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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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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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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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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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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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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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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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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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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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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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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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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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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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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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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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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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Team for Black Business Owners

Hubspot Sales

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a new blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of Black business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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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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Zoom-to-Face: How to Digitally Walk Your Sales Floor

Sales Hacker Training

For a lot of organizations, the game plan for going remote amounted to, “Next week the office is closed.”. Going forward, we have to take remote seriously if we want to stay competitive. That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. “Remote for now” thinking can lead to missed opportunities in all senses of the word.

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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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 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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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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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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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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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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What Is Revenue Management? A Guide for SaaS Businesses

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

Revenue management has long been associated with the hospitality and travel industries.

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Nimble Reviews 2021: Why Users Say They Love Nimble

Nimble - Sales

No matter what kind of business you’re in, customer satisfaction is a top priority. Customers are the backbone of your business. Without them, it would be impossible to grow your business. It’s essential to listen to peer reviews because it’s one of the main things potential customers look at before making their buying decision on […].

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