Sat.Dec 19, 2020 - Fri.Dec 25, 2020

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Why xP&A is the Future of Corporate Planning

Anaplan

What is xP&A? It’s official – financial planning alone isn’t enough if you want to succeed. That’s what leading analyst firm Gartner revealed in 2020 when it coined the term Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A). According to the global research and advisory firm, “xP&A is a response to the challenges faced by enterprises seeking to […].

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Market Expansion: Three Approaches for Companies Looking to Grow

Zoominfo

You may have seen the TV ads that show the United States largely enveloped in pink. The color illustrates the phone coverage for T-Mobile, which acquired rival Sprint in April. The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses.

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15 Positive Sales Affirmations Every Rep Needs

Hubspot Sales

Working in sales isn’t easy, and I’m sure that isn’t news to you. Even if you love selling, the most seasoned salespeople can feel the pressure of working in such a competitive field. That’s why as a sales professional you need a suite of practices you can rely on to keep you feeling calm, motivated, and ready to take on your next challenge. If your sales self-care toolkit is empty, affirmations are a great place to start.

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The Impact of Your Digital Evolution on Your Customer Acquisition Cost

SBI Growth

The global pandemic has brought about the greatest virtual sales experience ever to occur. Organizations that were staving off digital evolution were forced into adoption, while those that had embraced digital were positioned for success. In a multi-quarter stretch where.

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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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The New SaaS – Santa as a Salesperson

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Many of us are running on two tracks now, closing the year right, and the unusual holidays we face. Rather than pontificate on a finer point of sales, I wanted to add a bit of holiday spice to today’s video. So, I share a discussion I had with a close chum. We bandied about the question as to whether Santa Claus would make a good B2B salesperson.

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Leveraging Data in Your Sales Coaching Efforts

Janek Performance Group

All sales organizations rely on data. Every effort is tracked and measured to gauge performance.

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The Future of Wholesale Distribution

SBI Growth

Consumer behaviors have changed drastically over the past year, with a significant rise in ecommerce. As the supply chain is being disrupted across industries, businesses are reimagining how to go to market, generate demand, and serve customers. On today’s show, Grant.

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Holiday Sale!

Mr. Inside Sales

Still hoping you’ll get what you want this holiday season? Why risk it? Give yourself the gift that will keep on giving in 2021 and beyond: A proven way to make more money, with less rejection, selling over the phone! You want to be more confident and make more sales, and I will help you do that & save money! Save 70% from right now through December 31 st , 2020 on my Bestselling CD Series: “How to Double Your Income Selling Over the Phone.”.

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Making Sales in 2021 and Beyond

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tom Pisello If there's one thing that's true about 2020 it’s that everything changed. From our personal to professional lives, we’ve had to make adjustments that weren't always comfortable at the moment. For sales, 2020 brought on restrictions and social distancing, leading to less face-to-face interactions and remote sales. However, reports show more than three-quarters of buyers and sellers favor remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions and only 20% of B2B buyers say they

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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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Key to Successfully Hiring Salespeople: Getting it Right Versus Getting it Over With

Understanding the Sales Force

I'll get to the content related to the title, but first, some context.

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The Secret to Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we cover the basic principles of control in sales and how the little things are actually the big things when it comes to selling effectively and separating yourself from the competition.

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Launch Into 2021

Grant Cardone

Start the countdown to launch into 2021! What do I mean by that?… 2020 is over and your real challenges are just beginning…. …so we created Launch 2021 a 10X Coaching Program to help you kick off the new year with a BANG ! This NEW and EXCITING coaching program, Launch 2021, will help you lift off on day one so you can reach the heights of success that you deserve and POWERFUL growth that you want.

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Virtual First Impression: 5 Secrets from the Stars

Julie Hanson

Your virtual first impression can make or break your sale. In the first few seconds of a video call, prospective customers quickly make decisions about you and your company and how (or whether) they’re going to listen to you. To ensure you’re making a strong first impression, look no further than your television screen. Most of the stars you see had to audition on film or video to make it past the eyes of critical casting directors and onto your screen.

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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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Market Expansion: Three Approaches for Companies Looking to Grow

Zoominfo

You may have seen the TV ads that show the United States largely enveloped in pink. The color illustrates the phone coverage for T-Mobile, which acquired rival Sprint in April. The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses.

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Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product, So Why Do You Keep Selling It?

Membrain

I’ve been sitting in a lot of deal reviews recently. The clients are in varied businesses, ranging from software technologies, medical devices, capital equipment, electronic components, financial services, and so forth.

