Anthony Cole Training
AUGUST 26, 2021
The bank CEOs we work with know they know that a banking sales training approach will help them by putting a structure in place for all to follow. In this blog, we discuss the 5 keys to choosing and implementing a better banking sales training program.
Zoominfo
AUGUST 26, 2021
SaaS, and business in general, is full of terms that sound similar but carry different meanings, the kind of terms that newcomers (and sometimes those who should know better) are prone to trip on. You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to individuals in your predetermined target market segment.
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Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 23, 2021
You can hit your sales targets and still be a bad manager. Being a good leader boils down to making your people better. Learn the best ways to do so! The post Want To Be A Good Leader? Here’s What You Need To Know appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
The Pipeline
AUGUST 24, 2021
By Tibor Shanto. If you follow this blog, you know our tag line is “execution, everything else is just talk!”; And the one thing in abundance in B2B sales, is talk, often just for the sake of talk, not communication. One thing people talk about are the attributes of successful salespeople, let’s make that a low bar, making quota. For many, including myself, a key attribute is curiosity; but it is one thing to talk about it, different to execute.
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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
AUGUST 25, 2021
Yesterday I watched a toad walk across the outdoor side of our kitchen window. Picture it! I wish I had video but it ran so counter to what I have observed toads doing over the past 65 years that I froze. I performed a google search and found exactly one image of a toad on a window. Please understand that the dirty window and sill are not mine - I found the image via a Google search.
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 27, 2021
When B2B sales is broken into these steps, the complex process becomes much more manageable. The post 10 Steps to Future-Proof Your Sales Force and Transform Your Results appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
The Pipeline
AUGUST 23, 2021
Subscribe today, and take the Breakfast on the go! Shawn is driven by a passion to help business owners, executives and leaders accelerate their sales results. A consultant, author and speaker, he has held senior executive roles in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Shawn’s published two books, The Unstoppable Organization and Operational Empowerment , and his insights can frequently be found online in publications such as Fast Company and INC magazine.
SBI Growth
AUGUST 24, 2021
An effective go-to-market model has three primary benefits for a company. First, it supports a more efficient motion that minimizes your cost of new customer acquisition. Second, it enables your commercial team to capture greater wallet share from existing customers and grow their lifetime value. And third, it helps manage the expense-to-revenue (E:R) ratio of the business and ensure spend per segment is optimized.
Steven Rosen
AUGUST 22, 2021
Sales are Down. … What is the Boss Going to Say? I always hated having to explain why sales are down. There is never a good answer. Sales executives and managers have no shortage of challenges. I can remember numerous times. I faced challenges when sales were off. One year in February we were already behind budget in sales. I knew I had to do something.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 24, 2021
These three questions help sales teams become more acclimated to the sales application process after sales training has been completed. The questions position a sales leader to ask one final question that drives greater acceptance of sales coaching and feedback. The post 3 Questions That Should Be Asked After Every Sales Training appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles
AUGUST 24, 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
SBI Growth
AUGUST 24, 2021
An effective go-to-market model has three primary benefits for a company. First, it supports a more efficient motion that minimizes your cost of new customer acquisition. Second, it enables your commercial team to capture greater wallet share from existing customers.
Mr. Inside Sales
AUGUST 27, 2021
Want a quick and easy way to handle objections like a pro? Simply seek out the top closer in your company, organization, or industry, and then role play with them and write down how they answer the same objections that are frustrating you now. Once you have those responses, simply rewrite them to fit your personality or style, and then practice, drill, and rehearse them each time you get the same objection.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 26, 2021
Author Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo, two guys who have decades of experience in maximizing employee performance, explain how leaders can bring fun and low-cost fun into the workplace and why that is so important. An SMM webinar-turned-podcast. The post Work Made Fun Gets Done appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Allego
AUGUST 24, 2021
Sellers are facing one of the most difficult buying landscapes in recent memory—and they need your help. B2B deals are high-cost, span multiple touchpoints, and take months to close. It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. In times of crisis, businesses that innovate and rethink conventional approaches are the ones that are likely to win.
