No More Cold Calling
MAY 12, 2016
Whether you’re crafting a strong headline or asking for referrals, it pays to be specific. Lead generation is personal … very personal. Imagine you’re looking for a long-term romantic relationship. You don’t just want anyone “single and good-looking.” You want someone who is smart, hardworking, honest, and loves theater and concerts. Or perhaps someone who loves sports and outdoor adventure.
DiscoverOrg Sales
MAY 27, 2016
At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Months beyond the vision phase, we are now in execution mode and fully committed to building a coaching culture — both for Customer Success and Sales — that instills the good habits needed to realize that vision.
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Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 13, 2016
Issue Date: 2015-05-13. Author: Tim Brown and Dan Streeter. Teaser: Over the course of a career, even the best salespeople are going to be told no seven or eight times out of 10. It's important to learn how to handle rejection. Over the course of a career, even the best salespeople are going to be told no seven or eight times out of 10. It's important to learn how to handle rejection.
MTD Sales Training
MAY 26, 2016
Albert Einstein once said that ‘Imagination is greater than Knowledge’. I’ve always admired this thought, because often I’ve come across people who think that, just because they’ve been selling for. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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The Pipeline
MAY 12, 2016
The Pipeline Guest Post – Megan Totka. Businesses always want to find more leads and turn them into customers. If you know your products are amazing, your services solve a need in the marketplace, and can back up these claims, then you’re in good shape. Now it’s time to consider how you want to invest both your time and money into this endeavor.
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No More Cold Calling
MAY 26, 2016
No one wins the game without putting in the practice. “From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’” —Shaquille O’Neal. Practice? Who me? Sure, sales reps know they must practice new skills, practice presentations, practice writing, practice speaking—practice, practice, practice.
Understanding the Sales Force
MAY 18, 2016
I hate this article already - the last thing we need is another article to help us to understand Millennials. Except for one thing. Most of you reading this are Millennials and you probably need to better understand boomers. We've all heard many of the distinctions of Millennials - how they like to work, where they like to work, when they like to work, how little they like to work, how entitled they are, how money isn't that important, how they want to change the world and be a part of something
Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 5, 2016
Issue Date: 2016-05-05. Author: Michelle Cirocco, VP of Client Success, Televerde. Teaser: Some companies view their vendors as easily replaceable. If you’re in the business of managing customer relationships, you'll enjoy a strategic advantage (and a more mutually rewarding relationship) if you elevate your status to that of a valued partner.
MTD Sales Training
MAY 24, 2016
Referrals are probably the easiest type of business to get because they are opportunities that are given to you by buyers or decision-makers who know you and trust you enough to put their reputation. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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The Pipeline
MAY 2, 2016
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . When Dave Stein and Steve Andersen get together to write a book, you can bet it’s going to be something special, so when Beyond the Sales Process: 12 Proven Strategies for a Customer-Driven World was released earlier this month, I took the opportunity to get a copy and see what these two sales performance heavyweights had to say.
DiscoverOrg Sales
MAY 12, 2016
So, we recently published a blog entitled, “ What You Won’t Learn from Books About Sales ,” and now here we are sharing our favorite books and blogs that can make your better at inside sales. We’re not trying to be gigantic hypocrites, but we are smart enough to recognize that there’s a balance. Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books.
No More Cold Calling
MAY 5, 2016
Never forget that selling is social. The magic number is 21. No, I’m not playing blackjack. That’s the number of people I’m meeting for the first time at the Sales Innovation Expo in London this month. I’ve never spoken with any of them. I met them all on LinkedIn and Twitter. So, why do they want to meet me? Because we began a conversation on social media.
Understanding the Sales Force
MAY 23, 2016
Most salespeople suck on the phone. If you read that article, you learned about 10 common mistakes that salespeople make on the phone. But those are strategic and tactical mistakes - they are skill based. What happens when you have salespeople who won't even make calls? Could they be suffering from call reluctance? Objective Management Group (OMG) measures 21 Sales Core Competencies and one of them is the Hunter Competency.
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Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 26, 2016
Issue Date: 2016-05-26. Author: Scott Benedetti, VP of Sales, The Pedowitz Group. Teaser: Lead scoring is a methodology to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value each lead represents to an organization. The resulting score determines how marketing will respond to each lead to propel the prospective buyer through the Revenue Marketing journey.
