Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2018
Author: Paul Cherry I was working with a manufacturer of medical instruments that use lasers to measure blood flow. The products cost upwards of $50,000 and are sold primarily to medical research facilities. With a niche product like this, the pool of potential customers is small, so you have to make the most of every opportunity. Unfortunately, the closing percentages for this company were low.
Bernadette McClelland
AUGUST 19, 2018
It was a very simple decision between two very simple choices – Do I choose the carrot cake or the friand? I chose neither, and it had nothing to do with calorie counting. In fact, I don’t actually know what it was that made me so uncertain. Whilst I wasn’t an anxiety driven mess because of my indecisiveness, it did cause me some angst for a few seconds.
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John Barrows
AUGUST 22, 2018
With Q4 around the corner and event season (September) upon us, we here at JBarrows will be making the rounds at all the events coming up like Tenbound , HyperGrowth , INBOUND , Digital Sales World and of course Dreamforce. In order to get the most out of these opportunities for us and for you, we’ve developed this guide. Read it below or download your own copy here.
DiscoverOrg Sales
AUGUST 7, 2018
Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. They’re searching online, consuming content, learning about options to relieve their pain, and forming opinions about solutions. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team. The average B2B buyer is 67% of the way through the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson ( SiriusDecisions ).
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No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 2, 2018
The odds might not be in your sales team’s favor … yet. I’ve interviewed many sales reps over the past two months, trying to better understand the challenges they face in today’s fast-paced, digital-first sales environment. They tell me they’re overwhelmed. Projects get thrown at them with no additional support or designated priorities. They recognize that customer experience is key, but they’re burdened down with reports, cold leads, and spending time with clients who are losers, which makes it
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 29, 2018
Author: John Larson How many times has one of your customers approached you with an issue or a problem? For instance, “I purchased this product from you and it does not work.” Or, “I thought this product had feature X, but I found out it doesn’t and I want to return it.” Or possibly, “You told me my order would arrive on Wednesday and it came on Friday.”.
Connect2Sell
AUGUST 15, 2018
As a sales coach and guest on sales podcasts, I get asked a lot of questions about selling to the folks in the C-Suite. Here are some of the questions I hear most frequently. I've followed them with tips on creating value in sales talks and making the most of your time when you do land these important meetings.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 20, 2018
It’s Crunch Time – the Beginning of Q4. Are you going to hit your 2018 number? What’s your forecast for 2019? Do you have the heads, processes, and funding to ensure a successful 2019? Only a handful of Sales Ops leaders can.
Bernadette McClelland
AUGUST 19, 2018
It was a very simple decision between two very simple choices – Do I choose the carrot cake or the friand? I chose neither, and it had nothing to do with calorie counting. In fact, I don’t actually know what it was that made me so uncertain. Whilst I wasn’t an anxiety driven mess because of my indecisiveness, it did cause me some angst for a few seconds.
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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.
No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 30, 2018
Referrals are HOT, HOT, HOT! Stop rationalizing. There’s no such thing as a warm anything in sales—an email, phone call, social media outreach, or even a knock on the door. Unless your prospect knows who you are and expects to hear from you, you might as well step into a freezer. Your outreach is cold as ice. Reps fool themselves into believing that they’re not sending cold emails or making cold calls because they’ve researched their prospects and sent emails with catchy subject lines about why
Understanding the Sales Force
AUGUST 27, 2018
We all see the effects that strong leaders have when they surround themselves with either strong, mediocre or weak people. What happens when strong leaders inherit a mixed team? What happens when they hire a mixed team? What happens when we ask the same questions about weak leaders? I dug into a subset of data from Objective Management Group's (OMG) evaluations of the salespeople who report to more than 15,000 sales managers to determine whether the best sales managers actually have the best sal
Score More Sales
AUGUST 24, 2018
If the whole, entire company supported revenue generation, how strong would your customer care or customer service team be? Would nothing ever slip through the cracks? If everyone supported revenue generation, how easily could we detect a disgruntled customer about to leave us?
Connect2Sell
AUGUST 29, 2018
Next time you’re enjoying a relaxing meal in a fine dining restaurant, observe these six sales lessons in positive sales technique that will help you get follow-up business from your customers, too.
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Zoominfo
AUGUST 27, 2018
Today’s digital marketplace has become increasingly customer-centric. Modern customers demand authentic, valuable content over more traditional marketing content that resembles a sales pitch. So, how can marketers deliver the content buyers crave? We say, embrace user-generated content. If you’re new to user-generated content, keep reading! Today’s blog post will tell you everything you need to know.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 24, 2018
Joining us on SBI TV is Doris Raimundi, SVP of Consumer Banking Sales and Support for US Bank. In today’s show, Doris details how to orchestrate a world class customer experience. Why this topic? The customer experience trend is sweeping.