Gong.io
AUGUST 24, 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. Subscribe here and follow me to read upcoming research. Three days ago, I sent a flawless cold prospecting email. . It was personalized, to-the-point, and had a highly effective CTA. .
Zoominfo
AUGUST 24, 2021
You’re scrolling through a website, and bam — there it is. That little chat pop-up in the corner that’s calling your name (literally). This piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today. Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chances are you’ve probably encountered your fair share of chatbots as a buyer.
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
AUGUST 25, 2021
Virtual events will endure beyond the pandemic. Social media marketing has become essential to boost registration and participation. The post 8 Ways Social Media Is Used to Promote Virtual Events appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Force Management
AUGUST 25, 2021
In the flurry of SKO planning, it’s easy to get bogged down on the details. You and your enablement team are making a slew of decisions — who’s presenting, where are you doing it, what’s the agenda, etc. While those details are important to your overall success, don’t lose focus on your most important asset, your salespeople.
SBI
AUGUST 24, 2021
By Lee Mayfield, Presentek. 5 Reasons Why Sales Doesn’t use Content from Marketing: and What to do About it. Your company has invested a lot of time and money creating content for Sales Reps, so why isn’t Sales using the content from Marketing? Here are 5 reasons why and what you can do to make sure Sales makes effective use of the right content to grow the business.
Membrain
AUGUST 22, 2021
When buyer/seller harmony is achieved, more than a sale is made. Value is exchanged. Yet, for a number of reasons, sellers are about as in harmony with their buyers as I am in singing along with the radio.
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!
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 23, 2021
Customers are more critical than ever. Here's how learning and development can build customer service capabilities and contribute to success. The post 5 Advantages of Virtual Simulations for Developing Sales and Service Teams appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Julie Hanson
AUGUST 24, 2021
Do you struggle to build relationships virtually? You are not alone. In fact, Harvard Business Review confirms that building new relationships is especially difficult in a virtual world. While there’s no shortage of suggestions on clever rapport-builders, insightful questions, or engagement technology designed to make relationships grow more easily on-line, most of these attempts are mere band aids as they do not address this very basic fact: Relationships require certain qualities to grow and f
SBI
AUGUST 23, 2021
Bigtincan to Acquire Brainshark: Signs Definitive Agreement. Waltham, MA – August 23, 2021. Bigtincan (ASX:BTH), the global leader in Sales Enablement automation, announced it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Brainshark, Inc. (“Brainshark”). The deal combines two of the leading providers of Sales Readiness solutions for training, coaching and onboarding, adding enterprise-grade capabilities to create the most complete Sales Enablement Platform in the market.
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 24, 2021
Change is a popular topic. Simultaneously, we celebrate, embrace, resist, and fear change. We initiate endless change initiatives. The process of recognizing the need to change is invigorating. We do a lot of analysis, there are innumerable meetings talking about the need to change, discussions of the options, planning for the change. Then we implement change initiatives, often with a bang.
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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
Allego
AUGUST 27, 2021
What do you believe you are capable of when you feel confident? If you’re like most people, your world of possibilities is greatly expanded when you feel sure of yourself. The connection between self-belief and success is at the core of Elyse Archer’s mission. Her work is centered on helping people believe in themselves enough to earn higher incomes and to make their greatest impact in the world.
The Center for Sales Strategy
AUGUST 25, 2021
Building trust virtually, finding qualified leads, getting in front of the decision-makers — these are all challenges that salespeople face. And as a sales manager, you’re finding innovative ways to address these issues. However, to become more effective in your role and provide a better overall direction for the entire team, it’s important to know the current challenges that sales managers face as well.
Selling Power
AUGUST 25, 2021
An effective territory management strategy is critical to ensure that salespeople are motivated to hit targets and that an organization’s sales strategy is successful.
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