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RIP: Sales Training

SBI Growth

Train them how to use social media to prospect. Smart companies use delivery tools like: Pod casts. Their self-directed buying has them already solving their problem before you show up. Content needs to be written with the buyer in mind. Help sales reps match with the customer’s buying process. 3 minute Videos.

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My Favorite Closing Line

Mr. Inside Sales

I was giving a training today and emphasizing the importance of directing the sale, assuming the deal, and leading the prospect through the close. Smart companies are picking these up now, while they’re available, and not waiting until they go on back order. My biggest clients are thinking ahead and they’re….and

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers. Black, whose best-selling book “No More Cold Calling,” promotes revenue growth through referrals, says you won’t get introduced to prospective customers unless you have a solid business solution and a means to relay that. a story is the way to do it.”

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

Smart companies will increasingly be "brand butlers," focusing on how they can help their customers or prospects to make the most of their daily lives (versus the old model of selling them a lifestyle). Serving is the new selling. As I’ve written in the past , serving is the new selling, and support is the new marketing.

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Forget B2B vs. B2C – Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

In recent years, we’ve seen B2C companies embrace more grassroots-style branding through personalized messaging that zeroes in on the qualities of individual consumers. On the other hand, B2B companies still seem predicated on appealing to the over-generalized “prospective customer.”

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Drowning In Information, But Where’s The Knowledge Or Insight

Partners in Excellence

Or a job change, a restructuring, any number of things give me clues of areas where clients and prospects may be struggling, that I can help. I just got my first “SMART Company Brief” from DecisionLink. It provides an in depth analysis of the company, including things like: Fast facts on them and their performance.

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Seven Sales Leaders on the Challenges They Overcame in 2020 & Their 2021 Predictions

Hubspot Sales

The second layer is encouraging reps to balance empathy with prospects. “[To Instead, focus on the value, so your sales process is rooted in what's good for [the prospect].”. For those in similar sectors, Phil encourages companies to identify and communicate those opportunities and begin acting on them. Mintis questioned.