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How to Move Forward and Increase Sales During Uncertain Times

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog post, we pray for the health and safety of those at risk or sick during this time in human history.

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All That’s Changed Is Their Objectives

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. “Starve your distractions, feed your focus.” — Daniel Goleman. I had to sit back and think hard about how to jump into the stream of pundit babble about COVID 19. We must acknowledge the reality of the event, and the impact on our families, friends, colleagues, clients, employees and the business. While the world around us has indeed altered, our reaction can and should, extend from our current sales approach and process.

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Empathy and EI: Soft Skills and Sales Results

Connect2Sell

These are the questions buyers ask themselves about sellers. These back-of-the-mind questions influence buyers’ decisions to meet with you and buy from you.

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How Market-Leading Customer Success Teams Are Responding to CoVid-19

SBI Growth

CoVid-19 is creating an unprecedented situation. In the short history of Customer Success, we have not seen a crisis of this magnitude. Even those of us that are tenured, and have the gray hair to prove it, don’t have another.

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Streamlining Complex Sales Processes: The Ultimate Guide for Industrial Companies

Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.

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Why You Will Finally Pay the Price of Not Selling Value

Understanding the Sales Force

Given the current circumstances - a Global Pandemic and an economy where so many industries have been shut down or compromised - selling value will be more important than ever. The result of selling value is that you are able to win the business despite not having the best price. But when we talk about selling value, what does it really mean? One sales expert who reached out to me last week was worried that when we are focusing on the Value Selling Competency, uninformed salespeople interpret th

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How to Reset Your Forecast Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

SBI Growth

With the uncertainty of CoVid-19 looming over your market and your customers’ markets, are you finding your already taxed forecasting processes are reaching their breaking point or leaving you with more questions than answers?

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Pre-Boarding Ideas for New Hires

The Center for Sales Strategy

Years ago, companies gave little to no thought to pre-boarding — engaging with a new hire between the time they accept your offer and their first day. Once a candidate was hired, they were given a firm handshake and a start date. As a relatively new concept that often gets confused with the traditional onboarding process , pre-boarding is completed before an employee’s first day and includes informal interactions between the company and the new hire.

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How Market Leaders are Responding to CoVid-19 Pandemic

SBI Growth

These are unprecedented times. When we published our Q1 Research, we saw some warnings on the horizon that could lead to a recession. CoVid-19 and our society’s response has been a larger and faster shock to the system than anyone.

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5 Ways to Generate Leads after Coronavirus Canceled Your Event

Zoominfo

In just a few weeks, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has become a globe-wide pandemic and changed our lives in fundamental ways. Naturally, a health crisis of this magnitude has also turned the business world on its head. No matter what industry you work in, you’ve likely been a part of these changes. Maybe your entire office […].

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff You can be a serious entrepreneur who invests in a great website and content and still feel like something is not right. The higher conversion rates you were hoping for aren’t coming your way. You have pegged a lot of hope on your website to bring in dollars from the online market, but your hopes have been frustrated at every turn. You need to go back to the basics and figure out how to drive more website traffic.

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Want to be an Expert?

Sales 2.0

I have had conversations with sales executives in the past where we came to an interesting conclusion: it would help them sell more if they were an expert. Seems to make sense right? If you were an expert, wouldn’t it help you sell more? But maybe a little voice might be saying in the back of your head, “I’m not an expert” Well, good news.

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Keeping the Lights on Through the Crisis – What Do We Do Now?

SBI Growth

An executive team sits in front of their computers watching the concerned and, in some cases, confused faces of one another. They have completed the gut-wrenching discussion about who stays and who goes, either permanently or temporarily, to provide some.

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Real Estate and the Corona Virus

Grant Cardone

I have been planning for an economic correction for some time now and been very verbal about it. I have clearly stated on all of my social platforms the stock market was greatly due for a correction, warning friends, family, and investors at Cardone Capital to avoid investing in businesses and industries based on discretionary spending and invest only in instruments that are. a) necessary. b) real assets. c) produce cash flow.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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Script to Deal with the Covid-19 Objection

Mr. Inside Sales

“We’re just not doing anything until this virus situation is settled…”. Sound familiar? It should. You probably get this objection, or some version of it, every day now. And for good reason. We’re all in unchartered territory now. Some of you reading this are working from home—a whole new challenge—some stores and companies are closing for now, and freeways as clear as they were in 1965 (see, it isn’t all doom and gloom.).

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AI: The Ultimate B2B Growth Accelerator

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Michael Dehoyos Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly involved in every industry and aspect of our lives. In most cases, we have not yet reached the widely discussed point where AI is replacing humans, but it is helping a lot of companies across a broad cross-section of industries accomplish tasks more efficiently and effectively. How AI can help with sales is less defined.

