Bernadette McClelland
MARCH 14, 2017
Each one of us has the opportunity to make a positive impact on someone else’s life. How cool is that thought? Because deep down inside, the majority of us love to help – we get a kick out of knowing someone else can do a better job, feel better about their possibilities, their abilities, their results, and themselves – even if it just a 5 minute window we both looked through together.
Steven Rosen
MARCH 30, 2017
Awesome Sales Leaders. It would be great to understand what awesome sales leaders are doing to lead their team to succeed? As a sales leader, there are only so many levers you have at your disposal to impact team success. However, you know that where you put your emphasis can have a dramatic impact on sales outcomes. Here are the top five areas that I have seen successful sales leaders focus on, to outperform their competitors.
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SBI Growth
MARCH 10, 2017
Companies create significant value by pulling the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) lever. Consider a 1,200 employee mid-market company. In this example scenario, the company’s CAC was roughly $100,000 before aligning its sales and marketing strategies. However, the marketing team had.
The Sales Hunter
MARCH 7, 2017
What does your sales funnel look like? Is it full of junk? What is the % of leads at the top of your funnel that actually become customers? I see way too much time being spent on keeping names in a sales funnel just for the sake of keeping a sales manager happy. It’s time […].
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No More Cold Calling
MARCH 23, 2017
Women have everything it takes to succeed in sales. Ask any B2B sales leader about their lead generation challenges, and you’ll get specific answers about why their teams can’t get access to buyers, how sales processes have gotten too long, or why they’re losing to the competition. Ask them why there aren’t more women in technology sales , and they’re not quite sure.
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Bernadette McClelland
MARCH 16, 2017
My family always plays games on Christmas Day and one of our favourites is Charades. Not only do we find it massively amusing, but the person who is up front generally gets so bemused and frustrated at why their simple label cannot be guessed in such a relatively short time-frame, especially considering all the clues they are giving. And like many of us, we know what we are conveying yet wonder how something so simple, complete with our own clues and instructions, cannot be understood by those w
Steven Rosen
MARCH 2, 2017
Having a team of top sales performers is great! Well maybe. Sports teams that have many great players don’t always win championships. Less talented teams who have great chemistry and are committed to doing whatever it takes to win usually come out on top. When I coach sales managers on how to get the best out of their team, I realize that not all top performers are the same.
SBI Growth
MARCH 14, 2017
Meet Dave, a mid-market tech CEO. He is smart, savvy, and universally respected by his employees and industry peers. He’s invested wisely in sales and marketing optimization over the years, and consequently his team makes the number more often than.
DiscoverOrg Sales
MARCH 8, 2017
If a salesman wanted to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn, you’d recognize the racket almost immediately. Today, it’s a punchline, but once upon a time, people took the offer seriously: Two people a week for 30 years bought a worthless deed to the Brooklyn Bridge thinking the document would change their fortunes with the toll fares they could charge. Turns out all they had bought was an expensive piece of parchment.
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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.
No More Cold Calling
MARCH 16, 2017
Lead generation shouldn’t be that tough. Let’s be honest. Cold calling is bottom-of-the-barrel prospecting. It can take eight to 14 touches to just to reach a prospect who isn’t expecting a call from your sales rep. He’s “dialing for dollars” (read: “wasting time”), and who has time to waste? There has to be an easier way to score qualified sales leads!
The Pipeline
MARCH 16, 2017
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Not everything prospects say that does not align or agree with your view is an objection, and more importantly, you shouldn’t react to everything as if it was. On the other hand, you also know that there will be some specific objections that are going to come up, and how one deals with that often separates the high performers from the also-rans.
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 19, 2017
Issue Date: 2017-03-20. Author: Bob LaBombard. Teaser: A review of online job boards indicates that many companies need to fill sales positions, but are having only mild success. The perception of sales as a career isn't at a high point among millennials, but what they don't see is that it is a great opportunity to get a foothold in the business world, whether it's for a long career in sales or a launching pad to something else.
Understanding the Sales Force
MARCH 15, 2017
Image Copyright Bluberries. These days, changes happen faster than ever and the same can be said about professional selling. Selling is evolving, the rules of business are changing, there is more information available on line than there was last week and sales organizations must evolve accordingly. Back in 2014, I introduced what was then the most current version of Objective Management Group's 21 Sales Core Competencies.
