InsightSquared
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The cost of poor sales visibility. Today nearly 80 percent of sales engagements are digital. That means massive troves of data about customer behavior and buying cycles just waiting for a sales team to leverage. The problem is only a very small sliver of this data makes it to the CRM—and even that which is there is typically just sitting. What’s the use of having all this data if you aren’t putting it to use. .
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Author: Manoj Kumar The new year comes with all the anticipation and hope one can muster. The pandemic year has left many business leaders in a state of “what next?”. While there was widespread business and economic disruption among other kinds of disruptions in our daily lives last year, 2020 was actually the year of doing business online. If research and the numbers are to be believed, last year saw a growth that could only be compared to the accumulated growth of the past 10 years before it!
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Sales leaders are all inundated with a significant amount of data. The ability to draw insights from data (and act on these insights) is a key capability that separates winners from losers. Working with sales leaders across a wide range of.
The Pipeline
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
I had the opportunity to sit down with Nancy Calabrese, on her Conversational Selling. We chated keys to sales and prospecting success, as well as: Choosing to either fall for excuses or execute a strategy. Evaluating metrics, and what type of measurement is best. Utilizing voicemail effectively. The best attitude to make your prospects feel at ease.
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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.
Mr. Inside Sales
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Before you get on your high horse and tell me you wouldn’t be caught dead using a script, consider: If I were to record your prospecting and demo calls for a week, and then transcribe what you say, what would I get? Your script. You see, even if you think you would never use a script, the truth is, you already are! The problem is that what you are so used to saying, your “script,” in many cases isn’t the best practice.
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
One of the main differences this past year was the emphasis on digital strategies geared towards getting closer to the customer rather than traditional cost-cutting. The impact of this is profound, and in industries where getting closer to the customer.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It turns out they’re pretty important. Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. But consider this: HubSpot Research found that 72% of companies with less than 50 new opps per month didn’t achieve their revenue goals, compared to 15% with 51 to 100 new opps and just 4% for companies with 101 to 200 new opps.”.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
The pandemic has caused fewer face to face meetings, and many salespeople have yet to make the pivot (successfully) to virtual relationship building. In this article, we cover the impact and importance of speaking your prospects "love language" when setting a meeting and engaging them further in conversation.
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Author: Eleni Hagen If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that time is of the essence: in life, as well as in sales. . One solution for making the most of our time during this uniquely digital age has been “ sales engagement ,” the careful sequencing of interactions between sales reps and their targets, designed to accelerate seller output and expand a company’s reach. .
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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.
SBI Growth
JANUARY 30, 2021
At SBI’s most recent Sales Advisory Board meeting, market leaders from a variety of industries came together in a virtual environment to discuss topics that are top of mind for sales executives: The Ascent of Sales Leaders to CEO Positions Executing a.
Bernadette McClelland
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
I love a sunburnt country. And the salt lakes of Sea Lake. Where deadened tree trunks boast. Behind salt entwined fence posts. Laying home to make-believe sharks. Who were chasing make-believe men. That were hilariously placed. by a strategic comedienne. Where the street art is lit up. Not just by the glow of the moon. But the inner light of people.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
How important is it that your new hire be able to identify a prospect's compelling reason to make a change or the resources they have set aside to fix their business problem? Our guess is probably pretty important. In the 4th article of our series Hiring No Assembly Required Salespeople , we discuss the questions you must ask yourself of a candidate's skills and what critical selling competencies you must look for before making a hiring decision.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Let’s start with that dream customer. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. (Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.).
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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
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste. As a CEO leading through the pandemic, you’ve heard “never let a crisis go to waste.” Still, what practical takeaways from 2020 will place you among the top performers emerging from one of the.
Understanding the Sales Force
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
I read that Admiral James Stockdale , a Vietnam War veteran and former POW at the Hanoi Hilton , said, “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”. His combination of faith and brutal reality was the difference between surviving long enough to be released from captivity, and those who died in captivity.
John Barrows
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Our guest this week is Galem Girmay, a strong advocate for women in sales and Co-founder of the very popular and fast-growing networking Slack community, RevGenius. Galem is a valuable resource and joins us to discuss the meaning and value of community, and what it means to be truly engaging and engaged. Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Spotify.
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Author: Eleni Hagen If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that time is of the essence: in life, as well as in sales. . One solution for making the most of our time during this uniquely digital age has been “ sales engagement ,” the careful sequencing of interactions between sales reps and their targets, designed to accelerate seller output and expand a company’s reach. .
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.
The Pipeline
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
By Tibor Shanto. People in sales have come to accept that selling is no longer for lone-wolves, packs hunt much more successfully. Many of those same sellers also know that buyers generally act in packs as well. The pundits tell us there are six to a dozen people involved in a purchase of a B2B solution. So why do many salespeople continue to prospect as though they can only engage one person at a time?
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
“Do you want fries and a coke with that?” — We’ve all had the ultimate cross-selling experience at McDonald’s. Not to mention, the alluring temptation of Amazon’s ‘frequently bought together’ section. As a consumer, you know that cross-selling works. It works so well that Amazon once claimed up to 35% of its revenue comes from cross-selling. Last year?
Force Management
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Our January episodes aimed to help sales teams start the year right. Each episode shares insights sales reps, managers and leaders can use to make an immediate impact on the pipeline. Listen, and share with your sales teams to support them in driving better numbers right away this year. Find each episode on your favorite podcast player, so you can easily download, listen and share.
Engage Selling
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Creating and maintaining a high-growth, high-profit business in your marketplace—one where sellers, leaders, and customers all thrive—is essential. That’s why, for many years, I’ve advocated putting value-based selling at the centre of your work. Understand, however, that selling from a … Read More » The post Value-Based Selling: Tangible vs.
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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.
SalesProInsider
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
What you believe, you can achieve. What a powerful quote by Mary Kay Ash. And yet we need to check our beliefs – our mindset – and how that mindset comes out of our mouth. I call that the mind and mouth connection. Inspiration or Barrier? While this is an inspirational quote, our beliefs can also be the barrier if we’re not careful about what we say.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. Let’s change that. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. You attract leads by providing content online (e.g., on your website) that moves potential customers to take some sort of action.
Membrain
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
For many sales organizations, Salesforce is the technology sun around which the entire sales system orbits. If this is working out great for you, your sales effectiveness is world-class, and the cost of technology per employee shows a solid ROI, then you can skip this article.
Predictable Revenue
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Erik is a highly sought-after thought leader in the world of digital marketing and entrepreneurship. In this episode, he teaches us how to write a concise value proposition that travels through word of mouth without you spending a cent. The post How to Create a Value Proposition appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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?
Nimble - Sales
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
CRMs for recruitment agencies are a weapon that can enhance pretty much every major KPI for a head-hunter: offer acceptance rate, pipeline velocity, days to offer, average candidate experience, fill rate, win rate, and more. In the era where job-hunting is a home chore and the best talent comes at a 200% markup of the […]. The post CRM For Recruitment Agencies: Finding the Right Candidate at the Right Time appeared first on Nimble Blog.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Let’s start with that dream customer. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. (Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.
Membrain
JANUARY 31, 2021
I'm going to share the story of a real salesperson and his current, real opportunity, but change the names of everyone involved. I hear stories like this every day but this particular one happens way too often.
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