Connect2Sell
JULY 18, 2018
Your time is valuable. Every precious minute you spend with a prospect who will never be a viable buyer is a minute you’ve wasted. You need to qualify prospects to be sure they’re serious and capable, not just price shopping or browsing. The problem is that empowered prospects are impatient with your qualifying questions.
BrainShark
JULY 20, 2018
AI is helping organizations establish a much higher level of sales readiness, which means reps are closing more and bigger deals.
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No More Cold Calling
JULY 20, 2018
Don’t assume your team knows how to ask for referrals. Tim told me his team was “doing referrals.” He figured they knew how to get referrals because he told them to do it. I asked how that approach was working for him. Dead silence. And therein lies the problem. A big problem. It’s the misguided belief that “telling” translates to “doing.”. The web is replete with articles and webcasts that tell people to just go ask for referrals, like it’s common sense or something.
Hubspot Sales
JULY 16, 2018
Email is crucial to salespeople's success. You invest time in perfecting your email copy, hyperlinking the right words, and placing the right call-to-action. And if no one opens your emails, it could mean your job. That's where subject lines enter the picture. Whether you're trying to connect with an executive, sell a prospect, or simply get a friend's attention, these subject lines influence whether or not those emails get opened -- so you don't want to send a terrible one.
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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.
Zoominfo
JULY 17, 2018
B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service.
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Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 15, 2018
Author: Kostas Chiotis Having a powerful marketing strategy is vital to the growth and success of your business. However, most industries are highly competitive, and if you fail to launch effective marketing campaigns, you may find yourself in hot water real quick. To get the most out of your marketing spend, net exceptional ROI, and increase profits, you need to maximize your marketing efforts.
Understanding the Sales Force
JULY 18, 2018
Some of you might have seen Bryce Harper's incredible last-minute barrage of home runs in the 2018 All-Star game. It's one of the highlights of summer! Today I give you a barrage of my own with three killer videos and a powerful data-packed article.
Zoominfo
JULY 16, 2018
Seasoned B2B marketers know a well-executed webinar is a goldmine for sales leads. Just consider these webinar lead generation statistics: 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say a webinar is the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). 79% of buyers say they will share information in exchange for webinars ( source ). 44% of marketers have hosted or participated in a webinar. 87% of those marketers found it to be an effective strategy ( source ).
SBI Growth
JULY 16, 2018
Joining us on hbspt.cta.load(23541, '39dd4f48-b0ca-486a-9fa5-4e1fb27489aa', {}); is Steve Grimshaw, the Chief Executive Officer for Caliber Collision. In today’s show, Steve demonstrates how a chief executive orchestrates the right level of inorganic growth to maximize the valuation of their.
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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
JULY 19, 2018
Author: Erroin Martin, Vice President of Sales at Conversica “These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers.” – Blake (Alec Baldwin’s character in Glengarry Glen Ross). It’s time for a major upgrade to the way salespeople are depicted in movies.
Sales 2.0
JULY 14, 2018
Today’s post is going to include a few numbers. I’ve actually gone a step further than I’ve gone before in this post and boiled everything down to time, which is the “ultimate currency” for us humans. I collect data on cold calling whenever I see it, as I am fascinated by trying to figure out if there are better ways to prospect. I’ve got three sets of data for you here.
Zoominfo
JULY 15, 2018
Marketers constantly adjust to new content trends and try new tactics to increase the effectiveness of their marketing initiatives. But, new content is only one piece of the content marketing puzzle. The content you created in the past ago doesn’t disappear just because it’s no longer relevant or timely. In fact, out of date content can negatively impact several different aspects of your marketing program—and many marketers don’t even realize it.
SBI Growth
JULY 14, 2018
Taking the above conclusion at face value, it forces a hard choice – drop the price and hurt margin, or maintain the price and sacrifice sales. Rock, meet Hard Place. That sort of choice can stymie decision-making, causing you to.
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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
JULY 17, 2018
Author: Warren Fowler The logic behind an online business is relatively simple – you are trying to acquire as many leads as possible and then convert them into real customers. However, this process is everything but easy. Online sales can face all sorts of problems, with duplicates being one of its worst enemies. Henry Staggers, a CRM specialist at Best Essays, recently noted: “Duplicates are multiple entries for the same person or organization in your marketing and CRM automation software.
The Pipeline
JULY 17, 2018
By Tibor Shanto. On the run this week, so I thought I would share a quick but important thing you should incorporate into your prospecting, followed by a couple of things you need to know about and act on. It’s Later Than They Think. So we have turned the corner to the home stretch, 2 quarters down, 2 to go, and you’re stuck behind “Well it’s summer vacation time you know!
