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3 Keys to Effective Sales Teams in the Age of the Informed Buyer

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Glenton Davis Today’s consumer has access to more knowledge than ever before, adding a burden to businesses to provide truly innovative products and services — and for sales teams to understand their companies’ offerings in a deep and informed way. From casual browsing to thorough research, online exploration occurs well before customers meet a salesperson.

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A Sales Coach’s Tactical Guide on Setting the Right Goals for Sales Reps

Sales Hacker

Part 4 of this sales coaching series focuses on the right coaching goals for sales reps. Article overview: 1) Sales coaching is not a beat-down. 2) Sales Coaching: What salespeople say versus managers/leaders. 3) Don’t mistake a conversation for sales coaching commitment. 4) How to make your 1:1s count. 5) Stay in the inspiration business: Read the full coaching series.

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Google thyself!

Sales 2.0

When you send a prospect an email or leave them a voicemail what do many of them do? They Google you (as well as your company.). As you know, buyers are seriously concerned about burning their time these days. If you happen to pique someone’s interest with your brilliant email or voicemail they are likely to vet you before they call you back and invest their precious time.

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‘NO’ Is Deceiving

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Last week I looked at the power of the small word ‘NO’ in halting sales, preventing President’s Club, and more; but we looked at it in the context of the prospecting experience, very early in the process. But objections are dynamic, just like the buy/sell cycle, and as such our ability to recognize them and deal with them effectively needs to be as or probably more dynamic.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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B2B Emotional Sales Formula - Curiosity. Obsession. Fever. Action. Passion.

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tony Hughes You may be struggling thinking, "What on Earth am I doing, I hate this job!". I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. I think of what powers me to prevent burnout and I think of these five words. So I want to deconstruct each one as an emotional manual for sellers in this quick post in reverse chronological order.

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New Data - Are Experienced Sales Managers Better Sales Managers?

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week I wrote a revealing article which showed that Sales Managers are even worse than I thought when it comes to coaching their salespeople. That article stimulated this great conversation on LinkedIn. Following that article I dug further into the same 9,000 rows of data to look at the role that tenure and experience have on sales management effectiveness.

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The Beginner’s Guide to YouTube for B2B Marketing

Zoominfo

Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has become more than just the most popular video-sharing platform– it’s one of the most popular websites on the internet, period. Consider these statistics ( source ): Over a billion hours of video content is watched on YouTube every day. YouTube is the third most visited site in the world after Google and Facebook. 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. 6 out of 10 people prefer online video platforms like YouTube to live television.

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Do You Know How the Telephone Works … or How to Prospect?

No More Cold Calling

What’s trust got to do with it? When we showed my 85-year-old aunt how to use a computer, she told us she still hadn’t figured out how the telephone worked, so don’t bother. She walked out of the room. End of conversation. She talked a lot about “back in the day” and reminisced about what life was like when she was younger. This wasn’t the first time she’d witnessed a changing world, and she knew that new wasn’t always better.

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A kick of kindness

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Technology disrupts. It changes how we live. It changes how we work. For managers, it changes how they strategize. In many respects, managers are limited in planning for technological advancements that will disrupt a sales team’s or marketing department’s processes a year from now, or maybe even sooner. That’s what we ask them to do, however.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Best Sample Cold Calling Sales Pitch scripts Tips Techniques Examples

Mr. Inside Sales

Best Openings for Your Closing & Presentation Calls. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. If you close sales or do sales presentations over the phone, then you might be wondering what the best way to open the closing call is.

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30 Shocking Influencer Marketing Statistics

Zoominfo

In today’s digital era, innovative marketing tactics have begun to overtake the traditional methods that have worked for years. Take influencer marketing for example. This strategy relies on the power of industry influencers and thought leaders to achieve critical business goals. Typically brands work with influencers who have a large, dedicated following, particularly on social media.

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Transform Your Selling Team to Hit their Growth Targets

SBI Growth

Jennifer Bakunas, the Senior Vice President of Americas Sales for Monotype, has a wealth of experience, from spinning up successful start-ups to running enterprise sales teams. Jennifer took over the sales leadership role at Monotype last year and we join.

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Focus hacks for multitaskers

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan In an article written a few years ago, Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes of all time, listed 10 rules for maximizing competitiveness. Unsurprisingly, focus was numero uno. In Jordan’s mind, nothing was more important than focus. Without focus, nothing gets done. Focus in communication. Focus allows the brain to concentrate on one thing.

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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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Objection Prevention. A New Way to Enjoy Safe Sales.

Jeffrey Gitomer

There are no new objections. You've heard them all before. What ever business you're in, there are between five and twenty reasons why the customer won't buy now.

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10 Recruiting Blogs to Bookmark Today

Zoominfo

As a busy recruiter, you don’t have much time in your day to spend reading articles and recruiting blogs. After all, you’re sourcing candidates , scheduling interviews, and combing through resumes. We get that. But there’s something to be said for taking a quick break during the day to catch up on the latest trends, best practices, and breaking industry news.

