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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: What $1 Million & $1 Trillion Look Like

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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A Guide to Business Development 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb

Delicious Sales

'Topics. web. Next Article: -->. A Guide to Business Development 2.0. At least once each day I get a call from someone trying to sell me outsourced development services. Its difficult to not be frustrated with these calls and it is increasingly hard to be polite, because they come so frequently. Yet, more than frustrated, I am just puzzled. Does this tactic still work?

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Creating Accountability in the Workplace by Asking Two Simple.

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Tips and Tricks: Add your voice^* because a picture doesnt always tell a thousand words.

BrainShark

I'm seeing a fair amount of presentations on myBrainshark without any voiceover. While many of them have some excellent graphics and good points to make, there's no getting around the fact that they would be more engaging and memorable if they had a good voiceover with them.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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VIDEO: Managers Must Make Coaching a Choice – Not an Obligation

Keith Rosen

The coaching relationship is a choice, not an obligation. The relationship between the coach and the people who are coached is a designed alliance, a collaborative partnership, and more. As such, remedial or sanctioned coaching is often met with resistance rather than with open arms. How is coaching being offered to your team or to your employees? A perk, an incentive, an option, an obligation, or a remedial response to underperformance?

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One Sentence to Establish Immediate Rapport By Mike Brooks

Sales Training Advice

If you have to make cold calls as part of your sales process – either to set appointments or to find potential clients to sell your products and services to – then you know how hard it is to overcome initial resistance and establish rapport. Let’s face it, people don’t like to be bothered by a sales rep they don’t know.

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The Shocking Truth about your Image: Four bizarre reasons customers may not like you

Sales Gravy

Ironically, when corporations bring me in to speak at conventions on how to boost customer retention, I often find that there’s been little or no professional training for employees about personal image.

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B-to-B Marketing in a Buyer-Driven World

The ROI Guy

Alinean and sales and marketing consultancy Sirius Decisions just wrapped up an important new webinar for marketers - B-to-B Marketing in a Buyer-Driven World. The webinar introduces new and important research on buying cycles and how changing requirements require new marketing models and tools to effectively reach frugal and empowered buyers. View the recorded webinar at: https://alinean.webex.com/alinean/lsr.php?

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B2B Sales vs Retail Sales

The Brooks Group

Over 1 million people have viewed this video to date and it is a shame 1 billion people have not. I have always found it interesting that retail businesses have had the ability to establish price and for the most part that price is non-negotiable. Why is it that in B2B sales everything appears to have some level of negotiation? However, in our roles as consumers for items such as office supplies, food, gasoline and a host of other items; we seldom think twice about paying the listed price.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Sales Ready Leads: Quality vs. Quantity

Green Lead's B2B

The topic of Quality vs. Quantity in demand gen has been a constant debate. Whether it's inbound marketing or outbound marketing there are costs associated with a lead, there are costs associated with the time and effort needed to convert that lead to an opportunity, and there are costs tied to the quality of those leads and how that impacts conversion rates.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Avoid the Year End Deal Cesspool!

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Sales Presentation Skills – Don’t Handicap Your Audience

SalesGrail

Sales presentation skills are often confused with polished sales techniques that highlight the features and benefits of a product. While a polished approach is nice, a simple approach is better. No matter how many features, benefits, statistics, and numbers you present to a client, few will actually stick. There’s an easier way. Recently I was [.].

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Holiday Gift To PBR Customers If You Act By Jan 5

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Lead with vision in your presentation

BrainShark

elow is a wonderful presentation created by Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design. It appears in her slide:ology blog and the reason I share it is because it lives and breathes best practices.

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VIDEO: If Time Is Money, Then Your Routine Is Priceless. Are You Treating Them The Same?

Keith Rosen

Do you manage your time as diligently as you manage your money? Do you have a consistent, weekly routine that you follow from the time you wake up in the morning up until the time you end your day, [whether that’s when you end your work day or go to sleep] that contains the specific, measurable activities and tasks you engage in that move you closer to your goals, while keeping your life in a happy balance?

