SBI Growth

MARCH 2, 2022

If you are a transitioning sales leader, welcome, the clock is ticking… Faced with rigorous pressure to emerge victorious coming out of the gate, the average tenure for a Chief Revenue Officer is a mere 19 months. Your success will be measured by how well you define and execute the revenue growth for your company. You need to develop a strategy with a clear execution plan that will be ready for the first major organizational interaction, whether it be a board meeting or QBR.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I don’t understand why it is acceptable for a process like cold calling (now often started via email) to work one in a hundred times–or in email efforts one in a thousand times. I used to work for a major semiconductor manufacturer. In the chip business “yield” from a silicon wafer is critical to profitability. Teams of people spend their life pushing to get a few more chips out of each silicon wafer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Whether we're in a recession or not, B2B selling is expected to hit some choppy waters in the near-term future. Here are five things your salespeople need to know. The post Surviving a Downturn: 5 Things Every Salesperson Needs to Know appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Here in the US, this Sunday marked the first Sunday of NFL Football. It's the same (as always) but different (new games). In their season debut, my New England Patriots did their best impression of my Boston Red Sox and lost 20-7. Close game. I've written several articles (same as always) about OMG (Objective Management Group) Tailored Fits/Proofs of Concept where I analyze the differences between a company's top producers and bottom producers to identify the findings/scores that differentiate t

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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.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Thou shalt always remember to ask questions and listen. This commandment is critical if you truly want to be a great salesperson. This video is a part of our new series with Mark Trinkle: The 10 Commandments of Sales Success. Watch Commandment #7 now!

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Starting every sales rep over each year at zero penalizes top performers and rewards bottom performers. It’s important to find ways to reward top performers and maximize inspiration for your team. The post Sales Quotas: The Harm of the Annual Start-Over appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 11, 2022

Sales slumps happen. it's important for managers to know how to help their reps get out of a slump as soon as possible. The post 8 Tips To Help End Sales Slumps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Bernadette McClelland

MAY 22, 2022

When I was a sales rep in Corporate Australia, it was quite common to receive multi 5-figure commissions for selling certain solutions – and most often selling those deals involved a series of detailed stages: Your normal sales discovery calls. Demonstrations. Trials. Workflow blue-printing. Proposal iterations and. Board decisions that seemed to drag on for ever and left you hanging on the edge of your seat.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

5 Ways top sales managers become a sales coach! Sales coaching is the most important sales management activity for driving sales performance. Unfortunately, most managers haven’t been taught how to properly coach their staff. If a sales manager could transform into an elite, top-level sales coach overnight, the impact on sales results would be outright amazing!

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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.

Sales Management

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 13, 2022

There are predictions, and then there’s reality. I’ve never liked predictions. I’m not an economist and I’m not a fortune teller. Yet, we’re asked to make predictions all the time. I understand that predictive analysis tools can be accurate at forecasting business trends and sales performance. But what will happen in 2022? That depends on whom you’re talking to and what their biases are.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

By Tibor Shanto. Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Quota attainment remains under 60%, closed forecasted deals aren’t much better. One has to ask what is being enabled by the new breed of soothsayers. A structured and enabled mess is still a mess. As with most things it is rarely about the what and the how, success is always about understanding why.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 9, 2022

A few weeks ago, SBI Research shared a chart highlighting the reasons why top-performing SalesTech is falling short of desired outcomes after the investment. This has been a significant pain point facing revenue growth leaders and is magnified by the lack of adoption of critical tools. Based on a survey of nearly 100 B2B companies, this week’s chart displays a detailed view of what the typical SalesTech stack looks like and how companies perceive the tools in which they’ve invested.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the most important things I learned early on in my sales career is that attitudes are contagious. My manager told me that when I’m on the phone with a prospect or customer, someone was going to sell someone—either the customer was going to sell me on why he wouldn’t buy, or I was going to sell him on why he should buy. And most of that came down to my attitude.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 23, 2022

I wrote the best-seller, Baseline Selling , so it should come as no surprise that I'm a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan. I'll be at Fenway Park for a game this week and I had some thoughts about how the Red Sox compare to many of the sales teams that get evaluated by Objective Management Group (OMG).

