Membrain
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
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.
Xactly
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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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The Center for Sales Strategy
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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?
Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
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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Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.
Selling Energy
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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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No More Cold Calling
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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.
Connect2Sell
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Swamped by emotions, sellers can make costly mistakes like these:
Score More Sales
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
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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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.
SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
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.
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
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.
Sales 2.0
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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
Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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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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.
SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
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.
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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?
Understanding the Sales Force
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
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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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.
SBI Growth
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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.
MTD Sales Training
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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.
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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
Mr. Inside Sales
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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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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.
Anthony Cole Training
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
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.”.
Grant Cardone
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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.
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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.
Hubspot Sales
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
In a world filled with sales reps trying to make quota, the same goal remains: close the sale. Yes, as a sales professional, your job is ultimately to sell. However, what if selling for the sake of selling wasn’t your main mission? Enter value-based selling. The goal with a value-based selling approach is to put the needs of the customer first, guiding them through the sales process to make an informed decision to best suit their needs (ideally, leading to the purchase of your product).
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Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Watch this webinar with Rachael Foster, Director of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo, and Dan Dolph, Manager of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo.
MTD Sales Training
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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.
Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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.
Alice Heiman
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
My clients often ask about sales playbooks. Should they have one? What format should it be? What should be included? How many should they have? . To be honest, I have shied away from playbooks because the word has different meanings to different people. Which got me thinking about what a sales playbook is and why you need one. . I talked to my good friend and playbook guru,?
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