May, 2012

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3 Detrimental Sales Management Mistakes

MTD Sales Training

Successful sales management requires a plethora of skills, techniques, leadership abilities, motivational cleverness and teaching expertise. Indeed, to be a good sales manager you must do a lot of things right. However, to be unsuccessful in the role of leading a sales team, you need only do a few things wrong. Quick and to the point, here are three sales management DON’Ts you need to avoid. #1 – Fail to Recognise Work Ethic and Effort.

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Great Sales Leaders Have Incredible Sales Cadence - Do you?

SBI Growth

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Don’t Just Sit There:5 Strategies for Proactively Getting Testimonials

Engage Selling

Chris and I try to stay pretty active – running and hitting the gym regularly. I have to admit I chuckle every time I see one of those infomercials on T.V. You know the ones, promoting an exotic piece of exercise equipment promising to deliver incredible results… Results that most will probably never achieve. I actually don’t have a criticism about these pieces of fitness equipment.

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Networking: You’re Not Doing It Right

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet Think about the pile of business cards on your desk, of people that you’ve never really connected with, and certainly have never provided value for. Then think about the number of people who you could be adding to your network; people who could really be enlightened by you and discover your depth (or lack of it). Networking is a non-negotiable in sales.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

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.

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Why we shouldn’t demand (or want) marketing to give us sales-ready leads

SBI

Tweet Sales-ready leads. Marketers, as we all know and understand, are responsible for many critical business tasks. Not the least of which is to ensure that the company’s vision, brand, and most importantly its solutions become not just known to, but ultimately acknowledged by as many of the right people as possible, and that its solutions are recognized as being viable and competitive options.

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How to Become a Top Salesperson

Sales Gravy

"How Do I Become a Top Salesperson? I want to be better but I'm struggling!" Here's what I've found that worked for me. What Works – The Skinny Details Reading Sales / Business / Self-Help Books It doesn’t matter which books.

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Will Inside Sales Become Prominent in Your Industry?

SBI Growth

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Podcast Series: Getting Consistent Results Across Entire Sales Teams

Engage Selling

How to get your entire team performing at the same rate at the same time. How to get your entire team performing at the same rate at the same time.

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The 12.5 Step Formula to Get From FIRED to ON FIRE

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet Looking to keep your present job? What would you do if you were fired today? How would you feel? How would you react? Where would you go? What would you do? Here is my 12.5 step formula to get you from FIRED to ON FIRE. 1. Let your emotions out for 48 hours – not one minute more. Do all your whining, crying, pitying and door slamming until it’s completely out of your system.

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Get these 3 Sales Fundamentals Wrong and it Will Eventually Kill Your Business

SBI

Tweet A few weeks back, I wrote about the sales lessons you can learn from the television show “Kitchen Nightmares.” The main gist of the post was that the problems each restaurant owner suffers from are always both fundamental, and fundamentally the same (bad food being the primary example), and that the problems go unresolved because the owners are in complete denial.

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Sales Presentation: The Best Response to Reverse a Sales Objection

Sales Gravy

Reversing an objection is counter-intuitive, highly effective, and requires superior preparation and courage. Consider the response that requires the most confidence, preparation, quick thinking, understanding, and sales talent.

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How To Leave A Voice Mail That The Prospect Will Return

MTD Sales Training

How do you get prospects to return your calls? Of course, it seems impossible to get a return call from leaving a message on a cold call. However, sales people also have problems getting calls returned from warm calls, or referrals given by satisfied customers. So, what is it that you have to do in [.

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Why Your Top Sales Talent Fails at the Big Meeting

SBI Growth

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Podcast Series: Building Relationships Across The Entire Organization

Engage Selling

Today I stress the best practices for maintaining customer loyalty. Asking for referrals, involving yourself in customer’s personal interests, and business life, and building corporate rapport are all keys to understand. Today I stress the best practices for maintaining customer loyalty. Asking for referrals, involving yourself in customer’s personal interests, and business life, and building corporate rapport are all keys to understand.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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A Short 10 Second Course On Selling

MTD Sales Training

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Do Not Take Your Best Sales People For Granted

MTD Sales Training

Ok, when the sales person started with your firm, you thought that he or she was a prodigy. You then invested the time and money to get the sales rookie up to speed. You eventually established difficult, yet achievable goals and quotas. A Big Deal Finally, the sales person began to hit the mark. The [.

