SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You can attend webinars, conferences, seminars and symposiums. You can network across a growing array of social and business platforms and talk to your fellow sales leaders. Marketing is Selling. Marketing and sales will (must) be collaborative and in alignment regarding metrics (i.e. Marketing and Sales are one team.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In this series, we ask tech executives to describe the why and how of their solution. We call it Sales Tech Simplified. Nancy: Why does the industry need your solution? It is the primary objective for CEO’s and for Sales and Marketing executives. Russ: Enterprises today are focused on profitable growth.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Much as it is one of the best tools for the task, social selling isn’t just about using LinkedIn effectively. Social selling should be thought of, in my humble opinion, as a means to discover, engage, and interact with potential prospects. I’ll be sharing my own favorite during the webinar. Social is ‘personal.’

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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

MAY 7, 2013

In February, I posted the first of a 2-part Sales Leaders’ pledge. It’s not sales goals or quotas I’m referring to (although a CSO study revealed that 37% of reps did not hit their plan last year — so we are falling short on those as well.) Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools.

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SBI

APRIL 30, 2013

Here are 3 tricks and tips for improving efficiency when it comes to creating opportunities: Use tools: Tools like Social Selling and Marketing Automation (to name just two) can increase the likelihood of contacting the right people at the right time—when they have the highest propensity to buy. It’s both all at once.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m always impressed by the degree of ingenuity that leading sales teams put into their selling strategy. But every time someone from sales says they’re taking an omnichannel route to drive sales without incorporating live chat or messaging in their sales funnel, I think, “ Huh? ”. Transactional selling.

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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

JULY 16, 2013

We rely on quotas as a method for measuring sales rep performance. The real magic to driving radical revenue growth resides in understanding sales productivity and how our reps spend their limited sales capacity. These are sales productivity issues. Salespeople have 215 selling days or 1720 hours a year to sell.

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SBI

JUNE 11, 2013

By now, you’ve probably heard of iSell from OneSource which is a great tool for finding contacts, and conducting prospect research. Of course you won’t want to simply add all 5,000 accounts into your sales database and set about contacting each one. You can do that with the tools in today’s blog. Share your ideas.

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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 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. Consider asking a prospect to buy your product, in this example, an expense reporting tool. Either buy an expense reporting tool, or keep doing things the way you are today, manually.

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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

MARCH 12, 2013

Marketers prove their allegiance to the new ruler because of its power as a market-awareness and lead generation tool. 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. Let’s call this ‘Content-Selling.’

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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

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. It costs a small fortune to print sales materials and it’s a hassle to lug them around town. suited to mobile reps despite who owns the equipment.

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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

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

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

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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SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2012

tools and technology) to do that. There, she would have seen that Smart Selling Tools is not a large enough company to be a suitable prospect. Author, Nancy Nardin is the foremost expert in sales productivity tools. Follow Nancy on Twitter @sellingtools or subscribe to her Tool Talk blog.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Is it the person who signed up for your webinar this week? Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. They won’t get followed up.

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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

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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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A recent article by Drew Zarges from Sales Benchmark Index opines, "Are ROI Calculators Dead?". With B2B sales teams generating hundreds of millions in incremental deals each year directly attributable to Alinean ROI Sales Tools, we clearly think not. First, the demand for financial justification has never been higher.

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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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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

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

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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SugarCRM

AUGUST 30, 2022

By 2026, 65% of B2B sales organizations will transition from intuition-based to data-driven decision-making. This is possible because companies now have access to tools and resources that make it easier to unite workflows, data, and analytics. Companies that forecast do a better job with sales attainment.

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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.

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Revenue Analysis Fashion Face-to-face 111

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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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. Also, train the sales team on the buyer funnel, not just the sales funnel.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 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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