SBI

JANUARY 22, 2013

Sales Energy Audits: How to Increase Revenue by Shifting Your Sales-Energy Use. In this case, I’m referring to its use of Sales Energy. Each salesperson has a limited amount of sales energy (or sales capacity) to use throughout the year. Preparing post sales-call follow-up. Scheduling sales calls.

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SBI

APRIL 30, 2013

No matter how intensely interested your prospect professes to be and no matter how far down the sales process they have endeavored to go, every opportunity is at risk of falling victim to time. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools. Remember, time isn’t a friend or a foe.

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SBI

MAY 28, 2013

Meeting after sales meeting, you’re able to spark the prospect’s imagination and excitement and your opportunity momentum takes off. If they cannot articulate – much less remember – the main sales proposition then they cannot sell themselves, or their colleagues, on why action must be taken.

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SBI

MARCH 26, 2013

The subjects of both books are decidedly applicable to the field of Sales and Marketing. No one understands this better than a Sales Professional. Asking a prospect to trial your software is much like asking for a decision to buy. Selling in today’s world involves more than relaying value to your buyer.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 10, 2020

The simplicity and the purity of this fact is the philosophy behind what keeps their business running. Jeff Koser has also built a software business based on software-guided selling. Selling in the present situation It’s imperative that salespeople be sensitive to the current world situation.

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SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I recently read 52 Sales Management Tips – The Sales Manager’s Success Guide by Steven Rosen. Written for sales managers and small business owners, this is a guide every sales leader will benefit from. It’s packed with excellent tips and ideas to help you take your sales force to the next level. The Take-Away.

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SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You can network across a growing array of social and business platforms and talk to your fellow sales leaders. It is all too clear that there are specific, fundamental elements of sales leadership that seem forever unresolved, no matter which ‘linkage’ attracts the greatest number of ‘followers’. . Marketing is Selling.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Factor in what many consider to be more B2C platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram and you can quickly feel awash in too much of a ‘good’ thing. You’ll walk away with 10 different ideas that can help your sales team be more effective, save time and close more deals. Demand that your email system serves you better.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2013

That post, along with the one you’re reading now, is aimed at complex sales. The characteristics of a complex sale are typically wider and deeper business challenges that require longer sales-cycles and result in larger average deal sizes. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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SBI

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Experiential selling is the application of experiential learning to the sales profession. This certainly explains why even when you have laid out decisive arguments for why a prospect would benefit from your solution, they don’t buy in the end. So how do you create the emotional engagement so vital in a B2B sales environment?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

mobile tools can ignite productivity, shorten sales cycles, and provide. It costs a small fortune to print sales materials and it’s a hassle to lug them around town. With all that speed, it’s no longer acceptable to reps (or their prospects) to have to download software each time they want to conduct a presentation.

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SBI

MARCH 12, 2013

Content marketing, as the practice is called, is a semi-automated mechanism that gives organizations the ability to extend their sales-reach—to keep in touch (i.e. The principle involves automating the ‘task’ of staying in touch (and relevant) with prospects that aren’t yet ‘sales-ready.’ It is not selling however.

Marketing 125

Marketing Distribution Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile 125

SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. The Sales 2.0 Conference.

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SBI

DECEMBER 11, 2012

There are lots of sales tools to help you. There are lots of sales tools! Join me on December 13 th , for a live webinar hosted by Social Selling University. We’ll each be recommending 6 sales tools for B2B sellers. Shorten the sales cycle. Prepare for the most effective sales calls. Here’s the good news.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In the dynamic and high-demand world of selling, the evolution of tools has had a significant impact on our ability to perform our jobs, present our ever-expanding array of solutions, service our customers, and generate revenue—the life-blood of our companies. The biggest advancement in the development of sales tools was the telephone.

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SBI

AUGUST 21, 2012

One enticing benefit of the sales profession is the freedom and independence it offers. I can’t tell you how many times in my sales career I heard, “just keep hitting your numbers and no one will bug you.” Companies seek sales reps that can think and act on their own, epitomizing self-motivation and self-reliance.

