SBI Growth

JANUARY 4, 2024

When Sales isn’t bringing in the numbers you’re hoping for, what is the first potential solution that comes to mind? Increase Sales headcount? Or do you take a closer look at Sales productivity and try to figure out how to raise the overall effectiveness of each Sales rep? Option two could be more bang for your buck if it’s done right. There are many ways to raise the productivity of your Sales reps, and this article focuses on sales velocity and its relationship with natural combinations of com

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2024

Bank ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) have been around for a while.According to Investopedia, Barclays Bank of London in 1967 was the first to have an ATM in use. I remember using my first ATM – Jeanie Machine – in Cincinnati in 1979. But the ‘ATMs’ I’m referring to have been around, well a long, long, long time.

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One of a Kind Sales

JANUARY 2, 2024

There is no lack of lists of supposedly “unbreakable” business etiquette rules. The role of etiquette is to help us have smooth, respectful interactions with others. Salespeople can be particularly challenged by this because, in reality, customs may change from industry to industry and from prospect to prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2024

Happy New Year everyone! In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! Most people set New Year’s resolutions around this time of the year which, in general terms, is nothing more than an exercise in goal setting. Your goals for the new selling year should start with the things you want to have, places to you want to see, and things you want to do.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 4, 2024

Are you tired of struggling to close deals and wondering why your sales process is not bringing in the results you desire? It's time to align your sales process to the buyer's journey. By understanding the stages your customers or clients go through before making a purchase, you can effectively tailor your sales approach to meet their needs and expectations.

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Membrain

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here at the start of the new year, we at Membrain are preparing to make it easier for sales managers to coach. Our new coaching cockpit will enable managers to see at a glance everything they need to know to be more effective and targeted in how they manage and coach their people.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having a bad sales month? We’ve all been there. Nobody is answering the phone and emails, and it seems like your prospects are falling off the face of the Earth. Two days until the end of the month; your quota is complete by 67%. You can’t seem to get into a groove, and frustration is becoming all too familiar of an emotion. It's official: You’re in a slump.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collin Stewart engages with Lee Salz, best-selling author and sales management strategist at Sales Architects. The post The Anatomy of a Successful Sales Organization with Lee Salz appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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MEDDIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Ken Olsen, the inventor of the non-commissioned salespeople, was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957. He was President until he was forced to resign in 1992 after the company had gone into precipitous decline. But before that, DEC was a major hardware maker for three decades, reaching $14B in revenue at its peak, most likely the equivalent of at least $500B today, given the much smaller number of tech players in the 80s than today.

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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.

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Power of Taking Time Out: How Personal Interactions Can 10x Your Business One thing I have personally come to realise in this crazy, noisy and fast-paced world we now live in, is that it is so easy to become laser-focused and one-eyed on our business, and it is often at the expense of personal connections and downtime! What I also know to be true based on my work a while back with the ‘About My Brain Institute’ is that one of the secrets to magnifying your business success defini

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2024

With the focus shifted to quality leads over quantity, revenue intelligence is a powerful tool that enables marketing teams to leverage data to get in front of the right people at the right time with the right message. The post How to Make Marketing Decisions that Drive Results appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 3, 2024

Understanding the right design and execution of Go-to-Market (GTM) levers in uncertain markets could help CEOs propel their revenue growth by making efficient use of existing resources. As an industry leader with clients and offices across the globe, careful use of such levers plays an integral role in Cisco’s value creation model.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Somehow, the New Year, particularly for sellers, represents a fresh start. Regardless of our performance in the past fiscal year, we start the New Year anew. If we blew away our quotas in 2023, pretty soon managers will be asking “What have you done lately?” If we missed our goals, that is all behind us, and we start anew. We may have set a few resolutions for the New Year.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2024

Launched in 2022, ZoomInfo’s partnership with Google Cloud allows teams to access rich, engagement-ready data in the flexible, powerful environments they use every day. Customers can subscribe to ZoomInfo’s data through Google’s Analytics Hub and use it to enrich their existing first-party customer data in BigQuery to create a reliable data foundation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

