Membrain

MARCH 3, 2021

Sales is not a profession for the weak of heart. From the first cold call, to the last presentation and request for closing, every step of the sales process is fraught with potential peril.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 1, 2021

Do you want to conduct better interviews and ensure you make smart hiring decisions? Preparing better interview questions to determine talent and fit will help you improve this step in your selection process. The first, and most important, step is to have your candidate complete a validated talent assessment specific to the role you are filling before you meet with them.

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ValueSelling

MARCH 2, 2021

As you well know, 2020 had a tremendous impact on sales leaders, salespeople, and learning and development professionals. The rapid shift to virtual selling and the collapsing delta between B2B and B2C buying behaviors fundamentally changed how most of us interact with customers and prospects — and the results weren’t always pretty.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. The customer and their success are central to B2B sales, and the best way to that is with your expertise. It’s not by pandering or pretending that the prospect is always right as many try to do. You do have to accept that if the customer is right and always in the know, then you are nothing but an order taker. And you can tell order takers often from the way they approach taking the order.

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October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 3, 2021

Author: Beth Siegert What are the effects on the health and well-being of our work force during the pandemic? Pre-COVID-19, it was reported that one in four individuals experienced a diagnosable mental health condition annually. Since COVID, employees are manifesting a wide variety of psychological problems, including a large increase in substance misuse and other addictive behaviors.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Chris committed to coaching to improve the skills of his sales team. is a district sales manager who just took my Focused Sales Coaching online program. He has done well implementing the program and is so close to being a great sales manager. But until he truly understands the fundamentals of improving skills, he will struggle. I have been working with Chris as his sales executive coach.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 2, 2021

Big data is everywhere around us, shaping the way businesses run. It’s used by companies of all types and sizes for a variety of tasks, ranging from employee benefits administration to cancer research. Big data is vital in the functionality and productivity of an organization’s web presence. Improving the way you harness and use big data will benefit your marketing strategy by helping you reach the right people at the best time with relevant content.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 1, 2021

Today's post has nothing to do with selling, but is indirectly related because some of the businesses that have been hurt by the pandemic and the government's shut downs have sales organizations. In the US, the so-called COVID relief bill passed the house and we learned that only 9% of the 1.9 Trillion dollars in the plan goes to actual COVID relief.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 2, 2021

The most difficult challenge leaders will face in 2021 is motivating personnel. Even with a new prospect or a new project, for most employees, the outlook is another year of virtual meetings that highly resembles 2020. In this environment, how.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Some companies are augmenting current training practices and, as by-products, improving hiring, onboarding, best-practice dissemination and performance management as well as selling skills.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies. It’s no wonder that 43% of salespeople in 2020 used sales intelligence tools, compared to 28% in 2018.

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Openview

MARCH 1, 2021

Remote work has become the norm for many businesses in the last year, and today a startup that has built a cybersecurity platform to help manage all the devices connecting to organizations’ wide-ranging networks — while also providing a way for those organizations to take advantage of all the best that the quite fragmented security market has to offer — is announcing a major round of funding and a big boost to its valuation after seeing its annual recurring revenues grow ten-fo

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SBI Growth

MARCH 3, 2021

The rate of digital transformation has accelerated greatly in the last year, sped, in large part by the pandemic. Sellers are left with more channels to cover and interactions to manage, and buyers are often left to “choose their own.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 4, 2021

Is a Lack of Business Acumen Impacting Your Sales? Expectations on salespeople have undergone enormous change. The number of sales reps has declined significantly over the last four years. Declining sales have not only forced the industry to reduce the number of sales reps but has also created the need to better focus on customer needs. The days of adding sales forces are dead, and companies are struggling to find ways to deliver value to their customers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s why it’s essential to understand the reasoning behind all that content. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 4, 2021

How important is it that your new salespeople be great on the phone? Assuming the answer is "very important" then your candidate screening process must begin with the 5-minute interview.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Author: Frank V. Cespedes, Yuchun Lee and Mark Magnacca A lot of sales training misunderstands how salespeople learn. Most learning in sales is through peer learning in specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. Reps improve by seeing how their peers perform key tasks. They pick up lessons about how to pitch, answer objections, use marketing collateral and other aspects of selling for that product in that market, while

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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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Engage Selling

MARCH 5, 2021

Too many leaders today are still stuck in a “behind the desk” mindset. They fixate on managing data rather than on managing their relationships with people. That must change because now—more than ever—the quality of your outcomes in sales are … Read More » The post How Managing Is Done Now first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Hackers can steal personal information about your employees, customers, and vendors. One security breach can cause irreparable damage to your brand image. Data breaches hurt your internal and external relationships, and, ultimately, your ability to generate revenue. Hackers can even engage in competitive espionage by stealing financial information, and details about planned projects.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

At SBI we strive for all of us to reach our full potential by being diverse by nature, equitable by design, and inclusive by choice. Our curiosity to understand, value, and celebrate our unique strengths will improve outcomes for our people and our clients. This is.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Largely inspired by the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor, and made real by Henry Ford and others, the age of mass production introduced the concept of role specialisation in the pursuit of manufacturing efficiency.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2021

Sadly, the trend in developing sales people skills is toward a higher level of prescription. We provide email sequences, we script conversations and talking points. We try to formularize all the activities our sales people do with customers. But the world is complex, what our customers face is complex, what our people face is complex. Things change constantly, each customer situation is unique–to them, at a moment in time.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Regardless of your organization’s size, increasing your customer base and brand awareness is essential for continuous success. And for a small to medium-sized business (SMB) to maintain that success, they need to focus attention on growth strategies, including lead generation. Lead generation is the practice of capturing interest from potential buyers to purchase your product or service.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. According to HubSpot , 40% of sellers admit that prospecting is the most challenging part of the sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 1, 2021

Some salespeople are just built differently. They demonstrate exemplary tendencies and particularly productive tactics — reps that put another degree of effort and strategic thought into their day-to-day responsibilities. These model reps' approach to their work is shaped by something known as the entrepreneur mindset — a special frame of mind that separates certain salespeople from their peers.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

Once people learn they should “go for no” the very next question is usually: exactly how many no’s should I be getting?? Ray Higdon, the co-author of our book, Go for No! Network Marketing famously got 20 no’s a day. He was prospecting like mad. No one was there to tell him how crazy that was. Although, it worked and he got massive results by taking massive action.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy. Today we’re sharing tips and tricks to shorten the sales cycle, broken down by stage.

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Gong.io

MARCH 3, 2021

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Follow me to read upcoming research. Only a small number of sales pros become truly effective negotiators. . That’s because most of us aren’t trained to handle these high-stakes conversations.

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