Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2018

We think it’s the company that sells the same as us, Or the paperwork we have to do, Or the meetings we have to run, Or the slackness of our admin team, Or the lack of urgency of our buyers. The real competition is ‘no change’. If we don’t move with times, Predict the future, Be prepared to read and learn, Ask better questions, If instead, we just…” Believe the world is flat, Or smoking won’t kill us, Or mindfulness is for hippies, Or our brains don’t need fuelling, We will become ou

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2018

Top CEOs understand that their role is to provide their company with an executable strategy. Strategy is the allocation of time, money, and people. The best CEOs are masters of where to place bets, invest their time, and divest from.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2018

Author: Adrian DeGus When it comes to starting up a company and building a brand, visuals and an overall visual representation of your brand is very important. How your company is perceived depends a lot upon how it's seen. So when it comes to branding your company, first you need to take the time to think about an image for your company, both in branding and an overall visual that gives potential customers a specific perception of what your company offers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2018

I was on the way to a meeting and the traffic was stop and go - not moving for a minute, then back up to 30 MPH, and then back to a dead stop. I've been driving since 1972 and have driven in all kinds of conditions. Pitch black on a moonless night on a narrow winding road with no street lights; on a 4-lane highway in white-out conditions where you can't see where the sides of the road are, down-hill on black ice with zero control of breaking and steering; snow-covered, two-lane road with cars st

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 18, 2018

As a champion for more women in sales and sales leadership, I could not have been more pleased to see this article written by Microsoft Inside Sales Chief of Staff and Microsoft Women Board Co-Chair Rahki Voria aptly titled Why We Need More Women in Sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 19, 2018

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance For most large resellers or distributors, sales incentive programs for internal sales teams get little attention from top financial executives inside their organizations. That’s probably because they don’t realize a huge opportunity to drive millions of net profit dollars straight to the bottom line, while at the same time underwriting compensation for the sales team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2018

Last week I wrote about the deep freeze, why prospects suddenly go cold , and how you can prevent that from happening. That article was instantly as popular as any I have ever written. I also posted a 6-minute cold-calling rant on LinkedIn that had more than five-thousand views after just a couple of days. The video, like the article, was about mindset, not scripting and tactics.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

One of the key motivational drivers for many salespeople is the desire for advancement and growth. This could involve seeing their territory sales improve, helping a new product through its launch or possibly farming an account for new business. For some, though, it would be seen as real progress if they were to be promoted to a management position.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 15, 2018

Strategy and culture are inextricably intertwined. The saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Strategy is logical, tangible, formal. Culture is more amorphous, evidenced through values, purpose, and shared goals. Leaders rise through the ranks developing their strategic capabilities along.

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Connect2Sell

JANUARY 17, 2018

The preferences of buyers are that we begin to do things a little bit beyond the ordinary. Buyers are fatigued with ordinary sales tactics.

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The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 16, 2018

Love is great and everything, what with it being a many-splendored thing, and conquering all, and making the world go round. And in fact I’ve discussed previously the value of love in your sales efforts. But hate is also a powerful emotion. And it has its place in sales as well. Here are thirteen things [.].

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 17, 2018

Many buyers have told us in the past that the one thing they hate when with salespeople is being sold to. That seems odd, when you think the reason they are there is to sell their products! But what they mean is that they dislike feeling under pressure, the salesperson using sales tricks and tactics, and the false promises that are only used to grab short-term deals.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2018

Joining us for today’s show is Walt Megura, Vice President of Emerging Industry Segments and Channels for Ericcson. Walt is here to share his experience in creating new beachheads in verticals that provide future long-term growth to Ericsson. Matt and.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 19, 2018

The sun will still come up in the morning. I use this line a lot as a way to keep myself focused on the big picture. This week I (along with much of the traveling public in the U.S.) have experienced weather delays that just never seemed to end. What I thought was going to […].

