The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 17, 2022

Social selling is on its way to equaling (and possibly overtaking) conventional selling in the near future. One study stated that with more than 3 billion people using social media worldwide in 2021, the customer base is right where social salespeople want them. Way back in 2020, before the world had gone haywire due to COVID and in the early days of the pandemic, Facebook sales by American Facebook users hit over 18%.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 14, 2022

Each time I work with a new company, the first thing I ask for are recordings of both their top two or three sales reps, and then recordings of everyone else. And each time I do, I immediately identify one thing that the top reps are doing that the other reps aren’t. I’ve been doing this for over 30 years, and things have remained constant during that time: top sales reps are better for many different reasons (personality, work effort, etc.), but they all share this one thing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 19, 2022

There’s a difference between becoming an average sales manager and a truly successful sales leader. Much of it depends on some important personality characteristics. The post 5 Personal Qualities Necessary to Become a Successful Sales Manager appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 20, 2022

I conducted a Google search for the Top Sales Blogs and it showed 616,000 results. I can work with that! Not. I started browsing page by page and I found approximately 50 different lists of top sales blogs on the first 6 pages. My Blog was named on many of those lists but it got me wondering, why so many lists, why are so many different Blogs listed, what are the criteria, and which Blogs should you really be following for the best sales advice?

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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.

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SBI Growth

MAY 18, 2022

SBI Chief Operating Officer and Forbes Business Council Member Mike Hoffman wrote a recent article for Forbes digital on how the C-suite can drive growth initiatives, translating strategy into execution. Hoffman recommends biannual benchmarking against competitors and companies that operate in a similar space.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2022

Data and analytics are going to transform the understanding and evaluation of the employee experience. The CMO has a critical role in this transformation. The post Why CMOs Should Champion Employee Engagement appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Today’s new world of insight sales is powered by data. Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. For most IT leaders, the more data you have, the better. But all data sets are not created equal.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 17, 2022

Photo by Qimono via Pixabay. Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: The Underrated Marketing Methods To Be Considering. Our collaborative blog provides insight regarding ‘The underrated marketing methods to be considering.’. Knowing how to reach your audience is vital for any business. Some marketing methods, such as social media marketing, advertisements, and SEO, are likely to be part of most modern strategies.

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Alice Heiman

MAY 19, 2022

People are bombarded with emails and sales messages. Response rates have plummeted. The number of quality interactions with prospects has declined. As a result, each interaction is more valuable than ever before. By using sales discovery to truly understand the prospect, you can build a relationship and partner with them to solve the challenges they’re facing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 16, 2022

Knowing how to attract, develop and retain high-level talent is invaluable amid the current market environment. The presence of a reliable, coach-like manager who displays a commitment to their personal development will make sellers a lot less inclined to seek employment elsewhere. The post Train to Retain appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Today’s new world of insight sales is powered by data. Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. For most IT leaders, the more data you have, the better. But all data sets are not created equal.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 16, 2022

These cold call script templates will help you craft an outbound sales conversation that feels natural, engages prospects, and wins more sales. The post Cold Calling Scripts to Maximize B2B Sales appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

Again, I have to start this post with an apology. I’m a huge fan of sales enablement and some of the outstanding sales enablement practitioners who I count as friends. I think, however, one of the biggest problems with sales enablement is not what they do, or the quality of the programs they develop. I think one of the biggest problems with sales enablement comes from outside the organization, with sales executive leadership and front line management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2022

Although it might seem counterintuitive, doubling down on what you specialize in will open up growth opportunities for your agency. People seek out specialists because they trust their abilities and thought leadership. You can niche your agency by following these three steps. The post 3 Ways to Hone Your Ad Agency’s Niche appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

MAY 16, 2022

Marketing technology stacks have been giving marketers headaches since the dawn of time (OK, maybe not that long … but it feels like it). The tools are too complex, too inaccurate, don’t integrate well, aren’t used enough, have too much overlap, and the list goes on. And yet, experts predict that marketers will keep leaning into more complex marketing automation solutions and personalization tools.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 17, 2022

