Highspot

JUNE 26, 2019

Research from SiriusDecisions’ 2018 Global Chief Sales Officer Study found that fewer than 50% of sales reps are hitting quota and that at 70% of companies, barely 30% of reps are meeting quota. These statistics illuminate an unsettling fact — the majority of sales teams are ineffective. With less than half of their sales team hitting quota, it’s easy to understand why sales leaders often focus their time and energy on top performers in the hopes that they inspire the rest of the tea

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 24, 2019

Author: By Brad Soper, Lisa Jaeger and Alexander Stahmer While there are no shortcuts to creating and implementing an effective, long-term sales strategy, there are five actions sales teams can take to get that strategy on track – and keep it there – by generating more sales from existing customers. . Segment customers by their potential. Correct segmentation is the most effective way to prioritize customers and manage them in a targeted way.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 23, 2019

Before reading this post, think about the following quote from Abraham Lincoln: If I have 6 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe. I’ve had the great privilege of coaching/advising one of the highest performance sales teams I’ve ever worked with. They are led by a great manager who has built a talented team.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 27, 2019

Connections and relationships are what count. Should I accept every LinkedIn invitation? I’m frequently asked that question. It’s a personal choice. Some people do. Some people only connect with people they know in real life. Others screen every invitation; they write to people first and ask why they want to connect. I’m in-between. I view every invitation.

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Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 27, 2019

As CMOs are more involved in shaping the global corporate strategy, they are less able to manage the day-to-day Marketing execution. They increasingly need a right-hand person to help with the daily operation. This person is the CMOs Chief of.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. In Good times and bad, the one thing most sales professionals try to do is shorten the length of their sales cycle. They believe that shorter sales cycles bring several benefits, some indeed materialize, most do not. When they fail, it is usually due to the wrong impetuous behind the effort. The misses generally happen when the reason for the initiative was wrong from the start.

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The Sales Heretic

JUNE 26, 2019

Are your salespeople too efficient? Is their closing rate too high? Are they bringing in more business than you can handle? It’s a common problem. I see it all the time in my work as a speaker and trainer. I feel your pain. Fortunately, there are plenty of things you can do to handicap even [.].

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SBI Growth

JUNE 23, 2019

As the CEO, one of your core responsibilities is harnessing and utilizing the intellectual capital tied up in your employees. Not all market-defining and competitive differentiating ideas will be yours. But whether your company is fledgling or enterprise, the challenge.

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Connect2Sell

JUNE 26, 2019

Sales productivity is the measure of how productive a seller or sales team is. This is measured in results (dollars!). In this post, we’re going to take a look at the key drivers of sales productivity and provide actionable sales manager tips for boosting productivity on your team.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2019

Data decay happens naturally because of how often people change jobs or titles, companies go out of business, and mergers occur. Because of this, many organizations are working with a B2B database that is cluttered with outdated, invalid, or incomplete contacts. Dirty data impacts all areas of an organization, including marketing, lead generation, customer relationships, and finance.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 25, 2019

If you fail to properly prepare, you are setting yourself up for failure. This doesn’t just apply to prospecting but everything you do. Prospecting is already a tough task; it’s only made tougher when you fail to prepare. Below are 10 steps you need to follow to ensure you’re prepared to prospect. Check out my video where I further discuss these 10 items: 1.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 24, 2019

Putting forth the effort to coach and motivate people, as well as hold them accountable to performance, requires no skill. T herein lies part of the problem with growing your sales team. Any sales manager can attempt to do this with their salespeople, but what systems and measured techniques do they have in place to ensure that it is working?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 23, 2019

I received this question from a reader of my blog last week: “Mike, I have a question for you. “Being that people are more accessible with iPhones, text, laptops, computers, email, messenger, FB, Instagram to name a few, why are business owners/decision makers so hard to reach? It’s almost like they are hiding. They don’t even acknowledge anymore.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2019

You spend weeks developing your latest email campaign only to receive terrible results. Your bounce rate was astronomical and barely anyone engaged with the campaign. This is a marketer’s worst nightmare. The likely culprit? A bad email reputation. The best way to ensure the deliverability of your emails is to maintain a healthy email reputation.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 28, 2019

