January, 2016

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Will You Ruffle Some Feathers or Spread Your Wings?

Bernadette McClelland

Hang on, am I supposed to be this super successful, sales guru/expert/ authority who knows what she wants in the world, is a beacon of hope for salespeople and sales leaders and puts on a mask to show that she […]. The post Will You Ruffle Some Feathers or Spread Your Wings? appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016

Steven Rosen

By: William Arruda. Originally Posted: Forbes.com Dec. 4, 2014. Do you have a coach? If not, you could be limiting your career success. That’s because coaches help you identify and focus on what’s important, which accelerates your success. According to coaches.com, good coaches: Create a safe environment in which people see themselves more clearly; Identify gaps between where the client is and where the client needs or wants to be.

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3 Overlooked Productivity Tips for Sales Reps

No More Cold Calling

Does your team spend enough time with your customers? It’s always about time, isn’t it? We have a choice how we spend it. We can waste hours immersed in social media, sending emails, and surfing the web. Sounds like fun, but it’s not the way to excel in sales. Most of the time, it’s a waste of time and has nothing to do with engaging our prospects and customers.

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3 Reasons Why Training Alone Isn’t Enough

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-01-11. Author: Rob Jeppsen, SVP and GM of HireVue Coach. Teaser: If training alone was enough to solve the sales challenge, we would see more collective success from sales teams. Training is often thought of as a type of coaching, but they are two very different processes with very different results. Legendary leaders know the catalyst for turning knowledge into success is coaching.

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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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3 Facts About Your Prospect That Will Change The Way You Sell

MTD Sales Training

“But I sell a great product Sean, why won’t they buy?” It’s a question I get asked a lot! Many salespeople think that just having a great product is good enough – that it will sell itself but in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Here’s To Course Corrections and Some Drinking Money

Bernadette McClelland

Our son, just this week, embarked on a trip of a lifetime. HIS trip! Not mine, nor his Dad’s. And as parents, we needed to be very careful we didn’t overlay our beliefs in a way that told him what […]. The post Here’s To Course Corrections and Some Drinking Money appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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How to Achieve the Success You Desire

Steven Rosen

Do you want to be successful in 2016? Of course you do. The challenge is most people just don’t know how. Many people compare themselves to others to gauge how successful they are. The problem is that there is always someone who has more money, lives in a bigger house, has more power or is smarter than you. This is extrinsic success as measured by material gains, but true feelings of success come from within.

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A Social Media Connection Is Not a Sales Lead

No More Cold Calling

Are your sales reps clueless about how social selling really works? Sales reps abuse social media to the extent that I typically delete more LinkedIn invitations than I accept. They invite person after person to connect using the same old standard invitation , and then immediately blast sales pitches to anyone who accepts. This bad behavior is not entirely the reps’ fault.

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The takeaway on giveaways

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: You don’t stop daily to notice the calendar you received from your Realtor or the refrigerator magnets from the neighborhood pizza place. But when you need to reach that business, you know instantly where to turn. Marketing strategies have changed drastically over the centuries, but as Paul Bellantone, president and CEO of the Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) explains, promotional products have always produced stellar

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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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Sales Performance - Stop Worrying About the Words You Say

Understanding the Sales Force

When coaching, most sales managers change the words their salespeople use. "That's not how I would say it - try this instead!" While there are a couple of key moments in the sales process where the words do actually matter, for 98% of the sales process, it's about listening and asking appropriate questions, following the process, achieving key milestones, following the company's general strategy and using appropriate sales tactics.

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Tomorrow Is Today – Sales eXecution 324

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . A common discussion among sales people, or more accurately, sales people willing to make cold calls, that is complete sales people, is when is the best time to cold call ? I have added my two cents on this in past. What is true about any element of success, is that the things that lead to it become routine, a habit, and there is no doubt that people are creatures of habit.

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The 3 Main Components That Drive Customer Loyalty

MTD Sales Training

Most companies agree that loyal customers are the lifeblood of their business. Clients who return continuously to restock or re-purchase make it easy for companies to provide service and back-up. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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I Forgot To Be Who I Was Supposed To Be

Bernadette McClelland

Hang on, am I supposed to be this super successful, sales guru/expert/ authority who knows what she wants in the world, is a beacon of hope for salespeople and sales leaders and puts on a mask to show that she […]. The post I Forgot To Be Who I Was Supposed To Be appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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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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Why Should the CEO Actually Lead a Referral Program?

No More Cold Calling

Sales responsibility starts at the top. Ernest, CEO of a CRM company, had sales all figured out … or so he thought. He’d implemented a “perfect” sales process, which he explained to me in detail. He even drew a chart with circles and arrows for each step. Ernest recognized he had a problem: He lacked a plan for consistent follow-up with current clients.

