July, 2024

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Multimedia prospecting

Sales 2.0

As we’ve introduced more ways to communicate, we (and more importantly our customers) have spread our communication over many channels, leaving less concentration on any one channel. When we only had a desk telephone, you could reach more people on it, as that was the primary channel for communication. Your prospects picked up the phone when it rang, as it might be their customer or family on the other end.

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How Declining Commercial Efficiency is Holding Back Profitable Growth

SBI Growth

Facing headwinds from inflation, rising wages, and decades-high interest rates, it has been a challenge for commercial leaders to realize their growth ambitions. The way forward doesn’t seem to be any easier: CEOs and CFOs must continue to tighten spending while still allowing for necessary growth investment, requiring full attention from growth leaders to make the right decisions now for growth in 2024 and beyond.

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Video Marketing: Your Secret Weapon for B2B Lead Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

While often overlooked in the B2B space, video marketing offers a unique opportunity to distill complex concepts and engage a business audience in ways that other content can’t. The post Video Marketing: Your Secret Weapon for B2B Lead Generation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Help Your Team with Cross-Selling & Up-Selling Strategies

Anthony Cole Training

The concept of cross-selling tends to evoke skepticism and wariness. Over time, this skepticism has arisen due to some individuals with good intentions although accompanied by undesirable practices. Pushing product is often another term used for cross-selling & up-selling strategies. Let’s explore why this skepticism about cross-selling exists.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Sales Lessons We Can Learn from the 2024 Olympics

No More Cold Calling

Rusty sales skills won’t win the gold. Gold medals aren’t just handed to Olympic athletes. Commitment to a daily routine and practice separates them from every other athlete out there. It’s the same for your sales team. If you want this to be a game-changing year, it’s up to the CRO to make skills-building and practice a requirement, an integral part of your culture, and a major component of your sales strategy.

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Selling As A Team Sport

Partners in Excellence

I suppose it’s human nature to be self centered, focused on those things that impact each of us, our goals, dreams, and aspirations. Within business, we focus relentlessly on our own performance objectives/goals/comp. We are consumed by the day to day activities and tasks critical to achieving those goals. I talk to many sellers frustrated by the “obstacles” standing in their way, “Just leave me alone, let me do my job!

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The Ultimate Guide to Rapport Building With Buyers

SBI Growth

The classic sales maxim, "People buy from people they like," is supported by extensive behavioral science research. Dr. Robert Cialdini , a renowned psychologist, emphasizes the principle of liking in his influential book, " Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

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5 Ways to Reach Your Target Audience and Grow Your Business for Free

Sales and Marketing Management

Learn the five best ways to reach your target audience for free. Connect with ideal customers, boost brand visibility and enjoy sales growth. The post 5 Ways to Reach Your Target Audience and Grow Your Business for Free appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Effective Sales Meeting Strategies

Anthony Cole Training

Every salesperson has attended sales meetings and left thinking “Why do I have to go to these meetings? They are a waste of time and not helping me get better at selling.” Sales leaders and managers must own and address this problem.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Deliver Value on a Consumption-Based Pricing Model

Force Management

Consumption pricing is associated with some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies of the past few years, including Snowflake , Datadog , Zscaler , and MongoDB. The consumption-based pricing model is popular because it helps these types of companies manage costs and gives the customer more control and transparency in how much they’re billed. But if the customer doesn’t directly see the value of your solution, they may stagnate or even fall in their usage.

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How to Drive Online Purchases for Sales and Growth

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Drive Online Purchases for Sales and Growth If your goal is to increase conversion rates on your e-commerce website and close more sales , the first critical step is to focus on designing the right customer experience. While great product photography and informational descriptions are essential, you must also motivate and inspire potential buyers to purchase what will fulfill their desires.

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Thinking About Retention, Renewal, Expansion Differently

Partners in Excellence

It is human nature to look at things from our own points of view. But it’s restricting our thinking in those ways that blinds us to things that are changing around us, threats, opportunities, challenges, disruptions. Retention, renewal, expansion is key to our success with customers. We want to create customers for life! We want to have the continue to buy from us.

