Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 24, 2021

We are finally doing things we haven't done for quite a while including dining inside restaurants, flying, staying in hotels, going to and hosting parties, attending packed stadiums for sporting events and more. Something else we haven't done for quite a while is revisit Objective Management Group's (OMG) sales selection statistics on the percentage of people that are recommended for various selling and sales management roles.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

Why I made referral selling my life’s work. The year was 1996. I was working for a global consulting and training firm. The economy was booming, and my colleagues encouraged me to go out on my own. I had no name for my company, but I knew my focus. I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales and Marketing Management has a premier opportunity for a sharp, experienced b2b media sales professional with a healthy work ethic on a contract basis. The post B2B Media Sales Opportunity With One Of The Most Prestigious Brands In The Sales And Marketing Space appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 9, 2021

In years past, if you wanted to build out or strengthen your sales organization, you could simply offer higher compensation than your competitors. The higher sales cost would be greatly outweighed by the revenue that high-performing sales professionals would drive.

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October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 17, 2021

Then make it safe to be ambitious and safe to miss targets. Guest Post by – Matt Roberts. Yes, you did read that correctly. I am proposing that you make it safe to miss a sales target. Hear me out. I have some research that makes this a great debate to have in your sales team right now. Psychological Safety is important to team performance. It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 11, 2021

Walter and I attended a recent Boston Red Sox / Houston Astros game at Fenway Park. It was my first visit to Fenway Park since 2019 and it was exciting to see most of the seats filled. It was exciting to hear all of the fan noise that has been missing for so long but there was one fan in particular that I heard louder than all of the others. Starting in the fourth inning, Timmy, the eight-year-old Astros fan sitting next to me, didn't stop chatting with me for the remainder of the game.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2021

Plus, what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling. I learned a lot more about gratitude after recently celebrating the 25th anniversary of No More Cold Calling. People told me how much I impacted their lives and businesses. Colleagues I’d known for years and years expressed their appreciation for my work. One person even said that referral selling changed the trajectory of his business.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2021

Text messages invoke strong customer engagement, don't compete with spam, and reach prospects where they're at. The post Cut through the Clutter with Text Message Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 20, 2021

SBI recently held its first Chief Financial Officer Growth Forum to bring together like-minded finance executives to discuss common challenges and share best practices with their peers. These growth-focused CFOs gathered in an intimate virtual setting to discuss the following.

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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.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 29, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. I have always said that ‘demo’ is a four-letter word, as bad as any. Not the act of doing ‘a demo’, but more about timing and the purpose for one. All the people that came before you have taught buyers some bad habits. As always, you have a choice. You can cop out, and do the demo you think they want, or deliver a demo that moves deals?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 10, 2021

Knowing how and where to reach our target persona will positively impact our ability to hunt, qualify, and discover potential new business.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 1, 2021

May 29 was the day that nearly all COVID restrictions were lifted here Massachusetts. How liberating! Or so I thought. I went to the grocery store and was stunned to discover that I was the only person in the store not wearing a mask. Either everyone in the store was unvaccinated, didn't believe the vaccine would protect them, or they were afraid to go out in public without the mask.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 24, 2021

How to ask for referrals and other FAQs. After more than 25 years as an expert on referral sales, I’m still asked exactly the same referral selling questions today. (Maybe even more frequently than before.) I’m going to answer them right now. In no particular order, here are the most common referral selling questions I hear … 1. How do I get over my reluctance to ask for referrals?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2021

Are you considering retooling your technology for a digital sales future? That future has arrived and you're behind the curve. Here are five significant sales trends you can expect to continue throughout the current decade. The post The Digital Sales Revolution Has Happened. Is Your Team Keeping Pace? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 21, 2021

It is the middle of 2021. Half of the year is in the rear-view mirror, and COVID is still looming. Your numbers are not where you want them to be, sales productivity is decreasing, your sales team is asking for.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. One thing that great prospectors have in common, is an understanding that at first contact, we are an interruption. If your email, InMail or phone call is not scheduled, you are an interruption. You are about to cost them 23 minutes of productivity , like it or not. That initial interruption is never welcome, leading many sellers to want to “normalize” the conversation too quickly.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Conversations have always been at the heart of our most authentic relationships. Whether it’s a business deal or a personal connection, they are a driving force to solidify a foundation of trust. Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 15, 2021

We attended last night's Red Sox Game. Unlike most games at Fenway Park, this contest was a pitcher's duel and the Red Sox held a fragile 1-0 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays heading into the top of the 9th inning. The Red Sox closer, Matt Barnes came in and quickly struck-out the first two batters and that brought up the best hitter in the major leagues, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

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Grant Cardone

JUNE 17, 2021

Do you like money? How would you like to make even more of it by either exiting your company or working less and making more money? In my lifetime, I’ve owned 7 businesses and every one of them – whether I decide to sell them or work less and keep my ownership – has an exit plan. . In this post, we’re talking about the two ways to 10x your business so y ou can either exit your business rich and never have to work again or make more money and work less.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2021

Sales development reps protect your account execs' time, but they need the right data to be effective. The post Sales Development Reps: Your Strategic Sales Superpower appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 12, 2021

A good account segmentation will keep the lights on, but a great segmentation is how market leaders surpass their competition. How does yours compare? On today’s show, we are joined by Malorie Feidner, Senior Consultant at SBI, to discuss what it takes to achieve.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. Does the world need yet another podcast? Normally I would side with the NO group, but in this case I’ll make an exception. As you know (or should know), I host a live broadcast every Friday morning called the “Breakfast For Champions.” It airs live on LinkedIn Live , YouTube live , and the usual outlets. And while it is available to view forever on YouTube or LinkedIn, you can’t take it on the go.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. By adding automation to these high-quality results, day-to-day sales and marketing efforts get easier, too. Savvy sales reps and marketers can take this approach to engage with leads earlier and stay ahead of their competitors.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 16, 2021

The Sales world is desperate for an upgrade. We’ve been holding on to, too many outmoded approaches, ideas, tropes, and concepts. It’s time sales let’s go of the tired and ineffective belief systems if we’re going to truly deliver the value we say we want to in the 21st-century. The biggest miss and most unsettling issue facing sales today is their brutal and debilitating contradicting view of what’s most important to sales AND the value of the CRM.

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John Barrows

JUNE 11, 2021

Our guest this week is Beth Waterfall, Executive Director @ Elevate Northeast & Founder of Beth Waterfall Creative. Beth is a thought leader on the legalization and advocacy of marijuana and provides education in this episode around the history of cannabis and how it affects our economy, psyche, wellbeing and lifestyle. John and Beth also discuss where the industry is headed and the opportunities the “Green Rush” presents.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Winning is an essential part of sales, and recognizing reps for big wins will not only make that person’s day but also improve company culture. The post The Vital Role of Motivation and Accountability on Your Sales Team appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 15, 2021

As a CMO, your time, attention, and budget have competing priorities. You and your team are focused on building a strong and credible brand. Your CEO and board are asking you to quantify the impact of your marketing budget. Your.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. In an effort to simplify things, sellers and marketers want to put people in neat categories and boxes. People are not that simple; their emotions and reactions change in many ways at different points in the cycle. Given most deals will involve multiple buyers, we need to consider how individuals evolve, and the interplay between them.

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