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The Definitive Guide to Sales Prospecting

Vainu

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5 Key Psychological Biases That You Can Leverage to Drive Sales

InsightSquared

Our biases can make us do silly things. Our biases can also be leveraged to influence our decision-making. The best sales professionals and marketers understand how important it is to study human psychology and use that knowledge to create stories, messages and strategies that drive results. Psychological or cognitive biases are subjective perceptions that we fall back on as we process information.

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Sales Compensation Best Practices to Follow for Success

Xactly

Discover sales compensation best practices to improve your overall sales performance.

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5 Keys for Motivating Your Top Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kevin F. Davis It goes without saying that your top salespeople are the backbone of your team. Sure, they keep the sales rolling in, but they also play a key role in keeping your entire team motivated. When your top few are hard at work, the rest of the team aspires to their greatness. However, those top salespeople aren’t robots – they go through burnouts and times where they just need an extra boost of motivation, themselves.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Opportunity Prioritization – a Key Sales Tactic to Close the Gap on Your Bigger Deals

SBI Growth

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Why Hold A Grudge?

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. The start of any quarter is an opportunity to step back take stock and recommit to your success. The first quarter, however, is a bit different, it is far enough away from the year-end, that you can think, be positive, and have the space to course correct or accelerate your triumphs; it is an entirely different affair the first week of October, when the desperate clouds of Q4 cover the top of the funnel.

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Unconscious Bias Goes Double for Boomer Saleswomen (March Referral Selling Insights)

No More Cold Calling

Does age really matter in sales? “Explain it so your grandmother would understand.”. That’s exactly what the CMO of a tech company said about how to explain your mission statement. I was listening to his podcast at 7:00 on a Monday morning, and I was ready to kick butt. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard the grandmother reference. I’ve heard it for mothers, as well, but never for fathers or grandfathers.

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Sales Leadership and the Questions You Ask

The Sales Hunter

How well do your questions push the customer’s thinking? Sales leadership is about the customer seeing you differently than every other salesperson. If all you do is ask the basic questions that they’ve already been asked a thousand times, how will you stand out? Sales is about taking the customer to a different level. If you just satisfy their basic needs, you are not selling your service to the customer.

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The 21-Day Solution for the Toughest Sales Weaknesses

Understanding the Sales Force

About a year ago, I wrote a very popular article called, Persistence Over Polish , where I discussed the competencies that the top 10% of all salespeople were better at than everyone else. The article identified 5 of the 21 Sales Core Competencies that were the biggest difference makers, showed the gap in capabilities, and explained the impact of having these competencies as weaknesses.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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How a Chief Revenue Officer Tackles Company Mergers

SBI Growth

Today Meredith Kildow, Chief Revenue Officer of Consilio, joins us to discuss the ramifications of being a sales leader and how to design, manage and execute the integration effort when you combine multiple sales forces over time in a series.

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Want to Create Amazing Experiences? Start With Design Thinking.

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Pete Dufner As a creative director in a past life, I witnessed Natasha Jen’s “Design Thinking is Bull ” presentation back at the HOW conference in 2017. That’s why I approached this article carefully, with eyes wide open and BS detectors set on high. (If you haven’t seen her video yet, it’s 13 minutes well spent.). Alexa, what’s design thinking?

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13 Compelling Statistics About Technographic Data and B2B Sales

Zoominfo

Technographic data is having its moment in the B2B sales world. But unlike other passing sales trends, it looks like technographic data is here to stay. For those who may be unfamiliar with the term, technographic data refers to the data points surrounding the core tools and technologies a company uses to conduct day-to-day business. Technographic data provides necessary context to important selling activities– enabling sales organizations to close more deals, faster.

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Monday Motivation Video: What Is the Objective of Sales?

The Sales Hunter

It must be to help others see and achieve things they didn’t think were possible. This should be your goal not just in the workplace but in your life every single day. Help your family. Help your friends. Help the stranger that catches your eye while out to lunch. Be a leader this week by reaching out and helping somebody see and achieve what they didn’t think was possible.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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The Best CROs Must Also Be the Best CPOs

SBI Growth

As a CRO, you’re supposed to be the perfect blend of sales leader, marketing genius, and metrics guru. If you’re doing it right, you’ve got your sales team closing, marketing group cranking out leads and you’re tracking your MCLs all.

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What are the benefits of CRM?

