September, 2014

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Startup sales gigs-watch out for men bearing shades

Sales 2.0

'“Dude, the future of this startup is so bright you better bring shades.”. Startups are super exciting but they can turn a “rockstar sales person” into a “loser”. So if one of these “golden opportunities” comes your way, try to look carefully before you jump in. Here’s why. Entrepreneurs by definition need to be super passionate about their product.

Scale 373
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The POWER of Sales Success is 100% in Your Control

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Sales 335
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Why Millennials Make Great Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2014-10-01. Author: Mark Roberge. Teaser: This generation not only embraces the new playbook, they helped write it by leading the digital charge and tuning out old-school sales tactics from day one. Here are the top reasons I think millennials make naturally great salespeople. This generation not only embraces the new playbook, they helped write it by leading the digital charge and tuning out old-school sales tactics from day one.

Leads 325
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Would You Rather Be Right or Successful?

The Sales Heretic

'We all want to be successful. And we all like to be right. The problem is, those two things are frequently in opposition. Whether in sales, customer service, leadership, or our personal relationships, we are often faced with the uncomfortable choice of catering to our ego or catering to the issue at hand. And it [.].

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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The Best CEOs are Teachers of Strategy

SBI Growth

'“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” -Prof. Michael Porter, Harvard Business School. Professor Michael Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy. He chairs Harvard Business School''s program dedicated to newly appointed CEOs of large corporations. What’s interesting about his work is that he states most companies don’t have an actual strategy.

Strategy 316

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40 Ways To Hunt For Business More Creatively

Sales 2.0

'Mr. Paul Castain demonstrates his creativity with this excellent list of 40 ways to be more creative in prospecting. Super-practical stuff. You know, I could be way out of line in this assumption but prospects need creative solutions to the challenges they face in their world. More specifically they need your creativity. Million dollar question coming atcha in 3,2,1.

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Do people WANT to listen to you? 9.5 strategies to employ when presenting as a sales trainer, coach or leader

Jeffrey Gitomer

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To Sell Better, Make 'Em Laugh

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2014-09-02. Author: Bill Rosenthal. Teaser: When a salesperson and customer laugh together it builds trust and empathy and helps remove the customer’s body armor. Here are seven tips that can help you make the customer laugh. When a salesperson and customer laugh together it builds trust and empathy and helps remove the customer’s body armor.

Customer 316
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“That’s Too Expensive”—What It REALLY Means

The Sales Heretic

'One of the most common objections salespeople, professionals and business owners encounter is the dreaded Price Objection. While the wording can vary from prospect to prospect, the gist is, “That’s too expensive.” Fearing the loss of the sale, too many sellers respond by immediately dropping their price. While this can sometimes close the sale, it’s [.].

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Why Fear is Killing Your Sales Career

SBI Growth

'Last week I spent time onsite with a VP of Sales. As we were reviewing priorities for next fiscal year, I noticed hesitation. He was struggling on many of the items we discussed as top priorities. I sensed that something was holding him back. He knew he needed to make changes, but he was afraid to act. Fear was impacting his ability to lead.

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The Art of Entrepreneurship

The Pipeline

'The good folks at The Art Of are presenting another exciting conference in Toronto: The Art of Entrepreneurship. Featuring a group of dynamic entrepreneurs sharing ideas leading edge strategies to help current and future entrepreneurs. Whether you are an entrepreneurs, thinking about becoming one, or want to add an entrepreneurial flair to your current career, this is the event for you.

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Where can I get the best prospect list?

Sales 2.0

'Some sales people in my firm were discussing where they could get the best prospect lists. They are building out a new territory so they need people to contact. Some of the team were leaning towards a trial account with Hoovers. I jumped in to try and be helpful and told them I already had an Insideview account that they could use. They took me up on that offer and so far seem contented with Insideview.

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How to Measure Sales Manager Coaching Effectiveness

Steven Rosen

'Benchmarking Coaching Effectiveness. By Steven A. Rosen. Do you know how effective you sales managers are? How would you evaluate their level of effectiveness? Where do you begin? What To Assess. The obvious place to start assessing your sales managers’ effectiveness is to evaluate the activity that has the greatest impact on sales rep performance.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Forget Social Selling—Try Social Engagement

No More Cold Calling

'A new research study unlocks the key to using social media for sales. Social engagement. Is it just another term to check off your buzzword bingo card at the next sales meeting you attend? Not really. It simply means having robust conversations, exchanging ideas, providing insights, and sharing expertise—whether we’re online, on the phone, or meeting in person.

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Nine Ways to Bore Your Audience to Tears

The Sales Heretic

'Hate giving presentations—sales or otherwise? Want to relieve yourself of the burden of having to prepare and deliver them ever again? Just be lousy! After delivering a few terrible presentations, people will stop asking you to give them. And then you’re home free! But how can you ensure that your presentation is as awful as [.].

