Sat.Jun 19, 2021 - Fri.Jun 25, 2021

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Sales Leadership on Steroids

Steven Rosen

Peer Group Discussion and Coupled with Leadership Coaching Will Pump you Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they, too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. Two critical areas will help you pump up your leadership quotient. The most effective ways are networking with a peer group of like-minded sales leaders who face similar challenges and utilizing a sales leadership coach.

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5 Tips for Job Hunting in 2021

Grant Cardone

When you’re job hunting you should never take advice from just anyone. I have built five companies that produce over $100 million a year in sales and I’ve hired a lot of people. Over the last year, a lot of people have come to the realization that you need to be able to get a job, no matter what is going on on Planet Earth. I’ll give you 5 tips for job hunting in 2021 to help you get the job no matter what is going on in the world. . #1 Make the Decision that You ARE Going to Get a J

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Is Your Sales Team Ready for AI-Assisted Selling?

Allego

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used across industries to help managers draw insights from vast quantities of data. And now, AI has come to the profession of sales. AI-based sales enablement systems are used by a growing number of organizations to analyze and transform sales-related data to help sales leaders, trainers, managers, and coaches make better decisions.

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How Leading Finance Executives Drive Transformative Growth

SBI Growth

SBI recently held its first Chief Financial Officer Growth Forum to bring together like-minded finance executives to discuss common challenges and share best practices with their peers. These growth-focused CFOs gathered in an intimate virtual setting to discuss the following.

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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 Digital Marketing is Changing Go-to-Market Strategies: A Conversation with Dun & Bradstreet’s Sean Crowley

Sales and Marketing Management

Sean Crowley, Dun & Bradstreet VP of Portfolio Marketing, explains Rev.Up ABX, a RevTech platform that culls the most important customer data to help companies better understand prospects. The post How Digital Marketing is Changing Go-to-Market Strategies: A Conversation with Dun & Bradstreet’s Sean Crowley appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Value Is Not In The Eye Of the Beholder

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Value is not always easy for salespeople to define, making it hard to leverage in sales conversations. Many in the trade sidestep the issue while copping out, saying something socially acceptable and meaningless at the same time. One practice is throwing out something that sounds more right than it is, thus making it hard to argue with.

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How to Empower Your Sales Team to Have Meaningful Conversations

SBI Growth

It is the middle of 2021. Half of the year is in the rear-view mirror, and COVID is still looming. Your numbers are not where you want them to be, sales productivity is decreasing, your sales team is asking for.

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Introducing ZoomInfo Recruiter

Zoominfo

Think about how long it takes to recruit a great passive candidate — someone who is currently employed and not necessarily looking for a new job. They’re a needle in a haystack and you have to find them, reach out to them, actually get a hold of them — and then come the weeks (or months) of back and forth communication and persuading them to join your company.

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Answering Your Most Burning Referral Selling Questions

No More Cold Calling

How to ask for referrals and other FAQs. After more than 25 years as an expert on referral sales, I’m still asked exactly the same referral selling questions today. (Maybe even more frequently than before.) I’m going to answer them right now. In no particular order, here are the most common referral selling questions I hear … 1. How do I get over my reluctance to ask for referrals?

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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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One Mistake to Avoid When Pitching

Mr. Inside Sales

Here’s a mistake I hear over and over again when listening to sales reps pitching or presenting their services over the phone: when they hear a possible objection or something negative from their prospect, they go into pitch mode. It’s as if they think they just need to tell the prospect more, or list endless benefits and that at some point the prospect will say, “Ah, yes!

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Where DEI Accountability Sits and How to Build a Foundation for Your Strategy

SBI Growth

As many companies are starting to pursue sustainable and growing DEI strategies, including ours, people are wondering where does the responsibility lie? Many jump to the conclusion that DEI is a people initiative, so it should just fall within human.

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Top Sales KPIs for Your B2B Sales Reps

Zoominfo

Unclear sales goals are costly. vague or hard-to-define objectives can be the biggest barriers to a rep’s success. The solution? Set crystal clear key performance indicators (KPIs) from the get-go. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length.

