The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2020

Sales Scrum was created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines. Herron draws his lessons from his experience as a salesperson, a sales team leader and his active engagement with non-for profits. The post A Discovery Question You Should Always Ask appeared first on TiborShanto.com.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 9, 2024

Transforming your sales approach from a transactional to a relational process mirrors the gardener's journey from planting to harvesting and requires similarly patient nurturing. Here are six steps sales professionals can take to create a flourishing customer base.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 8, 2020

In today's article, I will explain why this problem exists and how it relates to a bigger problem in sales. In case you're thinking that it must be me, I have had success getting plumbers, stone masons, electricians, carpenters, power washers, and painters to the house but those other three categories are the outliers.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

VP’s of Sales and Marketing and Business Unit Heads can relate to this. Can you relate? The formula for business success combines great strategy and effective strategy execution. They are the people in commercial organizations responsible for both strategy development and sales execution. Have the right team in place.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A recent study by the Relational Capital Group revealed that 89% of senior leaders believe that relationships are the most important factor in their success year over year. Similarly, in many businesses, customer-facing employees can’t relate to their customers. They don’t share the same age range, income or professional position.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Humor will also help you deliver tough realities, be they product or price related. Sales Scrum is a bi-weekly podcast series hosted by sales thought leader Tibor Shanto featuring a range of voices from Marketing, Sales and other related disciplines. Sugar Coating.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools. Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 18, 2021

million of those startups are tech related. It's short article Friday. According to NetShopISP, there are about 305 million total startups created globally each year and around 1.35 Did you have any idea the number was that huge?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Five steps that give you a consistent and scientific method to assess sales candidates and hire applicants who have crucial work-related qualities like your company’s superstar sales reps. The post A Scientific 5-Step Method to Hire Superstar Sales Reps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Connect2Sell

MARCH 25, 2020

People are dying. Businesses are hurting. Every single person in the world will be affected in some way – physically, emotionally, mentally, psychologically, physiologically, relationally, financially, or otherwise.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. Not product related, but objective, outcome and impact based. We need to communicate things related to that. By Tibor Shanto. Helping people adopt new skills and habits can take many forms. In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I'll get to the content related to the title, but first, some context.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 9, 2020

Sales Scrum was created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines. Herron draws his lessons from his experience as a salesperson, a sales team leader and his active engagement with non-for profits. Listen and subscribe to Sales Scrum on your favorite podcast outlet.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2021

The key to empathy is to actually identify with and understand a person’s perspective and related emotions. Empathy needs to be more than a feeling, it must be accompanied by actions. More Than A Feeling. That is more than a feeling, and requires more than acknowledgement.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Go on the offence, that label and actions related to it, seems to confuse people. The idea is to ask a series of questions relating to outcomes that would, A) be appealing to them; B) only we can deliver. Remember, you prepared for this meeting, (let’s say), they have not. And that comes through your questions.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2020

Created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines, all published episodes of Sales Scrum can be found here. In this episode, George and I explore some of the faulty assumptions people make in sales, the selection of CRMs, and other areas of selling.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If they can relate to the outcome, and the question is easy to answer, you can move to a conversation. Script for outcomes, remember you interrupted them, so you need to stay ahead of the objection. You have 25 seconds to paint the right outcome, then 6 seconds to ask an impact question.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

When month-end or quarter-end comes and managers are facing reality, they choose the easy way out. Rather than focusing on adding some real prospects, they turn to urgency. They should improve prospecting, not sprint times. Urgency Is Relative. Urgency is a relative thing. For a rep, one deal away from quota or being fired, it is real and palpable.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales Scrum is a bi-weekly podcast series hosted by sales thought leader Tibor Shanto featuring a range of voices from Marketing, Sales and other related disciplines. In each episode, Tibor and his guests explore elements of sales and selling with the goal of creatively addressing complex revenue-related issues.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

Over 60% of marketers surveyed mentioned increasing their budget over the next 6-months to solve issues related to lead generation and analytics. Meanwhile,marketing departments find themselves challenged by how to effectively track ROI and generate more leads. IT Security Spending Trends.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

related concepts are linked. The reminder of one spreads through a network of related concepts, making recall of a particular concept more likely. By directing people’s attention to specific stimuli (Africa, black and white), you can influence what they will say or do next. This is because memories are stored in an associative way?—?related

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The Pipeline

MAY 14, 2019

Leading managers to reach into their past or corporate manual, pick out their favourite metric, then double down on it. Numbers being relative, this may not always be the best plan. As a small change in one sales number can lead to significant changes in unanticipated or untracked ways. Relatively Speaking.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

If your solution can indeed help prospects facing challenges relating to these processes, it makes more sense to start with those, rather than things they were not thinking about when you called. Better to start with something they can relate. Get In Their Head. What is that?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It wasn't expensive and it didn't look great but it drove so well in the snow and ice that he rescued me when the car wouldn't make it up that long hill. The parts of the jeep were more important than the whole. That brings us to OMG's (Objective Management Group) Sales Candidate Assessment.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2024

You can get by without overthinking your plan for relating to these kinds of people. Having fun is part of being alive so definitely have a good helping of these people in your 250 but that’s still going to leave you with plenty of space for a lot of business-related people in your inner circle.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Oftentimes, sales negotiation tactics seem to be related to price – giving or getting the best rate or fees for a product or service. As a verb, negotiate means to move through in a satisfactory manner. In the world of selling, both of those definitions are relevant and important. We call them the 3 Immutable Truths:

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 27, 2019

Otherwise, if they’re in a sales-related field, I’ll often accept. Others screen every invitation; they write to people first and ask why they want to connect. I’m in-between. I view every invitation. If people pitch in their invitations, I ignore them. However, when I invite someone to connect, I always include a personal message.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Even people who do not admit to a need or pain can relate to where they would like to go. Also, having a forward focus allows you to engage with people in pain as well as people who most would describe as Status Quo. The opportunity is not to get lost focus on the wrong thing, current problem vs. beneficial future. Rinse & Repeat.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They are inter-related milestones and they are game changers. It’s easier to reach the decision maker when there is urgency. It’s easier to sell value to the decision maker. It’s easier to create urgency when you are talking with the decision maker.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

Triggering event: A sales rep is alerted when a certain company “spikes” in consuming content related to ZoomInfo’s competitors. This event can occur when a company surges on such ZoomInfo-related topics as “sales leads” or “sales acceleration.” . #3: Competitive displacement play.

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