Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Why Companies Fail to Execute. I find it shocking that statistics show that 60%-90% of companies fail to execute their strategies. HBR quotes a survey where more than 400 global CEO’s found that business execution excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders. The CEO’s were from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Execution headed the list which included 80 issues which included innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Whether you’re in sales or marketing , you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about your email messaging. If you’re getting 30%+ of your prospects to reply to you, you can probably stop worrying about it as much, but if you’re getting less than that, then what I am about to share with you could be a game changer. Today I want to talk about a framework you can use for writing good prospecting emails, that spread over a series or cadence of emails, aka an email drip – can get you 30%+

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Your team might be too connected to focus on sales. Sales has always required a fair amount of multi-tasking. Between lead generation , prospecting, and caring for current clients, we have a lot of balls in the air, which can make it hard to focus. It’s even harder in the digital world. Distractions come at us at warp speed in this multi-screen, technology-driven world—and they can sap our sales productivity before we even realize it.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

It’s no coincidence growth executives in the top 22 percent of companies always make their number in a predictable, hassle-free way. They accomplish this by working on strategy and execution in unison. If you would like a hand, visit The.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Image Copyright honglouwawa. By now, surely everyone has written their Super Bowl articles, drawing inspiration from the game, the comeback and the records to make their points. In my business, it's rare when someone isn't an optimist but I'm a realist and the realist in me kept saying how improbable it would be - even for Tom Brady and the Patriots - to come from that far behind and tie it - never mind win it - against a team as powerful as the Falcons.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Wouldn’t you love to have a team of awesome sales coaches? Sales coaching is the most important sales management activity for driving sales performance. Unfortunately, most managers haven’t been taught how to properly coach their staff. If a sales manager could transform into an elite, top-level sales coach overnight, the impact on sales results would be outright amazing!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Does this problem sound familiar? We spend an enormous amount of time searching for and then hiring what we think to be “A” players. We then invest time (hopefully) training those reps before releasing them into the wild, only to ask them to do several different roles. We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles making them B or C players at both.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A strong stock market often makes salespeople lazy. Will the Dow Jones index hit 20,000? That’s the question I asked myself as we welcomed in 2017. I remembered when it first hit 10,000 in 1999 and then continued to rise. And I remembered early 2009, when it dropped by more than 6,000 points. That’s the thing about the economy. It goes up and down. Now that the Dow has hit 20,000, more questions arise, including the one we’d rather not think about: Is our current year-over-year, month-over-month

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Did you know that with the right coaching that 15% of you ‘C’ turn out to be your best ‘A’ players? Coaching them is extremely important. The first step is to find out how many ‘C’ Players you have on your team. .

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Image Copyright BeeBright. Readers are always referring me to articles that list top sales traits, that discuss what makes salespeople great, that name the most important selling skills, or that otherwise contradict the science-based findings and statistics that I share in my articles. In that regard, today was very much the same when a reader referred me to this LinkedIn article that revealed the Top 5 Traits of the Best Salespeople.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I recently had a conversation with a VP of sales who asked me what I thought of social selling. Not sure where he stood on the topic, I shared my view that for me selling is selling, I don’t have the need like many marketers, to categorize or qualify things. As a longtime proponent of the movement to unhyphenate sales, I have felt that tagging a label on sales, be that Solution Selling, Consultative Selling, Sales 2.0 or Social selling, were jus

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Free Sales Management Training Webinar. All sales managers find coaching difficult salespeople challenging. In this webinar, there will 5 case studies of difficult salespeople. The master class will be interactive with participants’ feedback and possible coaching solutions. Join me on Feb. 9 th @10:00 PST/1:00 EST . For Sales Management Case Studies: Coaching Difficult Salespeople.

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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Wondering where your next sales lead is coming from? Wonder no more! There are lots of places to find potential prospects—some in the physical world and some in the digital. Here are—in alphabetical order—17 of them: 1. Associations 2. Chambers of Commerce 3. Directories 4. Facebook 5. Google ads 6. Industry events 7. Instagram 8. [.].

