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Building Tomorrow’s Success: How to Capture New Sales Opportunities for 2025

No More Cold Calling

You have a more important goal than closing business for Q4. No, you don’t need your glasses to read that again. If your focus is on winning as much business as possible before year-end, you’ll be starting 2025 in a losing position—with a lackluster pipeline and few new sales opportunities for the New Year. Take your eyes off the Q4 prize for a moment.

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The Art of Selective Selling: Mastering Sales Strategy in Diverse Markets

Sales and Marketing Management

As more companies begin to sell globally, mastering sales in diverse markets requires a focus on key strategies, with a particular emphasis on being selective and strategic when making both career and client choices. The post The Art of Selective Selling: Mastering Sales Strategy in Diverse Markets appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales Manager Training: How is it Different from Leadership Training?

SBI Growth

Leadership training is a core part of professional development in many organizations. It teaches leaders across departments how to manage teams, foster collaboration, and achieve business goals. But when it comes to front-line sales managers, general leadership training often falls short. Sales managers face unique challenges that require specialized training tailored to their roles.

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Relationships will be critical in the AI age

Sales 2.0

Sales is not getting any easier. Buyers have become even better at screening out salespeople. When the Internet arrived, buyers’ need to speak to a salesperson to get basic information was eliminated. Buyers could go online and get all the information they needed. About a decade ago, certain subject matter experts came up with a solution to this problem.

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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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Cross-Selling Explained: Techniques to Elevate Your Sales Game

Nutshell

Cross-selling is more than just another sales technique. It’s about understanding your customers’ needs and offering complementary products and services that enhance their overall experience and satisfaction. In this blog post we will explore what cross-selling is, why it’s important for your business, and how to effectively implement various cross-selling techniques.

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Spotting Coaching Abilities in Your Sales Management Candidates

The Center for Sales Strategy

Think for a moment about a manager in your career who made you a better professional. What was it about them that helped you grow and uplevel? While they surely had some expertise to share, no doubt it was their ability and commitment to give you their attention and coaching.

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How Nimble CRM Integrates & Automates Prospecting on LinkedIn

Adaptive Business Services

Time flies and I’m guessing that it has been close to 10 years since LinkedIn decided to close its access doors to most third-party applications including Nimble CRM. Shortly thereafter, they did authorize limited access to a few enterprise level CRMs providing that you have the right LinkedIn premium account. What about smaller companies and solopreneurs with budgets to match?

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How to Build an Effective Sales Meeting Agenda

RAIN Group

Ask your sellers if they enjoy attending sales team meetings and you may hear things like, “They’re a waste of time,” “The meetings are monotonous,” “I’m sick of being talked at,” and “I don’t understand why I have to attend.” Most sales team meetings miss the mark.

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How Digital Business Cards are Transforming Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

By embracing the technology of digital business cards, sales and marketing executives can bridge cultural divides, track engagement, and create lasting impressions – all while reducing their environmental footprint and maximizing the return on their networking efforts. The post How Digital Business Cards are Transforming Sales and Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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Personal Branding for Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

Companies develop a brand, why not salespeople? It is worthy of your time to think about what you do differently and better than your competition. What do you bring to the table, and how do you solve problems for your existing clients? If you cannot pin that down, it is critical that you focus and develop your personal brand. Think about a significant purchase you made recently and the process you went through as a buyer.

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Understanding the CEO's Q3 Report: Key Insights and Implications

SBI Growth

From our most recent CEO Value Creation Pulse Report, we see that CEOs are reassessing their performance, with organizations falling into three distinct groups: some exceeding targets, those that are on track, and a portion that are falling short. This variance highlights the challenges of today’s market, where success requires balancing growth and making adjustments.

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Will You Incorporate New Ideas into Traditional Strategy for Success?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Will You Incorporate New Ideas into Traditional Strategy for Success? Combining some of the skills of introverts and extroverts empowers our efforts and outcomes. Moreover, we must give due thought to those who complement our thinking with varying strategies. Our blog, ‘Will you incorporate new ideas into a traditional strategy for success,’ exemplifies my interactions and the reasoning behind them with Justin Mecham on LinkedIn. __

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Cruise Ships Court Travelers With Weekend Getaways

Grant Cardone

After the Royal Caribbean launched its biggest ship yet, the Icon of the Seas, interest in nautical vacations has skyrocketed. Now, cruise companies are trying to attract younger travelers with weekend cruise ship getaways. And so far, their new strategy has been working. The Booming Popularity of Weekend Cruise Ships The cruise ship industry faced […] The post Cruise Ships Court Travelers With Weekend Getaways appeared first on GCTV.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Team Managers: How to Reclaim Engagement

SalesFuel

Employees report that the ability to work from home or another location is a key factor in job satisfaction. Employers, on the other hand, aren’t so confident about the remote work arrangements. Team managers are worried about productivity, and they want to reclaim engagement. The Hybrid Workforce Conundrum Multiple surveys, including our proprietary AudienceSCAN , have found that nearly 50% of job seekers want the ability to work remote.

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The Lead Quality Crisis You Can’t Afford to Ignore

MarketJoy

In today’s competitive B2B landscape, the quality of leads can make or break a company’s success. While many businesses focus on generating a high volume of leads, they often overlook the critical importance of lead quality. This oversight can lead to significant hidden costs that drain resources, decrease productivity, and ultimately impact the bottom line.

