Sat.May 20, 2023 - Fri.May 26, 2023

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8 Insider Tips for Selling to Founders

Sales Hacker

There are many different types of people you come across in your sales career. Founders are a unique animal, but they aren’t all built the same way. This makes selling to founders a bit more nuanced than other personas. But founders are the final decision-makers at their company — so working directly with founders is a great way to cut through the noise and sell directly to the person who will be signing the check.

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Why Deals Get Stuck in the Sales Pipeline and What to Do About it

Understanding the Sales Force

My wife chose some beautiful new shrubs and flowers and I was digging the holes to plant them in the garden. The largest shrub required the largest hole and it was to be placed in an area of the garden that I knew was quite rocky. Sure enough, after just three shovel fulls of dirt, I hit rock and it was bigger than both my shovel and the hole. I was stuck.

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The Complete Guide to Closing Calls

Hubspot Sales

A closing call is like the finish line of a marathon. It’s nerve-wracking for you and your prospect. It’s a call steeped in emotion for everybody involved. As a salesperson, you’ve invested a lot of time in your prospect by the time a closing call rolls around. You’re under pressure to meet quota, and losing a deal at the buzzer indicates to your manager that you’re not in control of the sales process.

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Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers

No More Cold Calling

Referrals help you stand out in a sea of B2B sellers. How do B2B buyers tell one internet security company from another? One IT provider from another? One marketing platform or sales enablement app? One insurance broker, attorney, banker, or consultant? Often you can’t tell them apart, because sellers have similar offerings and the same party line about what they do.

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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 to Build Rapport in Sales With 3 Simple Techniques

The Sales Readiness Blog

Capturing the attention and trust of your potential customers is a crucial aspect of successful sales. When you establish a strong relationship, you gain their respect, the willingness to value your insights, and the potential for long-term business. But the question is, how can you build rapport effectively?

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Want more sales? Start with your existing customers.

SBI Growth

Your best customers are right in front of you. Can you see them? Companies seeking new revenue often fall for the mistake of pouring their marketing and sales resources and efforts into new customer acquisition. But according to surveys recently conducted by SBI, the better option – very often – is to focus on existing customers.

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Shut Up and Listen! 3 Reasons Why Salespeople Should Talk Less to Sell More

The Center for Sales Strategy

New business meetings are exciting. It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of closing deals, showcasing your product, and convincing prospects that you have the perfect solution. You want to start selling, pitching your product, and showing off your brilliant product knowledge. DON'T DO IT! Just shut up and let your prospect talk. The secret to successful sales is not just about talking but also about mastering the art of listening.

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How to Help Sales Leaders Improve Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sales leadership plays a crucial role in the success of any organization's sales efforts. As the driving force behind a sales team, sales leaders are responsible for setting targets, providing guidance, and motivating their team members to achieve their goals. However, even the most skilled sales leaders can face challenges when it comes to improving performance and driving results.

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The Biggest Lever in Sales

Membrain

What is the biggest lever in sales? The one thing you can upgrade to have the greatest impact on your win rates, deal size, sales cycles, and overall performance?

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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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How to Worry Less & Enjoy Life More: New Book!

Mr. Inside Sales

I’d like to invite you all to join me on my journey through a new phase of my career: From this point forward, I’m going to spend more time pursuing what I’ve always done professionally (write), but I’m going to be writing more of the kind of books that have always spoken to me. Moreover, (and this is a big change), I’m going to begin publishing under my real name: Michael Zajaczkowski!

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I Would Sell More and Increase Sales If Only I Would.

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog post, we present a question that may force you to look yourself in the mirror and ask, "What can I do better as a salesperson to increase my sales in 2023 and beyond?

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4 Ways to Integrate AI into Your Workflow

Sales and Marketing Management

Implementing AI in your business can unlock new ideas and outcomes, providing a competitive edge. These four strategies can help you make the best use of the AI system and maximize the potential of your workflow. The post 4 Ways to Integrate AI into Your Workflow appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Correlation: Salespeople Strong in This Competency are 2125% More Likely to be Performers

Understanding the Sales Force

My wife and I were on a Mother’s Day walk when we saw something I had never seen before. I should have snapped a picture but I didn’t, and could not find a single picture on the internet that captured what we saw. So I went to Neural.Love and used AI to create the image above. The waterfall and lagoon the site added to the image was nice a bonus!

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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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Discovering And Qualifying Is Not Just For Sellers

Partners in Excellence

Discovery and qualifying are critical to sellers. We use discovery to understand the customer’s needs, problems, requirements. We use discovery to understand the capabilities they seek in looking at solutions. We use discovery to understand their budgets, the alternatives they are considering, their knowledge of and interest in us, how they will make the decision, and when.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

In the latest episode of the Art and Science of Complex Sales podcast, Paul Fuller interviews Jacco Van Der Kooij , the founder and Managing Partner of Winning by Design. They delve into the various aspects of successful SaaS sales teams and businesses.

