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The Keys to Fourth Quarter Sales Success in 2020

Understanding the Sales Force

As always, if you can hang in through some of the preliminary analysis, I'll make the pivot to sales and business. The update for October 19, 2020, is shown below: Each day, the Boston Globe sends an update with metrics that the state of Massachusetts is monitoring with regard to the Pandemic.

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Tactics To Help You Meet Your 2020 Sales Goals

Sales and Marketing Management

Or worse, could you lose your sales job altogether? You could be vulnerable if you’re not sharpening your sales skills and honing the tactics that will help you succeed in 2020. Forrester analyst Andy Hoar didn’t mince words when he spoke at the 2015 Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Make 2020 a year of personal bests.

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Survey Results: How Market Leading Companies Plan to Make the 2020 Number

SBI Growth

We recently wrote about the emergence of the Chief Customer Officer and took that opportunity to survey CCO’s about how they will make their 2020 number. We found that companies had initially been planning on nearly 31% of their 2020.

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2020 – An Emotional Slingshot

The Pipeline

As sales professionals, we need to be cognizant of this while approaching prospects. Add to that most face the strain of having to salvage what is left of 2020. All this should make the rest of 2020 an emotional slingshot, especially for the unprepared. How’s The Family.

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Core Principles of Great Sales Enablement are the Same: Its The Tactics That Have Changed

If your role includes supporting sellers, then this in-depth sales enablement guide is for you! Discover valuable insights and practical steps on how to: Adjust your tactics to deal with the impact of 2020. Take the next steps from Sales to Revenue Enablement. Keep remote onboarding and training engaging (including SKO).

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Dave Kurlan's Predictions for Sales Organization in 2020

Understanding the Sales Force

Before I can make any predictions for 2020, let's start with these ten simple truths about selling for proper context. FOUR: Effective Selling requires a well thought-out sales strategy, sales process, sales methodology and appropriate sales tactics. FIVE: Salespeople can be easily sabotaged by weak Sales DNA.

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Implementing Core Sales Values to Help Your Sales Culture | Increase Sales 2020

Anthony Cole Training

In the 2nd post in our "2020: The Year for Sales Growth" blog series, our Founder and CLO Tony Cole, discusses the importance of maintaining core sales values within an organization, how these values relate to organized sports, the erosion of these said core values, and the impact they have (or can have) on your attempt to grow your sales organization (..)

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5 Essential Pieces of a Prospecting Solution

Forward thinking sales leaders are starting to prioritize technology initiatives. Is your team focused on building a reliable tech stack for 2020? Five essential features to consider when assessing the vendor landscape. Steps your buying committee must go through when purchasing a prospecting solution.

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Digital Revenue Leaders: How to Make Sales & Marketing Integration Your 2020 Strategy

Speaker: Jamie Shanks, CEO, Sales for Life

You know the saying – Marketing is from Mars, Sales is from Venus. But if you can successfully align your sales and marketing teams, you'll find that the cooperation between the two quickly becomes a key differentiator for your company. How have your sales and marketing teams aligned to deliver that value before your competition?

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Sales Coaching (And How to Fix Them)

Speaker: Rob Jeppsen and Joe Caprio

Most sales leaders THINK they are coaching. Unfortunately, most sales leaders unknowingly make simple mistakes that undermine the impact of a 1:1. Xvoyant found there are seven of these most common “Deadly Sins” that sales leaders commit. January 21st, 2020 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT

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Sales Enablement: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Where It's Going

Speaker: Roderick Jefferson, Chief Executive Officer

The biggest problem with Sales Enablement is that there is no one universal definition. If you were to ask 10 different people “What is Sales Enablement?” And when the answer to such an apparently simple question is so complicated, it becomes difficult to convey to senior leaders the value of Sales Enablement.

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Win Sales Calls with Webinar Production

Speaker: Dawn Baron, President, Passion Profits Consulting, and Shelley Trout, Webinar Producer, Aggregage

As a B2B marketer in 2020, you are constantly asked to fight for attention in crowded markets with limited resources. Smart webinars are one of the best way to address these challenges, efficiently reach your target audience and generate highly qualified sales leads. February 11, 2020 9:30 AM PST, 12:30 PM EST, 5:30 PM GMT

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Three Simple Ways To Increase ROI From Your Current Sales Process Immediately!

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

The average B2B sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 to 9 months to close, depending on the complexity of the product or service being sold. Now add the fact that we're facing a global pandemic and it could add an extra 2 - 3 months or more to a sales cycle. How to tap into growing markets for new sales opportunities.

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Closing the Social Distance with Virtual Selling

Speaker: Amy Huseth, Vice President of Marketing & Sales Enablement at CDK Global

Sales organizations in most industries had to reassess the way they were doing business in order to adapt to the virtual selling landscape. What should you do if your sales culture is suffering? How can you pivot to your sales enablement as the driver of remote selling success?