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How to Organize Your Sales Force to Generate More Revenue

SBI Growth

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Can Women in Sales Overcome Unconscious Bias in High-Tech?

No More Cold Calling

Women in sales have everything they need to succeed. Daily headlines remind us that unconscious bias exists in its most virulent form. We know bias is there, but we can’t confront it until it’s stated and proven. It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams.

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The Change Game

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca . No matter how one slices it, sales is a game of change. If you are the incumbent, the best way to avoid a client to change vendors, is to continuously introduce change in how your product helps the client achieve their objectives. If you are not the incumbent, then it is all about regime change. Both require that you capture and maintain the buyer’s focus, and have them adopt the change you represent.

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A Marketing and Sales Blind Spot?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? When marketers and salespeople align on something —  anything! — our first instinct is to celebrate it as a victory. Not so fast. Findings from a new Corporate Visions survey provide a snapshot of marketing and sales “alignment” that provides more questions than answers.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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4 Keys to Successful Sales Management Meetings

SBI Growth

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Push and Pull In Sales

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Picture an weighty, rectangular object, placed in the middle square of nine squares; your task is to move the object to another square on the grid, a square other than the one you found it in. Ignoring the tools and resources you may want to utilize, there only three things that are going to happen; You’re going to lift it (in this case maybe a crane, so will move to the next).

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39 Things to Let Go of to Boost Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

Planes, trains, and automobiles—and boats too, now that I think about it—all have something in common: The more stuff they’re loaded down with, the harder it is for them to get going, the slower they move, and the shorter the distance they can go. You are exactly the same. The more stuff you’re loaded down [.].

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What Sales Operations Can Do to Eliminate Friction with Marketing

SBI Growth

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Mixing Phone Conversations With Social Listening for B2B Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike Scher The cold call is not dead, but it is living and breathing differently as social platforms become more important. It’s no longer enough to call a prospect, leave a voicemail and wait. In order to reach, pitch and ultimately close a deal, sales professionals need to be engaging with prospective decision-makers (6.8 per B2B buying decision) across social media platforms.

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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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Massively Increase Your Sales By Improving This One Communication Skill

MTD Sales Training

Probably the most important skill to develop as a sales professional is the ability to communicate effectively with prospects and clients. There’s little doubt that spending your time improving your communication skills is time very well spent, and you’ll never perfect it; it’s one of those skills that will always enable you to improve your relationships with everyone you come into contact with.

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The “Why” of Why You Sell is What Will Make You Successful

The Sales Hunter

The greatest satisfaction I’ve ever had in my sales career is when I’ve been selling solely due to the “why” I sell. At the same time, the most difficult time I’ve had is when I’ve been focused on my own personal objectives at the expense of the customers to whom I was selling. Early in […].

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Will Your Sales Strategy Land You in the Doghouse or the Penthouse?

SBI Growth

Strategy 245
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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. But they’ve also shown that paying too little can be worse than paying nothing at all.

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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 Details Make All the Difference In Sales Results

Fill the Funnel

Tools are making your online activity easier and more effective every day…or are they? Social media platforms, newsletters, blogs, and websites have all become required to succeed in the market today. You are trying a bit of everything, hoping that you have done it right and that the results will be forthcoming. There is a […]. The post The Details Make All the Difference In Sales Results appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: How Good Are You at Handling Change?

The Sales Hunter

Leaders and salespeople think they are good at how they can handle anything that gets thrown their way, but too many times I see just the opposite. When a change occurs, are you one who expects others to change so you don’t have to? With customers, are you forcing them into your world or are […].

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2x Your Organic Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Jason Close, a key member of the team working behind the scenes of the successful Global Payments growth story. Global Payments literally doubled their revenue growth in a short period of time. Jason is here to.

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The Conversation CSOs and CMOs Need to Have

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jay Mitchell, Owner and Principal, Mereo LLC While chief security officers and chief marketing officers each have their respective teams to manage and goals to accomplish, they also must make time to manage the relationship with one another — and each other’s departments. Why? The growing gap between sales and marketing is becoming more than a minor issue to be ignored.

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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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Beware Sales Team!

Anthony Cole Training

Despite how good a high powered team looks on paper, there are always “skeletons in the closet”.

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How to Sell Better: Lesson 8 – Learn to Ask Why

A Sales Guy

Why? Kids are great at asking why? They accept the fact they don’t know very much, so they just move through life, like an information sponge asking why about everything. It’s kinda liberating if you think about it, if you accept that you don’t know anything. If you’re OK with the fact that you don’t know, then asking why is the natural thing to do.

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Why CEOs Should Care About Content Marketing

SBI Growth

Marketing 149
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Juuust right incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Sales leaders are always trying to figure out how to get the most out of their reps at the lowest cost, and incentives are excellent at revealing that sweet spot. Researchers have confirmed that paying too little is insulting and paying too much can cause reps to choke. But they’ve also shown that paying too little can be worse than paying nothing at all.

Incentive 166
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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Watch this webinar with Rachael Foster, Director of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo, and Dan Dolph, Manager of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo.

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How To Write A Follow Up Email The Right Way

MTD Sales Training

So many sales professionals ask us to assist them in writing emails to their prospects that we sometimes think we should devote all our time and attention to this one area! It’s natural to want to contact prospects and show them how your world-changing products can make them successful. Why wouldn’t a prospect want your stunning range of products to make them incredible profits or enjoy life to the full?

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Is Sales Team Performance Suffering Because of Competition?

Connect2Sell

In sales, the competition can be energizing and, at the same time, it can be exhausting. The wrong kind of competition can negatively impact sales team performance. Competition – when it is appropriately directed – can also be motivating and spur everyone to greater achievements. But misguided competition can cause unhealthy conflict and disengagement.

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Sales Motivation Video: What Happened to the Leads and Prospects You Had?

The Sales Hunter

Who has fallen off your bandwagon? Do you have prospects who possibly got in touch with you at one time or who you simply haven’t connected with in quite awhile? Now is the time to boost your sales motivation and call the prospects who have possibly fallen off your radar. Check out the video to […].

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Buzz Words Don't Sell

Increase Sales

Believe it or not, some believe that adopting the most current buzz words will dramatically their increase sales. Right now the most popular buzz word is sales enablement. Before that we had trusted advisor, consultative sales, development specialist, relationship expert, you get the drift. In many instances, buzz words tell others how you do what you do and not what you do.

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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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The 5 Stages of Sales Management

Openview

Anytime someone moves into a new role, there is an adjustment period to figure out how to be effective. When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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Exclusive Q&A: Neal Schaffer and Rutgers Business School Launch Social Selling Program

Tenfold

When discussing digital transformation, it’s impossible not to discuss social selling and its impact on the sales cycle. Marketing and sales automation tools have made it possible to reach hundreds, if not thousands, of potential buyers instantly. This however has caused a decline in the effectiveness of email and cold calling techniques. As a result, now more than ever, personalized outreaches and pitches have become imperative for a successful sale.

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5 #INBOUND17 Sessions Sales Enablement Leaders Should Attend

BrainShark

. It’s that time of year again. The leaves are beginning to change, there’s a crispness in the air, and sales and marketing professionals around the globe are flocking to Boston for #INBOUND17.