Sat.Mar 16, 2019 - Fri.Mar 22, 2019

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Has Your Deal Desk Become a Collision Center? – 5 Steps to Clean up the Dysfunction

SBI Growth

As organizations transform their Deal Desk to a best in class Revenue Desk, challenges arise. Making this transition calls for new members from various functions, which results in more opinions and at times, competing priorities. When done well, this leads.

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Negotiating a B2B Sale? Be Proactive versus Reactive

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Andres Lares, Shapiro Negotiations Institute A sales negotiation is a process, not an event. Events are reactive; they require you to think nimbly on your feet. Effective sales negotiations, however, are fundamentally proactive. While you must still be able to think on your feet, it is the planning and anticipating of various outcomes that will improve your odds of success.

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The 5 Stages Of The Negotiation Process

MTD Sales Training

The whole negotiation you have with a client or prospect can be successful or not, based on the way you carry it out. Learn how you can turn a negotiation around if it’s not going well by following a strategic process that you can control. . Also, MTD offers a sales negotiation course that it can help your team conducting profitable sales negotiations.

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Look At Objections From A Different Direction

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. I hate objections, and I bet you don’t wake up looking to be rejected first thing in the morning, and then have to work the rest of the day. However, like working out, those of us willing to get up at 5:00 AM to get ahead of the day, we work through the routine adding sets, increasing pounds, and more. As with most things in prospecting and sales is the same, to develop a routine you can and willingly implement.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

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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As a Product Leader, Are You Regularly Engaging the Sales Team in Product Ideation?

SBI Growth

A product leader at a recent client of mine expressed a frustration that most product leaders can relate to. His organization had recently invested heavily in developing a new product that targeted a growing segment of the company’s customer base.

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The True Gift and Grit of Working Grandmothers

No More Cold Calling

Grandmothers have always worked … but not always outside the home. It was 2007. At a luncheon hosted by a major magazine, a panel of four women discussed their careers and what inspired them. The oldest was 53 years old, a business owner with two children at home. The youngest was 20 years old, working in a family business. The other two were in their 40s and worked for large corporations.

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Best Time To Prospect?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. With regularity, most active sales trainers and I get the following question: “When is the best time to prospect?”. First, wanting to stay real and all, what they are really looking for is either a reason not to prospect or absolution from having not prospected for a while for all the wrong and usual reasons. Either one leads to the same corner of no prospecting and any cross street in sales.

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Prevent Your Revenue Desk From Becoming the Discount Approval Board

SBI Growth

If you follow our Sales Benchmark Index blog, you have read our take on enhancing your Deal Desk to a Revenue Desk in the recent post “What Do You Do When Your Deal Desk Is Failing – Set up a.

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The Home Court advantage. Are you using it to make sales?

Jeffrey Gitomer

The average professional sports team wins more than 75% of the games they play on their home court. That's a pretty high winning percentage. If you knew you could win 75% of the prospects you pitched, you'd do it, wouldn't you? YOU CAN! Sales games are no different than sports games. You win more sales when you sell them at home. How many of your prospects, who you want to become customers, get an invitation to play the championship game (the sale) at your ball park?

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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 Power of Smart Differentiation in Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

In a previous article, I wrote about the one question that can help salespeople differentiate themselves from the competition. On the heels of that article, one interesting theme from the emails I received was the importance of differentiation. Some questioned whether I was exaggerating the importance of differentiation and I think that's a great topic for discussion!

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How a Screw-Up Can Boost Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

While hanging with a friend recently, the subject of what to eat for dinner came up. After discussing some possibilities, we agreed on pizza. The next decision—where to go—turned out to be an easy one, because in her mind, there was only one option: the local outlet of Garlic Jim’s. Curious, I asked her why. [.].

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How a Sales Leader Leverages Customer Experience

SBI Growth

Today Mike Balow, the Executive VP of Sales and Applications for Cypress Semiconductor, joins us and discusses leveraging CX to enhance your key account program. Mike shares how tailoring to your clients’ needs and expectations, leads to successful revenue growth.

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3 Ways to Overcome Call Reluctance

Mr. Inside Sales

Do you or your team suffer from call reluctance ? Would you rather send emails than make calls? If you have to pick up the phone for a living, then I’ll bet making cold calls isn’t one of your favorite activities. And if you struggle making those calls, then take comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Speaking in public used to be the biggest fear someone could face (even before dying), but I think that for salespeople it’s making outbound calls.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

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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Great views from the Summit -- the Sales Summit, that is.

