Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

She's already outgrowing 3 pairs each year and these two, which are completely unnecessary, would keep her in fashionable footwear for only a few months. Your teenage daughter, growing 4-6 inches per year, asks for two new pairs of sneakers. An employee asks for a new car, believing that an SUV crossover (not the Maserati in the picture!)

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Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 18, 2013

There are also going to be times where you think you need to come up with something different, new and out of the box but that doesn’t mean you don’t look at simple, old fashioned ways of doing things that worked in the past, like phoning people and sending real letters. We get so used to having what we need at our fingertips.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 20, 2014

Effective tracking tools pave the way for great sales, so when considering what tools to use for your business, you shouldn’t accept anything less than exceptional. They’ll spend far less time slogging through a mess of information and more time actually using that information to turn your business into a well-oiled super-sales machine.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 9, 2014

As with many things in sales, the problem is less with the concept than the execution. While many of the assumptions that go into the value prop are indeed accurate, they are often “proposed” in a very one directional fashion, much like a pitch. Sales Process Tibor Shanto' Proposition –. a plan or scheme proposed.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By using HubSpot’s AI chatbot builder, we enabled our prospects to get answers to their questions 24/7/365, regardless of sales rep availability. Why Use AI Sales Closing Techniques With AI backing up our sales department, missed opportunities became a thing of the past — which is critical considering that sales is a numbers game.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. We will use fewer cold approach techniques.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. Sales requires a lot of skills you can only acquire from experience, but there’s one critical attribute you should start to hone on day one: persistence. How to Use AI for Sales Follow-Ups 1.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 20, 2017

Sales like many other crafts, vocations, or professions, continues to evolve, or should. Some developments come along and become the rave for a while, only to fade after a time when they are proven ineffective, this is the first F, as in Fashionable. And there is no shortage of talk in sales).

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Fourth quarter always poses a dilemma for Sales VP’s. You will see how sales leaders accomplished the following: What initiatives should you focus on? An Iconic Sales Leader. Jim has been in sales for 25 years. 16 of these years in sales leadership. Change in the sales plan is a constant. How Jim Does It.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2021

But most sales professionals don’t approach question in a strategic fashion, meaning going beyond the obvious. Your Swiss Sales Knife. Giving you room to rethink which questions we use to get the appointment, and which to move a sale forward. By Tibor Shanto. And you don’t want that, see the video below to understand.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 6, 2014

The first number is the number of emails I get as a marketing manager each quarter from sales people. The second number is the number of phone calls I get from sales people each quarter. The last number is the number of letters and notes I receive from sales people each quarter. Yes, this is still the Sales 2.0

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Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2021

The pandemic changed the day-to-day processes of the B2B sales organization practically overnight when the world went 100% digital. A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020. Adapting to change at scale.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 5, 2014

Everyone in sales has heard the expression “You are your own worst enemy, or biggest obstacle.” Given this, I am always surprised to see how many sales professionals continue to get in their own way, rather than be a force of progress in their own success. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2013

This post is for Sales and HR Leaders planning 2014 Sales Compensation. It provides a number of common Sales Compensation complaints. Something you’ll need to go with this post is the Sales Compensation Complaint Checker. Something you’ll need to go with this post is the Sales Compensation Complaint Checker.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I always find it amusing listening to sales people or marketing people talk about buyer persona, seems half have no idea what the word means, and if not for fashion could care less. At the same time, another company equated “persona” to title, a great example of someone using “persona” for fashion. By Tibor Shanto.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Salespeople love a great sales pitch. I was at one of my clients’ offices this week, Granite LLC , coaching sales team members and meeting with sales leaders – and heard about the massive undertaking that will be happening on Monday. You can mail one to me at the Score More Sales office. 1931 Woodbury Ave.,

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 16, 2018

Far too many sales reps do. Perhaps if what you’re doing isn’t working, new sales techniques are in order? McKinsey summarizes this challenge in “ The secret to making it in the digital sales world: The human touch.” The researchers write: There’s no doubt that digital is rocket fuel for sales organizations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2019

