Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 28, 2017

Image Copyright iStock. Everyone has had this happen.probably more than once. You worked hard and smart, thought you did a great job, expected to win the business, but didn't. Later, you learned that the prospect "Didn't really like your style.". It's not at all unusual, but it is almost always misinterpreted. Salespeople tend to take this personally by internalizing the comment as, "They just didn't like me.

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The Pipeline

JULY 27, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 4. In this part of the Proactive Prospecting Summer series, we look at improving how we communicate early in the call. Clear concise communication is key to sales, especially in the pressure packed first few seconds of an unscheduled prospecting call, yes, a cold call.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2017

Author: Mark Kosoglow, VP of Sales, Outreach Unlike most professions, sales has a standard that literally dictates success or failure. It’s called quota. The ability to hit quota on a consistent basis is a requirement of success, and the key is understanding how to predict what revenue number one will end up at in a specific sales period. In industry speak, this is called forecasting, and most reps fail at it because they don’t trust the pipeline their CRM presents.

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SBI Growth

JULY 27, 2017

Today we demonstrate how to design marketing campaigns that generate revenue. It is hard to execute a Marketing Strategy to grow revenue faster than your competitors. The Revenue Growth Diagnostic tool will help you assess your marketing strategy to pinpoint keys to.

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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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The Sales Hunter

JULY 25, 2017

To think you’re the only one who has a fear of prospecting would be a lie. They say the two most dreaded things are public speaking and taxes. I say there’s a third — having to prospect. It’s OK if you feel that way. I too felt that way at one time. You’re probably thinking, […].

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2017

Author: Paul Nolan How technology is fueling workplace recognition. Here are some startling statistics that put our infatuation with technology and mobile devices in perspective: 40 percent of U.S. males age 18 to 34 and 33 percent of U.S. females in that same age bracket say they would ideally buy everything online. (Source: DDB Worldwide). Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 26, 2017

Even if you’re not aware of your body language, other people you are with are. The signals you give unconsciously may affect the other person unconsciously too, and if they are negative signals, it could affect the process of communications without either of you understanding why. This is why it’s so important to be totally aware of what your body is saying, especially when carrying out a sale.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 27, 2017

The speed and complexity of the modern marketplace is the domain of intellectual agility. Jeb Blount, author and sales acceleration specialist, knows well how successful sales professionals (ultra-high performers) possess four types of intelligence that are tightly intertwined – each connecting, affecting, and amplifying the others: IQ : how smart you are.

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SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2017

Our show today demonstrates how to use the Product Roadmap to paint a picture of happy customers well into the future. Your ability to grow revenue is highly influenced by the quality of the product and whether you are a.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 25, 2017

Author: Anna Fisher There’s no going around it. The tug of war between sales and marketing is real, and it cripples productivity. At the same time, marketing and sales are ultimately after the same thing, and each side often looks to the other to help meet mutual objectives: business growth and ROI, to name a couple. So ask yourself, as sales and marketing pros, can we put our individual, temporary needs aside to see the bigger picture and end the rift?

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 25, 2017

How many times have you had a sales call that you walk away from feeling great then turn into the customer going silent on you? We’ve all had that issue, and the typical way salespeople handle this is by thinking if they just send a great follow-up note immediately after the meeting, everything will be […].

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 24, 2017

“Everything you want in the world is just right outside. your comfort zone. Everything you could possibly want!”. – Jennifer Aniston, actress. I once heard a joke that goes like this: “The only reason there are matinee movies in large metropolitan cities is for commission sales reps who have hit their comfort zone income early in the month.”. I remember my thoughts when I first heard this.

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Increase Sales

JULY 26, 2017

Social selling appears to have taken the spray and pray sales approach to tsunami proportions. Clueless or lazy salespeople now drown people with emails to postings with sales pitches. These salespeople and probably some are marketing people spray these sales pitches all over the place through social selling and then pray something will eventually stick.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2017

Author: Lance Walter, CMO, Capriza Under more pressure than ever before, today’s sales organizations are tasked with figuring out how to drive revenue, ensure accurate forecasting, deliver great customer experiences, and shorten sales cycles, all with less time and resources. The best way to reach these goals is by spending more time in the field, leading more productive conversations with prospects and customers, with access to any needed data in real-time.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2017

Who is your favorite customer? I challenge you to start this week by calling that customer. It will boost your sales motivation and set you on a course for success. Starting your week right is all about setting the tone, and there’s no better way to start on a positive tone than a conversation with […].

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Pointclear

JULY 24, 2017

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. They listed those that they had had success with on top. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from.

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SBI Growth

JULY 28, 2017

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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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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 24, 2017

When talking to presidents, executive sales officers and sales managers, I consistently have heard these 5 comments:

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 28, 2017

Ask yourself that question and, more importantly, ask yourself why you answered the way you did. Each week I receive phone calls and emails from salespeople and sales managers who say they aren’t hitting their sales goals. You will never hit your sales goals if you don’t have enough in your pipeline to close, and […].

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Increase Sales

JULY 25, 2017

A colleague, David Brock , made an update posting on LinkedIn sharing his frustration about people using company profiles wanting to connect with him. Then if he did accept, the next action would be a sales pitch. Beyond being a violation of LinkedIn policy, this action demonstrated how many lazy salespeople still exist. (Note: Only a person not a company can send a LinkedIn invitation.).

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SBI Growth

JULY 28, 2017

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 25, 2017

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Fill the Funnel

JULY 24, 2017

“Wasted days and wasted nights” That is how a recent conversation started with a colleague. It immediately reminded me of the Freddie Fender song by the same name. Why do business owners and successful entrepreneurs continue to take the advice from friends and colleagues about technology and its implementation. Is it because they say, “Oh. […].

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Increase Sales

JULY 27, 2017

If you want to increase sales, right now momentarily forget about your sales training, all the books you read on sales, your CRM, your To Do List, your sales funnel, your outstanding proposals, your appointments today, your sales leads, the calls you must make to whatever else is cluttering your brain. Now think about your mindset, how are you going to approach all those tasks?

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2017

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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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Hyper-Connected Selling

JULY 25, 2017

I’ve been coaching and training professionals on social selling since before it even had a name. Back when LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook first came out, there was a segment of the sales world that jumped on board and saw these as powerful communication tools. As is usually the case, there was another group that saw them as glitzy trends that the marketing people would talk about…which meant that they could be safely ignored.

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Fill the Funnel

JULY 26, 2017

You have a front row seat to the next industry collapse and rebirth and it is already underway. The industry – Television Broadcasting. This has been building for some time – traditional viewing habits have been dropping for over 25 quarters in a row. The data tells the story. This chart is focused on the […]. The post Front Row Seat To The Next Industry Collapse And Your Big Sales Opportunity appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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Increase Sales

JULY 24, 2017

Right now I cannot count the number of articles, books to sales training workshops that promise to deliver what I call the one size fits all sales solutions. From the top five closing questions to a proven sales process, each of these sales solutions fail to recognize these three critical buying axioms and one selling axiom. #1 – People Buy From People They Know and Trust.

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