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‘Let’s talk about CEX, baby’

Bernadette McClelland

(Punch it, Hurb Yo, I don’t think we should talk about this. Come on, why not? People might misunderstand what we’re tryin’ to say, you know? No, but that’s a part of life). So ,just like the lyrics from hip-hop group Salt-n-Pepa, what are people misunderstanding? What are we talking about here? And what’s not just a part of life, but a huge part of business?

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Persistence Over Polish - What the Top 10% of All Salespeople Do Better

Understanding the Sales Force

The best athletes in the world know exactly how they do the things they do that make them so great. In addition to their God-given talent, they outworked everyone else to master the mechanics and nuances of their sport, the mindset required for greatness, and competed at a high level from a very young age. When they falter they can easily make the adjustments necessary to get back on track.

Sports 79
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Is Technology Tanking Your Lead Generation System?

No More Cold Calling

Remember, prospecting is all about people. You’ve heard it: Television will kill radio. Video killed the radio star. And technology will eliminate the time-consuming, face-to-face aspect of communication. Um, no. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in your lead generation system. B2B selling is all about relationships. Digital technology certainly helps facilitate conversations, but when it comes to relationship-building, technology can also be a hindrance, a distraction, and a crutch.

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3 Tips to Boost Customer Retention and Growth

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli Would you like to increase your company’s profits by 25 percent or more this year? If so, that’s a lofty goal. It may surprise you, however, that to reach that objective, you don’t have to chase after any leads. You don’t even need to land a single new customer. According to a study from Harvard Business School , you can boost profitability by 25 to 95 percent by focusing on current customers and boosting retention rates by just five percent.

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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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A Broken Brand: How To Stand Out in the Crowd of Me-Too

SBI Growth

One of today’s most popular exercises for marketing leaders is the blind website review. This is where you select your competitors websites, remove the names, and evaluate the messaging of each site with the goal being to identify key differentiators.

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Marketing Madness 2018: Your Starting Lineup [Infographic]

Zoominfo

If business were basketball, your technology stack would be a strong contender for MVP. While your technology stack may not seem like it warrants serious consideration, it has the power to make or break your success as a marketing team. Today we introduce you to your 2018 Marketing Madness starting lineup. Key Takeaways. And there you have it! Your guide to a healthy customer and contact database.

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Key B2B Sales Challenges for Supply Chain Companies

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kevin McGirl, President, sales-i The supply chain is the engine of the global economy. When products don’t move smoothly and seamlessly between manufacturer and end-user, they become exponentially harder to bring to market. Too often, the supply chain’s importance is overlooked – as are the challenges inherent to forging good relationships between each ‘link’.

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How the SVP of Sales Executes in the Enterprise

SBI Growth

Our guest on SBI TV is Stephen Mohan, SVP of North American Sales for XPO Logistics. Stephen has led several enterprise sales forces and is the perfect guest to discuss how to execute in the enterprise. To follow along, leverage SBI’s.

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Great Thoughts on Sales, Business, and Success X

The Sales Heretic

Everyone can use a good dose of inspiration and encouragement now and then. I know I certainly can. That’s why I regularly review the brilliant thoughts of others, share hem in my keynote speeches and seminars, and tweet them out daily. Here are some of my current favorites. “A good ad which is not run [.].

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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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B2B Programmatic Advertising for Beginners

Zoominfo

As with nearly every other aspect of business— automation, predictive learning, and artificial intelligence have drastically changed the advertising landscape. The biggest change? Programmatic advertising. Defined, programmatic advertising is the use of data-driven software to automate the buying and placement of digital ads, including online desktop display, mobile, video, etc.

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Using Predictive Analytics to Define the Leads That Matter

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Vaughn Aust Defining leads that matter is key to any sales and marketing strategy, but how do you pinpoint those golden customers? After all, it may not be about processing more data, but rather truly understanding what the data means once you have it. Predictive analytics uses data correlation to understand how you target a prospect, what that prospect’s channel preference is, the best time to call, and so on.

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Top 3 Revenue Growth Trends Impacting the Financial Services Industry

SBI Growth

Our guests on SBI TV are Clayton Collins, the CEO, and Jacob Gaffney, the Editor in Chief, of HousingWire. As the authority voice for mortgage and banking news to the finance industry, HousingWire is here today to share the top.

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10 Reasons I’m Passionate About Sales

The Sales Hunter

Full disclosure. I did not always like sales. In fact, just saying the word “sales” sounded creepy. While in one of my first sales jobs, I did not call myself a sales rep. I called myself a “marketing rep.” To me, marketing was a good term, but “sales” was everything evil. Funny thing happened to […].

