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How to Boost Morale for Better Sales

The Center for Sales Strategy

How are you working to improve sales? When it comes to sales, what do you value? If the answer to that question is hitting the numbers, then people are simply stepping stones. When you value people first, you'll watch the numbers stack up. The goal is to invest in people. The return on that investment is huge, because people account for a quality sales operation.

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The Sales Prospecting Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? B2B sales prospecting is a stage of the sales process that involves looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients, and then nurturing those relationships as a way to convert them into new business.

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5 Proactive Ways to Increase Sales Online in 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jo Barnes 2020 was a year of turbulence in almost every aspect of life (understatement of the century?), and businesses were no exception. In the age of COVID-19, every industry is shifting as much as possible into the online space. If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone. But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns?

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Time To Decide How You View Time

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. People deal with time as though it was a fickle dance partner, “if I work with it, I can stretch and do things I know it can’t do.” As you know I think time management is a stupid concept that just leads to more work. The only thing malleable about time is you. The challenge with time is that it reflects the decision we make about how we use it.

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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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The Phrase of the Year Is Seller Access

No More Cold Calling

Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. Why the sudden interest in referral sales? A sudden decline in seller access. When the economy shrinks and companies cut budgets, buyers don’t want to talk to salespeople. Layer the pandemic over that economic downturn—well, it gets worse. No one’s in their office, and if you don’t have their mobile number, forget it.

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How Pitchers Fielding Practice is Exactly the Same as Salespeople Role-Playing

Understanding the Sales Force

It's short article Friday. Less is more. My Twitter feed had the funniest 1-minute baseball video I have ever seen. It was pitcher fielding practice (PFP) and the coach was miked up. It illustrated just how bad most professional major league pitchers are at fielding their position and how a coach can keep it light - even make it funny - when the pitchers are struggling so badly.

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The Ones Worth Your Time

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. I posted yesterday about the need for salespeople to make better decisions about their view of time. One of the points I emphasized was to reorient from qualifying to disqualifying. Most people usually find what they set out to look for, a nip here, tuck there, but they find it. So, if you set out to find someone that qualifies, you will, blemishes and all, anything will do.

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Getting More Implementation From Your Outstanding Training Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Robert Workman As a trainer, especially a trainer of salespeople and sales managers, you bust your butt to do a great job. You know you must deliver effective strategies and tactics that help your team produce revenue, more revenue and more revenue to cover the costs of business and make profits. And you have to deliver this material and have it implemented by whom?

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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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How a Chief Customer Officer Helps Companies Overcome Digital Evolution Pitfalls

SBI Growth

Nearly 1 year ago, the economy had come to an abrupt halt as many organizations waited to be ushered into a “new normal.” Now, companies worldwide have adapted to new digital capabilities to operate better than ever before, but many.

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3 Rules to Improved Candidate Selection

Anthony Cole Training

When you don't have a pipeline of sales talent to go to when making a hire, you can become desperate. You become desperate because you believe having someone in the role is better than a vacancy. In the 6th blog of our series No Assembly Required Hiring , Tony discusses how to avoid making reactive hiring decisions and the 3 rules you must follow to improve your candidate selection.

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4 Tips For Effective Landing Page Design

Zoominfo

What aspect of ZI’s platform is the most underutilized and why do you think that’s the case? Picture just a blank white web page with a form to fill out, and basic text that reads “Fill out form for [insert offer here].”. Sounds pretty boring, right? Technically speaking, that could count as a landing page. But with no real design to it, it’s unlikely to actually result in many conversions.

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The Shifting Sands of Selling Tech

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. Some will be more aggressive than others, depending upon the sector and the funds available. Regardless, 2020 will have an indelible impression on business operations for quite some time. The survivors learned to be scrappy, reprioritize on the fly and pay close attention to customer needs and motivations.

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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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The Seven Types of Sales Managers

Membrain

Since 1989, I’ve had the honor of coaching thousands of managers globally. Of course, every manager possesses their own personality, talents, skills, goals, and approach to managing their team. I’ve been able to identify the seven, most common types of managers, so you can self-assess and uncover the areas to focus on that will make you a world-class, resilient leader and coach.

