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Best Time To Prospect?
The Pipeline
MARCH 19, 2019
By Tibor Shanto. With regularity, most active sales trainers and I get the following question: “When is the best time to prospect?”.
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Prevent Your Revenue Desk From Becoming the Discount Approval Board
Sales Benchmark Index
MARCH 18, 2019
If you follow our Sales Benchmark Index blog, you have read our take on enhancing your Deal Desk to a Revenue Desk in the recent post “What Do You Do When Your Deal Desk Is Failing – Set up a.
The 5 Stages Of The Negotiation Process
MTD Sales Training
MARCH 19, 2019
The whole negotiation you have with a client or prospect can be successful or not, based on the way you carry it out. Learn how you can turn a negotiation around if it’s not going well by following a strategic process that you can control. .
Gatekeepers : Six Things NOT to Do
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 18, 2019
If you’re getting screened out by gatekeepers , then chances are you’re probably causing that screening. Before we get into the things you may be doing to cause them to begin interrogating you, let’s quickly define some terms. First, not all gatekeepers are the same.
The Showpad Sales Transformation Maturity Model
Advertiser: Showpad
The Showpad Sales Transformation Maturity Model helps organizations understand where they are today in terms of meeting buyer expectations — and how key teams can drive transformation that impacts the bottom-line. Download the free eBook for a pragmatic approach to growing sales maturity.
Look At Objections From A Different Direction
The Pipeline
MARCH 21, 2019
By Tibor Shanto. I hate objections, and I bet you don’t wake up looking to be rejected first thing in the morning, and then have to work the rest of the day.
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How to Be a Memorable Salesperson Part 10: Ask Better Questions
Connect2Sell
MARCH 20, 2019
As we get close to wrapping up this 12-part series on becoming more memorable as a seller, you’ve probably detected some common themes: selling skills connecting with buyers DISCOVER Questions™ open-ended questions sales questions
How a Screw-Up Can Boost Your Sales
The Sales Heretic
MARCH 20, 2019
While hanging with a friend recently, the subject of what to eat for dinner came up. After discussing some possibilities, we agreed on pizza. The next decision—where to go—turned out to be an easy one, because in her mind, there was only one option: the local outlet of Garlic Jim’s.
Four Proven Responses to: “We’re all set”
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 21, 2019
Many sales reps still have trouble handling the initial resistance statement: “We’re all set,” or “We already have a dealer/supplier/vendor for that.”. If you struggle, too, then you’ll love the proven response below.
Has Your Deal Desk Become a Collision Center? – 5 Steps to Clean up the Dysfunction
Sales Benchmark Index
MARCH 19, 2019
As organizations transform their Deal Desk to a best in class Revenue Desk, challenges arise. Making this transition calls for new members from various functions, which results in more opinions and at times, competing priorities. When done well, this leads.
Humans and Bots: How to blend human skills and AI to build customer intimacy and drive growth
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Join Genesys for this webinar to learn how leading companies are using blended AI to drive customer intimacy and revenue growth.
The Power of Smart Differentiation in Sales
Understanding the Sales Force
MARCH 19, 2019
In a previous article, I wrote about the one question that can help salespeople differentiate themselves from the competition. On the heels of that article, one interesting theme from the emails I received was the importance of differentiation.
IF You’re Going to Make Cold Calls, This is How to Do It
John Barrows
MARCH 20, 2019
“Cold calling” is getting harder and harder to justify these days. Less people are picking up the phone, some executives don’t even have office lines anymore, the layers of gatekeepers are getting thicker and harder to navigate. It’s brutal out there. With all this, I still think cold calling has its place and can be effective IF done right. First, let me be clear on my definition of what successful “cold calling” does and does not look like.
Qualifying: Why Timeline is So Important
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 16, 2019
Want to know how qualified a prospect is? Then simply make sure you get a definitive answer to their timeline for purchasing or implementing your product or solution. There are several ways to ask for this.
Negotiating a B2B Sale? Be Proactive versus Reactive
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 18, 2019
Author: Andres Lares, Shapiro Negotiations Institute A sales negotiation is a process, not an event. Events are reactive; they require you to think nimbly on your feet. Effective sales negotiations, however, are fundamentally proactive.
Moving the Sales Performance Bell Curve
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61 is the New 51
Grant Cardone
MARCH 21, 2019
I just turned 61 years old. Here’s what America looked like back in 1958 when I was born: The average cost of a new house: $12,750. Average monthly rent: $92. Average yearly wage: $4,600. The world population was 2.9 billion. NASA was created that year.
