Sat.May 16, 2020 - Fri.May 22, 2020

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4 Ways Inside Sales Can Enhance Customer Experience

SBI Growth

Whether you are about to go on a first date or preparing for a discovery call with a prospect – first impressions matter. Regardless if it is from their initial website visit to their first discovery call, the prospects’ experience.

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The Formula For a Winning Sales Stack

InsightSquared

The modern sales stack has become a tangled mess. Every year, organizations add more tools to their stack in hopes of them improving their efficiency and effectiveness. Cost and complexity have continued to increase, but most organizations still find themselves lacking. In fact, almost half of B2B companies are experiencing difficulty with productivity and performance, according to The Bridge Group.

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The Only Sales Prospecting Email Template You’ll EVER Need (SP30)

Sales Hacker

Looking for a prospecting email template you can easily personalize and that works for almost any situation? Keep reading to learn the simple, one-size-fits-all template that my team uses with huge success. In other words, it’s been proven in the trenches. That’s key, because as you and I both know, if you’re sending a prospecting email to just one prospect, you might be able to write an email so personal that the recipient may mistake you for a childhood friend.

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Sales lessons from a virus

Sales 2.0

Urban crowds of people from above. This is entirely 3D generated image. If you didn’t believe that we humans are connected before COVID-19, you should now. As you know, the virus has been transmitting itself exponentially through populations around the world. The only thing that has slowed its progress has been implementing some form of social distancing.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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32 Benefits of Joining a Mastermind Group

The Sales Heretic

Whether you’re a business owner, CEO, salesperson, or executive, if you want to accelerate your success, one of the best actions you can take is to join a mastermind group. What exactly is a mastermind group? It’s a group of people—typically between four and twelve—who meet regularly to help each other achieve their goals. They [.].

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5 Ways to Stay Connected While Working Remotely

The Center for Sales Strategy

Telecommuting, flexible work environments—both fancier terms for working remotely —is the new normal for many of us. By now, you’ve gotten a taste for what working from home entails. And whether you choose to admit it or not, some of you have decided that remote work isn’t as great as it sounded just a few weeks ago. At first, working quietly in your pajamas seemed enticing—even productive—then the silence set in, and you missed all the chaos.

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Now Is the Time for CEOs to Strengthen the 3-Year Plan, Not Abandon It

SBI Growth

We are living through a truly unique point in time. The impact of COVID-19 over a short two month period has thrown the global economy into complete peril and created unparalleled uncertainty and ambiguity. The core questions out of every.

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6 Tips for Connecting In the Current Environment

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Christian Bielski COVID-19 has disrupted standard business practices in countless ways. For those fortunate enough and able to work remotely, adjusting brings its own challenges. From coordinating schedules with loved ones to arranging child care, pet care and the ever-important self-care, “business as usual” has radically changed. The challenges of quarantine deepen in sales, where lead-generation from cold calls and emails is essential.

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Stay In Your Lane With These THREE Sales Leader’s Responsibilities

Sales Manager Now

When a sales team is failing or results are inconsistent it’s easy for a sales leader’s responsibilities to be neglected and for the leader to fall into a trap of becoming responsible for the sales team. Another way to look at this situation is to become… The post Stay In Your Lane With These THREE Sales Leader’s Responsibilities appeared first on Sales Manager Now.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Definitive Playbook to Lead a Sales Force Out of the Current Crisis

Understanding the Sales Force

You might be aware that I'm leading a one-hour, live broadcast tomorrow (Thursday May 21) on How to Get Your Company's Sales Engine Roaring Again.

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This Is What Your Referral Program Is Missing

No More Cold Calling

Do you know your referral gap quotient? Steve had a referral program. (Or so he thought.) He proudly told me that 30 percent of his company’s business came from referrals. “How did that happen?” I asked. He explained that whenever clients moved to a new company, they always brought his team in. “Terrific,” I said. “What about your account executives?

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How a CRO Is Leading a Global Team of Thousands into a New Digital Era

SBI Growth

As many sales leaders began to adjust to this new world in March, global companies had been acclimating since January. However, the challenges of maintaining business continuity across regional markets also provided the chance to accelerate a very crucial digital.

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Stalls During Covid-19—How to Handle Them

Mr. Inside Sales

“We’re just not doing anything right now….”. “We’re ‘on hold’ until things settle down.”. “We’re not spending any money right now.”. These are common stalls that you get all the time, but now it seems harder to overcome them. Why is that? It’s because salespeople are now buying into them. And why not? It makes sense, doesn’t it? People are losing their jobs, working from home, business is down….

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #10 ? David Priemer

The Pipeline

Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #10 – Guest David Priemer. My guest this week on the Sales Scrum podcast is David Priemer. You all know David from his published material in Harvard Business Review as well as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazines, and more. He is a widely recognized thought leader in sales and sales leadership. As a trained researcher and founder of Cerebral Selling.

