Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2018

We think it’s the company that sells the same as us, Or the paperwork we have to do, Or the meetings we have to run, Or the slackness of our admin team, Or the lack of urgency of our buyers. The real competition is ‘no change’. If we don’t move with times, Predict the future, Be prepared to read and learn, Ask better questions, If instead, we just…” Believe the world is flat, Or smoking won’t kill us, Or mindfulness is for hippies, Or our brains don’t need fuelling, We will become ou

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 23, 2018

Our guest today is Rob Hornish, the President of Americas Sales for Polycom. Rob has 20 years of sales leadership experience in the high-tech industry sector, with a proven record of building, scaling and developing high performing teams. Rob and.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 6, 2018

Develop a Coaching Culture. Hi, this is my fifth video on Sales Strategies to Crush Your Sales Numbers, I call it Develop a Coaching Culture. . In the last four video/blogs, I covered: Sales Strategy #1: Upgrading the skills of your front-line sales managers because you have a multiplier effect when their skills get better. Sales Strategy #2 Execute with Excellence because most companies do not execute with excellence.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 4, 2018

What’s your gratitude meter? As we begin the New Year, now is the perfect time to pay attention to what’s most important—the people in our lives. That means our clients and prospects, our families and friends, our colleagues. It’s time we remember the value of getting personal. Think about it this way: We don’t regret the text messages we don’t send or the work we don’t do.

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Connect2Sell

JANUARY 24, 2018

Buyers are looking for a BSB sales experience that's different. They’re looking for much more than a transaction. They're looking for an experience that is rich and meaningful and includes an opportunity for them to contribute. to take from the experience what's going to be useful for them. It needs to be relevant, and it needs to be something that involves an element of the unexpected.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 20, 2018

And the basics of selling are….? It’s a question I’ve asked a couple of times in workshops and online, and it’s a question that was triggered by a few ‘posts’ I read, stating that. salespeople today don’t execute on the basics. And my response was, what are the basics then? And as would have it on social, there was a plethora of responses, from which I randomly collected this bakers dozen: 1.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 4, 2018

Did you set the quotas right to drive revenue growth? The purpose of today’s show is to demonstrate how to link the company objectives to sales targets through quota setting. Leverage this use-case to evaluate how you set your quotas. John.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 3, 2018

If you want to crush your sales numbers Sales Strategy #2: Execute with Excellence is guaranteed to help. Number one, your marketing team is ready to go, they have their strategies, their plans in place and their budgets. As the Head of Sales, you are still in 2017 my friend but you really need to have your head in 2018 deciding what you are going to do.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sales leaders must take the rap. We used to hire account based sales reps, indoctrinate them with product knowledge and a smattering of business culture, and give them a few lead generation tools. Then we gave them a phone, a list, and, a desk, and expected them to figure out how to book meetings. They ended up cold calling. Frustrated, many of them left, and we started the process again.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

My love of all things college football comes in handy – even when it’s not football season. As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. It works. I consistently gets a response rate of 60% – and an engagement rate of 80%. (Check out my post, How to Heat Up Cold Emails with Personalization.).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Opinion: Research shows that millennial cadets' digital skills don't help them on the virtual battlefield.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 4, 2018

Many salespeople ask us for our best tips on how to sell. How do I overcome price objections? What should I do with someone who ignores my emails? These questions and countless others often show salespeople are looking at sales from an old, out-of-date, perspective. These days, it isn’t about how good you are at selling; it’s about how good you are at determining the needs and wants of your buyers.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2018

Top CEOs understand that their role is to provide their company with an executable strategy. Strategy is the allocation of time, money, and people. The best CEOs are masters of where to place bets, invest their time, and divest from.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 4, 2018

Invest in Yourself . Like most sales executives you cognitively understand the importance of developing your leadership skills and the advantages of ongoing networking. You find yourself too busy due to ongoing meetings, conferences, telephone calls and emails and you rarely find the time to develop yourself. Reality is, the higher we go in organizations the fewer opportunities there are for networking and fewer people to actually network with.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2018

