Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. What sort of impact has nurturing had on your sales activity?

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SalesforLife

MARCH 16, 2019

I’ve had two epiphanies lately. The first happened when I was recently preparing for a webinar I conducted with Ray Makela, CEO of Sales Readiness Group.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I have several secrets to preventing and avoiding burnout over a 30-year career in sales. Don’t accept the “December” excuse that most people in sales use to get out of real work. Epiphanies occur to an open mind. 1) Follow the 80/20 rule. Isolate the 20% of your activity that yields 80% of the results or output. 3) Exercise.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2014

After his own personal epiphany, he came to the next and all future customer service training sessions hair washed and combed, uniform pressed and he walked straight with an almost bounce in his step. P.S. Leadership development should be part of any training from sales to customer service to even strategic planning. Share on Facebook.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2018

I had an epiphany pretty early in my sales career. I had been on a sales call to a restaurant, and they asked for a proposal. "The end depends on the beginning (and everything in between).". Yes, we have heard this a thousand times, but no truer words have been said when it comes to developing proposals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

DiscoverOrg’s content strategist, Charity Heller, sat down with Schuck to ask about how he has handled DiscoverOrg’s evolution in the marketing and sales intelligence industry, from a scrappy startup to the industry heavyweight. If it fed the sales team for a day, or a week, or a month – great. BLOG] Hiring SDRs?

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Increase Sales

JULY 27, 2013

Then when things appear to be the bleakest, some of us have an epiphany and realize nakedness is part of the process to reach where we want to be. She is recognized as one of the Top 25 Sales Influencers in 2013 by Open View Sales Labs and can be reached at 219.759.5601 CST. Share on Facebook.

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Increase Sales

MARCH 26, 2016

Last month I had an epiphany when listening to Ari Galper ask this question about content marketing: If you are providing the answer for free in your postings, why would anyone buy from you? Those within executive coaching and SMB sales consulting probably have this desire even more. Now another epiphany happened.

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Pointclear

MAY 23, 2018

By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. of No Response prospects (26) became highly qualified sales leads because of the extra effort taken. What sort of impact has nurturing had on your sales activity?

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Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

My Epiphany of Almost “Damascus Highway” Proportions. Whilst I cannot claim to have experienced an epiphany of “Damascus Highway” proportions, it did cause me to make fundamental changes to the way I conducted business. Published by Jonathan Farrington at 2:12 am under General. One response so far.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

For this generation of the early 21st century, this terrible day will “live in epiphany” as the bombing of Pearl Harbor did for those in the mid 20th century. That day of 9/11 created an “impact memory” for myself and millions of other Americans as well as world citizens.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 6, 2013

Each person I meet when delivering my program, Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions , has such interesting stories to share which are all truly unique. Every time I share this thought with a new group of leaders, I can literally see epiphanies in action on their faces. It’s great! BELIEFS PRECEDE ACUMEN.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 26, 2012

I must have learned something along the way, however, as I still remember the day my growth-challenge epiphany occurred. ” I was reminded of this recently when I was speaking to Tom, a successful salesperson, who, when planning for 2010, asked my opinion on his sales plan. ” or “What’s acceptable?”

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SalesLoft

JUNE 13, 2016

, Craig Elias and Tibor Shanto encourage reps to, instead, practice regular won-sales analysis. For outside and inside sales reps alike, studying wins can be quite complex. For instance, the CRM salesman used as an example in the book had two major epiphanies. Preparing for a Won-Sales Analysis. The Benefit.

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Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But here is the epiphany I had in working with these focus groups and capturing their issues and insights: Customer Relationship Management has been hijacked by software technology. A common theme with delegates in these research groups was that they never ask for funding for CRM because ‘CRM as a dirty word’.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 28, 2014

Sales Tip: Understand the Value of Your Offering to Your Prospect. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. They had an epiphany! Need some help to increase sales? sales tips selling tips sales technique sales tip selling technique'

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Sales Gravy

MAY 22, 2018

When I started in sales with IBM in the late 1980s, cold calling wasn?t In short order, I was drawing in more high quality leads than I?d d ever generated purely through cold calling. What were those techniques? t what most salespeople today know

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Voss had an epiphany of sorts upon leaving the Bureau; he realized that several of the skills he’d learned and honed ‘in the wild’ during hostage negotiations were directly relevant – and essential – to the business arena. The best sales leaders will use the tactics outlined above and appeal to their counterparts’ emotions.

