Sat.Nov 25, 2017 - Fri.Dec 01, 2017

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Focus on the Real Drivers of Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Bryan Adams, the co-founder and Managing Partner for Integrity Marketing Group. Matt and Bryan use the How to Make Your Number in 2018 Workbook to share emerging best practices. Access the latest hbspt.cta.

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7 Habits Of Highly Successful Business Development Managers

MTD Sales Training

A habit can be defined as ‘any behaviour that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously’. When we work on something continuously, we start to lay down a pattern of behaviour that is reflected every time that specific situation occurs. This behaviour becomes the norm for us and we see it as such; a normal way of doing things. So, what should a business development manager (BDM) develop as habits, the normal way of behaving?

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Stop Complicating Things

The Sales Heretic

We live in complicated times. Everything from our clothes, to our phones, to our investments is more advanced, sophisticated, and complex. We have access to more information than ever before and we have more choices than ever before. Which leads to a problem. We’re overwhelmed. We’re uncertain. We’re confused. And that creates a problem for [.].

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What Kind Of Sales Year will 2018 Be?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. As we head into 2018, we are heading into a year that could make the current economic cycle the longest since the great depression. Currently the longest is the 120 months, from March 1991 to March 2001. This could well mean that there is more than a real possibility that the next 12 – 18 months will see an economic slowdown, at the same time many market pundits also point to age of the current bull market, and real possibility of a pull back.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

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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Re-launching Personas at SKO? 3 Tips to Stick the Landing

SBI Growth

The World’s premier athletes are preparing for the biggest moment of their careers, the Winter Olympics. As your organization’s Sales Enablement leader, you also have a date in early winter top of mind… Sales Kickoff (SKO). You have been preparing for.

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19 Sales Tips For Closing The Sale

MTD Sales Training

Many salespeople fear the ‘close’ of the sale, as they think it might be putting too much pressure on the decision-maker. Use these 19 tips to reduce this fear and build confidence when you get to this strategic part of the sales cycle. 1) Get rid of sales objections before they come up. By anticipating and dealing with objections early on in the sales cycle, there is more chance you will hit the buyer’s purchase decision with a clean run. 2) Don’t think of the close as a close; think of it as a

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Is Your Company Failing Enough Times to Succeed?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Sabrina Chamberlain As marketers, we often carry the impulse to avoid failure, believing a dollar wasted on an unworkable tactic is a dollar on the wrong side of return on investment. Google, on the other hand, has not only embraced failure, but has also put it to work, especially when considering online marketing tactics. By releasing a quarterly failure report that showcases what the worst companywide failures were and how the company learned from them, it effectively builds a producti

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Why Won’t This Product Sell Itself?

SBI Growth

Your product team is creating great products that should dominate the market. But marketing doesn’t position it right and sales doesn’t sell it. Why do sales and marketing continue to fail to sell your product? This is the right question, but.

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SKO Sales Kickoff Ideas

Score More Sales

It is the time of year sales teams are huddling to plan for next year and depending on who is doing the planning, results will or will not be what is critical for your team’s success.

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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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Tell Them It’s OK To Say NO!

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No one like to be the bearer of bad news, this includes buyers. I know some sellers may find that hard to believe, but even when another product aligns better with their objectives, human nature kicks in, and delivering the news that you lost, is not pleasant for most buyers. So what do they do, they either pass the buck to someone else, like procurement, or avoid your call for weeks, hoping you’ll eventually get the hint; or any number of ways to avoid an unpleasant task.

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3 tips on practicing from the experts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff Yogi Berra apparently said, “In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is.” Whether or not Yogi actually said this, it sits well within his canon of malapropisms. More importantly, there’s a keen truth to the phrase: practice is about action, not theoretics. In this online-only feature, I’m sharing three additional tips to keep in mind as you prepare to practice.

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Email vs. the Telephone: Which is Better for Prospecting?

The Sales Hunter

Email or the Telephone: Which one do you use more for prospecting? I can’t speak to a group of salespeople, whether it be a keynote or a training session, without being asked for my views on which one I feel is better for prospecting. The argument I hear is nobody answers the phone, and in […].

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3 Key Drivers That Increase Value In Your Client’s Eyes

MTD Sales Training

How many times do your clients talk about you reducing your prices? What do you say when the issue of price is brought up by the prospect? In which direction do you take the conversation when price is the biggest stumbling block? For most salespeople, price is the biggest objection they have to overcome, and they do it by justifying the price-tag and comparing it against competitors or increasing the benefits of the product through its improved features.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

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

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How to Deal with Other Quotes, Proposals, and Competition

Mr. Inside Sales

The only worse than getting the competitor stall at the end of your presentation (something like, “Well, we’re looking at other quotes…” etc.) is not knowing how to handle it. In my new book: Power Phone Scripts: 500 Word-For-Word Questions, Phrases, and Conversations to Open and Close More Sales , I teach you exactly what to say in the hundreds of selling situations you get into, including this competitor situation.

