Connect2Sell
JANUARY 29, 2020
In last week’s CONNECT2Sell blog post, we laid out the case for developing soft skills. We examined how soft skills, in balance with technical/functional hard skills for selling, will improve sales performance. Our high-level overview listed three broad categories of soft skills that sellers need to focus on: critical thinking, communication, and emotional intelligence.
Mr. Inside Sales
JANUARY 31, 2020
If I asked you what the most important qualifying question was, what would you (or your team) say? Budget? Decision making process? Buying motives? Needs or pain points? These are all important, of course, but they aren’t what—in my mind—is most important of all. And that is: Timeline for making a decision to move forward. The reason timeline is the most important is that it encompasses all of the above.
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The Pipeline
JANUARY 28, 2020
By Tibor Shanto. When we were young, we accepted things we were told but knew not to be true. We also understand that ignoring some of the facts can add to the discussion. The example here is the old saying about sticks and stones and words and the ability of these to hurt. We all know that words can hurt, and over time, do much more damage than sticks or stones.
The Center for Sales Strategy
JANUARY 27, 2020
What we say and how we say it matters. The language used with prospects impacts your capability to excite and encourage them about the deal at hand. Certain words prompt predictable behavior, and every word or phrase you choose to use will generate an emotional response. Sales leaders who understand the psychology of communication and language learn to upgrade their vocabulary quickly.
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MTD Sales Training
JANUARY 28, 2020
You will no doubt have been in the position where you’ve been discussing purchase opportunities with your prospect and the subject of your competitors comes up. Whether it’s the price you are charging or their needs to get different quotes, or many other reasons, it can be quite deflating when the competition is brought up in the sales meeting. Should you try to by-pass the issue?
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The Sales Heretic
JANUARY 28, 2020
If you’re a regular reader of this blog (and if you’re not, you can be—just click one of the “Subscribe” links to the right, wink, wink, nudge, nudge), you know that I’m a big fan of asking questions. When I conduct sales training seminars, I typically give audiences 20 to 40 questions to ask their [.].
SBI Growth
JANUARY 30, 2020
Remember when a cloud was only a fluffy thing in the sky? It was only 20 years ago that Salesforce introduced the revolutionary idea to help companies use cloud-based applications for customer relations management. The applications would be run over.
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 27, 2020
Author: William Putsis Sometimes, as customers, we see things that the company delivering the product or service doesn’t see. While some companies spend countless hours devising business plans that encourage new customers to buy, join or stay, others manage to devise schemes that leave customers with little or no choice but to move to competitive offerings.
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 28, 2020
The sales management activities that we perform today create the results that we achieve today. What activities are you doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results? How can you change them?
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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.
Zoominfo
JANUARY 30, 2020
If you’re looking to grow your business, publishing high-quality marketing content is a must. But as the online marketplace becomes louder with each passing year, it becomes more difficult to stand out. How do you create content that consistently boosts your rankings, drives traffic, and generates leads? And what exactly constitutes knock-out content that’s guaranteed […].
SBI Growth
JANUARY 28, 2020
We have launched and transformed several Customer Success teams. Typically, for new teams, the focus should be on onboarding, value messaging, and renewals. To effectively execute on this, we develop the talent profiles, build playbooks for the team, and design.
Membrain
JANUARY 29, 2020
“I like the sound of your solution, but I’ve already spent a lot of money with this vendor, so we’re going to keep trying to make it work.” “You seem to have built an impressive solution, but we really put a lot into our in-house solution, and even though it’s not working right now, we like it, so we’re going to keep building on it.”.
Nutshell
JANUARY 30, 2020
Although typically perceived as software for salespeople, CRMs are the secret sauce behind most successful marketing initiatives. A CRM is an integral piece of software for marketers and salespeople. Powerful and versatile, CRMs are used to manage every aspect of the sales pipeline , from signing up newsletter subscribers to nurturing longtime customers, and literally everything in between.
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Zoominfo
JANUARY 27, 2020
January 28 marks a very special holiday: Data Privacy Day. If this is one of those holidays that has slipped under your radar, 2020 is the year to correct that mistake — so allow us to give you a little background. Spearheaded by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Data Privacy Day serves the purpose […].
SBI Growth
JANUARY 27, 2020
As the U.S. responded to the last recession of 2007-2008, a recurring theme became the quote made famous by Winston Churchill, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This was to describe the mindset of the top businesspersons during.
