SBI Growth
MAY 21, 2020
Whether you are about to go on a first date or preparing for a discovery call with a prospect – first impressions matter. Regardless if it is from their initial website visit to their first discovery call, the prospects’ experience.
Score More Sales
MAY 6, 2020
You have leveled out and adjusted to the new reality of selling today. Great job -- but what happens now?
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InsightSquared
MAY 6, 2020
What is the difference between effectiveness and efficiency in sales? When it comes to B2B sales tools, efficiency is prioritized more so than effectiveness. But what do you gain by reps generating more meetings if they are all mediocre at best? Efficiency and effectiveness are both buzzwords popularly used by CEOs and Sales VPs to chart the course of their organization.
No More Cold Calling
MAY 28, 2020
Please take care of yourself. “ The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of superficial online communications at a time people are hungry for true personal connection.” That’s my favorite quote from David Meerman Scott’s insightful article, “ The 2020s: From the Lonely Chaos of Digital to an Era of Humanity.”. You’ve heard the same message from me throughout this century: Salespeople have become overly reliant on technology to do their jobs.
Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick
Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.
Sales 2.0
MAY 29, 2020
Stormy clouds covering the Serengeti while on game-drive on the way to Seronera. We are starting to reopen but it’s pretty clear things will be different. Things will be some kind of new but not the same as before. The good news is that some things will be better. than before. Sometimes it takes a big kick in the pants to change people and this crisis has certainly been that for many of us.
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Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 10, 2020
Author: Dave Gerry From the U.S. and the U.K. to France and Japan, global companies and global communities everywhere have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies amid the spread of COVID-19. This shift to the home office has become the new normal for many of us for the foreseeable future as we wait out the pandemic. One study released prior to the pandemic indicated that 63% of companies had remote workers; that figure has only skyrocketed this year.
SBI Growth
MAY 7, 2020
As a sales leader, you have most certainly heard the words “Customer Success,” especially if you are a sales leader for a subscription-based technology company. Some companies tout customer success as the critical driver of their growth.
MTD Sales Training
MAY 15, 2020
We’re all looking for the silver bullet technique when it comes to increasing our sales but we can also learn a great deal from those salespeople who make the most mistakes! We’re often looking for “what to do.” Just as powerful is knowing “what not to do.” Here’s 18 sales mistakes that poor salespeople make. How many are you guilty of?
Sales Hacker
MAY 22, 2020
Looking for a prospecting email template you can easily personalize and that works for almost any situation? Keep reading to learn the simple, one-size-fits-all template that my team uses with huge success. In other words, it’s been proven in the trenches. That’s key, because as you and I both know, if you’re sending a prospecting email to just one prospect, you might be able to write an email so personal that the recipient may mistake you for a childhood friend.
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Anthony Iannarino
MAY 13, 2020
These things are within your control. Focusing on the things that are within your control is the best response to a world that is out of control. Sleep: If you want to feel a lot better, have much more energy, be a lot more productive, and do better work, there may not be anything more important than getting a good night’s sleep. We underestimate how important sleep is to our overall health and our performance.
Sales 2.0
MAY 6, 2020
There are some green shoots of spring out there. Some sales inquiries are finally coming in. Maybe the end of the world is not nigh. Time to breathe again. It’s possible that we are climbing out of the deepest part of the COVID-19 trough from a business perspective. Perhaps it’s time to breathe a huge sigh of relief and get back to partying like it’s 2019.
The Pipeline
MAY 13, 2020
By Tibor Shanto. We are all familiar with the concept of buyer’s remorse. It is the feeling of regret after a purchase, which usually grows with the value and importance of the purchase. Usually, these fade as the solution is implemented and some of the expected changes and benefits present themselves. Some sellers cope with this challenge better than others, many are about to experience their own form of regrets, namely Sellers’ Remorse.
Membrain
MAY 27, 2020
So, you’ve come to the conclusion that Salesforce is no longer the right tool for your team. It’s too big, too complex, too cumbersome, too expensive, too messy. Or you’ve simply decided that you’re ready for something that will truly enable your team to achieve world-class sales effectiveness.
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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.
