Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Sales teams have long viewed the legal department as an impediment to quickly closing deals, but the legal team is actually a valuable asset in accelerating deal velocity. The post Contract Playbooks: The Key to Accelerating Sales Velocity appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 4, 2023
There are four key performance indicators I recommend everyone keep a weekly focus on. If you are a manager who does weekly individual focus meetings with your AE's or if you are a manager managing managers, these four things will help you keep the focus of the individual and the team on things that are crucial in moving the needle. These four essential metrics will tell you if you are on track for success.
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The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Have you ever felt like being a manager is a lot like juggling? And right when you think you’ve got all the balls in the air… whoops! When it’s the sudden departure of a top performer, it can make you literally drop everything! So, what can you do?
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 14, 2023
It’s interesting to see continued predictions of the death of selling. There are all sorts of variations. Some focus on PLG types of approaches, where the product sells itself–at least until one wants to scale that to the enterprise level. Others see the preference of buyers for rep-free buying experiences and digital buying processes as evidence that selling is no longer necessary.
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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.
Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 1, 2023
There are two sides to this topic of motivation. One side is how are your salespeople motivated and what motivates them. The second side is how effective are you as a sales leader at motivating your sales team? Both must be addressed to fully understand this topic of motivation and the impact on sales results.
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SBI Growth
DECEMBER 14, 2023
With a more optimistic 2024 ahead, most CEOs are ready to actively pursue growth, including a shift toward higher expenses and more investments in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). However, shaky confidence in their Go-to-Market (GTM) leadership teams may pose new challenges for CEOs, demanding companies remain focused on their growth objectives despite transitional disruptions.
Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This is what it takes to be successful at building and achieving sales team excellence: You must love coaching and the game of selling. You must thrive on developing others to be the best versions of themselves. It must be about helping others gain the spotlight, success and financial rewards or a job well done. It requires sacrificing ego and the need to be right for the other person to discover their path, develop their skills and become the expert.
Force Management
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A channel program is an effective way to increase your capacity and expand market share, helping you reach your growth goals faster. When executed well, your channel program will decrease the cost of a sale, improve reach into new markets, and grow overall seller capacity without increasing internal headcount. However, backing your program with the right resources will be critical to its success.
Smooth Sale
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Photo by AllClear55 Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Use Sales Secrets to Exceed Your Goals? Success in any endeavor requires systematic goal setting, tracking progress, and keen attention to the annoying details. Upfront, it all seems highly time-consuming, especially when one would prefer speaking with prospective clientele. However, when you are willing to establish a rhythm for prioritizing the details, you will realize success far more quickly than ever before.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Misalignment between sales and marketing continues to drag on performance of these crucial functions. Here's how to get them working together. The post Marketing and Sales Still Aren’t Aligned appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Mr. Inside Sales
DECEMBER 23, 2023
2024 is just around the corner. What are your plans to make this your best year in sales ever? Here are three things I did all those years ago that changed my sales career, and my life, forever: #1) For the first ninety days in 2024, make a commitment to listening to at least ONE call a day. Listen for three things: What you did well—do more of that!
Understanding the Sales Force
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Welcome to my annual list of the best sales and sales leadership content of 2023. This year’s list has thirteen entries, including articles, videos, and LinkedIn posts. There are several categories including Most Read, Most Liked, Most Engagement, Best Quality and Personal Favorite. Ready? 2023 saw more content than ever before and that certainly includes the sales space.
Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 21, 2023
I am enjoying reading the book Selling to the C-Suite by Nicholas A.C. Read and Stephen J. Bistritz. The book is an excellent summary of how selling to C-Suite executives is so dramatically different from selling in the lower levels of a company. As always, I hope you have developed the habit of reading as it allows you to share fellowship with great minds.
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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.
SBI Growth
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Invest in creating value for your customers and your customers will become more invested in your brand in return. As a company that enjoys 97% penetration into its target market through all its various solutions, customer success and customer marketing become central to symplr’s approach to continued value creation.
