Sat.Nov 09, 2019 - Fri.Nov 15, 2019

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Selling against the status quo

Membrain

You’re probably all too well aware of the statistic that the majority of apparently well-qualified complex B2B buying journeys end with the potential customer either deciding to do nothing or to change nothing.

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10 Sales Quota Attainment Tips to Improve Performance

Xactly

For sales organizations to succeed, sales leaders must motivate reps to meet and exceed their quota. Here are 10 sales quota attainment tips to improve performance.

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5 Ways to Reduce High Turnover Rates

The Center for Sales Strategy

From prospecting clients to making the pitch, it’s the sales team that brings your business profits. When you work in a profession where quarterly quotas and revenue goals need to be met, you can’t afford a high turnover rate. When meeting with clients, how often are they experiencing sales problems that are often due to extreme turnover on their sales team?

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Are you setting your SDRs up for failure?

Predictable Revenue

Starting out in sales as an SDR can be extremely exciting and rewarding, but also soul crushing when things don’t click. After chatting with hundreds of CEOs and sales leaders over the last couple years, I know they too feel the pressure when things aren’t working because, ultimately, the buck stops with them. But unlike those in leadership positions, a junior SDR tends to be pointed in a specific direction by a superior and will, by default, trust they’re being pointed in the right direction.

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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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7 Signs You Should Invest in Sales Training

Selling Energy

Is your sales team performing at its best? Probably not, but corporate managers tend to overlook even lackluster sales performance as long as company profits continue to climb.

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Why Customer Loyalty Isn’t Always About More Choices

No More Cold Calling

Stop confusing your buyers. I was so frustrated. I was trying to contact a prospect and couldn’t find the company phone number on their website. Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but the phone works. I wasn’t cold calling , I was calling a referral—who, by the way, had no contact information on his email signature. I’ve walked out of many retail stores when no one even bothered to acknowledge I was there.

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You Can’t Afford to Keep Your Old RFP Process: 4 Benefits of Technology

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Beau Wysong RFPs are a pain. There’s really no way around it. Responding to proposal requests is a slow process that adds time to the sales cycle. For many businesses, the RFP process has changed very little over the years. Manual processes tie up the sales and marketing team for weeks as they sift through previous answers to repetitive questions, chase responses to new questions, verify the information and seek approvals, over and over again.

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Holiday Gift Season – Top 10 Ideas for Prospects Clients and Partners

Score More Sales

It is the time of year we traditionally think of a way of thanking a customer or referral partner, and we toy with whether to send a prospect some sort of a gift.

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Make Your Number in 2020: Kickoff the Year in Style

SBI Growth

It’s 1:00pm. You have scheduled a meeting to review your annual objective of driving greater sales efficiency. The goal is simple: improve revenue per sales head. Your solution is to increase available rep selling time by eliminating wasted activity. A.

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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 benefits of social proximity selling

Sales 2.0

In my last post I was talking about how you can greatly increase your prospecting odds by leveraging people you know for an introduction. In this post I am going to talk about how to greatly increase your prospecting odds without an introduction. This approach is all about “social proximity” as Jamie Shanks calls it. Consider this data. Here’s why you should consider adding this “social proximity” approach to your prospecting efforts: In it’s 2014 research rep

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2 Truths and a Lie: High Email Bounce Rates and Sender Reputation

Zoominfo

Email marketing is hard. Some might argue that email marketing is even harder today than it was a decade ago. Whether you agree with that statement, one thing is for sure: email marketing provides different challenges than it did five or 10 years ago. There are so many factors that contribute to the success of an email program, no matter what kind of campaign you’re running.

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What lies ahead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan Casey Stengel said “Never make predictions, especially about the future.” What’s the fun in that? The country, nay, the world, is anxious to see what happens on Nov. 3, 2020. But plenty will occur before and after an expected record number of U.S. voters head to the polls. Business leaders are increasingly asked to anticipate changes that will impact their industry.

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What Big Bets Will You Make to Drive Additional Revenue?

SBI Growth

As budgeting season is in full swing, lofty ambitions for next year’s growth meet the stress of closing the current year on a high note. One of the most significant challenges that a sales leader faces this time of year.

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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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Understanding A Sales Budget And Its Implications To You In Sales

MTD Sales Training

Do any of your prospects talk to you about their sales budgets? If they do, are you fully aware of how they set those budgets and what they use them for? Here, we discuss what it means to set a sales budget, how it’s defined and the objectives of companies setting budget figures. It will help you develop a rounded-out knowledge that will help you when identifying what to do when confronted with a budgeting issue.

