Sat.May 22, 2021 - Fri.May 28, 2021

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5 Habits for Greater Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

Keeping your good habits “habitual” is dependent upon your level of commitment to your goals. If you are truly committed and willing to sacrifice immediate gratification for the long-term good, then good habits stick. But how do you correct your behavior and become more habitual? Here are our 5 steps to creating better sales habits.

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Bigger Goals = Bigger Results

Mr. Inside Sales

What do you expect to accomplish this year? Think carefully, because nothing (in my experience) is more predictive of results than mindset. Mindset determines the actions you take, how you deal with adversity, how much you use good selling skills (and how much you invest in them), and how you adapt to the changing conditions around you. And a lot more!

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Imagine if, 30 years from now, business leaders are still scratching their heads about how to use artificial intelligence. It’s nearly impossible to believe that will be true. Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to bo

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Don’t Get Locked In Email Marketing Jail

Sales and Marketing Management

Email marketing campaigns that get sucked in by a spam filter or blocked completely never have a chance to convert to sales. The post Don’t Get Locked In Email Marketing Jail appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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 Listening Now? How Sales Leaders Optimize Customer Listening Paths

SBI Growth

Inefficient activity assignment and role clarity issues within your organization can drive down important metrics such as your customer service satisfaction or net promotor scores. As a Sales Leader, you’re liable for understanding where your individual contributors need to be.

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Intent Data is a superpower. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

In a world inundated with data and the solutions that promise you the ability to achieve a competitive edge , we’re often left thinking: “How?”. Just how do businesses with access to so much rich information actually, truly use it to their very individual advantage? Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using

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The New Wave of Digital Marketing with Dun & Bradstreet’s Chief Marketing Officer

Sales and Marketing Management

Dun and Bradstreet Chief Marketing Officer Stacy Greiner discusses the proliferation of digital marketing tools and how her company helps clients deliver a unified buying experience that is personalized for buyers. The post The New Wave of Digital Marketing with Dun & Bradstreet’s Chief Marketing Officer appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The CEO’s Guide to Navigating Commercial Complexity

SBI Growth

Being a CEO during a large Go-to-Market transformation is difficult, and with multiple acquisitions, this adds further complexity, such as: High Customer Acquisition Costs Low Employee Morale Inaccurate Fact Base And more. On today’s show, Steve Smith, CEO of Zayo, joins us to discuss how.

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Podcast 199: Galit Ventura-Rozen On The Psychology Of Sales

John Barrows

Our guest this week is Galit Ventura-Rozen, Co-Founder of Everyday Woman, real estate broker, and sales success expert. In this episode, Galit shares her experiences on the path to entrepreneurship. Investing in yourself can be frightening; Galit and John talk about the mentality and mindset needed to overcome our fears and take the steps towards what we want.

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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 Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Imagine if, 30 years from now, business leaders are still scratching their heads about how to use artificial intelligence. It’s nearly impossible to believe that will be true. Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to boos

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The New Wave of Digital Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Dun and Bradstreet Chief Marketing Officer Stacy Greiner discusses the proliferation of digital marketing tools and how her company helps clients deliver a unified buying experience that is personalized for buyers. The post The New Wave of Digital Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Our Latest Podcasts: Coaching Lessons from Netflix

Force Management

This month's episodes packed an extra punch. With timely front-line sales tips and a guest appearance for ELAC Men's Basketball Coach, John Mosley Jr. (as seen on Netflix's Last Chance U: Basketball Series) — each episode has something for everyone in your organization. Here's a rundown of what each episode covers. Tune in and share with your sales reps, managers and other leaders in your organization.

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Why Your Next Best Step is AI-Assisted Sales

Allego

“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.“ — Author William Gibson. What exactly is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What is AI-assisted sales? When you hear these terms, do you think of R2D2? Blade Runner? Or even Tron? Many of us grew up thinking about AI this way—either helpful robots or an evil tool with the potential to run amok.

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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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The Remote Work Rundown: Powered by ZoomInfo

Zoominfo

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we view the office. As life gradually returns to the new normal, companies across the globe are reevaluating how and where their employees should work. Many companies are scaling back on office space while others are reinvesting in their physical footprint. Some are going entirely remote, while many are implementing a hybrid model.

