Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

Sales Training Article: How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. You can avoid commoditization and grow your margins. You need to know how Social Selling effects each division.

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Social Selling Top of Funnel Training Case Study 45

Pipeliner

JULY 17, 2022

She’s an award-winning author, educator, business leader, social-justice champion, and Founder and Chief Change Agent at Flying Elephant, an umbrella organization for four social ventures dedicated to shifting power to marginalized communities. Company reputation is a driving factor for hiring the best talent.

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Hiring Video Margin Compensation 98

Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This being said, with the advent of the internet, being social is more important than ever. As someone who has spent his entire life in sales, and was an early proponent of social selling, the internet offers a variety of awesome opportunities! I used to think that only young people were addicted to social media.

Social Media 71

Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Media Margin 71

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The most recent would be assassins are Socialites, social selling advocates, who seem to spend as much time sniping at and proclaiming the death of cold calling as they do speaking about what they sell, social selling products, seminars, remedies and dreams. sell better Selling to Executives Tibor Shanto'

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Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Winning more deals at higher margins requires getting in early. Selling in the Orange requires different methods to get access. Social selling is one method that will bridge the lead gap. The best part about social selling is your sales team owns it. In this post we will discuss how to avoid the RFP plague.

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Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Margin 297

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The business should be profitable with around 10 percent a steady profit margin. For instance, baby boomers usually have businesses with steady profit margins and great word of mouth reputation. That type of business would be a great option to buy and to use modern marketing and technology tools to scale it.

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Video Hiring Scale Margin 78

Pipeliner

AUGUST 21, 2023

Offering discounts in every email trains customers to never pay full price and eats into profit margins. Our Host John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.

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Scale Strategy Marketing Lead Rank 97

SBI Growth

MARCH 11, 2013

In B2B corporate environments, Social Selling gets a Sales Rep’s foot in the door. The idea of Social Selling cannot lose sight of the objective: make the number. You will demonstrate the value of your product and maintain or improve your margin. The Problem with Misalignment. Achieve the Exit Criteria.

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Buyer B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 333

SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

Sales leaders regularly face the daunting task of delivering revenue and margin growth. Social Selling: Leverage the power of social media to reach new logo customers. Social Selling: Initial enthusiasm for the social referral program is high, but quickly wanes. Making the Number Means Making Change.

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Sage Lead Rank Forecasting Inside Sales 267

Tony Hughes

APRIL 11, 2019

The allure of ‘Social Selling’ is compelling and the necessity undeniable for using platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Social Selling is powerful for B2C and advancements and also relevant for B2B in low margin commoditized environments to drive down costs and also for projecting communication via digital channels.

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B2B Social Selling B2C Margin 78

SBI Growth

JULY 15, 2013

These Social Selling tactics are critical to your success: - Connect with each influencer LinkedIn with a personal message. Provide social debt by endorsing them or introducing them to new/valuable contacts. - For instance, marginalize or convert the anti-sponsor in several ways: - Address objections if possible.

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Account Influencer How To Margin 308

The Pipeline

APRIL 18, 2016

Add to that technology’s role in helping attract “self declared” buyers, the need for this skill-less chore to be performed by humans will disappear, freeing up margins for other revenue and margin generating assets, specifically hunters. This is not about social selling vs. traditional selling.

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Margin Lead Gen B2C B2B 120

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 17, 2022

They express pride in how many calls they make, how many dials, how many emails, how much social selling engagement, how they are leveraging the tools. They don’t waste time, trying to engage marginal customers or people/organizations outside their sweet spot. They get the most work done, in the least amount of time.

Margin 128

Margin Call-back Incentives Incentive 128

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, if you’re overloading people and working them into the ground, making them feel marginalized and unimportant, it doesn’t matter how many foosball tables you give them; it’s not going to make a difference. If your employees feel abused and emotionally weak, they are going to leave. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Video Margin Social Selling Trends 52

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Self-praise is perhaps only marginally better than no praise. John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Influencer Video How To Margin 52

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Often people come up with the pricing for their business by looking at their costs and adding a margin on top. John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling.

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Video Margin Social Selling Sales Coaching 52

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Without that, virtually all else below is drastically marginalized. Social Selling is part of the Process. Social will greatly improve your top on the funnel. Account Segmentation – For a good primer on Account Segmentation, click here. Armed with BPM’s and Personas, sales and marketing become much more effective.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

Pipeliner

JULY 21, 2020

People are afraid that by taking some time out, they will be left out or marginalized. John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. Advanced Self-Leadership.

Margin 69

Margin Territories Influencer Lead Rank 69

The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

In High-Profit Selling , my friend, Mark Hunter shows you how to close deals that truly make a profit. In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Sell Better.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling 212

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2020

Bolster Your Social Selling Efforts. As per HubSpot's own definition, " Social selling is the process of researching, connecting, and interacting with prospects and customers on social media networks." Generation Z is growing up in an age where social media is ubiquitous.

