doesn’t mean they’re right for you or for your buyer.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Engaging Your Lead in Person

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ryan Myers We’ve all been caught in a tricky text thread, the kind where you absentmindedly respond to a friend’s question with a simple “OK” and then suddenly find yourself getting the cold shoulder. If only you’d had that conversation face-to-face! Perhaps that’s why so many people in sales — a full 65 percent , according to Chief Marketer’s 2018 B2B Lead Gen Trend Survey — prefer in-person meetings.

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How to Pinpoint Your Market’s Sweet Spot

SBI Growth

Should you cover the entire market or double down on your sweet spot? You’re a CEO who just missed the quarterly number for the 3rd time in a row. You know what happens next. You are on the hook to.

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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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The Top 5 Phrases That Will Close The Deal With Your Prospect

MTD Sales Training

We had an enquiry last month from a sales manager who asked us to work with his sales team for half-a-day on closing techniques. He said his team was good at relationship-building but when it came to the close, they needed help. They simply didn’t know what to say to get the order without it appearing to put pressure on the prospect. One of my training consultants said to him that the problem couldn’t be solved in just half-a-day with some closing tricks, tips and techniques.

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I’m not your guru

Sales 2.0

I am not your guru. But…. I don’t do this much, but in this post I’m going to write about motivation and stuff in your head. In the last couple of posts I have talked about having goals and creating time blocks to do the most important work that will get you to those goals. The problem is that without your mind in the right place it’s really unlikely you’re going to do a good job of tasks like prospecting that, since you’re in sales, will be the activities hanging out in those important time blo

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From Offline to Online to Inline Learning

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer Most training and learning efforts are based on clusters of competencies, supported by a curriculum or catalog that gets scheduled on interest and availability. But this conventional approach, and the premises underlying it, raise a crucial performance question: What does it really have to do with helping a company’s business strategy, responding to shifting market demands, and intervening to fix acute, emergent needs when they arise?

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Questions: Not Just for Sales Needs Analysis Anymore!

Connect2Sell

As a sales coach and trainer, people occasionally ask me, “Out of all the selling skills, which one is most important?” Hands down, the master skill in selling is knowing how to ask purposeful questions. Great questions will advance the sale throughout your sales process , so don’t use them for sales needs analysis alone!

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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 Approach A New Referral

MTD Sales Training

So you’ve achieved that great goal of getting a referral from a customer. This is the holy grail in sales; getting a warm lead without having to do the marketing to achieve it. How should you approach this referral? Here are some ideas: Basically, you need to know what links the two companies or people. What is the business relationship between your customer and the person they are referring you to?

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Productize Your Service and Make Your Number

SBI Growth

Many organizations offer great services to their customers. Yet many of these organizations struggle with making their number. Longer sales cycles, and the customization required for most service offerings present challenges. Sales leaders try to overcome these by increasing leads.

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Your Guide to Personalized Marketing [Infographic]

Zoominfo

In the modern marketing landscape, personalized marketing has quickly become the gold standard. Here’s why: Prospects and customers have access to a wide variety of content online and as a result, companies must take extra steps to make sure their content is seen first. Personalized marketing content is inherently more engaging, more relatable, and ultimately, more successful than other types of content.

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5 Secrets to a Successful Sales Hiring Interview – Guest Post by Alan Fendrich

Mr. Inside Sales

Most companies interview salespeople to find out if they are persuasive. And they come away from the interview saying, “They really handled themselves well in the interview.” In other words, the candidate was persuasive in the interview. The interviewer felt persuaded. So they come away from this interview saying, “Wow, this applicant was really persuasive.” But it turns out the candidate was ONLY persuasive in the interview.

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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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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

Pointclear

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. But it’s often the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal.

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Fast Frame of the Week – The Top 5 Keys to Managing Customer Relationships

SBI Growth

Welcome to the Revenue Growth Fast Frame of the Week. In this week’s video, Greg Clark, the CMO for Caliber Collision Centers, answers the question: “If you borrow a B2C best practice and apply it to B2B companies, what is.

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21 Sales Qualification Questions to Identify Prospects Worth Pursuing

Hubspot Sales

Qualifying Questions. What's the business problem you're seeking to fix with this offering? What's prompting you to do something about it now? What has prevented you from trying to solve the problem until now? Have you tried to solve this problem in the past? If so, why didn't that solution work? What happens if you do nothing about the problem? Do you have a budget allocated for this project?

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How to Focus on your Bread and Butter: Achieving Work-Life Balance with Technology

SBI

The Daily Conundrum. If you’re like most sales professionals working in today’s hyper-connected, always-on environment, you struggle on a daily basis to meet your goals. The concept of work-life balance is a dated one as we continue to raise the bar on performance and financial expectations. This struggle is real, because essentially your salespeople are tasked with 4 jobs, each of which could be a full-time job including; Outbound prospecting to ensure they have enough pipeline to meet coverage

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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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Looking For Your First Job? Consider A Job In Sales

John Barrows

Lately I’ve seen lots of graduates on LinkedIn and I’d like to say “Congratulations” to everyone moving on to the next chapter of your life journey. The good news is you’ve made it. The bad news is these upcoming chapters are what actually matter. What job will you land? Where does your career path start and end? What lifestyle will you build?

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How to Know if You Have the Right Talent to Accelerate Growth

SBI Growth

EXcuse me, is this seat taken? The largest asset any organization must manage is its people. Employee Experience (EX) should be the cornerstone and fundamental value that drives your organization to success. In consideration of determining if you have the.

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Julianne Gsell at Databricks on Her Trajectory from First SDR at Box to Director of Sales

Close.io

Episode #9 of our interview series featuring women in sales. Julianne Gsell is the Director of MidMarket Sales at Databricks. Julianne was previously a Director of Enterprise Sales at Box, where she started her career as the company’s first SDR in 2009. Julianne studied Applied Science and Nutrition at California Polytechnic State University, where she also competed in NCAA Division 1A Cross Country.

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The 14 Best Bluetooth Headsets of 2018

Hubspot Sales

Best Bluetooth Headsets. Jabra Steel. Jabra Motion. Plantronics Voyager 5200. Plantronics Voyager Focus UC. VXi BlueParrott B450-XT. Plantronics M55. Motorola Boom2+ Headset. Plantronics Voyager Edge. Plantronics Voyager Legend. LG Tone Free Headset. Samsung Level U Pro. Sennheiser Presence UC. Jabra Wave. Jabra Stealth. A salesperson’s right arm? It might be their Bluetooth headset.

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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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Episode #066: Storytime with David JP Phillips

Jeff Shore

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: David JP Phillips and Jeff talk about how story changes everything. The stories our customers tell themselves about why they’re purchasing. The stories we tell our customers as sales professionals. Are you able to paint their future promise of their lives if they purchase from you? Can they see their story with your product?

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The Sales-Driven CEO, an Emerging Breed

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Ryan Tognazzini, Chief Executive Officer for iGrafx. Ryan represents one of the new breed of Sales-driven Chief Executive Officers who have come through the ranks of sales. Ryan is here to share his incredible journey from.

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How to Have Values That Support a Winning Sales Culture

Alice Heiman

Did you ever wonder why values are part of a strategy or strategic plan? It’s interesting how some people get really excited about mission, vision, and values, while others like to focus on goals and actions. I get it. Goals and actions feel like getting down to business, and vision and values feel like fluff to some people. There is a reason we do both.