Harpaul Sambhi joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the importance of founder-led sales to scaling repeatable revenue for startups. The post The Importance of Founder-Led Sales to Scaling appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Force Management

MAY 19, 2022

In this wave of mass resignations and global hiring, reduce hiring challenges and cost by narrowing your sales manager's focus. Define what the ideal sales talent candidate looks like for your organization so you can help your managers hire the right people for growth. The topic of sales talent has come up often on the Revenue Builders Podcast. John McMahon and John Kaplan dig deep with their guests, pulling out top-level advice you can use to make your sales talent a competitive advantage for y

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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.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 19, 2022

Today, I'm going to share with you 3 TOP SECRET strategies to help you secure more new business appointments. These proprietary strategies will help you get more meetings than you could ever imagine.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Spend a little time on LinkedIn, and you’re bound to see job titles that don’t quite match up with reality. It’s pretty easy to imagine how it happens. Maybe a company trying to retain talent offers a bigger title — but not all the responsibilities and pay that should follow. Or maybe a job hunter, frustrated by some uncredited work, finds an inventive way to describe their last role.

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Engage Selling

MAY 20, 2022

Don’t let unapplied knowledge destroy your sales team! I talk a lot about how the sales landscape today is completely different from just a few years ago…and that there’s no … Read More. The post Your Unapplied Knowledge Is a Waste of Everything! first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 15, 2022

I wrote, People Buy From People, focusing on the importance of human based engagement as a wake up call to the overwhelming trend to depersonalize the relationship. In comments on the post, Larry Levine and Brent Adamson added some fascinating and important insights (though I struggle with the concept of Brent creating insights–it just doesn’t seem to be him.

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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.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 16, 2022

We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients. As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. Recruitment will continue to be a buyer’s market in 2022. According to The Undercover Recruiter , the best candidates are in and out of the job market within 10 days. It’s tempting, and easy, to fall victim to lowering your hiring standards to fill positions.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 20, 2022

The demand for sales roles only keeps growing. According to research published by HireDNA, sales roles shot up by 65% in 2021, totaling around 700,000 positions in the US alone. That’s why the HubSpot Academy is partnering with Coursera, the world's most trusted online education resource, to bring you the HubSpot Sales Representative Professional Certification — a five-course career development training for anyone looking to thrive in a new sales role, refine their sales skills, or impress poten

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Pipeliner

MAY 15, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Sunir Shah discusses his current company, AppBind, and how it solves the billing challenges that partners face when combining multiple SaaS products into a bundled service. Sunir Shah has solved SaaS-partnership problems at FreshBooks and Olark and is the president of the Cloud Software Association. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The problems faced by SaaS businesses that work through partners.

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criteria for success

MAY 17, 2022

If you’re in the process of building a winning sales training program for your team, you've come to the right place. Here at Criteria for Success, we help companies strengthen their sales teams and build out training processes that ensure sales best practices are being put to use. Building a winning sales training program is about much more than the sales methodology; a truly successful sales training program is all about adopting a discovery-based mentality.

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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?

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DocSend

MAY 17, 2022

What is sales enablement? At a high-level, a sales enablement tool can do two things: help teach your sales team how to sell and enable their ability to sell by providing training, documents, and guidance. Essentially, sales enablement tools serve as a teaching aid or a repository for critical information that sales reps need to do their job. A lot of what a sales enablement tool does is teach reps how to sell or store information they need to sell.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 16, 2022

As of March 31, 2022, inflation in the United States stands at 8.54% — the worst it has been in close to 40 years. Obviously, that figure has massive implications for businesses of all sizes, and several business owners are faced with a question that's every bit as uncomfortable as it is pressing: What do we do about our prices? Inflation product pricing is a tricky, nuanced process — how do you keep pace with inflation without alienating prospects and customers?

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Highspot

MAY 18, 2022

Conversations are powerful; they are how we connect, learn, and grow. As we honor Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month , we asked three Highspot employees to share stories of the conversations that have changed their lives, from finding your mentors to following your passions. “All I needed was one person to believe in me. I was lucky enough to get two.” Being the firstborn child of immigrant parents, immediately, the bar was set high.

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