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“I Am Happy My With Current Supplier,” Is NOT An Objection

MTD Sales Training

Every day, I hear from sales people who are confused, frustrated or defeated by facing what they feel is a nearly insurmountable objection: “I am sorry, but I am very happy with my current supplier/vendor. We have been doing business with them for many years and have no reason to change…” This position strikes terror [.

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Powerful Advice For The New Sales Person

MTD Sales Training

You can always find a multitude of tips and tricks for sales people. Sales techniques, closing strategies and prospecting avenues abound. However, I have found that usually these pillars of advice pertain to the sales person who has been with their company, at least for some length of time. I am also guilty of this, [.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Proper Termination Tactics For The Cold Call

MTD Sales Training

There are countless tips, tricks and gimmicks on how to begin a cold call. Of course, the majority of these ideas focus on how to get the call started or how to begin the call. Which makes sense, since if you do not get the call started correctly, it is over. However, what most people [.

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3 Powerful Tips On How To Deal With The Bossy Buyer

MTD Sales Training

While there are as many different types of buyers as there are different personalities, buyers do eventually fall into a few very distinct categories. There is the paranoid, scared buyer who does not seem to trust or believe anything that you say. Then you have the price only buyer, who is only concerned with getting [.

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How To Manage Your Sales Manager

MTD Sales Training

One of the main questions I get from sales people is what to do when trapped under ineffective, negative, de-motivating or otherwise, bad sales management. Being a sales director myself, I hesitate to align myself with unfounded complaints about sales management. However, being, first and foremost, a sales person myself, I must address this issue. Let’s face it; there are some, unethical, under-trained sales people out there that often make things harder for all of us.

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3 Mistakes The Best Sales People Make On The Telephone

MTD Sales Training

Ok, you are a pro. You have been cold calling for years, and despite the trend toward e-prospecting, and e-everything else, you have still perfected the art of being able to pick up the telephone and CREATE business, almost at will. There are a few of us that have no fear of the cold-call and [.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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The Sales Person And The Prospect Want The Same Thing

MTD Sales Training

For some reason, many sales people still feel that they and the prospect are on different sides of the issue. Many sales professionals today still suffer from the outdated thinking that selling is a battle; a contest. The whole though of “winning the sale” is an obsolete concept. Yet, you hear it all the time, [.

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The 3 Most Costly Prospecting Mistakes

MTD Sales Training

Below are three clear and simple mistakes that sales people routinely make while prospecting. Prospecting mistakes are the most costly problems because most sales people and sales management never actually realise the full affect of prospecting errors. What You Can Not See CAN Hurt YOU The problem is that it is much easier to see [.

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One Great Tip For Getting Past A Tough Gatekeeper Screen

MTD Sales Training

If you are going to be successful in business-to-business sales, you must first learn to recognise a clever and sophisticated gatekeeper screen. Then you must learn how to negotiate the screen successfully to get through to the decision maker. Here is a simple yet highly effective technique to help you get past a hard screen. Use this and increase your contact rates today!

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The ABC’s Of Account Management

MTD Sales Training

No introduction or explanation needed here. I am just going to give it to you simple, brief and straight. Follow these A B C s of account management, and you will grow your business! A – Advise If you really did your job in closing the sale, then you were able to elevate yourself from [.

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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Save a Sinking Sales Territory in Exactly 400 Words

SBI Growth

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Sales Managers: Grab 2 more Sales Calls per Week for your Reps

SBI Growth

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Memorial Day: Remembering the Fallen

SBI Growth

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Leveraging Sales Performance Management to determine Cost to Sell

SBI Growth

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten