Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 28, 2018
Author: Glenton Davis Today’s consumer has access to more knowledge than ever before, adding a burden to businesses to provide truly innovative products and services — and for sales teams to understand their companies’ offerings in a deep and informed way. From casual browsing to thorough research, online exploration occurs well before customers meet a salesperson.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 28, 2018
Part 4 of this sales coaching series focuses on the right coaching goals for sales reps. Article overview: 1) Sales coaching is not a beat-down. 2) Sales Coaching: What salespeople say versus managers/leaders. 3) Don’t mistake a conversation for sales coaching commitment. 4) How to make your 1:1s count. 5) Stay in the inspiration business: Read the full coaching series.
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Sales 2.0
JUNE 23, 2018
When you send a prospect an email or leave them a voicemail what do many of them do? They Google you (as well as your company.). As you know, buyers are seriously concerned about burning their time these days. If you happen to pique someone’s interest with your brilliant email or voicemail they are likely to vet you before they call you back and invest their precious time.
The Pipeline
JUNE 26, 2018
By Tibor Shanto. Last week I looked at the power of the small word ‘NO’ in halting sales, preventing President’s Club, and more; but we looked at it in the context of the prospecting experience, very early in the process. But objections are dynamic, just like the buy/sell cycle, and as such our ability to recognize them and deal with them effectively needs to be as or probably more dynamic.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 25, 2018
Author: Tony Hughes You may be struggling thinking, "What on Earth am I doing, I hate this job!". I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. I think of what powers me to prevent burnout and I think of these five words. So I want to deconstruct each one as an emotional manual for sellers in this quick post in reverse chronological order.
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Understanding the Sales Force
JUNE 25, 2018
Last week I wrote a revealing article which showed that Sales Managers are even worse than I thought when it comes to coaching their salespeople. That article stimulated this great conversation on LinkedIn. Following that article I dug further into the same 9,000 rows of data to look at the role that tenure and experience have on sales management effectiveness.
Zoominfo
JUNE 25, 2018
Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has become more than just the most popular video-sharing platform– it’s one of the most popular websites on the internet, period. Consider these statistics ( source ): Over a billion hours of video content is watched on YouTube every day. YouTube is the third most visited site in the world after Google and Facebook. 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. 6 out of 10 people prefer online video platforms like YouTube to live television.
No More Cold Calling
JUNE 28, 2018
What’s trust got to do with it? When we showed my 85-year-old aunt how to use a computer, she told us she still hadn’t figured out how the telephone worked, so don’t bother. She walked out of the room. End of conversation. She talked a lot about “back in the day” and reminisced about what life was like when she was younger. This wasn’t the first time she’d witnessed a changing world, and she knew that new wasn’t always better.
SBI Growth
JUNE 26, 2018
Jennifer Bakunas, the Senior Vice President of Americas Sales for Monotype, has a wealth of experience, from spinning up successful start-ups to running enterprise sales teams. Jennifer took over the sales leadership role at Monotype last year and we join.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 26, 2018
Author: Mike Donnelly You have sales goals to reach. You need your salespeople to reach their goals to get you there. But if you’re like most sales leaders, 40 to 70 percent of your people will fall short of their quota. You have to get the sales reps to change their behaviors. You must get them in line to produce results. But, there’s a simple and universal fact working against you.
Zoominfo
JUNE 27, 2018
In today’s digital era, innovative marketing tactics have begun to overtake the traditional methods that have worked for years. Take influencer marketing for example. This strategy relies on the power of industry influencers and thought leaders to achieve critical business goals. Typically brands work with influencers who have a large, dedicated following, particularly on social media.
Mr. Inside Sales
JUNE 24, 2018
Best Openings for Your Closing & Presentation Calls. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. If you close sales or do sales presentations over the phone, then you might be wondering what the best way to open the closing call is.
Jeffrey Gitomer
JUNE 26, 2018
There are no new objections. You've heard them all before. What ever business you're in, there are between five and twenty reasons why the customer won't buy now.
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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.
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 26, 2018
Author: Paul Nolan Technology disrupts. It changes how we live. It changes how we work. For managers, it changes how they strategize. In many respects, managers are limited in planning for technological advancements that will disrupt a sales team’s or marketing department’s processes a year from now, or maybe even sooner. That’s what we ask them to do, however.
