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Take Your Sales Team from Subpar to Superstar with These 5 Sales Coaching Tips

Sales and Marketing Management

A significant number of barriers stand in the way of effective sales coaching. Here's how to overcome them. The post Take Your Sales Team from Subpar to Superstar with These 5 Sales Coaching Tips appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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A Ten-Day Journey to Becoming the Sales Superhero

The Center for Sales Strategy

Do you ever wonder what it would take to become a Sales Superhero? What would it take to bag every target account on your list? Bruce Wayne trained for 12 years to cross the globe and learn martial arts and forensics. Doctor Stephen Strange trained for 4 years, but he had the forces of Kamar-Taj in his favor! The Center for Sales Strategy firmly believes that you have a few innate sales traits (best discovered through our Sales Talent Assessment).

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The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????????? What’s the right outside and inside sales team structure? I recently had a conversation with an exceptional sales leader I work with. We discussed the growth trajectory of his … Read More. The post The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Book notes: The Sales Acceleration Formula

Sales 2.0

I’ve been using the summer to review some of the classic books in sales and marketing and refresh some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines” described. I started with Mark Roberge’s book “The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million”. The part of Mark’s book I like the most is about hiring salespeople.

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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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Secrets of Influence: The Extra Edge for Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

There's a lot of talk about influencers these days. The Influence Styles Inventory measures a person’s self-reported influence style preference. It's a prism through which to understand others’ influence styles. The post Secrets of Influence: The Extra Edge for Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Cross-Sell and Up-Sell More Efficiently, Part Two

Selling Energy

Every prospect’s needs and desires are unique. In some cases, you may not want to cross-sell or up-sell at all. Other times, it may make sense to use just one method or the other. However, if a scenario presents itself in which you can employ both cross-selling and up-selling in tandem, by all means do it. Not only will you maximize revenue, but you’ll also show your prospect that you are capable of providing a more intelligent solution.

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Pipeline Growth Best Practices

MarketJoy

Sales pipeline management is at the core of everything we do in sales. Every organization has its own approach to sales pipeline growth. However you choose to tackle this issue, the important thing is whether it helps you consistently hit your sales targets. Mastering your sales pipeline is an incredible way to increase revenue because it allows your sales reps to stay focused on selling.

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3 Reasons You’re Not Converting #2: Your Misuse of Focus

SalesProInsider

In your first meeting with prospective clients, who and what are you focused on? Is your focus on the right person and the right topic to help you provide that person what they need to confidently take the next step in your process? This is the next installment of the series: 3 Reasons You’re Not Converting like you should. In the previous installment, I explained that the first reason is a misuse of time during that conversation.

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Sales Training Topics to Drive Results

RAIN Group

If you’re responsible for designing or implementing sales training for your organization, you know the effectiveness of training varies greatly. It might not be implemented properly, land well with participants, relevant to sellers’ daily work, or it might be forgotten completely in the days and weeks following the training. Sales training fails more often than it succeeds.

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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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Forget SEO As You Knew It

Sales and Marketing Management

Search engine optimization tricks are a thing of the past. Today’s SEO boils down to a few best practices under proper site construction and solid content marketing. The post Forget SEO As You Knew It appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Successful Salespeople Understand that the Small Stuff Does Matter

Anthony Cole Training

I will have to agree to disagree with Richard Carlson, Author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. My view is that the little and or small things do matter and often they matter a great deal.

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Are Distractions Preventing You from Achieving Results?

Steven Rosen

Are Distractions Preventing You from Achieving Results? You are a good sales leader and have developed a performance sales culture. You are the key to driving the performance of your team. So, what is preventing you from achieving your goals of both you and your team earning a top bonus? What stops you from getting on the podium with some of your salespeople this year?

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Independent Board Members Validate SBI’s 2023 CEO Growth Planning Survey Results

SBI Growth

Recently, through SBI’s Executive Growth Forum Program, the team hosted an invitation-only event for independent board members to better understand, from their respective lenses, how they view CEOs preparing for 2023. With SBI’s 2022 CEO growth planning survey as the foundation for discussion, they captured critical insights from the board members serving one or more companies with market caps between $500m-$1B, mostly PE-owned companies in software, technology, and business services.

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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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Leaders Don’t Need to be ‘One of the Guys’

Sales and Marketing Management

If you want to elevate your career and have a job with an executive-level title and benefits, lose the sloppy, non-specific language. This simple change will inspire more action and commitment. The post Leaders Don’t Need to be ‘One of the Guys’ appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Setting Up Compensation Plans for SDRs Effectively

Predictable Revenue

Graham Collins joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to set up more effective compensation plans for sales development reps (SDRs). The post Setting Up Compensation Plans for SDRs Effectively appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Do Sales Enablement Professionals Need Selling Experience?

