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6 Post-Sales Strategies to Keep Your Business Running Strong

Selling Energy

Winning the sale is only half of the battle. The next steps you take determine the ultimate success of your business.

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Is it Selling or Giving?

Anthony Cole Training

We work with many community banks and while the commercial side of the bank usually has some “sales chops”, we often hear from leadership that retail bankers are less comfortable with “selling.” Or they may even avoid that word altogether. We like how the book Go-Givers Sell More positions the process of selling: Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

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The World of Sales and How Things are Changing

MarketJoy

The world of sales has changed a lot in the last 20 years. From the time when people wanted others to do or buy something, sales techniques were developed and people started to have jobs and careers in sales. Historians have found coins from around 7,000 years ago. This means that we stopped bartering and started exchanging goods and services for money at around that time.

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Why We Buy Ourselves First

Bernadette McClelland

When we say that we buy on emotions and back it up with logic how does that actually play out? I mean, I go to the supermarket and buy the usual stuff – toilet paper, toothpaste, milk, vegetables and maybe the odd chocolate bar (that I make my husband and I share because that way there’s less calories!) but outside the chocolate, where do emotions come into what I buy?

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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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Are You Focused On Achieving Outstanding Results?

Steven Rosen

The Focused Sales Leadership framework consists of 3 pillars: Leadership, Culture and Focus. Sales leaders must build winning teams and develop a performance culture to achieve outstanding results. Yet, many sales leaders are working 50-60 hours a week and still not getting the desired results. Are you stuck in an endless sea of emails, texts, voice messages, meetings, and many other distractions?

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The Secret to Account Churn is Not Dedicated Account Managers

Understanding the Sales Force

I do my own weeding and that "hobby" takes up a lot of my free time. Weeding is like playing the arcade game wack-a-mole where you pull the weed, use a weed wacker, or poison the weed on Monday and two more weeds appear in its place on Tuesday. If you think about territory sales or sales into a specific vertical, reps should be calling on the same customers and prospects all the time.

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Are CEOs ignoring signs of slipping demand heading into 2023?

SBI Growth

In SBI’s recent survey of 150 CEOs, there was evidence that CEOs taking decisive action on growth planning will outpace those choosing a “wait-and-see” approach as we head into economic headwinds. One of the uncertainties CEOs are facing in 2023 is a potential shift in demand. Only 18% of CEOs surveyed anticipate slowing demand, but is this low percentage of admission indicative of a repeat of 2020, where CEOs were reticent to admit to a slowing shift?

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Mid-Year Business Reviews

Steven Rosen

Midyear business review – time to get your team focused on crushing it! Welcome the focus sales leadership framework. The framework is based on three fundamental principles of effective leadership, focusing on leadership and culture. Today I want to talk to you about an important step you can take this week to improve your team’s performance in the second half of the year.

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How to Rebrand ‘Bossware’ at Your Company

Sales and Marketing Management

Using software to monitor workers has effects that company executives should address to ensure a healthy work environment, increase productivity and reduce employee turnover. The post How to Rebrand ‘Bossware’ at Your Company appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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Not The Top 20 Attributes of Successful Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Several OMG's Partners reached out to me asking if I had seen the email that was circulating about the Top 20 Attributes of Successful Salespeople. "I have," was my response and, "Look for a blistering review on Monday.". The article was 100% junk science and to use the word science would be a disservice to the word junk.

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My Favorite Closing Line

Mr. Inside Sales

I was giving a training today and emphasizing the importance of directing the sale, assuming the deal, and leading the prospect through the close. As I did, I reminded the team of closers of my very favorite closing phrase, and one that has literally made me millions of dollars in my career. When you get to the reason to place the order now, or purchase your product or service, what’s important is not to ask if they agree, or if they have the budget, or anything like that.

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Focused Sales Leadership Framework Intro

Steven Rosen

Focused Sales Leadership Framework . Hello Sales Leaders! Steven Rosen, sales leadership coach. You have experienced more change in the last two years than many have in the previous ten years. I know you could benefit from a framework to help you. UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS. BUILD A WINNING TEAM. AND DEVELOP A PERFORMANCE CULTURE. I am so excited to share the Focused Sales Leadership framework.

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How to Improve B2B Sales with Field Report Data

Sales and Marketing Management

In B2B sales and marketing, field data can help increase conversions and reveal what customers and clients respond to. The post How to Improve B2B Sales with Field Report Data appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

It’s official: We’ve moved past “unprecedented times” and the “new normal” and have entered the “ Everything-is-Weird Economy ”. Over the past couple of years, it has seemingly been one extreme after another — record-high unemployment followed by record job growth followed by record voluntary job changes. Record-high consumer spending followed by record-high inflation.

