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2 Keys for Improved Sales Performance: Perception and Consistency

Anthony Cole Training

Perfect practice prevents poor performance! To improve your overall sales effectiveness, you must become masterful at the skills required to be successful. In today's blog post, you will learn why perception and consistency are critical factors when it comes to upgrading your selling results.

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They Pay More For Answers Than Solutions

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Salespeople love to talk about solutions, buyers are tired of hearing about solutions that leave them no further ahead. Prospects are looking for answers to business opportunities. They need answers to that before they are ready to talk solutions. [link]. Join me Friday for the next breakfast For Champions. Dog Days Of Summer Sales.

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The Comeback Kid: 20 Weeks to Change Your 2020 Story

The Center for Sales Strategy

We all have a choice to make. That choice is what we’re going to do for the next 20 weeks of the year. We can continue to worry, fret, blame, and sit on the couch (if you're not doing any of those things - hurrah for you!). But we can also take the opportunity to be the Comeback Kid. Twenty weeks is a long time. That's 100 working days, with a few holidays thrown in.

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How NOT to Pitch Yourself to the Media

The Sales Heretic

My friend Joel Comm is a brilliant author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He’s also the co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast. In this capacity, he frequently receives requests from people who want to be a guest on his show. Recently, his inbox was graced with this request (that he kindly shared with me): Hey guys, I [.].

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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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15 Things Salespeople Must Do to Make up for a Lackluster 2nd Quarter

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week we moved our son into his dorm to begin his freshman year of college. The college President's opening remarks were virtual, so we joined the Zoom stream from our hotel room and listened in. He had some really useful things to share with the new freshmen and while his thoughts were targeted to the students, they apply quite equally to salespeople.

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How Your Attitude About Sales, Affects Your Sales

Mr. Inside Sales

Have you ever stopped and examined your attitude about sales? About having to be a salesperson? When someone asks you what you do for a living, are you embarrassed to say you’re in sales? Do you find that demeaning? I used to. I used to harbor a belief that I was better than being just a salesman. For years, I was waiting to go back to school to get my graduate degree so I could start my real life.

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Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #17 – Guest Art Sobzac

The Pipeline

Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #17 – Guest Art Sobzac. Art Sobzak is the President of Company: Business By Phone Inc., and one of the best telephone coaches you can meet. With over 30 years of experience, Arthas helped salespeople say the right things to get through, get in, and sell, primarily using the phone. He’s a speaker, trainer, author, podcaster, and lifelong salesperson.

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How to Create An Ideal Client Profile

Zoominfo

Have you ever planned something out so that it would make accomplishing an end goal easier? Maybe you make a to-do list of chores for the day or map out specific tasks in order to complete a project? Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term.

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Evolving Your Culture for the Digital Revolution

SBI Growth

It’s hard to imagine a time where calendars weren’t inundated with video calls and discussions around your digital sales transformation. With a virtual revolution upon us, how can you maintain the personal aspects that define your culture internally and externally? On.

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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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The Art of Good Sales Questions

A Sales Guy

Can you see the difference between the two questions in this video? Can you see how they will elicit entirely different responses from the buyer? Can you see how based on the questions, and the answers, how one question sets the salesperson up for success and the other keeps them in the same place? Most of you know how important I believe the discovery process is.

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Pruning Your Work to Maintain a Sales Focus

Connect2Sell

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Go-To-Market Motions Part II: How ZoomInfo Created a Winning Sales Team

Zoominfo

Part one of our GTM series was all about our inbound go-to-market motions. In case you missed it, our performance-based approach results in nearly 60% of our revenue. We refine and refine as much as we can, applying learnings in real-time, based on outcome-powered lead scoring and routing to scoring a rep’s performance. And in return, we’re able to ask for reps to commit to that motion, and in return we provide an infrastructure that helps our company win and our employees grow.

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Could Headless Commerce Help You Win eCommerce Market Share?

SBI Growth

With eCommerce increasing more in the last 90 days than during the previous 10 years combined, digital transformation is no longer a buzz phrase. Your company’s ability to interact and transact virtually with your customers and prospects will ultimately determine.

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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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Podcast 160: Frank Dale On Deal Management

John Barrows

Deal management. How important is it to you? If you ask Frank Dale , it’s more important now than ever. John is joined by a good friend, Frank Dale on the podcast this week to discuss his journey in sales tech and why deal management is his focus right now. Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Spotify. If you prefer to watch than to listen, here’s the full video… That’s a wrap.

