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Sales Process: Keep to the Script, or Take the Road Less Traveled?

Pipeliner

Ask a top sales producer about keys to success, and they’ll share insights like “prioritize your work,” “maintain a good opportunity pipeline,” and “serve the customer.”. I’ve heard many anecdotes to explain a top producer’s ascent to the pinnacle. Curiously, one that never gets mentioned is “I conform to the sales process.” This lack of recognition is odd.

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Why Women in Sales Don’t Want to Work for You

No More Cold Calling

In honor of International Women’s Day, how can your sales team attract more female rainmakers? It was 1936. My mom graduated with a degree in finance from Syracuse University, but she couldn’t get a job at a bank. They didn’t hire women, not even as tellers. That was 16 years after the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted suffrage for women.

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How to Effectively Follow-up After Sales Meetings

Openview

The average salesperson is losing up to 40% of their deals because they’re not following-up effectively. After a sales meeting, do you ever experience a prospect ‘going dark’ on you? Everything felt like it should have gone great – the prospect seemed interested in the meeting, they asked the right questions, your sales pitch was stellar. And then you send 2-3 follow-ups…but no response.

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6 Foundations for Successful Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Harris About five years ago, we established a relationship with Larry Williams, one of the principals in the Williams Leslie Group, to help EnerBank improve sales performance. As a result of ongoing Leveraging Sales Leadership training, we made an important shift in our sales management approach. . . No matter the industry, the traditional title of the person in charge of sales is the sales manager.

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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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Developing strategic referral alliances. WOW!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Are you willing to refer your clients or customers to someone else? Is someone else willing to refer their clients or customers to you? Yes, if there is mutual trust. Here are the prerequisites: You consider yourself the best at what you do. You do a memorable job in making the sale. You do a perfect job of delivering what you promised. You provide impeccable service after the sale.

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Don’t Sell Yourself Short

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. I think it was in Skip Miller’s book that I read that a manager should know how his year will end by the Q1. Not taking anything away from that great insight and practice in terms of creating and driving strategy for your teams, one key factor has changed, which may you be the judge, change time horizons for front line reps, and by extension, their managers, and all the calculations this impacts.

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What are customer service skills?

MTD Sales Training

When you hear the term ‘customer service’, what connotations spring up? Maybe it’s that annoying assistant who won’t leave you alone in a shop? Or that company who never stops cold-calling you? Or maybe it’s that waiter whose splendid attention to your every need makes your normal restaurant visit that bit more special? Whatever you think customer service is, it often needs to be revisited in order to be kept front-of-mind.

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Approach a Referral Right and Reap.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The most coveted prize in selling besides a sale is a referral. How do you approach this person? Everyone tells you to get referrals, no one tells you what to do next. How do you maximize the selling power of this referral? Here are 8.5 rules to ensure your success: Approach with care, be prepared, don't move too quickly. Timing is everything. Don't appear to be too anxious to get the sale (money).

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. Typically, in January and February, depending on fiscal calendars, we all see pictures of salespeople in our networks posting party pics from Las Vegas or some other city’s convention center. We know they’re having fun, but how are they learning and preparing for a successful new selling year?

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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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Focus Your Prospecting Purpose

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. How you think about your pipeline, will drive your approach to ensure it leads to your objectives, which by extension should dictate your actions. Strategy-Planning-Execution. Simple, yet elusive at the same time, most people are good at planning, yet fall short on execution. One major hurdle many face, is the often lack of clear purpose brought to the call or e-mail by the prospector.

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15 Indispensable Company Research Tools for B2B Sales Reps

Zoominfo

In the world of B2B sales, company research is a critical aspect of any successful rep’s daily duties. In fact, access to the right research tools and information can make or break your ability to identify target accounts, personalize a sales pitch, and ultimately, close deals. As a B2B sales rep, the more you know about a prospect and their company, the easier it is to sell to them.

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Ray Leone eats dessert first. So should you!

Jeffrey Gitomer

"Don't start your presentation until the customer agrees to buy," says Ray Leone. WOW. That's power if you can pull it off. "The sale is made before the presentation begins if you ask the right questions to qualify and interest the buyer to a point of commitment," he says. Ray Leone uses strategies that gets the customer to commit to buy before the actual presentation starts.

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19 Ways to Guarantee You’ll Fail

The Sales Heretic

Success is such a burden. It takes a ton of time and effort, and it frequently requires sacrifice. And for what? Everybody knows it’s lonely at the top. And then you have to do it all again, because you don’t want to be labeled a “one-hit wonder.” Then you have to deal with higher expectations, [.].