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5 Sales Resolutions for 2016

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-13. Author: Mike Kunkle, senior director of sales enablement, Brainshark. Teaser: The new year brings an opportunity to tackle challenges and take a fresh approach to improving sales team performance. Here are five resolutions sales leaders and their teams can make – and tips for accomplishing them – to drive better performance in 2016 and beyond.

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How Better Accountability Causes Sales Performance to Increase

Understanding the Sales Force

This is a perfect topic to begin the New Year! While others will be talking and writing about goals and resolutions, we'll be discussing the things that really make a difference. Sure, having goals is important but having them in writing, with an achieve by date, and a plan is exponentially more likely to have an actionable outcome than only having goals.

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A Sales Viewpoint – Sales eXecution 325

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . With the election cycle in full swing in the USA, many (some) are reflecting on what their point of view is on key aspects of life to be impacted by the outcome of the election. This includes things like economic viewpoint, free market or centrally controlled economy; global viewpoint vs. protectionist, and more.

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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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The Sales Force Awakens

MTD Sales Training

I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and welcome to 2016! If you’re like me, I have been champing at the bit to get back! Working in sales can take its toll over the year so I always use the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: “Learn from the Best to Get Ahead of the Rest.”

The Sales Hunter

Welcome to the Executive Sales Leader Briefing, a new blog series I am doing every Friday. If you want to receive the Executive Sales Leader Briefing in text form in an email early Friday morning before it is published on the website, go to this page to sign up. “Learn from the best to […].

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How to Score More Sales Leads: Don’t Believe the Buyer 2.0 Myths

No More Cold Calling

Do your sales reps really prospect based on fairy tales? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … Well, you know the ending to that famous story. You also know it’s just a myth, a fable, a legend. It’s entertaining, but not real. Fictional stories belong in books, movies, or in the theatre—not in real life. Yet, many sales reps buy into the mythical statistics and ridiculous promises floating around the Internet about how to drive sales leads in the digital age.

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Psychology as a Sales Management Tool

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-01. Author: Walter Ruckes, VP of client services, BI WORLDWIDE. Teaser: How are top sales managers responding to help their sales reps in the year ahead? Understanding some basic elements of psychology can help drive performance in ways you may not have thought of. How are top sales managers responding to help their sales reps in the year ahead?

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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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Like a Virgin! WOW’d for the very first time…

Bernadette McClelland

I’m 36,000 feet in the air as I write this and have just come off the back of a two day program on how to ‘Think Like a Customer’. It’s a Friday night, I’m tired and just want to kick […]. The post Like a Virgin! WOW’d for the very first time… appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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It’s A New Year – Let’s Go Backwards

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Assuming your fiscal year started on January 1, you probably have your new targets or quotas by now. Although I did sell for a company once that did not give us our quotas till mid-March. Among the many things you should do is start by going backwards, not in how you sell, but how you plan and set yourself up for success.

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4 Ways To Prevent Post Sales Training Stagnation

MTD Sales Training

Most good sales managers recognise the need to develop their sales teams and these managers often see the rewards that come from training their staff to build skills and attitudes. Oftentimes, though, the changes and improvements are short-lived and the return to the ambient levels of performance shows that the investment hasn’t been as worthwhile as originally thought.

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10 Tips to Set Better Sales Goals and Get Off to a Fast Start

The Sales Hunter

Are your sales goals motivators or de-motivators for you? It’s that time of year when we become fixated on deciding not only what our goals should be, but also how we’re going to go after them. Here are 10 tips to help you in setting goals: 1. Use the first quarter and, in particular, the first month […].

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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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How Targeting Improves Win Rates and Shortens Sales Cycles

Understanding the Sales Force

Now that we are nearly 3 weeks into the new year, have you changed anything with regard to goals, strategies or plans? How about targets? A few small tweaks to your targets can have a huge impact on revenue! Targets are obvious but at the same time, misunderstood. Of course I have the usual baseball analogy, which I'll skip along with the target analogies for Golf, Basketball, Soccer, Football and Hockey.

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How the Customer Makes a Decision

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-01-27. Author: Charles D. Brennan, Jr. Teaser: Selling someone a product or service is all about aligning with their habits and knowledge -- to use a technical term, aligning wi th their schema. If a salesperson is asking the same boring questions and giving the same boring presentation, the possibility of the customer’s schema being altered or changed is remote.

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Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016

Steven Rosen

By: William Arruda. Originally Posted: Forbes.com Dec. 4, 2014. Why You Need To Hire A Coach In 2016. Do you have a coach? If not, you could be limiting your career success. That’s because coaches help you identify and focus on what’s important, which accelerates your success. According to coaches.com, good coaches: Create a safe environment in which people see themselves more clearly; Identify gaps between where the client is and where the client needs or wants to be.

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