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Start Here to Create a Strong Marketing Operations Plan for 2018

SBI Growth

Marketing 288
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5 Ways Sales Managers Can Improve Their Leadership & Culture At Work

MTD Sales Training

Last week, the CMI and Glassdoor published their research findings on management trends in their paper ‘Leadership and Culture at Work.’. It’s always interesting to see how companies are adapting to the wildly-changing world of business, and it’s studies like these that help us as sales managers and sales directors to understand how we need to shape up for future business opportunities.

Hiring 268
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How Companies Routinely Short Change Their Own Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force

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3 Ways Customer Data Can Increase Workplace Efficiency

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Judi Hand Contact center employees have one aim: using the information at their disposal to solve a customer’s problem. Companies provide these workers with data, contact history, service history, and so on to help them answer whatever questions the customer asks. But companies focus so much on the relationship between customers and data that they often ignore how smart data practices affect employees.

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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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Do You Have the Right Number of Reps?

SBI Growth

Quota 275

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Increase Your Odds of a Successful Sales Hire by 368%

Understanding the Sales Force

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The Art of Failure

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Cate Gutowski Failure is something we don’t talk about enough in business. In fact, it’s practically a four-letter word. In the industrial world, we’re trained that failure equals incompetence, which equals…out of a job. Yet, Silicon Valley startups teach us that failure is cool. Some even wear it as a badge of honor. In the software world, failure equals cool, which equals job security.

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4 ways Sales Management can take ‘A’ players to ‘A+’ players

SBI Growth

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You Don’t Have To Answer

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. It seems many in sales feel the best way to show how smart they are, is to have all the answers at the ready, and feel compelled to bark an answer as soon as the prospect asks, sometimes even before. I would suggest that even when you know the answer, no element of doubt, offering it up like a candy dispenser, will not lead to the prospect thinking you are smart by virtue of knowing answer, and certainly does not guarantee the deal.

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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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An Agile Process for Sales Development

DiscoverOrg Sales

The post An Agile Process for Sales Development appeared first on DiscoverOrg.

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5 tips for a successful sales kickoff meeting

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Staff There seems to be no end to the workshops, webinars and blog posts on how managers can better understand millennials in order to effectively recruit and retain this emerging workplace demographic. Tom Coburn, the founder and CEO of Jebbit, a digital marketing platform, offered these management tips for millennials in a recent guest post at Entrepreneur.com.

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How the Best Sales Leaders Make the Number

SBI Growth

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Selling in a Digitally-Transformed World

Jill Konrath

One person who always gets me thinking is Donal Daly. Last week I interviewed him about his new book, Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World.

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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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Why You Should Turn Down Every Sales Person You Interview

MTD Sales Training

Have you ever interviewed someone who comes across as having all the skills you need to be successful for your company? Did their CV have all the qualities you want? Were the answers they gave to your questions good enough to give you confidence in their abilities? So, you employed them and they started with a flourish, building their knowledge of your products and services and getting some sales.

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5 Ways to Make Your Tradeshow Content Rock

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Chris Wirthwein Ah, the tradeshow. If you’re a B2B marketer like me, it’s probably as close as we’ll ever get to putting on a rock ’n’ roll tour, as we wheel our display cases into the venue and prepare to meet what we hope will be an enthusiastic crowd. (“We love you Cleveland!”) But even the most exciting tours can become a real grind. Planning revolves almost entirely around logistics: Where will our booth be?

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Improve the Productivity Rates of Your Sales Team

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Steve Bonvissuto, the Executive Director for Innovation at MarketSource. Steve answers questions out of SBI’s 2018 hbspt.cta.load(23541, '74afaaa6-ba2a-4936-a1ed-8fe80db57c38', {}); to share his deep knowledge of strategic sales systems. To follow along flip to.

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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

Pointclear

There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine. Failure to execute and coordinate all of the moving parts leads to poor results.

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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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Sales Motivation Video: Eye Contact Matters (Even on the Phone!)

The Sales Hunter

Your eye contact matters! Even if you are on the phone, you need to make sure you aren’t distracted by your computer or things in your office. Stay focused on your customer! Have your customer’s name and company name in front of you. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach […].

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6 Ways to Bring Stalled Deals Back From the Dead

Hubspot Sales

When a deal stalls, it’s tempting for the salesperson to unknowingly put themselves first. We’ve all been guilty of it at one time or another. You might repeat the close, not-so-subtly threaten the prospect with an expiring discount, or roll several asks into one conversation. These tactics are a surefire way to turn stalled deals into cold ones. Below, I’ve outlined six strategies for moving stalled deals forward.

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How to Operationalize Account-Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

If prospects don’t fit your Ideal Customer Profile, they shouldn’t become leads. You already know this. But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. If you’re having trouble converting leads – or getting leads at all – here’s your simple, three-step process to keep your eye on the ball.

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Enable Your Sellers to Enable Your Buyers @petermollins

SBI

Your prospects want to succeed as much as you do. And they want to boost their companies — and hopefully their own careers — in the process. So, if your offer will help them succeed, why wouldn’t they call you back immediately and sign now? If something’s good for you, surely you should want it! Your prospect has a tough job. She must convince her organization and relevant stakeholders (the proverbial average of 5.5 internal stakeholders ) that change is a good thing.

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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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Can I Fire a Customer?

The Sales Hunter

Yes, you can fire a customer and you need to fire more than just one! The end of the year is a perfect time to be honest with yourself and your business. How much time do you spend on customers that are doing nothing but taking time away from you that would be better spent […].

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How to Set the Right Quotas to Drive Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is John Young, the Senior Vice President of Global Sales for NetFortris. John has a proven record of accomplishment of increasing profitable recurring revenues faster than his industry and his competitors in a crowded SaaS.

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Vote for Kimmy Netterville, an inspired sales lead management leader

Pointclear

PointClear’s Kimmy Netterville has been nominated as one of the 40 Most Inspired Leaders in Sales Lead Management. The Sales Lead Management Association announced today that nominations are now closed, and voting is open until Dec. 6, 2017. The list of winners will be posted on Dec. 15, 2017. Many of PointClear’s clients over the past 11 years have directly benefitted from Kimmy’s abilities managing B2B lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing programs.

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“Can You Email That to Me?”

Mr. Inside Sales

What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days? “Can you email that to me?” If you think about it, that’s the perfect stall. They aren’t saying no, and it implies that you will need to talk to them later… Unfortunately, later becomes never as chasing down busy professionals – especially people who now don’t want to be followed up with – becomes nearly impossible.

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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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Your Customers Are Watching You — 24/7 Leadership

The Sales Hunter

Recently I attended a conference where suppliers and customers were both in attendance. Following up after the conference with several of the customers, I was shocked at what they had to say about several suppliers who were there. Their comments were negative and strong and ended with how they would never look to work with […].

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Fishing for Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

I’m sure majority of people have heard the Chinese proverb “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” This, of course, means it’s more worthwhile to teach someone to do something (for themselves) than to do it for them (on an ongoing basis).

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The Greatest Sales Pitch I’ve Seen All Year. It’s Drift’s and it’s brilliant. Here’s why.

Openview

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Medium here. A few weeks ago, I met a CMO named Yvette in the office kitchen at OpenView. She was chewing on a bagel during a lunch break from the VC firm’s all-day speaker event, and she was clearly upset. “How in the world,” Yvette said, reaching for the cream cheese, “am I going to inform my team that our entire approach to marketing is wrong?”.