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Why Your Sales Training Plan Might Be Irrelevant

BrainShark

Sales training can feel more like trial-by-fire than a helpful introduction to a new company – and that won’t cut it for today’s busy reps.

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Creating a Company Culture that Your Employees Will Buy Into

The Center for Sales Strategy

Over the last few years, company culture has been a hot topic in corporate America. Companies geared towards Millennials tout game rooms and espresso machines, and most companies are having serious discussions about how to create the right atmosphere. Ask any manager trying to recruit talent, and they will tell you that culture matters. A few bad reviews on an employment website, and talent will look right past your company for one with a “great culture.

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Mapping The Sales Process: 6 Steps For Success

InsideSales.com

Doing sales mapping can be fast and easy with these six sales process steps. Keep reading to find out more. RELATED: 7 Most Common Mistakes In Sales Process Mapping And How To Avoid Them In this article: A Business Needs to Have a Sales Process Map What Is a Sales Process? Sales Process vs Sales […]. The post Mapping The Sales Process: 6 Steps For Success appeared first on The Sales Insider.

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The Fear Of Missing Out

The Pipeline

No matter how hard we work to cover it up or deny it, as humans, we are very much driven by our “primal brain.” Sellers already buy into this when they agree that “people buy on emotion, ( primal brain ), then rationalize it, ( logical brain ).” No emotion is more powerful than fear; one of our greatest fears is the fear of missing out. This same cause/effect reaction presents itself in other human interactions, where sellers can leverage these triggers and the buyer behaviour they lead to.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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New Quarter and New Goals

Score More Sales

At the start of another new quarter, there are always those hopes and dreams for a big outcome in a few short months.

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Fishing for Sales Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

Sales and marketing go hand-in-hand. Without leads, salespeople will have a hard time selling. Without marketing, salespeople will have a difficult time sharing their product and features with prospective clients.

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Without Fundamentals, You’ve Got Nothing (June Referral Selling Insights)

No More Cold Calling

Why it’s important to train from the trenches. “From now on, I am going to make it a fixed rule that no unit, from the time it reaches this theater until the war is won, will ever stop training.”. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces. I’ve just returned from a trip to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the Allied Landing to ensure freedom for Europe and the world.

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Tips & Ideas to Get Better Prospects

The Sales Hunter

Prospecting does not have to be painful nor does it have to be as hard as you think. The first rule is to make every conversation one where you earn the right, privilege, honor and respect to meet with that person again. Sales and prospecting is not a slimy or ugly activity like some people describe it. I count prospecting and sales as an honor. When you prospect with integrity, you’ll gain customers who have integrity.

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3 Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives

Zoominfo

Creativity is a difficult concept to put into words. So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. But, we didn’t want to leave it at that. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. So if you’re ready for some inspiration, keep reading.

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Streamlining Complex Sales Processes: The Ultimate Guide for Industrial Companies

Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.

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How To Educate Your Buyer With New Perspectives

MTD Sales Training

We often encounter prospects who are comfortable. By that, I mean they are happy with their current situation and don’t want, or need, to change their perspective. In these situations, salespeople often find it difficult to progress the conversation. They see the obstacle of ‘the comfort zone’ as being a major obstacle in working with the potential buyer.

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4 hacks for managing differently

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tom Houlihan There are more ways to deliver value and results than relying on the same old approaches to the same old problems. By looking at problems differently and through different lenses, new solutions get revealed. This was highlighted in the work of Paul DePodesta, the real-life brains in the Oakland Athletics story dramatized by Michael Lewis’ in the best-seller “Moneyball.

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Promoted! Leadership Training for Sales Managers

Connect2Sell

You already know that your actions significantly impact sales performance. As a sales manager, there’s a cause-and-effec t for nearly every thing you do. The problem is that you may not know how the pieces fit together. You probably have more questions that answers: Which sales manager actions trigger which seller reactions? What are the manager behaviors that produce stronger sales?