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4 Action Steps Every Remote Sales Onboarding Program Should Include

SBI

4 Action Steps For Remote Sales Onboarding. The global pandemic has forced most organizations to move their workforce entirely remote and many have had to make changes to their organizations such as furloughs or layoffs. Most organizations have sales teams that work primarily from in the company’s offices and sales reps working from home covering a certain territory.

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How to Build a B2B Sales Team Structure

Zoominfo

On building a sales organization as sophisticated as contemporary B2B buyers …. Every B2B trade publication, analyst, and even company (Hi!) waxes poetic about the buyer’s journey. The idea that the modern buyer is more empowered than ever, and procurement is enabled through endless sources of information about a particular product or space. Here’s a secret: Contemporary sales leaders are just as well equipped as their counterparts in procurement.

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Problem Solving and Decision Making in Uncertain Times

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Larry Prince In the first part of this two-part article, we established the need for decisive leadership and the importance of listening to our people, leveraging their strengths and the key to building stronger teams. We learned that doing so reduces anxiety and sets in motion a path leading to recovery and renewal. . Our research shows that during times of great uncertainty business leaders delay decision making and tend to wait until they have all of the information they believe is ne

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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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Podcast 159: James Buckley Takes Over!

John Barrows

The podcast we’re sharing this week is a little different to normal. Our very own James Buckley is taking over for a surprise episode, totally different to the usual format. We’re not going to give too much more than this away, you’ll have to listen to find out more… Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Spotify.

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How to sell when you're not a salesperson

Membrain

One of my relatives is a lawyer. He recently joined a new firm and had an interesting story to tell. He’s a compliance expert, and not too long ago, a potential client called asking for help with a tax issue.

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Reinventing Selling!

Partners in Excellence

The pandemic, social change, and economic crises impact all of us, personally, organizationally, and how we engage our customers. It has forced each of us to rethink, reset, and change. We all know that selling is changing profoundly. As much as some might wish that things get back to normal, we know that normal has changed forever–as it should.

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Essential Leadership Behaviors for Uncertain Times

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Larry Prince The unassailable business leadership lesson taught by the COVID crisis is: Your people need you more than ever – and you need them more than ever. This mutual reliance speaks to the need for clear and inclusive decision making. Yet privately, business owners and leaders are confessing that the fog of uncertainty has led to an indecisiveness that affects their people’s engagement, focus and performance.

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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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5 Proven Keys To Keep Any Prospect’s Attention and Crush Your Next Presentation

Shari Levitin

“Are we there yet? Mommy, when are we going to get there?” Sorry to break it to you, but that’s what your customers are thinking in 87 percent of all virtual sales conversations. In 2000, Microsoft conducted a study measuring how long people can focus on one thing for a specific amount of time. The results showed the average person’s attention span was 12 seconds.

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New School Year: Pack Your Zoom ID, but Don’t Hold Your Breath for Air Quality Changes

Zoominfo

How will we reopen schools? . This remains one of the most pressing questions for parents, teachers, and school administrators. In 2020, the “back-to-school” drama could play out in three ways: fully back in class, fully remote, or — what’s looking like the most likely path — a hybrid of the two. New data from ZoomInfo indicates that as K-12 schools continue to adopt technology that enables online learning, they may not be as prepared to retrofit school buildings to improve air quality and alte

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Our customers don’t know what they don’t know

Membrain

Recently, I was in a discussion with a group of outstanding sales people. They were talking about how to align their selling process with the customer buying process.

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Sales Leads Are a Perishable Asset

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: David Hoang How you manage leads makes the difference between a wasted investment and a solid return on investment. Once your company spends money to find a prospect, the clock starts ticking. Each inquiry has a life span. Some of the leads may take a year to buy something, some may take six months and some will only take a few months or a few days.

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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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12 Video Conferencing Tools You Can Use in Your Sales Process

Hubspot Sales

It’s safe to say 2020 has been the year of virtual meetings. Everything from large-scale conferences to staff meetings, to meetings with prospects, are hosted remotely. Chances are, your sales process has moved fully online as well. Video conferencing tools are a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes, especially with remote work becoming the norm.

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A Tactical Approach to Refreshing your Sales Strategy with Dynamic Guided Selling

Predictable Revenue

In a digitally transforming landscape, your sales solutions can guide you towards a more effective way of winning each deal. This kind of support is particularly crucial in a world rocked by a global pandemic. The post A Tactical Approach to Refreshing your Sales Strategy with Dynamic Guided Selling appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable?

Corporate Visions

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? by Leslie Talbot appeared first on Corporate Visions. Every marketer wants to make an impact. Today, with 80 percent of the sales cycle happening in digital or remote settings, you’ve never had a greater opportunity to directly influence buying decisions. And the number one factor driving those buying decisions?

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