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 30, 2020
Author: Staff Benchmark, a global hospitality management company, pinpointed five trends that will transform meetings in 2020. “We’ve seen this coming, but in 2020 millennials have become the dominant force in meetings,” said Ted Davis, Benchmark’s chief sales and marketing officer. “Their impact is being felt by planners and venues alike. This is having a transformative influence on how we approach the group meeting experience in 2020 and beyond.”.
No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 29, 2020
If I can do it, you can do it. “You won’t get to second unless you take your foot off first.” That’s a saying in American baseball. The bases are 90 feet apart, and unless you’re standing on one of them, you can be tagged out. Successful players must get out of their comfort zones and risk being tagged out in order to win the game. I’m not looking forward to stepping out of my sales comfort zone this year, but I must.
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.
Shari Levitin
JANUARY 30, 2020
We’ve all heard it, “It’s not in our budget;” “The timing isn’t right;” “We’re looking at many different options;” “I’ll run it by the board;” “It’s not a priority right now;” “My brother’s in the business…” Sometimes customer excuses and objections seem endless. I know this first-hand.
Membrain
JANUARY 26, 2020
Have you spent money on sales training without seeing rewards? Are its promises of increased revenue and the vision of stress-free management evaporating? Well, you are not alone.
Salesmate
JANUARY 28, 2020
Back in the days, students and knowledge-seekers used to choose a guru. One man that can teach everything from skills to the meaning of life. Now the time has changed, and one guru is not enough! You have to suck every drop of knowledge from industry leaders to be in the legend league. Especially in sales, you need to know everything best and worst of the industry, from news to new sales techniques.
Engage Selling
JANUARY 29, 2020
It’s a friction point that holds you back from achieving sales success: buyer objections. If left unchecked, those objections will stop you dead in your tracks from being able to present a compelling proposal to your prospective customer.
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!
SBI
JANUARY 28, 2020
6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. This focus is understandable as the definition of Sales Enablement might lead people in this direction. “ Sales enablement is the strategy and processes for helping sales teams efficiently move customers through the sales process to the point where the customer can make a buying decision with a highe
RAIN Group
JANUARY 29, 2020
Win-win negotiation is the way to go…except in one situation: when the buyer has their hand in your pocket. Whether they're doing it intentionally or just out of habit, sometimes buyers try to push down seller prices just to see if they can. When they do, you should counter with value , but you also have to signal as you respond, "That won't work. I know what I'm doing.
Anthony Iannarino
JANUARY 26, 2020
In the foreword to the book, Ender’s Game , Orson Scott Card writes about finding the concept for the book in a three-volume set on the United States Civil War, titled, The Army of the Potomac by Bruce Catton. The insight Card gained from reading these books was that President Lincoln had four generals, three of whom failed him because they lacked the will to be aggressive and win the war.
Nutshell
JANUARY 31, 2020
Every day, thousands of businesses use Nutshell to organize their customer conversations and sell smarter. Given how important email is to B2B sales, Nutshell has always made sending and tracking sales emails a focus of our product, from our automated personal email sequences to our sneaky powerful Gmail and Outlook extensions. Until recently, Nutshell customers had only one option for integrating their email marketing efforts with their CRM: our award-winning Mailchimp integration.
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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
Salesmate
JANUARY 31, 2020
Type ‘business reviewing sites’ on Google’s search and it will give you many results such as G2 Crowd, SiteJabber, Capterra, Yelp, HundredX, Manta, Zomato, TripAdvisor. Oh, there are seriously too many reviewing sites for anything and everything on the internet. Besides these sites, how can we forget the popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, where hundreds of customers post their positive and negative feedback.
Drift
JANUARY 29, 2020
Let’s face it. Buyers no longer rely on salespeople to get information about a product or service. They don’t care about their lead score or what your sales team’s process looks like. And they don’t want another generic sales pitch. Because they have all the power. And can go online or talk to their peers to find all the information they need. To put it bluntly, today’s buyers don’t want to be.
Anthony Iannarino
JANUARY 27, 2020
There is work you need to do now that you are not doing. You are avoiding this work because it isn’t the work you want to do. You procrastinate and busy yourself with the tasks and distractions you prefer, leaving the unpleasant but necessary work undone, lessening your results. Motivation and inspiration are fleeting. Discipline is enduring, persistent.
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