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10 Reasons Why You Need To Attend the 2021 10X Growth Conference ONLINE

Grant Cardone

Since this year’s 10X Growth Conference is the most exclusive one we’ve ever held, it’s no surprise that in-person tickets sold out almost immediately, I created an option for people to attend virtually so nobody gets left out. Now, you might be wondering how you can get everything you expect from a 10X Growth Conference if you’re not there. Let me break it down for you with 10 Reasons Why You Need To Attend the 2021 10X Growth Conference ONLINE : The BIGGEST sales and marketing event on the p

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How Swim Lanes Get Marketing, Sales Development, and Sales More Wins

Zoominfo

Hey, Marketing. Is your team going in the same direction as sales development and sales? Check your swim lanes to get everyone synched for selling. What are swim lanes? Swim lanes are a visual representation of workflows that show who’s responsible for which tasks. B2B marketing and sales can use swim lanes to map and track their responsibilities — from qualifying marketing leads to closing deals.

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Getting More Implementation From Your Outstanding Training Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

As a trainer, especially a trainer of salespeople and sales managers, you bust your butt to do a great job. You know you must deliver effective strategies and tactics that help your team produce revenue, more revenue and more revenue to cover the costs of business and make profits.

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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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8 reasons to be excited about our new free trial of active pipeline management

Membrain

If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that we’ve been gradually rolling out free trials on all of our modules. A few weeks ago, we made the account growth module free for a limited time. Then we announced the prospecting module free trial was also available. And now, finally, the main event: We have made our core workflow, the active pipeline module, available to try for free.

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Highspot Raises $200 Million in Growth Funding to Take Sales Enablement Mainstream

Highspot

SEATTLE, Feb. 22, 2021 — Highspot , the industry’s only unified, natively-built sales enablement platform, today announced it has closed $200 million in Series E funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from new investor Bain & Company. The round included all existing investors: ICONIQ Growth, Madrona Venture Group, OpenView, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

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Do Extroverts Or Introverts Make Better Sales Leaders?

Zoominfo

People have argued for ages over what personality type the ideal salesperson should have. But both introverts and extroverts have the potential to be awesome salespeople. Both sides of the personality coin offer traits that can be incredibly valuable in the world of sales. The key is in knowing your personality type. That way, you can better understand the areas in which you excel and the areas in which you might need to improve.

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5 Proactive Ways to Increase Sales Online in 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

In the age of COVID-19, every industry is shifting as much as possible into the online space. If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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CRM for Teachers: Organizing In-house, Private Tutors, and Homeschooling Opportunities

Nimble - Sales

Teaching is a calling, but it’s also a business. These concepts are not mutually exclusive and quite frankly, teachers with some entrepreneurship skills have so much more to offer to children they educate. This is why CRM for teachers is so pivotal. In order to successfully juggle 101 tasks a day (getting a constant stream […]. The post CRM for Teachers: Organizing In-house, Private Tutors, and Homeschooling Opportunities appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Podcast 186: Michael Phelan On Best Practices For Booking New Meetings In A Programmatic Way

John Barrows

Our guest this week is Michael Phelan, Principal and Founder of Go-to-Market Pros. The knowledge that Michael has accumulated over the years comes from his ability to ask the right questions. Michael and John are going to dive into the importance of driving meetings, the ever evolving concept of give to get situations, and the impact of well designed processes.

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8 Simple Steps to Prep Your Webinar Funnel for Sales

Zoominfo

Are you thinking about increasing sales with a webinar? Start with your webinar funnel. What Is a Webinar Funnel? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. The goal is to attract prospects to your brand and convert them to customers — by hosting a webinar. Consider this: In 2019, ON24 surveyed its webcasting platform users.

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New Online Marketing Tool Accelerates Performance

Sales and Marketing Management

London-based Knexus Digital, a digital marketing resource for busy marketing and communications professionals, launched their new content license offering today.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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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How to Use a CRM: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

As your business grows, manually keeping track of your prospects and customers with spreadsheets and random notes in different places becomes near impossible. Not only is this type of system time- and energy-consuming to manage, but things also start slipping through the cracks at an alarming rate. This only serves to exhaust your team and disappoint to your customers.

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“Loner” Is “Loser” Spelled Differently

Grant Cardone

How’s that whole misunderstood genius, rebel, lone wolf, unappreciated for your brilliance thing working out for you? Let me guess, your time will come. People just don’t understand your big idea yet, right? Wake up and realize that “loner” is “loser” spelled differently. . . Come on. Let’s get real. I’ll start by telling you that nobody ever did anything great alone.

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10 Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media

Zoominfo

Almost everyone thinks salespeople are all about beating their competition (well, there might be a little truth to that). But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself