Strategic Account Management Association
MAY 9, 2022
By Tania Lennon, Global Space Lead, Talent Assessment and Leadership at ZS and Jennifer Stanley, Partner, North America Lead, Sales & Channel Practice, McKinsey & Company SAMA is proud to offer this 4th article in the 4-part series on the importance of SAM / KAM leadership. In this series we explore the key capabilities that … Continue reading KAM Leader Series: Winning Customer Commitment.
Software Sales Guru
MAY 23, 2022
The Buyer’s Journey The image below depicts the five phases a buyer moves through to recognize a need, assess alternatives, make a purchase, and promote that solution. Buyers move through these stages with no assistance. Moving through the phases is like an element moving through changes of state, from gas, to liquid, to solid. It is primarily an emotional journey.
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Hubspot Sales
MAY 12, 2022
Everyone who's active online has some sort of personal brand established. Social media accounts, websites, digital portfolios, blog articles, and the various ways you communicate all contribute to your unique identity and image. Unaware of your personal brand? Take a few seconds to Google yourself. Whatever content mentions you is part of your brand.
Mike Kunkle
MAY 11, 2022
Sales Transformation. It’s a term that means different things to different people. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. In my experience, the potential for improvement in most sales organizations is significant.
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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.
CMOE
MAY 19, 2022
You can’t have strategy without leadership. Strategy formulation requires a clearly defined vision, long-term goals, useful tools, and a plan to win. But without the guidance of an insightful leader who can drive the process, it is difficult to make any strategy a reality. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 3, 2022
Stop spinning your wheels on lousy prospects! Slow kills deals. Every seller knows (and loves) the feeling of a textbook sales process that goes from identify to closed-won, quickly. The benefits of moving prospects to customers quickly through the pipeline expose several key leading indicators of the health of your sales team and sales process.
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Software Sales Guru
MAY 9, 2022
Preparing To Be a Player As a rule, success depends on practice; hours and hours and hours of practice. It’s true in sports. It’s true in music. It’s true in entertainment. Most professionals wisely eschew seat-of-the-pants performances. In the sales profession, we often enter into a negotiation with little to no preparation. As a result we rely heavily on instinct.
Hubspot Sales
MAY 20, 2022
The demand for sales roles only keeps growing. According to research published by HireDNA, sales roles shot up by 65% in 2021, totaling around 700,000 positions in the US alone. That’s why the HubSpot Academy is partnering with Coursera, the world's most trusted online education resource, to bring you the HubSpot Sales Representative Professional Certification — a five-course career development training for anyone looking to thrive in a new sales role, refine their sales skills, or impress poten
Engage Selling
MAY 6, 2022
Want to boost your sales team’s morale? I don’t blame you. Let’s face it, the top sales teams have no shortage of morale on their side. When you picture a … Read More. The post The Surprising Way to Boost Your Sales Team’s Morale first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.
RAIN Group
MAY 11, 2022
There’s simply not enough time in the day to focus on every essential skill needed to succeed in sales. While sales teams must prioritize skills development, it’s important to identify which skills could have the biggest impact on your sales results.
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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 23, 2022
57% percent of people were reported to quit their jobs because of poor leadership in their organization. Leaders set the tone of an organization's culture. In order to retain a happy and productive workplace, it's integral to understand the value of leadership development. Leaders can be found via a talent search. In other instances, leaders are born through continuous leadership development.
Sandler Training
MAY 31, 2022
Inspired by the transformation that we’ve all seen firsthand in the sales industry over the last few years – from the disruptions of virtual selling and remote work to innovative companies and technologies bringing new alignment between buyers and sellers – Sandler is excited to announce our commitment to further champion the next evolution of… The post ?
Flevy
MAY 11, 2022
Managing any organization can be described as a constant stream of problems that need to be managed and solved. However, oftentimes, people like to immediately implement solutions without having spent the time and effort to truly understand and analyze the true nature of the problem at hand. Thus, organizations end up spending a lot of time, effort, and money without precisely knowing what the endeavor is going to do for them.
Hubspot Sales
MAY 31, 2022
Sometimes, more abstract, behavioral questions aren't enough to get a solid feel for whether an interviewee is right for a role. That's why several companies incorporate experience-rooted, competency-based interview questions into their interview processes — allowing potential employees to back up their personal claims with professional proof. As a job-seeker, you're almost bound to face competency-based questions at some point.
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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
Engage Selling
MAY 13, 2022
????? I recently came across some interesting research from Gartner on the customer engagement shift. They discovered that when a customer is buying a brand new solution, they prefer online … Read More. The post Customer Engagement Shift | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.
