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Why Flexible Slides are the Key to Conversational Sales

Jill Konrath

Recently I interviewed Luke Goetting, Director of Puffingston Presentations for an Engaging Presentations video series I did with Prezi. His expertise is in "transforming stale business presentations into visually engaging stories." That's why I asked him to share his thinking with you.

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Sales Strategy: 2 Ways to Determine if You’re Already Behind on Your 2012 Sales Plan

SBI Growth

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How Sales Engagement Solves 7 Major Business Pain Points

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Manny Medina, Max Atschuler and Mark Kosoglow The days of old-school communications have passed. In their stead, we have new modern sales communications that are data-driven, personalized, relevant, omnichannel, sequenced, and fully optimized for today’s sophisticated buyer. The following are the seven major business pain points solved by sales engagement: Business Pain Point #1: Not Optimizing for the Modern Buyer.

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Surprise! All Intuition Isn’t the Same

No More Cold Calling

Did you know we have three different types of intuition? “Darn, I wish I’d trusted my gut.” I won’t even try to count the times I’ve said that. Eventually, most of us learn that trusting our gut makes sense—which is a non sequitur, because making sense is not intuitive. Making sense is systematic and sequential, and intuition is the opposite. It’s a feeling.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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10 Reasons Why I Love Sales

The Sales Hunter

Not many people dream of having a career in sales. Let’s be real here: sales was probably not your first choice. For many of you, although afraid to admit, sales wasn’t even your second, third or fourth choice. Some of you reading this are thinking to yourself, “Mark you’re smoking something funny.” Calm down. Although I used to live in Oregon, I haven’t smoked anything.

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Environmentally Friendly Prospecting

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. No, I am not going to talk about green selling or climate change, not even sales change. The focus here is the actual environment of the buyer or environments. Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. The environment where what you sell will be used, consumed or processed.

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2 Selling Shortcuts That Will Always Work

Understanding the Sales Force

Do shortcuts work in sales?

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What Is An Emotional Selling Proposition & Is It Better Than A Unique Selling Proposition?

MTD Sales Training

Emotional Selling Proposition – have you got one? We all know that sales are based mostly on emotion and the decision is backed up with logic. That’s the law of the salesperson! So, do we often come up with emotional selling points in our proposals? Do we develop our emotional selling propositions as well as our unique selling propositions? You’ve heard of a USP right?

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How Sales Specialists Help Reach Your Customers

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Steve Norman I recently saw the CMO of a high-profile company present at an international marketing conference. I was surprised to hear him talk about the fact that his company was now embracing specialist sales roles. The company had implemented a hunter/farmer model, whereby “hunter” salespeople were responsible for finding and closing deals, while “farmer” salespeople focus on retaining and growing business with existing accounts.

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

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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Prospecting By Numbers

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. As a regular reader of this blog, you know I am a card-carrying member of the Sales Is About Number. While some may want to debate that, few will argue that prospecting is a Numbers driven exercise. I’m not here to defend the view but to introduce a number you need to focus on for successful prospecting. Prospect By The Numbers.

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Using the Power of a Duracell to Help You Hire Perfect Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Apparently, Duracell 9 volt batteries are the picture of consistency. Last night, all 7 of our upstairs smoke detecters starting squawking within about 30 minutes of each other to indicate that their batteries needed to be replaced. Given that the Duracells were installed in those units on the same day 4 years ago, one would hope that there are more things that we could rely upon to be as consistent and predictable.

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Hidden Obstacles Can Sink Your Best Customer Experience Efforts

SBI Growth

You have a variety of channels to meet customers along their journey. You know they are reading your emails. They are actively downloading information and filling out forms. They even had conversations with your representatives and are “very satisfied” with.

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Generating Leads at Trade Shows: The A-Z Guide for 2019

DiscoverOrg Sales

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f their entire budget. Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation. Trade shows are an expensive way to generate leads, even if you don’t have a booth.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

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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Weekly Sales Management Tip #15: You Can Never Over-Communicate

Steven Rosen

During a cycle of change, you need to clearly and concisely communicate where the organization is heading to help your salespeople understand the future. What does the new structure look like? What are the new roles and responsibilities of the team members? Discuss the rationale for the change. In times of change do 3 things: Communicate, communicate and communicate!

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Don’t Be So Quick to Answer!

The Sales Heretic

We tend to think of conversations as: one person speaks, then the other responds, back and forth, back and forth. For that reason, in sales conversations, we typically feel the need to address an issue as soon as it is raised, whether it’s via a question or a statement. But that can frequently be the [.].