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 21, 2022

While there are many differences between elite salespeople and average salespeople, two of the more important distinctions are the ability to sell value (they can sell at a slight premium on price) and the ability to reach the top levels of the prospect’s decision-making team (typically the C-Suite).

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Score More Sales

MAY 24, 2022

In the B2B sales world, we’re in, I hear a lot about how things have changed.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

OK. I know it sounds like you’re about to read some kind of joke, but alas, no joke! A message, instead. Last week, here in Denver, the temperature got to minus 7 degrees and for a newbie from Melbourne, Australia, it was a tad cold – and we haven’t even hit winter yet! There was a knock at my front door and expecting it to be a long awaited Amazon delivery, I opened the door in the height of enthusiasm, to be greeted by two very good looking young guys.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 27, 2022

Aligning your marketing and sales teams is crucial, as companies with aligned teams are 67% more efficient at closing deals and achieve up to 38% higher win rates in sales. The post How to Align Your Email Messaging With Sales Conversations appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are numerous goal-setting sins, but we focus on five and speak with three experts about why these mistakes can have such a negative impact. The post 5 Goal-Setting Sins to Avoid appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The formula for business success combines great strategy and effective strategy execution. VP’s of Sales and Marketing and Business Unit Heads can relate to this. They are the people in commercial organizations responsible for both strategy development and sales execution. When business units fail to achieve their objectives, they usually do not have a strategy execution process resulting in poor execution.

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Bernadette McClelland

AUGUST 1, 2022

When we say that we buy on emotions and back it up with logic how does that actually play out? I mean, I go to the supermarket and buy the usual stuff – toilet paper, toothpaste, milk, vegetables and maybe the odd chocolate bar (that I make my husband and I share because that way there’s less calories!) but outside the chocolate, where do emotions come into what I buy?

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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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Bernadette McClelland

JULY 19, 2022

I’ve been off the grid pretty much for the majority of the past twelve months. Oh, sure I’ve posted articles and posts here and there and curated and commented on my colleagues posts, but something else has been at play. I’ve needed to find my groove, get my mojo back and step into the brilliance that I know I have to offer. Have you ever had those moments?

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Bernadette McClelland

JULY 11, 2022

What was the last story that connected you with a stranger? How do you know you connected? I love the meaning that Donna Pisacano Brown gave to connection. She wrote, . Human connection is an energy exchange between people who are paying attention to each other. And when they do they are able to deepen connection, inspire change, move each other to action and build trust. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Mental wellness in the stressful world of B2B sales is vital for peak performance. There are steps that managers and employees can take to ensure a better frame of mind. The post How to Balance Success With Your Mental Well-Being While Working in Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 18, 2022

Customer health dashboards are one of the critical keys to durable revenue growth. However, creating an effective customer health score and supporting dashboard is not a one-time project. The post 6 Steps to Launching Your Customer Health Dashboard appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2022

Sales trainer Amy Franko shares highlights from a webinar she presented recently for SMM Connect on the most important metrics for sales managers to monitor. She talks about how she goes to market and how companies can be smarter buyers of sales training. The post The Sales Metrics That Every Manager Should Be Tracking appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s been said that people will run really fast for two reasons: to win a gold medal and to get away from a German Shepherd. Only one of these reasons, however, generates sustained success. Can you guess which one? The post Are You a Gold Medal Sales Manager? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 24, 2022

As B2B customers keep raising their expectations for custom-tailored interactions with brands and vendors, it’s time for sales teams to develop experiential customer acquisition programs that increase engagement and conversion. The post Experiential Sales: The Strategy of the Future That’s Here Today appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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