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Companies Are Building Outbound Sales Muscles During COVID-19 Pandemic

Zoominfo

Like it or not, COVID-19 has forced businesses to adapt. . Video conferencing and cloud-based technologies are seeing a massive uptick in usage since mid-March. As companies do what needs to be done to survive, they turn to solutions they’ve never used before. There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing.

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New Legs On An Old Stool

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Some years ago, I wrote a piece about how you should lead a sale in a way that resembles a four-legged stool. The idea is to establish contact and some relationship with people across both the buying and selling organizations. This way, if one person on either team leaves, the stool can still stand, and things continue to move forward as a new person comes on.

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The Prospecting Problem: Balancing Inbound and Outbound Sales Strategies

Sales Hacker

Many companies wrongly think they have to either build an inbound prospecting strategy or an outbound one. What you actually need is a strategy that incorporates both. Prospecting is something every sales organization needs to master. Without it, there would be no deals to close. And yet, while many sales teams celebrate closing deals , very few spend time defining, experimenting, and executing on a quality prospecting strategy.

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Call a Sales Audible!

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog post, we discuss the importance of calling a sales audible at the line of scrimmage. Like an elite Quarterback, an elite salesperson must be willing to change things up when they're not working and be open to trying something completely different in the field.

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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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Coaching the Sales Process: Overlooked Points in the GROW Step

The Center for Sales Strategy

Grow, t he sixth and final step in the Sales Accelerator Process is often-overlooked and underutilized—despite having hidden revenue-generating opportunities. Closing deals is the ultimate goal in sales, but it’s not where the work ends with clients. Salespeople should start to care about the renewal the moment they make the sale. It costs five times more to attract a new customer than it does to retain an existing one.

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Remote Selling Tips for B2B Sales Teams

BrainShark

Many sales teams have been working at home for an extended period of time. Here are 6 tips for B2B sales reps to succeed with remote selling.

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67 Quotes for Getting Through Tough Times

The Sales Heretic

A global pandemic. Record unemployment. Business closures. Racial protests. To say these are tough times is an understatement. We’re all stressed, frustrated, anxious, and discouraged. Which means we can all use some words of encouragement. Here are some of my current favorites for helping me stay in the right frame of mind. 1. “Don’t let [.].

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Prospecting, Mistakes You Need to Avoid Now

Mr. Inside Sales

What’s the biggest mistake sales reps make with prospecting or cold calling? They call with what a client of mine once called, “commission breath.”. You know, that desperation sales people have when they finally get someone on the phone. It’s the same kind of attitude that you feel and don’t like when a salesperson gets you on the phone.

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How to use account planning to improve customer success

Membrain

When most sales professionals talk about account planning, they immediately think of how they can maximize the revenue from their existing accounts. Or how they can prevent accounts from selecting a competitor.

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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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The Real Reason Why So Many Salespeople are So Bad at Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Would you like to start a business? Can't figure out what business to start? I have three ideas for you: In the past four weeks, I have tried and tried and tried to get a glass company to replace the tabletop for a large outdoor patio table after the glass exploded in an early April storm. Four weeks laster, we still don't have the glass replaced. One of our garage door openers needs to be replaced because in every five out of six attempts to lower the door, the opener sends it back up again.

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How a CRO Balances Growth from Legacy and New Products

SBI Growth

For a CRO leading a transformation, one of the major challenges of evolving a product portfolio is preserving the core customer base while innovating. In his final interview segment, Steve King, CRO of Hexagon PPM, shares his experience in not only retaining.

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We are the sum of our actions, not our words

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Editor’s Note: Just as I resolved to live with the unending loop of coronavirus-themed commercials from the Walmarts and Amazons of the world praising their frontline employees (whom they had to be pressured into paying something close to a livable wage), the George Floyd murder and subsequent protests happened. The flood of protesters in the streets was followed by a steady flow of corporate messages expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

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“…. More Challenging Than I Expected….”

Partners in Excellence

Just got a note from a good friend. About 6 months ago, he and I discussed a new job he was considering. It was a dream job, he accepted it. He reached out the other day to catch up and get some coaching. A phrase in his note struck me, “… It’s more challenging than I expected… ” My knee jerk reaction was, “Fantastic!

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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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ZoomInfo Data: Schools & Churches May Dump Video Calls After the Pandemic

Zoominfo

This is a preview of a post published on our Medium page. Read the full article. For many, it’s a familiar experience by now: Thumbnails of a dozen or more people staring back on a computer screen, digitally discussing the matter at hand. But what about industries that might prefer to forget about video calls once social distancing guidelines are relaxed and larger groups can congregate?