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50+ Statistics About LGBTQ+ Representation in Advertising

Zoominfo

In a recent blog post, A Corporate Guide to Pride— Companies Who’ve Gotten it Right (And Wrong) , we briefly touched on the importance of LGBTQ+ representation in advertising. In that article, we state the following, “A critical step toward a more inclusive work environment and equal rights for LGBTQ+ employees is simple— and it comes in the form of representation.

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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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The 5 Secrets to Get Your Email Returned

Mr. Inside Sales

Tired of your emails not getting returned? If you’re a sales rep who is sending emails and waiting….and waiting for responses that never come, then why not use some best practices that will give your emails the best chances of getting a response. Here are 5 things you can begin doing right now: Email Secret #1: Use the prospect’s first name in the subject line.

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Why Your Investment in Sales Tech Might Not Be Paying Off

Membrain

I was at a golf practice range the other day. I took a nice, easy swing, heard that ultra-satisfying “click”, and watched the ball travel straight downrange and land exactly where I intended it to. And for a moment, one brief, fleeting moment, I actually believed I was getting better at this game.

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Learning From Failure

Partners in Excellence

None of us like to admit failure, we tend to want to celebrate our successes. We have a mindset that says, “Do more of what causes you to succeed!” I suppose it’s human nature to accentuate the positive, but I think it limits us, individually and organizationally. Success is not the strict opposite of failure. Focusing on why we succeed limits us to understanding a small subset of the opportunity.

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Make More Sales By Doing This

Engage Selling

If you want to make more sales, you have to think about this. First, understand that we live in an “on demand generation.” We can watch movies on demand. We can play any song on demand.

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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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How Not To Be Offended By Other People’s Beliefs and Opinions

Anthony Iannarino

There are 7.7 billion people on planet Earth. All of these people have beliefs that conflict with yours—all of them. While you might share a religious faith with some part of Earth’s population, you have conflicting beliefs about politics with approximately half of the community whose faith you share. You might also split from some significant part of that same population in their interpretation of the faith.

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You made your Hydra, here's how to unmake it

Membrain

You know this scenario. You wanted to enable your sales team, so you purchased a CRM from a trusted vendor that promised you everything.

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How to Give a Sales Presentation to Executives: 10 Essential Tips

Sales Hacker

The Executive Suite is considered one of the most challenging (and important) groups in an organization to sell to. It can be tough to get their attention, and once you do, giving a sales presentation to this experienced audience can also be tough. So how do you make sure your sales presentation is what stands out amid their sea of competing priorities?

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Top 15 Reasons Your Employees Stay [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Center for Sales Strategy

Companies with highly-engaged employees grow revenue 2.5x as much as those who don't, and engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave their organization. Creating and building a company culture of engagement is vital to a healthy company and business growth.

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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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Salesman productivity: How to measure it.

Zendesk Sell

Measuring salesman productivity has always been an important activity for sales managers. Now that businesses are more data-driven, it is even more crucial for every sales team to have effective productivity tracking practices. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be hard to implement measures that show where your reps are wasting time, and where they should put more energy to get the most out of every minute they spend selling.

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The Ultimate List of CRM Features & Integrations for the First-Time Buyer

Hubspot Sales

So you've decided to get a CRM software. Congrats! Determining when it's the right time to get a CRM can be a momentous decision in itself. You've cleared one major milestone, but then you're faced with a second, even bigger hurdle -- choosing which system in particular to adopt. How can a first-time buyer sort through the bells and whistles to parse out what features are truly necessary?

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3 Cold Email Mistakes That Ruin Sales Conversations

SalesFolk

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9 Ways for New Salespeople to Find Fast Success

Anthony Iannarino

It isn’t easy to become a top performing salesperson. If you are new to a sales role, it can appear to be a daunting task, but I assure you it is not so difficult as to prevent anyone sufficiently motivated from succeeding in becoming a great salesperson. Develop the Right Mindset : The first half of my first book, The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need , is about the mindset necessary to succeed in B2B sales—and more generally—in any human endeavor.

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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.