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How to Accelerate Sales Performance in Q4

Janek Performance Group

In football, winning the fourth quarter is pivotal. Of course, the first three quarters count, but in many ways, they are setup for the final fifteen minutes. With time running down, teams with leads may play it safe and engineer long, slow drives that eat clock. While teams that are behind need to score fast, they too must be mindful of time or risk giving up a last-second, game-winning field goal.

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Bumping Up Sales at Dunder Mifflin

Sales and Marketing Management

Michael Scott got some things right as he bumbled through sales management. His sales team could have reached new heights with technology like sales gamification. The post Bumping Up Sales at Dunder Mifflin appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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What Is Sales Enablement? Goals, KPIs, And Tools

Gong.io

Have mercy, it’s your everything. For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. Tons of software came along to do that quite effectively in recent years. And yes, it’s been helpful. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair.

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When Your Sales Opportunity Stalls, Do You Call Roadside Assistance?

Understanding the Sales Force

We were driving on the highway when the dashboard indicated low pressure in the left rear tire. That can't be good! As we exited the highway eight miles later, the tire was flat and we were able to drive another mile to a safe location and call roadside assistance. Until that moment, I wasn't aware that the car did not have a spare tire but was equipped with a tire inflation repair kit instead.

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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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There Is No Getting To Closed Without The Journey

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. I’ll start by reminding people that most of the things salespeople do, they were led to do by their manager. So, they, managers, are to blame, they are also the ones to lead a change to make things better. While results are the final measure, there are many indicators along the way. The power of these indicators is they allow you to act now, impacting your current opportunities, not strictly future ones.

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How to Engage & Recruit Great Passive Candidates

Zoominfo

Most organizations know how to recruit active candidates. But when active candidates aren’t the right fit, how do you search beyond those already in the job market? Passive candidates with job security and a strong track record are traditionally more challenging to recruit. However, things are changing in the post-pandemic economy. According to CNBC , one in four workers is considering quitting their job.

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3 Keys to Professional Sales Training

Anthony Cole Training

In my 40+ years in and around sales training, I have experienced many different sales training methodologies either as a participant or facilitator and now as a marketer. There are many good training programs out there, some of them free and virtual, but there are three key things that differentiate professional sales training that will "stick".

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 44 – Christian Maurer

The Pipeline

Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Christian Maurer , a Sales Leadership Methodologist , had 2.5 careers during his professional life. Holding an Engineer’s Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (equal to an MS in Engineering), he started out with a corporate career with telecom equipment manufacturers where he held positions such as: Product Manager, Business Manager, Director of Corporate Strategic Planning and COO of a joint venture start-up company.

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Podcast 221: The Art of Closing A Deal With Danny Read (Replay)

John Barrows

Thank you for 1 million downloads of Make It Happen Mondays Podcast! We are incredibly grateful for your listenership and couldn’t be more proud of this milestone. Let’s countdown the top 5 episodes of all time! Episode #2: This week we’re pleased to have an award winning sales rep on the podcast. You may remember back at Dreamforce, Chili Piper threw a competition judged by John Barrows and other sales leaders.

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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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Business Development vs. Sales: Getting the Best of Both Worlds

Zoominfo

The business world is full of terms that sound similar but carry different meanings — the kind of terms that newcomers (and those who should know better) are prone to trip on. You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to your target market. Business development can concern anything your company does to expand its market reach.

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Cold Calling in 2021

Predictable Revenue

The goal of a cold call is attention + interest, not selling. That means we have to ask the question: How do I get this person to want to speak with me? The post Cold Calling in 2021 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: 3 Mindsets Every CEO Must Develop in Their Business with Maria Nordstrom (S1:E12)

Alice Heiman

On this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs Podcast, Maria Nordstrom, CEO of Basketball New South Wales and Director of FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, joins me for some valuable insights into three mindsets she feels every CEO must instill in their teams: authenticity, unity in purpose, and accountability. Valuable insights from CEO @MariaNordstrom3 of @BasketballNSW on three mindsets every CEO must instill in their teams.

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Nimble’s New Workflows Help Teams Ditch Spreadsheets and Collaborate Company-Wide

Nimble - Sales

Here at Nimble, we pride ourselves on putting the R for Relationships back into CRM (Customer Relationship Management). We aim to help individuals and teams build and nurture the relationships they need to achieve their life goals. Nimble is the CRM built for the whole company, not just sales and marketing teams. We’re excited to […]. The post Nimble’s New Workflows Help Teams Ditch Spreadsheets and Collaborate Company-Wide appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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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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Ultimate Guide to the Data-Driven Sales Funnel

Zoominfo

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. The best sales funnel is one that works for your business and your sales team — all the sales funnel diagrams in the world and definitions of the KPIs that make a funnel work won’t matter if they’re not customized to fit your sales goals.

