SBI Growth
MARCH 19, 2019
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 18, 2019
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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MTD Sales Training
MARCH 19, 2019
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.
The Pipeline
MARCH 21, 2019
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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SBI Growth
MARCH 21, 2019
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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No More Cold Calling
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
The Pipeline
MARCH 19, 2019
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.
SBI Growth
MARCH 18, 2019
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.
Jeffrey Gitomer
MARCH 19, 2019
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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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
MARCH 19, 2019
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!
The Sales Heretic
MARCH 20, 2019
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. [.].
SBI Growth
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 22, 2019
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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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.
Jeffrey Gitomer
MARCH 18, 2019
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).
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
SBI Growth
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 22, 2019
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).
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.
Score More Sales
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
Connect2Sell
MARCH 20, 2019
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:
A Sales Guy
MARCH 18, 2019
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.
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 18, 2019
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.
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!
Grant Cardone
MARCH 21, 2019
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.
Hubspot Sales
MARCH 18, 2019
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?
A Sales Guy
MARCH 17, 2019
Anything that forces people to have to think is not an easy sell, which highlights the challenge of questioning in our everyday lives. The post A More Beautiful Question appeared first on A Sales Guy.
Mr. Inside Sales
MARCH 22, 2019
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.
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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
Chorus.ai
MARCH 19, 2019
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.
Membrain
MARCH 20, 2019
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.
Sales Manager Now
MARCH 17, 2019
A loyal sales team is required if you want to realize sustained success with the least amount of effort. To build a loyal sales team you might need to redefine how you view them. Be honest with me. When you… The post Building a Loyal Sales Team appeared first on Sales Manager Now.
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