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Promoted! New Sales Manager Tips for a Smooth Transition

Connect2Sell

Instead of selling, what’ll you do all day long as a new sales manager? Not knowing the answer to that question will lead you astray. You’ll end up becoming the “sales prevention manager” instead of a sales manager if you get in the way of sellers making sales. You want your sellers to develop so they can make more and bigger sales -- and eventually become a better seller than even you.

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The Definitive Guide to B2B Emoji Marketing

Zoominfo

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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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Who Is The Best Person to Motivate Me?

The Sales Hunter

Motivation doesn’t come from me, your boss, your spouse, or anybody around you. Motivation comes from within. It’s your destiny. It’s how you choose to see things. Motivate yourself this week, because you are the one who determines your success. Copyright 2019, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results.

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How a CEO Inspires Cultural Change

SBI Growth

Today Nestor Benavides, CEO of EMG, joins us to discuss how a CEO can establish new forms of communication that not only drive the culture but deliver continuous improvement. Nestor reviews how he shapes a culture that empowers his team.

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Stop Talking Past the Close

Mr. Inside Sales

How many tie-downs and trial closes do you or your team use during their presentations? If you’re thinking, “What’s a tie-down? What’s a trial close?” then you’re in trouble…. In an earlier blog , I introduced the term, “Spray and Pray” as way to describe how many sales rep’s presentations go. They get the prospect on the phone, go through a PowerPoint slide presentation, drone on and on for a half hour or more, rarely checking in their prospect—and if they do, it’s a weak, “does that make sense

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6 Outdated SEO Tactics to Avoid At All Costs

Zoominfo

The Internet has long been the dominant outlet used by businesses to reach their target audience. As a result, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has stepped into the spotlight as a vital digital marketing tactic. For those who aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO is the art of increasing a website’s visibility and traffic through organic (non-paid) search engine results.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Watch this webinar with Rachael Foster, Director of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo, and Dan Dolph, Manager of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo.

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Sales Leadership Lessons from OutBound

The Sales Hunter

Many of you reading this blog post are aware of one of the largest sales event that I have the honor to co-host each year called OutBound. Today is the last day of the conference and just like in years past, the response has been amazing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. I am humbled by your comments. Let me share a few of my thoughts from what I’ve learned learned this week: First, we never know who we will impact.

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Why Trade Shows Are Worthy of Your Marketing Budget

SBI Growth

If you have been to a trade show in the last 2-3 years, you know that trade show booths are becoming more and more spectacular. As a spectator just a few weeks ago, I attended one of the largest medical.

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Everything You Need to Know About Sales Commission in 2019 (For Reps & Leaders)

Hubspot Sales

Did you know 43% of workers would be willing to leave their companies for a 10% salary increase ? Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. The results wouldn't be pretty. If your sales organization is struggling to strike a balance between company requirements and the compensation needs of employees, it's likely time to reevaluate your

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The Modern Recruiter’s Guide to Candidate Sourcing

Zoominfo

New technology affects the way every industry operates – and recruiting is no different. Over the last decade, the role of the recruiter has changed drastically thanks to advancements on the web. While evolution is always a good thing, many in the recruiting world have wondered: is the act of strategic candidate sourcing dead? This debate picked up steam in 2013 when recruiting expert John Sullivan declared sourcing a dying practice.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

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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LinkedIn Voice Messages

John Barrows

You may have heard about the benefits of LinkedIn voice messages. Many sales reps, including Morgan, are using them with great success. Of the 125 Morgan has sent, he’s seen 50 responses and booked 25 meetings. That’s a 40% response rate, and 20% success rate in getting next steps. Here’s how you can get started with LinkedIn voice messages. Who you can send them to.

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The Link Between Pricing and Customer Experience

SBI Growth

Wondering what is the next emerging best practice in Customer Experience? Monetizing service. This is in addition the typical Customer Experience benefits of decreased churn and higher cross-sell/ upsell. Listen to how a sales leader leverages Customer Experience. Stay Ahead of the.

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Use These Sales Manager Resume Tips & Templates to Get the Job

Hubspot Sales

Ready for a career change? You've spent hours searching job boards, identified the ideal job, and now it's time to apply. Then the panic sets in …. You begin to question everything: How do I begin writing my resume? Do my skills even apply to this role? What does the employer want to know? Not to fear! Here are some sales manager resume tips and templates to calm your nerves and help you get the job of your dreams.