MTD Sales Training

What is a CRM system and what are the benefits of having one? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, and it’s essential that when you are selling your promises of a better future to your prospects, you are able to keep manageable records for those sales. The benefits of CRM systems are manifold, and here we list some of them so you can be assured you’re going in the right direction for the long-term relationship you’re building for your company and your customers. 1) It helps you manag

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Creating a Habit for Success

Anthony Cole Training

In sales, it is critical for a producer to develop behaviors for success and systems to support those behaviors. But often times, salespeople struggle and settle for the results they get because they don’t know how to adapt. In this article, we will review the formula and methodology for change and the key questions every successful salesperson must ask themselves when identifying how to improve their sales outcomes.

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How to Be a Memorable Salesperson Part 12: Answer Buyer Questions

Connect2Sell

In this, the final installment in our 12-part series about how to be a memorable salesperson, we’re going to take a look at one more skill. This one is tricky. It’s sensitive. It’s one that you may not want to admit you could use some help with.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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SBI’s March 2019 CMO Newsletter

SBI Growth

How Does the Marketing Leader Know If They Are Aligned to Sales? Often, companies miss their number because Marketing and Sales are not aligned. As a Marketing leader are you aligned with your sales counterparts? Are you driving towards the same.

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How to Develop a Strategic Plan for Business Development [Free Template]

Hubspot Sales

Business development. It’s usually confused with sales , often overlooked, and only sometimes given the strategic focus it deserves. Having a business development strategy, however, is crucial to long term success and ensuring that everyone in your company is working toward a common goal. But how do you develop a business development plan? Pull up a chair and stay awhile, I’m diving into that and more below.

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How to Make the Most of a Leads Group

The Sales Heretic

Are you using a leads group as one of your prospecting strategies? If not, perhaps you should be. After all, if you’re prospecting for new sales leads, referrals are the best kind. And a leads group can be a very powerful way of generating referrals. Like any other prospecting tool, however, your results depend on [.].

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How to make win/loss analysis more useful

Membrain

Win/loss analysis should be a critical tool for improving sales force effectiveness, yet many organizations only analyze some of their wins and losses, and the focus is often more on the losses than the wins.

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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SBI’s March 2019 CEO Newsletter

SBI Growth

2019 Q1 CEO Research Report Your 2019 strategic plan may already be in jeopardy. Two-thirds of well-formulated corporate strategies fail due to poor execution. In this report, we provide a roadmap for CEOs to identify and close execution gaps across the organization… Get.

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14 Sales Presentation Techniques That Will Help You Close More Deals Today

Hubspot Sales

What makes a good sales presentation? An effective presentation tells a compelling story, highlights your value proposition, and aligns with your audience's needs and desires. It ends with a strong call-to-action. Hate the thought of doing sales presentations ? You’re not alone. But the best reps have sales presentations down pat, even if it’s not their favorite activity.

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What about the Buyer’s Process?

Women Sales Pros

Every sales training program and book about increasing sales offers a sales process. These step-by-step processes help sellers to orient themselves and move through a logical progression from opening the sale all the way through to closing the sale. Having a sales process is a good practice. Knowing and following your buyer’s process is an even better practice.

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Reverse Engineering In Sales, Applying Reverse Engineering To Your Calls & A Quote From Henry Ford

MTD Sales Training

Episode 26: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: The concept of reverse engineering in sales. Reverse engineering your next call. A quote from Henry Ford. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Reverse Engineering In Sales, Applying Reverse Engineering To Your Calls & A Quote From Henry Ford appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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SBI’s March 2019 CSO Newsletter

SBI Growth

Is Poor Execution Endangering Your Sales Strategy? Sales leaders start the year on an emotional high from their SKO, confident in their strategic plan. But conditions quickly change. Unexpected challenges arise.

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A Quick Refresher on Price Elasticity (& How It Impacts Your Strategy)

Hubspot Sales

I know what you woke up thinking this morning: “ I sure could use a quick refresher on price elasticity. ” If you’re shaking your head saying, “ Yes, Meg. Yes! ” then I’m so happy to have met your needs with this miraculous piece. Understanding the price elasticity of your product/service and how it impacts your sales and business strategy is crucial to building a responsive, successful company.

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New in Nutshell: Leave the follow-up to us with personal email sequences

Nutshell

As a great man once said , you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Or, to put it in sales terms, you close 0% of the prospects who don’t hear from you. Anyone who relies on email to start sales conversations understands that follow-up is what separates success from failure. Instead of dropping some bogus stat about how nearly half of salespeople never follow up with their prospects, we’ll just say that a lot of sellers don’t do it, and they’re leaving money on the table.

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