Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 3, 2017

In sales we are encouraged to persuade our prospect to move forward to an outcome. Even in Joseph Campbell’s famed ‘The Hero’s Journey’ , you will find Aristotle’s three components that continue to keep us engaged and ready to take action, but I believe in the world of sales, Aristotle might have added a fourth component to close the loop.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s SKO season, yesterday I was leading a discussion with a great sales team. As we spoke, it struck me how we revel in these questions. When we look at the data on No Decision Made and Buyer Regret, we know how much our customers struggle with complex B2B change and buying initiatives.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

One of those potentially confusing metrics is known as sales revenue, and I’ve compiled information to offer you some insight into what it is, how to calculate it, how it relates to other income figures, and why it’s important to understand it. There are two variations of sales revenue: gross and net.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I think that sales people can learn and benefit from adopting one or both these habits. But not many sales people step back to plan the ‘little’, after all, it’s little. Successful people attack their tasks, devouring those they don’t like, and reveling in the ones they do, but key is they do, and do to the max. Tibor Shanto'

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. Gillum points out, “ They want training…they want to know how to do it right.

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eGrabber

MAY 12, 2021

But, one of the biggest revelations is that decision makers respond instantly on their business emails than personal emails. How to build an Email Channel Manually. You can give the email addresses of your sales & marketing people. In such cases, you will never get responses for your LinkedIn messages.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2022

Of course, they are engaging sales people through virtual channels, but that’s an increasingly small part of how and where they spend their time in their digital buying journey. We know, collectively, they spend less than 17% of their time with sales people, virtually or in person.

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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. We read about how email is failing, phone calls, social, and virtually every other engagement platform. If they can get it done working with sales people, they will do it.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2022

I didn’t bother, looking at the 1000’s of books in that category, I probably could find something, but I’ll keep ordering the books I want, and if I get to collect the $1.40, that’s fine, if not, Amazon can revel in the fact that I’ve let them drop $1.40 Related Posts: In A Sales Slump?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I hope you will also give yourself a bit of a break in the New Year, and also give yourself a career edge by nurturing your most valuable sales relationships: your existing clients. How do I ask for a referral from customers I haven’t spoken with in two years?” What happened to me is what happens to so many sales teams.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

SalesTech Game Changers 4th Digital Magazine: 5 Executives Tell us How Their Solution Changes the Game for Sales. Nearly every week in 2018, we interviewed a different SalesTech company asking them how their solution changes the game for sales. game changer. Definition of game changer. :a

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But CRM has been a powerful tool that drives sales productivity and performance. We have tools that give us insights on conversations we have, providing recommendations about how to improve our conversational and engagement methods. Sales performance continues to plummet. Sales performance continues to plummet.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Everyone knows that the prospect should be doing most of the talking during a sales call. That is one of the big challenges in sales, everyone knows what they have to do, but do they do it? Sales person makes eye contact, does not interrupt, nods almost on cue, and takes copious notes to preserve every word the prospects utters.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s the opportunity to figure out, for each and every deal, how to excel, how to connect with the customer, create value, helping them to achieve their goals, and through them achieve their personal goals. They don’t take the time to figure out what they need to change, how they get better, how they achieve more.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” This would probably require a greater investment in both marketing and sales. We have to learn how to intercept and intervene much earlier in the customer change/buying process.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Engagement with sales people represent the smallest part of their time investment. I’ve written about this transformation suggesting we are going through a transformation of sales led, digitally supported to digitally led, sales supported. And this is what all of us in sales need to think about.

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Pipeliner

MAY 21, 2020

The sales department sits at the center of a company’s ability to generate revenue and grow. Small and medium-sized businesses depend critically on their sales departments in order to compete against the competition. This is particularly true for the sales department, because of its important role in a company’s success.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Sales people have to prospect! I know this is not a great revelation, and you are probably wondering why I would even add this to the list of truths about sales people. I''m confused because it appears that today''s sales people either don''t prospect, don''t generate their own leads, or don''t do either one very well.

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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. How you can use AI today.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2015

Having trained hundreds of sales people in effective telephone prospecting, I have witnessed a number of recurring patterns which impact success, both negatively and positively. They see success, revel in it, and take their foot off the gas and their eyes off the ball. Sales Skills Tibor Shanto' Tibor Shanto.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I revel in a crisis, I’m challenged and excited about tough problems. We have to develop strong, stable execution strategies, we have to help people understand how to perform and maximize their performance. Related Posts: In Praise Of Boring Sales Organizations What Is The Most Important Problem To Solve Now?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s students in many of the business and sales programs in our Universities. It was a fascinating conversation about sales management and the role of managers in developing their people. It was a fascinating conversation about sales management and the role of managers in developing their people.

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Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While I was watching ESPN’s College Game Day, I heard Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who is a research producer and sports betting analyst for ESPN, make an observation about betting odds that was a revelation to me. Making Sales Wagers. Plan how to handle the likely objections (even if convinced the opportunity will close).

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Corporate Visions

JUNE 19, 2019

The post What You Need to Know About the Challenger Sales Model by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. This strategy, as popularized by the Challenger Sales Model, is one of the most recognized sales training methods today. What is the Challenger Sales Model? What The Challenger Sales Model Gets Wrong.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I was coaching an outstanding sales manager. She coaches each person, having a very disciplined approach in leveraging data and how they worked. ” “Just the facts… ” Some years ago, the VP of Sales Ops on my team sat down to meet with me. Afterword: The VP of Sales Ops was Betsy.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2016

Earlier this year I attended an interesting presentation examining barriers to sales people “hitting” quota, personally I like to exceed quota, but I can understand why for many “hitting” it is a great objective. Bam, right off the top we were presented with the following stats including the sources: 79% Of SAAS Sales Reps Miss Quota.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The person is a rock star in sales — not just for a year or two but over decades. It amazed me that this person was admitting how at times they have voices saying “don’t make the call” or “you don’t want to bother that person” or “there’s no way they will have any interest.”

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Increase Sales

JUNE 8, 2012

Some of the larger accounting to sales training coaching firms conduct extensive behavior research into what makes top sales performers. One reads the “old way of selling is out” to “sales is even more difficult today than ever before” or “it’s a whole new world when it comes to selling.”

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SBI

MAY 15, 2012

Your word, your message, your solution, and the caliber of your presentation and delivery surpass what even the best sales and marketing icons in the business could only dream of bringing to a prospect’s table. And that is okay, and certainly a vital piece of the sales process. That is a problem you must not create for yourself.

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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. We want them to say, “We have determined how we are solving this problem and as part of it we need a product that does this… Can you show us how you do it?” It simplifies our jobs.

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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”. He went on to talk about how many companies are doing the same things over and over – not changing on behalf of our ever-changing customers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 15, 2023

We read their reviews, reveling over the customer complaints, trying to figure out how to leverage them into our strategies. We are obsessed with our competition. We study them and their strategies. We compare them, their solutions, their capabilities to ours. We develop playbooks and battlecards to help position ourselves.

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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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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

. ‘Why’ and ‘How’ are excellent starters for questions and more in-depth conversations. Upon networking at events or speaking with peers, inquire about the new efforts they are putting in and how they are going about them. The questions sometimes lead to revelations that might otherwise never come to mind.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 16, 2020

For a very long time, salespeople have been taught to start sales presentations with their company’s story as a way to gain credibility with their prospective clients. Learn how to sell without a sales manager. You need to make sales. This eBook will help you Seize Your Sales Destiny, with or without a manager.

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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. In fact, I find books a little overwhelming at times.

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