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Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 31, 2014

After selling for fifteen years ago he said to himself that he was “selling like all my competitors,” he had an epiphany that forever changed his life. He learned that to reap the greatest […] The post TSE 082: Learn Why Every Sales Professional Need To Become A Profit Hero Today! appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 12, 2023

Can you imagine saying goodbye to confusing spreadsheets and emails that track partner relationships and sales? Imagine the possibility of your team instantly identifying sales opportunities in your partners’ networks? And this was missionary sales.”

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 19, 2011

” Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.” How do I introduce coaching in a way that they would be open to exploring it?

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Or, the biz card or professional profile on LinkedIn is full of marketing and sales spiel and lingo which appears light-hearted and almost self-deprecating, with pseudo-titles created for what they do. Then again, how many of us see the word “sales person” and arrive at a snap judgment about that individual?

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 14, 2018

During a workshop I taught, a CEO had an epiphany he shared with his team: Most of his salespeople had an annoying habit of losing slowly. The worst possible outcome of sales cycles is going the distance and losing, whether it be to another vendor or to no decision. By its nature selling is a winner take all proposition.

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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Often, value propositions get lost within departmentally-specific silos and marketing and sales campaigns. And that epiphany becomes the key to innovating themselves out of their current, status quo resting state. Now, depending on audience context, an organization can create a variety of value propositions.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 14, 2017

Sales stupidity is not a competitive, professional option. In fact, sales stupidity never was a viable professional or organizational option. For starters, sales stupidity is not confined to the sales profession. For starters, sales stupidity is not confined to the sales profession. Here’s why.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2013

The Four Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank. Lean Sales And Marketing — Making Workflow Visible The Discovery A Virtual Sales MBA Part 2. Busyness Learning Professional Sales Sales and Marketing Tools Time Management' What Are You Currently Reading: The Art Of Imperfection by Veronique Vienne.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2019

Share an epiphany you’ve had in your personal or professional life. Or, contact our sales team today to learn how ZoomInfo uses B2B contact data to drastically scale marketing success. Which business leaders do you like following on social media? What are the best blogs in your industry? How do you maintain a work/life balance?

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 31, 2024

Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the sales manager for a local office equipment company. It was then that I had an epiphany. There is a caveat to this title. They had a policy that, if you were under a maintenance agreement and we were not able to respond within 24 hours, you would receive a $25 credit to your account.

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Openview

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Scaling a sales organization is both exciting and a little terrifying. Having been in sales for thirty-eight years, I know there’s a lot on the line, and a lot of things that can go wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing. Additionally, curating your sales content is critical. It’s not rocket science but it’s work.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 7, 2021

For a long time, the only objectives I used for major accounts were very specific business objectives: “We will increase turnover by X%” or “We will introduce two new programs and increase our profitability by Y%” Then, one day, I had what could only be described as a “minor epiphany” – I began to understand that […]. (..)

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was going to operate as a quasi-independent sales contractor in the electric sign industry. Along the way, I experienced an epiphany. It was 2006 and I was ready to embark on the next phase of my career. I had spent the majority of my life as a B2B manager and owner, dating back to 1977, and now I was ready for a little fun.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 22, 2018

First, when many of us experience this professional epiphany, it takes our breath away. Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales.

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Jonathan Farrington

DECEMBER 8, 2014

From quite early on in our sales careers, we are encouraged to explore every sale opportunity that presents itself. In fact, in some companies, the sales teams are “brainwashed” into believing that “all business is good business.” They insulate themselves by developing strong allies within.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 24, 2015

Sales Tips: Making Sense of Vague Advice. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My sales manager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. It was a mountain to climb.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 8, 2017

This includes inferior products, services, resources, sales processes, CRM’s, closing techniques, technology, presentation tools, your sales cycle even a mediocre sales team. Okay, maybe not the epiphany you’re looking for yet, right? Nothing new and mind-blowing?

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