Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 28, 2022
Sales training workshops are often critical cultural touchpoints, allowing salespeople and sales leaders to come together. Here are three musts to ensure that your next sales training workshop is as effective as it can be.
Steven Rosen
APRIL 18, 2022
Hiring Top Performers Post-COVID Recovery . Hiring top performers has always been the lifeblood of any sales organization. COVID has changed sales forever. The 3 most important questions that we need to address when making hiring decisions for a sales position are: Can the candidate effectively sell virtually? Is the candidate agile enough to adapt based on the customer’s needs?
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Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 4, 2022
Helping buyers perceive the value that your company, product or service offers them is one of the most significant things you can do to ensure a positive buying decision. In fact, your ability to convey meaningful value is what keeps potential clients engaged and motivated throughout the process and thus more likely to say yes. […]. The post To Convey More Value to Buyers, Ask The Right Questions appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
SBI Growth
APRIL 6, 2022
Q1 is over and a strong indication of how the remainder of 2022 will unfold. Sales bookings are the starting point for predictable and sustained revenue performance, thus, having a consistent forecasting and pipeline process allows executives to adequately drive business objectives aligned to revenue growth targets.
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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 20, 2022
How quickly can you determine why a salesperson is failing? Dinger loves to play catch with his ball. He has seven of them but loves his white ball the most. When we're out playing catch and I point to a ball and say, "there it is" or "right there" or "get it" he just can't seem to find it! Dinger has good listening skills but his ability to see the obvious isn't very good.
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Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 21, 2022
Research shows that money is NOT the primary motivator for success in sales, ESPECIALLY with today's younger generations. Here are 3 Keys to help sales managers and top producers bust the myth that “enough is enough” to continue to see great sales success.
Steven Rosen
APRIL 4, 2022
Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. They would observe calls, ask questions to help the sales rep evaluate what worked well and didn’t work, and have the rep come up with ways they would commit to improving their selling skills. The most significant impact of COVID on salespeople was the shift from face-to-face to virtual sales calls.
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 27, 2022
Aligning your marketing and sales teams is crucial, as companies with aligned teams are 67% more efficient at closing deals and achieve up to 38% higher win rates in sales. The post How to Align Your Email Messaging With Sales Conversations appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
SBI Growth
APRIL 27, 2022
Even with improved systems and increased investments in SalesTech, data is often exported into spreadsheets for Sales Ops or Sales Leaders to perform additional analysis—applying their own judgment to probabilities and timing. The reality is that no one knows which opportunities will close or when—that’s why it’s called a forecast. With inaccurate predictions, forecast accuracy is frequently cited as a top concern for Sales Leaders, CEOs, and the Board.
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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 4, 2022
I find ideas and material for this Blog everywhere, especially when I'm not looking for them. Yesterday I received a daily email from a Paul Reddick, a baseball coach who was drumming up some business for his baseball institute. It resonated - not for its baseball coaching - but as sales coaching. Here's what it said: If your coach is talking about any of the pitching flaws that you see listed above….
Go for No!
APRIL 28, 2022
No one wants to look desperate. We all know that salespeople desperate to make a sale, do not attract people. If anything, through gut-level instinct, it turns them off. The reality is that one of two situations exist. One, you really aren’t desperate. Great! So, don’t act in a way that looks desperate like: Don’t beg. (“If you could please, please buy just this once, I would owe you.”).
Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 14, 2022
In all moments of selling, there are many things that can go wrong. And when something goes wrong, it is in fact time to say “Houston, we have a problem.” But who is the “we” that caused the problem?
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 18, 2022
Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? Sadly, too many are focused only on the order. In this world, the ideal thing is the customer has educated themselves, is knowledgeable, may have a few final questions and issues (price is always the key one), and the customer makes a buying decision. We do everything we can to position our products favorably, but the reality is the customer has probably made up their mind.
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This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 18, 2022
Customer health dashboards are one of the critical keys to durable revenue growth. However, creating an effective customer health score and supporting dashboard is not a one-time project. The post 6 Steps to Launching Your Customer Health Dashboard appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
SBI Growth
APRIL 13, 2022
Pipeline Management is a critical exercise with which many organizations struggle. But those high-growth companies with consistent and disciplined pipeline management outperform their competition by 1.5x. As CEOs evolve into commercial visionaries, executive teams are regularly reviewing out-of-quarter pipeline; involving their counterparts in Marketing, Product, Business Development, and Pricing to proactively get a foothold on weak areas and holistically solve for potential challenges.
