Sat.Jan 06, 2018 - Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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Sales Strategy #5: Develop a Coaching Culture

Steven Rosen

Develop a Coaching Culture. Hi, this is my fifth video on Sales Strategies to Crush Your Sales Numbers, I call it Develop a Coaching Culture. . In the last four video/blogs, I covered: Sales Strategy #1: Upgrading the skills of your front-line sales managers because you have a multiplier effect when their skills get better. Sales Strategy #2 Execute with Excellence because most companies do not execute with excellence.

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Do You Have Enough Selling Heads to Make Your Number in 2018?

SBI Growth

Many of you are looking at the revenue plan and worried that you are already behind. Why? You are wondering if you have enough headcount to make your revenue number. So, what do you do about it? There are two.

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3 Most Effective Ways to Further Engage Your B2B Leads

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jason Kulpa Successful B2B marketing is all about saying the right thing through the right channel at the right time. In fast-paced marketing, the right time usually means right away. According to the Demand Gen Report’s 7th Annual B2B Buyer’s Survey, 97 percent of B2B buyers believe the timeliness of a vendor’s response to inquiries is an important aspect of the buying process.

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Sales Empathy and Emotional Intelligence in Selling

Score More Sales

It was time to visit a newer client of ours and this meeting would be at least two hours to go over our findings about their sales leadership, sales reps, sales process, and pipeline. Because we leave plenty of time as a buffer so that we are never late to clients, we ended up with thirty minutes to spare.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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[VIDEO] 40% more Demos & 2.5x bigger ACV: The Results of Our Account-Based Everything Experiment

DiscoverOrg Sales

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. We did an experiment to see just how effective this person-first approach was, using the launch of a new product – an HR dataset – to a market that doesn’t have much experience with our offering – marketing and sales intelligence.

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Ninivaggi Many companies have their annual sales kickoff (SKO) meetings approaching. A good kickoff successfully blends motivational elements, education, team building and fun – setting the tone and momentum for the year ahead. Here are six secrets to make your meetings a hit and not a miss. Secret 1: Form the right planning committee. It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings.

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8 Tips For Preparing For A Sales Call

MTD Sales Training

When we ask salespeople how they prepare for making sales calls, most say they might check the company’s website and possibly check the contact’s Linked-In profile, but that’s about it, really. This surprises us, as the quality of the preparation can make or break your opportunities with a new prospect. Here are some tips that you might consider to make your preparation that much better and more successful.

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#MeToo, now #TimesUp.

Understanding the Sales Force

But, much to my delight and surprise, the #MeToo movement didn’t quite fall into obscurity. Instead, it took on a sort of life of its own; over and over, we started to.

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Why Your B2B Brand Matters

SBI Growth

Our guest today is Tiffany Nels, the Chief Marketing Officer for Lifesize. With 20 years of Tech B2B marketing experience, Tiffany is one of the top B2B revenue growth marketers. Tiffany played a major role in the successful demand generation.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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2 Enemies of Improved Sales Management: Inertia and Gravity

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Michelle Vazzana, CEO, Vantage Point Performance Frontline sales managers have a difficult job. In fact, we think they have the hardest job in any sales organization. Unfortunately, they're also a neglected role in most of the companies we know. Despite the varied and intense demands put on sales managers, they are given relatively little guidance or training on how to actually do their job.

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Are You Taking Enough Time Off?

The Sales Heretic

You’ve set your business and sales goals for the year: a prospecting goal, a closing rate goal, a revenue goal. But have you set a vacation goal? If you haven’t, you absolutely should. Too many people don’t take enough vacations. One recent study found that 75% of Americans don’t take all of their paid vacation [.].

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Message to Account Based Sales Teams: Your Humanity Is a Competitive Advantage

No More Cold Calling

Is sales an art or a science? The Sales Hunter answers that question. I’m not a robot. You’re not a robot. Neither are account based sales teams. When they’re asking for referrals, they should never ask on social media or in any other digital format. If you want referrals, you need to bring your good old human self to the table. Most of my clients tell me they’re pissed (their words, not mine) when an account based sales rep sends a digital referral request and just assumes they’ll provide one.

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What’s the Toughest Question to Ask a Potential Buyer? (The Inbound Sales Approach)

Connect2Sell

A few months ago, someone asked me a fascinating question via LinkedIn. The question, based on a post about my DISCOVER Questions® Get You Connected book , was "In your experience, what are the toughest questions to ask a prospective customer ?".