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Add Gamification to Your Strategy for Business Growth

Smooth Sale

P hoto by DigitalArtist Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Add Gamification to Your Strategy for Business Growth You’ve probably heard of “recreational shopping,” which refers to customers enjoying themselves by looking for and purchasing items. Now, store owners are looking to make the shopping experience much more like a fun game that customers can play 24/7, whether on the go while taking a break at work or relaxing in the privacy of their homes.

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Sam’s Club Fulfill Orders By Eliminating Checkout Lines

Grant Cardone

Sam’s Club wants to be the chain that makes your orders easy. Their solution?Replacing cash registers with high-tech cart scanners and more groundbreaking technology. Here’s what you need to know about the future of your Sam’s Club orders. Making Sam’s Club Orders Effortless Despite not growing their number of stores in years, Sam’s Club grew […] The post Sam’s Club Fulfill Orders By Eliminating Checkout Lines appeared first on GCTV.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Hire for Talent, Train for Skill Development: Stop Trying to Teach a Fish to Climb Trees

The Center for Sales Strategy

Let’s cut straight to it: Talent is something you’re born with. You can’t create, mold, or magically inject it into someone. You either have it or you don’t. As much as we love a good rags-to-riches story, the truth is, talent can’t be trained into someone—it’s hardwired. And if you’re trying to force a square peg into a round hole by “developing talent” in someone who simply doesn’t have it, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

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Boosting Sales with Pipeline Velocity feat. Amy Franko

Sales Gravy

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. Amy shares her insights on how to overcome common sales obstacles and provides practical advice for improving sales performance.

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A Commitment to Being Successful Helps with Overcoming Obstacles

Smooth Sale

Photo by jessica45 via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: A Commitment to Being Successful Helps with Overcoming Obstacles Occasionally, we may feel like we magically achieved a goal, but our commitments behind the scenes get us there. Some days are more productive than others, even on slow days. Simply thinking about our desires emphasizes the achievements we envision, adding motivation to continue.

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Your Next Flight? An Amtrak Passenger Train

Grant Cardone

Amtrak is positioning its passenger trains as the solution to your flying and driving woes. With a shiny new multi-billion dollar budget… The rail company wants to prove itself as a strong competitor against common major methods of travel. Do Amtrak passenger trains have what it takes? Big Changes To Amtrak Passenger Trains Amtrak wants […] The post Your Next Flight?

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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How Startups Are Raising Money Today [Data + Expert Insights]

Hubspot Sales

Startup founders, especially early-stage ones, have been feeling quite the pinch in recent years when it comes to fundraising: Nearly a quarter of fundraising rounds are down rounds in Q1 2024 Time in between rounds is getting longer Overall deal count is low It makes us wonder: How are the founders holding up? How should they adapt? Source: Carta My colleagues from HubSpot for Startups set out to find the answer.

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Podcast: The Power of Gratitude and Resilience with Chris Wallace

Membrain

Chris Wallace's journey is a testament to the transformative power of mindset and resilience. As an Executive Sales Consultant and Executive Sales Coach at Saratoga Sales Consulting , Chris brings not only his expertise but also his personal experiences to the table.

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Increase Lead Engagement With Nutshell SMS

Nutshell

Leveraging text messaging is a great way to stay better connected with leads throughout the sales process. And with native texting in your CRM, you get the full picture of how text conversations are driving revenue and strengthening relationships. Now introducing Nutshell SMS—no integration needed! With SMS, your team can have text conversations with your Nutshell contacts, track text history in your timelines, and use texts in your sales automation process to engage your leads.

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Why Spirit Halloween Is Banking On Christmas

Grant Cardone

Even the scariest businesses still need to make money. Spirit Halloween, a seasonal chain dedicated to the scariest night of the year, is turning its attention to a new holiday. Now the company known for grotesque masks and witch brooms is opening a new venture: Spirit Christmas. From Ghouls To Gingerbread Houses: Spirit Christmas Spirit […] The post Why Spirit Halloween Is Banking On Christmas appeared first on GCTV.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Surrendering To AI….

Partners in Excellence

Every day, we see exciting new applications of AI. We all know the power of AI in helping take over administrative tasks, helping research customers, prospects, taking the tedium out of developing content or drafting emails. These tasks, which take so much of our time, and that, often, do poorly can now be done by AI. And we see daily announcements of new capabilities and uses of AI.

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How To Do “Sales as a Service” with Debra Senra

Predictable Revenue

On this episode, we’re joined by Debra Senra, a two-time guest, to discuss the changing landscape of sales proposals in 2024. The post How To Do “Sales as a Service” with Debra Senra appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Building Relationships on LinkedIn: Engage, Don’t Pitch feat. Brynne Tillman

Sales Gravy

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, host Jeb Blount Jr. sits down with LinkedIn expert and OutBound speaker Brynne Tillman to discuss the keys to leveraging LinkedIn for sales success. Brynne shares essential information on avoiding common mistakes like the dreaded "pitch slap," the importance of personalization over automation, and how to truly engage with prospects on LinkedIn.