Membrain
APRIL 13, 2022
In the sales profession, the main focus is how to win more customers. Sometimes, it’s about how to better serve customers and build trusting relationships. Even less often, it’s about how we can serve employees and create a better environment for them to work in.
Force Management
APRIL 6, 2022
The past few years led to drastic shifts in hiring and recruitment process, impacting organizations of all sizes and in all industries. More recently, it has been imperative that organizations have a strategic approach in order to hire and retain top performers. Ensure you’re hiring the right talent for growth and at the same time creating an environment that supports your people’s success.
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.
SocialSellinator
APRIL 17, 2022
Why You Should Run Ads on Search Engines. If you're not running ads on search engines, you're missing out on a huge opportunity to reach new customers. Search engine advertising is one of the most effective ways to reach potential customers who are actively looking for what you have to offer. And when it comes to search engine advertising, Microsoft Ads (formerly known as Bing Ads) is a great option.
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 2, 2022
We know that most complex B2B buying is a consensus process. Everybody in the buying group has to align around a set of goals in order to make a buying decision. We, also, know the buying group tends to grow. It’s somewhere in the “mid-teens” for large complex buying decisions. As sellers. we typically reach out to as many people in the buying organization as we can.
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 11, 2022
Sales slumps happen. it's important for managers to know how to help their reps get out of a slump as soon as possible. The post 8 Tips To Help End Sales Slumps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Julie Hanson
APRIL 19, 2022
Video can be a powerful sales outreach tool — but only if the prospect watches it. A great headline can get your video opened, but a lackluster delivery or execution will get you quickly deleted. As the number of videos sent out by sellers has exploded, prospects have become more ruthless about what videos they choose to watch. So “how do you record a prospect video that gets watched?
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!
Membrain
APRIL 10, 2022
At the peak of my Solution Selling business, in the mid-90s, I was speaking to one of our clients. He was the VP of Sales of an enterprise B2B salesforce of 200 reps, and he was frustrated. He was selling highly complex software as a service application to chemical, drug, and oil companies.
Shari Levitin
APRIL 21, 2022
When I first started selling over the telephone, I couldn’t figure out why it was more difficult to build trust and rapport with my customers over the phone than in person. After all, they could hear the sincerity of my voice, and I made my offering about them. (Ok, I didn’t start that young!) To build trust with customers virtually, we need to leverage online tools to augment the subtle physical and psychological cues our mind uses to build trust.
SocialSellinator
APRIL 7, 2022
What Past Marketing Successes Can Teach Us for Today. Marketing is constantly evolving, and to stay ahead of the curve, you need to be constantly learning new strategies. In this blog post, we will take a look at 10 of the best marketing campaigns from 2020. These campaigns utilized cutting-edge tactics like social media and digital marketing and achieved amazing results.
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 1, 2022
I just received a note from Amazon. I had just bought a Kindle book. Along with the order acknowledgment, they congratulated me on earning a book credit of $1.40. I get those, often, but for some reason I paid attention to the email today. What leapt out to me was the fact that I had to use this credit in a very short period of time, otherwise it would expire.
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 28, 2022
In this podcast, we talk with Julie Thomas, president and CEO of ValueSelling Associates, which recently published an eBook on a study they completed called "The Behaviors and Skills Sales Leaders Care Most About - and How to Measure Them.". The post The Behaviors and Skills Sales Leaders Care Most About appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
RAIN Group
APRIL 22, 2022
Sellers who win consistently plan to win from the start. They're methodical in their approach to opportunities. They carefully map their sales process to the buyer's, set goals for every meeting, and do an exceptional job of communicating value.
Membrain
APRIL 3, 2022
When one loves to explore data and has access to a huge database of salespeople over 685,000 strong, what happens? Well, for me, I can’t help myself. I frequently analyze elements from that database. Recently, I went mining for insights on consultative selling.
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