InsideSales.com

AUGUST 1, 2019

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 28, 2019

Losing fast, having the courage to walk away from a deal that you are highly unlikely to win is tough for everyone. But it’s actually one of the important things you can do to drive your sales performance. In the past 4 weeks, I’ve walked away from 2 deals. The first, I knew I could win. It was a very small deal, but the CEO was putting constraints around the project that were unreasonable, they hampered our ability to produce the results he expected.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2019

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Xactly

AUGUST 1, 2019

Measuring sales performance accurately is important to drive growth. Learn what metrics you should track for better insight into your sales organization.

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Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Are you pushing the sale too hard with your prospects and clients? Look, we all know sales is about persistence. Sometimes though, sellers don’t know when to slow down on that persistence and actually repel the client away.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Some will have iterations based on the role of someone in the decision process. Others may reflect the size of the target company or a couple of other demographics. But there is a singular erroneous assumption that goes into pieces, making them all but useless, and often get in the way of selling.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2019

In today’s technology and data-driven landscape, marketers are under constant pressure to prove the value of their efforts. But with the amount of data and analytics we have access to, it can be difficult to differentiate between the important marketing metrics and the not-so-important marketing metrics. If you’re struggling to report on the success of your marketing campaigns, we’re here to help. .

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SBI Growth

JULY 28, 2019

Driving effective cross-functional interlocks is a best practice for B2B organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth. However, one interlock that often gets overlooked in go-to-market transformations is the relationship between Sales and Pricing. Too often, Sales views Pricing as a.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” Here’s a simple fact: you can’t close a sale until you have someone to sell to. So what does it take to successfully prospect? As I’ve worked with thousands of salespeople and written the book, High-Profit Prospecting, I have narrowed it down to what I like to call the “10 Keys to Prospecting”: Check out the video where I discuss these 10 keys: 1.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 1, 2019

By Tibor Shanto. We need to stop doing things that sound good but do no good and focus on getting it right, not easy. [link]. The post Does Your Prospecting Lack Persona? appeared first on TiborShanto.com.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes— leaving their contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 28, 2019

Author: David L. Varner We ask for things all the time…asking your dog to sit and stay, or your kids to go bed. Do you get what you want? Simply stated, it’s asking someone to do something. Here’s another: Rule One in sales is: “Did you ask for the order?”. Sound familiar? How many times have you said, or heard this? What’s the typical answer? Do you get a sheepish look and a long “Um….?”.

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Connect2Sell

JULY 31, 2019

his series has focused on a wide variety of topics that will help you succeed as a new sales manager. That’s the short-term view. In this post, we’re looking longer term, too, so you’ll be preparing yourself for your next-level job even as you settle into this one. New sales manager training should focus on both – your success in the new job AND your ongoing development for whatever comes next.

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2019

If you are a CEO whose company sells exclusively to the end-user of your product or service and you are confident that is the optimal go-to-market motion, this article isn’t for you. However, if you are a CEO who: Is actively considering.

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Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2019

There’s no universal set of rules for successful B2B branding, as much as we marketers would love for such a thing to exist. There’s barely even a universal definition of the word “branding” that all marketers agree on. What marketers do agree on, however, is that branding is an essential element of a successful business. In fact, 77% of B2B marketing leaders say branding is critical to growth ( source ).

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 1, 2019

Author: Chris Mason So many of us begin our sales careers as representatives of a company, product, service or all the above. We learn the tricks of the trade, the importance of customer service, the power of relationship building and what it feels like to win and lose. Many are content to continue in that representative position for the entirety of their careers, which can be rewarding both personally and financially.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2019

Do you have lousy customers? Ask yourself that question and be serious about your answer. If you’re saying yes, then why do you think your customers are lousy? Are your customers lousy because your sales process attracts the wrong customers? Learn more in this 35-second video: When you prospect, you’re not only helping the customer discover why they should buy from you, but you’re also validating if you should even sell to them in the first place.

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Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2019

Brad Christian, Chief Customer Officer of Market Force, joins us to share the true meaning of customer experience. Brad and his team at Market Force have become masters of customer experience and have shared some of the best-practices that impact.

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Zoominfo

JULY 31, 2019

Whether you realize it or not, the efficiency, productivity, and drive of your B2B sales team is directly dependent on the quality of your data. Good data leads to less time spent prospecting, more meetings on the calendar, and ultimately more revenue. The impact of bad data, however, can range from one lost account to catastrophic revenue loss. Last week we discussed how low-quality data can significantly lower the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 28, 2019

[link]. Check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: [Video Overkill] Am I the Only One Who Would Rather Read? Salespeople and content marketers, I don’t like watching your videos. I have to put my earbuds in, and that breaks my concentration. Video is not my learning style. I can read and get your point much faster than I can listen.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 28, 2019

Set a course of action to achieve your long-term goals. That is the only way you’ll know if you got there and achieved something. Don’t wander through life and just take whatever falls in your lap. Go out and get it! Where do you want to be professionally and personally in 5 years? What do you need to start doing today to get you there? Success doesn’t happen by chance.

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Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 30, 2019

One of my consultants was carrying out a ‘discovery’ session with a sales team recently, to discuss what areas they find most challenging when it comes to selling their products. One gentleman stood up at the start of the session and said, ‘I’ve been selling for over 30 years…what can you teach me?!’. My consultant simply asked him if he had changed his way of selling over the years.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

You probably spend a lot of time cultivating valuable connections by prospecting on LinkedIn , and it’s likely that at some point, you’ll want to download those contacts’ information to further nurture those connections. But how do you do that? Where do you get started when exporting LinkedIn contacts -- and then what? Read on for step-by-step directions with helpful, up-to-date screenshots.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 30, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture , . Lack of Coaching. Too Product-Centric and Not Problem Centric. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. Not enough training in the industry/space. Too much activity management. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. Not enough humility.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you have followed my blog, read our sales newsletters or listened to our audio sales brews , then you’ve heard me talk about success formulas. The concept is pretty simple. If you follow the steps and execute the required activities to the required standards, you will be successful. Well, guess what? It doesn’t always work that way, especially if you are missing critical pieces of the process.

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Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 1, 2019

We spend an enormous amount of time trying to hire sales professionals that we think are “A” players. . We then (hopefully) invest time training those reps before turning them loose on the phones … only to ask them to do several different roles. . We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles, making them B or C players at both.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 28, 2019

Humans are wired to avoid negative experiences. And for most of us, saying “ no ” is a negative experience. As salespeople, we see this every day with our prospects. Call it objections, going dark, or just plain ghosting -- but really, it’s your prospect trying to avoid telling you they’re not that into your product/service. How to Tell They Want to Say No.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals What is Data Hygiene?

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