I was on the way to a meeting and the traffic was stop and go - not moving for a minute, then back up to 30 MPH, and then back to a dead stop. I've been driving since 1972 and have driven in all kinds of conditions. Pitch black on a moonless night on a narrow winding road with no street lights; on a 4-lane highway in white-out conditions where you can't see where the sides of the road are, down-hill on black ice with zero control of breaking and steering; snow-covered, two-lane road with cars st

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 30, 2018

We walk away from sales opportunities every day - abandoned sales opportunities. You do it, I do it, and a few of us have the discipline to identify why our deal didn’t come to closure.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 8, 2018

Author: Jason Kulpa Successful B2B marketing is all about saying the right thing through the right channel at the right time. In fast-paced marketing, the right time usually means right away. According to the Demand Gen Report’s 7th Annual B2B Buyer’s Survey, 97 percent of B2B buyers believe the timeliness of a vendor’s response to inquiries is an important aspect of the buying process.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2018

When we ask salespeople how they prepare for making sales calls, most say they might check the company’s website and possibly check the contact’s Linked-In profile, but that’s about it, really. This surprises us, as the quality of the preparation can make or break your opportunities with a new prospect. Here are some tips that you might consider to make your preparation that much better and more successful.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 19, 2018

You are launching a new product this quarter. As CEO, you ask yourself a question. “How are we going to make the year 1 goal with this new product?”. Here’s an answer based on experience. Don’t over-compensate the Sales team.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Study after study has shown that sales manager coaching has a significant impact on performance. Here are a couple of my favorites: CEB Coaching Effectiveness Survey Findings: Coaching effectiveness: 19% improvement in performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2018

Last week I wrote about the deep freeze, why prospects suddenly go cold , and how you can prevent that from happening. That article was instantly as popular as any I have ever written. I also posted a 6-minute cold-calling rant on LinkedIn that had more than five-thousand views after just a couple of days. The video, like the article, was about mindset, not scripting and tactics.

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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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Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

It was time to visit a newer client of ours and this meeting would be at least two hours to go over our findings about their sales leadership, sales reps, sales process, and pipeline. Because we leave plenty of time as a buffer so that we are never late to clients, we ended up with thirty minutes to spare.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2018

Author: Adrian DeGus When it comes to starting up a company and building a brand, visuals and an overall visual representation of your brand is very important. How your company is perceived depends a lot upon how it's seen. So when it comes to branding your company, first you need to take the time to think about an image for your company, both in branding and an overall visual that gives potential customers a specific perception of what your company offers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2018

Notice: This is for discussion purposes only. DiscoverOrg is not qualified to provide legal advice of any kind and is not an authority on the interpretation of the GDPR or any other rule or regulation. To understand how the GDPR or any other law impacts you or your business, you should seek independent advice of qualified legal counsel. May 25, 2018 is a date on the minds of many sales and marketing professionals: the day the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2018

Our guest on SBI TV is Mike Volpe, the Chief Marketing Officer for Cybereason. Mike is a who’s who among CMO’s. Often called the “godfather of inbound marketing” for his work in taking inbound marketing from an idea to a movement.

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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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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Study after study has shown that sales manager coaching has a significant impact on performance. Here are a couple of my favorites: CEB Coaching Effectiveness Survey Findings: Coaching effectiveness: 19% improvement in performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 3, 2018

I receive so many unsolicited emails each day that it makes my head spin. Most of them, like the cold calls I get, are simply horrible. Delete. Delete. Delete. Junk. Block. Unsubscribe. This week I received the daily double - a cold call with an identical, corresponding email. The email read like this: Hi Dave, I hope this message finds you well. We spoke in the past regarding the copier equipment in your office.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 2, 2018

Steve Dembo on episode 222 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes the best tools have been around awhile. Steve Dembo @ teach42 talks about the tried and true tools that teachers should still use. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching.

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