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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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Winning Pricing Strategies for a Mature Business

SBI Growth

Focusing on value provided, you can implement a winning price increase, contrary to what may have been occurring historically. Re-anchoring is the key to a winning pricing strategy – a focus area we will take on as part of developing.

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If You Want to Make a Sale, Stop Selling and Take These 4 Steps Instead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kory Angelin If you’re a sales professional, I have news for you: there’s a good chance you’re a failure at your job. 55 percent of people who make their living in sales don’t have the skills to succeed. And there’s one key skill that you have to learn: That’s how to stop selling, and make a sale. . Turn the tables and imagine this scenario: You’re in a mall, when the sales person walks up.

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I was in the neighborhood and thought.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The "Drop–in" visit. You go to a valued customer without an appointment and say, "I was just around the corner and thought I'd stop by.". Do you do it? Can you successfully pull it off? Will the customer be willing to see you? Or will he be "tied–up, busy or in a meeting?". Suppose there was a way to call on any prospect or customer and have them welcome you in, be glad to see you, and give you a chance to build the relationship.

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Friday Five – Women in History Month

Score More Sales

The B2B sales world lacks women in sales and sales leadership. Men and women in sales leadership and company leadership can help move the needle to solve this long term issue. 1) Resource: Gartner’s Why Sales Must Hire More Women.

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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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Transitioning to Data-Driven Marketing & Sales

SBI Growth

Today’s interview is a special one, we have two guests on SBI TV – a marketing leader and sales leader – you’ll learn they’ve teamed up to tackle data siloes and make data-driven decisions. We are joined by Jill.

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2019 Technographics in Sales [Infographic]

Zoominfo

As the number of B2B technology vendors continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, the modern technology stack is in a constant state of evolution. Today, the average B2B organization’s technology stack is akin to a human fingerprint– a unique identifier that reveals critical information about how a company conducts business, who they work with, and, most importantly, how they spend their money.

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Looking to make more sales? Maybe it's in the cards!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Hand written notes and cards are the rage. When I get one, it's usually for something special I've done for someone, or an appreciation for business. I always save them. It feels good to get them, and I have a better feeling for the person who sent the card. Business note cards leave a positive and personal impression. Randy Rosler is a card shark (in a business kind of a way).

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How to Bring the Closing Magic

Anthony Cole Training

Great salespeople are masterful at asking open-ended, courageous questions of their prospects that either lead them towards, or away, from saying "yes" to their solution. There are many instances throughout the sales process where trial closes are appropriate to identify the prospects true compelling reason to make a change.

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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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How Does the Marketing Leader Know If They Are Aligned to Sales?

SBI Growth

Misalignment between Marketing and Sales is most often one of the main reason’s companies miss the number. As a Marketing leader ask yourself the following two questions: Did the company hit its number last year? How aligned are you to sales? Download the.

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Why Phone Scripts Make You Better

Mr. Inside Sales

To script or not to script? That is the question…. Whether you believe in scripts or not, you & your team are using one right now. Don’t believe me? Record what they say in a week, transcribe it out, and what will you be handing back to them? A script! The right phone scripts make you better, and here’s how to improve yours today: The post Why Phone Scripts Make You Better appeared first on Mr.

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How to Be a Memorable Salesperson Part 8: Be Authentic

Connect2Sell

We’ve been hearing great feedback about this series on how to be a memorable salesperson and hope you’re finding it to be useful, too.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Referral Marketing

Zoominfo

How do you convince someone to buy a product? There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. But, regardless of the products you sell or the space you sell into, nothing sways a person’s buying decisions quite like a recommendation from their trusted peers. In fact, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process with a referral ( source ).

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

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Your Portfolio Companies’ Forecasts Are Unbelievable, But Maybe Not In A Good Way

SBI Growth

Sample output of multi-method forecasting: Some say that forecasting is an art and others say it’s a science. The indecisive say that it is a combination, and many board members and PE deal teams say it’s a disaster. In some.

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Top 50 Women B2B Sales Experts

Women Sales Pros

Today we give a tip of the hat to the top women B2B sales experts of Women Sales Pros. These experts do varying roles within the sales industry – Some are top keynote sales speakers Some are top sales workshop and sales breakout speakers Some are top sales authors Some are top consultants Some are top trainers Some are top coaches Some lead big organizations, some are solopreneurs.

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A Paradox, The Sales Process And The Buying Journey

Partners in Excellence

As sales professionals we face an intriguing paradox. We know, for complex B2B buying, the buyer’s journey can best be described as chaotic. What we have always believed is a linear process–identify a challenge, commit to change, define the problem/needs, evaluate alternatives, select a solution, turns out to be chaotic, as illustrated by the picture below.