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Selling against the status quo

Membrain

You’re probably all too well aware of the statistic that the majority of apparently well-qualified complex B2B buying journeys end with the potential customer either deciding to do nothing or to change nothing.

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10 Sales Quota Attainment Tips to Improve Performance

Xactly

For sales organizations to succeed, sales leaders must motivate reps to meet and exceed their quota. Here are 10 sales quota attainment tips to improve performance.

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5 Ways to Reduce High Turnover Rates

The Center for Sales Strategy

From prospecting clients to making the pitch, it’s the sales team that brings your business profits. When you work in a profession where quarterly quotas and revenue goals need to be met, you can’t afford a high turnover rate. When meeting with clients, how often are they experiencing sales problems that are often due to extreme turnover on their sales team?

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Are you setting your SDRs up for failure?

Predictable Revenue

Starting out in sales as an SDR can be extremely exciting and rewarding, but also soul crushing when things don’t click. After chatting with hundreds of CEOs and sales leaders over the last couple years, I know they too feel the pressure when things aren’t working because, ultimately, the buck stops with them. But unlike those in leadership positions, a junior SDR tends to be pointed in a specific direction by a superior and will, by default, trust they’re being pointed in the right direction.

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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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7 Signs You Should Invest in Sales Training

Selling Energy

Is your sales team performing at its best? Probably not, but corporate managers tend to overlook even lackluster sales performance as long as company profits continue to climb.

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Why Customer Loyalty Isn’t Always About More Choices

No More Cold Calling

Stop confusing your buyers. I was so frustrated. I was trying to contact a prospect and couldn’t find the company phone number on their website. Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but the phone works. I wasn’t cold calling , I was calling a referral—who, by the way, had no contact information on his email signature. I’ve walked out of many retail stores when no one even bothered to acknowledge I was there.

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Holiday Gift Season – Top 10 Ideas for Prospects Clients and Partners

Score More Sales

It is the time of year we traditionally think of a way of thanking a customer or referral partner, and we toy with whether to send a prospect some sort of a gift.

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Make Your Number in 2020: Kickoff the Year in Style

SBI Growth

It’s 1:00pm. You have scheduled a meeting to review your annual objective of driving greater sales efficiency. The goal is simple: improve revenue per sales head. Your solution is to increase available rep selling time by eliminating wasted activity. A.

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The benefits of social proximity selling

Sales 2.0

In my last post I was talking about how you can greatly increase your prospecting odds by leveraging people you know for an introduction. In this post I am going to talk about how to greatly increase your prospecting odds without an introduction. This approach is all about “social proximity” as Jamie Shanks calls it. Consider this data. Here’s why you should consider adding this “social proximity” approach to your prospecting efforts: In it’s 2014 research rep

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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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2 Truths and a Lie: High Email Bounce Rates and Sender Reputation

Zoominfo

Email marketing is hard. Some might argue that email marketing is even harder today than it was a decade ago. Whether you agree with that statement, one thing is for sure: email marketing provides different challenges than it did five or 10 years ago. There are so many factors that contribute to the success of an email program, no matter what kind of campaign you’re running.

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What lies ahead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Casey Stengel said “Never make predictions, especially about the future.” What’s the fun in that? The country, nay, the world, is anxious to see what happens on Nov. 3, 2020. But plenty will occur before and after an expected record number of U.S. voters head to the polls. Business leaders are increasingly asked to anticipate changes that will impact their industry.

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What Big Bets Will You Make to Drive Additional Revenue?

SBI Growth

As budgeting season is in full swing, lofty ambitions for next year’s growth meet the stress of closing the current year on a high note. One of the most significant challenges that a sales leader faces this time of year.

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Understanding A Sales Budget And Its Implications To You In Sales

MTD Sales Training

Do any of your prospects talk to you about their sales budgets? If they do, are you fully aware of how they set those budgets and what they use them for? Here, we discuss what it means to set a sales budget, how it’s defined and the objectives of companies setting budget figures. It will help you develop a rounded-out knowledge that will help you when identifying what to do when confronted with a budgeting issue.

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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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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

Zoominfo

People buy from people first, product second, according to Director of Sales Steve Wernke. They want to feel good about who they’re buying from, and they want to walk away feeling good about the deal they’ve just made. They want to feel like they’ve won. So how can you make sure your future customer wins – and feels like they won – while winning business yourself?

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The Importance of Critical Thinking: Logic vs. Emotion in Selling

Connect2Sell

Swamped by emotions, sellers can make costly mistakes like these:

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Overcome the Early Success Trap to Solve Your Product-Market Fit

SBI Growth

The following is very much based on a true story – a sad but true story from early 2019. In a company’s first meeting, their CMO announced that they were building a big brand – just like Theranos. Just from.

