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Can Millennials Sell?

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2017-10-03. Author: Lance Tyson. Teaser: Most assumptions we make about millennials in the workplace are wrong. More important, anyone who wants to be managing a successful organization 10 years from now needs to figure out a way to harness the strengths of this generation, rather than pointing out the perceived deficiencies. Most assumptions we make about millennials in the workplace are wrong.

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Asking for Referrals Via Email—Big Mistake

No More Cold Calling

Referral selling requires a personal touch. How many emails are waiting in your inbox? Enough to make you dread opening it? Most people have a love/hate relationship with email. It’s both a fantastic business tool and a huge time-waster. Worse yet, digital communication is beginning to replace the real human connections that drive sales. When Email Is Not OK.

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What it Takes to be an Elite (Top 7%) Salesperson

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week I received a call from a young, motivated salesperson - we'll call him Jim - who desperately wanted to be one of the elite 7% of all salespeople. Despite being just 26 years old, he believed that he was already in the top 7%. During our call, he asked me a great question. He asked, "How many of the top 7% have you actually met and where are they today?

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No Pain – No Game?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Despite all the tools available, both for sales people to execute their craft, and for companies to “enable” them, the narrative for many in sales has remained woefully unchanged over the last thirty years. Sure the delivery methods have changed, the means of engagement have evolved beyond where we could have imagined 10 years ago, yet what most sales people say once they engaged has one can argue, devolved.

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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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The #1 Reason Why New Sales Managers Fail

Steven Rosen

Why New Sales Managers Fail. Are you a new sales manager , or have you just been promoted into a sales manager role? The odds of failure are high! I am going to share the number one reason why new sales managers fail. Time and time again companies promote their best sales reps into managerial roles. Heads of sales feel that they owe it to their best sales people to give them an opportunity to advance.

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12 Memorable Memes for Salespeople

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales is hard. Not hard in the standard sense — sales requires emotional fortitude to survive the daily barrage of objections and quotas. We have a soft spot for sales reps at DiscoverOrg because we sell too. Take a break from the cold calling and writing emails, and enjoy some light-hearted empathy to get through the day. The Life of a Salesman in Memes.

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10 Questions to Challenge You Next Year

The Sales Hunter

What are you planning to do differently next year? When I say “differently,” I mean really different. Too many times we make only minor changes, and then we wonder why we achieve only minor improvements. If we’re going to make serious changes next year, we have to step back and ask ourselves tough questions. Below […].

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3 Small Components That Will Elevate Your Sales Success

MTD Sales Training

I came across a great quote the other day from Jeff Gitomer, the proficient sales writer from the States. He said that ‘Great salespeople aren’t born or made; they evolve over time based on their. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Being Comfortable Is for Babies Not Top Sales Performers

Increase Sales

Top sales performers who I know are the least comfortable people. They are always going beyond their comfort zones, stretching themselves especially when it comes to sales prospecting. Credit www.gratisography.com. I was reminded of this consistent characteristic when I read Mike Weinberg’s posting, Stop Over Analyzing Your List and Get in Front of Your Strategic Target Prospects Now!

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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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13 Must Read Sales Books to Become a Badass Sales Person [Updated]

A Sales Guy

A few years ago I created a list of the best books sales people should read to become a badass. You can see the list here. The list included some amazing books. What made that list so special was the surprising number of books that WEREN’T sales books. The original list of must read sales books for sales badasses included some books that address traits and skills that are critical to sales, but aren’t solely sales related.

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Next-Level Sales Training: It’s Time to Coach the Coach

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-12-19. Author: Mike Kunkle, senior director of sales enablement, Brainshark, Inc. Teaser: Many companies trying to improve sales productivity are going about it the wrong way. Rep training is only part of the picture. To get the best results, it’s critical to train, sustain, transfer and coach at every level, and that's not being done.

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5 Questions to Guarantee Qualified Lead Generation

No More Cold Calling

Are your sales reps having trouble closing? The problem might be a lack of qualified leads. “ We chose someone else.” “We’re staying with our current vendor.” “We’re not adding any new solutions this year.” We’ve all heard those words. Devastating. What happened? It could be that sales reps neglected important activities during the early parts of the prospecting process.

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The Crucial Selling Skill That Nobody Talks About

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright 123RF Stock Photo. Earlier this week I received an unsolicited email from the founder of a company who introduced himself and asked me to try his new tool for speakers. By itself, this was not unusual because I receive 20-25 unsolicited emails per day. They want to optimize my website, sell me SEO services, provide me with online marketing tools, sell me the latest SaaS program, provide a guest article for my Blog, buy advertising on my Blog, sell me leads, book appointments for

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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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Getting Time On Your Side

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . If you manage hang on for another week, I assure you that there is life after the election, and what is waiting on the other side is not the end of the world, but the end of your sales year. Which if you plan it right is not as big a deal as many would make you believe, unless of course you’re one of those sales people who exists from crisis to crisis.