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What is Wrong with the Win-Win Negotiation Concept?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

On several groups on LinkedIn, a discussion was started with the hypothesis that win-win does not work in sales negotiations. One contribution to the discussion caught my particular attention. Someone answered by quoting Einstein who taught physicists that the result of observations depends on the position of the observer. I think this is the perfect short answer.

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Why Sales People Hate Cold Calling By Kelley Robertson

Sales Training Advice

Cold calling is a fact of life for most people in sales. Sure, the vast majority would prefer to rely on referrals, word-of-mouth, or some other lead source that reduces or eliminates their need to make cold calls. However, unless you deal with an established set of accounts, you will, at some time, be required to cold call in order to generate sufficient leads for your business.

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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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Selling Yourself Short? How to stand-out without lowering your price

Sales Gravy

Rather than describing yourself in terms of a generic label, you can instead refer to the ultimate benefit that you deliver. If you sell liability insurance for example, you could describe your service in terms of reducing risk for business owners.

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Nearly 40% of Marketers Plan on Budget Increase in 2010

The ROI Guy

According to BtoB's "2010 Outlook: Marketing Priorities and Plans" survey of 376 b-to-b marketers, almost 40% say they plan to boost their marketing budgets in 2010 , and only 13% plan on cuts. This, compared to 57% who said they were cutting their budgets in 2009. Of most importance ito marketers is generating revenue, and participants see lead capture as thier number one initiative according to the survey, particularly increases in on-line spending.

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Can You Spot the Major Selling Lesson in This Image? - Part 2

The Brooks Group

Thank you to the people who responded to the question above. All great insights. Congratulations to the winner, Rick Thomas ! We will be sending you a copy of “How To Sell At Margins Higher Than Your Competitors,” by Bill Brooks & Larry Steinmetz. The image above is a very simple representation of the timeless sales truth that buyers – when they are able to see the true value of a product or service to themselves or their organization – will pay full price or fee (within reason, of course).

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Lead Generation Tips - Take 3 Hour Lunches

Green Lead's B2B

There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. MIT data shows that that might have been a good idea! Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. The report details such information as the right time of day to call, the best day of the week, how the response time to a lead impacts conversion, etc.

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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: The Truth About Older (50+) Salespeople

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Sales Presentation Skills – Email Tips That Close Sales

SalesGrail

Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about sales presentation skills. This is a great topic and an area where we sales people can always improve. While we often think of PowerPoint and “decks”, or presenting in front of a group of prospects, sometimes the most basic tools get overlooked. Your main method of communication to [.].

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Top 10 Sales Tips To Stay In Control When The Market Feels Out Of.

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Featured Content: Social Media: The Old Marketing Game Has New Rules

BrainShark

If you found this blog through a social tool or are following us on Twitter , then you obviously know that the marketing game has changed. But are you using it for your business?

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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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Managers Don’t Know What Their People Are Doing. Powerful Observation Techniques to Better Coach Your Team to Excel

Keith Rosen

Do you know what your people are doing in the field? Really? Are you sure? In my experience, unless managers are in the field observing and listening to what their people are doing, they have no clue. Sure, you can guess and hypothesize as to why, for example, some of the salespeople on your team aren’t making quota or selling more. But when managers finally take the time to observe their people in the trenches, the real truth is (sometimes painfully) apparent.

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How Specific do Value Propositions Need to be?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

It depends on who is delivering it when in the customer buying cycle. Early in the buying cycle, marketing and sales can use generic statements. Later in the buying cycle, salespeople must be able to articulate very specific statements, tailored to the individual customer, demonstrating specific value to the customer as well as superiority and differentiation against the competition.

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Leveraging a SaaS Value Story

LeveragePoint

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and more generally cloud computing are now widely accepted as a perfectly viable IT strategy for large and small enterprises alike. There are even services companies focused on accelerating the adoption of cloud computing, such as Appirio. The implicit assumption is that SaaS delivers a compelling value proposition. In this post, we illustrate a value model for a particular SaaS solution, LeveragePoint for Value Management.