Anthony Cole Training
AUGUST 20, 2020
As a leader, have you ever wondered why your salespeople don't adapt to and follow the new guidelines you have established? Often, managers focus their energy on defining procedures and identifying expectations during times of change. However, they fail to understand the impact and personal needs of the employees that are responsible for following these new requirements.
The Center for Sales Strategy
AUGUST 20, 2020
Moving into 100% commissioned sales in my 30’s was one of those “what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger” moments in my life. Truth be told, it wasn’t a moment; it was a journey. I remember trying to learn all I could from the veteran salespeople on my team. But, when I read the book Sales Dogs I began to understand that the answer was not to be found in trying to copy the talents of other salespeople, but to learn how to leverage my own unique mix of talents.
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Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 21, 2020
Showing exactly how training contributes to your bottom line encourages your reps to dedicate the necessary time and effort to their learning, and also secures buy-in from executives and managers. The post 4 Straightforward Steps to Measure Your Sales Training Impact appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 20, 2020
If you’re like most Sales Leaders we’ve worked with, you’re glad the first half is behind us. You are also trying to figure out how to make up lost ground. We’ve found the two most effective ways to recover from.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
The Pipeline
AUGUST 18, 2020
By Tibor Shanto. There is a lot of talk among the pundits about how to make your prospecting communication more personal. Sure they talk about that, then quickly switch to personalization, hoping you wouldn’t notice. It gets even sadder when you realize what some experts mean when they personalization. Some may think it is a good use of time to personalize things in a way buyers can see through.
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 21, 2020
Author: Nick Ziech-Lopez It’s no secret that people love text messages. Developed in the early 1990s, texting quickly rose to popularity due to its ease of use and low cost. It remains, by many estimates, to be the world’s most popular mobile application. And, while down from its peak in 2011, over 1.5 trillion SMS (short message service) messages are sent within the United States each year.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 15, 2020
Any CEO can attest to the current level of difficulty in closing deals. Customer sentiment and individual mind share are in high demand, and even with everyone online, many fail to adequately engage their communities in order to access their.
Engage Selling
AUGUST 21, 2020
The world has changed and sales has changed. Throughout the past several months, since the dawn of the pandemic, I’ve shared countless resources, ideas, and tips on succeeding in this new landscape.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 17, 2020
“Can you hear me?”. “See my screen?”. “ Good.” *Thumbs Up *. With the efficiency of a Nascar pit crew, working from home for many in corporate America has become routine. Since lockdown orders began, ZoomInfo has been tracking the adoption of technologies that help companies conduct business remotely. Earlier in the year, we covered how the adoption of digital tools — specifically web conferencing — coincided with shut down and social distancing orders.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nlolan As employers look to reopen and bring team members back to the office, if only on a part-time basis, it’s important to realize they cannot think of it as “business as usual,” says Mike Veny, who consults with companies on promoting mental health wellness. It’s not exaggeration to say we are living through traumatic times, he says.
Membrain
AUGUST 16, 2020
No one has missed the global crisis we are in right now. A crisis that caused countries to completely close their borders, caused the worst stock market crash in modern history and where large parts of the economy are completely shut down. This is happening for real. But it is also a fact that there are factors that separate winners from losers in a situation like this.
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 18, 2020
I wrote, The Future Of Selling Isn’t What You Think It Is. Basically, it was a retort to those who think the future of selling is about the technology and tools we leverage. Whether it’s Zoom, social networking, CRM, messaging apps, AI/ML, or any of the 1000’s of technology solutions sales people leverage. Technology is part of our future, but it misses the core of what selling is really about.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 21, 2020
All my life, I’d dreamt of moving to a city. Never did I imagine that dream would first come true in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. While the comedic irony of this does not escape me, walking through the mostly empty streets of Boston, its retail shop windows plastered with varying forms of “WE’RE OPEN” signs that beg for my business, leaves me to wonder: What will everyday activities — like shopping and eating — look like in a post-COVID world?
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Allego, a leading provider of virtual learning and enablement solutions, surveyed employees and employers (HR reps) in two separate surveys to get a clearer idea how each side was feeling about technical and non-technical resources provided to them by their organizations, employee productivity and collaboration, and COVID-19’s overall impact on their company.
