Sat.May 08, 2010 - Fri.May 14, 2010

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No Regrets, A Do Over

Your Sales Management Guru

After working on my keynote I had plenty of time to reflect as we flew over South Dakota and into Montana. First, it has been great to hear from many of you who have enjoyed our many blog accounts on sales leadership, motivation and sales training ideas, I plan to continue to offer my thoughts , concepts and tools to assist you in building high performance sales organizations.

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The -insert your name here- Release is Now Available!

BrainShark

What's with the name, Kristin? Well, I decided that this release contains so many of those little wish list items that customers have had for so long, that you deserve to have this release named after you!

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Praise in Public, Criticize in Private by Ron Marks

Tom Hopkins

As modern day sales leaders, we should always praise our sales teams in public and give them critical feedback in private. I recently experienced one of the worst cases of a leader abusing the position of manager by calling out one of his sales people in front of the entire team. Yet he did not [.] Related posts: When to Train by Ron Marks.

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Elevating the Sales Profession - Our Cause

The Brooks Group

Yesterday, in an impressive value-building move, our bank sent us a 40-minute video of a recent speech by bestselling business author Jason Jennings. He spoke about his research on top-performing companies. It was a great presentation, but one thing he said really caught my attention…. Great Companies Turn What They Do Into a CAUSE. A cause, he said, is more than a mission statement or vision statement.

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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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Engage early with Senior Execs, or Lose the Deal

The ROI Guy

In the article Selling Business Value to Senior Executives, Tony Hillyard proposes that the most effective way to sell to executives is to engage earlier in the sales process. According to Mr. Hillyard, “Many salespeople wait until the organization has started to go to the market to find solutions for their problems.”, and according to our research are then less likely to win deals, and more likely to discount.

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Inside Sales Trends: Then and Now.What's Your Big Idea?

Green Lead's B2B

This week I presented at the AA-ISP Leadership Summit in Minneapolis. It kicked off two days of great sessions, discussion and networking. Thanks to everyone who attended and supported the effort. It was great to meet everyone and share our Big Ideas. Special thanks to Bob Perkins , Larry Reeves , and others at AA-ISP for having me. The other piece I enjoyed was meeting folks from competing company.

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What I Learned from Oprah about Customer Service ? Score More.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. What I Learned From Oprah About Customer Service. by Lori Richardson on May 10, 2010. Need to hone your customer service skills and build more brand loyalty? This weekend while in NYC on the Fabulous 50 Tour, I had the extreme pleasure of attending a Live Your Best Life Weekend put on by Oprah Winfrey and her team.

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IT recovery full speed ahead. IT vendors, are you ready?

The ROI Guy

SearchCIO's latest survey on IT budgets and spending priorities confirms reports from Forrester, Gartner and other analysts, that the IT spending recovery in 2010 is upon us. For the majority of the 282 respondents to the survey, 55% indicated that the recovery has begun, with 52% indicating more spending in the next three months than in the last three months.

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Raising Your Webinar Engagement Quotient [Webinar Replay]

BrainShark

The May, 2010 Customer Connection Webinar Series with thought leaders was kicked off by Roger Courville, co-founder and principal at the 1080 Group.

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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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The Most Profitable Sale Ever Made! By Howard Partridge

Sales Training Advice

In today’s message I want to talk about the most profitable sale ever made. In any business there is one type of sale that brings the most profit. There is one single sales activity that can make the most difference in the profitability of your company. Not taking advantage of this all important sales opportunity will cost you thousands of dollars.

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USAA: Auto Circle

BrainShark

USAA gives a great video presentation on why they are a solid choice of insurance provider for members of the armed forces.

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Wanted: Innovation Gridlock Buster

The ROI Guy

IT "Keeping the Lights on" Spending creates Innovation Gridlock Each year Alinean examines the delicate balance in IT budgets between on-going operations, migrations and upgrades, and innovative investments. From our research, in 2009 innovation and migrations / upgrades suffered as budgets fell victim to the changing economic climate: IT Operations (keeping lights on) - 66% Upgrades and Migrations - 23% Innovative IT Projects - 11% This reversed a promising trend throughout the past decade of i

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Social Media have an ROI? It needs to.

The ROI Guy

As the main social media proponent for our organization, I participate and monitor our avenues constantly. As well, as the CEO, the buck stops with me, and like many executives, I demand payback on our investments. A question I have been raising lately - is all this time we spend on social media worth it? Seems like I am not alone. When it comes to ROI as a search term, about 80%+ of the tweets / posts are about the ROI of social media. is there any?

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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