The Sales Hunter
MAY 17, 2016
Too many times we get bogged down with the customer. Sure, the reasons can be many, but it doesn’t matter. Anytime things bog down, it eats into your time and your earnings. Below are 5 things we can do right now to accelerate the process: Skip the presentation and ask more questions. Don’t focus […].
The Pipeline
MAY 26, 2016
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . One of the great things in what I do is the opportunity to meet a range of thinkers and doers involved in sales and helping others sell better. So when one of these people, in this case, David A. Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle.
Pointclear
MAY 10, 2016
Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the first of a 9 part blog series. One of my favorite authors and speakers, Mike Weinberg, says the following about the CEO’s role in companies: “As goes the leader, so goes the organization. The level of the team rarely, if ever, exceeds the level of its leader.”.
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.
No More Cold Calling
MAY 19, 2016
Maximize your net worth via your referral network. Steve, a salesman with an enterprise company, invited me to connect on LinkedIn. I accepted his standard invitation, thinking he might be a good connection, and sent a personal message inviting him to contact me with any questions about referral selling. His response: “What is referral selling?”. Obviously, he had no clue who I was when he invited me.
Understanding the Sales Force
MAY 24, 2016
I’m reading Basketball legend Bill Walton’s autobiography, Back from the Dead. There are great stories and lessons, but the one I want to discuss here is about legendary UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden.
Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 20, 2016
Issue Date: 2015-05-20. Author: John Lynch. Teaser: More than 80 percent of respondents to a recent survey agreed that a close relationship between finance and sales is crucial to improving profitability. So what's stopping this from happening? More than 80 percent of respondents to a recent survey agreed that a close relationship between finance and sales is crucial to improving profitability.
The Sales Hunter
MAY 3, 2016
Too many prospecting pipelines are plugged. They’re plugged with suspects taking up valuable time. Keeping the pipeline full of only great prospects allows it to move faster and does not require the pipeline to be as big. It’s better to have a narrow fast-moving pipeline than a large slow-moving pipeline. In both the short-term and […].
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!
The Pipeline
MAY 19, 2016
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . If sales and selling is the last of the black arts, then sales management lurks in its darkest corners. As with other aspects of sales, there is no shortage of advice, ensuring no shortage of fluff. So it is interesting to find a book that looks at the subject in a pragmatic way, and deliver specific things managers can put into practice that not only makes them better managers, but helps their team achieve the one thing they are paid to do, gro
Pointclear
MAY 26, 2016
Keep leads from being ignored is the fifth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. In the last blog we discussed the importance of cost per: Lead, Sales Accepted Lead, Sales Qualified Lead and Closed Deal. Today we will discuss how to keep leads from being ignored and going into a black hole by using something I call the Judicial Branch.
DiscoverOrg Sales
MAY 5, 2016
As cybersecurity concerns intensify across the globe, CIOs have become increasingly visible and valuable. In some cases, the failure of a CIO to mitigate risk can cost a company a lot more than the lofty compensation packages they command. If IT departments are your prospecting focus, it might be valuable to know where the CIO you’re targeting falls in the Fortune 500 range of compensation – to gauge seniority, the value placed on security initiatives, and related budget.
Understanding the Sales Force
MAY 9, 2016
Sales Process is a topic I have chosen to write about around 25 times over the past 10 years. All 25 articles can all be found in my series on Sales Process. Lately, we are finally beginning seeing some improvements being made in this area. For example, back in the early 90's, when Objective Management Group (OMG) first began measuring the existence of sales process, only 9% of all salespeople were following one with any degree of consistency and effectiveness.
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 23, 2016
Issue Date: 2016-05-23. Author: David Yesford, Wilson Learning Worldwide. Teaser: For several decades, sales leaders and managers have favored the practice of calling higher in customer organizations. Over the same time span, this idea has persisted but the business environment has undergone many changes. Technology has changed the way we sell and the way our customers shop and buy.
The Sales Hunter
MAY 10, 2016
Sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and others can be powerful tools to help you prospect more effectively. In my new book coming out this September, “High-Profit Prospecting,” I share insights every salesperson needs to know. Here are 5 mistakes far too many salespeople make with social media: 1. Thinking that because they’re a new connection, you the […].
The Pipeline
MAY 16, 2016
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . I have always said that success in sales is all about Execution – Everything else is just talk! And there is no shortage of talk in sales, believe me people in sales, and people around sales, the pundits, can talk some s**t, not only is it funny and amusing (or sad) at times. People seem to go out of their way to mangle the language and meaning of words, and by extension the quality of their execution and sales success.
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