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6 Ways to Build Trust Quickly in Post-COVID Sales

Janek Performance Group

Of course, we are all familiar with how COVID-19 changed sales. From new environments to new skill sets and processes, our comfort zones were upended as our personal and professional lives entered a state of flux. As much as this was true for sales teams, it was also true of buyers. A byproduct of this change will be fear and uncertainty. Going forward, sellers can expect increased hesitancy and trepidation on the part of buyers when it’s time for final decisions.

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How to Identify the Needs of Your Sales Team

The Center for Sales Strategy

With the new year here, many sales managers and executives are planning to make certain they have a plan in place to equip and prepare their sales teams for a good year. Certainly the changes in the selling environment we have all experienced in the last 20 months or so have exposed some areas for improvement as well added new expectations for how business is done.

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Has Buying Changed and Has B2B Selling Adapted?

Understanding the Sales Force

My articles begin with analogies so we'll start by asking, has baseball changed?

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Using VR to Onboard Your Sales Team at Lightning Speed

Sales and Marketing Management

Onboarding new B2B sales reps using virtual reality may become the norm as companies start another year with virtual teams. The post Using VR to Onboard Your Sales Team at Lightning Speed appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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Selling Value vs Price

Anthony Cole Training

One of the top challenges we discuss with sales managers and leaders is how to get their salespeople to start selling value and stop caving on price.

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B2B Marketing Trends: What to Expect in 2022

Zoominfo

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. B2B Marketing Technology Trends Trend #1: Consolidation of martech systems We see digital marketing headed toward consolidated tech stacks with strong integrations.

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How Document Automation Improves Your Sales Process

Sales and Marketing Management

A lot more than productivity is lost when salespeople have to devote their time to manual document creation. The post How Document Automation Improves Your Sales Process appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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5 Reasons Sales Enablement is Critical for 2022

SBI

By Filip Witkowski, Crescendo. 5 Reasons Sales Enablement is Critical for 2022. Over the past few years, we are witnessing a rapid digitalization of all sales processes. It is best exemplified in sales departments, where until recently many activities were carried out in a traditional way using paper documents and faxes, and, in later years, Excel. Nowadays, the most significant sales departments rely on CRM or SFA systems, allowing them to scale sales.

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Our Latest Podcasts: Sales Tips for a Record-breaking Quarter

Force Management

If your New Year's resolution is to find small ways, every day, to provide value to your salespeople then you've come to the right place. Our December episodes focused on key sales skills and topics that lead to better numbers and faster close rates. Your front-line managers and reps can implement these actions into their daily activities to ensure consistent application of desired sales skills or methodologies.

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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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So You’ve Hired Some “Green” Salespeople. Now What?

The Center for Sales Strategy

All sales managers know that it’s important to have a full staff of salespeople in order to hit your goals. But you know how risky and ineffective it is simply to hire anyone who can fog a mirror. It’s essential to hire only the right people. When searching for the right talents, skills, and experience , strong sales managers recognize that talent is primary.

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Your Most Important Sales Kickoff Is the Next One

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales kickoffs must be used to activate each salesperson's sense of purpose or companies risk getting lost in an endless cycle of onboarding. The post Your Most Important Sales Kickoff Is the Next One appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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8 Sales Books to Kick Off a Year of Growth in 2022

Allego

This post appeared originally on Sales & Marketing Management. It’s natural to wonder what the new year has in store for us. Many are feeling a great sense of uncertainty in their personal and professional lives, yet we’ve been resilient and agile for the better part of the last two years and must continue to be. When it comes to career growth, many factors play a role in our success, like meeting with managers to discover areas of improvement, attending events to network and rub elbow

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Creating Your Roadmap for Sales Success: Staging Your Sales Process – Episode 2

SalesProInsider

“Staging” is a term used in many endeavors, from getting a house ready to sell to producing a play. It’s typically the last step before something goes live. So, what does that have to do with your selling efforts? A lot! Staging in your selling efforts is a critical step in ensuring success in that sales opportunity. As I shared in the first article in this series for creating your roadmap to sales success, a sales process is a roadmap that guides you through the journey from the introduct

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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 Update Your Sales Process for 2022

The Center for Sales Strategy

In his book The Goal —author and business management guru Eli Goldratt—focuses on a concept called the theory of constraints. This theory states organizations have constraints (or bottlenecks) that negatively impact performance. The process of identifying the most significant constraint and utilizing resources to eliminate the constraint is part of the process to improve performance.

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Eurotainer enjoyed an outstanding year - thanks in part to the “Membrain Effect”

Membrain

I love it when a client coins a phrase for us. We are extremely proud to be the sales platform for Eurotainer , a global provider of intermodal equipment for lease, based in France with offices on four continents.

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Name that Tune: A Great Hire in Less Than Six Seconds?

