Chorus.ai

MAY 17, 2021

You can learn a lot from success, but you can learn even more from failure. No one embodies this truth like Michael Scott—the king of paper merchantry, the greatest manager Dunder Mifflin ever saw (or so he’d like to have you think). “The Office” is one of the most beloved television comedies of the past 30 years, and its heroically bumbling hero Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, is one of the most beloved sitcom characters in the same period.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 15, 2021

Sales Leadership Development in the New Millennium. Leading-edge sales organizations understand the value of investing in leadership development. They believe that strong sales managers are the key to driving sales rep performance. The STAR Sales Manager Survey set out to gauge the development priorities of sales organizations. We wanted to better understand what skills were important and the level of support companies provide their sales managers in terms of skill development.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 8, 2021

My sales numbers when through the roof when I changed one simple thing: I asked for double or even triple the deal size at the end of each presentation. Before this, I used to give my presentation and automatically default to the lowest deal size and be happy if I got it. In fact, it was so bad that I even dropped the price to half the minimum amount, and I was happy if I got that!

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 19, 2021

Sales teams that flourished rather than famished in the COVID year have these key differentiators. The post 3 Ways to Propel Sales Growth During a Crisis appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. No one should doubt or question the power of empathy in life, and as a result in sales. But saying you are empathetic is a long way from practicing empathy. Many of the proponents of the concept in sales, stay very much at the concept level. But you know that we are about execution, everything else is just talk. And there is a lot of talk, and little associated action when it come to empathy in sales.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. It’s ubiquitous, low cost, reliable, and provides high-impact benefits. Customers have become highly accustomed to using email when communicating with a brand, and email performance is a critical factor in the success of digital marketing campaigns.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

Hiring Sales Stars . Whether you are starting a new sales force or hiring a new rep to fill a vacancy, the four principles of the STAR Process will help you select top sales performers. As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 21, 2021

We recorded a video on Laying the Foundations for the 8 Steps to More Effective Closing to close more business more quickly with higher margins. And we talked about the foundation. Today we are going to get into the actual 8 Steps of Becoming an Extraordinary Closer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 12, 2021

If you’re looking to use the HubSpot CRM for sales and marketing (smarketing), this story is for you. The post 3 Properties and a Report: A Smarketing Love Story appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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.

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The Pipeline

MAY 11, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. There has always been an uneasy dance involving selling and buying when it comes to trust and honesty. While it is natural to be guarded or cagey when you first meet someone new, but this goes a bit further, by both sides. While both sides expect embellishments and the most positive spins, many take it too far and over complicate things.

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SBI Growth

MAY 17, 2021

Culture—the ultimate 21st-century corporate buzzword. Most agree it’s important, some understand why, but very few sales leaders use it as a competitive differentiator. There are many factors that drive high-performance in a sales organization: talent development, enablement, and incentives, to.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2021

Hitting an early impasse with a prospect is an age-old sales dilemma. “I was working on an account and had talked to someone a little bit lower in the organization. They said, ‘You need to reach out to our CEO directly,’” recalls Megan Hanisko, manager of sales development at ZoomInfo. “So I said, ‘All right, what’s his number?’ And he would not give me any of his contact information.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 14, 2021

How do you handle the following two big objections? “Your price is too high.”. “I can get a better deal/rate/price using XYZ”. Arguably, these may be the two most frustrating objections sales reps get, and interestingly, there is one technique that works amazingly well—but few sales reps use it. Instead, the vast majority of reps stumble when they get these objections, or worse: they lower their prices to try to compete.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 27, 2021

Keeping your good habits “habitual” is dependent upon your level of commitment to your goals. If you are truly committed and willing to sacrifice immediate gratification for the long-term good, then good habits stick. But how do you correct your behavior and become more habitual? Here are our 5 steps to creating better sales habits.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2021

Email marketing campaigns that get sucked in by a spam filter or blocked completely never have a chance to convert to sales. The post Don’t Get Locked In Email Marketing Jail appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. It’s not news that the buy side has more stakeholders involved , representing the varied interests of a modern enterprise. Depending on who you follow, the number of stakeholders in a B2B decision continues to grow, over 10 by some accounts. This requires the ability to juggle a number of things all at once; more specifically communicating value to all.

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SBI Growth

MAY 24, 2021

Inefficient activity assignment and role clarity issues within your organization can drive down important metrics such as your customer service satisfaction or net promotor scores. As a Sales Leader, you’re liable for understanding where your individual contributors need to be.

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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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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Imagine if, 30 years from now, business leaders are still scratching their heads about how to use artificial intelligence. It’s nearly impossible to believe that will be true. Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to bo

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John Barrows

MAY 24, 2021

Our guest this week is Galit Ventura-Rozen, Co-Founder of Everyday Woman, real estate broker, and sales success expert. In this episode, Galit shares her experiences on the path to entrepreneurship. Investing in yourself can be frightening; Galit and John talk about the mentality and mindset needed to overcome our fears and take the steps towards what we want.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 31, 2021

Picking up the phone and making “cold calls” has never been easy, and this has prevented many reps from making the calls that can make them more sales and more income. Instead, reps these days tend to spend more time communicating on social media and sending emails. Top reps still prefer to pick up the phone and have conversation, and this remains the best way to not only speak with someone, but to qualify them as well.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2021

Managers can improve the impact of in-person communications by supplementing them with asynchronous communication that can be viewed and shared wherever and whenever the salesperson needs it. The post How Sales Teams Can Tap Into the Power of Asynchronous Communication appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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 Pipeline

MAY 25, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. Almost like clockwork, someone pronounces the death of cold calling. It is one of the most popular and repeated Zombie plotlines. The Modern Wave proves they have a better mouse trap, deems cold calling to be dead, only to have us return. They may relabel things, like outbound, but it always involves picking up the phone. Which if we’re honest, is the problem to begin with.

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SBI Growth

MAY 22, 2021

Being a CEO during a large Go-to-Market transformation is difficult, and with multiple acquisitions, this adds further complexity, such as: High Customer Acquisition Costs Low Employee Morale Inaccurate Fact Base And more. On today’s show, Steve Smith, CEO of Zayo, joins us to discuss how.

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

In a world inundated with data and the solutions that promise you the ability to achieve a competitive edge , we’re often left thinking: “How?”. Just how do businesses with access to so much rich information actually, truly use it to their very individual advantage? Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 3, 2021

Some random thoughts from the weekend and its impact on sales teams. We have a twenty-year old gas grill built-in to a stone wall on our back patio and this year I decided to replace all of the components. New burners, new heat plates, new briquettes, new grates, new ignitor, and new wiring. All told, it took three-hours of work, much of it with the ignitor and the wiring.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

What do you expect to accomplish this year? Think carefully, because nothing (in my experience) is more predictive of results than mindset. Mindset determines the actions you take, how you deal with adversity, how much you use good selling skills (and how much you invest in them), and how you adapt to the changing conditions around you. And a lot more!

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 21, 2021

Account-based marketing success requires marketers to grasp the who – the person or people behind the purchase decision. The post Orchestrating a Humanized Account-Based Marketing Strategy appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 13, 2021

Business planning as a sales professional has several components. But, there isn’t a component that is more important than using your calendar to plan for your “green” activity.

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