Sales and Marketing Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
80% of salespeople believe virtual meetings make it harder to engage with prospects and 40% believe virtual meetings are costing them sales. Here are four tips to maximize the impact of your virtual sales meetings. The post 4 Tips to Improve Your Virtual Sales Presentations appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Understanding the Sales Force
AUGUST 31, 2024
My wife and I add around 200 plants to our perennial gardens each year. She chooses the plants, decides where they should be placed, and I have the important job of digging holes. One thing I have excelled at in my hole digging responsibilities is cutting into the coaxial cable that makes up Dinger’s invisible fence, rendering it useless. As long as I know where I cut it I can splice it back together again and I have spliced that cable back together so many times that there are more splices th
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Topline Leadership
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Building a better sales team is the most important responsibility of every sales manager. But too often, managers get distracted by the daily chaos of their lives. Here are five steps you can take over the next six weeks that will improve the overall success of your sales team quickly. Week 1: Start interviewing You. Read full article The post Six Weeks to a More Successful Sales Team appeared first on TopLine Leadership.
SBI Growth
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
For B2B organizations to make the right annual planning decisions for 2025, they need to ensure they remain on top of rising sales and marketing costs and slowing commercial productivity. It’s clear that a critical part of the value creation process will require growth leaders to capture rapidly shrinking opportunities if they want to achieve their revenue targets.
Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick
Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.
Salesfolks
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The second half of the year, particularly the period following Labor Day, presents a unique and critical window for sales professionals to drive growth and achieve their year-end goals. As summer winds down and businesses refocus, several factors contribute to this being an opportune time to ramp up your sales efforts.
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Anthony Cole Training
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
An effective sales proposal is less about what the proposal includes and more about what the end result is supposed to achieve. In fact, many sales proposals are delivered much too soon and inappropriately, often generated because the prospect asked to "see what you can do." If a salesperson follows a stage-based sales process, they know that a proposal only follows when the prospect has hit certain milestones in the discovery process, and they will be ready to give an answer, whether yes or no,
Janek Performance Group
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Business loves its buzzwords. Of course, they are typically products of their time and can fall out of favor. “Pulling the trigger” is one such example. Some, such as “BHAGs,” an acronym for Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals, are simply best forgotten. Thankfully, while we don’t hear much about BHAGs today, we do hear a lot about stretch goals. Same concept, better terminology.
Membrain
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In the sales world, we talk a lot about growing your pipeline , qualifying prospects , and closing deals. But if you really want to get out of a rut and win more deals, what you have to do is evaluate your mental models and fit them more accurately to reality.
eGrabber
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
In B2B sales, one of the most important factors for success is your ability to connect with a live person. While technology has made lead generation more efficient, nothing replaces the impact of a real conversation. A recent customer review highlighted how LeadGrabber Pro consistently enables their telemarketing team to reach live contacts—something that sets it apart from Seamless AI.
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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.
Hubspot Sales
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Even when talks progress all the way to a signed contract, they will never be as engaged as they were in that initial moment when a problem arose and curiosity about your solution struck. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list.
Sales and Marketing Management
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
By failing to embrace interactive digital platforms, companies risk losing market share, elongating sales cycles and diminishing customer satisfaction, thereby jeopardizing their competitive position. The post The Strategic Imperative of Delivering Digital Buying Experiences for B2B Companies appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.
Partners in Excellence
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
In a world driven by efficiency, it’s heresy to advocate anything but getting more done in less time. For years, we’ve been obsessed with efficiency. We’ve restructured workflows, leveraging factory models to improve the efficiency at every sales workstation. We implemented processes, methodologies, and technologies that enable us to complete more activities in less time.
Force Management
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Last month, the Revenue Builders Podcast shared some tactical sales conversations that really dig into the intricacies of winning deals, creating processes, and leading teams with confidence. Hosts John Kaplan and John McMahon speak to several specialized experts with deep practical knowledge on their topics, as well as sharing their own insights and experiences from their decades-long tenure as sales leaders.
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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.
Hubspot Sales
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
If you’re looking for CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software for your startup, a third-party review website like G2.com ought to help… Except that G2 returns a list of over 700 recommendations when you search for CRM. That's an overwhelming amount, especially considering you need just one CRM tool. To help you evaluate your options, I reviewed a range of CRM software and identified the best ones.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Dennis Lyandres is currently an Advisor at Iconiq Capital. Before that, Dennis spent 8.5 years with Procore during which time Procore grew from $10m to over $900m+ in revenue and went public on the NYSE. Dennis started at Procore as EVP of Sales in 2014, before moving to the CRO role in 2018 where he was responsible for driving revenue across all customer-facing functions including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Rev Ops, Procore.org and Business Development.
