June, 2017

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How to Improve the Efficiency of the Sales Team

SBI Growth

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Sales Advice You Need to Ignore Today

Engage Selling

Selling has changed. Markets have changed. Buyers have changed. Therefore, advice to sellers must change. Sadly, too many training programs have been slow to adapt, and are still teaching skills from “days of yore.

Sales 102
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3 Secrets to Winning the Long Game in Sales Every Time

Sales Latitude

It’s hard to play the long game in sales. Especially since it takes many contact points before you may ever sell to a customer or prospect. And, the long game requires you to do many different things, which at times may seem counterintuitive to making your annual quota. A Quality Pipeline. Your management is always asking where you stand against your quota, how much is in your pipeline, how you rank the risk of the deals in your current pipeline, and other important questions to understand the a

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3 Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Buyer

MTD Sales Training

Your ability to uncover needs in your customer’s business is one of the areas that will make you stand out from the competition. It can differentiate you, your services and your products because it offers a perspective that few buyers may be able to see themselves. That outsider viewpoint can make a big difference to the buyer, as they can often be immersed in the minutia of everyday business and miss the big picture.

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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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[Take the Survey] New Research: What’s Working in Sales Prospecting, What’s Not?

RAIN Group

By: Mary Flaherty and Mike Schultz. If there's a black box in the world of sales, it's prospecting. What to do, how to do it, and what it means to be good at it. And with all the conflicting advice out there, it's especially difficult to figure out where to start and how to get better.

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How Ideation Transformed the Culture of the Largest Bank in the Southern Hemisphere

Planview

89% of Spigit customers are leveraging ideation to create a culture of innovation. That’s a stat we uncovered in our 2017 Business Innovation Report. Establishing a culture of innovation is a hot topic. It’s on the shortlist of strategic initiatives executives around the world are implementing to transform their organizations. However, it takes investment both from a resource and effort standpoint.

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Top Sellers Treat Prospects Like This…

Engage Selling

How much attention are you paying to the way your sales team is engaging with their buyers? Why, you ask?

Sales 95
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Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success: Final in a four-part series

Geehan Group

In my B2B Executive Playbook , I take my readers through the four steps that can simplify strategic planning, focus product development and sales and marketing efforts, and most importantly, create a clear path to market leadership. In this four-part series, Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success, I review the common pitfalls that challenge B2B firms.

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5 Ways To Become The Decision Maker’s Favourite

MTD Sales Training

Many companies we have worked with have measurements to ascertain the satisfaction of their customers with the products they sell, the back-up services they offer and the overall experience that their customers enjoy. However, it is possible that you could have a very satisfied customer who doesn’t use your services that often. It has to be appreciated that satisfaction does not always equal loyalty.

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5 Facebook Techniques That Will Guarantee Your Ad Campaign’s Success

Pinnacle View

In this guide: 1. USE ADVANCED LOCATION TARGETING. 2. IMPLEMENT SMART A/B TESTING. 3. USE THE FACEBOOK PIXEL. 4. RUN ADS IN PRECISE TIME FRAMES. 5. SELL THE SOLUTION NOT THE PRODUCT. Making effective Facebook ads is no easy task. At any given moment, your ad is competing with other businesses for a small portion of a user’s screen. Once your ad is in front of a potential customer, then it’s fighting the hardest battle of them all – the fight for attention.

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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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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? They do one thing more frequently than most. In an article on Business Insider , CEO of Amazon Web Services – Amazon’s cloud computing business – Andy Jassy discussed what makes the massive billion dollar company different from the competition: “When our leaders walk into a meeting, they are looking for a way to say yes.” This tendency to say yes explains how the company has achieved so much since its founding:

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The 4 Steps You Must Take to Stop Collecting Useless Sales Data

SBI Growth

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There is No Excuse For This…

Engage Selling

You read that right. When it comes to objections, there is no reason you should be unprepared to handle them.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success: Third in a four-part series

Geehan Group

In my B2B Executive Playbook , I take my readers through the four steps that can simplify strategic planning, focus product development and sales and marketing efforts, and most importantly, create a clear path to market leadership. In this four-part series, Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success, I review the common pitfalls that challenge B2B firms.

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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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3 Ways Sales People Can Destroy The Fear Of Indecision

MTD Sales Training

Many times, you will get to the position in the sale where you and the prospect are discussing moving forward with your product or service, and the progress stalls because the prospect fears making a mistake. Indecision is caused by people having fears that something will go wrong or another choice may have been better. The word ‘decision’ comes from a root word meaning ‘to cut off’.