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How a CRO Overcame Market Headwinds by Transforming a Legacy Company

SBI Growth

Today Scott Santucci, CEO of Growth Enablement Ecosystems, joins us to discuss digital transformation and how it impacts revenue growth. Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. The landscape has changed drastically and integrating a successful strategy is no easy feat. There are a variety of ideas and definitions that surround “digital,” and Scott addresses common issues that companies run into when undergoing their own digital transformation.

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How to Turn a Field Sales Rep Into an Inside Sales Rep (And Still Make Quota)

Gong.io

Career shift? New sales model? Sales team temporarily grounded? There’s no shortage of reasons to make the case for moving outside reps to inside roles. Here’s what you – aka sales professionals – need to know to make the switch. . And keep knocking your number out of the park. #1 Master the Online Demo. It’s the ultimate test to becoming a world-class inside sales rep. .

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Covid-19 Email Responses to Use Now

Mr. Inside Sales

In my continuing blog series on how to handle the stalls, objections, and real-world situations in sales caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, below you’ll find some suggested email responses to situations you may be running into. Couple of things to remember about this challenging time: Don’t pressure people right now. The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are.

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Get out your snorkel! Selling in the time of Coronavirus

Julie Hanson

My first job was selling advertising for KBPI (Rocking the Rockies for 50 years!) In radio, your success was closely tied to your ranking in the quarterly audience ratings. Buyers who controlled the biggest media budgets would often only buy the top two or three stations in a particular demographic – no matter how much value-added you provided.

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Lean on Your Community – A Message from Our CEO

SBI Growth

Today Scott Santucci, CEO of Growth Enablement Ecosystems, joins us to discuss digital transformation and how it impacts revenue growth. Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. The landscape has changed drastically and integrating a successful strategy is no easy feat. There are a variety of ideas and definitions that surround “digital,” and Scott addresses common issues that companies run into when undergoing their own digital transformation.

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Strategies for Managing Remote Sales Teams (By Choice or By Necessity)

Gong.io

The future of work is uncertain, but one thing is clear: the end of quarter will be remote. The bad news: quotas aren’t going down. The good news: the principles behind managing a team are the same whether they’re in the same room… or remote in their living room. We put together a few no-bs tips, and pointers on how to implement them, to home-deliver some of that bullpen energy your team might be missing. . #1 Make Pipeline Reviews Strategic.

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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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Keep Your B2B Sales & Sanity Intact During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Sales Hacker

In sales, it’s normal to deal with slow seasons, bad seasons, and horrible seasons. But none of those compare to the current situation. The COVID-19 outbreak has been hitting the world where it hurts since February, ultimately affecting our lifestyles, our plans, and, naturally, our businesses. This is a lot to take in and adjust to. What to expect?

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What is SEO content writing?

Nutshell

Everything you need to know about getting your content picked up by search engines (and humans). “Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting.”. Bill Gates , Content is King (essay). Content marketing is the strategy of creating helpful, valuable, and relevant content, in order to build a following based on trust.

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A Message From Our CEO

SBI Growth

March 17, 2020 | Dallas, TX – At SBI, we have always had one mission in life—our brand promise to Make Your Number. Throughout the past 14 years, we have been able to do this in 3 different dimensions. Sometimes we.

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Selling Your Way Out of a Crisis

Anthony Iannarino

The time for you to start climbing out of the hole that you find yourself in is now. There is no benefit from waiting to begin your recovery. It doesn’t help you to wait until things settle down, watching them get worse, feeling a sense of dread, allowing yourself to be disempowered by events. Take Back Your Power. When events and circumstances beyond your control derail your goals and plans, the fact that you can do nothing about the root cause of the challenge can make you feel as if you have

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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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How to Be Successful at Remote Sales, According to HubSpot's Remote Salesforce

Hubspot Sales

Before I started working remotely, I was slightly uneasy. I was worried about not being productive, feeling isolated, and not having a good space to work from. It turns out, these fears weren't unique. In fact, according to HubSpot's 2019 Remote Work Report, communication with co-workers, feelings of loneliness, and overworking are challenges that remote workers face daily.

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What To Do When Your Sales Team is Struggling

Alice Heiman

When sales teams struggle , I like to investigate three critical aspects of their sales strategy. . Market Position. Ideal Customer Profile . Value Proposition. A strategy that helps you hit your revenue target consistently always includes the above elements. Specifically, you need to understand your market position, identify your ideal customer, and define the right value proposition. .

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What is the Difference Between Digital Marketing and Social Media Marketing?

SocialSellinator

Many people use digital marketing and social media marketing interchangeably. They believe that engaging in different social media platforms is digital marketing, but this is just a part of it.