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How To Size The Sales Force To Maximize Revenue

SBI Growth

Is your sales organization appropriately staffed, or are there gaps in your headcount? Many CFOs base their sales team size on faulty assumptions or a narrow view. Underestimating leads to missed opportunities, while overestimating can erode profits — both costly errors when your sales revenue targets are at stake. Today, we'll explain how to calculate sales force size correctly, starting with recognizing and avoiding common pitfalls.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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How to Create Attention-Grabbing B2B Content

Sales and Marketing Management

Useful tips that are sure to assist you in creating engaging content for your B2B audience. The post How to Create Attention-Grabbing B2B Content appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Don’t Leave Home Without It: Pre-Call Planning

Anthony Cole Training

Remember the tagline and series of commercials by American Express, “Don't leave home without it?” In this case, we don't want salespeople to leave the office without pre-call planning and pre-call preparation. This is a specific discipline, a hallmark and habit of all great salespeople.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: From Engineer to CEO: Marko Dinic’s Unexpected Journey in Tech Leadership (Ep127)

Alice Heiman

Having no plans of becoming a CEO, engineer Marko Dinic shares his 18-year journey to becoming the leader of a company that excels in compliance solutions. Leading his company through both triumphs and challenges, Marko, CEO of GTM Technologies, delves into his experiences, lessons learned, and the unique insights he’s gained along the way. Complex Sales Require Technical Expertise Marko emphasizes the need for deep technical understanding when selling intricate compliance solutions.

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Three Skills Your Sales Team Needs to Sell an AI Solution

Force Management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing new market sector. Recent estimates show more than 75,000 AI companies exist, with more than $107B invested in these types of companies over the last two years.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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The Conundrum Of “Freeing Up Time,” Part 1

Partners in Excellence

We, rightfully, constantly seek to free up time. Yesterday, coaching an executive, the key issue was “freeing up time.” For such a senior executive, to some it might seem surprising, but it comes up in virtually every conversation I have, at every level of the organization. It’s interesting, I see two, almost diametrically oppose, things happening when we look to free up time.

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The 5 Elements of an Effective Annual Planning Fact Base

SBI Growth

Effective annual planning often makes the difference between achieving your growth goals and falling behind the competition. However, for CEOs and growth leaders to make the right decisions today that may affect results in 2024 and beyond, they need to first establish a fact base to help them identify the key growth levers that are vital to their success.

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Supercharging B2B Growth with Digital Promotions

Sales and Marketing Management

To maximize the impact of digital promotions, B2B marketers must adopt a multi-faceted approach. Current trends indicate a growing reliance on data-driven marketing, personalized content, and automated outreach to enhance campaign effectiveness. The post Supercharging B2B Growth with Digital Promotions appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How Good is Your Team at Prospecting for New Leads?

Anthony Cole Training

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning. The call or outreach to set up an appointment is key.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Habits of Top Sales Hunters

The Center for Sales Strategy

Habits are routine behaviors that are repeated enough to become automatic. Habits help enhance productivity, build relationships, and increase overall performance. Many AEs need to add new habits to their priorities. Adding some or all of the below will help improve your chances of closing deals and achieving your sales goals. Take a look!

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Latest Podcasts: Transformative Leadership

Force Management

Last month, the Revenue Builders Podcast welcomed leaders who have embraced risks and unique approaches that have led to true transformation for their organizations, teams and careers. From the transformative power of knowing your purpose to navigating new and untapped markets, these conversations provide insight and inspiration that could help you transform your approach to reach even greater success.

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Needs Vs Wants

Partners in Excellence

We’re taught, and I have taught about the importance of “Need Identification.” We sophisticated discovery questions focused on probing customer needs, understanding their requirements. “Do you need these capabilities in your CRM system?” “How important is it to have these features on this machine?” “What if your new financial system enabled you to do these things?

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Helping Women Executives Succeed by Having the Right Mindset

SBI Growth

As women in professional settings, we need to recognize the fact that we often have taller hurdles to overcome to succeed in our careers, but having the correct mindset and creative solutions to such problems are key to that success.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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100 Sales Motivational Quotes to Drive Your Team to Greatness

Nutshell

Sales can be tough work. Salespeople constantly put what they’re selling (and maybe even themselves) up for rejection, then deal with the daily challenges of staying motivated and balancing lots of demands on their time. That’s where motivational sales quotes can come in handy. Although it’s rewarding, sales can feel like a marathon—and it requires just as much training, technique, and mental toughness.

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How To Incorporate Workplace Safety When Onboarding New Employees

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How To Incorporate Workplace Safety When Onboarding New Employees Every HR professional wants to make the new employee’s onboarding journey successful, something that’s completely seamless. But, while most expect it to be seamless, that’s rarely the case. So, we ask you: What comes to mind when you hear the word “onboarding”?

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You Join the Company, But You Quit Your Boss

The Center for Sales Strategy

The most common reason employees give for quitting their last job is that their manager didn't care about them. 70% of top performers who leave their jobs point to a breakdown in a relationship. Those employees aren’t your strugglers, or even your run-of-the-mill, average players. They are your top performers — those who you worked so hard to recruit, invested time in training and coaching, and who lead to the biggest growth in your organization.

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