Zoominfo
JULY 18, 2018
There’s no doubt about it—appointment setting is an important aspect of B2B sales and business growth. Landing an in-person appointment with a key decision-maker provides salespeople with the opportunity to respond directly to a prospect’s needs and pain points. Yet, scheduling B2B sales appointments is no easy task. Let’s review why: Complex Buying Committees: Selling to businesses is much more complex than selling to individuals.
SBI Growth
JULY 20, 2018
If you follow our Sales Benchmark Index blog, you have read our take on Revenue Enablement in the recent post “Sales Enablement is Dead – The Best Companies are Embracing Revenue Enablement.”. Revenue Enablement sits under the Revenue Operations group.
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!
Jeffrey Gitomer
JULY 16, 2018
After the show is over, how do I follow–up? Fast. There are companies who fax quotes, confirmations and copies of orders directly from their exhibit booth to the office of the prospect or customer. That's real fast.
Hubspot Sales
JULY 19, 2018
Realtors, you know you can’t be good at your jobs if you’re not plugged into the industry. But you also can’t start a real estate business -- or grow the one you have -- if you’re stuck behind a computer spending hours each week reading. It’s important to get the industry news, trends, and marketing advice you need quickly, so you can get back to what real estate is all about -- helping your clients.
Mr. Inside Sales
JULY 20, 2018
Five Hidden Secrets behind the Price Objection. By Mike Brooks, [link]. Learn the top secrets of closing the sale with proven training, techniques, rebuttals, responses and tips of effectively handling and overcoming the most common price objections. Of all the objections sales reps get, the price objection is still number one on the list. And it makes sense, doesn’t it?
SBI Growth
JULY 18, 2018
There is a large, diverse ecosystem of technologies available aimed at improving sales performance. For those interested in profitably scaling your sales team, three focus areas, within new tech, standout: Artificial Intelligence applied to lead generation & qualification. Algorithms to improve forecast accuracy. CRM.
Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Close.io
JULY 16, 2018
Salespeople are an ambitious group. We want to close more deals. Blast through quotas. Beat the competition. But it’s not just sales ambitions that we set our sights on. We’re also ambitious about moving up in our careers. Unfortunately, in our rush to become great salespeople, most people ignore a critical skill that every startup CEO is looking for: Being a great manager.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 16, 2018
You may recall hearing in one of our videos or reading in one of our blogs the importance of identifying your zebra to build your business. In the unlikely event you did not, the purpose of identifying your zebra is to bring focus and clarity to your prospecting efforts so you don’t end up chasing or pursuing opportunities that aren’t the best use of your most asset. your time.
MTD Sales Training
JULY 16, 2018
Managing Performance for many sales managers is the holy grail – how exactly do you get a disparate group of team members working effectively together to achieve common goals and still keep them motivated? One area we are always trying to improve is the way people perform on the job, and it is vital that we understand the elements that make up an individual’s performance so we can influence them and, ideally, set some parameters for them to work around.
SBI Growth
JULY 16, 2018
If the above is true for you, you are not alone – but the trend is shifting. To skip to the juice, Download the Packaging Services for Revenue Growth Assessment Tool. When we hear “services revenue” we often think of professional.
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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
Zoominfo
JULY 19, 2018
In a recent ZoomInfo blog post, we declared that strategic candidate sourcing was not, in fact, dead. Instead, we proposed that technological advances have simply changed the way recruiters find and retain top talent. Today, we dive a little deeper and explore the modern candidate sourcing landscape. Our hope is that you can use this infographic and the information it contains to inform and evolve your current candidate sourcing strategy.
Hubspot Sales
JULY 17, 2018
Best Time Management Apps. Todoist. Be Focused Timer. Focus Booster. Kiwake App. Loop - Habit Tracker. Focus@Will. Freedom. Noisli. OmniFocus. Forest App. 30/30 App. The days where I feel most productive all have something in common: I budgeted my time well. When I'm at my most productive, I start the day with a plan and stay focused on my to-do list, which means that not only do I get more done in a shorter amount of time, I also produce higher-quality work.
Connext Digital
JULY 18, 2018
Digital marketing is an interesting discipline where marketers get to wear not only the hat of a sales person but also that of a psychologist. It doesn’t mean that they become clinical psychologists who assess mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders though. What they can do is to use psychological principles to persuade customers to their desired action.
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