Sat.May 02, 2020 - Fri.May 08, 2020

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The 5-Point Guide to Overcoming Sales Objections

Zoominfo

If you’re dealing with a sales objections…congratulations! You are working with a decision-maker who has some skin in the game, and they’re taking your proposal seriously. That’s exactly where you want to be. “We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , ZoomInfo’s Vice President of Sales. “You might think that positive language is a good thing, but it’s not.

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The crisis gift horse

Sales 2.0

There are some green shoots of spring out there. Some sales inquiries are finally coming in. Maybe the end of the world is not nigh. Time to breathe again. It’s possible that we are climbing out of the deepest part of the COVID-19 trough from a business perspective. Perhaps it’s time to breathe a huge sigh of relief and get back to partying like it’s 2019.

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Sales Are Stabilized Now What?

Score More Sales

You have leveled out and adjusted to the new reality of selling today. Great job -- but what happens now?

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Revenue Multiplier, Not Cost Center: Why Sales Leaders Should Invest in Customer Success

SBI Growth

As a sales leader, you have most certainly heard the words “Customer Success,” especially if you are a sales leader for a subscription-based technology company. Some companies tout customer success as the critical driver of their growth.

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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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Why You Need Empathy & Emotional Intelligence to Sell Now (+3 Tips)

Sales Hacker

It’s like a sudden punch to the gut, isn’t it? We’ve all been zapped into unchartered territory by COVID-19 , and our personal and professional mettle is being put to the test. For SDRs and marketing teams especially, the old sales playbook is a thing of the past. The seismic impact of COVID-19 has blurred the lines of normal and introduced a new playing field.

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15 Tips for Effective Warm Calling

Hubspot Sales

In 2020, salespeople need to change the way they approach prospecting. First, work your inbound leads. Let your marketing team work the top of the funnel. You don’t have to call all the leads who are just looking for information or education — those leads need to be nurtured, and Marketing is the right team to do it. But what if you don’t have enough inbound leads?

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5 Reasons Why Your Email Marketing Marketing Is Falling Short

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. This may be because people have email fatigue, thanks to overflowing inboxes and endless untargeted vies for their attention. But it’s not time to give up email as a strategic and effective method for reaching your ideal audience.

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Change These Statements to Questions to Boost Your Sales

The Sales Heretic

For the most part, we humans suck at change. We like our routines—they make our lives easier and give us comfort and security. By contrast, change is scary—we have to venture into the unknown. There are no guarantees, which means we might waste our time, money, and effort. Plus, we open ourselves to frustration, regret, [.].

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The Difference Between Effectiveness and Efficiency Explained

InsightSquared

What is the difference between effectiveness and efficiency in sales? When it comes to B2B sales tools, efficiency is prioritized more so than effectiveness. But what do you gain by reps generating more meetings if they are all mediocre at best? Efficiency and effectiveness are both buzzwords popularly used by CEOs and Sales VPs to chart the course of their organization.

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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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When It Goes Sideways – A Book with Swagger

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Sometimes things fall into place even during a pandemic. This coming Monday, May 11, I have the pleasure of having Jeff Bajorek as my guest on the Sales Scrum podcast. It turns out that since that was recorded, he has written a new book you will want to grab. It’s called When It Goes Sideways , a book with swagger. Before we dig in, some of you will know Jeff, he is a consultant, author of The Five Forgotten Fundamentals of Prospecting, co-host of The Why and The Buy Podcast.

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How To Go From Order Taker To Trusted Advisor

MTD Sales Training

Order Taker? Trusted Advisor? Or Cheese Monster? How do your customers view you? From the customer’s point of view there are 4 types of relationships that they have with their suppliers. And if you can progress through each of the stages I’m about to describe below you can really make a huge difference to their business and your own profits.

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The Coronavirus Changes Our Perspective on Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Janis Rozenblats A global pandemic just shut down the world…and reordered it. A pandemic that puts a thin line between life and death before our eyes has changed the way many of us look at our line of work. . . Until this change, there has been a healthy long-term battle between marketing and sales. Marketing has been saddled with delivering leads to sales.

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How to Calculate Total Addressable Market and Perform TAM Analysis

Zoominfo

What kind of grocery shopper are you? Do you take your time, comb every aisle, look at every option and add to your cart whatever looks good in the moment? Or do you plan a little, consider meals you might like to eat, think of a ballpark budget, prepare a list, and aim to get in and out as quickly as possible? A survey by an online magazine Kitchn showed that 97% of grocery shoppers use a list.

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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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Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #8

The Pipeline

Sales Scrum Podcast Episode #8 – Guest Brian Carroll. I have had the pleasure of learning from Brian for a number of years, we were both part of the CEB’s Sales & Marketing Thought Leadership Roundtable , As you will soon discover, Brian brings insights and questions that get, at least me, to think. For those not familiar with Brian, very few I would think, let me introduce.

