May, 2014

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A scoop of Insideview with some Jigsaw special sauce

Sales 2.0

'“A scoop of Insideview with some Jigsaw special sauce.” That’s my best shot at summing up a new “Sales 2.0” tool that I think you should check out. The tool is Owler. Owler is a new company from the fellow who founded none other than one of my favorite Sales 2.0 tools of all time: Jigsaw (now Data.com as Jigsaw was sold to Salesforce.com in 2010 for a tidy $142 million in cash —I love saying that.).

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How to Avoid Bad Hires

SBI Growth

'Perhaps you have recently made a few hiring mistakes. You are not alone. Statistics show that 80% of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions. This is according to The Harvard Business Review. It is frustrating when you think about the time and dollars you invested. Productivity and morale take a hit.

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53 Takeaways From The Wolf Of Wall Street’s London Seminar

MTD Sales Training

'The Wolf of Wall Street’s story; his rise, his lies, his demise and now the resurrection of Jordan Belfort’s career has fascinated me. So much so that when he came to London on 28th May at the Excel. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Secret to Sales Rep Motivation

Steven Rosen

'By Steven A. Rosen. Last week I was speaking with a VP of Sales of a well-known software company. George was not pleased with the performance of his sales team and was under intense pressure from the senior team to turn things around. Sales were off in 4 out of 5 regions and he felt that the sales team was just not motivated. I asked him what he was going to do about it.

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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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It’s You Job To Lead – Sales eXecution 253

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. No, I am not speaking to sales managers, directors or VP’s, but directly and specifically to front line sales professionals. It is your job to lead the customer to the right decision for their business based on their objectives. So why are you not stepping up, why are abdicating the only thing that justifies the job, why aren’t you doing your job?

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For a Client Base Built on Relationships, Social Selling Unlocks Doors

Sales 2.0

'This is a guest post by Russ Korins, Director of Marketing, Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner P.C. When I came on board a year ago to head marketing and business development for a mid-sized law firm, the first thing I did was interview every attorney about his or her client base, what characterizes ideal clients, and the goals of his or her practice and the firm.

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The Secret to Social Selling Success

SBI Growth

'You just heard that your largest opportunity signed a multi-year deal with your competitor. That deal should’ve been yours. It was the difference between making your number or missing it. And you missed it.

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10 Lessons a Great Salesperson Can Learn From Einstein

MTD Sales Training

'It’s been long-established that humans learn from modelling the success or failures of others, and their can be no better model in terms of 20th century advancement than Albert Einstein. Paulo. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Are You Expecting Too Much?

No More Cold Calling

'Great expectations lead to great sales outcomes. Sage advice from a sales VP I used to work under: “Joanne, never leave a meeting without giving your buyer a task. That’s the best test for whether the person is serious about moving forward.”. His words of wisdom have proven to be true, and this philosophy has helped me increase my sales effectiveness time and time again.

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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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Add Salesformics – Stir and Sell

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. One of the opportunities offered by the web 2.0 world, or as many around sales like to call it social selling, is to leverage a number of tools to improve and accelerate the quality of interactions, especially at the early part of the sales cycle. The challenge is how to leverage the various tools, integrate them into your daily sales-flow and work-flow, without adding, or being forced to alter your work-flow in order to get benefit.

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Everybody Has Competition

The Sales Heretic

'I often hear salespeople brag, “We don’t really have any competition.” They believe their product or service is so superior to everyone else’s that they’re truly in a category of one. This is a dangerous mindset, because it’s patently false. No matter what you sell, you have competitors. And ignoring that reality will cost you [.].

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Can These 5 Keys Determine the Fate of Cold Calling?

Understanding the Sales Force

'Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The May issue of Top Sales Magazine is now available and in addition to my monthly article, this month''s issue is loaded with important reading on sales and selling. Bob Terson posted my article, Are Your Salespeople Still Cold Calling - The Ugly Truth over at the Selling Fearlessly Blog. When marketers and writers tell us that cold calling is dead, they never remember to qualify what they are trying to sell us.

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Is Your Sales Process Broken?

SBI Growth

'It’s the monthly Pipeline review call. As the Sales Ops leader, you’re responsible for managing this process. Just before you take role call you’re struck with a foreboding sense of Déjà vu.

