October, 2023

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Motivate Your Sales Team with Five Non-Monetary Rewards

Sales and Marketing Management

Although competitive pay and financial bonuses are important, non-monetary benefits can boost motivation and address sales budget issues. The post Motivate Your Sales Team with Five Non-Monetary Rewards appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Two Keys for Successful Sales Presentations

Understanding the Sales Force

Team Photo of the American League Champion 1967 Boston Red Sox I frequently write about taking a consultative approach, where listening and asking questions are the keys for successful sales presentations. I’m not referring to the presentation step of the sales process, as much as I am using “sales presentations” as a replacement term for “sales calls.” While watching game 2 of the 2023 World Series, it occurred to me that while I still remember and can name every

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Effective Coaching with Sales Performance Metrics

Anthony Cole Training

Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders. In our coaching platform, we offer several tools to help in this area and one of the most effective, easy to understand and utilize is sales data insight that comes from regular Sales Huddles.

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Apple Fritters and the 10 Keys to a Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

I’m not very useful in the kitchen until it’s time for cleanup. While I’m a grill master outdoors, meals that involve recipes, seasoning, marinating, flavoring, fry pans, sauce pans, stove tops or ovens are a challenge. On the bright side, I do know how to use the microwave oven! My wife is a gourmet cook and her food is better tasting and healthier than what the best restaurants serve, so it’s OK that I’m useless and incompetent at cooking and baking.

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

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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Sales Objections? Move from Concerns to Conversations

SalesProInsider

“ You get what you’re looking for.” It’s just one of dozens of “Jeanette-isms” I heard from my mom when growing up. And now as an adult, I can see how true this statement is. We do get what we’re looking for in many life circumstances, and in sales efforts. Here’s how I see it coming into play in sales situations, especially when faced with concerns or objections during our sales conversations.

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What to Do if Your Sales Team is REMOTE

Grant Cardone

Regardless of how you feel about it, more companies are going remote — that includes sales teams. Getting salespeople to hit numbers is hard enough in person. So, how do you keep them jacked up outside the office? It all starts with the right framework… Entrepreneurs and senior staff had to learn tough lessons when […] The post What to Do if Your Sales Team is REMOTE appeared first on GCTV.

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Don’t Be Afraid to Call Back Sooner!

Mr. Inside Sales

Happy Halloween, everyone! If you want more “treats” than “tricks” when dealing with prospects, then be bold and call back sooner than you are now. I don’t know why sales reps always default to: “I’ll call you again in a month…” Or 60 days or 90 days, etc, but why would you want to miss all the sales this prospect will place in the meantime? The smart thing to do is to get a specific idea of when your prospects buy and even ask them when their buying schedule is.

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Why Roleplay Is A Winning Sales Training Strategy

Sales Gravy

Why Roleplay Should Be A Key Part of Your Sales Culture In this podcast, Jeb Blount, Jeremy Olson, and Kristin Isaacson discuss the importance of role-playing in sales. They emphasize the need for leaders to create a culture of role-playing and accountability within their teams. They also highlight the benefits of role-playing in helping salespeople improve their skills, gain empathy for the customer's perspective, and build confidence.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: From Grassroots to Greatness with Lloyed Lobo (S5Ep4)

Alice Heiman

In the age where traditional sales tactics seem obsolete, CEOs and founders are shifting to innovative strategies. Lloyed Lobo, co-founder of Boast, accentuates the importance of community-led growth. His journey, from an engineer to a salesperson, and ultimately, to the co-founder of a company aiding businesses in accessing R&D funding, underlines the value of community.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

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 Ultimate Guide to Creating Linkable Assets for Successful Link Building

Sales and Marketing Management

In the modern online space, a link is a marketing currency that helps to buy profitable positions. instead of non-stop content generation, it is better to work on its attractiveness for link building. The post The Ultimate Guide to Creating Linkable Assets for Successful Link Building appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Our Global Data Coverage is Better Than Ever. Here’s How We Did It

Zoominfo

The rapid adoption of modern go-to-market (GTM) is creating immense opportunity for businesses in every sector and vertical. As companies in highly competitive industries look for new vectors to drive efficient and sustained growth, they’re increasingly turning to global markets. However, while the opportunities available in overseas expansion are remarkable, so too are the challenges of working with B2B data across international borders.

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Removing some sales drudgery with AI

Sales 2.0

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick describes ChatGPT as an “ intern ”. This seems like one of the best analogies so far for ChatGPT, especially when you are considering what work to give it, and what work not to give it. One of the areas of complex sales that I have seen soak up tons of time from entrepreneurs and senior salespeople over my years is writing proposals.

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8 Inspirational Quotes to Enjoy

Mr. Inside Sales

Greetings to you on an early fall morning! I hope the changing of the seasons inspires you as much as it does me. Speaking of inspiration, here are some of my favorite quotes for you to enjoy today: “If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.” –Florence Shinn “Forget past mistakes.

