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A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. Part Two: Everything that happens after that. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two. MORE
Our guest this week is Brian Burkhart, Founder and Chief Word Guy at SquarePlanet which focuses on presentations, strategy, and messaging, joins John this week to talk about core values, growth mindset, and elevating others. MORE
Slower buying processes resulting from the pandemic may be a win-win. The post How the Sales Cycle Has Evolved – Maybe for the Better appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. News Featured MORE
On average, salespeople possess only 15% of the attributes required to sell consultatively. increase sales effective sales process consultative selling MORE
Driving, maintaining, and developing consistent revenue growth is a top concern in every organization. Taking care of employees, meeting goals, trying to exceed goals, and keeping your business afloat during challenging times is a lot to manage. MORE
Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. MORE
What is Leadership Coaching & How is it Beneficial. Leadership coaching empowers sales leaders to do exceptional work in times of struggle and change. Leadership coaches can establish a solid relationship that uncovers the strengths and weaknesses of sales executives like yourself. MORE
Narrowing target marketing efforts to a small number of prospects can produce outsized results. The post When to Use 1:1 or 1:Few Account-Based Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. News Featured MORE
Imagine this scenario: a marketing campaign you develop ends up going to the wrong audience, or a segmentation analysis yields incorrect results because the data wasn’t updated. Fresh, up-to-date data leads to better business outcomes by ensuring that opportunities aren’t missed. MORE
In our business, one of the greatest sales challenges that most companies face is how to properly implement a data-driven sales approach. Some companies chase a bunch of data without any regard for the story that the data tells. Others struggle when they launch sales coaching without any data at all. unique selling approach Sales Coaching increase sales sales challenges MORE
Scratchpad Introduces New Experience for Top Sales Performers, Connecting Calendar, Notes, and Salesforce into One Unified Workspace. San Mateo, California – July 21, 2021. Scratchpad, Inc., MORE
I’ve been emphasizing to a number of clients the importance of creating an “early warning system.” It’s a system that helps you identify and prevent client departures. MORE
As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire. Qualifying skills How to Increase Sales sales commitment increase sales MORE
“Oh, your email ended up in my spam folder” is what email marketers and salespeople hear in their nightmares. Emails only suffer from deliverability issues for a few reasons and all of them are bad. MORE
Lori Richardson, founder and CEO of Score More Sales, talks about changes that B2B sales has undergone in the last year and a half and what that means for fielding a strong sales team. The post The State of Selling With Lori Richardson appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. MORE
Organizations have had to drastically reimagine their revenue model since last year to accommodate the new era of digital. However, some companies anticipated this shift much earlier in advance and were able to adapt and scale quicker than their competitors. MORE
Vertical target marketing is having a moment (again), but the amount of success companies have from targeting specific verticals will depend on the resources they are willing to invest. The post Getting Back to Basics With Verticalization appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. MORE
My wife and I recently watched the new funny but sad movie, Here and Now , written and directed by Billy Crystal, who stars as comedy writer Charlie Burnz. In one scene, Charlie recalled a happier time when his family used to have what they called "upside down day." MORE
That’s right – you are probably going about phone prospecting wrong, and blaming your low success on an “ancient” and “out of date” prospecting strategy of cold calling. MORE
Summer kind of slow? Top pros are using this time to sharpen their sales skills so they can make a killing in the fourth quarter. They’re using the summer to learn better ways of responding to the objections that hurt them in the first part of the year. MORE
Chatbots have the power to create a truly buyer-centric experience for customers. But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now. MORE
We were watching an episode of the hilarious comedy series The Goldbergs and one of the themes of episode 4 in season 3 was about authenticity. In this episode, Barry and Erica, the two oldest children, accused each other of being posers. The bottom 50% of all salespeople are posers too. MORE
We’ve been giving away too much money in sales over the past century. We’ve been trained to think the buyer’s budget matters. MORE
We all know Tom: the sales guy trying to sell you something you don’t really need on a Tuesday afternoon. As soon as you answer the door, you regret it— big grin, button-down shirt, and lots of charm, despite the 90-degree weather —out of pity, curiosity, or a mix of both, you decide to hear him out. MORE