I was surprised to hear him talk about the fact that his company was now embracing specialist sales roles. The CMO said this “breakthrough” strategy was the foundation of the company’s sales and marketing plans. The days of the sales generalist are over. The time spent with sales is decreasing.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but the phone works. As he puts it: Most sales and customer success leaders try so hard to keep customers satisfied, often by using the vague term: “exceeding expectations,” but meeting expectations does not equal customer loyalty. Stop confusing your buyers. I was so frustrated.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

It seems the word “Coaching” has become one of those fashionable words, permeating every discussion. We see Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, Health/Wellness Coaching, Agile/Team Coaching, Sales Coaching, Spiritual Coaching, Dietary Coaching, and on an on and on.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2017

Will they ever be able to have a conversation or build the kind of relationships that lead to success in account based sales? In fact, it can be a competitive advantage for account based sales teams. Pell also founded Splendora.com in 1999, a style and culture innovator in the online fashion space which was acquired by Joyus in 2011.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2019

With regularity, most active sales trainers and I get the following question: “When is the best time to prospect?”. Either one leads to the same corner of no prospecting and any cross street in sales. Either one leads to the same corner of no prospecting and any cross street in sales. By Tibor Shanto.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

We’ve simply forgotten what we know to be true: Face-to-face cannot be replaced —not in life, and certainly not in sales. In sales, your relationships are your meal ticket. So embrace your inner caveman (or cavewoman), and start connecting with people the old-fashioned way—in person. We’ve simply forgotten.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sales buzzwords are as abundant as bees in summer, and they’re so overused that they’ve lost all their sting. Sales buzzwords are meaningless at best, and annoying at worst. Disrupt, disruptive innovation, disruptive technology: These seem to be the fashionable phrases from 2013, and I say we leave them there. How about you?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Sales organizations need to engage the next generation of rainmakers. Boomer that I am, I couldn’t help but wonder why she didn’t just wait until the break to actually use her phone the way it was meant to be used—to have a real conversation. ” and makes the case for why younger reps can be great at inside sales.

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SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. In the first 6 months he: Did monthly pipeline reviews with every sales manager.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Earlier this week I posted about the how your sales stack stacks up, (couldn’t resist) How Productive Is Your Sales Stack? Exploring how many companies and sales leaders are actually contributing to their team’s’ lack of success by overloading them with “sales tools”, the “Stack”.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It comes as no surprise that one of the biggest challenges sales leaders face is time management. And while there are many articles and time management tools readily available, there’s also the old-fashioned sales calendar.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2019

Yet, in spite of a long and documented history of failures, sales and operations planning (S&OP) consistently shows up as a top-three priority for end-to-end demand/supply chain executives across a host of surveys. In reality, most sales and operations planning efforts are rewarded with frustration.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg In a perfect world, your sales team and your marketing team work side by side to find and close customers. In the real world, however, less than half of companies believe their sales and marketing teams are in any sort of alignment at all. This, in turn, will help smooth the sales process.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This is because prospecting in person—whether at a networking event, an association meeting, or through old-fashioned door-knocking—is just not happening anymore. Prospecting during these uncertain times has been a popular topic. Thus, how do we prospect effectively during these difficult … Read More »

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2017

Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Here are nine sales and business development lessons I learned from a 22-year career in umpiring. A lot of variables impact the sales cycle. Embrace self-criticism.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 10, 2020

But I don’t relate to being an old-fashioned luddite. Let’s reach across generations: Hire a grandmother to speak at your virtual sales kickoff or next sales meeting. Traditionalists (1928–1945) could include me, but I don’t view myself as similar to someone born two decades before me. That would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Author: Paul Gordon, Senior Vice President Sales, Rymax Marketing Services, Inc. Recently I was asked to attend a manufacturer’s sales meeting. Sales meetings are meant to ignite excitement and gusto. By design, sales meetings make team members feel appreciated and valued — they’re meant to boost morale.

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