May, 2015

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7 Ways To Build Value In The Customer’s Eyes (Psst.It’s Not Always About Money!)

MTD Sales Training

A recent straw-poll that we carried out with a series of buyers showed a interesting fact about how salespeople approach concerns that those buyers have. We asked the question concerning how often. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Sales Tip: Give Your Sales Process a Check-Up

Engage Selling

How often are you checking up on your sales process? Learn why regular check-ups are so important for your business! Need new strategies to enhance your current sales process? Get a copy of Nonstop Sales Boom!

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Announcing Our 3rd Annual Guide to the Best Sales Acceleration Tools #TopSalesTools

SBI

If you’re seeking smart tools to drive sales performance, I’ve got great news for you. We’ve just released our 3rd annual Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide. Use this guide if you want to learn about innovative tools designed for all kinds of sellers. Find the best sales tools to: Help salespeople convert more calls into appointments.

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25 Growth Hacking Techniques for your Startup

Matthew Barby

I've worked with a number of SaaS businesses over the past few years with the goal to accelerate growth and […]. The post 25 Growth Hacking Techniques for your Startup appeared first on Matthew Howells-Barby.

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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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What’s Changed in Professional Services Sales? (Part 1)

Better Ways Sales Strategies

Who says “selling” hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years? For consulting, outsourcing and other professional services organization, nothing could be further from the truth. This is particularly true when you consider the impact of the come-and-gone ERP rage of the mid 90’s, the dot.com craze of the late 90’s, the market “free fall” and eventual market consolidation that this decade has brought, and now, the rapid growth of outsourcing demand.

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What Have You Done For Me, Lately - 3 Ways to Engage Your Clients

Sales Gravy

How do you prompt your business to grow? Initiating contact with your clients helps you rise above the distracting crowd. Your company name is quickly recognized and welcomed. You maintain your top of mind position as a part of their home team.

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Sales Tip: Handling Poor Performers Productively

Engage Selling

Don’t handle poor performers poorly. There’s a more productive way to help them recover. Get the details in this week’s video sales tip. Is a member of your team constantly missing their targets? Give them a copy of Nonstop Sales Boom!

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3 Sales Myths You Don’t Want to Fall For

SBI

Sales has institutionalized many tenets since the time it became an organized profession in the late 1800’s. Don’t sell features, sell benefits. The listen to talk ratio should be 70/30. People buy from people they like. Qualify for budget, authority, need, and timing (B.A.N.T). And the list goes on. The art and science of selling has gotten progressively more complex.

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4 Ways To Push The Buying Button Inside Every Buyer’s Brain!

MTD Sales Training

Every person you have ever met has a strategy they use to make decisions. Whether it’s to go for a particular food or to choose a particular career, the way people decide is hard-wired into the parts. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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6 Essential Strategies To Follow When You Lose A Sale

MTD Sales Training

I had the privilege a few years ago of coaching one of the best salespeople I had ever worked with. He wasn’t particularly gifted; he just did so many things absolutely right and proved that the only. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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 Tip: The Right Way to Deliver a Proposal

Engage Selling

I’m a little shocked and appalled by the poor practice I discuss in this week’s video sales tip. Make sure you’re not making the same mistake. Avoid common sales mistakes and implement useful sales strategies instead. Get your copy of Nonstop Sales Boom!

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Sales Tip: Why You Need More than One Pipeline

Engage Selling

I’ve come to the conclusion that most organizations need more than one sales pipeline. What does this mean? Watch this week’s video sales tip to find out. Don’t let your sales team struggle with hitting their targets. Give them a copy of Nonstop Sales Boom!

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Alignment Of Sales Compensations With Goals

Engage Selling

In today’s podcast I’ll discuss the serious problems the arise when you pay your sellers out of alignment with the behaviors required to hit their goals. In today’s podcast I’ll discuss the serious problems the arise when you pay your sellers out of alignment with the behaviors required to hit their goals.

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Don’t Just Set Goals. Achieve Them!

Engage Selling

As a sales leader, I hope you’re setting all types of goals…frequently. You should be setting personal and professional goals, goals for your team, goals for your business and, of course, goals for your sales. But, goal setting in its entirety seems to confuse many people. The amount of individuals who set a vague “goal” in their head, […].

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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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Enforcing High Performance Culture

Engage Selling

Are you finding the best and eliminating the rest? Today I’ll uncover the right make up of your team if you want to exceed your targets. Are you finding the best and eliminating the rest? Today I’ll uncover the right make up of your team if you want to exceed your targets.

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Immune to Sales Coaching?

Engage Selling

They’re hitting and exceeding their targets with no signs of slowing down. Should you even bother to coach your top sales performers? I’ve been working with executives for the last few years on sales coaching practices. I’ve noticed that many executives are on the fence about whether or not to coach top performers. Let me clear […].