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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

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.

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Milestones in the Sales Process are Like the Stones in a Wall

Understanding the Sales Force

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about building a stone walkway and how it is such a great analogy to sales process. Today I was watching stone masons build a stone column and while the focus is on the column itself, each stone represents a process unto itself. Unlike retaining walls or two-sided walls, columns expose stones on all four sides, so each column takes a long time to assemble.

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The time of "growth at all costs" is over

SBI Growth

Even with a promising outlook in sales pipelines for the coming year, many CEOs still feel the need to err on the side of caution and stay focused on EBITDA rather than pursue growth more aggressively. This seemed to be the general consensus among participants at SBI’s latest CEO Growth Forum.

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Brand Communities and Their Role in Brand Promotion

Sales and Marketing Management

Gathering users around a product can be one of the most effective promotion concepts for a business – and it work in the B2B realm. The post Brand Communities and Their Role in Brand Promotion appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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7 Sales Coaching Best Practices

Anthony Cole Training

If you are in charge of managing a sales team to reach sales goals, you must ask yourself this critical question; “Am I an effective sales coach?

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

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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Mirroring

Partners in Excellence

Early in my selling career, I was in a short training class. We were being taught how to “mirror” our customers. The concept of mirroring is it was a means of better connecting with the customer. We learned that if a customer leaned forward in their chair, perhaps indicating interest, we should lean forward. Likewise, if they leaned back we leaned back; if they swore, we swore; if they farted…… OK, I’m getting carried away with this explanation.

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Seriously, This Is How You Leave a Voicemail?

Mr. Inside Sales

Actual voicemails I’ve been receiving lately: “Hi Mike, this is Megan. Can you call me back at (phone number)? Thanks!” And what do I do with these voicemails? Delete. This is one of the oldest poor sales techniques in the world, and it just SCREAMS: I’m cold calling and trying to trick you into calling me back! Doesn’t work. Here’s what’s better: First, you have to let the caller know what company you’re calling from and the reason for the call.

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4 Tips to Coach Your Coaches to Higher Team Performance

Membrain

“As goes the manager, so goes the team.” This common sales industry expression is actually more true than we realize, according to Carole Mahoney, author of Buyer First and founder of Unbound Growth.

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What’s Stopping You from Effectively Reaching Existing Customers?

SBI Growth

As sales cycles lengthen and new logo acquisitions become more challenging, more organizations are now shifting back to their existing customer base for revenue growth. SBI surveys show that nearly 70% of CEOs see customer marketing as crucial to their 2023 revenue targets, with higher conversion rates and lower costs being just a few of the potential benefits.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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How Customer Experience (CX) Optimization Increases Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Budgeting time and resources into CX optimization is like adding more business insurance to your portfolio – connecting, guiding and educating customers from beginning to end. The post How Customer Experience (CX) Optimization Increases Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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5 Keys to Fixing Prospect Indifference

Anthony Cole Training

Every time we onboard a new client, we have a kickoff event where we lay the foundation of the sales process we teach at Anthony Cole Training Group.Inevitably, at some point during that kickoff event we talk about dealing with the competition, specifically how to differentiate yourself from the competition you will face.

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Trick Or Treat……

Partners in Excellence

This morning, as a drank my morning coffee, I went through my email and social feeds. You can guess what I encountered. At first I chuckled, I thought, “These people have a great sense of humor and irony! Who could imagine such really awful prospecting. They must be playing with Halloween and “Trick or Treat.” In the spirit of the Holiday, I responded to a few.

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How to Define Differentiation that Matters in a Changing Economy

Force Management

Competitive differentiation is at the core of every organization’s sales strategy. It’s why customers choose your solution and why sellers get excited about bringing your product to market. As markets change, though, customer needs change too. It’s possible that your differentiation may need to adapt to fit these changing customer behaviors.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

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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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

Join us in today’s interview with David Mullins, High Performance Sales Coach. David's a father of seven, a former pastor and a successful salesperson and leader across multiple industries and businesses. His greatest professional gift and joy is coaching people to help them achieve the right mindsets, skill sets and processes to exceed their largest stretch goals.

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Driving sales velocity in a challenging market: Discover the 4 traits that set top sellers apart

SBI Growth

In the ever-evolving sales landscape , understanding what drives success can often seem like deciphering an enigma. However, if we look closely, patterns begin to emerge that delineate the attributes of successful sellers. To discern these traits, SBI studied 100 frontline sellers, managers, and SDRs. Their research has illuminated four definitive selling approaches, each characterized by specific competencies and behaviors.

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3 Ways a Positive Company Culture Can Drive Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Company culture and the culture of your sales organization, or your team’s perception of it, influences how much you sell, your productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, your revenue. The post 3 Ways a Positive Company Culture Can Drive Sales Success appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.