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8 Ways to Use BASHO Emails in Cold Email Outreach – With Examples

Zoominfo

BASHO emails are alive and well—and thriving. They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. But to crush cold email outreach, you have to do it right. We looked to one of our internal experts, our Sales Development Rep with the 60% response rate, to show you how (and when) to write a perfectly personalized BASHO email.

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Attracting and Retaining A-Players in Today?s Market Conditions

SBI Growth

A few months ago I wrote about unemployment which was then at an all-time low—how things have changed. A-Player sales reps, who are precious assets in any economic climate, are currently unsettled regardless of their reputations and legacies. The world.

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Firing Up the Revenue Engine Post-Crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Steven Kellam We’re currently in the midst of one of the worst health and economic crisis this country and world has ever seen. That’s the bad news. Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Some are further along than others, but all can agree that this has been an unprecedented test on how even the most well-prepared companies can cope with a catastrophe. .

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Podcast 148: When Prospects Say ?I Need To Think? With Devin Reed

John Barrows

Have you ever had prospects say “I need to think”? Chances are, you’ve heard this a lot. Devin Reed is the man behind all of the content and data experiments you see coming from Gong.io , and he’s with us on this episode of the podcast to expose the latest surprising data he’s uncovered. Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes.

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Old Coding Language Entrenched in 100+ Government Systems

Zoominfo

This is a preview of a post published on our Medium page. Read the full article. A scoffed programming language is indirectly preventing some Americans from receiving unemployment or pandemic-related stimulus checks — and based on ZoomInfo’s data, the problem is deeply entrenched in state and federal agencies. The antagonist? A business software called Common Business-Oriented Language, better known by its acronym, COBOL.

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Revising Your GTM Structure During the Shift to Cloud

SBI Growth

IDC predicted that “By 2020, 70% of enterprises will integrate cloud management—across their public and private clouds—by deploying unified hybrid/multi-cloud management technologies, tools, and processes.” CEO’s riding the cloud computing wave will have to be mindful of a consumption-based model.

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Moving Your Work to Your Home: The Complete Checklist

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff Are you one of the many people who have begun the process of moving their work to their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Naturally, this doesn’t have to be the only reason you’d want to be setting up an office of your own at home. Perhaps you’re looking to start your own freelance career or set up a business that’s small enough (for now) to be run out of your home.

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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Staying Focused During These Times

Engage Selling

What are you doing to stay focused during these times? Right now, it can be easy to give into the negativity of everything going on.

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Privacy Experience: When and Why We Give Up Our Data

Zoominfo

With whom would you willingly share sensitive personal information, such as your bank account number? Would you provide it to a mortgage company if you needed a house loan? Probably. How about for a one-on-one payment app on your phone? Maybe, depending on how badly you want to make cashless transactions between friends. What about a company selling magazine subscriptions?

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Six common account planning challenges that you need a solution for

Membrain

There is a direct correlation between effective account growth planning and sales success. In times like these, it’s of extreme importance to stay on top of your clients and help them get out on top of this crisis. Unfortunately, effective account planning isn't always easy and comes with challenges.

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Acting On Purpose

Partners in Excellence

“Purpose” is a foundational principle for success, yet we pay little attention to it. In times of crisis, purpose and purposefulness is how we navigate risk and uncertainty. Our purpose provides grounding, something that, when challenged, we come back to in trying to figure our path forward. Using Simon Sinek’s popular terminology, our purpose provides us our “Why?

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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7 Common Virtual Networking Mistakes to Avoid

Hubspot Sales

Whether you are settling into your first entry-level role or are a seasoned professional, you don’t need me to tell you building a strong network is essential for your career — chances are you’ve already been positively impacted by a professional relationship in some way. Beyond having a strong professional network to rely on for mentorship or to help you land your next opportunity, connections with others are essential for our overall health and well-being.

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Women are on the Front-Lines of the Pandemic. What Does this Mean for Their Careers?

Zoominfo

We’re trying to keep our heads above water. We’re trying to fight for everyone else’s life, but we also fight for our lives as well. Dr. Arabia Mollette, an emergency medicine physician. This is a preview of a post published on our Medium page. Read the full article. The global COVID-19 crisis directly affects more women than men in some of the most heavily impacted industries.

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Projecting a Professional Image Online: Your Virtual Meeting Prep List

RAIN Group

There’s a lot to think about when it comes to selling virtually. Projecting a professional image in your virtual meetings is an important (and often overlooked) factor to consider. Here we provide guidelines and tips specifically focused on projecting a professional image in your virtual sales meetings grouped in the following five categories: Video.

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