Alice Heiman
AUGUST 19, 2020
It’s very easy for salespeople to waste time on activities that either redundant or that someone else should be doing. It’s also easy for CEOs and sales leaders to be unaware of how salespeople are wasting time – until the forecast is in and it’s too late. They were all so busy, but they weren’t doing the right activities. Don’t be in the dark!
Nutshell
AUGUST 21, 2020
Have you ever stumbled on a SaaS website and you literally have no clue why you’re there and what they do? You look everywhere on the website—I’m talking header, tag line, features—and you just don’t get it. With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 21, 2020
“The pandemic is not agnostic to issues of power, privilege, or equity…This is a clear example of the very issues that diversity and inclusion initiatives are designed to address.” — Maxine Williams, Facebook’s Chief Diversity Officer This post is part of ZoomInfo’s 2020 Annual Report series. Earlier in the year, we published an article around the importance–and steady increase–of diversity and inclusion (D&I) job titles in corporate America.
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Taylor Napierski, Head of Client Success, Televerde It’s a tough time to be in client success. Client success is one of those jobs where you don’t hear many kudos when things are going well, but you’re the first to get a call when things go wrong. And that’s OK. It’s our job to be on the frontlines of client interactions, be they good or bad.
Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 20, 2020
Having a culture-driven organization is nothing if you do not have practical leadership skills to keep workplace performance culture alive. The post 5 Steps to Become an Effective Leader of a Culture-Driven Organization appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Nimble - Sales
AUGUST 20, 2020
This ongoing series of influencer webinars is intended to help you become better, smarter, and faster. In this webinar, Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara is joined by hall-of-fame nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke. Stu believes that one meeting truly can change everything; you just have to be bold enough to make it […]. The post How to Land That Make-or-Break Meeting and Achieve Massive ROI appeared first on Nimble Blog.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 18, 2020
The more calls you make, the more deals you close. It’s simple math. If your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking yourself: “how much time do I waste on non-selling activities?” On a typical day, we’d be shocked if you spent 8 hours on the phone. After all, you’re not a robot. And even before you can pick up the phone to contact decision-makers, you must conduct a significant amount of research.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 17, 2020
Author: Charles D. Brennan Jr. We hear the term “new normal” from news outlets, friends, family and colleagues on a regular basis. It begs the question, how do we define this coined phrase? The new normal reference suggests an imposition between what we knew and what our future holds. Broadly brushed, it requires a re-examination of everything we aspire to accomplish, even the simplest of our daily tasks, our basic routines and how we interact with one another.
Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 21, 2020
Nathan Latka explains how he grew his dorm room business to $5M in revenue when he was 21, and the key to launching a successful podcast. The post Utilizing Audience Engagement to Boost your SaaS Company Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
LeadBoxer
AUGUST 15, 2020
If you spend more of your time scouring the internet for leads than actually closing deals, consider adding lead capture pages to your marketing strategy. With lead capture pages, you can automatically populate your CRM with fresh, highly qualified prospects, letting you spend more time connecting with people and less time combing through lead databases.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 17, 2020
“Can you hear me?” “See my screen?” “ Good.” *Thumbs Up * With the efficiency of a Nascar pit crew, working from home for many in corporate America has become routine. Since lockdown orders began, ZoomInfo has been tracking the adoption of technologies that help companies conduct business remotely. Earlier in the year, we covered how the adoption of digital tools — specifically web conferencing — coincided with shut down and social distancing orders.
Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®
Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan A sense of accomplishment is vital for workers who are uncertain when they will return to the office. Increased communication from managers and clarity about goals and how performance is being measured helps workers maintain a sense of their performance. Writing for Forbes.com , leadership coach Chris Westfall offers these tips for helping workers be more productive in WFH settings: Help workers get comfortable.
Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 20, 2020
When we think of goal setting on a sales team, we think of sales managers setting targets, quotas, and KPIs. But if that’s all you’re focusing on as a manager, you’re selling your SDRs short. The post Why SDRs should set their own targets with Mark Garrett Hayes appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
The Center for Sales Strategy
AUGUST 17, 2020
In the recent CSS Media Sales Report , we discovered: Sales managers are expecting sellers to set twice as many appointments this year. The majority of salespeople say it is harder to get an initial appointment with a new business prospect than in years past. It appears these two concepts are on divergent paths, that’s probably why the issues related with setting appointments have existed for such a long time.
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