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How CEOs Masterfully Execute the GTM Strategy

SBI Growth

In the first quarter of last year, SBI published a research report that discussed how gaps in execution often threaten a CEO’s strategic plan. The data collected underscored the point; various studies indicated that somewhere between 63% – 74% of.

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5 Reasons Why Your Email Marketing Is Falling Short

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. This may be because people have email fatigue, thanks to overflowing inboxes and endless untargeted vies for their attention. But it’s not time to give up email as a strategic and effective method for reaching your ideal audience.

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Zoom Becomes Video Conferencing Leader During COVID-19. Why?

Zoominfo

“We do not want to grow too fast,” said Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, in a 2017 interview with Saastr. His reasoning? “Our philosophy is we really focus on making our existing customer happy. We do not aggressively pursue the new prospect.”. The company hasn’t had to do too much pursuing as of late, given that the pandemic—and the worldwide corporate transition to working from home that has accompanied it—has supercharged the demand for what Zoom sells: web conferencing software.

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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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THE 4 TYPES OF QUESTIONS TO CRUSH YOUR DISCOVERY

A Sales Guy

A sales discovery meeting is by far the most important part of a sales process. There is no more important element to selling than the discovery process. Yet, too many salespeople fail at it. They get lost in the questions. They meander from topic to topic, desperately searching for some simple problem or issue they can attach their product to, in order to quickly get to the demonstration or presentation part of the sale.

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Market Share Gain: The Most Viable Growth Play During a Downturn

SBI Growth

As the market (and demand) for a company’s goods decreases, the natural inclination for many CEOs is to cut cost in order to maintain profitability. However, many market-leading CEOs look at a recession as a time to undergo fundamental transformation.

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The Perfect Time to Employ A Subscription Model

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM “While you may be focusing on your direct competitors, they probably won’t put you out of business. Disruption is coming from across the globe, or from a company with a totally different business model.”. Robbie Kellman Baxter’s statement in his new book, “The Forever Transaction,” was written long before COVID-19 became the most potent global business disrupter one could never imagine.

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Coronavirus is Spurring Adoption of Digital Tools – Which are Here to Stay?

Zoominfo

Around the globe, businesses have been forced to make major structural changes due to social distancing and shelter-in-place measures. In response, companies have adopted technologies that remove in-person interactions and encourage a more distributed workforce. Some companies have created whole new lines of business to survive. Companies that haven’t will likely shutter their doors for good.

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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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3 sales enablement myths debunked for senior executives

Showpad

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. Or perhaps some of your colleagues want to talk to you about developing one. . If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. If that’s not the case – if you’re not engaged in sales enablement or your current approach doesn’t meet your expectations and deliver desired results, I encourage you to read this blog post with an open mind and h

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Aligning Your Sales Enablement Charter to the New Revenue Plan

SBI Growth

“Adapt or Perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative” – H.G. Wells. The beginning of 2020 has been the epitome of this famous quote. The Global COVID-19 Pandemic has shaken the economy and organization’s Revenue Plans. Whether it’s continuing to.

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How to respond when buyers say “I need to think about it” (according to data).

Gong.io

What’s worse than hearing “ I’m not interested ,” “ Your price is too high ,” or “ I don’t have budget ”? These six words: “I need to think about it.” . This phrase can come down on you like a ton of bricks. . The deal had legs. The finish line was in sight. You were ready to hit “closed won.”. Aaaaaaaand it’s gone. Or is it…? To find out how this phrase truly impacts deal success, our Gong Labs team turned to the data.

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Coronavirus is Spurring Adoption of Digital Tools. Which are Here to Stay?

Zoominfo

Around the globe, businesses have been forced to make major structural changes due to social distancing and shelter-in-place measures. In response, companies have adopted technologies that remove in-person interactions and encourage a more distributed workforce. Some companies have created whole new lines of business to survive. Companies that haven’t will likely shutter their doors for good.

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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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12 Personality Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

Though hard work is often a factor in success, one’s level of output does not always determine success in their field — and entrepreneurship is no exception. There are many factors that can contribute to the success of an entrepreneur as they launch, operate, and scale their business. These factors can include the timing of their business launch, how competitive their market is, the reliability of their supply chain, the amount of capital they are able to obtain, and the current economic climate

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How CMOs Are Responding to Shifting Economic Conditions

SBI Growth

The infographic below highlights key insights from SBI’s recent CMO survey. See how your peers are adapting their priorities, budgets, and operations to navigate current economic conditions. You’ll find a mix of marketing trends and best practices in the eyes.

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Podcast 146: Behind The Scenes of Searching For My Next Job With Ashleigh Early

John Barrows

Ashleigh Early is a guest we’ve been looking to have on the podcast for some time. She has an amazing story about how she was let go from her job just before Christmas and began her search for her next job. What she did next was very interesting, and we can all learn something from the behind the scenes thinking and planning she did. This episode is a little longer than usual, so sit tight… Follow the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes.