Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Author: Tim Houlihan In my conversation with Jana Gallus from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, we examined the ways that precision impacts the effectiveness of rewards. Her research points to important aspects of how rewards, the signals they send and their efficacy are affected by precision. In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A successful career in sales is not for the faint of heart. According to a Bridge Group study , the annual turnover rate for sales professionals is 34.7%. When you consider that the average onboarding and ramp-up time for a sales professional is nine months or more, that turnover rate starts to have serious consequences for individual sales teams and the revenue they’re responsible for.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Even cold techniques turbocharged with boatloads of technology get harder-and-harder every day as everyone gets the technology and the arms race for a better sales stack escalates.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Anyone that has ever led a sales organization of any size has probably experienced the feeling of realizing you are not going to make your number. As a sales leader, this is your primary objective; it is what drives any.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Tibor Shanto. To Check-in, or not to, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The silence of unmanaged fortunes and opportunities, Or to take arms against a sea of pundits. And by opposing end them – Check-in and know, know more; and by making the call uncover the unknown! A great frustration for salespeople is when an engaged buyer turns aloof, going radio silence – transponders off.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Who would you rather talk to? A new person who you haven’t met before, or a close friend? Who do you trust more? A salesperson you’ve never seen trying to sell you something you’ve never bought, or someone you’ve known for some time and with whom you have great rapport. Who would you rather sell to? Someone who has never heard of you, or an existing customer who knows you, your products and your reputation?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Author: Toby Murdock Seeking peer recommendations before making a purchase or signing an agreement is nothing new – it’s been part of commerce since the beginning. From farmers asking their neighbors for advice on the best cattle feed suppliers to celebrities promoting toothpaste in television commercials, another customer’s experience is a powerful endorsement.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The words we use affect the way we think. Positive, uplifting words can induce a positive, uplifting mood and an optimistic approach to tasks. Negative, depressing words can have the opposite effect.

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Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In last week’s CONNECT2Sell blog post, we got an overview of why communication skills are so crucial to sales success. In fact, out of all the soft skills required for selling, communication skills may be the most important of all. The surprising takeaway is that there are a minimum of 20 specific skills under that broad umbrella of communication.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

By Tibor Shanto. Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. It like others prophesied that the size of the B2B sales population in North America would shrink by 25%.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

You don’t have to work 60-hour weeks to be successful. My niece quit her job because she couldn’t handle the 60-hour workweeks while raising a family. She was stressed, had a short fuse, and didn’t smile much. I was getting increasingly worried about her health and was relieved when she quit. Sure, it was scary for her family for a while. One income was suddenly gone.

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Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

I shared a link on Facebook of a casual family get together where the entire family sung one of my all-time favourites “One More Day” from the epic Les Mis. Twice I watched it and twice I felt goosebumps. Why? It couldn’t just be the fact that this family has AMAZING musical genes when it comes to harmony! Could it be because music finds something within us?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Many CEOs often ask us while planning for 2020, “what’s the secret marketing sauce? What’s worked for your other clients when it comes to the marketing mix? What isn’t working?” And as most CMOs can agree, there’s no such thing.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Most sales managers lack the skills, tools and methodology to effectively coach their team so the reps just try to ‘wing it’ as best they can. Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door? (I've actually done that by accident - twice!).

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

By Tibor Shanto. No joke, I think people in sales and the industries around it, need to lighten up a bit. I know sales is a high-stake endeavour, but it gets that much more difficult if you forget to laugh. It’s one thing to take the activity seriously, it’s another to take oneself too seriously. The same people who will tell you people buy from people are quick to forget one of the most human of attributes, humor.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Put people before technology in your prospecting. Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy. Sales strategy isn’t yours or mine. It’s your company’s strategy for attracting customers. Not much has changed over the years. An executive reads the latest book and declares the precepts in the book are the company’s new strategy.

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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.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. However, when you presented your proposal it seems as though everything became silent, time began to slow down and tension filled the air as you anxiously waited for the prospect’s decision.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Author: Carmen Simon People act on what they remember, not what they forget. The latest scientific research places memory at the heart of decision-making. Studies show that in the process of making a decision, your brain predicts the rewards of a choice based on past memories, and then uses that information to make the most favorable decision. Simply put: Your brain is a prediction engine.

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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I regularly receive friend requests on Facebook. Most of them I ignore. (And many I report for being spam.) But if the person sending the request has a lot of friends in common with me—say a hundred or so—I’ll usually accept the request, because that person is typically also a professional speaker or trainer. (Many [.].

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Now that you’ve defined and kicked off your strategy for the year, it’s time to take a look at your team’s operational efficiency. Where are you getting bogged down? What are the biggest pain points in your processes? Through our.

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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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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

By Tibor Shanto. I see many salespeople march through the first quarter, heads down working their plan. As we all know, Q1 is pivotal; as it goes, usually, the others will follow. Precisely why I think we should be much more hands-on with our pipeline in Q1. It is not too early to consider spring cleaning. We should flush our pipelines a lot earlier in the year than most will want to.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Is there a marketing discipline with more variables than content marketing? For one, content marketers have so many different formats and types of content to play around with. The benefits of producing marketing content are proven — but unlike other marketing initiatives, content is difficult to connect to your typical revenue metrics. Simply put, marketers […].

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Connect2Sell

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Listening well improves business results, including sales. Consider these findings: A study of 267 leading U.S. businesses found that upgrading team members’ communication effectiveness is associated with a 30% improvement in the organization’s market value. Fortune 500s lose an estimated $15,000 per employee per year due to miscommunication. This adds up to over $50 million in annual losses.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they know what they want. B2B companies need to switch from a mentality of “here’s what we’re selling” to “we understand what you need.

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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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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Study after study has found that the #1 buying factor is confidence. More than anything else, people choose the brand, the product, and the salesperson they have the most confidence in. Which is why it’s so critical for you to be confident when interacting with prospects: Because confidence is contagious. The more confident you are, [.].

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Historically, discussions about “the customer experience” have been code for “let’s talk about some quick wins to improve our renewal rates before the end of the next quarter.” But more recently, CX has joined product, marketing, and sales as another.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sales Scrum: Guest Warren Shapiro. In this episode, I have the pleasure to interview Warren Shapiro , a seasoned recruiter who helps both employers and employees break through the barriers to success. In the conversation, Shapiro highlights how advancements in technology and changing attitudes and client expectations, can help employers hire people more likely to succeed and stay longer.

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