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Tips & Tools to Ensure a Good Work-Life Balance for Your Sales Team

Anthony Cole Training

There are a number of reasons why a person might choose to pursue a career in sales. For one thing, sales jobs tend to be more plentiful and, therefore, easier to find and get. Additionally, even though some of us are more naturally gifted at selling than others, sales is a type of career in which virtually anyone can learn and thrive.

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Business strategy gets graphic

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan As CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Rich Horwath works with managers at companies such as FedEx, Google and FOX TV to help them understand the importance of landing on a strategy that everyone in an organization understands and can work to achieve. Now he has put those lessons into a graphic novel, “StrategyMan vs. The Anti-Strategy Squad.”.

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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 Effectively Implement Your Sales Process

MTD Sales Training

One definition of ‘process’ is ‘ a systematic series of actions directed to some end: a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner’. A good sales process will give you a good framework and template for you to follow and apply. So, what steps does a good process follow to give you a chance to be successful? Here are a few: Generating Business: This often includes prospecting and marketing to get business to see you as a viable option for their needs and w

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15 Expert Opinions About Business Data

Zoominfo

In modern business, data is a hot commodity. Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. But, there’s a reason for all this talk. Data is a critical component of business success—no matter the industry, the size of the business, or how the business operates. Everyone needs data to compete in our modern business landscape—and we have the quotes to prove it!

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How to Start a Real Estate Business: 8 Essential Tips

Hubspot Sales

Starting a real estate business ain't for the faint of heart. What other industry requires you to cold call dozens of leads every day -- only to close approximately five deals in your first year (if you're lucky)? By most estimates, 87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. But for those who have what it takes, starting your own real estate business can absolutely give you the seven-figure job of your dreams.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

Pointclear

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Not 50 things. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Measure what matters. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. The more senior you are in your organization the more likely it is that you think these actions should be (whether or not they can be) handled by others in your organization.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

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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Turn a hard no into a yes with the easiest follow-up technique I know

Close.io

Every sales rep hates hearing no. But it’s just part of the job, right? You can’t win every deal and when a prospect turns you down, it’s time to just move on. But hearing no doesn’t always mean you did something wrong. You might just be talking to the wrong person. This small shift in thinking can have a profound impact on your sales outreach and follow-up success.

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5 Ways to Help You Bust Out of Your Sales Slump

Jeff Shore

By Jeff Shore. Let’s be honest. If you’re in a sales funk you don’t need the same old advice you’ve heard before – think positive; visualize success; start a gratitude journal. That’s all good advice and could be helpful in working your way out of your slump. But I don’t want to talk about slowly inching your way out of a funk. I want to talk about vaulting out of that Godforsaken state and into top performance mode right now.

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Sales Cycles Explained in 500 Words or Less

Hubspot Sales

What Is a Sales Cycle? “Sales Cycle” refers to the specific actions salespeople follow to close a new customer. Sales cycles are often confused with sales methodologies. A sales methodology, such as the “ inbound methodology ,” refers to the framework for implementing the sales cycle. The sales cycle is more tactical, and often includes stages such as “prospect,” “connect,” “research,” “present,” and “close.”.

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Personalization: The Modern Buyer’s Prerogative

SBI

The line between consumer buying behavior and business buying behavior isn’t blurred. It’s now nonexistent. Consumer-oriented companies such as Amazon and Airbnb have set a high bar for more informed, highly-personalized buying experiences. These expectations have quickly carried over into the world of business buying. Personalization from sales is no longer just “desired” by modern buyers — it’s required.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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The Sales Leader’s Role in Conquering the Complex Sale

Alice Heiman

Too often we leave salespeople out in the field to fend for themselves on some very complex and challenging high dollar deals with companies 10 to 100 times our size. Crazy, right? In our organizations, we need to be clearer about the sales leader’s role in the complex sale. So here is what they need: To clearly understand the complex sale and what makes it challenging.

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How to Lose Your Sales Leader in 10 Days

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. Remember the 2003 romantic comedy “How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days” starring Mathew McConaughey and Kate Hudson? You know the one where her job assignment is to write an article for her magazine on all the things girls unknowingly do that make guys bolt? It’s cute to watch if you find yourself with nothing better to do on a Friday night, but I digress.

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The Best Way to Reach Out to a Prospect For the First Time, According to 20+ Sales Experts

Hubspot Sales

For years, there’s been a debate raging in the sales community: When reaching out to a prospect for the first time, should you call or email? After all, first interactions with prospects are key -- you’re aiming to establish trust, provide value , gather key information, and perhaps even secure a follow-up meeting. If you don’t use the right medium, they’ll be less receptive to your message (and that’s assuming they engage at all).