There are several benefits to creating a scholarship program. Here’s why your B2B company needs one. The post Cultivating Talent: A Guide to Starting a Scholarship Program for Your B2B Company appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Across markets and industries, one common hiring theme is consistency. It’s hard to find strong candidates. Big cities, rural communities, and everyone in between are struggling to find talented candidates or, sometimes, any candidates at all. We know the talent is out there. But where? Where can you find your next great seller?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2024

We are pummeled with “deep insights” and “expertise” on the single right way to do something. Whether it is the wording of the title of a prospecting email. The number of words/tone or call to action of that email. Or it might be the formula for the sequence and timing of touches in your prospecting. Or it may be a methodology, process, objection handling technique.

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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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Force Management

JANUARY 4, 2024

2023 was a great year for the Revenue Builders Podcast. We enjoyed hosting conversations with some truly transformative leaders, from sales executives at "Unicorn" tech companies to founders of inspiring charitable organizations. Our hosts John Kaplan and John McMahon welcomed over 50 guests whose conversations covered topics like product-led growth, selling to champions and C-level decision-makers, growing your personal sales career and making great sales hires.

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 4, 2024

Last year, Bed Bath and Beyond stocks were at an all-time low after the business closed all of its physical stores and started liquidating assets. The company is still around but what does the future hold for the once-beloved chain… And will the brand ever truly recover? What Made Bed Bath And Beyond Stocks Sink? […] The post Are Bed Bath And Beyond Stocks Worthless?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 2, 2024

One of the most difficult things for a seller is releasing an account they have not been able to sell. It is human nature to keep it, ‘just in case,’ and it is a manager’s responsibility to work with sellers to keep a short list of key and target accounts. There are many ways to accomplish this goal.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2024

As a small business owner myself, harnessing AI for inside salespeople has been rattling around in my mind since the launch of ChatGPT. It’s been pretty exciting to see the creativity that people all over the world are bringing to AI to improve their processes, create new services, and make being in business more fun and profitable. So here we are — a little over a year after OpenAI changed the landscape of what can be sped up or fully automated for anyone using the internet.

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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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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 2, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Six Effective Ways To Ignite Personal Motivation For Growth Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Personal must-dos and career projects can be overwhelming, requiring us to motivate ourselves to complete what is on the agenda. Accordingly, the motivation to do the necessary quickly dwindles for many, and success is a far-off to become an unachievable dream.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2024

Somehow, the New Year is “Account Planning Season.” Possibly, last quarter, you were asked to develop your account plan, but certainly in the next month or so, you will be asked to develop and present your account plan. Usually, we pull out last year’s presentation. We blow off the digital dust, update it with what we did last year, we add the new numbers for this year, identify enough initiatives to keep management off our backs.

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 4, 2024

Business is a game. And like any other game, there is a certain way you gotta play to win. On top of that, every one of your departments has a different set of strategies that score revenue. This article tackles marketing rules in particular — and why they’re successful. 10 Marketing Rules to NEVER Break […] The post 10 Rules for HIGH-PERFORMANCE Marketing appeared first on GCTV.

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Allego

JANUARY 3, 2024

A version of this article originally appeared on HRTechCube. Last year, businesses lost employees at a staggering rate. Between layoffs, voluntary resignations, and retirement, workforce sizes declined dramatically. When that happens—when any employee leaves, actually—organizations risk losing crucial institutional knowledge that informs business strategies and offers insight into customer behavior.

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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

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 3, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How To Motivate Your Employees Upfront decisions are necessary upon undertaking the idea of owning your own business. One significant issue is whether to hire employees. It is a challenging answer, as many possibilities exist for a workaround. Should the thought cross your mind or be in action, our collaborative blog offers insights on How to Motivate Your Employees.

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SocialSellinator

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discover the best online marketing packages tailored to boost your business growth. Learn costs, benefits, and why SocialSellinator is the choice for success.

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 3, 2024

After being banned on December 26, The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 are back and ready for sale. The ban was due to patent infringement between Apple and Masimo, a medical technology company. But the watch might not be here to stay… Resuming the Sale of the Apple Watch On December 27th, Apple […] The post Latest Apple Watch Back On Sale…For Now appeared first on GCTV.

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