Allego

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today’s sales reps face a challenging reality: buyers are more informed, independent, and selective than ever. This shift has made sales skills training more essential than ever before. Reps need more than just product knowledge to succeed—they need a combination of hard and soft skills to build trust, engage effectively, and close deals. With up to 65% of B2B buyers researching independently (Forrester) and up to 11 decision-makers involved in each sale ( Gartner ), reps are under immense press

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Accurate sales forecasting is essential for business success. But it can be difficult to get it right due to certain missteps. Here are three of the most common errors that lead to incorrect forecasting and how to avoid them.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The title of today’s article might be confusing, but it’s true. Phil told me so. But before I share what he said, I have some anecdotal evidence that supports the claim that I’m an imposter. Here are ten reasons why I could be an imposter: I stand tall but I’m actually just 5′ 6″ I’m a white collar professional yet I never wear a jacket or tie I have helped B2B sales teams for nearly 40 years but prior to that I sold only B2C I invented and perfected

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are few responsibilities in life more important than being a coach, whether for a sports team, teaching mastery of a musical instrument, or serving as a sales coach. Consider the impact a coach has on their students: helping them uncover problems, discover opportunities, enhance their approach, improve their skills, and achieve success. This also makes coaching one of the toughest roles, as those responsible for it often juggle numerous other tasks daily, including operational, administrat

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As businesses prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 2025, the role of enablement teams is coming under increased scrutiny. In a research collaboration between SBI Growth and The Revenue Enablement Society, it was revealed that enablement functions are essential for organizations aiming to optimize their sales and revenue operations. This study highlights the revenue enablement methods of top performing organizations and offers a roadmap for organizations to elevate their enablement str

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our natural abilities have a significant influence on our career choice. Unquestionably, genes play a role in shaping our interests, personality traits and aptitudes. And to excel at a standard sales job requires a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental factors. These sales-success factors may be education, practice or experience. And the genetic tendencies may be basic cognitive abilities or more specific personality traits.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Sales teams today can’t afford to waste time on outdated tools. Yet, many still rely on learning management system (LMS) software designed for basic, classroom-style training. These platforms are fine for formal courses, but they miss the mark for fast-paced, real-world sales needs. Reps need something better—a system that helps them learn, practice, and access content in real-time.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Even the best sales teams can’t close a deal if they don’t have a clear picture of their markets, their top accounts, and their most influential buyers. That’s why B2B data companies have invested huge efforts into building sales intelligence tools that can help sellers unlock growth and supercharge success. So what are the best sales intelligence tools out there?

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With the arrival of the new year comes a fresh wave of energy for organizations across the board, and for many, this includes an annual Sales Kickoff. This highly anticipated event provides an opportunity to rally the team, create a sense of renewed purpose, and introduce new strategies, insights, and training as the company gears up for another year.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AI has been instrumental in changing the way companies manage images. As with all technological transformations, the full implications of AI on commercial photography are still being understood. The post How AI Changed Photography: For Better or Worse appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

More than a dozen years ago, when I was coaching Little League, I had two kids on my 9-year old team that never made contact with the ball. I spent some extra time with them and realized they were both swinging with their eyes closed. If I could get them to swing with their eyes at least partly open, they might get their hands and bat close enough to the ball so that maybe the ball might hit their bats.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Revenue Operations (RevOps) is a relatively new specialty within B2B go-to-market operations, but it’s quickly becoming mission-critical as companies seek to streamline processes and align their sales, marketing and customer success teams. But the fast growth of RevOps and its unique mandate to improve efficiency across siloed teams can lead to confusion among leaders.

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Force Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.

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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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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Photo by Dayamay via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Begin Vlogging for Audience and Business Growth Vlogging has become a significant part of internet culture. It allows individuals to share their lives, thoughts, and experiences with a global audience. This digital storytelling form has become popular thanks to platforms like YouTube and Instagram.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

When deals stall it’s a sign that something has to change! All of us have experienced stalled deals. It’s frustrating, we’re anxious for the customer to move forward in their buying process. We’re anxious to close the deal! Deals can stall for all sorts of reasons. Customers may lose their sense of urgency. Their attention may have been diverted to other priorities.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When we launched ZoomInfo Marketing in 2022, our goal was to bring ZoomInfo’s unparalleled B2B data and insights to demand generation and marketing teams. Two short years later, we’re thrilled to share that ZoomInfo has climbed from a newcomer in the ABM field to being recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Platforms.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the world’s most iconic luxury brands is currently trying to keep itself afloat. Gucci sales this year have been dropping beyond expectations and the brand’s new strategies have not been working as well as they would have liked… What will it take for the brand to regain the status it’s quickly losing? What’s […] The post Gucci Sales Keep Sinking Lower… What Now?

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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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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Make Your Business Exciting Again Launching a business is often an exciting venture. Once it is established and you start earning a regular income, you may also feel rewarded. But after several years of running a business, some of the thrills can wear off, and the daily business administration can overtake the challenging and exciting elements to become monotonous.

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RAIN Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Effective sales training is widely acknowledged as a critical success factor for sales organizations. But how many companies are truly excelling in this area? And what distinguishes those with highly effective sales training and development from the rest? The answers may surprise you.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

this is a test Marketers often employ brand storytelling in campaigns containing creative narratives, showcasing a brand or its product in more relatable, human contexts. This helps the audience see the company as more than just a faceless corporate entity building complex products–instead, a collection of real people solving real-world problems.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With almost everyone this year complaining about grocery prices… The last thing we need is more price surges stretching our wallets thin. Walmart and Kroger stand accused of using new technology to inflate grocery store prices even more… Are these companies trying to make our grocery bill even bigger or could this new technology work […] The post Are Price Surges Coming For Walmart And Kroger?

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Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Benefits of A Website Spring Cleaning for Growth Spring cleaning is not only for your house; it works particularly well on your website. Over time, even beautifully designed sites can become jungles of outdated content, with sluggish performance and missed opportunities. Just as you clean all the clutter in your living space to get a fresh start, a deep website refresh can do magic for your business.

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Act!

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In a recent survey by Statista, 86 percent of respondents reported using Facebook for marketing. That makes it the most popular social media platform for marketing—ahead of even Instagram and TikTok. With more than 2 billion monthly active users , Facebook continues to be the most used social media platform worldwide. And if you add up all the Facebook-owned platforms, your audience size surges dramatically.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As the American healthcare system becomes increasingly expensive and convoluted… More people are starting to look for providers in the medical tourism industry. With a new interest in extensive preventative care, more people travel worldwide for cheaper checkups and exams. But is this growing industry reliable? Americans Seeking Medical Tourism Providers In the aftermath of […] The post Medical Tourism: Americans Look For Providers Abroad appeared first on GCTV.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Challenges Empower the Mind and Can Enhance Business Growth Most people frequently face upsets and challenges, but only a tiny percentage analyze the cause and effect of these unexpected situations. Taking a proactive stance to figure out how to get on a better track will get one to their goal, rather than allowing the issue to fester and not doing anything about it.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Getting ghosted is an unfortunate fact of sales life nowadays. Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nealesh Patel is the Chief Revenue Officer at Crunchbase, an AI-powered platform that helps over 80 million dealmakers discover and prioritize the right opportunities using best-in-class company data. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Neal has a proven track record of executing progressive growth strategies, landing innovative partnerships, developing revenue streams, and building winning teams.

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