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How Digital Marketing Is Changing Go-To-Market Strategies

Sales and Marketing Management

Transcript of a conversation with Sean Crowley, Dun & Bradstreet Vice President of Portfolio Marketing. The post How Digital Marketing Is Changing Go-To-Market Strategies appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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This is the Secret of Sales

Mr. Inside Sales

Imagine if there was a secret to successful selling. Imagine if there was one concept, one rule you could learn and follow, and if you learned and applied this rule, then you would successfully be able to sell any product or service you chose to. And not only would you be able to sell these products or services, but—if you learned and applied this secret—you would sell more than anyone in your company or in your industry.

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Allego Customer Spotlight: CooperVision Delivers Virtual Training

Allego

Welcome to the Allego Customer Spotlight, where we share insights from conversations with customers who rely on Allego to help transform their sales learning and enablement. This month we spoke with Shelly King , Manager of Sales Force Development, at CooperVision , a leading global manufacturer of soft contact lenses, about her role and how her team responded to the challenges of a virtual environment.

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Thinking About Objections

Partners in Excellence

Sales people have always had a bit of a weird mindset on objections. We do everything we can to avoid them. We go through all sorts of training on how to “handle” them. We rehearse scripted responses to those we anticipate might arise, crossing our fingers, hoping they won’t. Somehow, we have this “negative” reaction to objections.

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How to Become a Data-Driven Marketing Team

Sales and Marketing Management

To build your team’s analytical efforts and become truly data-driven, focus on these three key elements. The post How to Become a Data-Driven Marketing Team appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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What is Scope Creep & How to Navigate It

Hubspot Sales

Any project manager can vouch — almost any project can get away from you if you don't stay on top of it. Shifting client demands, needing to add additional features and functions, and a range of other unforeseen hitches can complicate and prolong what might have started as a seemingly straightforward project. In many cases, the sum of those "unforeseen complications" amounts to something known as scope creep.

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Why your customers want to buy is as important as what they want to buy

Membrain

You’d hope, wouldn’t you, that most salespeople understand what their prospective customers want to buy. You’d expect, wouldn’t you, that your salespeople understand what their prospects think they need before making a proposal.

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7 Ways to Get Motivated and Crush Your Sales Goals Post-Pandemic

RAIN Group

The best sellers understand how important it is to develop the ability to adapt. But how do you continue to adapt and stay motivated over the long haul?

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Introducing ZoomInfo Recruiter (Now TalentOS)

Zoominfo

Think about how long it takes to recruit a great passive candidate — someone who is currently employed and not necessarily looking for a new job. They’re a needle in a haystack and you have to find them, reach out to them, actually get a hold of them — and then come the weeks (or months) of back and forth communication and persuading them to join your company.

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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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8 Online Networking Platforms for Black Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a new blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of Black business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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Why the strongest leaders are empathetic leaders

Membrain

When you think of the best managers or leaders you’ve ever worked with, what do you think of? Chances are, they weren’t overly egotistical, controlling, or mean.

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What the Modern Buyer Wants in 2021

Crunchbase

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. The author is an expert in their field and a Crunchbase user. We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. .

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Feedback Requires An Understanding of How to Give and Receive It

Sales and Marketing Management

The goal of feedback is to give it thoughtfully and professionally and to receive it thoughtfully and professionally. Too often, one or both sides of that equation don't grasp how to make feedback effective. The post Feedback Requires An Understanding of How to Give and Receive It appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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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Where DEI Accountability Sits and How to Build a Foundation for Your Strategy

SBI Growth

As many companies are starting to pursue sustainable and growing DEI strategies, including ours, people are wondering where does the responsibility lie? Many jump to the conclusion that DEI is a people initiative, so it should just fall within human resources.

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3 Sales Ops Strategies to Prevent Deals from Stalling at Closing

Sales Hacker

Are your sales org’s deals getting stuck in the proposal stage more often than not? If so, it’s not a rep problem. It’s a process problem. Stalled deals are usually a result of placing too much emphasis on optimizing the top-of-the-funnel at the expense of the bottom. Adding insult to injury, that imbalance means all that time and money it takes to get prospects to the closing phase goes to waste.

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How To Keep Track Of Your Sales Activity With One Spreadsheet

Vainu

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.” That's one of the most important quotes in business. At least if you want to be data-driven—and who doesn't, right? Do you want to stay on top of your sales activity and grow a healthy pipeline? Stay tuned! We’ve designed a sales activity tracking spreadsheet for salespeople to keep track of their daily activities of prospecting, calling, and meeting customers.

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