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Executive

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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Leads are Hard 

Pointclear

A Story From Yesteryear About Reader Service (aka Bingo) Cards. According to Wikipedia: “a reader service card or bingo card" was a reply card inserted in a magazine and used by readers to request free samples and literature from businesses who advertised in the issue. Many advertisers were listed on the reply card. Readers circled the advertisers they were interested in and mailed back (or faxed back) the card to the publisher which then provided their advertisers with the appropriate leads.

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5 Ways to Get Better at Handling Objections

Mr. Inside Sales

Want to make 2018 your best year ever? Want to instantly improve your ability to handle the objections you get, day in and day out? (And, by the way, that you’re going to get all year long.). I guarantee you that if you just take the time to follow the step by step advice you’ll read below, you will – within 30 days – be a more confident, competition, and successful sales professional.

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Do You Have “Prospecting Paralysis?”

The Sales Hunter

Medical research shows 4 out of 5 salespeople suffer from the acute disease “prospecting paralysis.” The disease is known to spread quickly through verbal communication and self-inflicted thinking. Breakthrough research now shows the disease is curable, even in those who feel they suffer from “terminal prospecting paralysis.” Yes, the preceding paragraphs are a spoof, but at […].

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7 Skills Sales Directors Will Need In 2025

MTD Sales Training

It’s no secret that everything in the working environment is evolving. The biggest shifts that are happening in work are being driven by Artificial Intelligence, Globalisation and robotics. The generational gaps that we really didn’t have to concern ourselves about are now one of the most important aspects of every office’s working situations. The changes we see today are happening at the quickest rate we have ever seen.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Have You Evaluated Your Key Account Selection Strategy Lately?

SBI Growth

How do you determine the Key Accounts for a program? How often should you re-evaluate current Key Accounts? The answer for most is by simply taking your top few customers by annual revenue, and calling them “Key Accounts”. If your analysis.

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The Better Way to Build a Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan How do you put together a winning team? The question is asked in all facets of life?—?sports, business, education, government, even in marriage and families. Leaders are asked to raise the performance of those around them, but the reality is not everyone is up to the challenge. By definition, teams have middle performers and, depending upon how forgiving management is, even low performers.

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A Sad Story of a Failed VP of Sales

The Sales Hunter

Each year I get to work with dozens of companies at various levels, from doing a single keynote to engaging long-term with them in a consulting or training project. One thing I’ve found is every company has a sales culture. Problem is many companies don’t realize it. A few years ago I was sitting in the […].

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The Ultimate Guide to Direct Mail

Hubspot Sales

What is direct mail? Direct mail is a marketing strategy that involves sending a physical letter, package, mailer, brochure, postcard, etc. to your prospects and/or current customers. It’s used in both B2C and B2B selling, although more commonly with consumers. Everything old is new again. Although direct mail’s response rate has dropped over time, it’s still a valuable tool for marketers and salespeople.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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How B2B Sales Benefits from Prescriptive Analytics

SBI

In today’s big data business world, sales reps often find themselves drowning in sales data and reports, rather than data improving their efficiency and effectiveness in selling. This is especially true for sales people who manage a large book of business and large product portfolios: the larger their account or product list, the larger the data sets to review and report on, and the less time they have to focus on growing and retaining every customer account.

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The Quicksand of Customer Loyalty Those Nasty Complaints

Increase Sales

Building customer loyalty must address unsolved problems aka customer complaints. Take a moment to think about a problem that you had with a product or service provider such as a hospital, a retail store or a new car dealership. Was your customer complaint or problem resolved to YOUR expectations or was it resolved to the provider’s satisfaction? How did you feel when the complaint was resolved within your expectations?

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Sales Motivation Video: January is Prospecting Month

The Sales Hunter

Don’t spend the entire month of January organizing! Instead, spend it prospecting! The sooner you start prospecting, the sooner you’ll be building momentum and sales motivation that will roll right into February. You want to be the salesperson who is one step ahead. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach […].

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How to Use BANT to Qualify Prospects in 2018

Hubspot Sales

What does BANT stand for? The acronym BANT stands for: Budget: How much is the prospect able and willing to spend? Authority: Who is the ultimate decision maker? Need: Does the prospect have a problem your product can solve? Timing: Is there urgency? What is BANT? BANT is a sales qualification methodology that lets salespeople determine whether a prospect is a good fit based on their budget, internal influence/ability to buy, need for the product, and purchase timeline.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.