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Social Media Strategy Buyer Persona Retail 111

SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2013

What have you done this year to upsell and cross sell them incrementally? Cutting Edge Strategy – This age of selling is engrained in the digital space. Social selling, inbound marketing lead generation, and personal brands are the name of the game. Operating Income / Margin. Is your team at this level? ROIC / ROC.

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Hiring Margin Quota Inbound 306

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 14, 2015

Dave is truly a subject matter expert when it comes to hiring better sales people (link to our site), assessing sales organizations to answer 17 critical business questions (link to his site for download of sample) and he is an expert at helping sales managers get their sales professionals to sell more, more quickly at higher margins.

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Face-to-face Twitter Social Selling Hiring 120

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Selling a single thing each day can bring uncertainty into your business when it comes to planning the future and possibly expanding or reselling your business. Profit margins have to be firstly, very high, secondly, consistent for a long-term period. Experiencing recurring revenue. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Scale Video Margin Knowledge Base 52

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The philosophy of the book was developed by Lee over the last 30 years and is applicable to any industry and company of any size; the more effective you are at differentiating the more effective you will be at protecting your price margin. Sales Expert Interview covers: Meaning of Differentiation. Getting to know how Differentiators are used.

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Margin Education Buyer Social Selling 49

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2017

One study showed that telephone outreach out-converted emails by a significant margin – 8.21% vs 0.03% ( source ). Read More: How NOT to Cold Text Your Sales Prospects Social Media 20. Sales reps using social selling are 50% more likely to meet or exceed their sales quota ( source ). Phone Calls 10.

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Follow-up Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cold Calling 100

Tony Hughes

MARCH 12, 2018

The world has become enamored with the social selling craze and so I am releasing an eccentric book on this subject shortly. Old school folks like me who have sold for 30 years in the field, blend strategic selling with social selling. Our customers understand healthy profit margins as they too seek them.

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Social Selling Government Top of Funnel Call-back 67

Score More Sales

MARCH 6, 2012

It is a contributing factor in growing margin in your deals. Social Selling. What I like, though, are all the side topics that are a part of being profitable – Mark talks about things like listening more and talking less – something we’d all say, “of course” – but many sellers do not do this.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Margin 131

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Applying insane pressure with just days to go in the quarter after neglecting the inputs that create success is a sure-fire way to damage relationships, lose salespeople, and drive-down price and margin. This is a critical success factor for strategic social selling where salespeople are content amplifiers and potential content creators.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Forecasting Case Study 84

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. It is dangerous to implement basic social selling techniques. I wanted to take a moment to express a word of caution in applying a cure-all or over-simplified approach to strategic selling within social mediums. Let me make my case.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

Social Selling. Social Selling. Sell Better. Selling to Executives. Social Buying. Social media. Social Selling. As with all things worth doing in sales, there is some work involved, despite what some soothsayers will tell you, there is no silver bullet in sales. Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Twitter Lead Rank Lead Scoring 237

Pipeliner

AUGUST 24, 2018

Professional selling is changing rapidly with technology-driven automation and commoditization resulting in more than one-third of sellers losing their jobs in the coming years. Salespeople need to fund themselves from the value they create rather than from the margins that the product or service delivers.

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Sales Enablement Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 60

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you’re simply targeting an improved prospecting yield from your existing market segments, making marginal improvements to your existing business development squad may be sufficient. Adaptability Your new business development representative will need to get up to speed with your typical buyers and your sales methodology quickly.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona Scale 130

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2015

In the past, margin flow, or commission flow has largely been based on point of sales–that is, which partner got the PO. Manufacturers and channel partners are also dealing with shifts in business models about how channel players make money–is it off product margin, services, a combination, something else?

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Channels B2C Margin Face-to-face 48

Showpad

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A six- or seven-figure deal can make or break the entire year’s revenue, providing little margin for error. Social selling. About 60% of sales professionals actively use social media as a sales device. No pressure. Here are a few sales methods to consider: 1.

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Top of Funnel B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 52

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

One approach that intrepid leaders can look to is too shrink the size of territories, based on a number of factors driven by deal size, length of cycle, nature of the offering (new or mature), is the focus margin or market share, is there opportunity for organic growth, or strictly competitive account growth, and others. Sell Better.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2020

of Boomers have a social media presence. The most popular online hub for boomers is Facebook — by a wide margin. So while they might prefer to purchase products in person, they still rely on online resources like consumer reviews, recommendations from friends and family, and social media to influence their decisions.

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Social Media Buyer Persona Retail Study 76

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Over the years pundits have offered secrets, incantations, amulets and more, yet the output seems to be steady, with no significant improvement in the pace of revenue growth, margins growth, and the number of reps attaining or exceeding quota.

Margin 120

Margin Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120