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Smart Reps Know A Secret: Sales Strategy Matters

SBI Growth

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3 Things You Can Do Now To Close The Year Strong – Sales eXecution 267

The Pipeline

'By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Last week I took part in a panel discussion sponsored by KiteDesk , along with two of my favourite pundits, Matt Heinz and Mike Weinberg. In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Taking Your Prospecting to the Next Level

Understanding the Sales Force

'Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Do you ever wonder how selling evolved to where it is today? Do you ever think about how salespeople sold in the old, old days? All sales calls were face-to-face (no phones) and the sellers traveled by horse, canoe, boat and later, ship. That doesn''t sound like it was efficient - or fun. Over time, selling and our options for connecting with potential customers, moved to a new level.

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How sales is like dieting

Sales and Marketing Management

'Issue Date: 2014-09-08. Author: Liz Wendling. Teaser: In sales and dieting, there really is no easy fix for instant results, and most of the hard work is done when nobody is watching. If it were really that easy to see results without lifting a finger, everyone would have the perfect body and a booming business. In sales and dieting, there really is no easy fix for instant results, and most of the hard work is done when nobody is watching.

Sales 271
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PowerPoint Is Killing Your Sales Presentations

No More Cold Calling

'Strip away the tech to increase sales effectiveness. I used to add long columns of numbers once, and I was always correct. I never had to add backwards or have someone else check my math. To this day, I can still look at numbers and ascertain whether they have the correct number of zeros at the end. Those of us who grew up before the world was dominated by calculators learned the reasons behind calculations.

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Five Things You Need to Love to Boost Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

'You might not think love is vital to your sales success, but it absolutely is! Specifically, there are five things you need to love if you want to increase your sales. Listen to my appearance on Breakthrough Radio with Michele Price. In this eight-minute segment, I share what these five items are and why it’s [.].

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100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies to Boost Your Competitive Edge

Looking to sell your product to emerging eCommerce companies? To succeed, you need to know which companies are leading the way. With over 30 million eCommerce websites worldwide, identifying the key players can be challenging. That's why we've compiled a list of the 100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies in North America & Europe, showcasing those with impressive year-over-year traffic growth.

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Why the CEO Must Pay Attention to the CMO

SBI Growth

'The pressure on B2B CMOs is heating up. Research shows CEOs are beginning to turn their attention to marketing strategy. Is this good news to you?

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Panel Discussion: Close the Year Strong with 8 Simple Sales Tips

The Pipeline

'We are about to enter the silly season in sales, the run up to the end of the year. I say silly because all the theorist and soothsayers will be brimming with advice, pulled from their memories and favourite web sources. Soothsayers, because many spend more time advising than selling. As a sales professional what you need is practical and executable inputs that will help you close the year strong, and set yourself up for a profitable 2015.

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Change? Can You Handle It?

The Sales Hunter

'Does change drive you or do you drive it? I’ve always been one who loves change and embraces it. A good friend of mine, Micah Yost (www.MicahYost.com), sent me copy of his new book, Rhythm, and I’m excited to recommend it to you. As I read the book, two things kept getting pounded into […].

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600 Seconds and Counting

Sales and Marketing Management

'How often have you planned on having 30 minutes or so for a first meeting with a prospect, only to find that the time is cut short? Maybe they got busy. Maybe something came up. Maybe the truth is that they don’t recall agreeing to a meeting in the first place, or have forgotten why they wanted to talk to you.

Meeting 270
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Buyer & Customer Engagement: A Digital Exhaust Methodology

Unlock growth through customer-centric campaigns that deeply understand buyer journeys from awareness to post-purchase. This eBook shows how aligning marketing, sales, and customer service via an "outside-in" approach resonates with audiences, fosters trust, and drives loyalty - outperforming "inside-out" product-focused tactics. Gain a competitive edge through customer insights!

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[Message to Management]: 14 Things Top Sales Managers Do

No More Cold Calling

'The Sales Hunter tells you what it takes to lead a winning sales team. How often do sales managers generate opportunities and support their teams in customer conversations? Probably not as often as they should. Under constant pressure to deliver sales, they focus on reports and not on the critical sales activities that generate revenue. Sales execs tell me they don’t have time to coach their teams.

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The 10 Most Common Mistakes Sales People Make

MTD Sales Training

'When discussions move round to the subject of sales, conversations often get quite negative. The profession has, in many circles, a bad reputation and it’s obvious to many that the salespeople they. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Your Marketing Plan Will Fail in 2015

SBI Growth

'For most marketing leaders, the annual planning cycle is upon us or will be soon. Your teams are most likely putting together their wish list for next year. New tactics, content, channels and the next big ideas are on their list. You want to go into next year confident that you’ll contribute to the revenue goal. To prevent failure, here are 6 steps to include in your planning process.

Marketing 308