Sales 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2018

In order to contact prospects you need to have their contact information. Today’s post is not about rocket science. This is the first post in the more practical area of actually doing this prospecting thing. During the posts about preparation I told you about getting your prospect profile together. If you did that, you should have a good sense of who you want to contact, including the type of company they work for, where they are located and their typical job title.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 4, 2018

The Sale is in The Follow Up. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Learn how to sell and improve sales skills with secrets of closing more leads and deals via follow up prospecting message, phone call and letter techniques. As a homeowner, I’m always having to fix something. Those of you who own homes know exactly what I mean. I’m in the habit of getting a variety of quotes for the big stuff, and it’s amazing how some companies/sales reps follow up on a sales quote (and so get the business), and others don’t

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. They’re searching online, consuming content, learning about options to relieve their pain, and forming opinions about solutions. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team. The average B2B buyer is 67% of the way through the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson ( SiriusDecisions ).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2018

For many sales reps, productivity is key to sales success. The more calls you make, the more deals you close. So, if your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking how much time you waste on non-selling activities. In a typical day, we’d be shocked if you spend 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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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

A salesperson on one of our workshops was bemoaning the fact that he had to make between 100 and 150 cold calls a week. He wanted our opinion on how to get more leads without having to cold call. My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2018

How often do you hear sales and marketing teams being critical of the product portfolio? Your products! It is easy for people to sit in the cheap seats and judge. But why does it continue to happen? Ironically, it’s because.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 7, 2018

My latest data mining project reveals that the answer to this question is a partial correlation. Check out the two tables below and you'll see just what I mean.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. As a result, SEO has become an essential skill for all modern marketers. Yet, if you’ve worked in marketing for any length of time, you know bridging the gap between traditional marketing and SEO isn’t that simple.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2018

Author: Lain Hensley Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a management concept which strives to ensure that companies conduct their business in an ethical and responsible manner. Although once considered a strictly voluntary business strategy, over the past few decades CSR has come to be a mandatory policy at hundreds of organizations worldwide.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2018

It’s August and for most Marketing Leads that means the looming pressure of Q4 is right around the corner. In order to hit revenue targets, you’ve been instructed to generate more leads, of better quality, with less money. But what do.

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Marketing How To Revenue Leads 185

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 6, 2018

Trying to get your prospect to interact with you can often be a frustrating nightmare. Making a call that is interrupting their day, especially when it sounds like a typical sales call, can be the quickest way to get a slam-dunk from the other end of the line. What can we suggest, then, that will at least get the prospect listening for a few moments?

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Prospecting Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Industry 184

Score More Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

I love good data. Good data in professional sales means that there is a big enough sample group (thousands, not hundreds) and from diverse industries (not just SaaS which is much more tech savvy). I also love innovation and updating what used to work with what works better.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’ve worked in marketing for any length of time, you already know not every campaign is created equal—it’s inevitable, some campaigns will be more effective than others. Ultimately, the key to marketing productivity lies in your ability to pinpoint and scale your most successful marketing initiatives. If you’re interested in learning more about marketing productivity, you’ve come to the right place.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2018

In my experience, hunters will do anything for a buck. Why then, would you pay them to shoot fish in a barrel? Whether you’re an established player entering a new market or a new entrant into an established market, your commercial.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 8, 2018

So, you’ve got hold of a prospect and they’ve replied to you or accepted your request to connect up with them. That’s a great start! But where do you go from here? What can you say that will build rapport and follow-up that initial interest? Here are some phrases that could work well for you: 1) Do you have the same challenges as many of our clients?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 8, 2018

Author: Joseph McLean When you manage a sales team, your main purpose is motivation. You have to encourage these people to do their best. Day by day, you’re implementing important management tools in practice. Whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re relying on various methods and models of management that help you get everything under control. If this is your first time managing a team, it’s best to reflect on your previous experience with managers.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 7, 2018

By Tibor Shanto. Prospecting for new opportunities is a tense activity especially telephone prospecting. There are so many variables, too many things we can not predict or control. But there are also things we can control, and those are the things we should focus on, in fact, this is the first step to success, choosing to focus only on those things we can directly impact.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 9, 2018

Q3 marks the beginning of the annual planning process. Organizations are starting to compile all the data, documentation and reports to prepare for this effort. Things are really starting to get busy. A major input to the annual planning process is.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2018

Recent spikes in job growth have led to an increasingly competitive hiring landscape. Consequently, the dynamic between hiring organizations and candidates has become more and more candidate-driven. Although a candidate-driven job market is great for job seekers, it can often make a recruiter’s job much more difficult. Think about it, as a recruiter, if you’re not proactively searching for candidates, your ideal employees are getting scooped up by other, fast-acting recruiters.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Data Lead Rank 157

The Sales Heretic

AUGUST 7, 2018

Reaching your sales goals starts with great prospecting. But too many people don’t prospect effectively. If you don’t have a full pipeline of qualified buyers, odds are you’re making one or more of these fatal mistakes. 1. Not spending enough time on it I know, I know—you’ve got 18,000 things to do every day. But [.].

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 9, 2018

What is the role of internal client experiences in creating extraordinary external client experiences (CX)? Customer experience seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. Paying lip service and talking the talk is different than consistently walking the walk. With all the attention focused on acquiring and retaining customers, often the unsung heroes and heroines of this quest are located internally, within the organization.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2018

A coordinated sales team is absolutely critical to implementing a superior customer experience framework for the following three reasons: Superior Customer Experience is proven to drive more revenue. Setting up a Structure of Farmer Account Manager with an Inside Customer Success Manager.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2018

Recent spikes in job growth have led to an increasingly competitive hiring landscape. Consequently, the dynamic between hiring organizations and candidates has become more and more candidate-driven. Although a candidate-driven job market is great for job seekers, it can often make a recruiter’s job much more difficult. Think about it, as a recruiter, if you’re not proactively searching for candidates, your ideal employees are getting scooped up by other, fast-acting recruiters.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Data Lead Rank 130

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 10, 2018

Inside Sales Management: Are you Measuring What Matters Most? By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com. Learn about successful inside sales force management closing strategy, process techniques, training ideas, prospecting tools and best practices for managers and representatives. If you’re an inside sales manager , then you know all about metrics. In fact, whenever I consult with new clients, the owners and managers automatically begin showing me their call monitoring reports.

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Connect2Sell

AUGUST 8, 2018

As you’re entering into 2019 budgeting processes, it’s time to talk about how to allocate your training dollars. You’re probably reviewing an array of sales training ideas. But are you also considering training for Sales Managers? You should be.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a CMO, you arrive to the office on Monday morning and are getting settled in. One of your functional heads pops in and asks if you have 5 minutes. You know that it will not be only five minutes and.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. They’re searching online, consuming content, learning about options to relieve their pain, and forming opinions about solutions. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team. The average B2B buyer is 67% of the way through the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson ( SiriusDecisions ).

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Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 120

Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2018

The misconception that building an internal team of sales development reps gives you more control and costs less is widespread. In-house tele-prospecting costs more than outsourcing and by outsourcing you can find superior services (however, you must be careful because there is a lot of mediocrity in the lead generation space). What marketing and sales executives who object to partnering with a specialized firm fail to add up are all the costs of establishing an inside team.

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