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How Marketing and Sales Can Rebuild Demand Generation Together

Sales and Marketing Management

The best way to support buyers making high-quality purchases with little regret is for marketing and sales to work together in an interconnected manner to help buyers progress through the buying process. The post How Marketing and Sales Can Rebuild Demand Generation Together appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How Intent Data Helps Sellers Convert A-List Accounts

Zoominfo

It’s enough to ruin any sales professional’s quarter: that prospect your team has spent months engaging — scheduling demos, addressing concerns, comparing features — suddenly decides they’re not ready to buy after all. You can’t stop every account from getting cold feet or misreading their company’s appetite for new solutions. But today’s best-performing go-to-market (GTM) teams are increasingly using intent data to focus their efforts on the accounts that are the most likely to close a deal.

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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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How Sales Professionals Are Using Artificial Intelligence (New Data)

Hubspot Sales

On average, salespeople save two hours and 15 minutes a day using AI. Based on this stat alone, it's no surprise why so many sales teams are folding AI into their workflow — and saving time in the process. Here, we'll explore how salespeople are harnessing the power of AI in their day-to-day work with insights from our 2023 State of AI Report. Let's dive in.

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Finding The Pain

Partners in Excellence

For decades, sellers have been instructed to “find the pain!” We’ve been trained, almost like doctors, to diagnose our customers’ pains; “Does it hurt here? What about when I do this? How often do you experience it? Is it most severe after a poor earnings report? Once we and the customers have diagnosed the pain, we prescribe a solution.

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Telemarketing World: How Businesses Succeed in It

Sales and Marketing Management

Telemarketing remains an effective means to go to market in the B2B world. Here's how businesses can be successful in the telemarketing world. The post Telemarketing World: How Businesses Succeed in It appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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6 B2B Sales Strategies to Stay Ahead and Win More Customers

G2Crowd - Sales Blog

Personalizing your B2B sales strategy connects you with your customers and drives better sales. It helps you stand out from the crowd and earn better customer loyalty.

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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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What is an Outbound Call & How Do You Make Them Effectively?

Hubspot Sales

Your phone rings and you decide to pick this one up instead of letting it go to voicemail. You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Odds are, if you don’t want what they’re selling, you’ll hang up immediately. Even if you do, the pushiness is a turnoff and you might buy the product elsewhere or through a different sales rep. That’s why mastering an outbound call is so important.

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ChatGPT As A Seller! See ChatGPT Pitch!

Partners in Excellence

Warning: There is no redeeming value to this post. Call it Friday musing or Fun and Games with AI. It does provide a warning for many of us blindly jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon, it does make many very obvious errors and struggles to understand them. I continue to discover new things to challenge ChatGPT with. I’m working on an interactive self study program for sellers to actually use ChatGPT in developing their own business acumen skills.

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10 Tips for Managing Remote Employees

Grant Cardone

Today, there is a challenge that every business owner must face — how to oversee out-of-office staff. Whether you are a new or veteran entrepreneur, this looks difficult to navigate. But it doesn’t have to be. Just implement these 10 tips for managing remote employees… My Top 10 Tips for Managing Remote Employees Between outsourcing […] The post 10 Tips for Managing Remote Employees appeared first on GCTV.

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Price Conversation when Prospect Wants to Discuss Price Prematurely

The Sales Readiness Blog

In the sales world, pricing is crucial in determining whether or not a prospect will convert into a customer. However, discussing pricing prematurely with a prospect may not always be the best approach. Doing so can lead to a focus on cost rather than the value of the product or service. So, what should sales professionals do when faced with prospects who want to discuss price prematurely?

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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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Why Your Sales Team Needs Deep Discovery and Multiple Champions to Win Right Now

Force Management

Recently, we’ve all been living in a constant state of economic uncertainty. 2023 market trends show a leveling off of growth and consumer confidence is steadily declining across global markets.

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Connections Or Connection?

Partners in Excellence

Daily, I get connection requests from all sorts of people. There are those that promise to bring us 100s of qualified leads if we connect, then buy. There are those that say we have common businesses and interests, but nothing in their profile shows me where that commonality is–and they have never bothered to look at my profile. And there are a lot of genuine connection requests with intriguing people.

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LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index — Everything You Need to Know

Hubspot Sales

In its 20th year on the market, LinkedIn remains an undisputable world leader in social selling and online business networking. As of early 2023, it boasts over 900 million users , with approximately half visiting the platform monthly. In short, if you’re not active on LinkedIn, you’re missing a huge opportunity to grow your business. The question is — how do you know if your posts are resonating with your target audience?