Miller Heiman Group
MAY 26, 2020
Our Customer Experience Best Practices Study revealed that organizations reporting the most successful customer experiences—ones that lead to greater customer loyalty and higher spending per customer—have four key characteristics in common: They have executives who walk the talk. Their customer experience practices translate strategy into action. They follow journey maps that eliminate silos between marketing, sales and service teams.
Engage Selling
MAY 22, 2020
We were taught at a very early age to never make assumptions. However, I still encounter salespeople who make assumptions all the time.
Sales 2.0
MAY 20, 2020
Urban crowds of people from above. This is entirely 3D generated image. If you didn’t believe that we humans are connected before COVID-19, you should now. As you know, the virus has been transmitting itself exponentially through populations around the world. The only thing that has slowed its progress has been implementing some form of social distancing.
Anthony Cole Training
MAY 15, 2020
In today's blog, we discuss the notion that effective sales leadership requires leaders to meet the challenge during times of major change.
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Engage Selling
MAY 15, 2020
Has your team started honing their remote selling abilities? That is, are you and your sales team prepared for the inevitable “virtualization” of sales that was already well underway prior to the pandemic?
MTD Sales Training
MAY 3, 2020
Order Taker? Trusted Advisor? Or Cheese Monster? How do your customers view you? From the customer’s point of view there are 4 types of relationships that they have with their suppliers. And if you can progress through each of the stages I’m about to describe below you can really make a huge difference to their business and your own profits.
No More Cold Calling
MAY 14, 2020
Do you know where your clients are? It’s not always about revenue growth. Wow, did I really say that? It surprises me, too, but different times call for different approaches. I was struggling with a new way to position referral selling during a recession. I knew companies needed to trim costs across the board. Laying employees off was just a first step.
The Pipeline
MAY 25, 2020
Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #11 – Guest Steve Gielda. Steve Gielda , is the co-founder and CEO of Ignite Selling, and someone I have been looking forward to having on the podcast. Most salespeople do not know why they win or lose deals. If they win it is their charm, personality, and relationship. If they lose, it is price features. If you don’t know why things turned out the way they did, then you’re bound to do it the same again and again.
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Sales 2.0
MAY 1, 2020
Don’t panic. We will return to normalish, at some point. We will start selling at some reasonable rate again, soonish. Budgets will be back in place and buyers will need things, in a little whileish. When all this happens, you may easily forget the lessons of this panic/pandemic. One of these lessons I believe is that big customers are good. Big fish have big wallets.
SBI Growth
MAY 15, 2020
The need for agility in the execution of customer pursuit efforts has never been greater. With revenues virtually falling to zero in many industries, CEOs and CROs (including your competitors) are working to maximize revenue from their customer base. This.
The Sales Heretic
MAY 13, 2020
Stories and case studies are powerful sales tools. They give us opportunities to showcase how wonderful our product or service is. They provide proof of our abilities and enable our prospects to see themselves benefitting just as our previous customers have. There’s just one problem with them. Everyone’s stories are the same. Here’s what I [.].
Understanding the Sales Force
MAY 20, 2020
You might be aware that I'm leading a one-hour, live broadcast tomorrow (Thursday May 21) on How to Get Your Company's Sales Engine Roaring Again.
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No More Cold Calling
MAY 21, 2020
Do you know your referral gap quotient? Steve had a referral program. (Or so he thought.) He proudly told me that 30 percent of his company’s business came from referrals. “How did that happen?” I asked. He explained that whenever clients moved to a new company, they always brought his team in. “Terrific,” I said. “What about your account executives?
The Pipeline
MAY 6, 2020
By Tibor Shanto. Sometimes things fall into place even during a pandemic. This coming Monday, May 11, I have the pleasure of having Jeff Bajorek as my guest on the Sales Scrum podcast. It turns out that since that was recorded, he has written a new book you will want to grab. It’s called When It Goes Sideways , a book with swagger. Before we dig in, some of you will know Jeff, he is a consultant, author of The Five Forgotten Fundamentals of Prospecting, co-host of The Why and The Buy Podcast.
Sales 2.0
MAY 14, 2020
I have to admit that I’m doing this right now. I am looking for contact information in some target enterprise accounts. It takes time. If you’re not careful, a lot of time. And I’ve done this many (many) times in my sales career and used many (many) hours of time on this. And I know many senior sales people that have spent lots of time on this too. If you’re going to sell an enterprise account, you have to do this contact research, so what’s the discussion?
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