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Are You Using This New Technology to Generate New Opportunities?

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you have Rainbow flatware? Biomagnetic ear stickers? A diamond-shaped ice cube tray? Baby feather wings? Yah, these things exist here. You don't? Me neither.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works. Instead, buyers need to be surrounded with relevant communications and personalized, self-service content throughout their journey.

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A Better Way to Upsell

Mr. Inside Sales

So, here’s what happened last week: I bought a new car and called a local window tinting franchise to get it tinted. The owner answered, quickly took my credit card for the top tinting package, and then attempted to upsell me to his high priced “car wrapping” package (basically a full body protection package). The problem is how he opened the conversation.

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"Gone Fishing" for Sales Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

I’m sure the majority of people have heard the Chinese proverb “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”.

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

Zoominfo

Buyers want to feel good about who they’re buying from, and they want to walk away feeling good about the deal they’ve just made. They want to feel like they’ve won. So how can you make sure your future customer wins – and feels like they won – while winning business yourself? Today we’re exploring this conundrum with nine tips from our top sales closers. 9 B2B Closing Techniques People buy from people first, then product second, according to ZoomInfo’s Director of Sales Steve Wernke.

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What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature

MTD Sales Training

Episode 39: What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature. In this episode, we take a look at integrative negotiation. Our skills pill looks at understanding the fears that hold us back. And our Inspire Me quote comes from Christopher McDougall. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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G-whiz

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan In a recent episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” comedian John Oliver ranted about media companies that bring us weather news. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a must, if only to admire how Oliver weaves Eddie Vedder into the bit and even does an impression of the Pearl Jam frontman. Oliver shares early graphics from the broadcaster Accuweather that look like first-generation Atari games, along with modern-day graphics used by The Weather Channel to dramatize severe weathe

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Mental Framing: Obstacles are Opportunities

Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

The principal factor in your success will be what goes on within the six-inches between your ears. The way in which you frame obstacles and opportunities will far greater impact your success than either the team you’re on or the territory that you sell in.

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It’s Not About The Metrics! It’s What You Do About Them!

Partners in Excellence

We seem to be metric crazy. Every organization I meet has a whole alphabet soup of metrics. Terms like ACV, MRR, ARR, TCV, LTV, CAC, Churn, Retention, Bookings, Revenue, Quota Attainment, SQL, MQL, Conversions, ATV, Win Rates, Velocity, Customer Growth, Product Growth, Share, Onboarding Time, % of people at quota, Voluntary/Involuntary Attrition, CRM Utilization, Pipeline Loading, Account Planning, Dials, Appointments, Proposals, Customer Meetings, Demos, Time spent per call, Number of questions

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This is Why You Need a Sales Playbook

Alice Heiman

My clients often ask about sales playbooks. Should they have one? What format should it be? What should be included? How many should they have? . To be honest, I have shied away from playbooks because the word has different meanings to different people. Which got me thinking about what a sales playbook is and why you need one. . I talked to my good friend and playbook guru,?

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

Consolidating your tech stack is an effective cost-saving measure that drives GTM efficiency and adds value to your enterprise. With a cohesive, integrated tech stack, your revenue teams can deliver an excellent customer experience that sets you up to win faster than your competitors.

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Onboarding has long-term impacts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN I have a friend who started work at a new company recently. A week later, her daughter started her first post-college job. Their experiences highlighted how hiring managers can do better regardless of generation and how onboarding casts a long shadow for how employees feel about a company. What worked. The mother, we’ll call her Maggie, started her first day with a project perfectly tuned to her background and skillset.

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How Do You Build Positive Working Relationships with Employees?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Diane DeMott Painter, Ph.D, provides today’s Guest Blog. . Diane Painter is a retired special education teacher and former co-owner of an event rental business. She teaches part-time at Shenandoah University training teachers. She also volunteers her time as the Educational Liaison for Makersmiths, Inc., a non-profit community maker space organization with locations in Leesburg and Purcellville, VA.

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7 Key Principles of Value-Based Selling

Hubspot Sales

In a world filled with sales reps trying to make quota, the same goal remains: close the sale. Yes, as a sales professional, your job is ultimately to sell. However, what if selling for the sake of selling wasn’t your main mission? Enter value-based selling. The goal with a value-based selling approach is to put the needs of the customer first, guiding them through the sales process to make an informed decision to best suit their needs (ideally, leading to the purchase of your product).

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