Partners in Excellence
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Continuous improvement is critical to our ability to grow, both as individuals and organizations. Whether it’s to drive higher levels of productivity/performance, responding to changes in our customers or markets, addressing new opportunities, or anything else. We have to constantly be assessing what we do, who we do it to/with, how and why we do these things—and how we improve and do more.
Grant Cardone
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
During Labor Day weekend, thousands of hotel workers went on strike when union negotiations soured. With 25 hotels immediately impacted with more on the way… How will the strike affect the rest of the hospitality industry? What Caused The Hotel Strike? Over 25,000 hotel workers went on strike to advocate for better wages and a […] The post How Much Will Hotel Worker Strike Affect Industry appeared first on GCTV.
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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.
Smooth Sale
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: When Your Plan Fails Create A New Strategy A plan of any type rarely turns out perfect, and worse, sometimes, it doesn’t work on any level. The better approach is to privately examine all avenues leading up to the event to realize a better approach. One tactic is to dive deeper into where and on what level our plan failed and how we can achieve our future vision to move forward on a better footing.
SalesFuel
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The 2024 Talent Trends survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is out. In the report, over 2,000 HR professionals shed light on the latest hiring trends they’ve noticed. They also highlighted how they are using pre-hire assessments to find great people. The Power of Pre-Hire Assessments In the search for quality employees, hiring managers are running into the usual problems.
Partners in Excellence
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Maybe I’m being hard-nosed or lacking in sensitivity, but I’m amazed at how much lack of accountability we accept in performance of people’s jobs. Too often, it seems that we treat many of our accountabilities as optional. The examples are rampant. Things like, using the sales process, maintaining high quality/healthy pipelines, leveraging the tools and technologies we put in place, coaching/developing our people, and on and on.
Grant Cardone
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Marketing is always going to shift and fluctuate depending on what customers are attracted to at any given moment. This year, however, industry experts have been shot into a new branding landscape… With rewritten rules about what audiences are interested in seeing. Here’s a breakdown of what contemporary audiences are looking for. New Branding 101 […] The post How To DOMINATE New Branding Landscape appeared first on GCTV.
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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.
Lead411
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Why LinkedIn InMail Messages Are Often Ignored (And How to Boost Your Outreach with Email and Phone Calls) If you’ve ever sent a LinkedIn InMail and felt like it vanished into a black hole, you’re not alone. Many professionals find that their InMail messages go unread or unanswered. It’s time to dive into why LinkedIn InMail often doesn’t get the attention it deserves and explore why email and phone calls might be your better bet for successful outreach.
SalesFuel
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The value of digital video can’t be beat, according to 50% of advertisers. But that doesn’t mean your client can just utilize video and call it a day. Here are four digital video advertising tips to make the most effective ads possible. Creating the Best Digital Video Advertising Take Advantage of Trends According to TikTok , there’s a set of “universal truths” to mastering digital video advertising.
Partners in Excellence
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The term “coaching” has become a catch all word for all sorts of performance improvement practices. When one enters a conversation about “coaching,” it’s often confusing, we may be talking about apples and oranges–both are important, but they are very different. We engage coaches for a variety of different purposes: Personal development for improving our lives.
Grant Cardone
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Every business requires founders who are focused, determined, and resourceful to make the company work. And when it comes to successful celebrity businesses… The founders are incredibly dedicated and tenacious leaders not only because they have what it takes… But because they are incredibly passionate about what are providing the world. In this article, we […] The post Three Celebrity Businesses To Keep Your Eye On appeared first on GCTV.
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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.
Sales Gravy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
In the competitive world of sales, adopting the right mindset is crucial for success. On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount Jr. sits down with Dre Baldwin, a former professional basketball player in the NBA turned business guru to discuss why sales professionals who adopt an opportunistic mindset have greater long-term success. Key Takeaways - Importance of Personal Initiative: Personal initiative is crucial for success.
SalesFuel
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Sellers who have a personal brand strategy have a distinct advantage over others. The digital world has forever changed the way we conduct business and interact through countless channels. Essentially, your personal brand provides a genuine expression of what you have to offer. To be clear: your reputation and how others see you is NOT your personal brand.
Smooth Sale
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Research Conflicting Advice Before Deciding Our business environment leads to highly conflicting advice, requiring us to consider the pros and cons before making a serious decision. No one answer works for everyone, nor does making claims that may or may not prove accurate. The two topics to which I refer are investment strategies and politics.
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