No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 17, 2019

That might sound like a pipe dream, but I assure you, with my referral selling virtual workshop series, it’s not. How does one internet security company, one CPA firm, one law firm, one consulting firm, one IT firm, one software company, or one small business owner differentiate themselves? Buyers say we all look alike. We all do.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 21, 2021

Demand planning in sales helps make sure your literal and metaphorical shelves are stocked, but not overflowing. While some people may have clairvoyant skills to predict the future, the rest of us need to rely on sales planning and operational tactics to get the job done. Sales Forecasting. What is demand planning?

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Babette Ten Haken

APRIL 30, 2020

Developing virtual client retention strategies always is mission-critical. After all, there’s nothing like a global pandemic to catalyze that overdue alignment of Third Industrial Revolution business and hiring models with the dynamic, interconnected software and hardware systems of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Contact me here.

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Act!

APRIL 22, 2024

In this article, we’ll dig deeper into the impact of economic uncertainties on small businesses and discuss strategies to deal with them. In other words, most businesses will see a drop in sales and revenue during such periods, resulting in cash flow challenges. Here are a few strategies to help you get started.

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Vendor Neutral

APRIL 22, 2021

Do You Have a Value Driven Strategy to Enhance Client Retention? 7 Ways to Bring Value and Keep Clients With a Value Driven Strategy. So many people are exhausted with sales pitches and product, and “traditional” sales efforts are largely becoming white noise.". Value is the cornerstone of selling in this climate.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. The prospect may have shown interest, which means they’ve entered your sales funnel as a lead. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader?

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Babette Ten Haken

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What does our personal development strategy look like, in real-life? Often, we are conflicted when our employer’s business strategy eats into our own ideas for best serving clients and colleagues. Here are 3 strategies to keep us on track, while we give ourselves permission to wander off that beaten path. What is your next step?

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Babette Ten Haken

MARCH 8, 2018

When I speak to sales audiences about customer retention, their expectations are that I will provide them with clever tools and tips on renewing customers, so they can meet quota. Rather, renewal is part of corporate strategy. Meeting their numbers looks a whole lot different than meeting sales quota.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And yet, sales reps constantly look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. Fine-tuning your cold email strategy might not make your open rates skyrocket, but it can make a major difference. Opening A Cold Email Template Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. Plus, insights from sales experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about using AI in sales ethically. Use trusted software. But how do you do that ethically? Manage leads.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

In sales, every day is a new opportunity to contact leads, close deals, and move closer to your target. However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. What is a sales audit? Sales Audit Checklist.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A couple of sectors were all set to adopt the remote work culture, but then there are a few niches such as sales where remote work came with its own set of challenges! Create a remote-first sales infrastructure to facilitate seamless virtual selling at scale. Are There Any Perks Of Retaining A Remote Sales Team? No, not at all!

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Customer service encompasses the actions, processes, software, machinery and people involved in serving, delivering and assisting in taking care of customer needs and requirements. In today’s digitally transforming customer ecosystems, the customer interacts with people, software, systems and machines.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: A Brilliant Sales Management Strategy. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A sales manager’s dream is having “A” Players that can carry a branch, district or regional office. Sales managers had to focus on the sellers that needed help.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There’s no way around it: Strategy is exciting. It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Leveraging owned media for your GTM strategy Owned media can fuel your go-to-market strategy in the early stages of building a company and beyond. A chance to tour (and maybe even race on?) Austin’s F1 track.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As one of our readers wrote: “As a pricing director, understanding the business and grappling with the sales rep and customer-facing issues related to pricing is a significant portion of your role. .” When you interact directly with top customers and local sales reps, you gain a valuable insight into what really drives buying behavior.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2024

Generative AI has changed the game in sales. Increasingly, sales teams use it to personalize content, enhance sales training , improve onboarding, conduct competitive analysis, streamline sales communication, and more. And I think it’s going to change the game in sales. Sam Richter: Certainly.

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Babette Ten Haken

JUNE 23, 2020

Similarly, do you spiel the sales blah-blah-blah long enough to close a contract? Without any real intention of walking your story to create post-sale continuity to retain clients? Since everyone is interconnected in a network of people, processes, software and hardware. The never-ending story. Think about it. Contact me here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 22, 2020

People think of them as a sales tool for converting customers. They provide a really valuable way to spread the word about events, workshops, policies and other ideas about which you’d like everyone to be aware. . Strengthen Internal Unity. Of course, this is part of what they are. But again, it’s not the whole story. .

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Increase Sales

APRIL 19, 2012

There are a lot of how to increase sales myths with “work smarter not harder” as probably one of the most common. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Work smarter not harder translates into the quick fix mentality. Other sales research supports how many have bought into this how to increase sales myth of work smarter not harder.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Close.io

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to inside side sales training, you’re going to spend less time reading and more time interacting with people. Investing in an effective inside sales training system within your company can pay amazing dividends. What is inside sales? And sales technology has made this all possible.

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Mereo

APRIL 28, 2022

Every sports team has this unity — and B2B organizations also possess this culture and strategy. The Forrester 2022 Global CMO Strategy Survey found that fewer than 35% of chief marketing officers are involved in corporate strategy development. Salespeople are not even using the tools marketing creates for them.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When it comes to hitting sales quotas, scaling companies, and retaining top sales talent – all of these areas often fall back on one thing: leadership. A shameless self-improvement fanatic, he enjoys sharing his observations, advice, and humor through his writing and workshops. What role does leadership play in sales?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. Host webinars and online workshops. According to Xant, 73% of marketing and sales leaders credit webinars as a way to generate high-quality leads.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Trying to build a high-impact sales team? In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find. Why is there a knowledge gap for sales leaders? sales guidance.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 24, 2022

Too often, I get asked to do a different version of the same speech, or a different version of the same workshop, or to write about the same issue, trying to get a new twist or slightly different approach. All the software we sold to run those computers was sold on a subscription model. XaaS (Mostly SaaS) is new!!

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LeadBoxer

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We all know that making a sale is the act of exchanging a product or service in return for cash, but there is far more to selling than what meets the eye. With B2B e-commerce sales predicted to exceed B2C e-commerce sales by 2020, B2B selling is constantly growing. How are B2B sales different from B2C sales?

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. Host webinars and online workshops. According to Xant, 73% of marketing and sales leaders credit webinars as a way to generate high-quality leads.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a product marketer though, this is more about your strategy and execution tactics that lead to year-over-year revenue growth. It’ll do wonders for the sales pipeline and the results will show in your product revenue numbers. I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales. Our sales numbers backed it up!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 16, 2017

This simple, 5-step cold email technique works especially well for sales development reps who regularly email: CEOs. Instead, it’s designed to open to door to a conversation that leads to a meeting/partnership/interview/sale/etc. A few examples of CTA’s you can use: If you sell b2b software…. “Hi Marketing VPs. HR directors.

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Pipeliner

MAY 28, 2021

Many customers now sign up for software subscriptions instead of installing solutions on-premises, and it’s easier than ever for them to switch to new vendors who offer better features or more competitive pricing. Inbound Marketing Strategies for Technology Companies in 2021 (and Beyond). Build a guest posting strategy.

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