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Catch Your Sales Reps Doing The Good Stuff

Sales and Marketing Management

In this episode Mike Carroll reveals strategies and how to leverage the strengths sales reps exhibit by literally catching them when they do good things in using those experiences as positive sales coaching opportunities. The post Catch Your Sales Reps Doing The Good Stuff appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Start With The Customer

Partners in Excellence

When we look at our Go To Customer strategies, we make them more complicated than we need to. Our demand gen, marketing, sales organizational design, sales processes, customer experience—all of it are generally designed around us. It’s an internal view, primarily focused on internal objectives and goals. We may be trying to hit certain spend/budget goals.

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How to win more deals with stakeholder mapping

Membrain

In my experience, the #1 problem for salespeople engaged in complex b2b sales is failing to understand how customers and prospects make decisions.

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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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They Want to Renegotiate…Now What? (Part 2 of 3)

Engage Selling

It can feel like a big, scary problem when your customer starts demanding you renegotiate terms and prices on an existing agreement you have with them. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. As a sales leader, there are … Read More » The post They Want to Renegotiate…Now What? (Part 2 of 3) first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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B2B Content Marketing Comes of Age

Sales and Marketing Management

B2B content marketing is less about sales and more about creating a strong connection with existing and potential customers. The post B2B Content Marketing Comes of Age appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Rethinking Rev Ops

Partners in Excellence

There’s a lot of discussion about rev ops. In a lot of it, I wonder, “What problem are we really trying to solve?” To be honest, I think much of the justification we use in looking at Rev Ops misses the true opportunity. Much of the discussion is around improving alignment and collaboration across marketing, sales, customer experience.

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11 Red Flags to Look Out for When Interviewing Sales Reps, According to Experts

Hubspot Sales

Exceptional sales reps — the ones who are prepared to both dedicate and deliver — don't grow on trees. They're tough to find, and in many cases, it's hard to distinguish them from reps who might wind up exhausting your time and resources — only to fizzle out and leave before making an impact. When you're interviewing for a sales role, you're bound to run into both kinds of candidates, so the question becomes, "How do I tell them apart?".

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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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Simple Content Organizer for Sending documents, video and links to Prospects

SBI

SalesTech Video Review: Simple Content Organizer for Sending Links, Files and Video to prospects. Flipdeck tackles two hassles salespeople deal with every day, gathering the information to send each prospect and adding attachments and links to an email one-by-one. Sharing information like sales collateral, pricing, and proposals is something you do all day every day.

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3 Key Questions to Win the Complex Sale

Sales and Marketing Management

Great B2B salespeople focus on the right deals and leave unqualified prospects for reps who are content spinning their wheels. The post 3 Key Questions to Win the Complex Sale appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Our customers’ complicated buying journeys

Membrain

Buying is complicated—we see all sorts of research confirming this. Whether it’s the fact the majority of buying efforts end in no decision made, the high level of of “High Regret Decisions,” increasing uncertainty on decision confidence; more data points to how buyers struggle during and after the buying journey.

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The 7 Step Process for Extremely Productive Sales Conversations

Hubspot Sales

Having conversations with prospects is baked into sales — in a lot of ways, it's the basis of the whole concept. You need to be able to successfully initiate and conduct productive sales conversations if you really want to thrive in a sales role. Being able to thoughtfully and adeptly communicate with prospects in-person, over the phone, and via email will set you up for a long and successful career in the field.

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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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What Is The Destination?

Grant Cardone

Take a moment and think about where you’re going in your life right now and answer as yourself “what is the destination?” Some of you might know right away and some of you are still figuring it out. If you look for it you will see it…it’s in the law of attraction. You have to be looking for people, money, and opportunity. Look for something that will move you towards your journey, to your unique destination.

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From Guessing to Guided as Told in Memes

InsideSales.com

The consumer experience has changed significantly. When smartphones hit the scene, data was used to understand our behaviors and provide more relevant content, and we, as buyers, became more independent with endless information at our fingertips. Of course… the data isn’t always spot on. B2B buyers are completely digital and in control. Buyers are used to having the information and resources they need to build their own criteria.

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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

There’s a lot of discussion about specialization in sales. We’ve always had specialists in sales and specialization is important. But in the past 15 years, we seem to have gone off the rails with our specialization. My earliest experience of specialization was product/solution focused specialists. When I started selling, I had the responsibility for growing a very large banking account.

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