Zoominfo
JUNE 28, 2018
As a busy recruiter, you don’t have much time in your day to spend reading articles and recruiting blogs. After all, you’re sourcing candidates , scheduling interviews, and combing through resumes. We get that. But there’s something to be said for taking a quick break during the day to catch up on the latest trends, best practices, and breaking industry news.
Anthony Cole Training
JUNE 25, 2018
There are a number of reasons why a person might choose to pursue a career in sales. For one thing, sales jobs tend to be more plentiful and, therefore, easier to find and get. Additionally, even though some of us are more naturally gifted at selling than others, sales is a type of career in which virtually anyone can learn and thrive.
MTD Sales Training
JUNE 25, 2018
One definition of ‘process’ is ‘ a systematic series of actions directed to some end: a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner’. A good sales process will give you a good framework and template for you to follow and apply. So, what steps does a good process follow to give you a chance to be successful? Here are a few: Generating Business: This often includes prospecting and marketing to get business to see you as a viable option for their needs and w
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 26, 2018
Author: Tim Houlihan In an article written a few years ago, Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes of all time, listed 10 rules for maximizing competitiveness. Unsurprisingly, focus was numero uno. In Jordan’s mind, nothing was more important than focus. Without focus, nothing gets done. Focus in communication. Focus allows the brain to concentrate on one thing.
Zoominfo
JUNE 26, 2018
In modern business, data is a hot commodity. Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. But, there’s a reason for all this talk. Data is a critical component of business success—no matter the industry, the size of the business, or how the business operates. Everyone needs data to compete in our modern business landscape—and we have the quotes to prove it!
Hubspot Sales
JUNE 27, 2018
Starting a real estate business ain't for the faint of heart. What other industry requires you to cold call dozens of leads every day -- only to close approximately five deals in your first year (if you're lucky)? By most estimates, 87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. But for those who have what it takes, starting your own real estate business can absolutely give you the seven-figure job of your dreams.
Pointclear
JUNE 28, 2018
Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Not 50 things. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Measure what matters. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. The more senior you are in your organization the more likely it is that you think these actions should be (whether or not they can be) handled by others in your organization.
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!
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 26, 2018
Author: Paul Nolan As CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Rich Horwath works with managers at companies such as FedEx, Google and FOX TV to help them understand the importance of landing on a strategy that everyone in an organization understands and can work to achieve. Now he has put those lessons into a graphic novel, “StrategyMan vs. The Anti-Strategy Squad.”.
Zoominfo
JUNE 24, 2018
In today’s tech-driven world, businesses have constant access to their customers—for better or worse. Think about it, with chatbots, forums, review sites, email, social media, and mobile apps— modern customer relationships are more complicated than ever before. . The importance of improving customer relationships. The most successful companies recognize the impact of positive customer relationships.
Hubspot Sales
JUNE 29, 2018
What Is a Sales Cycle? “Sales Cycle” refers to the specific actions salespeople follow to close a new customer. Sales cycles are often confused with sales methodologies. A sales methodology, such as the “ inbound methodology ,” refers to the framework for implementing the sales cycle. The sales cycle is more tactical, and often includes stages such as “prospect,” “connect,” “research,” “present,” and “close.”.
Close.io
JUNE 25, 2018
Every sales rep hates hearing no. But it’s just part of the job, right? You can’t win every deal and when a prospect turns you down, it’s time to just move on. But hearing no doesn’t always mean you did something wrong. You might just be talking to the wrong person. This small shift in thinking can have a profound impact on your sales outreach and follow-up success.
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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
Jeff Shore
JUNE 28, 2018
By Jeff Shore. Let’s be honest. If you’re in a sales funk you don’t need the same old advice you’ve heard before – think positive; visualize success; start a gratitude journal. That’s all good advice and could be helpful in working your way out of your slump. But I don’t want to talk about slowly inching your way out of a funk. I want to talk about vaulting out of that Godforsaken state and into top performance mode right now.
SBI
JUNE 26, 2018
In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Jill Carpenter , VP of Marketing for Cirrus Insight. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Jill: Cirrus Insight offers a platform of sales enablement productivity solutions, including Salesforce integration, Meeting Scheduling, Attachment Tracking, Drip Campa
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