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

Zoominfo

People buy from people first, product second, according to Director of Sales Steve Wernke. They want to feel good about who they’re buying from, and they want to walk away feeling good about the deal they’ve just made. They want to feel like they’ve won. So how can you make sure your future customer wins – and feels like they won – while winning business yourself?

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What Is the Cost of An Inefficient RFP Process?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Dave Hulsen Organizations resist investing in new technology for many reasons – concerns about ROI, not wanting to disturb workflow, maintaining current processes – the list goes on. But in the age of digital transformation, each day of delay is a day your business is potentially falling behind the competition. So, it’s important to ask – what could your organization be losing as a result?

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Overcome the Early Success Trap to Solve Your Product-Market Fit

SBI Growth

The following is very much based on a true story – a sad but true story from early 2019. In a company’s first meeting, their CMO announced that they were building a big brand – just like Theranos. Just 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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Are You Using This New Technology to Generate New Opportunities?

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you have Rainbow flatware? Biomagnetic ear stickers? A diamond-shaped ice cube tray? Baby feather wings? Yah, these things exist here. You don't? Me neither.

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The Importance of Critical Thinking: Logic vs. Emotion in Selling

Connect2Sell

Swamped by emotions, sellers can make costly mistakes like these:

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A Better Way to Upsell

Mr. Inside Sales

So, here’s what happened last week: I bought a new car and called a local window tinting franchise to get it tinted. The owner answered, quickly took my credit card for the top tinting package, and then attempted to upsell me to his high priced “car wrapping” package (basically a full body protection package). The problem is how he opened the conversation.

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9 Ways to Create a More Eco-Friendly Office

Zoominfo

It’s an indisputable fact that our planet has reached a climate crisis, and human beings have played a monumental role in the troubling state of our environment. While we can make small changes in our daily lives to be more eco-friendly, we can’t turn a blind eye to the institutions that are doing the most damage to the environment. Commercial buildings, like the one you may be sitting in now as you read this, account for nearly 36% of global energy use and almost 40% of energy-related carbon di

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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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"Gone Fishing" for Sales Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

I’m sure the majority of people have heard the Chinese proverb “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”.

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What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature

MTD Sales Training

Episode 39: What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature. In this episode, we take a look at integrative negotiation. Our skills pill looks at understanding the fears that hold us back. And our Inspire Me quote comes from Christopher McDougall. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post What is integrative negotiation, how fear can hold us back in sales, and a lesson from nature appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Onboarding has long-term impacts

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN I have a friend who started work at a new company recently. A week later, her daughter started her first post-college job. Their experiences highlighted how hiring managers can do better regardless of generation and how onboarding casts a long shadow for how employees feel about a company. What worked. The mother, we’ll call her Maggie, started her first day with a project perfectly tuned to her background and skillset.

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9 B2B Sales Closing Techniques You Can Use Today

Zoominfo

Buyers want to feel good about who they’re buying from, and they want to walk away feeling good about the deal they’ve just made. They want to feel like they’ve won. So how can you make sure your future customer wins – and feels like they won – while winning business yourself? Today we’re exploring this conundrum with nine tips from our top sales closers. 9 B2B Closing Techniques People buy from people first, then product second, according to ZoomInfo’s Director of Sales Steve Wernke.

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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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10X Headquarters is Getting a Facelift—and it’s Pretty Over the Top

Grant Cardone

An inside look at the greatest office transformation in history. Carpets are torn up, walls are coming down, and over 150 employees are shuffling their desks around as Grant Cardone is currently leading the greatest construction renovation in South Florida. 10X Headquarters used to be a part of the old Northern Trust Bank building. It was stuffy, with plain white ceiling tiles and turn-of-the-century furniture.

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Mental Framing: Obstacles are Opportunities

Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

The principal factor in your success will be what goes on within the six-inches between your ears. The way in which you frame obstacles and opportunities will far greater impact your success than either the team you’re on or the territory that you sell in.

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What I Learned Working 400 Straight Days

HeavyHitter Sales

I didn’t plan on doing it and am not recommending you try it. I have worked 400 days straight without a single day off. The Back Story. During the past two decades I have written 7 books and worked as a consultant with 300+ of the world’s greatest companies including Google, PayPal, and IBM. Then I fell in love with one of my clients --the most unique cloud-based software company in the world--  AuditBoard , and their peer-based selling model (read “ No Salespeople, Only Auditors ” and a s

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