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2018

Whitey Kollmeier, my friend and greatest center of influence, told me a story about Coach Scolinos. In January of 1996 he was a speaker at the American Baseball Coaches Association. His topic: Stay at 17 Inches. He approached the stage with a home plate hanging from his neck.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 19, 2018

I’m a big believer in preparation, so whenever I can, I create a deal plan with my prospect. The deal plan should cover whatever your prospect suggests but will generally encompass the remainder of the sales cycle, how to sell the product internally, and the implementation of the product. Why You Should Create a Deal Plan. Setting up a formal deal plan makes sure you and your prospect -- and anyone else associated with the purchase decision -- are on the same page.

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SBI

JANUARY 16, 2018

With this week’s announcement of a professional league for Esports , it’s time to recognize what great salespeople have known all along. Sales is a sport. Think about it. We love to watch others optimize a process to achieve a goal, whether physical or mental. Just like a sports team, great sales teams are built with an obsessive focus on stats and success metrics.

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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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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 16, 2018

Remember Lake Wobegon, the ficticious community brought to us by Garrison Keillor? It’s the mythical community known for the line, “…where all the children are above average.” That line is used by too many salespeople when it comes to claims about being a top performer. I’m going to pop some bubbles, but it’s time this […].

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 18, 2018

It’s a sales manager’s job to know whether or not a salesperson is going to make quota or not and part of the process is understanding what deals are real and will close, and which won’t. Deal reviews are the critical tool for sales managers to determine the probability of a salesperson is going to be successful or not in making quota.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2018

Many salespeople believe they won’t sound good if they read from a sales script. While I agree you should never read from a script when selling , a sales script can greatly improve your results by preparing you with the best questions and lines to say and ask. First, let’s walk through the sales script creation process. You can follow this framework to craft your pitching strategy -- then simply plug in your unique value props into the template.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 15, 2018

Have you ever wondered why some people excel in sales, while others don’t? Have you ever questioned – if most other things are equal, like if you all have access to the same leads, the same sales training, the same number of hours in the day, etc. – why are there always top producers who hit or exceed their goals, while the rest of the team members struggle to varying degrees?

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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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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 14, 2018

We are a few weeks into the new year, so there is no better time than now to go after your big opportunities. That’s right! Be ambitious and go after your bigger deals, rather than waiting til mid-year to start going after these. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach […].

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Membrain

JANUARY 14, 2018

The Challenger Sale is essential reading for anyone in complex B2B selling and many enterprise sales organizations are embracing the concepts.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 18, 2018

Sales forecasting is a necessary -- but sometimes painful -- part of preparing for the upcoming fiscal year and managing sales goals along the way. Since leaders can’t use a crystal ball to predict the future, they are left analyzing quantitative, and sometimes qualitative, data to anticipate future sales. This sales forecasting process becomes problematic when sales teams and executives confuse “optimistic goals” and “accurate forecasting.”.

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Xvoyant

JANUARY 16, 2018

Tom Brady is arguably the best quarterback to ever play in the NFL. He wasn’t a first round draft pick and he wasn’t highly recruited coming out of High School. Most of his college experience came as a backup at Michigan. Brady was taken as the 7 th quarterback taken in the NFL draft as the 199 th player taken overall after having a famously unimpressive NFL combine.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 16, 2018

In case you haven’t noticed, online courses are coming on strong across the internet. If you want to learn about a topic for the first time, become an expert on a topic that you are already involved in, or have ideas and techniques that you want to teach to others, this is the golden age. […]. The post 6 Reasons to Put Your Training Course Online appeared first on Fill the Funnel.

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SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

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 Matt Benati , Founder & CEO of LeadGnome. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Matt: LeadGnome’s reply email mining service gives Sales a competitive advantage by identifying actionable intelligence that presents an opportunity to connect with the

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2018

What is agile sales? Agile sales takes project management strategies from the IT world -- such as sprints, daily stand-ups, and constant iteration -- and applies them to selling. This methodology helps sales teams be more flexible, data-driven, and effective. Why should you care about agile? There are three changes in the sales world that should make you sit up and pay attention.

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