Sat.Oct 28, 2017 - Fri.Nov 03, 2017

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This strategy will help you crush your sales numbers in 2018: Executing with Excellence

Steven Rosen

How would you like to crush your sales numbers in 2018? In this Executive Briefing, executing with excellence , I am going to share three steps to doing so. Sales managers, sales executives, sales and marketing executives, this message is for you. Do you spend hours, days and months building your marketing plans , getting approval and doing what you need to do to get your plans and budgets secured for the next year?

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Change Your Sales Teams Bad Habits Before 2018

SBI Growth

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Get Your Pumpkin Spiced Leads

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Yes, boys and girls, tomorrow being Halloween, it is the last day to get your Pumpkin Spiced Leads, come November 1, Starbuck rolls out their Christmas and Chanukah cups, and it’s all downhill from there. Now I know you’re thinking that Shanto has gone mad, but I plead innocent. In fact, I am just trying to fit in, using the Queens English in the most bizarre way to make a point, a point heavy on drama and embellishment, while short on meaning o

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A Women in Sales Month Success Story: “Sales is the Great Equalizer”

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales is the great equalize r: It’s a meritocracy. A meritocracy states that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively based on ability and talent. Advancement in such a system is based on performance and/or demonstrated achievement in the field. October is Women in Sales month. For me, that means celebrating how sales really is the great equalizer.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Six Ways NOT to Close a Presentation

The Sales Heretic

A while back I discussed six awful approaches to opening a presentation that you should avoid at all costs. However, the end of a presentation is just as important as the beginning. The last thing you say is the first thing your audience will remember. (That is, if they remember anything at all.) The way [.].

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Confusing Journey With Destination

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. I spent the weekend with some friends who were planning an overseas vacation next spring. This is something they have wanted to do for some time, they have been saving up money, vacation days, and sacrificed in other ways, in order to make the trip everything they wanted. You can sense the energy of anticipation that is going into every element of the planning, and ensuring that the trip lives up to everything they imagined and more.

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10 Ways To Boost Your Sales Incentive Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. That’s a great start, because great salespeople are money motivated and also crave recognition for their outstanding efforts. What do you need to do to ensure your program gets their attention and delivers the results you desire? Here are 10 of the most important elements in designing and deploying your next incentive campaign. 1.

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1 Shocking Statistic that Impacts Sales

Jill Konrath

People are always shocked when I share this one statistic that I highlight in More Sales, Less Time. And they should be.

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How to Avoid Wasting Money on a Compensation Assessment

SBI 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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The Scariest Thing is What You Don’t See: Your Garbage Sales & Marketing Data is Killing You

DiscoverOrg Sales

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”. – The Usual Suspects (1995). The scariest villains are the ones we don’t see. Maybe there’s something passing across the corner of our eye. Maybe we hear something, but only barely…in the background. Maybe it wasn’t anything at all. We are, however, typically shown the horrific results of their handiwork…but there’s always another explanation than the one we want to believe.

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The quest for more purposeful meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Janet Sperstad, program director of Meeting and Event Management at Madison College in Wisconsin, has spent her career working toward more purposeful meetings. This fall, she released a white paper co-written with Amanda Cecil of Indiana University entitled, “Purposeful Meetings: How to Plan With Deeper Meaning, Innovation and Insight In Mind.

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Why Your Account Based Sales Reps Shouldn’t Close Business This Year

No More Cold Calling

You should be focused on lead generation for 2018. Closing the sales year with a bang is nice, but signing new clients shouldn’t be the focus for account based selling teams in Q4. Sure, some companies have unused budgets you need to grab, but that is an unlikely scenario. Account based sales reps quarterback complex deals that rely on an exquisitely crafted, fine-tuned prospecting strategy—not a last-minute free-for-all.

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Successful Sales Managers NEVER Use These Phrases

MTD Sales Training

When we interview sales managers and ask how they motivate their sales teams, we often here similar stories of how they build up morale and get their teams thinking about growing and advancing in their sales prowess. But we sometimes ask them what they would NEVER say and what would be the implications if they did. It gets them thinking, and a quick poll has come up with some of the things that they would definitely shy away from.