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Bringing The Organization Together For Accelerated Growth

Engage Selling

In today’s podcast I’ll share five tips that will bring your company together and create accelerated sales growth. In today’s podcast I’ll share five tips that will bring your company together and create accelerated sales growth.

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Dangerous Messages

Engage Selling

Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of your fear. We have to suffer for our art. You have to move to your uncomfortable zone. These are dangerous messages that equate success with pain and fear. Why would you want to do that? While well intentioned, the authors of such messages are […].

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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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Get Rid of Them!

Engage Selling

Treating all customers equally is not the correct approach. Let’s face it, sometimes our personal relationships go sideways or never were a great fit to begin with. We naturally spend more time with the people we value the most. And, when certain relationships go really sour, or no longer provide us with the same value […].

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Sales Tip: Player-Coaches Do Neither Well

Engage Selling

Player-coaches are almost always a big mistake for any organization. Learn why in this week’s video sales tip! Want a comprehensive guide to creating perpetual sales growth in your business? Give your team a copy of Nonstop Sales Boom!

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Get Your Mind Right!

Engage Selling

Your mindset is typically one of two things. It can either be one of your greatest tools or one of your worst obstacles. The good news is you get to choose which side of the spectrum your mindset sits. If there’s one quality every successful salesperson can share, it’s their overall mindset for success. I […].

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Build a Connection!

Engage Selling

You offer a great service and haven’t received any complaints. Yet, you still feel a void between yourself and your client. Emails and calls are short and to the point, and you may even feel anxious about your client ending the business relationship unexpectedly. You never really know where you stand with your client, professionally […].

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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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It Won’t Close!

Engage Selling

Those feelings of frustration, disappointment, and let’s face it…anger, will often creep up on a salesperson who was unable to close the deal. Even a seasoned seller will feel that empty sensation in their gut when an exciting opportunity slips between their fingers. Now, the worst thing to do after you lose a sale is to allow yourself to […].

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Filling Sales Jobs with Millennials (Part 2)

Engage Selling

Don’t forget to first catch up on part one of this two part series! Nurturing and retaining new talent. Back at Boston Beer, the focus is on retention. “The big challenge for us is holding onto our sales people past the two-year mark,” says Geist. Promotions at Boston Beer often require relocation, which young people […].

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Filling Sales Jobs with Millennials (Part 1)

Engage Selling

A few decades ago, a career in sales was a much sought-after career by young graduates entering the workforce. College seniors would clamor to get on the interview list of on-campus recruiters representing blue-chip companies like IBM and Xerox who were hungry for top sales talent. Today, it’s much harder to sell young people on […].

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I Hire Only Experienced People, I Don’t Need To Train Them

Engage Selling

Today I’ll share the pros of coaching your sellers – even your top sellers – regularly. Today I’ll share the pros of coaching your sellers – even your top sellers - regularly.

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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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“Incentives Drive Behavior” Cracking the Code with Predictive Analytics #CALDC3

SBI

CallidusCloud held their Connections conference last week at the Wynn in Las Vegas. Connections is an annual event for anyone, customers and non-customers alike, who is interested in “discovering new ways to modernize their business and embrace the evolving customer.”. This year was bigger and better than ever with over 70 breakout sessions, keynote speeches from CallidusCloud CEO Leslie Stretch, Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell, and Data Scientist David McCandless.

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A Sales 2.0 Conference With Attitude: My Take-Aways from #S20C

SBI

Conferences are often filled with a room full of quiet, tired people hoping their travel and time away from the office will be worth it. The recent Sales 2.0 conference held in San Francisco was no exception. That is, until Alice Heiman, the Emcee and Chief Networking Officer walked on stage. Her beaming smile and warm, gracious energy sparked a fire.

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How To Use Silence When Answering Sales Objections

MTD Sales Training

I’m asked for phrases on how to respond to objections all the time. But one phrase you could try is by responding by saying nothing! “Your prices are too expensive” says the prospect. You respond with……. Nothing! All it will take is a nano second of silence and the prospect will feel the need to fill in the silence and they will normally fill in the time with the reasons why they feel you’re too expensive and hence you’ll get the information you need to make an informed response to them.

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If All Else Fails, Follow These 6 Golden Sales Tips

MTD Sales Training

I believe in giving my sales team a lot of my time. Why? Well, I believe it’s an investment. And it pays off BIG TIME! . Coaching my team is one of the most valuable ways of spending my time. Whether it’s for input into a proposal, how to approach a prospect or how to structure a deal – I’m there for them. So this got me thinking. If all else failed and I had to give a member of my team only 6 pearls of my wisdom, what would they be?

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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