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SBI

JUNE 26, 2012

Tweet In this month’s issue of Top Sales Associates Magazine , I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Linda Richardson. You may recognize her name as the Founder and Chairwoman of Richardson , the global sales performance company. The first sales tool I used (other than a rolodex) was the GRiD Systems laptop.

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SBI

APRIL 2, 2013

Preparing post sales-call follow-up. Scheduling sales calls. You can increase your sales by 28.5% The tasks outlined above, are essential to selling. The first step is to understand how time is used across the various sales tasks. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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SBI

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently wrote about the 3 fundamentals of sales that, if ignored, will keep your business from growing at a sustainable level, especially in terms of revenue. Lead progression, the first element of the Sales Cycle Triad includes identifying, assessing, assigning, responding, selling, tracking, and nurturing leads.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One of the most frustrating problems for any sales rep is when a prospect’s interest switches from hot to cold. Enthusiasm begins its descent almost the moment you end your sales conversation. Yours involve longer sales cycles and multiple interactions over a period of time. It’s a powerful force.

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Opportunity Exercises Call-back Webinar Metrics 128

SBI

AUGUST 28, 2012

In sales, we battle two voices. And while timing has always been important in sales (think monthly and quarterly objectives) the most important thing is to beat the revenue objective before the final buzzer goes off. .” People:Staffing decisions, sales skill development, training, territory assignments, coaching, 2.

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SBI

JULY 24, 2012

The Internet and social media have changed the world of business and sales forever. For me personally, LinkedIn, Focus, Twitter, Blogs, email, online-meetings, and yes, the ubiquitous and indispensible phone, are the tools I have used to build not only a thriving company, but an incredible and vibrant network of friends.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

In fact, getting a response from prospects was identified as the hardest part of the sales process in the 2018 State of Inbound Sales Report. These 45 tips from three remarkably insightful sales experts should make it much easier for you. Jill, Trish, and Lori had amazing sales careers before starting their own businesses.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

It is not uncommon today for decision makers to avoid talking with a salesperson early in the sales cycle thinking, somewhat erroneously, that they are able to diagnose their own needs and to then seek and find the best solutions through their own investigation. Rule #2 Don’t inadvertently sabotage the sale.

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SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools. As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools. Follow Nancy on Twitter @sellingtools or subscribe to her Tool Talk blog.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The first revenue-numbing fact is that 65% of a sales rep’s time is spent NOT doing what they are ultimately paid for—selling [1]. According to studies, the ratio of time spent on non-selling tasks to time spent on selling tasks is 65/35. The good news is that you can be the hero that drives sales through the roof.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Up-selling or cross-selling, i.e. selling more to your current clients. In his hot-off-the press book , “New Sales. Mike contends that because many of today’s sales reps began their career during times of economic prosperity. And that’s where “New Sales. In “New Sales. Simplified.” Simplified.”

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Revenue Handbook Face-to-face Penetration 101

SBI

JULY 10, 2012

And the sales profession, given its awakening and immense potential, exploded, and we, as a global force to be reckoned with, have never looked back. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools. Follow Nancy on Twitter @sellingtools or subscribe to her Tool Talk blog.

Revenue 111

Revenue Analysis Fashion Face-to-face 111

SBI

JANUARY 8, 2013

As my friend Jim Banks of Shadetree Technology likes to say, “Conversations are the ball-bearings that move deals through the sales process.” If customer-centric selling is about authentic, value-add sales conversations, how on earth could it be considered ‘dead’. Well said Jim! The answer is—not yet.

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SBI

AUGUST 21, 2012

One enticing benefit (or incentive) of the sales profession is the freedom and independence it offers. can’t tell you how many times in my sales career I heard, “just keep hitting your numbers and no one will bug you.” The map of sales objectives is about to be re-drawn (again).It It will be nothing short of….

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 or Social Selling is it's often missing the context of the coming Web 3.0 Let me make my case.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It’s not that you can actually execute hundreds of tasks in a day’s agenda, but if sales is your passion and profession, you are undeniably an expert at managing the precise allocation of time and resources across that number of tasks. In sales, it happens all the time, and always with less-than-favorable consequences.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Most organizations spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. From these findings, to better align sales / marketing with buyer requirements, perhaps more budget should be allocated to business benefit and financial assessment content, tools and support.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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