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Jobs-To-Be-Done Theory: Understand Your Customers Better

Predictable Revenue

If you're disregarding or underutilizing the social and emotional aspects of sales, your customers might be switching out to the competitors. We asked Dan Balcauski, the founder of Product Tranquility and a SaaS packaging and pricing expert, what companies and salespeople should be doing instead. The post Jobs-To-Be-Done Theory: Understand Your Customers Better appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Come and “fika” with Membrain

Membrain

In the US, there’s a long-standing tradition of grabbing coffee with someone when you want to get to know them better, learn more about them, or share information in a warm and friendly setting. In Britain, there’s a similar social tradition called taking tea. In Sweden, we have fika. And here at Membrain, we’d like to have fika with you.

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The Great Reinvention!

Partners in Excellence

There’s a lot of talk about the Great Resignation. Partly, a result of the changes in work resulting from pandemic, partly things that have been building in people’s attitudes toward work since years before the pandemic. We’ve seen the precursors to the Great Resignation for some time. Sharply declining employee engagement and satisfaction, systemic reductions in performance, higher levels of voluntary attrition and sharply lowering tenures.

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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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How To Use Company News to Find Candidates

Zoominfo

Data-driven decision-making has become a key factor for modern businesses seeking new opportunities. For recruiters, that usually means narrowing down a flood of candidate profiles to find the right person for an available position. For the savviest recruiters, however, that’s just the beginning. By also mining the latest news about changes in the employment market, recruiting professionals can begin to scout opportunities and candidates before they ever think of contacting a recruiter for help.

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Keeping the Prospect Engaged | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

I recently had a conversation with a really smart sales VP who said, “I need my team to remember that our job is to provoke our customers. It’s to make people think. It’s to bring them new ideas that they … Read More » The post Keeping the Prospect Engaged | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Is this problem important for your customer to solve?

Membrain

We struggle to get in front of customers, to find opportunities, to nurture them through the buying cycle, and, ultimately, to win. Yet, the majority of those complex buying opportunities end in “No Decision Made.”.

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The Customer Is NOT Always Right!

Partners in Excellence

For decades, there’s the image of the “customer is always right.” Sales people have been deferential to the customer, not wanting to seem disagreeable or contentious. Somehow, there’s a feeling that if we disagree with the customer, we become “unlikeable,” scaring the customer away. We’ve invested millions in techniques for handling customer objections and disagreements.

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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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Executive Recruiting Strategy: 9 Steps for Success

Zoominfo

Hiring people for senior management positions is one of the toughest tasks for a recruiter. Sourcing the right executive candidates and filling key managerial roles in an organization can be difficult even in the best of times. Add to that the changing work culture in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and finding the right execs becomes an even harder task.

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Social Selling Tips for Success

RAIN Group

Once upon a time, there was a notion that social media was unnecessary for selling; it was a novelty and not a staple. At the time, some believed that enterprise-level decision makers couldn’t be reached on social platforms. Now, however, social media is a necessity to establish credibility with potential buyers.

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Why You Must Defeat the Sales and Marketing Status Quo

Allego

“You can even take marketing and sales out of the equation and, I know it sounds trite to say, put the customer at the center.”. This may seem like an unconventional comment coming from the Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions, a company that—at its core—provides sales and marketing training. But Tim Riesterer doesn’t follow conventional wisdom, he listens to the research: “decision science, brain science, behavioral science research, about how humans frame value, make choices.”.

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The Ossification Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

I just completed a post on the “Ossification Of Selling.” It was finished, I was literally hovering my mouse over the “Publish” button, then stopped. With my mouse hovering over the Publish button, I realized I’ve written about this dozens, perhaps hundreds of times over the past years. Each post has had a slightly different approach, perhaps different examples.

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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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COVID-19: Pandemic-Tested Team Support Strategies

Zoominfo

As coronavirus continues to plague the nation, the strength, durability, and spirit of each and every professional community continues to be tested. As a response, companies large and small have stepped up for their employees. While many companies have taken simple preventative measures like sanitizing the workspace, implementing a work-from-home strategy , or updating their sick leave policy, others have found creative ways to boost morale.

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Scaling Your Sales Team? Don’t Make These 12 Dangerous Mistakes

Hubspot Sales

More salespeople equals more sales, right? Wrong. Scaling your sales team is crucial to growing a healthy business. Do it at the right time, and your company will grow exponentially. Do it at the wrong time, and your company could shutter within six months. Don’t just hire with your gut. Take a strategic approach to scaling your sales team, and make smart hiring decisions that will benefit your organization for years to come.

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WEBINAR: Morgan J. Ingram hosts “EMEA Sales Teams: Learn What’s Working and What Isn’t in the US”

John Barrows

The post WEBINAR: Morgan J. Ingram hosts “EMEA Sales Teams: Learn What’s Working and What Isn’t in the US” appeared first on JB Sales.