Sat.Oct 21, 2017 - Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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What’s My Future In Sales?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. There is a lot of discussion around the role of technology in sales, advances in AI (you decide what the A stands for), and its impact on the role of and future of sales people. There is no doubt that technology will continue to change the process of revenue generation, maintenance and growth, but that’s nothing new.

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Go After the Right Accounts to Make Your Number

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Matt Slonaker, the Executive Vice President Business Development and Marketing for Chronos Solutions. Matt is an executive leader with extensive experience in turnarounds and knows how to generate revenue growth with the unique blend.

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What Should You Say When Asking For Referrals?

MTD Sales Training

I have seen and heard tons of techniques and tricks on how to ask for referrals from your customers. But I have to tell you that most of those so-called golden nuggets are actually outdated, old-school pitch-mentality approaches to working with updated, modern and sophisticated consumers. I am going to make this short and sweet, because asking for referrals from your clients should be a natural and comfortable act and not some slick technique.

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Distraction Engagement and Selling Efficiency

Understanding the Sales Force

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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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Time To Get Around To It

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Michael Jordan was quoted that the only thing that changes is our focus on the fundamentals , a great lesson for those who tend to be distracted by shinny objects promising “easier” way of achieving or exceeding quota, or, to avoid doing things we don’t like. One of the core fundamentals for successful selling is how we view and utilize time, right down to the minute.

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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

Pointclear

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive. I mean, I grew up at a time when Paul McCartney was supposedly dead (he, thankfully, lives on).

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This Is Not Your Father’s Marketing Plan, and That’s Good

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, famously promoted the fish sauce he was known for (so beloved across the Mediterranean that even people in France knew his name) with descriptions he knew would appeal to well-heeled consumers; mackerel as the “flo

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Measuring the Success of Sales Compensation Plans

SBI Growth

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When Should I Discount to Close a Deal?

The Sales Hunter

Let’s face it — there’s not one salesperson who has not struggled with this issue. You’re thinking, “If I just discount the price, I will be able to close the deal.” Does this hit home with you? I suspect it does, as it’s one of the most common issues thrown at me when I’m speaking […].

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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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7 “Innocent” Habits Of Failing Sales Directors

MTD Sales Training

Sales Directors and Sales Managers rarely get to their positions simply through loyalty or length of time served. They’ve most likely been in the sales world themselves and been an excellent sales person. But this doesn’t mean they will necessarily make it as a manager or director of business. Indeed, there are many people who direct or manage sales , and they are simply in the wrong position.

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3 Steps to Effectively Move Beyond ‘Sales Coaching’

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rick Cheatham Most leaders believe that strong salespeople are born sellers. They’re natural extroverts, they can easily create relationships with complete strangers, and they can quickly adapt to potential customers’ needs and personalities. But even if the strongest sellers are born sellers, leaders who help salespeople remain confident, learn from their customer experiences, and rise to challenges only enhance their sales teams’ overall performance.

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How to Earn Brand Preference with Your Content Marketing

SBI Growth

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Sales Motivation Video: End-of-the-Year Sales Strategies

The Sales Hunter

It’s 4th quarter, which means you need to be extra diligent in spending your time wisely. Who are you spending time with? Make sure you are focusing on the prospects and customers who have the greatest likelihood to pay out this year. Now is the time to keep your foot on the accelerator and not […].

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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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What Great Key Account Managers Do Daily

MTD Sales Training

Key Account Managers (KAM) are the lifeblood of any organisation wanting to grow and develop their network and a loyal client base. Excellence in the role often comes from natural characteristics, but is also forged through building skills that are shown on a daily basis. These then become habits, and it’s this habitual alignment of skills, attitudes and motives that increases the successful results of any KAM.

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What’s the Opposite of a Good Idea?

The Sales Heretic

If your instinctive response to this question is “A bad idea,” then you’re missing out on opportunities to boost your sales. Because we don’t live in a binary, good/bad, either/or world. We live in an incredibly rich, diverse, complex world filled with unlimited possibilities. And while the opposite of up may be down and the [.].

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Are You Ready for the Annual Sales Planning Process?

SBI Growth

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The 4 Types of Business Etiquette

Hubspot Sales

The first time I went to dinner with a business partner, I was terrified. What if I accidentally brought up a sensitive subject or committed a faux pas? What if it was hard to eat my meal gracefully? What if I made too much eye contact -- or equally bad, too little? Fortunately, the dinner went well. Now that I attended several professional dinners per year, I stay up-to-date with the types of business etiquette and professional norms.

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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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The Power of Marketing and Sales Intelligence

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales intelligence. Lead lists. Not sure what the difference is? You’re in the right place. For many years, sales and marketing teams turned to list providers for prospecting and lead generation. Plagued by incorrect, incomplete, and outdated information, these purchased lists typically led to a lot of time wasted calling bad phone numbers and prospecting to invalid contacts.

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Seriously slammed? Some ideas to help you out.

Jill Konrath

I'm not typically an eavesdropper. Normally I mind my own business when I'm out to eat. But Friday morning, while having a veggie omelet for breakfast at George's Restaurant, my ears suddenly perked up when the guy at the table next to me said, "I'm seriously slammed.".

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The Blueprint For an Effective Annual Strategic Plan

SBI Growth

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Qualification

Hubspot Sales

One of the most important conversations salespeople have with their prospects is the discovery call. Here lies the proverbial fork in the road for you and your prospect. Either they’re a good fit for your product or service and you can move forward with the relationship, or it’s time to part ways. But it’s not always immediately obvious which path to take.

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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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The Most Important Sales Metrics You’re Not Tracking @DeidreWM

SBI

The Sales analytics category has exploded in recent years, both in number and diversity. A recent industry round-up listed 50+ providers, and the list continues to grow. Metrics are the bedrock of any sales function (in fact, one could argue that no enterprise function is tracked, measured and analyzed more than sales!). But not all data is created equal.

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The “Why” of What You Do Each Day

The Sales Hunter

I’ve written before about the need to know why you sell. In my own life, my sales performance changed dramatically when I realized why I was in sales, and that was to help others see and achieve what they didn’t think was possible. Take a moment and let the last sentence sink in, and ask […].

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6 Tests to Prevent 2018’s Sales Compensation Plan from Being a Flop

SBI Growth

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4 Ways to Improve Your Talk Track Immediately

Hubspot Sales

Every salesperson has a go-to spiel for when someone asks who you are and what you do. You might call it a talk track, elevator pitch, or script -- but you’ve got one. Many salespeople launch into a 30-second diatribe on what their company does, why it’s important, and why they’d love to tell you more. Don’t be that rep. Inevitably, they’ll start rambling.

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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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Just Out! Our Top 20 Sales Tech Vendors to Follow at Dreamforce #DF17

SBI

Dreamforce 2017 is just around the corner. Nov.6-9 in gorgeous San Francisco. I’ve got my ticket [the event SOLD OUT weeks ago] and soon will be packing my bags with flat-heeled shoes and comfy clothes. There are over 3,000 sessions scheduled—936 if you filter by role for sales operations or sales professional, and 179 if you filter by Marketing /ABM as a role.

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Lessons from the NFL on How to Close More Business

Mr. Inside Sales

Ahhhhh…. The NFL football season is underway. We are a few weeks in, and there is still hope for all teams! Players and coaches are watching game and practice film to find ways to help players get better. I read a piece by Peter King from SI.com about his conversation with Ellis Hobbs – former cornerback with the New England Patriots. He was talking about how much respect he had for head coach Bill Belichick.

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How to Double Your Organic Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us as our guest expert 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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