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Quotes to consider when it comes to practice

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff. Super Heroes: Beatles: 10,000 hours of performing to be great – who has 10,000 hours and such talent? Fighter Pilots: Can listen to combat instructions on the radio while they’re engaging an enemy plane in a dogfight while paying attention to the controls – who has that rare set of skills? Vince Lombardi: “Only perfect practice makes perfect,” – how can you practice perfectly in an imperfect world?

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Sales Motivation Video: Leverage Your Strengths to Increase Your Selling Skills

The Sales Hunter

What do you do the best? What are your strengths? You need to leverage what you do best, because it will ultimately make your selling skills better. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach can help you excel in your sales career! Invest in yourself by checking out my coaching program today! […].

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Another Award for MTD. This time for Best HR Partnership

MTD Sales Training

In September we won CIPD’s Best HR/L&D Supplier award and I’m delighted to announce that last week we also won Best HR Partnership in the Personnel Today Awards. We had a great night down in London at Grosvenor House and after a lot of champers had very bad heads the next day! I’m also very pleased to say that we’re finalists in two other awards as well!

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

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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Do You Have Sales Growth Problems?  Solution #1: Coach the team you have.

Anthony Cole Training

In a remarkable show of grit, the University of Alabama clawed back from a 20-point deficit against the University of Minnesota, though they eventually lost by 5.

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Personalize Communications and Win High-Value Clients With Account-Based Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. There are, of course, tiers of customization required, depending on the size and importance of these accounts. For good accounts, those that are natural fits for your organization and should be easy to land, you can customize your outreach to their industry, organization or role.

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Do I Dream Big Enough? Why Some People Fail to Achieve What They Want.

The Sales Hunter

When was the last time you really dreamed big? Not just big, but really big? As a kid I remember dreaming I’d one day play in the NBA, walk on the moon, and own 100 cars all by the time I was 20. Somewhere between being the 8-year-old dreamer and a 30-year veteran of business, […].

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

Pointclear

“Our numbers are off substantially,” he said over lunch some time ago, “but our individual salespeople are making quota for the most part. What is killing us is turnover in salespeople. It’s been irritating, surprising and very difficult to over-come.”. Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

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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Real Time Customer Intelligence – The Key to Getting Heard. by @CliveArmitage

SBI

For Account Based Sellers (ABS) and Account Based Marketers (ABM) the amount of irrelevant, vacuous content being created by businesses presents a huge opportunity to get noticed. With inboxes, social feeds, and voice mails drowning in content that is neither wanted nor asked for, to suddenly come across a piece of relevant, personalized content is a rare experience.

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23 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Salesperson in Your Life

Hubspot Sales

It's the time of year for cookies and eggnog, family and coworker get-togethers. and buying presents for people you know very little about. Did you pick the colleague in your work gift exchange who pulls overnight shifts by himself? Is Uncle Marty bringing his new girlfriend to your holiday party? Giving is not always nicer than receiving. We can't help you with everyone on your list (didn't your second cousin Pete say he liked golf once?

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A CMO’s Guide to Customer Success Interlock

SBI Growth

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Qualified Leads vs. Unqualified Leads

Zoominfo

The biggest mistake you can make in the B2B world is one that is all too common—chasing the wrong leads. You know the feeling—you schedule numerous calls, send emails, and hold meetings only to learn that the person on the other line isn’t interested in your product or service. First, let’s get this out of the way—a qualified lead is defined by three main criteria: Need: the prospect has a problem that your product can fix.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

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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Data from 1 Million Sales Calls Explains the Difference Between Top Reps and Everyone Else

Openview

The most decisive factor separating your superstar reps from everyone else on your team comes down to their sales conversations. The sooner you understand this, the sooner you can begin closing the quota attainment gap between the two groups. Gong’s data science team has used our conversation intelligence platform to analyze almost one million conversations between B2B salespeople and buyers.

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5 Clever Ways to Convince Someone (Without Being Dishonest)

Hubspot Sales

How to Convince Someone. Ask them to share their thoughts. Match their type of reasoning -- if they're being emotional, appeal to their emotions; if they're relying on logic, be logical. Get them to lower their guard with a genuine compliment. Pose a counter-argument (without making them defensive). Don't hide behind jargon or unnecessarily fancy words.

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Do Your Buyer Personas Need a Facelift?

SBI Growth