Force Management

As shocking as it may be, your next career opportunity is often in the hands of someone that will spend less than SIX seconds determining if you are a good fit. For the few of us that can remember when Jim Lange hosted a game show – before Jane Krakowski was tapped last year to resurrect it – you know it was called Name That Tune. The original show, which had contestants try to name a song after hearing the least amount of piano keystrokes, has some scary similarities with today's approach to as

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Chorus Transcription Gets a Refresh

Zoominfo

The ZoomInfo product team is excited to announce our latest update to our conversation intelligence platform, Chorus. Watch the following video for a quick summary of the newest features and read on for a more in-depth view. Throughout 2021, we dedicated a great deal of time to transition our transcription engine to the next generation of AI (an end-to-end transformer model called wav2vec ) to improve our transcription capabilities.

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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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Empathy Is Insufficient!

Partners in Excellence

We know empathy is important in working with others, whether it’s our customers, our peers, or our people. If we can’t understand what they face in doing their jobs, what they care about, what their hopes, dreams, or fears, doubts might be, we can’t connect with them in meaningful ways. Too often, however, the concept of empathy is absent in our interactions.

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The Importance of Pitching the Perfect Sales Presentation

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sometimes, showing, more than telling, is a better way to pitch ideas and new products to potential customers and investors. This way, you can give them graphic images and pictorial representations of your pitch, which is a more engaging way to sell yourself. One of the ways to do this is through a sales presentation. It presents your product or service to clients professionally, informing, educating, inspiring, and motivating the customer or investor to take action in favor of your product.

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4 Straightforward Sales Goals | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

There are four straightforward sales goals that I would like to share with you. They are simple, effective and will help you set the right targets and keep you on track throughout the year. The 4 Straightforward Sales Goals 1. … Read More » The post 4 Straightforward Sales Goals | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Demo CRM Calendar Sync

Zoominfo

Scenario Set up your sales team for success by syncing their calendars with your CRM database. In the mobile ZoomInfo app, you can sync your calendar with meeting invites and pull information from the attendee list. Your AEs and sales reps can identify and research the decision-makers who will be on the call, retrieve account summaries and notes on company activity, and more invaluable information right on their phones before and during a demo meeting.

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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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It’s A New Year, What Should We Be Asking Ourselves?

Partners in Excellence

It’s a New Year. Somehow, even if we don’t believe in New Year resolutions, we use the New Year as a moment to refocus and reset. For those organizations on a calendar fiscal year, it’s a restart—new goals, quotas, perhaps shifted priorities. Even for those organizations with a different fiscal year, subconsciously we tend to reflect and reset much of what we to.

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Weekly Roundup: Sales Quotes, Signs Your Sales Demo is Boring Buyers + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.". - AROUND THE WEB -. > 22 Sales Quotes to Inspire You to Make 2022 Your Best Year Yet – LinkedIn. A new year. The ultimate clean slate, a fresh piece of white paper, awaiting your pen. The question is – what story will you write on that paper this year? Will 2022 be just another year in your career?

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What’s Your Salesperson Daily Schedule? [Sales Habits!]

Marc Wayshak

What is the most valuable resource you have as a salesperson or business owner? The answer, of course, is your time. You’ve only got 24 hours in a day, and you’ve got to sleep a little…so your time is really the most valuable resource you have. Even so, most salespeople spend their days as if they have unlimited amounts of time. If you ever feel like you’re running out of time at the end of each day, that’s because you are.

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Connect with executives through Conversation Intelligence

Zoominfo

Scenario With conversation intelligence software , such as ZoomInfo Chorus, you can identify and connect with senior executives directly from sales calls. When a name is mentioned during a video call, you can identify if they are a senior person at the prospect company. If so, have an email go out directly from your VP to that executive. You can also bookmark important moments from the call for informed follow-up.

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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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An Agile Approach to Sales Enablement Content

Sales Hacker

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. In order to create quality content , you need talent, tools, and time – lots of it. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. Adopting tools like an animated video maker can certainly help. To meaningfully speed up your content creation process without sacrificing quality or quantity, though, you also need to look closely at how your team ap

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Use CRM Payments to Streamline the Sales Cycle and Delight Customers

Hubspot Sales

Your CRM manages customer and lead relationships and provides context about their challenges, goals, stage of the buyer’s journey, past conversations, purchase history, and more. If you’re a HubSpot user , your CRM is also connected with your sales, service, marketing, and operations software. Meaning your CRM can power your entire business. But what about your online business and your need for conducting payments?

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Top Channel Selling Trends 2022

Pipeliner

To kick off 2022, Brian Sullivan interviews Jay McBain about the key trends impacting channels in the new year and beyond. Jay is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in global channels, having been named 2021 Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Partners Magazine. He was also included in the “Top 40 Under 40” by The Business Review and was recognized on many other channel magazines’ top influencer lists.