Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
A successful career in sales is not for the faint of heart. According to a Bridge Group study , the annual turnover rate for sales professionals is 34.7%. When you consider that the average onboarding and ramp-up time for a sales professional is nine months or more, that turnover rate starts to have serious consequences for individual sales teams and the revenue they’re responsible for.
Anthony Iannarino
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
You’ve acquired a contact to act as your champion or sponsor. They are motivated to change, and they are engaged in exploring their options with you as their strategic partner. Things are progressing nicely, but you know that the importance of this initiative is too high for one person to make the decision alone. Other stakeholders are going to need to agree to a decision to move forward.
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Miller Heiman Group
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Only about one-quarter of sales leaders believe that their managers effectively coach and develop their sellers. In part, that’s because sales managers spend less time coaching—14%—than they do on selling, forecasting and administrative tasks, according to our latest study, 2020 Trends in Sales Management. But it’s also because most organizations and sales managers operate from a fuzzy definition of what coaching is and lack dynamic processes that reinforce their coaching practices.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Whether you have too many leads or too few, prioritizing leads is a gamechanger. It’s your secret to finding the diamonds in the rough when you need more qualified leads, without increasing headcount. SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class.
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.
Sales 2.0
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Even cold techniques turbocharged with boatloads of technology get harder-and-harder every day as everyone gets the technology and the arms race for a better sales stack escalates.
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Anyone that has ever led a sales organization of any size has probably experienced the feeling of realizing you are not going to make your number. As a sales leader, this is your primary objective; it is what drives any.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Is there a marketing discipline with more variables than content marketing? For one, content marketers have so many different formats and types of content to play around with. The benefits of producing marketing content are proven — but unlike other marketing initiatives, content is difficult to connect to your typical revenue metrics. Simply put, marketers […].
The Sales Heretic
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Study after study has found that the #1 buying factor is confidence. More than anything else, people choose the brand, the product, and the salesperson they have the most confidence in. Which is why it’s so critical for you to be confident when interacting with prospects: Because confidence is contagious. The more confident you are, [.].
The Pipeline
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
By Tibor Shanto. I see many salespeople march through the first quarter, heads down working their plan. As we all know, Q1 is pivotal; as it goes, usually, the others will follow. Precisely why I think we should be much more hands-on with our pipeline in Q1. It is not too early to consider spring cleaning. We should flush our pipelines a lot earlier in the year than most will want to.
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SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Most CROs and CSOs (let’s call them Growth Executives or GE’s) have grown into a management position over several management roles, but most of their direct reports have not. What should a Growth Executive expect from direct reports, and how.
Connect2Sell
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Imagine your body has a straight vertical line running from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. We’ll call this your midline.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
In this blog post, we dive into the 5 Keys to Successful Sales Coaching & Growth and the idea that data can help you discover real-time information about your salespeople. This data allows everyone in your organization to make real-time decisions and real-time and intentional coaching decisions.
Mr. Inside Sales
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And why would you even want to do this? The first reason is that things change. In fact, someone once said that the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today.
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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
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Today Scott Santucci, CEO of Growth Enablement Ecosystems, joins us to discuss digital transformation and how it impacts revenue growth. Digital is transforming the market as companies like Apple and Amazon reign supreme. The landscape has changed drastically and integrating a successful strategy is no easy feat. There are a variety of ideas and definitions that surround “digital,” and Scott addresses common issues that companies run into when undergoing their own digital transformation.
MTD Sales Training
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Episode 43: Prospects don’t need salespeople, setting goals in the right way, and a quote on perseverance. In this episode we take a look at the fact that prospects don’t need salespeople anymore. Our Skillspill takes a look at setting goals in the right way, especially those which we set ourselves and have full control over. And our Inspire Me quote is all about perseverance and being the kind of person who stands up to challenges.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Achieving the work-life balance sales professionals all hear and dream about starts with having a personal vision and a set of non-negotiable goals.
Mr. Inside Sales
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
I was listening to a client’s closing call last week, and when the prospect asked a buying question, the rep answered it and then just remained quiet. What should she have done? What would you have done? The proper technique here was to 1) Answer the question, 2) Get buy in that this was what the prospect was looking for, and then 3) Either ask for the order OR use a trial close to see if she was getting close to closing the sale.
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Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Author: TJ Macke Sales and marketing are competitions. The more qualified leads you can attract and convert, the better position you’ll have in the race. But sales teams may not be able to focus on finding qualified leads if they need to scale. That’s where sales development representatives step in. A sales development representative (SDR) gathers groups of potential customers and whittles them down to qualified candidates.
Julie Hanson
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Ah the eighties. A great decade for music, parachute pants and PowerPoint! Launched in 1987, PowerPoint revolutionized the way we pitch to clients and speak to audiences. PowerPoint is still going strong 40 years later, but in order to better connect with modern audiences they’ve adapted their style with design tips, sharing options, mobile access, etc.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
What does the term "innovation" mean to you? That sounds like a question you’d hear at a low-rent sales seminar — something that the speaker would ask the crowd and assure everyone that there are "no wrong answers.". So, you raise your hand and the speaker picks you. Then, you give what you think is a thoughtful answer. After you're done, all they do is stare at you blankly before saying "okay then," and asking the crowd if anyone else had a "real answer.
Allego
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Understanding your customer’s wants, needs, challenges and objectives is one of the most important factors in selling success. I learned this as a young salesperson, when one of my sales conversations unexpectedly went awry. It was one of the most important lessons about selling in my 30-year career. That day, I really wanted to impress a potentially big customer.
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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.
Alice Heiman
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
If you’re like most of the CEOs and sales leaders I work with, you probably handle lots of the day to day mechanics of selling, operations, product development, management—and everything else. That is working in the business and not on it. What do I mean by that? All the successful company founders and sales leaders I know were able to 1) grow their business and 2) increase sales revenue by taking periodic steps away from the business.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
How do people feel about your company? You may think you know the answer to this question – your products sell well, you’ve gotten some great customer feedback, and your social media posts garner strong engagement. But, if you don’t actively analyze the emotions and attitudes people express about your brand and products, you might be missing the bigger picture.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Picture this: your company just launched a brand new product that is supposed to be a game-changer for your business. Not only is the product innovative, but it answers a direct need your customers have and your company is planning for it to be a hit with buyers and stakeholders. But how do you know how well your product is performing? Chances are, you have a set of sales metrics and KPIs that you review on a regular basis to track business performance.
The Center for Sales Strategy
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
If you fail two out of every three at-bats in the Major League, you'll end up in the Hall of Fame. If you fail 90% of the time as a venture capitalist, you'll end up being a multi-millionaire—possibly a billionaire. So, why are salespeople afraid to fail? And why do sales managers often berate a salesperson when they fail? If you’re never failing, then you’re probably never winning either.
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Anthony Iannarino
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Creating new opportunities in B2B sales means capturing mindshare , shaping the way clients view their business, their challenges, their opportunities. Mindshare also means consulting and providing advice around the decisions where your business and industry intersect with your prospective client’s industry. While it’s helpful to have your marketing department provide you with insights you can share with your prospects and clients, your responsibilities as someone who provides counsel are
Membrain
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Every year, businesses lose billions of dollars in sales due to bad customer service. In 2016, a survey from NewVoiceMedia quantified the amount of money lost that year by US businesses at roughly $62 billion.
Hubspot Sales
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Being your own boss is great. You have final say in decision making; you get to choose your team, have the potential to earn limitless revenue, and in general, have more freedom than a typical nine-to-five job. It’s no surprise, self-employment has become a way of life for millions of people, with more than 14.7 million self-employed individuals in the US alone.
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