Sat.Aug 03, 2019 - Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Which Sales Org Structure Is Right for You?

SBI Growth

Far too often, sales leaders look to org structure first regardless of the underlying cause of their performance issues. Why? It is viewed as an easier change to make, and it is likely you have executed or been a part.

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The Dangers Of Being Too Salesy (And How To Build Trust Instead)

Sales Hacker

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Promoted! What Is Strategic Sales Management?

Connect2Sell

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How All Those Trucks on the Road Can Help You Stop Discounting

Understanding the Sales Force

We've been doing a lot of traveling this summer to baseball tournaments ( how one playoff game turned out) , college baseball showcases and back. During these travels, one thing has become abundantly clear. Trucks and construction. Lots of trucks. Lots of construction. Lots of congestion on the roads because of all those tractor trailers. If you heard that inventory levels are low, it's certainly not because companies have stopped buying.

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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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High Performance Selling, Putting The Pieces Together

Partners in Excellence

Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle? Recently, I was sitting in a hotel lobby. The staff had put out one of those 1000 piece puzzles. It turned out to be a fascinating social experience–strangers were sitting down together, trying to place pieces in the right spots. It was huge fun! Puzzles are interesting, and they are an intriguing metaphor for sales.

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Revenue Functions Staffing-Know the Difference Between Operations and Enablement

SBI Growth

What does 1% mean to you? Does it mean the top wealthiest tier of individuals in the world? Does it mean you are an incredibly high or dismally low performer at something? Or does it bring to mind a particular.

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Turn Pains Into Priorities

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. While some may argue, salespeople are people, with all the pluses and minuses that come with that. One thing about people you can count on, is they usually find what they are looking for while ignoring the rest. Tell your reps to go out and find people with the pain our product and marketing people tell them they can cure. And that’s what they’ll do, go out and find people with that pain, and ignore all other opportunities that aren’t painted “pain.

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[News Flash] You Can’t Automate Relationships

No More Cold Calling

Do you love communicating with bots? There’s a saying that the future is here. Well, it’s not—not even close. We don’t have a crystal ball, and the future will have stuff that hasn’t even been invented yet. So, how do we prepare our kids for their future careers when we don’t know what jobs will look like, what skills they will need, or what sort of challenges they’ll face that we haven’t even considered?

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What Do I Do When a Prospect Goes Silent?

The Sales Hunter

You have the perfect prospect. You know how you can help them. You have that initial phone call, and everything feels good. They share great information and provided even more information and insights in response to your questions. You feel like life is good. The call ends and you’ve both agreed on a clear next step: another call next week. You feel good about the time blocked for the call next week.

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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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How Customer Experience Impacts Financial Performance

SBI Growth

Many customer-oriented initiatives come with a significant price tag, and customer success leaders question their ROI. Brad Christian, Chief Customer Officer of Market Force, joins us to discuss the impact that customer experience has on a company’s financial performance. In the.

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Your Weapon Of Continuous Success

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Overcoming challenges to success is a life skill, not a nice to have. But many struggle to figure out to breakthrough and grow beyond their comfort zone. What most don’t recognize is that they already possess the skills and knowledge to face and overcome challenges. Here is a way you can learn from yourself, and repeat again and again for success.

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7 Ways to Destroy Customer Relationships

MTD Sales Training

Customers often judge us by the quality of the back-up service we offer. If everything goes well before we actually start working with them, they may see fit to buy our products and services. The proof of the pudding will be after the deal is done. If the back-up isn’t there, we may as well say goodbye immediately to this customer being loyal to us.

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Does Remote Working Really Work?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rilind Elezaj Remote working invokes different pictures in the minds of different people. For workers, it’s a dream come true – a peaceful day spent away from the busy and chaotic workplace. Employers consider it as a nightmare, visualizing no tasks getting completed as workers, while away, spend their day entertaining themselves and doing non-work-related stuff.

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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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The Bearded Lady, My Shaving Pattern and Your Sales Pipeline

Understanding the Sales Force

I can grow a pretty decent five o'clock shadow - above my upper lip and only after about a week. Unlike the bearded lady at the circus, when it comes to facial hair, there's really not much there!

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5 Surprising Sources of High-Quality Leads

Zoominfo

For jackpot-winning businesses in hot sectors, high-quality leads just flow in naturally. However, for the majority of organizations, lead generation is a little more complicated than simply whispering you’re open for business. In today’s digital age, there is a lot of emphasis on generating leads through blogs, emails, social media, Google AdWords, etc.