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The Sales Heretic
MARCH 21, 2017
Much—if not most—marketing is wasted. Various studies put the number at anywhere from 40% to 60%. You can’t afford to waste time, money, and effort like that though. If you want to generate more sales, your marketing needs to be effective. How can you make sure it is? With five simple questions: who, why, what, [.].
Steven Rosen
MARCH 21, 2017
Sales EQ. Sales expert Jeb Blount, just launched his 8th and best sales book. If you are looking to be an ultra high performer you must adjust to the evolving demands of your customers, Sales EQ: How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal , will teach you how to use emotional intelligence to become an ultra-high sales performer!
The Pipeline
MARCH 9, 2017
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Let’s be clear, no white flags here, just a reminder that the most crucial thing to control in a winning sales career is time. As I have stated here in the past, “leads are recyclable, time is not”, if what you are doing now is not moving the opportunity or sale forward, you need to ask if it is time to move on to something that will.
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 12, 2017
Issue Date: 2017-03-13. Author: Justin Yopp. Teaser: As leaders, our primary purpose is to help our teams be as successful as possible. Our selection of KPIs tells our teams what to focus on and are the foundation, and possibly the motivation, for their work. So let’s uncover the potentially debilitating impact that poor KPI selection can have on your team’s motivation, morale, and effectiveness.
No More Cold Calling
MARCH 8, 2017
What does it take to succeed in sales? Today is International Women’s Day, and what better time to celebrate all the smart, savvy women in sales ? In honor of the occasion, HubSpot is launching its #WomenInSalesDay project, a compilation of inspiring stories about top saleswomen, as well as tips and advice for women coming up the ranks in sales. HubSpot asked for my take, which is this: Women have natural strengths and talents that make us great at sales, often better than men.
SBI Growth
MARCH 14, 2017
Utopia for a CEO is growing faster than your industry and your peers. A thoughtful go-to-market strategy is imperative to enable this growth. Here’s the catch: Many CEOs have risen to the top through finance, operations, or product management. With.
The Sales Heretic
MARCH 8, 2017
Does boosting your sales mean you have to be sneaky, underhanded, manipulative, and high-pressure? Absolutely not! In fact, if you truly want to excel in sales, you need to be just the opposite. Because a virtuous salesperson is a successful salesperson. Listen to my appearance on the Black Belt Selling podcast with Anna and Stephanie [.].
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!
DiscoverOrg Sales
MARCH 27, 2017
This post is an original piece from guest author, Brandon Redlinger, and first published on DiscoverOrg’s blog on 3/27/2017. Brandon is the Director of Growth at Engagio, the Account-Based Everything platform that orchestrates human connections. He is passionate about the intersection between tech and psychology, especially as it applies to growing businesses.
The Pipeline
MARCH 6, 2017
By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . Those of you who have participated in my events or webinars, know that early on I encourage people who prospect for a living, to take pride in what they do rather than apologize for it. I encourage them to answer with pride next time some asks what they do for a living, by saying “I am a Professional Interrupter!
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 2, 2017
Issue Date: 2017-03-03. Author: Kevin F. Davis. Teaser: Is the current level of skill and attitude of your sales team good enough to exceed your 2017 revenue growth goals? If not, you need to do three things right now to lead yourself and grow others more effectively. Is the current level of skill and attitude of your sales team good enough to exceed your 2017 revenue growth goals?
Score More Sales
MARCH 27, 2017
Best selling author, journalist, and speaker Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book in 2000 called The Tipping Point. It is a great read for anyone in business, and one of the things it covers is different archetypes of people, including mavens and connectors.
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.
SBI Growth
MARCH 2, 2017
Our show today demonstrates how to increase pipeline attribution, customer loyalty, and customer lifetime value through product marketing. Too often product marketing teams are focused on features and functions. Our conversation today is focused on associating product marketing excellence with.
The Sales Heretic
MARCH 28, 2017
A female friend called me recently to tell me a story. She had arrived home from work around dusk. As she approached her house, she noticed two men walking through the neighborhood. She pulled into her driveway, opened her garage door, and parked in the garage. As she exited her car, the two men approached [.].
DiscoverOrg Sales
MARCH 22, 2017
Does this situation sound familiar? I’m in the middle of evaluating sales coaching tools (3 to be exact), and while I see some pros and cons to each, there’s nothing really standing out to make one of them the clear winner. One of our partners called this recently, “selling in a sea of sameness” – so many tools, it’s hard to differentiate. The flip side is I’m sure those vendors just can’t stand that I’m unable see how each one is the best.
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