No More Cold Calling
DECEMBER 7, 2023
How asking for referrals will drive your revenue in 2024 How many people should you ask for referrals to get five new clients? No more than 20. In my experience, at least half the people you ask for referrals will introduce you to your ideal prospect. Referred prospects convert to clients a minimum 50 percent of the time (most salespeople tell me it’s closer to 70 percent).
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The relationship between employer and employee has been tested repeatedly since the pandemic. Leveraging AI responsibly can put organizations in a position of advantage for successfully adapting to the evolving landscape of work. The post AI and HR: How Technology Is Changing the Hiring Process appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Mr. Inside Sales
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Do you remember Dicken’s book, A Christmas Carol ? While reading this this December, it reminded me of an encounter I had that was a chilling reminder of the bad “Ghost of Christmas Future” I narrowly avoided all those years ago. Here’s what happened: I was on my way to consult with a new client one day when I stopped at Starbucks for a cup of coffee.
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.
Membrain
DECEMBER 27, 2023
As we wrap up the final days of 2023, I wanted to take a few minutes to review the year and offer my gratitude to everyone who made this the best one yet. Despite a difficult economy that continues to drag on, we doubled revenues from two years ago, launched several major additions to our product, and got in deeper with our partners to deliver big wins for clients.
Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 28, 2023
As we head towards the New Year of 2024, with volatile world events all around us, it is a perfect time to think about and focus on what you can affect and act on, in your personal and professional life to improve your relationships and results. This idea of reviewing what you should keep doing, start doing, and stop doing is borrowed from a past client of ours so we must give them credit.
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Time is a problem. We never have enough. And regardless what we do, we never will. Whatever time we tend free up, is immediately filled with something else and we become time poor, once again. We have endless tools and technologies, increasingly assisted by AI, enabling us to accomplish more in each hour. The goal of each of these is increasing our efficiency.
Nutshell
DECEMBER 8, 2023
A landing page builder is a tool that helps you create landing pages for your paid ads and emails. Some of the best landing pages include Unbounce, Intsapage, and Wix. To learn more detailed info, keep reading! What do paid advertising and email marketing have in common? Well, there are actually multiple answers. But one thing they share is landing pages.
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!
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Risk is part of being in business, but you must be ready to react positively to industry influences and marketplace changes with risk-abating solutions. The post Risk Avoidance as a Competitive Advantage appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Force Management
DECEMBER 6, 2023
This month, the Revenue Builders podcast features conversations with some truly inspiring leaders. In their discussions with John Kaplan and John McMahon, these leaders shared stories of leading and scaling some of the most influential sales organizations of our time. They didn't always get it right on the first try, but now their lessons can be yours too.
Allego
DECEMBER 20, 2023
I’m willing to bet you’re like me when it comes to buying something, whether it’s a new pair of boots or enterprise software. You want to go through the process on your own. You want to research the different options, read reviews, watch videos, and compare prices by yourself. Until you get the point where you must talk with a salesperson. Today’s B2B buyers are the same.
Smooth Sale
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Photo by photo-graphe Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Prepare Today for Better New Year Results There is hope for a better tomorrow when we push ourselves to find the light among the darkness we may experience. Not everything meets our expectations, and disappointment is ours. However, when we realize why and how the errors take place, we can adjust future approaches to come out feeling like a star.
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.
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Recently, just to try something different, I signed up for a cooking class. The family is getting together for the Holidays, I knew we would be spending a lot of time cooking. Usually, my task is to supply the wine and wash the dishes. I wanted to contribute to preparing the meal, so I decided to take a cooking class. There was a group of about 10 of us, with varying degrees of experience.
Nutshell
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Keeping your company’s contact information up-to-date and workflows synced across your tech stack is critical for success. That’s why we’re excited to introduce AppConnect , our new add-on to help your business connect your CRM data with the apps you already use and get more out of Nutshell. Nutshell already provides a library of native integrations and thousands more middleware integrations through Zapier.
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The rapid adoption of AI is quickening the pace necessary to retrain workers across all departments. Whose job is it and how is it best tackled? The post Workforce Training for the AI Era appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
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