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5 Sales Events to Attend This November

BrainShark

October was a busy kick off to Q4 here at Brainshark. We’ve mentioned it before - fall is a notoriously big trade show season for vendors and buyers in the tech industry, who’ve just begun budgeting for their new year’s investments.

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21 Things Buyers Fear

The Sales Heretic

While buying something new can be exciting, it can also be scary. And as salespeople, we can get so caught up in the excitement part, we forget just how scared our prospects can be. And that’s dangerous for us. Because if a prospect is too scared, they won’t buy. What exactly are buyers afraid of? [.].

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Account-Based Everything: Is it Time for a New Territory Analyst Manager Role?

DiscoverOrg Sales

As a newly hired sales rep, I began the way I did at every new company, spending the first several weeks typing furiously into a growing Excel spreadsheet. It wasn’t until after my own special brand of analysis, that I would begin full-on selling. I was always taught to plan my attack and then attack my plan. The plan comes first, and then the attack.

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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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10 Rules of Prospecting — What It Takes to Be Successful

The Sales Hunter

People ask me all the time, “What does it take to be successful when prospecting?” I’ve narrowed everything down to what I believe are the 10 rules of prospecting: Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect and don’t allow interruptions. This is absolutely essential! The most succeesfull salespeople are those who commit time […].

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9 Quick Tips On Attracting More Business Between Meetings

MTD Sales Training

Many sales people between sales meetings or between calls are blinkered to the sales opportunities around them. They take too much time to reflect on previous meetings, and some sales people will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Sales Prospecting in the 21st century - Part 3

Increase Sales

If people buy from people they know and trust, then it seems reasonable all sales prospecting should build upon that fundamental buying rule. Yet, salespeople in their hurry and up sales pitch behaviors send duplicate messages that fail to acknowledge any previous conversations. In yesterday’s mail I received a direct mail piece from a realtor with whom I had an extended conversation.

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22 Crazy Sales Tips and Hacks That Actually Work

A Sales Guy

If great sales people are anything, they are resourceful. They create unique hacks to do their job better, to get a competitive edge. They’re always looking for something that will allow them to do what everyone else is doing better. Good sales hacks aren’t cheap shortcuts, but rather creative ways to do the work and improve the results.

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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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Top Tips for the Modern Day Cold Call

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-09-13. Author: Mike Scher. Teaser: It takes an average of nine calls to reach a cold prospect for the first time. Many salespeople don't have that type of persistence. Here are four tips to secure an initial conversation and stop leaving new business on the table. It takes an average of nine calls to reach a cold prospect for the first time.

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How Getting Referrals Got Me to the Protected C-Suite

No More Cold Calling

Lead generation isn’t so tough when you’re asking for referrals. I hung up the phone, feeling excited and still a bit nervous. I’ve been selling for decades, but I’d never spoken with the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Yet, getting Bill on the phone was surprisingly easy, thanks to a referral from someone he trusts. My referral source, Larry, is one of Bill’s largest clients.

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The Buyer Journey - Myth, Reality, Hybrid, or an Avoidable Part of Selling?

Understanding the Sales Force

The Buyer Journey is front and center again. Dan McDade posted the second in his 3-part series on Lies and Myths and part 2 is about the Buyer Journey. 8 Sales Experts weighed in with their thoughts about the Buyer Journey and you can read those here. Don't miss Mike Weinberg's comment - I love it! It's pretty clear where the sales experts stand, so where is all of the Buyer Journey data coming from if not the sales experts?

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Make Voice Mail Work For You In Prospecting

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Sales people are strange when it comes to prospecting, specifically telephone prospecting. Many find all kinds of reasons (excuses) to rationalize (excuse) why they fail to make call in order to engage with prospects to fill the gap in their pipelines. Some tell me they do not want to phone people because no one ever answers the phone these days.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape. Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment. In 2023, we are navigating inflation and its impact on consumer spending, various lasting side effects from the pandemic, and a looming recession in the back half of the year.

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New Research Reveals the Personality of Top Salespeople

HeavyHitter Sales

  This Steve W. Martin research article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review.   What are the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence personal sales productivity? I recently conducted an extensive study of more than one thousand salespeople and sales management leaders to determine the attributes of top sales professionals--those who achieved more than 125 percent of their assigned quota last year.

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How to Prospect Profitably

The Sales Heretic

If you want more sales, odds are you need more prospects. But there’s more to prospecting than just raw numbers. And that trips up a lot of salespeople. “Prospecting is not a complex process,” asserts Mark Hunter in the first chapter of his new book, High-Profit Prospecting. “It’s simply finding people who can and will [.].

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Get Ready for the TilLT Sales Development Challenge

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales development is now the need-to-know skill set for growth and enterprise companies. Teams focused in this area are tasked with the front-line communication required to open the eyes of prospects to the pain-point solving their product offers. Moreover, 72% of SDR teams are moving to an account-based approach of targeting prospects. Success depends on their ability to communicate effectively with a variety of decision makers.