Partners in Excellence

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” It’s a follow on to many of the discussions about “Do sales managers need sales experience?” My immediate reaction to both those questions was “HELL YEAH!!!!” My mind went to all the supporting arguments, things like: How do they possibly understand what sellers face, without having done the job themselves?

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Why Are We So Incurious?

Membrain

If I were forced to identify the single most important capability for anyone, at any level in selling, I think it would be curiosity. I wouldn’t identify prospecting, relationship building, closing, goal orientation, or any of the numerous competencies/capabilities of great sales people.

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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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What’s New: Enhance, Chorus Integration, and Page-Level Intent

Zoominfo

Our most recent product updates span our recruiting, marketing and sales platforms to make sure you’re well-equipped to hit your number, wherever you sit in your company. We’re diving into the latest and greatest from ZoomInfo in the video below, and read on for a more in-depth look at some of our newest features and updates. TalentOS Customers using Enhance to append TalentOS data to outdated or incomplete sourcing lists now have insights into what data and how much data was added to each list

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How to Respond to Sales Objections

The Center for Sales Strategy

Over 13 million people work in sales and related occupations. Yet, not all salespeople are created equal — some of them are better at the job than others. What separates a good salesperson from a great one? Mainly being able to get past sales objections. There is no salesperson who won't come up against these objections, so knowing how to handle them can make or break the deal.

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5 Areas of Focus for Your SKO in the Current Economy

Force Management

Changing dynamics in the economy may demand a strategic pivot for how you reach revenue goals in your sales organization. The challenge becomes identifying which priorities are most critical to devote resources to. Define where to focus and align your organization behind a message that delivers on those objectives. Take action. Leverage your sales kickoff.

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5 Critical Elements of a Modern Sales Enablement Platform

Allego

Ask people what they think sales enablement is, and you will get multiple, varying answers. They might say it’s anything your company does to help your sales team be effective. They might say it’s tools to help reps sell more. And others say it’s the process of helping sales teams. You can’t blame them for their general answers. Sales enablement is an all-encompassing term that involves many components.

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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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Building The World’s Best Firmographic Data Foundation

Zoominfo

The foundation for most successful go-to-market teams is data — but not just any data will do. B2B sales and marketing teams need reliable firmographic profiles of their target accounts that will stay up-to-date amid the rapid pace of change in business. Sourcing a continuous stream of reliable business data isn’t a straightforward process. Data teams continue to struggle with outdated records and fragmented systems that, at best, result in unpredictable sales outcomes.

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Managing Highly Talented Salespeople – Is It Worth the Trouble?

The Center for Sales Strategy

On a coaching call last week, a manager and I were discussing a seller new to his team. On pulling up this person’s sales assessment, all I could think was, “WOW! Look at all that talent!” This person was strong across the board. So much potential. Unfortunately, this seller was definitely not reaching their potential. Struggling, not making budget, not willing to learn, and a poor attitude.

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“Sales Are Math,” Selling Isn’t!

Partners in Excellence

I recently read a LinkedIn post, one of the statements was, “Sales are math.” For a moment I scratched my head, then I realized the author was absolutely correct. The noun form of the word, Sales, is about accounting for a transaction. When I was EVP of Sales, every day I would call my sales ops VP, asking her, “What did we book in sales today?

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Forrester’s 3 Must-Have Sales Enablement Capabilities

Allego

Not enough time. Not enough people. Smaller budgets. Sound familiar? If you’re like most sales leaders, you face increasing pressure for your teams to hit their numbers. At the same time, though, you’re short-staffed, everything costs more (while budgets get tighter), and there never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done. That being the case, more sales organizations are looking for ways to help them do more with less.

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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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Get Growing: How to Retain Customers For Long-Term Growth

Zoominfo

We’ve all heard the adage that it can cost five times more to land a new customer than it does to maintain an existing one. For many B2B go-to-market teams, this rings true — as long as it’s the right customer. Sustainable revenue growth comes when you engage with the best-fit accounts that have the potential to grow over time. And growing a customer account takes special care.

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How to Use Sales Psychology to Change Buyers' Mindsets

The Center for Sales Strategy

As a business leader, you're well aware of the fact that sales can make or break a company. Unfortunately, simply designing a great product or service won't lead to outstanding sales. Industry leaders today are focusing on a more psychological approach to boosting their sales. Read on to learn more about sales psychology and find out how you can use it to change the mindset of any buyer.

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The Importance Of “Flow” In Selling

Partners in Excellence

For several years, I’ve been a struggling student of Tai Chi. There is such elegance in the movements. It’s an important part of my meditation and fitness practices. Tai Chi is actually a Martial Art. I’ve had instructors go through a “fight,” using the slow forms of Tai Chi, then do exactly the same thing at full speed.