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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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Is Being Passionate About Sales a Valuable Trait?

The Sales Hunter

During the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some spirited discussions — both pro and con — about the role passion plays in the sales profession. I’ve had people say in today’s business climate, there is no room for passion, and I’ve had others say because of the business climate, you have to be passionate. […].

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Products vs. Services: The Real Marketing Difference

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: James Hooker, CEO, Televerde Within the discipline of marketing, various tactics and strategies come into play for prospecting, branding, content development, social marketing, video, events and other channels. But how do these strategies and tactics vary when marketing a product vs. marketing a service? At the top end of the funnel, they look similar enough.

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Positioning Your Team for a Championship Run

SBI Growth

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All Successful Sales Directors Share This One Trait

MTD Sales Training

If there was one quality or trait that you would think all great sales director share, what would you think it to be? I’m sure you’re thinking of many, and it would be difficult to disagree with any ones that you come up with. But if I had to choose one that would be top of the list, it would have to be the ability to manage change and risk. If there was something that could drive a company forward and help them to achieve more in the future, you would hard pressed to find a successful director

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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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Don’t Let Your Sales Team Get Spooked: October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed this month from No More Cold Calling. The goblins and ghosts that come out at Halloween aren’t all that scary, especially when they’re yelling “trick or treat,” “trick or treat” as they canvas their neighborhoods. Sadly, kids have forgotten the “trick” part of Halloween. They hold out their pumpkins and wait for you to load them up with candy.

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Sales Enablement Gets Defined

Score More Sales

It felt like history being made as more than 250 people from sales enablement practitioners, sales leaders, vendors, and industry experts gathered at University of Texas at Dallas (and a nearby hotel) to help define an industry.

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Is Sales Enablement Offering You Tricks or Treats?

SBI Growth

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The Gray Between the Green

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan A paycheck is what many think of most when they start a job and when they leave it. In between, there is a lot of gray area. Salaries matter — sometimes too much. People stay in jobs they should have long since left because of a paycheck (and their bonuses as well). That doesn’t mean they’re motivated or even close to performing at peak levels.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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23 Motivational Songs to Get You Pumped in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Prospecting for sales leads. not the most fun thing in the world. There’s no question that it’s incredibly important, but researching dozens of companies every day in the hopes of finding a few good fits isn’t the most titillating task. So we’re here to help. We’ve compiled the ultimate pump-up playlist to keep you sharp and focused while you pan for gold.

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Sales Leadership Requires Personal Leadership

The Sales Hunter

If we want our customers and others to see us as a sales leader, we have to ask ourselves if we’re living up to personal leadership. Each week we hear of another leader — whether it be in business, sports, politics or society in general — being taken down due to their personal behavior. It’s […].

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Competition: The Invisible Enemy of Compensation Planning

SBI Growth

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Practice what matters most

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN When it comes to practice, my mind reverberates with a few key quotes. Vince Lombardi, possibly the greatest coach in football history said, “Only perfect practice makes perfect.” But how can I practice perfectly in an imperfect world? His words, as profound as they are, have draped like an albatross around my neck for years. Perfection is difficult to see.

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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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7 Questions to Test How Serious Your Prospect Is About Buying

Hubspot Sales

You learn about a valuable treasure, but it’s at the top of a huge mountain. Reaching the peak requires overcoming extreme cold, fatigue, and high altitudes. To make the journey even less appealing, you’re not sure how much the treasure is worth or if you’ll even be able to spend it. Would you attempt the climb? Your prospects face this conundrum all the time.

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Let’s Meet up at Dreamforce #DF17 if You Want the Best SalesTech Advice

SBI

This is my favorite event of the year. First of all, Salesforce puts on a heck of a show – am I right?! And so do many of the attending partners. I won’t go into all the stats about Dreamforce. Suffice it to say, it’s huge by any measure. For instance, if you secured one of over 100K hotel rooms that will be booked for the event, consider yourself lucky!

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The 4 Lenses of Sales Compensation Planning

SBI Growth