No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 16, 2018
The best prospecting strategies require a human touch. Buyers know everything about our companies, products, and solutions before they ever speak to a salesperson. Believe that? Far too many sales reps do. They think that digital rules. So, they spend most of their time staring at screens—doing demos, sending emails, and interacting on social media.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 31, 2018
Author: Chris Westfall It’s no secret that the richest man in modern history, Jeff Bezos, has outlawed PowerPoint for all employees at Amazon. Replacing the venerable Microsoft product with multi-page memos may or may not be a future-proof strategy, but it’s now the law at Seattle’s largest company. At Amazon, meetings begin with a narrative-style memo (no bullet points) that’s handed out to all participants.
Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego
Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.
MTD Sales Training
AUGUST 10, 2018
A salesperson on one of our workshops was bemoaning the fact that he had to make between 100 and 150 cold calls a week. He wanted our opinion on how to get more leads without having to cold call. My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be.
DiscoverOrg Sales
AUGUST 23, 2018
The average American will spend up to 50 minutes browsing through social media today. This means the average user spends approximately 6 hours a week, or 303 hours a year, browsing over Facebook updates, Linkedin notifications, and an abundant amount of tweets. More important: Those 303 hours of social browsing are sales opportunities for you. Social selling is when sales professionals use their social network to communicate with prospects and develop relationships to solve problems and achieve
Zoominfo
AUGUST 8, 2018
For many sales reps, productivity is key to sales success. The more calls you make, the more deals you close. So, if your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking how much time you waste on non-selling activities. In a typical day, we’d be shocked if you spend 8 hours on the phone. After all, you’re not a robot. And even before you can pick up the phone to contact decision-makers, you must conduct a significant amount of research. .
SBI Growth
AUGUST 23, 2018
On July, 17 1955 it was well over 100 degrees in Anaheim, CA on the first day in the original Magic Kingdom. Women’s heels were melting into the asphalt, and people were thirsty but there wasn’t enough to drink. Yet.
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!
No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 23, 2018
A Complete Guide to Putting the “Social” Back in Social Selling. Social selling has finally (and dangerously) reached buzzword status. Dangerously, because there are misperceptions about what it means, how to do it, and just as importantly, how not to do it. Misperceptions, because salespeople have forgotten the social part of social selling. Instead, they pitch, spam, annoy their contacts, and think that’s actually helping them sell.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 23, 2018
Author: Steve Woods, Nudge.ai Co-founder and CTO The fear-mongering is everywhere; artificial intelligence will replace humans and kill jobs by automating the things that we do. It’s effective click-bait because it seems like the plot of a Hollywood action movie pitting robots against humans. But, is it reality? To get to the answer of that question, we need to dig beneath the surface and understand what artificial intelligence is all about, and what it is likely to do to each industry that it a
MTD Sales Training
AUGUST 13, 2018
There are many times when a client tries to intimidate or get the better of salespeople. Whether it’s because they feel they have to in order to get a better deal, or their ego is associated with getting one over someone else, or some other rationale, they feel the need to do something that gains them a ‘win’ of some sorts. One way they do this is to keep negotiating a discount , no matter what figure you have dropped or discounted to.
Understanding the Sales Force
AUGUST 7, 2018
My latest data mining project reveals that the answer to this question is a partial correlation. Check out the two tables below and you'll see just what I mean.
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.
The Pipeline
AUGUST 14, 2018
By Tibor Shanto. A sales process is a document that attempts to bring a roadmap, some objective order to an otherwise all too subjective affair. It is not a divine document passed on to Chuck Heston by a white-bearded guy or your VP of Sales. Following the process blindly is not a recipe for success. I know many of you are shaking your heads saying “duh, we know that Tibor.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 15, 2018
Joining us on the SBI Podcast is Sarah Kennedy Ellis, the Chief Marketing Officer for Marketo. In today’s show, Sarah details how to apply the discipline of revenue attribution to marketing. Why this topic? CEOs, CMOs and CROs need to understand.
No More Cold Calling
AUGUST 9, 2018
Find out how to unclog your sales pipeline. Let me guess. Your lead generation process plays out like this: You don’t have enough leads in your pipe, and your reps aren’t calling high enough. You can’t count on accurate forecasts when pipelines are unqualified, so you’re never really sure whether your team will make quota until it’s too late. Big problem—the kind of problem that will keep a sales leader up at night, or worse, get a sales leader canned.
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