The Center for Sales Strategy
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The top organizations in any marketplace place a high value on their people because they are the foundation on which success is built. They place an even higher value on managers who can develop top performers. Yet, all too often, business leaders hire people they believe in and sit back to see what they can do.
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Author: Tim Houlihan In my conversation with Jana Gallus from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, we examined the ways that precision impacts the effectiveness of rewards. Her research points to important aspects of how rewards, the signals they send and their efficacy are affected by precision. In short, more precision is better for rewards used with incentives, while less precision is better for rewards used with recognition.
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Now that you’ve defined and kicked off your strategy for the year, it’s time to take a look at your team’s operational efficiency. Where are you getting bogged down? What are the biggest pain points in your processes? Through our.
No More Cold Calling
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
You don’t have to work 60-hour weeks to be successful. My niece quit her job because she couldn’t handle the 60-hour workweeks while raising a family. She was stressed, had a short fuse, and didn’t smile much. I was getting increasingly worried about her health and was relieved when she quit. Sure, it was scary for her family for a while. One income was suddenly gone.
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The Sales Heretic
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
I regularly receive friend requests on Facebook. Most of them I ignore. (And many I report for being spam.) But if the person sending the request has a lot of friends in common with me—say a hundred or so—I’ll usually accept the request, because that person is typically also a professional speaker or trainer. (Many [.].
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Historically, discussions about “the customer experience” have been code for “let’s talk about some quick wins to improve our renewal rates before the end of the next quarter.” But more recently, CX has joined product, marketing, and sales as another.
The Pipeline
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Sales Scrum: Guest Warren Shapiro. In this episode, I have the pleasure to interview Warren Shapiro , a seasoned recruiter who helps both employers and employees break through the barriers to success. In the conversation, Shapiro highlights how advancements in technology and changing attitudes and client expectations, can help employers hire people more likely to succeed and stay longer.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
We’ve seen a multitude of new data privacy laws begin to flood the privacy landscape around the world, most of which borrowing standards of transparency and individual rights created by the GDPR in 2018. As a result, it’s become increasingly important for organizations to monitor, analyze, and act upon upcoming regulations to protect their business. […].
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Author: Andres Lares When Joe Mauer’s contract neared its expiration in 2010, the all-star’s agent sat with him and shared how his research revealed he could secure a contract of approximately $300 million over 10 years in the free agent market. However, Joe was more interested in remaining in Minnesota, his hometown, than he was about getting the absolute maximum amount of money.
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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.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Recruiting new sales talent and hiring better salespeople are complicated and time-consuming processes. Especially, when you're not prepared to fill a vacancy, don't have a pipeline of candidates, or have an idea of what "better" means for your business.
Connect2Sell
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Direct from buyers, a list of grievances about sellers’ communication: Spelling errors. Casual or overly familiar. Run-on sentences with poor punctuation. Rambling thoughts that don’t seem connected. Too much to wade through instead of getting to the point. Emojis and exclamation points are disingenuous. Someone should proofread before sending. Obviously a cut-and-paste.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before. In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. In fact, studies show it takes an average of 6 […].
Sales 2.0
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In this post, I want to tell you about something that boosts prospecting results: trigger events. A “trigger event” is when something changes in your prospect’s world. Change is good for you when you’re selling as when something changes in your prospect’s world, it often creates a need. Sometimes that need is something your product can address and hence a sales opportunity is created.
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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.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Today Scott Santucci, CEO of Growth Enablement Ecosystems, joins us to discuss digital transformation and how it impacts revenue growth. Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. The landscape has changed drastically and integrating a successful strategy is no easy feat. There are a variety of ideas and definitions that surround “digital,” and Scott addresses common issues that companies run into when undergoing their own digital transformation.
Mr. Inside Sales
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Is email dead? Of course not! But if you want to get a response, you need to remember that people get hundreds of emails each week—some per day! —so you better make sure your email stands out and is easy to read. Use the check list below to make sure you’re doing everything you can to not only get your email read, but to get a response as well: Email Secret #1: Use the prospect’s first name in the subject line.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
By this point, it’s probably been drilled into your head that a content marketing campaign is essential to your company’s success. In many ways, content is the bread and butter of the modern marketer. But you can’t butter your bread without a knife. And in this metaphor (bear with us here), data quality acts as […].
Grant Cardone
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
How many times have you heard that money won’t make you happy? Next time anybody tells you that, forward them this…. Money won’t make you happy but it will buy: A Good Steak . 5-Star Vacations. Watches. Money won’t make you happy… but it will buy: Food for your pets. A Ski Trip. …or a Boat Trip. Again, money won’t make you happy… but it will buy: Small Things that Make Life Better such as Sunglasses, Shoes, and $5 Coffee Each morning… Or Bigger Things Like a Jet, a Luxury
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.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Over the past two and a half decades, Cloud-based software delivery has transformed the marketplace with Software as a Service (SaaS) becoming the default way that customers purchase almost any software. This has changed the dynamics between vendor and customer.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.
Membrain
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
The idea of a “sales process” has been around since long before I was offered my first sales role. The concept has been heavily promoted by the mainstream sales methodology vendors and adopted with varying degrees of effectiveness by many sales organisations.
Predictable Revenue
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
In sales, the common misconception is that by saying the right thing you’ll win the deal. But what we started to realize after introducing Question-Based Selling (QBS) to our sales organization is that it’s impossible to know what to say without understanding the person and/or organization we were selling to. The post How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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!
Crunchbase
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
An elevator pitch is an invaluable tool for differentiating one’s business from the competition. With a few well-chosen words, entrepreneurs and sales teams can describe their business to persuasively generate interest about their products, services and brand. Discover your next business deal – try Crunchbase Pro. Captivating and engaging, an elevator pitch should typically last about the length of a ride in the elevator – approximately 30 seconds.
SalesProInsider
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
“Never underestimate the laziness of buyers.”. That was the advice a mentor gave me. He was someone I trusted, respected, and would take all of his suggestions and put them into play. Yet this advice was very offending to me because I’ve never considered my buyers or my clients as lazy people. No, they’re hardworking, they’re really smart, and they care about what they’re doing.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Social media has come a long way from the days of MySpace in the mid-2000s. Platforms that were once used to simply share photographs and keep in touch with contacts are now a major part of our daily lives, with the average adult spending nearly two and a half hours per day on social media. These apps are also an integral part of how modern companies do business.
SocialSellinator
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
It’s no secret that revenue is the measure for a business’ success. That’s why a significant portion of the effort is dedicated solely to marketing a company’s product and success to their target market. And when talking about marketing, specifically in the aspect of digital marketing, content has emerged as one of the potent methods of maximizing a company’s marketing strategy.
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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
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Someone tried to suck me into a LinkedIn discussion on cold calling today. The article declaring cold calling dead was written by a colleague I deeply respect, and I have no disagreement with the points in her article. By the time another friend tried to bait me into diving into the discussion, it had been live for 18 hours, there were over 75 reactions and over 52 comments, with many very smart and dull people weighing in.
Salesmate
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
If you have ever thought like “Wow, this app is amazing” or “It is so easy to make a purchase from this website”, there’s probably a huge contribution of a digital agency. Agencies are the best, period. They help their customers make, build, optimize, and market products. Agencies are at the spot where they have to make their customers happy, as well as end-users i.e.
Membrain
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The words we use affect the way we think. Positive, uplifting words can induce a positive, uplifting mood and an optimistic approach to tasks. Negative, depressing words can have the opposite effect.
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