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What a World-Class Customer Onboarding Process Looks Like

SBI Growth

Customer Onboarding is a crucial activity for customer success teams. In fact, within SBI’s 4-Step Customer Success (CS) Strategy, successful Customer Onboarding is the #1 factor in ensuring that customers achieve their desired outcomes. Yet, if you were to ask.

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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Leeatt Rothschild Younger employees are committed to the issues they’re passionate about. Millennials are now the largest group in the workforce , and like their Generation Z coworkers, they care deeply about environmental and social causes. They expect their employers to care, too. According to a survey from management consulting firm Korn Ferry, 63% of millennials said the primary purpose of businesses should be improving society instead of generating profit.

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67 Quotes for Getting Through Tough Times

The Sales Heretic

A global pandemic. Record unemployment. Business closures. Racial protests. To say these are tough times is an understatement. We’re all stressed, frustrated, anxious, and discouraged. Which means we can all use some words of encouragement. Here are some of my current favorites for helping me stay in the right frame of mind. 1. “Don’t let […].

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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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Companies Are Building Outbound Sales Muscles During COVID-19 Pandemic

Zoominfo

Like it or not, COVID-19 has forced businesses to adapt. Video conferencing and cloud-based technologies are seeing a massive uptick in usage since mid-March. As companies do what needs to be done to survive, they turn to solutions they’ve never used before. There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing.

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The Business Case for Diversity & Inclusion

SBI Growth

The best leaders will tell you that they don’t want a bunch of “yes men” on their team. They encourage new ideas and debate because they understand that innovation happens not when people agree, but when there’s a difference of.

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Keep an Eye on Sales Analytics: Your Complete Guide

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

There’s no escaping it; it’s all around us.

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One Word Changed His Sales Results

Anne Miller

Can one word really make the difference between engaging or losing a customer? Roger Weisman, Solar Energy Consultant, knows it can and when I heard his story, I knew I had to share it with you. . In the past, when initially talking to potential customers about solar panels, Roger would offer a brief 60,000 foot overview of their benefits and ask, “Would you be interested in learning more about solar panels?

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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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How to Survive and Thrive in the post-Covid Era

For Entrepreneurs

Covid and the associated lockdowns are likely to be the biggest disruptive event to occur in most of our lifetimes. There are huge global changes coming as a result. The OECD is forecasting the worst recession in a century. But expect to see far more change than just a recession.

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Is Your Partner Marketing Strategy One-Size-Fits-All?

SBI Growth

Companies often sign up channel partners without considering how they fit into a holistic go-to-market strategy. As a result, Marketing leaders often find themselves trying to deliver one-size-fits-all marketing support to a complex web of channel partners that bear no.

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Are You An Order Taker or An Order Getter? Here's the Difference

Hubspot Sales

Question for you — what makes someone a good seller? Is it their ability to prospect, how they can deliver a sales pitch, or being a master at the upsell? All of these traits and more can make you a better salesperson. When it comes to professional development for salespeople it can also be helpful to discuss traits that can hinder your growth, which is what we are discussing today.

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How to run a successful sales discovery call (with tips and 16 questions)

Salesmate

Salespeople are always in a hurry to sell. Well, everyone wants the applause and incentives that are given when the sales quotas are achieved. But sadly, few things are missed out when you do things in a hurry. Salespeople do not give enough attention to the initial stages of the sales process and suffer in the end with a poor conversion rate. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert into sales.

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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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Banish farmers and farming!

Membrain

No, I’m not making a political statement about our agricultural sector. Farmers and farming are what brings food to all of us.

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Centralizing or decentralizing sales enablement? Three factors to consider

Showpad

Should you centralize sales enablement? If so, which parts should be centralized? Since I’ve fielded these and similar questions over the last few weeks, I wanted to capture a few thoughts and experiences that can help organizations answer them, as well as provide a few criteria you can immediately apply and check for your organization. Driving sales enablement impact requires the right set-up: strategic, formal and charter-based.

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Everything You Need to Know About Sales Collateral

Hubspot Sales

As a sales leader, you've probably wondered what impacts your prospects and potential customers. Well, content has become more important than ever for B2B buyers and decision-makers. According to Demand Gen’s 2020 Content Preferences Study , 67% of B2B companies said they’re leaning more on content to research and inform decisions. But that’s not all.