Last night Major League Baseball held its annual Home Run Derby. We've seen the home run derbies before. We watch them every year. They are always the same - each slugger tries to hit more home runs than the other sluggers in the contest. MORE
If sales leaders don't coach how to handle objections, salespeople often get lost when they occur. Tim Hagen reviews a three-step strategy to handle objections better. The post Don’t Forget to Coach Objection Handling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. MORE
Rookie mistake: You’ve got several products or services you can offer a prospect, and you start by offering the first, or main one, then hear an opening for another one so pivot to that one, and describe another—and then another. Result? Stalled sale. Let me think about these and get back with you.”. MORE
Lisa McLeod, author of five best-selling books including Selling with a Noble Purpose, says the sales industry is focusing on the wrong targets. Sales quota attainment is a lagging indicator, and over-focusing on it can actually damage your team’s ability to perform. Sales Psychology MORE
Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. Everyone’s anxious to get the contract signed and the gong in the corner of the office is ready to bang. But then, unexpectedly, the buyer pushes back, not sure if this is the best time. MORE
Mr. Inside Sales
JULY 20, 2021
Summer kind of slow? Top pros are using this time to sharpen their sales skills so they can make a killing in the fourth quarter. They’re using the summer to learn better ways of responding to the objections that hurt them in the first part of the year.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 1, 2021
As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire. Qualifying skills How to Increase Sales sales commitment increase sales
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Score More Sales
JULY 7, 2021
That’s right – you are probably going about phone prospecting wrong, and blaming your low success on an “ancient” and “out of date” prospecting strategy of cold calling.
Zoominfo
JULY 23, 2021
Chatbots have the power to create a truly buyer-centric experience for customers. But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now.
Speaker: Marc Wayshak, Sales Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Founder, Sales Insights Lab
Engaging prospects in a strong two-way dialogue is something most reps struggle with. In this session with Marc Wayshak, you’ll discover a data-driven approach to sales meetings that yields significantly better results.
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 9, 2021
Vertical target marketing is having a moment (again), but the amount of success companies have from targeting specific verticals will depend on the resources they are willing to invest. The post Getting Back to Basics With Verticalization appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
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Mr. Inside Sales
JULY 6, 2021
Rookie mistake: You’ve got several products or services you can offer a prospect, and you start by offering the first, or main one, then hear an opening for another one so pivot to that one, and describe another—and then another. Result? Stalled sale. Let me think about these and get back with you.”.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 8, 2021
On average, salespeople possess only 15% of the attributes required to sell consultatively. increase sales effective sales process consultative selling
No More Cold Calling
JULY 13, 2021
A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. Part Two: Everything that happens after that. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two.
Zoominfo
JULY 12, 2021
Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps B2B marketing professionals select the right one for their needs.
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 19, 2021
Narrowing target marketing efforts to a small number of prospects can produce outsized results. The post When to Use 1:1 or 1:Few Account-Based Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. News Featured
Understanding the Sales Force
JULY 7, 2021
My wife and I recently watched the new funny but sad movie, Here and Now , written and directed by Billy Crystal, who stars as comedy writer Charlie Burnz. In one scene, Charlie recalled a happier time when his family used to have what they called "upside down day."
Sales Benchmark Index
JULY 4, 2021
Organizations have had to drastically reimagine their revenue model since last year to accommodate the new era of digital. However, some companies anticipated this shift much earlier in advance and were able to adapt and scale quicker than their competitors.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 15, 2021
In our business, one of the greatest sales challenges that most companies face is how to properly implement a data-driven sales approach. Some companies chase a bunch of data without any regard for the story that the data tells. Others struggle when they launch sales coaching without any data at all. unique selling approach Sales Coaching increase sales sales challenges
Speaker: Howard J. Sewell, President of Spear Marketing Group
In this exclusive webinar, you’ll hear B2B expert Howard J. Sewell detail a pragmatic approach to ABM planning, execution, and orchestration. Step by step, Howard will show how to leverage the Opportunity-Based Marketing (OBM) Framework, a stage-based B2B demand marketing model, in determining the best tactics for your ABM initiative and how to measure ROI.
