Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When it comes to icebreakers, “describe yourself in three words” is by far one of the toughest. You’re a complex person, with unique ambitions, experiences, preferences, and traits -- how are you possibly supposed to distill yourself down to three mere words? Unfortunately, get-to-know-you conversations aren’t the only time you’ll face this prompt. LinkedIn headlines are essentially the professional version: They ask you to describe who you are and what you do in just one line.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Sales Leaders miss or make the number one sales call at a time. Yet they typically don’t pay enough attention to each call. They look at each rep’s performance to quota. They review the pipeline. These are difficult to control. Sales leaders can.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 29, 2017

If you’re a longtime Salesforce user, there’s a good chance that you’re miserable at work right now. Despite its reputation as the CRM market leader, Salesforce is infamous for being clumsy, confusing, and overpriced. It’s built for large enterprises—not for the people who actually have to use it. Considering that Salesforce can cost tens of thousands of dollars in technical setup and development before your reps even start selling, our best advice to sales teams is don’t get involved with it in

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Slumps happen to everyone. No matter how good you are or how long you have been in sales, sooner or later you're going to hit a sales slump. And they always seem to come at the very worst times. (Actually, when is it ever good to go into a slump?) It’s never exactly the same, but it sometimes looks like this: You've put a lot of time and energy into a prospect, and thought for sure he or she would say yes—but the person gives you a NO.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Are you blind to the major turnoffs you may be exhibiting to your clients and prospects?

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I have seen and heard tons of techniques and tricks on how to ask for referrals from your customers. But I have to tell you that most of those so-called golden nuggets are actually outdated, old-school pitch-mentality approaches to working with updated, modern and sophisticated consumers. I am going to make this short and sweet, because asking for referrals from your clients should be a natural and comfortable act and not some slick technique.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 6, 2017

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 12, 2017

If your business name makes people do a double-take when they see it, you’re doing something right. We asked 10 Nutshell customers to tell us the origin stories behind their unique business names. Some of them have personal meaning, some have local significance, some were just pulled out of thin air— and all of them are awesome. SplitMango. “Apart from being an available domain name at the time we started out, SplitMango is just a really cool name.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The great sales managers know that if you want to see an increase in performance then you have to set expectations. But just setting expectations is never enough. You need to put a system in place where you can measure what you expect. As the management saying goes, "Your salespeople will respect what you inspect… and you need to inspect what you expect.".

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Sales Latitude

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I still see so many salespeople struggling to truly understand how their customers’ challenges, needs and objectives impact individuals throughout the organization. Your customers and prospects are actual people with both personal and professional needs and goals. They are not buildings or firms. They may not have a product or service, or the right one, to help them attain required results.

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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.

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Want some tips on cold calling? Here’s the cold calling cheat sheet! I must receive about 20+ emails each month that ask me for specific help and guidance on cold calling so here are some top tips: Sound Like A Human Being. Try not to sound like a robotic cold caller. That’s what 95% of the cold callers sound like. You need to sound as though you are just calling up a colleague for a chat rather than a “have I got a deal for you” salesperson!

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2017

One of the most important conversations salespeople have with their prospects is the discovery call. Here lies the proverbial fork in the road for you and your prospect. Either they’re a good fit for your product or service and you can move forward with the relationship, or it’s time to part ways. But it’s not always immediately obvious which path to take.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The ability to read body language signals and respond accordingly is an important weapon in a salesperson’s arsenal. As a salesperson, you should be actively seeking to “hear” your prospect’s body language, as much as you’re listening to the words they’re saying. On some level, we humans naturally pay attention and react to body language. When you see someone smile, you know instinctively that they’re happy (or at least indicating positive feelings to you).