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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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4 Reasons Marketers Love Jay Baer

Zoominfo

If you’re an avid reader of the ZoomInfo blog, you’re already familiar with the name Jay Baer. If you’re not, allow us to introduce you. Jay is a well-known marketing influencer and industry expert who has 24 years of digital marketing and customer experience under his belt. Jay’s resume is impressive—boasting consulting experience for more than 700 companies, including 34 of the FORTUNE 500.

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Before You Go Overboard with New Sales Training Ideas …

Connect2Sell

This is a post about the importance of taking it back to the basics even when introducing new sales training ideas.

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CEO Newsletter: Top Revenue Growth Articles of February 2018

SBI Growth

How To Execute A Sales Transformation JD Miller, the General Manager and Head of Sales for BravoSolution has led four organizations through a successful transformation. Most recently, JD lead the sales and marketing team at BravoSolution through an incredible transformation to.

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The 2 Biggest Fears Of Selling

MTD Sales Training

Do you know what the two main fears of selling are? Want me to tell you? Well, they are: 1) The Fear Of Rejection From You. and. 2) The Fear Of Making A Mistake From Your Client. Let’s look at these a little more closely: The Fear Of Rejection From You. A lot of sales people don’t make as many calls as they should do or are afraid of hearing a “no” simply because they don’t like to be rejected from the prospect.

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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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Don’t Push Your Luck: Guessing Email Addresses Just Ain’t Worth It

DiscoverOrg Sales

Prospecting is tough. There are a handful of components of cold email outreach, and each one is absolutely necessary to be successful. It’s hard enough to write an eye-catching message. Sending that email at a time when the prospect will read it, and respond to it – that’s really hard, too. Not to mention there’s a significant time commitment in identifying the person you want to email and mapping out their organization.

Hiring 150
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A 5-Minute Summary Of "The Challenger Sale" Book Your Boss Told You To Read

Hubspot Sales

These days, almost every new hire in sales is told to read " The Challenger Sale.". It's a great book based off one of the largest studies ever done in sales. Problem is, when you're learning how to sell on the job with a giant quota hovering over your head. you don't have any time to read. Download more free summaries of top sales books here. That's why this post is a five-minute review of the Challenger Sales Approach.

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Sales Leadership Newsletter: Top Revenue Growth Articles of February 2018

SBI Growth

5 Steps to Exceed Your Annual Revenue Number You are deep into the first quarter. Do you have a plan to hit your 2018 revenue goal? Every sales leader knows the routine. You crushed last year’s number. Your CEO and board.

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How to Get Accurate B2B Data to Build Sales Pipeline and Grow Your Business

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Derek Slayton , Global Leader & GM of Sales & Marketing Solutions of Dun & Bradstreet. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization?

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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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Sales Motivation Video: Life is Unfair. Get Over It!

The Sales Hunter

In sales motivation, there’s no room for whining about life being unfair. You have to find a way to get over it! The sooner you deal with moving past what you perceive as unfair, the sooner you’ll be able to accelerate your sales success. Check out the video: A coach can help you […].

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30 Sales Prospecting Email Templates Guaranteed to Start a Relationship

Hubspot Sales

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. No, this isn't an infomercial. And you're right that they won't work every time. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. To be eligible, just pay me one easy payment of $99.99 before reading the rest of this article.

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Ladder Goals (and Accountability) to Each Member of Your Team

SBI Growth

You’ve set your marketing strategy for the year, aligning your objectives with the CEO’s. Well done. As you near the end of the first quarter, are you seeing the results you expected? Chances are that any shortcoming may have more.

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If Data is Not in Your CRM, Does It Exist?

SBI

The Sales Signals We’re Ignoring Could Be Worth Millions. We’ve all heard the line, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” It typically leads to discussion on observations and perception, and the idea that if something is not heard, is it even there? Now, let’s apply it to sales. “If data about your customers and prospects isn’t entered into your CRM, does it even exist?”.

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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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Sales Leadership: What Will You Learn Today?

The Sales Hunter

Earlier this week I was talking to a person who was asking me what I do for a job. He was intrigued by the fact I spend the bulk of my time speaking at major conferences around the U.S. and the world. He was deeply interested in how I felt I could be knowledgeable enough […].

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You’re Overlooking a Surprising Way to Qualify Leads in 2018

Hubspot Sales

We’ve all been through the same sales training and coached on the same sales playbook. When it comes to qualifying high-potential sales opportunities, salespeople look for: Senior decision-maker involvement. Buying authority. Customer consensus. Approved budget. A clearly articulated need. However, in a world where customers learn far more on the their own and progress further along a purchase path before reaching out to reps, yesterday’s winning playbook is today’s losing recipe.

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CMO Newsletter: Top B2B Revenue Marketing Articles of February 2018

SBI Growth

The Digital Transformation of a B2B World Every major company is undergoing a digital transformation of some kind. Mark is here today to help you purge your old world view of digital. Instead, offer extreme personalization and a frictionless experience across.

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