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Jeb Blount & Tom Hopkins on Why You Must Write Down Your Goals Video

Sales Gravy

Recently I had the unique opportunity to sit down with Tom Hopkins and discuss the rules of sales. In this short video clip Tom discusses the power of planning and writing down your goals and why you should never give up on your dreams.

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How Ideation Transformed the Culture of the Largest Bank in the Southern Hemisphere

Planview

89% of Spigit customers are leveraging ideation to create a. culture of innovation. That’s a stat we uncovered in our 2017 Business Innovation Report. Establishing a culture of innovation is a hot topic. It’s on the shortlist of strategic initiatives executives around the world are implementing to transform their organizations. However, it takes investment both from a resource and effort standpoint.

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Make Your Number One Sales Call at a Time

SBI Growth

Sales 117
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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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Is This Fear Sabotaging Your Success?

Engage Selling

This common error costs more sales than most sales leaders are willing to admit.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success: Second in a four-part series

Geehan Group

In my B2B Executive Playbook , I take my readers through the four steps that can simplify strategic planning, focus product development and sales and marketing efforts, and most importantly, create a clear path to market leadership. In this four-part series, Avoiding the Pitfalls to B2B Success, I review the common pitfalls that challenge B2B firms.

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5 Easy Ways To Get Your Prospects To Reply To Emails

MTD Sales Training

Getting prospects to reply to your emails can seem daunting. You put it all together, you give details about your products and how good they are, you make special offers, send them all off and then wait for the replies to pour in, with orders attached. Yeah, right! How can you build more chances that you’ll get replies to your emails? Simply by putting yourself in the mindset of the receiver.

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What Are You Focused On?

Sales Gravy

We get bombarded by more information in one day; than my grandmother received in her entire lifetime!! Tweets, voice-mail, e-mail, phone calls, billboards, websitesÂ…So what are you doing to keep your focus each and every day?

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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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Internal Crowdsourcing vs. External Crowdsourcing: How to Determine the Best Solution

Planview

Recently I had a chance to read a terrific article in the most recent issue of the MIT/Sloan Management review about internal crowdsourcing. Co-authored by Lale Kesebi at Spigit customer Li & Fung (watch her awesome presentation at Ignite here to get inspired ), I recommend it to anyone considering doing ideation with an internal crowd. I thought I would spend some time sharing a topic that the article touches on – when is it better to do ideation with an internal crowd versus an external cr

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How to Make Marketing Scientific

SBI Growth

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A Smarter Way to do Loss Analysis | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Most companies take a reactive approach to client retention and that is the wrong way to think about this issue. That means two things.

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What is Customer Experience Design?

ReviewTrackers

There’s no shortcut to creating a great customer experience. It takes a thoughtful strategy, a customer-focused organization, and a design that delivers on your brand promise. In today’s consumer culture, the creation of a great customer experience — and the ability to continue redesigning the experience — gives companies the opportunity to solve problems, improve customer engagement, and build stronger relationships with customers.

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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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Follow These 3 Simple Steps When Trying To Motivate Your Sales Team

MTD Sales Training

Motivating a Sales Team is mission critical to successes. However, it is very easy for a sales manager to THINK that he or she is sufficiently motivating the team simply because no one offers any objection or criticism. Since the sales team is not complaining, I must be doing everything right? Wrong. Now in answering this question, let me say that it may not be what you or anyone else expects to hear.

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Losing Customers: How Much Time Does It Take?

Sales Gravy

ItÂ’s evident that time is a critical factor in completing sales, building and keeping the relationship. Given that, what strategy does your dealership have in place to shorten the time it takes to close a deal?

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? They do one thing more frequently than most. In an article on Business Insider , CEO of Amazon Web Services – Amazon’s cloud computing business – Andy Jassy discussed what makes the massive billion dollar company different from the competition: “When our leaders walk into a meeting, they are looking for a way to say yes.” This tendency to say yes explains how the company has achieved so much since its founding:

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What Revenue Attribution Can Do for the Board

SBI Growth

Revenue attribution is one of the most important KPIs a board member can review. If your CMO is not currently reporting on revenue attribution, it’s imperative that they start immediately. Download our SBI Magazine Special Issue: Revenue Attribution. Revenue attribution involves.

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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