Sales Gravy
MAY 25, 2022
Video messaging is hot and it is a core component of effective prospecting sequences because it works! At Sales Gravy we love using video messages to grab the attention of prospects. Our favorite tool for sending those messages is Vidyard. That's why we were thrilled when Vidyard CEO and Co-Founder, Michael Litt agreed to sit down with Jeb Blount, Jr. on the Sales Gravy Podcast to discuss the future of video messaging.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 24, 2022
You waste time! A lot of time. And so do I. It's an epidemic in the world today. One of the biggest challenges that organizations and salespeople face is the lack of productivity while feeling like they work all of the time.
RAIN Group
MAY 25, 2022
Sales tools can help you standardize processes, improve your skillset, and make the best use of your time. We’ve compiled all our free tools to help you succeed—browse below for resources covering every topic of sales.
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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.
Flevy
MAY 10, 2022
For large global corporations, forming productive alliances with promising startups is a far more challenging undertaking than it appears. Global corporations frequently struggle to identify potentially advantageous startup partners. On the other hand, startups face significant difficulty isolating and contacting the appropriate decision makers in the corporations, given the massive hierarchies of global businesses.
Hubspot Sales
MAY 24, 2022
Picture this: a customer needs a home makeover and happily agrees to use an interior design service after a consultation where they discuss the scope of the project, style and design, layout, paint, furniture, decor, and costs. There's just one problem: the business doesn't have an invoicing workflow. The customer doesn't know when payments are due, or how to add additional services from the designer onto their project.
Engage Selling
MAY 20, 2022
Don’t let unapplied knowledge destroy your sales team! I talk a lot about how the sales landscape today is completely different from just a few years ago…and that there’s no … Read More. The post Your Unapplied Knowledge Is a Waste of Everything! first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.
Insightly
MAY 6, 2022
Integrating applications is not new; companies have long been integrating their tech stack using tools like AWS Lambda and Zapier. These are complex tools that work very well. However, the desired user experience is moving to low-code/no-code integration solutions that still support robust builds, while offering reliability, speed, and – perhaps most importantly – ease of implementation.
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.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 10, 2022
Most salespeople will claim to have many happy customers, but can they prove it? Renewals and repeat customers are one thing, but many buyers can live with being content with their seller and stick with who they know because nothing is broken, but what evidence is there of your raving fans?
QYMATIX
MAY 31, 2022
One Useful Example of Predictive Sales Analytics & Predictive Modeling in Excel. One of the critical tasks of a sales manager is to timely identify which opportunities have better chances of closing and what makes a “good” sales opportunity. Getting this job right is the essence of successful sales planning. Key Account Managers in B2B typically serve hundreds of customers and oversee dozens of new and existing sales opportunities.
Flevy
MAY 13, 2022
Solving problems, complex problems at that, involves not only good problem formulation but also a structured approach to complement it. Structured Problem Solving is simply an iterative sequence of framing hypotheses and testing them via controlled experimentation, revamped for the intricacies of the world beyond the laboratory. Structured Problem Solving is a formal, logical, and methodical approach to organizing individuals’ thinking.
Hubspot Sales
MAY 16, 2022
As of March 31, 2022, inflation in the United States stands at 8.54% — the worst it has been in close to 40 years. Obviously, that figure has massive implications for businesses of all sizes, and several business owners are faced with a question that's every bit as uncomfortable as it is pressing: What do we do about our prices? Inflation product pricing is a tricky, nuanced process — how do you keep pace with inflation without alienating prospects and customers?
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.
Engage Selling
MAY 27, 2022
?????? Are you staying away from this sales metric? I wrote an entire chapter in Right on the Money on data. Specifically, about not letting data control you. I love … Read More. The post Stay Away From This Sales Metric | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.
Crank Wheel
MAY 30, 2022
Most people have one form of insurance or the other - health, home, business, or life. Insurance agents seem to have many people interested in their services. However, the competition can get stiff.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 17, 2022
Social selling is on its way to equaling (and possibly overtaking) conventional selling in the near future. One study stated that with more than 3 billion people using social media worldwide in 2021, the customer base is right where social salespeople want them. Way back in 2020, before the world had gone haywire due to COVID and in the early days of the pandemic, Facebook sales by American Facebook users hit over 18%.
Zendesk
MAY 25, 2022
I have been working in CX for six or seven years. But only when I joined Tymeshift did I feel like I’d really entered the CX community, learned the ins and outs, and saw how important it is: not just for me, but for my whole company. Being an active member of the CX community can and will impact your company’s performance: It generates leads and valuable partnerships, and it creates brand awareness when you start getting invited to events, for example.
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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
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