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7 Tips for Differentiating in the Selling Process

RAIN Group

Differentiation often starts with marketing, but it truly comes alive in the selling process. Even if your company’s products and services are superior to all others, this means nothing if you can’t convey that to your buyers. Differentiating in sales is more than a good pitch—you need to differentiate in the right areas, adapt to your buyer’s needs, and build value.

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Do You Want to Kill the Pain, or Solve the Problem?

Membrain

Most of us know that in order to stay healthy, we need exercise, good nutrition, rest, and to take our vitamins. But very often, we get busy with life and forget these essentials. Before long, we start to suffer for it. At that point, we all know we should slow down and address the problem - but more often, we seek a pill to kill the pain so we can keep going.

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Stay True to Your Core Values to Make More Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Authentic passion is the emotionally compelling aspect of sales. It must be present in our interactions with our prospects if we want them to feel how much we care about them. The post Stay True to Your Core Values to Make More Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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The Dos and Don’ts of Building a Global Sales Strategy

Zoominfo

Creating a global sales strategy is one of the most important and challenging exercises for a business. Having a clear plan will determine where you and your team focus their time — and time is the most valuable investment you can put into your business. However, it’s not a simple rinse-and-repeat process across different countries, where culture and resources will differ as much as the local cuisine.

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Changing economy? Help Your Salespeople Prioritize the Right Opportunities Faster

Force Management

Given the current economic downturn, your salespeople may be more inclined to invest time in an unqualified deal or skip important steps in the sales process to keep pipelines moving. If the current economic landscape is amplifying the pressure your sales team is feeling to hit revenue targets, address this challenge head on and have a direct conversation with your team now.

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How to Make Every Conversation a Coaching Conversation Using One Question by Keith Rosen

Membrain

The biggest complaint I hear from managers is they don’t have time to coach, especially when they’re spending most of their time helping their team close more sales, resolve problems and handle customer issues. During these time-sensitive situations, compounded with the pressure to drive results, they feel they must be direct and tell people what they have to do, right?

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Top Ways to Get Authentic Feedback from Employees

The Center for Sales Strategy

Continuous improvement is dependent on feedback, and in most situations, we feel confident in the feedback we are giving and receiving. However, sometimes people will tell you what they think you want to hear, and the feedback is not very useful or effective. In order to garner authentic feedback from your employees, and return the favor, the stage needs to be set for open two-way communication.

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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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12 Top Market Intelligence Tools for Go-to-Market Teams

Zoominfo

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams. From startups to the Fortune 500, companies of all sizes are leveraging tools that gather market intelligence data to gain a competitive edge.

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Ash Brokerage Taps the Power of Video to Transform Sales

Allego

When you and your competitors all sell the same thing, you need a way to differentiate yourself. Your salespeople must do and say things that set them apart from others in the pack—in a good way, of course. For Ash Brokerage, that differentiator is video powered by Allego. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the financial services firm realized how powerful video is for maintaining relationships with advisors and buyers.

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On Driving Performance

Partners in Excellence

As leaders, a key element of our job is to maximize the performance of each person on our team. We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. We set performance goals, we measure their attainment against that performance.

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30 Key Interview Questions and Answers for Sales Operations Role

Hubspot Sales

A sales operator works to enable your salespeople to focus on selling. Therefore, hiring the right person for the role is crucial, as such a hire will handle ‘backend’ stuff like lead management, data analysis, process optimization, and even sales strategy. Several organizations realize the importance of this role. However, they have difficulty finding the right people to hire.

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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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13 ABM Metrics You Should Be Monitoring Right Now

Zoominfo

We’ve all heard the stories (maybe you’ve even told some yourself) of sales and marketing teams working in unison, launching hyper-targeted account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns that resonate with ideal customers — and drive the type of revenue that makes your team legendary. But in order to make the case for ABM, you’ve got to show results.

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Keeping Score: How to Use Sales Enablement Intelligence to Prove ROI

Allego

Is your sales team operating at its best? How do you know? What if you could find out exactly how to kick productivity up to a new level? You can with sales enablement intelligence—a data-driven approach to learning, coaching, and content to maximize revenue per rep. Why is sales enablement intelligence important? That’s a little like asking why it’s important to keep score during a basketball game.

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Why Are We So Incurious?

Partners in Excellence

If I were forced to identify the single most important capability for anyone, at any level in selling, I think it would be curiosity. I wouldn’t identify prospecting, relationship building, closing, goal orientation, or any of the numerous competencies/capabilities of great sales people. I don’t mean to diminish their importance, but as you peel each of those back, underlying these capabilities is usually some aspect around curiosity.

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