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Sales Role Specialization

Partners in Excellence

A couple of people I deeply respect have written outstanding pieces arguing that we have take sales role specialization too far. Amy Volas wrote, “Is Sales Over-segmented,” Bob Apollo wrote, “Has role specialisation in B2B selling gone too far?” (There Bob goes with his “English” spelling.) Both articles are outstanding.

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How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges

Predictable Revenue

Generating and retaining business customers makes you deal with longer (and more complicated) sales cycles, more demanding customers, and huge amounts of data. But don't worry! Here's a little help. The post How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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10 Ways to Leverage Your LinkedIn Company Page

Vengreso

Your LinkedIn Company Page (called LinkedIn Page) is an important branding opportunity that many businesses aren’t taking advantage of. There, you can develop thought leadership, share content from your company’s influencers, reveal your company culture to attract new talent, and increase your company’s visibility! When used effectively, your LinkedIn Company Page can be your business’ content hub—the first thing that your target buyers see when they research your company’s products and services

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How to maximize selling in a virtual environment

Membrain

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that almost anything can be done remotely if it has to be. But is complex b2b sales an outlier? Can you really do everything in a virtual selling environment that you can in-person? And can you do it well?

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How to Define, Calculate, and Manage Sales Backlog

Hubspot Sales

More sales can mean more revenue and a bigger profit for your business. However, as sales numbers grow, companies pass the point of being able to fulfill every order as soon as it's made. The result is what’s known as a “sales backlog.". Sales backlog is unavoidable. No matter how good your inventory management processes are, it’s impossible to fill all demands instantly.

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How to Build Small Business Sales Teams like a Serial Entrepreneur

Nimble - Sales

To build a sales team for a small business is a critical mission, the success of which determines if a small business will evolve into a medium one any time soon, or will die off in the first year as the vast majority does. At the stage, when a business owner is ready to hire […]. The post How to Build Small Business Sales Teams like a Serial Entrepreneur appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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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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Five Steps to Help Your Team Master Virtual Selling

Miller Heiman Group

COVID has greatly affected the buying and selling process. A recent Korn Ferry survey of global sales organizations revealed that virtual selling is here to stay, with fewer than 2% expecting the changes to be temporary. Changes include the addition of more, and likely new, stakeholders entering the buying and selling process. The pandemic has also impacted the length of time it takes to close a deal.

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What Breaks When Companies go From Series A to B?

Crunchbase

In a previous article, I talked about what often breaks in companies and sales organizations when scaling from Seed to Series A. The themes are very similar in this next stage when it comes to having the right people and processes, but what I’m going to dig into here are the specific fail points of companies moving from Series A to B that often aren’t realized or addressed until years later.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to the MEDDIC Sales Qualification Process

Hubspot Sales

Properly qualifying prospective customers is tough. It takes a lot of energy to identify new leads and move them through the qualification process. Sometimes, you may not discover a new lead is a poor fit until after you've spent hours on research and calls. If your sales team is struggling to speak to the right customers or close deals, try the MEDDIC sales qualification process.

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Podcast 178: Darryl Praill & Shawn Finder On The State Of Sales In 2021

John Barrows

Our guests this week are Darryl Praill, CRO at VanillaSoft and Shawn Finder, Founder of Autoklose. They’re talking with John about everything from sales culture, diversity, hiring and firing reps for many reasons, to finding the right fit for acquisition. . Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Spotify. If you prefer to watch than to listen, here’s the full video : That’s a wrap.

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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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This Mooch Is Fine With Me

Grant Cardone

I recently took to the mic and did an interview with Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci on the MOOCH FM podcast where I talked about some things that were challenging for me and what I did to overcome them. CLICK HERE to listen to the show. [link]. You know that I can talk for days about almost anything and I tried to stay on track but if you know me, I get excited so listen to the whole thing because I get deep… One of the things that I talked about was that I am going to be on the show, Unde

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Nimble vs. Salesforce: the Complete Comparison Guide

Nimble - Sales

If you’re responsible for finding a CRM to either implement as your very first company CRM or to find the right one to switch to, we feel your pain. Looking for a new CRM is a time-consuming process, and it oftentimes starts with comparing the market leader to other products. We have a lot of […]. The post Nimble vs. Salesforce: the Complete Comparison Guide appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Flexibility: The Key to Success?

Engage Selling

Could flexibility be the secret to success in 2021? We’re approaching the very end of a year that’s been, well, memorable to say the least. Regardless of how 2020 unfolded for you, it’s safe to say it’s a year nobody … Read More » The post Flexibility: The Key to Success? first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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