Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. If they can get it done working with sales people, they will do it.

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SBI Growth

MAY 13, 2013

Fix your sales problem in 5 easy steps – sounds great, doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, I revel in an easy solution. One of the biggest problems for sales reps is customer objections. As a sales rep, you have a variety of tools in your bag. ‘A’ A’ Players know that these tools don’t always work independently. ‘A’

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Allego

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In episode 20, SPARXiQ Founder and CEO David Bauders shares how sales organizations can adapt to the new normal, the power of analytics to accelerate sales performance, and why you learn the most from your most demanding customers. Episode 20: Driving Sales Performance | David Bauders. From This Episode.

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Score More Sales

JULY 26, 2013

It dawned on me recently during a webinar when one of my co-panelists, the ever proper sales guru Jonathan Farrington spoke in his brilliant British accent, “Sellers are arrogant”. You need to be able to read their face. Sometimes a very subtle thing can hint to a bigger revelation if you just ask a couple extra questions.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

Lately, there have been a lot of “Aha, we’ve discovered the secret” posts and eBooks on Product Led Growth and the role of sales people. We have seen it in mobile devices, PCs, financial services, every segment of software, design tools, analytics, consumer products, food/food service, social platforms, and on and on and on.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It was a group of very bright thinkers/practitioners in sales and marketing. We were discussing the future of sales and marketing–things we saw happening, things we believed needed to change. Am I contributing to it’s improvement and the ability of sales to contribute to our customers and the companies we sell for?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

The majority of our sales engagement strategies involve us in only the very latest stages of our customers’ buying journeys. I have to start this post with an acknowledgement and a concern about misinterpretation/misapplication of this article. First, every month, Lahat Tzvi and I have a conversation. Think about that for a moment.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Last week, I was sitting in the Gartner Sales and Marketing Conference. Too often, the executives I encounter (sales, marketing, and senior execs) are: Fat, dumb, happy, with what’s currently going on. If you’ve never attended, it’s one you need to put on your future agenda. Our competition is constantly changing.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2014

When you think about it, sales people have an awesome amount of freedom–but also a huge amount of personal responsibility. Being an entrepreneur gives one a great source of freedom, great accountability (which great entrepreneurs revel in), and responsibility. Sales is a lot like this. to execute the plans.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

Here’s an important, and often overlooked, fact about B2B sales and marketing: Your customer data holds all the keys you need to grow your business. To succeed, you need to trust the data and step into predictive sales. Many sales and marketing leaders try to get cute and overthink their targeting, messaging, content creation, etc.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2013

This morning I was having a conversation with a sales person in a healthcare related company. We were discussing his sales strategies, value propositions, and how to get customers to buy. A lot of my early training in sales taught me to focus on “finding the pain.” It has to provide relief or a way out.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Sales is traditionally a people-to-people business, but technologies like artificial intelligence are making expert sellers rethink the balance between human and machine. In fact, automation is already impacting sales, and its influence will only continue to grow. The need for automation in sales. It’s as simple as that.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. I’ll be the first to admit it!

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 13, 2020

How do you stay motivated, connected, and successful? What does it take to thrive with remote work? After working from home for more than a decade, I’ve developed some routines that keep me productive and happy. But I wanted to hear from others as well. Here are our best tips for working from home, curated specifically for you. Max Altschuler.

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this episode of the Sales Evangelist podcast, host Donald C. By shifting the focus from selling to educating, sales professionals can build trust, provide valuable insights, and ultimately close more deals. These common missteps contribute to a lack of trust between sales professionals and their potential clients.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

Today’s sales enablement market looks drastically different from the market of 10 years ago. Back then, Allego joined the space with the goal of helping sales teams improve their messaging via video coaching on mobile devices. With that software, tablets became the hot new sales coaching device.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 20, 2013

The challenges our customers face are complex. The challenges we face within our organizations are complex. Sometimes, I think we revel in complexity, “Real men (and women) do complex stuff! Sometimes, I think we revel in complexity, “Real men (and women) do complex stuff! Complexity is a reality!

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is it – the 52 best sales book you’ll ever read. Of all the different types of books I read, sales books have probably been the most common (though I spend a lot of time reading books that have nothing to do with sales, which has tremendous value). The Challenger Sale. This is a sequel to The Challenger Sale.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Getting into see/talk to customers is one of the top challenges I hear from executives, marketing and sales people alike. Afterall, with all their marketing automation tools and content expertise, 79% of emails sent by professional marketers have no or limited targeting. Getting “heard” is increasingly difficult.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Consulting. Pseudonyms and Other Creative Solutions to Make Things Happen. by Lori Richardson on December 15, 2010. Recently I was searching on a professional association website and saw that the only way they listed members (so that you could hire one) was alphabetically.

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SBI

MARCH 27, 2012

The straightforward and bold-faced revelation in the heading of this article will stand as a commandment in its own right. So too are these five decrees dependent on a seller’s adherence to their visual dynamic when it comes down to the ultimate objective – the sale. Need I say more.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A cold email is an excellent tool for any organization because of its affordability, scalability, and effectiveness. A cold email is one that is sent without the recipient’s consent or prior interaction. A cold email is, in many ways, identical to a cold phone call – it’s simply far less invasive. And is it worth the effort?

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