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Leadership in Times of Change

Anthony Cole Training

As a leader, have you ever wondered why your salespeople don't adapt to and follow the new guidelines you have established? Often, managers focus their energy on defining procedures and identifying expectations during times of change. However, they fail to understand the impact and personal needs of the employees that are responsible for following these new requirements.

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What Kind of Sales Dog Are You?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Moving into 100% commissioned sales in my 30’s was one of those “what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger” moments in my life. Truth be told, it wasn’t a moment; it was a journey. I remember trying to learn all I could from the veteran salespeople on my team. But, when I read the book Sales Dogs I began to understand that the answer was not to be found in trying to copy the talents of other salespeople, but to learn how to leverage my own unique mix of talents.

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4 Straightforward Steps to Measure Your Sales Training Impact

Predictable Revenue

Showing exactly how training contributes to your bottom line encourages your reps to dedicate the necessary time and effort to their learning, and also secures buy-in from executives and managers. The post 4 Straightforward Steps to Measure Your Sales Training Impact appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How Best-In-Class Sales Leaders Recover From a First Half Revenue Miss

SBI Growth

If you’re like most Sales Leaders we’ve worked with, you’re glad the first half is behind us. You are also trying to figure out how to make up lost ground. We’ve found the two most effective ways to recover from.

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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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Sales Productivity: Where Are You Wasting The Most Time?

Zoominfo

The more calls you make, the more deals you close. It’s simple math. If your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking yourself: “how much time do I waste on non-selling activities?”. On a typical day, we’d be shocked if you spent 8 hours on the phone. After all, you’re not a robot. And even before you can pick up the phone to contact decision-makers, you must conduct a significant amount of research.

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Resourcing Sellers for Selling Provides Support

Connect2Sell

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How a CEO Drives CX Clarity Amid the Chaos

SBI Growth

Any CEO can attest to the current level of difficulty in closing deals. Customer sentiment and individual mind share are in high demand, and even with everyone online, many fail to adequately engage their communities in order to access their.

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The Second Wave of Pandemic Technology Adoption

Zoominfo

“Can you hear me?”. “See my screen?”. “ Good.” *Thumbs Up *. With the efficiency of a Nascar pit crew, working from home for many in corporate America has become routine. Since lockdown orders began, ZoomInfo has been tracking the adoption of technologies that help companies conduct business remotely. Earlier in the year, we covered how the adoption of digital tools — specifically web conferencing — coincided with shut down and social distancing orders.

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How SMS Can Elevate Your Marketing Programs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Nick Ziech-Lopez It’s no secret that people love text messages. Developed in the early 1990s, texting quickly rose to popularity due to its ease of use and low cost. It remains, by many estimates, to be the world’s most popular mobile application. And, while down from its peak in 2011, over 1.5 trillion SMS (short message service) messages are sent within the United States each year.

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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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Selling in Tomorrow’s Landscape

Engage Selling

The world has changed and sales has changed. Throughout the past several months, since the dawn of the pandemic, I’ve shared countless resources, ideas, and tips on succeeding in this new landscape.

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Seven factors that separate winners from losers in an economic downturn

Membrain

No one has missed the global crisis we are in right now. A crisis that caused countries to completely close their borders, caused the worst stock market crash in modern history and where large parts of the economy are completely shut down. This is happening for real. But it is also a fact that there are factors that separate winners from losers in a situation like this.

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Reopening in 2021: Are Smart Buildings The Future?

Zoominfo

All my life, I’d dreamt of moving to a city. Never did I imagine that dream would first come true in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. While the comedic irony of this does not escape me, walking through the mostly empty streets of Boston, its retail shop windows plastered with varying forms of “WE’RE OPEN” signs that beg for my business, leaves me to wonder: What will everyday activities — like shopping and eating — look like in a post-COVID world?

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Are you ready to reopen?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nlolan As employers look to reopen and bring team members back to the office, if only on a part-time basis, it’s important to realize they cannot think of it as “business as usual,” says Mike Veny, who consults with companies on promoting mental health wellness. It’s not exaggeration to say we are living through traumatic times, he says.

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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 Future Of Selling, It’s About People, Connecting In A Disconnected World

Partners in Excellence

I wrote, The Future Of Selling Isn’t What You Think It Is. Basically, it was a retort to those who think the future of selling is about the technology and tools we leverage. Whether it’s Zoom, social networking, CRM, messaging apps, AI/ML, or any of the 1000’s of technology solutions sales people leverage. Technology is part of our future, but it misses the core of what selling is really about.

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Are You in the Dark When it Comes to Selling Activities?