Quit blaming salespeople for bad prospecting habits when you as the sales manager are the one with the bad prospecting habits! Culture starts at the top. If you want your team to focus on prospecting, you must make it a priority. Your role as a sales manager/leader is not to be the best prospecting person. Your job is to coach and support the job of your people when it comes to prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Author: Paul Nolan Much has been written about the irony of technology connecting people globally while simultaneously disconnecting us on a human level. My iPhone sends me a weekly report on how much screen time I logged and how that compares to the previous week. Up to this point, I haven’t stopped to consider how the screen time total correlates to the quality of personal connections I’ve had during the week.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 27, 2019

If you are not in the acquisition business, then you must develop your talent. One of the keys to doing that is to understand how to drive sales improvement.

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Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud! With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 27, 2019

Creativity is a tricky concept. As marketers, we all strive to be more creative —but what exactly does that mean? How can we measure creativity or generate more of it when it is a seemingly intangible quality? To prepare you for an upcoming webinar with Jay Acunzo, we provide you with a comprehensive guide to revive your creativity—not as a vague concept but as a tangible marketing skill.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 23, 2019

How many things are you focused on this week? Probably a million, because we all feel like we have a lot to do. You will accomplish more when you intentionally focus your mind in the moment. For the next 15 minutes, set your mind on the one task you’d like to achieve right now. Get in the zone, and stay there! Be focused and you’ll achieve even more success.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales managers are a rare breed. Most organizations employ one sales manager for every six to 10 sales reps. Making it to the sales management ranks indicates you occupy a spot that roughly 90% of your peers have not. Congratulations. The job is challenging. The most successful sales managers demonstrate a knack for hacking other disciplines.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2019

Gallup recently released a poll explaining that 45% of Millennials and 31% of Gen-Xers prioritize roles that will accelerate their career development when evaluating opportunities and measuring their happiness in their current role. One way to ensure that your employees are feeling challenged, fulfilled, and motivated is to create career ladders. Let’s talk about what that means.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 25, 2019

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Keith Rosen

JUNE 24, 2019

The best salespeople who exceed their sales goals have no need to sell. Instead, they attract sales to them. As you’ll see in this story, the power of questions, authentic, radical curiosity and care, and coaching your customers to succeed is their secret to becoming a sales champion. Adrian was responsible for managing the sales team for one of the largest sporting goods and boating distributors in his town.

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SBI

JUNE 27, 2019

Looking at Sales Enablement From Two Different Lenses. Defining the role Sales Enablement plays in your organization is a multi-faceted exercise. First, there’s a small matter of defining what Sales Enablement even means. It also involves answering the question, “What processes, technologies and responsibilities should the role envelope and which should it not?

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Membrain

JUNE 26, 2019

Far off the coast of Ecuador, deep in the South Pacific Ocean, lies a collection of tiny, remote islands called the Galapagos. There in that ocean, in the midst of the Galapagos, a rim of volcanic rock rises from the sea to surround an ancient crater, together forming a hot and treeless island called Daphne Major.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2019

These 7 sales mistakes are just that: Horrifying. How many of them do YOU make? If you stop doing these, you’ll improve your calls. Big time. Once you read what NOT to do, I have something for you at the end of this post: What you SHOULD do to be successful instead. SALES MISTAKE #1: “Feature dumping”. Feature dumping is to sales what bad breath is to dating.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 22, 2019

Have you ever said, “The prospect has gone dark ?” Or have you ever complained that your dream client “ghosted you,” engaging with you through some part of the sales conversation only to cut off all communication? Maybe the call didn’t go as well as you believed, or maybe your dream client had a new priority take over their time and attention. But perhaps there is another cause of their disengagement that you may have caused or that you could have prevented.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

JUNE 27, 2019

A small thing changed my work in a big way. This is the story of how I started focusing on empathy for customers. About five years ago, someone sent me a video on a Tulsa, Oklahoma business that changed the entire way I approach sales and marketing. The first thing that caught my attention was that Mother Teresa had publicly endorsed the business. “ Wait,” I thought. “Mother Teresa endorses businesses?

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