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2017

“I had a really good meeting! But. I can’t get the prospect to call me back!” or “I had such a great meeting, but I never got an answer to the proposal.” I hear statements like these frequently when working with salespeople. They return from a meeting telling their manager how great it was, but then nothing happens. Wishful thinking sets in. Calls get made to the prospect on a weekly basis, managers ask about it in their weekly meetings, and salespeople start saying, “I don’t know what could hav

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Sales Latitude

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I can see the eyes rolling every time the topic of account planning comes up. I can even hear the inside voices of so many sales people. They’re saying, “But it takes me away from my clients.” “It’s a waste of time.” “I only do it because management makes me do it.” You get the drill. So, I provocatively lay down the edict and enunciate in a very loud, strong voice: Don’t do account planning!

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 16, 2017

No matter what you sell, a consultative selling approach is essential if you want to land the business. Click on this link if you’re looking for a consultative selling course. If you’re looking for tips then please read on! For me, it’s all about unearthing the needs, the wants and desires of your prospects and then positioning your product or solution in a way that makes it the only choice.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As a sales manager or leader, your problem probably isn’t too little data. It’s too much data. After all, with the latest tools we can measure everything -- and we do. From the percentage of reps using your CRM and cohort retention rate to average time to hire and sales velocity, there’s a nearly endless list of metrics, reports, and data points. Let’s be honest: It’s overwhelming.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Joining us for today’s show is Matt Slonaker, the Executive Vice President Business Development and Marketing for Chronos Solutions. Matt is an executive leader with extensive experience in turnarounds and knows how to generate revenue growth with the unique blend.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 9, 2017

If your sales team is operating without a sales process, you need to do something about it—right now. Building a sales process is absolutely necessary to your company’s success, and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager to impact your team’s ability to sell. Fortunately, creating a sales process from scratch isn’t as complicated as it seems.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I have been doing sales training and consulting for nearly 20 years and I always get a chuckle when salespeople tell me they need to find ways to close business in two calls. When I hear this today, I wonder where these people are living. Do they live on the same planet as I do? It’s not about the number of calls—it’s about the length of the sales cycle.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 11, 2017

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.". Warren Bennis, Author, On Becoming a Leader. When it comes to sales negotiations, all too often sellers: Don't plan for successful negotiated outcomes. Let the buyer define the negotiation process and venue. Allow the buyer to set the agenda for negotiation-focused meetings.

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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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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A sales manager on one of our leadership programmes was asked what he considered to be his biggest priority at work. We thought he would have said ‘hitting targets’ like everyone else had said on the programme. This sales manager said something rather intriguing. He said that his biggest priority had to be keeping his team motivated and inspired. That was because, if he managed to achieve a highly-motivated team, it was much easier to achieve his targets.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

You may have heard, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” That might be true in some aspects of life -- but over email, sweating the small stuff is exactly what you should be doing. Business email etiquette. Email etiquette rules dictate what’s appropriate and what’s not when you’re sending a message to a prospect, business partner, coworker, manager, or acquaintance.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2017

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Never Ending Value, Evergreen Relationships, Lifelong Business How to create and employ customer and client strategies for continual business with your clients Alan Weiss and I are hosting a live event in February 2018 in South Beach, Miami to help you grow … Read More »

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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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Openview

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing. It’s a complex issue that is always evolving as the marketplace changes.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 25, 2017

It's common advice to minimize emotions in a negotiation. For example, the reading line of the article "Emotion: The 'Enemy' of Negotiation" is "To succeed in negotiation, says one Wharton expert, one must take emotion out of the equation.". We disagree. Emotions are primary drivers of decision making in buying, and primary drivers in negotiation outcomes.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The Sales Director role is considered to be the lifeblood of many companies because of the strategic and operational role they play in the success of the business. Recruiting for the role can be a painstaking experience, especially when there are so many good candidates out there. How can you attract the right one for your business? How can you differentiate the really great from the averagely normal, so you stand a better chance of choosing the right person?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. Not only are salespeople notoriously good at figuring out and exploiting loopholes in the pay structure, but there are tens of different variables to balance. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Salary only. Commission only. Base plus commission.

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