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How Do I Overcome My Lack of Confidence When Prospecting?

The Sales Hunter

I get asked this question a lot, and feel like it is one of the biggest reasons why salespeople are not successful and ultimately end up leaving the profession. Until you can overcome this fear, there is little chance that you will ever be successful. Your lack of confidence is quickly going to be seen by the customer and will either turn them off towards you or make them take advantage of you if they decide to buy.

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How AI Enhances Sales Intelligence

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Anoop Bhatia 2.5 billion gigabytes of data is created daily. As a result, 90% of sales leaders cite information overload for missing quotas. So much so that 57% of sales representatives surveyed in 2018 missed their sales quotas the prior year, according to Forbes. To make matters worse, nearly half of a sales representative’s time is spent on administrative tasks.

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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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10 Keys to Hiring Better Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

Recruiting new sales talent is complicated and time consuming. Especially, when you're not prepared to fill a vacancy, don't have a pipeline of candidates or have an idea of what "better" means for your business. In this article, Tony Cole discusses what to start doing and what to stop doing to upgrade your sales force today!

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Top Marketing Communication Tactics with Chris Voss

Zoominfo

Communication is the conduit for action. During a hostage crisis, the right exchange can quite literally save lives. In the relatively less dangerous world of business, the right communication strategies can save the bottom-line. Chris Voss is the Founder and CEO of the Black Swan Group Ltd and author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It.

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Time Management: How Will You Use Your Day?

The Sales Hunter

We all say we have too much to do. Even my 84 year-old in-laws claim they’re too busy to get everything done in a day. I think the question is: do we have too much to do, or are we mismanaging our time? You have customers and prospects that need to hear from you today; yet, the majority of you reading this will not reach out to everyone you said you would by the end of the day.

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The Power of Thinking BIG

Mr. Inside Sales

“Ask yourself this question: ‘How big can I dream?’”. Conrad Hilton. “Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.’ Emerson was a keenly gifted philosopher, but he spoke like a seasoned sales manager: He understood the power of big thoughts. “All of us are surrounded by a swirl of great opportunities, but we’re usually too busy to notice.

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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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Get Your Prospect to Hit the 'Buy Now' Button

Anthony Cole Training

According to an excerpt in Don Miller's "Building a Story Brand," in order to help someone with a trust issue, the salesperson has to provide their prospect with a plan.

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4 Tried and True B2B Digital Marketing Strategies

Zoominfo

Since marketing went digital, the industry hasn’t been the same. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in ‘marketing hacks’ as B2B marketers have started to realize traditional marketing methods are no longer useful in a competitive landscape. B2B marketers are on a constant search for an effective digital marketing strategy that can give their company a much-needed presence and branding boost.

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Podcast 110: The Changing Role of SDRs in Sales With Amir Reiter

John Barrows

In this week’s episode we have Amir Reiter on the podcast, the CEO of outsourced sales company CloudTask. Amir has traveled far and wide having started businesses young and learn the hard way. He had a dream of running his business while living on a boat by the age of 35, he’s here to tell us how he’s progressing toward that goal and how he has seen the role of SDRs evolve as it continues to change.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Metrics: What to Track, How to Track It, & Why

Hubspot Sales

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. While metrics are important in every aspect of any business, they’re especially critical in sales. Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople.

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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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Here are 5 reasons your sales process will fail

Membrain

Sales process often fails. You may be surprised to hear me say that. You know I preach process, process, process every day on my blog and in person. But the reality is that process alone won’t save your organization, and it could actually be hurting you.

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Automated Data Hygiene: 2019 Database Maintenance

Zoominfo

Our stance on B2B data is no secret. Although we’ve said it before, we feel it’s worth repeating: Prospect and customer data is the most critical asset a B2B organization can own. Think about it, without contact information, how would you sell, market, or provide quality customer service? The short answer is—you wouldn’t be able to. If you’re like most modern companies, you already have access to some sort of contact database.

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Podcast 111: Supporting Women In Sales with Natalie Severino

John Barrows

Joining us this week is Chorus.ai VP Marketing Natalie Severino. She’s one of the top names in Sales and Marketing working on making salespeople able to review data that can improve their performance instantly. She’s passionate about how women in sales are performing and how we can attract more women into the profession. She draws on her own experiences to suggest how we can do that, in this episode….

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