A More Beautiful Question
A Sales Guy
MARCH 17, 2019
Anything that forces people to have to think is not an easy sell, which highlights the challenge of questioning in our everyday lives. The post A More Beautiful Question appeared first on A Sales Guy. Book Reviews/Quotes
3 Ways to Retain Top Talent with Sales Readiness
Smart Selling Tools
MARCH 19, 2019
3 Ways to Retain Top Talent with Sales Readiness. Finding the right sales talent isn’t easy – but even when you hire the perfect candidate, keeping them for the long-term can be a whole different challenge.
The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 20, 2019
Author: Conner Burt The current labor market remains among the tightest in modern history. As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees.
In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation
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Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.
What Will You Do This Week to Help Your Salespeople Get Better? (VIDEO)
The Center for Sales Strategy
MARCH 20, 2019
I've always found it fascinating that the greatest athletes of all time -- whether it be Michael Jordan or Tom Brady -- always practiced. Every single day, they would go to the gym or go to the field, and they would practice the basics.
How to develop a winning sales mindset: Critical self talk vs pep talk
Close.io
MARCH 18, 2019
We’ve all been there: you’re in the middle of a sales call, and you start rambling. You only realize it after you’ve been going on for a few minutes. You kick yourself, try to focus on the topic at hand, and wonder why you always have trouble sticking to the topic.
The 15 Most Inspiring Sales Stories We Heard This Year
Sales Hacker
MARCH 19, 2019
At the beginning of March, we announced the winners of the 2nd annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards, presented by Bravado. But because we received more than five thousand nominations, it seemed a little unfair to only share amazing stories about 50 of them.
Human-First Sales: What Does it Mean For the SDR Role?
InsightSquared
MARCH 20, 2019
In the 5+ years I’ve spent meeting modern sales leaders and working with SDRs within our network, I’ve learned from the front lines of 200+ SDR and sales teams about what’s really going on within the SDR function and how it could impact the role in the future.
Successful Social Selling Best Practices Guide
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This best practices guide focuses on helping you organize, harness and capitalize on the information, buying signals and qualified prospects identifying themselves to you online every single day.
What Type of Professional Legacy are You creating?
Babette Ten Haken
MARCH 18, 2019
Ever consider the type of professional legacy you create? As you strive to meet an organization’s KPIs for the functional role in which you serve?
Your Culture Sucks. 15 Questions To Assess Your Company Ecosystem and Coaching Effectiveness
Keith Rosen
MARCH 18, 2019
Does your company culture re?ect ect your people and their personal values? Are your people a re?ection ection of your culture? Does the attitude and behavior within your organization re?ect ect your desired culture? Does your culture re?ect
Build an Automated Lead Generation Machine to Fill Your Sales Pipeline
Marc Wayshak
MARCH 20, 2019
Automated lead generation is the new frontier of sales prospecting. Watch this video to learn the 7 keys to building an automated lead generation machine to fill your pipeline with great opportunities — forever.
How Coaching Helped a Seasoned Seller Rediscover Her A-Game
The Center for Sales Strategy
MARCH 18, 2019
There is a sales organization I work with that has a consistent track record of finding highly talented candidates to join their sales team. Time and time again, they hire and develop top talent and in turn, quickly see results from these sellers. sales management coaching
Supercharge Your Sales Training ROI with eLearning
Speaker: Ray Makela, CEO, Sales Readiness Group, and David Jacoby, President, Sales Readiness Group
Companies spend about $20 billion a year on various forms of sales training, but many sales leaders report a low ROI from their sales training initiatives. Join us, along with Ray Makela and David Jacoby from Sales Readiness Group, as they break down the five essential factors to achieve sustainable success from your sales training investment, and how to leverage eLearning to maximize results.
Is Leadership Really About Solving Problems?
Partners in Excellence
MARCH 18, 2019
All of us, me included, often think a key aspect of leadership is about solving problems. Whatever the problem–a strategy problem, a market problem, a product problem, operational problems, sales/marketing problems, people problems…… We tend to think of ourselves as problem solvers.
Take these 3 Actions to grow Workplace Engagement
Babette Ten Haken
MARCH 21, 2019
How do you grow employee engagement when your workforce is small? Or, multi-generational, multi-disciplinary, located in multiple divisions and represents different levels of education? Chances are, your teams are comprised of employees with several, or all, of these traits.
Why Is Managing Change So Hard? Here’s How Executives Can Succeed Every Time
Membrain
MARCH 17, 2019
Change can be hard, but it’s often inevitable and necessary for companies to ensure future success. Companies budget significant amounts of money for training and consultants to help them improve employee skills and business processes. But is that enough? Sales Management
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