Alice Heiman

It’s very easy for salespeople to waste time on activities that either redundant or that someone else should be doing. It’s also easy for CEOs and sales leaders to be unaware of how salespeople are wasting time – until the forecast is in and it’s too late. They were all so busy, but they weren’t doing the right activities. Don’t be in the dark!

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How to run a SaaS marketing campaign effectively

Nutshell

Have you ever stumbled on a SaaS website and you literally have no clue why you’re there and what they do? You look everywhere on the website—I’m talking header, tag line, features—and you just don’t get it. With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good.

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Workers and employers feel good about WFH

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Allego, a leading provider of virtual learning and enablement solutions, surveyed employees and employers (HR reps) in two separate surveys to get a clearer idea how each side was feeling about technical and non-technical resources provided to them by their organizations, employee productivity and collaboration, and COVID-19’s overall impact on their company.

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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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WEBINAR: Morgan speaks at ExecVision’s “Momentum 2020”

John Barrows

The post WEBINAR: Morgan speaks at ExecVision’s “Momentum 2020” appeared first on JB Sales.

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5 Ways Affordable AI Can Streamline Your Sales Process

Hubspot Sales

Artificial intelligence resources are evolving from novelty to necessity in sales, and the massive investment companies are putting into these kinds of tools is a testament to that. Market research firm IDC found that businesses collectively invested an estimated $2.7 billion in sales process recommendation and automation in 2019 — a figure that's expected to rise considerably through 2022, at least.

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5 Steps to Become an Effective Leader of a Culture-Driven Organization

Predictable Revenue

Having a culture-driven organization is nothing if you do not have practical leadership skills to keep workplace performance culture alive. The post 5 Steps to Become an Effective Leader of a Culture-Driven Organization appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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3 Tips to Elevate Your Client Success Game

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Taylor Napierski, Head of Client Success, Televerde It’s a tough time to be in client success. Client success is one of those jobs where you don’t hear many kudos when things are going well, but you’re the first to get a call when things go wrong. And that’s OK. It’s our job to be on the frontlines of client interactions, be they good or bad.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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!

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How to Land That Make-or-Break Meeting and Achieve Massive ROI

Nimble - Sales

This ongoing series of influencer webinars is intended to help you become better, smarter, and faster. In this webinar, Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara is joined by hall-of-fame nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke. Stu believes that one meeting truly can change everything; you just have to be bold enough to make it […]. The post How to Land That Make-or-Break Meeting and Achieve Massive ROI appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Outcome Selling: Don’t Sell the Product, Sell the Outcome

Hubspot Sales

To master the art of selling, you must understand its various forms. You may have stumbled across our other posts on relationship selling , social selling , and organizational selling , but today I present to you: outcome selling. Instead of overwhelming customers with every bit of information about your product and its features, outcome selling helps you deliver the exact details your customers want to hear — and as a result, they’ll be more eager and ready to buy.

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6 Dos and Don’ts of Post-Pandemic Sales Pipeline Management

Sales Hacker

People are buying differently now, during the pandemic, than they were before. You probably know that already, but something you may not have realized is that people will buy differently post-pandemic as well. The landscape is shifting, making business as usual anything but that. Pre-quarantine pitches and campaigns won’t appeal to prospects who are cost-sensitive and hesitant to buy.

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The New Paradigm Post COVID

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Charles D. Brennan Jr. We hear the term “new normal” from news outlets, friends, family and colleagues on a regular basis. It begs the question, how do we define this coined phrase? The new normal reference suggests an imposition between what we knew and what our future holds. Broadly brushed, it requires a re-examination of everything we aspire to accomplish, even the simplest of our daily tasks, our basic routines and how we interact with one another.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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

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Lead Capture Pages 101: Importance, Strategies, and Software

LeadBoxer

If you spend more of your time scouring the internet for leads than actually closing deals, consider adding lead capture pages to your marketing strategy. With lead capture pages, you can automatically populate your CRM with fresh, highly qualified prospects, letting you spend more time connecting with people and less time combing through lead databases.

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How Using a Document Library Can Improve Your Sales Process

Hubspot Sales

Sales content is serious business. According to Seismic , when deciding between two options 90% of customers are more likely to buy from the company that provides the most relevant information. This same report found 95% of sales reps want access to content and collateral that can help them sell more. In other words, buyers want the right information exactly when they need it, and sales reps want to provide it to them.

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Talking About Our Competitors

Partners in Excellence

Not long ago, I read an exchange about how we should talk to our customers about out competitors. Some felt we should take a “leadership” position offering our views and insights to the customer. Frankly, I was appalled with some of the opinions in that discussion. We have no business talking about our competitors products and business. I don’t make that statement around any sort of high-minded position about fair play, it’s simply a no-win discussion for us to conduct.