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The top four account-based sales secrets revealed! When it comes to account-based sales tips, there is one guy who can revolutionize your technique. This is a story about George (mostly). I’ve known plenty of great account-based sellers , or as we used to call them “B2B salespeople.” George is among the best, because he understands that selling is all about the people.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Today’s show will demonstrate how to create new markets through new products, attract new customers to an existing product, and convince current customers to buy more of an existing product. This is a deep dive on product strategy. To follow.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Image Copyright OcusFocus. Ryan changed jobs and companies this week when he started in his new role as Business Development Manager. When I congratulated him on his new job he wrote back the following: "You were 110% on the money back when I became a first time sales manager. You told Stuart and me that my biggest challenge would be in not being able to understand why the hell sales reps working for me just didn't do what I did when I was selling, and what I asked them to do, since I always did

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . In some sports and other skills based endeavours, for example figure skating, you can score points for artistic merit, and you also get scored on execution. Sales on the other hand is more like hockey or football (North American), while Artistic Merit is admired, execution is key, but the only measure that counts at the end, is the outcome, did we win, or, well really, what else is there?

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Issue Date: 2017-02-10. Author: Hila Nir. Teaser: Account-based marketing (ABM) is taking off, with major top-line benefits possible – thanks to growing collaboration between sales and marketing. Account-based marketing (ABM) is taking off, with major top-line benefits possible – thanks to growing collaboration between sales and marketing.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There are a lot of sales books out there and it is SO easy to skim them quickly and summarize that they are like other books I read about selling every month.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Hint: It has nothing to do with digital. . At least 67 percent of the buying process is complete before buyers ever contact your company. Believe that, and your account-based sales strategies are doomed from the start. There are many widely quoted but ill-advised statistics floating around that suggest business buyers don’t really need salespeople anymore—that we should just wait around for prospects to do their research and then call us when they’re ready to buy.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Today we’re going to discuss territory alignment and demonstrate how to balance customer requirements, company revenue expectations and sales rep workload to grow revenues. As a guide to the discussion, download our 10th annual workbook, How to Make Your Number in.

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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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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Do you as a leader allow yourself to listen to voices outside of your circle? If not, you are operating within what I call “cocoon leadership.” It’s when the only input we receive is from a very limited set of people who subscribe to our beliefs. Leadership is about being pro-active. It’s about seeing and […].

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . In the late 1990’s or early part of the last decade, I remember reading a piece about a study in one of the Scandinavian countries, who were early adopters of text messaging, SMS. It pointed to the fact that more and more young people were choosing to initially interact with potential dates using SMS, one of the key reasons that rejection was easier to deal with when it was not direct, in your face.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Issue Date: 2017-02-06. Author: Matt Stanton. Teaser: Time management is a required skill for inside sales reps. Managers should look for good time management skills when hiring new reps, and they need to be aware of lagging sales productivity or bad habits. Spotting these trends early gives managers the chance to provide coaching and training before revenue goals are at risk.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

There is a lot to keep track of, plan around, organize, decide on, and execute in sales. When you work in a reactionary way, without a plan, things get forgotten.

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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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The Sales Heretic

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Everyone sends Christmas cards. Their impact is minimal, because we all receive so many of them that none stand out. Instead, try sending your prospects and customers Valentine’s Day cards. Not the big, fancy, expensive ones. I’m talking about the little ones with cartoon characters on them that come 30 or so to a pack. [.].

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

How many times has sales missed revenue growth goals? More often than not, the root cause is a sales number that was set incorrectly. Corporate strategy is the main culprit. The sales team will consistently achieve success when your corporate.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you encounter one question: What constitutes a lead? I suspect that you will get 6 almost entirely different answers to this essential, strategic question. Before technology came into play things were bad enough. With technology it is now possible to get more poor quality leads to sales faster than ever before.

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