Jeffrey Gitomer

What makes sales happen in the real world? A few weeks ago I asked you to send me your best sales idea or philosophy. I want to share a few of the ticket winning responses from fellow sales professionals: Show–up. When the bell rings, be there. (Bob McWaters, regional partner of ReMax). I will form good habits and become their slaves. (Betsy Steinhagen, District Manager for Dun & Bradstreet Information Services).

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What B2B Marketers Can Learn from B2C

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jay Mitchell There remains a distinct buyer-seller gap in the business-to-business (B2B) arena. CSO Insights found that although nine out of 10 buyers acknowledge interest in engaging with sellers earlier in the buying process, 70 percent engage a seller after already identifying and clarifying their needs, while 44 percent have already identified solutions.

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IF You’re Going to Make Cold Calls, This is How to Do It

John Barrows

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How to Be a Memorable Salesperson Part 10: Ask Better Questions

Connect2Sell

As we get close to wrapping up this 12-part series on becoming more memorable as a seller, you’ve probably detected some common themes:

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

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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Connecting the Dots Between Talent Strategy and Execution

SBI Growth

As an executive, your success depends upon architecting a clear talent strategy that aligns with the overall goals and objectives of the entire organization. While strategic planning is necessary and worthwhile, it is no longer good enough. Truly effective and.

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Friday Five - End the Quarter in a Big Way

Score More Sales

It may be too late for many with longer sales cycles, but if you do have business to bring to closure before the end of the quarter, these ideas might help.

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One Powerful Way to Learn More About a Prospect

Mr. Inside Sales

Let’s start with the obvious: Sales reps talk too much. Whether it’s nervousness, fear, inexperience, or just the conviction that if they stop talking the prospect will say “Not interested” and hang up, it doesn’t matter. If you listen to calls from your sales reps, you’ll find that they simply talk past the close. They talk over their prospects. They talk after they ask a question (and don’t even let their prospect answer).

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Key Account Management: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

At some point, most company leaders have looked at their list of best clients and thought, "It would be really bad if we lost any of these accounts." These customers represent a disproportionate percentage of your revenue, refer new prospects to your company, give you credibility in their space -- or all of the above. But how do you protect those customers from the competitors who are no doubt courting them?

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

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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A More Beautiful Question – Change

A Sales Guy

I absolutely love this. I talk about change in Gap Selling and how the discovery is critical to creating the gap. When you’re asking your buyers questions, your helping them look at things differently and are setting the stage for them to change. And that’s your job as a sales person. the brain finds ways to “reduce our mental workload” and one way is to accept without question (or even to just ignore) much of what is going on around us at anytime.

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61 is the New 51

Grant Cardone

I just turned 61 years old. Here’s what America looked like back in 1958 when I was born: The average cost of a new house: $12,750. Average monthly rent: $92. Average yearly wage: $4,600. The world population was 2.9 billion. NASA was created that year. American Express and the Hula Hoop were first introduced. Toyota made its first sales in the US. The first Trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service began with flights between New York and London.

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Gatekeepers : Six Things NOT to Do

Mr. Inside Sales

If you’re getting screened out by gatekeepers , then chances are you’re probably causing that screening. Before we get into the things you may be doing to cause them to begin interrogating you, let’s quickly define some terms. First, not all gatekeepers are the same. About 30% of the gatekeepers you get are closer to being assistants, or office managers, or influencers.

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9 Sales Dashboard Examples That'll Help You Set Up Your Own

Hubspot Sales

"The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind." This quote, from marketing guru Seth Godin, sums up the importance of good data in making better decisions. Failing is a natural part of life, what matters most -- especially for salespeople -- is how you move forward. Think about the last time you made a quick decision that yielded disappointing results.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

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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21 Cold Calling Secrets (From the Sales Masters)

Chorus.ai

Cold calling is still a key strategy for successful sales teams. Here’s the proof: one survey by DiscoverOrg found that 55% of high growth companies (those with at least 40% growth over the last three years) identified cold calling as one of their key strategies.

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5 steps to get sales enablement right

Membrain

The number of companies with a dedicated sales enablement function has increased from less than 20% to more than 60% in just a few years [1]. On average, organizations that invest in a dedicated sales enablement function improve sales results by 29%, according to a study by Vantage Point Performance.

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5 Quick Secrets to Compelling Emails

Mr. Inside Sales

Want to get your emails returned? Who doesn’t…. Many of us would settle for just getting our emails read! Let’s face it: prospects get hundreds of emails per week and there is a slim chance they are going to read – let alone respond to – an email from a sales rep. Luckily, there are 5 quick secrets to help your emails stand out and give you the best chance of getting them read and returned.