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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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The Best Question to Ask When Customers Enquire About Your Price

MTD Sales Training

'The whole economic world has changed in the last few years. It will never be ‘business as usual’ again. Most companies that haven’t adapted to the changes will either no longer. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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3 Reasons Small Businesses Should Nix Cold Calling

No More Cold Calling

'Small business expert, Megan Totka, explains why cold calling really doesn’t work for SMBs. Small business owners are a target. Everyone wants to sell us something. And since there are so many of us, we get hundreds of solicitations every week— mostly phone calls and emails promising that if we just buy a magic list, we’ll be home free. Social media chatter can be just as intrusive.

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3 B’s Of Pipeline Success

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. How you manage and stage your pipeline can be the difference between an OK year or career, or a consistently great one. To use a sport analogy, your pipeline is your core, no matter what sport you are in hockey, tennis, or running, a strong core, a well exercised and maintained core adds to athletic performance and lifts one competitor to victory over a comparably talented athlete with a less conditioned core.

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How to Make Smarter Decisions

The Sales Heretic

'Whether you’re a salesperson, a small business owner, or a CEO, you have to make decisions every day. Some are small and some are big, but you’d certainly like as many of them as possible to be good ones. Yet for a skill we all have to use multiple times a day, we’ve never really [.].

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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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Show me the money

Sales 2.0

'“Show me the money, Jerry”. Those are the words from a classic movie scene in the film Jerry Maguire (see the video at the end of this post). It’s also a great phrase to keep in mind when selling to senior executives that will sign off on your deal. I saw an example of this recently in my own buying environment. Two software firms approached me with a product in the same space.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Sales Forecast

SBI Growth

'“Boss, I’m sorry, but the Acme deal isn’t going to come in this quarter. We are updating the forecast to close Acme next quarter.” Perhaps you’ve heard this before from your sales leaders. Or, you’re anticipating this news in the near future. This post is for sales leaders whose sales forecasting process might be broken.

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Sales Weapons To Deploy In The War On Your Competition

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Buyer 2.0 Wants It All—Right Now

No More Cold Calling

'Are you living up to your customers’ expectations? Technology might make us faster, better, and stronger. But it has also made our customers much less patient. Buyer 2.0 expects us to move quickly—to deliver solutions and results almost immediately. To some degree, technology enables us to do that. But a word of warning: Faster does not always mean better.

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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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Who Exactly Are You Selling To?

The Pipeline

'The Pipeline Guest Post – Megan Totka. We talk quite often about sales tactics and marketing ideas in a general sense. But who exactly is your company trying to sell to? People can be classified in so many different ways. But one of the most common classifications is by generation. Most recently, the generation we’ve talked about the most has been the baby boomers.

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Top 5 Reasons Sales Prospects Ask for References

Understanding the Sales Force

'Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Everything is going along great, your prospect seems quite interested, they''ve agreed with your points, accepted your pushback, you got them qualified and you''re heading for the home stretch. It doesn''t matter if this has all occurred in the last 45 minutes, or if this took place over a series of meetings, calls and months.

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The Best Way To Keep Ahead of the Competition

MTD Sales Training

'According to Charles Darwins’ Origin of Species, “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Where Should You Focus Your Sales Training Efforts?

SBI Growth

'Are you seeing the benefits from your sales enablement program this year? If you are starting to see sales rep turnover. Or you missed the number last quarter. It means you likely aren’t. Why? Most likely the reps were not given the right tools to be successful.

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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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8.5 Leadership Qualities You Need

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Why Your Video Doesn’t Work for Me

No More Cold Calling

'The key to thought leadership is having something for everyone. Thought leadership is all the rage today. Delivering value to our customers means educating and informing them—which means we must remember what school teachers have always known: Everyone learns differently. Can You Put That in Writing? Charts and graphs give me hives. Your infographic makes my head spin.

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Two Letter Word To Increase Global Productivity

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. One of the things I enjoy about what I do is the variety of people I get to observe doing their work across a range of verticals and locales. While on the one hand many of these people are in sales, their buyers are in so many different categories. After years of watching and learning, I have come to the conclusion that if business people would get comfortable with and adopt one word, they, their companies, their entire ecosystems, and by extensi

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