A Sales Guy
JULY 13, 2021
We’ve been giving away too much money in sales over the past century. We’ve been trained to think the buyer’s budget matters.
Zoominfo
JULY 6, 2021
We all know Tom: the sales guy trying to sell you something you don’t really need on a Tuesday afternoon. As soon as you answer the door, you regret it— big grin, button-down shirt, and lots of charm, despite the 90-degree weather —out of pity, curiosity, or a mix of both, you decide to hear him out.
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 15, 2021
If sales leaders don't coach how to handle objections, salespeople often get lost when they occur. Tim Hagen reviews a three-step strategy to handle objections better. The post Don’t Forget to Coach Objection Handling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Understanding the Sales Force
JULY 13, 2021
Last night Major League Baseball held its annual Home Run Derby. We've seen the home run derbies before. We watch them every year. They are always the same - each slugger tries to hit more home runs than the other sluggers in the contest.
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John Barrows
JULY 8, 2021
Our guest this week is Brian Burkhart, Founder and Chief Word Guy at SquarePlanet which focuses on presentations, strategy, and messaging, joins John this week to talk about core values, growth mindset, and elevating others.
Engage Selling
JULY 16, 2021
I’ve been emphasizing to a number of clients the importance of creating an “early warning system.” It’s a system that helps you identify and prevent client departures.
Nutshell
JULY 8, 2021
“Oh, your email ended up in my spam folder” is what email marketers and salespeople hear in their nightmares. Emails only suffer from deliverability issues for a few reasons and all of them are bad.
Zoominfo
JULY 12, 2021
Imagine this scenario: a marketing campaign you develop ends up going to the wrong audience, or a segmentation analysis yields incorrect results because the data wasn’t updated. Fresh, up-to-date data leads to better business outcomes by ensuring that opportunities aren’t missed.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data. Read on to learn the four AI hacks sales teams need to improve their performance. Download the eBook today!
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 14, 2021
Slower buying processes resulting from the pandemic may be a win-win. The post How the Sales Cycle Has Evolved – Maybe for the Better appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. News Featured
Smart Selling Tools
JULY 21, 2021
Scratchpad Introduces New Experience for Top Sales Performers, Connecting Calendar, Notes, and Salesforce into One Unified Workspace. San Mateo, California – July 21, 2021. Scratchpad, Inc.,
STAR Results
JULY 20, 2021
What is Leadership Coaching & How is it Beneficial. Leadership coaching empowers sales leaders to do exceptional work in times of struggle and change. Leadership coaches can establish a solid relationship that uncovers the strengths and weaknesses of sales executives like yourself.
Membrain
JULY 7, 2021
Lisa McLeod, author of five best-selling books including Selling with a Noble Purpose, says the sales industry is focusing on the wrong targets. Sales quota attainment is a lagging indicator, and over-focusing on it can actually damage your team’s ability to perform. Sales Psychology
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
CRM software is a powerful tool when used correctly, yet another obstacle to a sales team’s efficiency when it’s not. Leveraging research and commentary from industry analysts, this eBook explores how your sales team can get back valuable time by overcoming some pain points with your CRM, such as low adoption rates, integrations, and data quality.
The Center for Sales Strategy
JULY 20, 2021
Driving, maintaining, and developing consistent revenue growth is a top concern in every organization. Taking care of employees, meeting goals, trying to exceed goals, and keeping your business afloat during challenging times is a lot to manage.
Zoominfo
JULY 12, 2021
Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. Everyone’s anxious to get the contract signed and the gong in the corner of the office is ready to bang. But then, unexpectedly, the buyer pushes back, not sure if this is the best time.
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 13, 2021
Lori Richardson, founder and CEO of Score More Sales, talks about changes that B2B sales has undergone in the last year and a half and what that means for fielding a strong sales team. The post The State of Selling With Lori Richardson appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
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