Sat.May 16, 2020 - Fri.May 22, 2020

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4 Ways Inside Sales Can Enhance Customer Experience

SBI Growth

Whether you are about to go on a first date or preparing for a discovery call with a prospect – first impressions matter. Regardless if it is from their initial website visit to their first discovery call, the prospects’ experience.

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Staying Focused During These Times

Engage Selling

What are you doing to stay focused during these times? Right now, it can be easy to give into the negativity of everything going on.

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7 Common Virtual Networking Mistakes to Avoid

Hubspot Sales

Whether you are settling into your first entry-level role or are a seasoned professional, you don’t need me to tell you building a strong network is essential for your career — chances are you’ve already been positively impacted by a professional relationship in some way. Beyond having a strong professional network to rely on for mentorship or to help you land your next opportunity, connections with others are essential for our overall health and well-being.

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8 Characteristics of a Winning Sales Coach

The Center for Sales Strategy

There are several resources readily available with information on what it takes to be a great sales coach and manager of people. We often talk with managers who want to hire top-notch sales coaches and the list of their requirements is usually a long one—including experience, past successes, and “must have” talents. It’s definitely a hire you want to get right!

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Projecting a Professional Image Online: Your Virtual Meeting Prep List

RAIN Group

There’s a lot to think about when it comes to selling virtually. Projecting a professional image in your virtual meetings is an important (and often overlooked) factor to consider. Here we provide guidelines and tips specifically focused on projecting a professional image in your virtual sales meetings grouped in the following five categories: Video.

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3 key factors that impact your customer churn rate

Nutshell

Churn rate, the loss of customers over a specified period of time, is one of the most important metrics a company can track. Churn rate has a profound impact on a company’s revenue. When most people think about losses, they’re thinking about things like overhead, ad campaigns, the marketing team’s frequent partying, that sort of thing: Looking for cash that has been spent and the investment it has (or hasn’t) returned.

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Weekly Roundup: State of Sales 2020, Hire Great Sales Talent + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.". -Clement Stone. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Introducing the State of Sales 2020– LinkedIn. In their fourth annual LinkedIn State of Sales report, U.S. edition, they've identified some of the sales trends that have emerged in these challenging times.

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The 10 Immutable Laws Every Business Needs to Follow

Jermaine Edwards

Do you really want to be in the same place with your customers six months from now? No one does! Yet thousands of professionals feel that frustration or deep knowing that they should be getting more from their relationships, not just for themselves but for their business and their customers. From my study of 30 years of customer history and behavioural psychology, there have been principles hidden in plain sight being executed by professionals and organisations around the world, maybe without kn

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Website Activity: The Tools and Tactics to Track It

Hubspot Sales

Remember middle school science fairs? You know, the ones where you conducted your own experiment outside of school and presented your findings on a tri-fold cardboard poster in the gym. They're where you do something like try to measure whether room temperature impacts how often crickets chirp — only to find out that it's impossible to measure how many times 50 crickets you got at PetCo chirp per minute.

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5 Easy Growth Hacks You Can Implement Today Without a Developer

Groove HQ

You don’t need dedicated resources or a team of engineers to execute growth hacks. Here are 5 you can implement on your own. I had been emailing back and forth with a reader. He asked me for advice about getting traffic, and I suggested he start a blog to attract readers. His immediate reaction was […]. The post 5 Easy Growth Hacks You Can Implement Today Without a Developer appeared first on Groove Blog.

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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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How Making Assumptions Can Cost You the Sale | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

We were taught at a very early age to never make assumptions. However, I still encounter salespeople who make assumptions all the time.

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The 10 immutable laws every business needs to follow

Jermaine Edwards

Do you really want to be in the same place with your customers six months from now? No one does! Yet thousands of professionals feel that frustration or deep knowing that they should be getting more from their relationships, not just for themselves but for their business and their customers. From my study of 30 years of customer history and behavioural psychology, there have been principles hidden in plain sight being executed by professionals and organisations around the world, maybe without kn

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How to Choose the Right Accounts for ABM, from HubSpot's ABM Product Manager

Hubspot Sales

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is hot right now. According to HubSpot's State of Marketing Report, more than 67% of brands are leveraging it in 2020. ABM has been top of mind for several years, but the many businesses (SMBs in particular) have yet to implement any formal ABM strategy. Why? Because companies get stuck. Of all the steps involved with starting an ABM strategy, the one that usually stops people in their tracks is picking the best target accounts.

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How a CRO Is Leading a Global Team of Thousands into a New Digital Era

SBI Growth

As many sales leaders began to adjust to this new world in March, global companies had been acclimating since January. However, the challenges of maintaining business continuity across regional markets also provided the chance to accelerate a very crucial digital.

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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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5 Ways to Stay Connected While Working Remotely

The Center for Sales Strategy

Telecommuting, flexible work environments—both fancier terms for working remotely —is the new normal for many of us. By now, you’ve gotten a taste for what working from home entails. And whether you choose to admit it or not, some of you have decided that remote work isn’t as great as it sounded just a few weeks ago. At first, working quietly in your pajamas seemed enticing—even productive—then the silence set in, and you missed all the chaos.

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How to Succeed at Three Hidden Traits of Successful Salespeople

Sandler Training

Mike Montague interviews Clint Babcock on How to Succeed at Three Hidden Traits of Successful Salespeople. The post How to Succeed at Three Hidden Traits of Successful Salespeople appeared first on Sandler Training.

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How to Create a Compelling Sell Sheet That Gets Results

Hubspot Sales

Imagine you need to relay information about the most compelling benefits of a product to a prospect with a waning attention span within a fixed amount of time. Those circumstances might seem familiar. They generally surround one of the most fundamental concepts in sales — the elevator pitch. But that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm going to add an extra caveat to that scenario.

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Attracting and Retaining A-Players in Today?s Market Conditions

SBI Growth

A few months ago I wrote about unemployment which was then at an all-time low—how things have changed. A-Player sales reps, who are precious assets in any economic climate, are currently unsettled regardless of their reputations and legacies. The world.

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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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How Customer Experience Training Improved One Company’s Net Promoter Score

Miller Heiman Group

Customer service teams are supposed to solve problems, not create new ones. But when we surveyed 5,500 consumers around the globe , only 25% reported feeling that that front-line employees were on their side. In other words, it’s not often that service reps make a positive emotional connection with their customers. Instead, they frequently engage in behaviors like these that damage customer relationships: Using scripted or canned responses.

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How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #20: The Bottom Line of Professional Selling is Going to the Bank [PODCAST]

Sandler Training

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them. The post How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #20: The Bottom Line of Professional Selling is Going to the Bank [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Write Better Sales Emails with These Copywriting Hacks from Calendly's Senior Content Marketer

Hubspot Sales

As a salesperson, one of the most important skills you can possess is being a solid writer. Learning to write "copy" (also known as persuasive writing) is a specific and useful skill for every sales and marketing professional. All salespeople should have at least a basic understanding of essential copywriting principles to implement in their day-to-day emails and communications.

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Now Is the Time for CEOs to Strengthen the 3-Year Plan, Not Abandon It

SBI Growth

We are living through a truly unique point in time. The impact of COVID-19 over a short two month period has thrown the global economy into complete peril and created unparalleled uncertainty and ambiguity. The core questions out of every.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Business Networking: 5 Proven Strategies to Win in Business and in Life

Groove HQ

Our best tips and tricks for using business networking to connect with VIPs. Learning how to network and build relationships with smart, successful people is one of the most valuable things I’ve done in my career. But I know that for many, it doesn’t come easily. It certainly didn’t come easily for me when I […]. The post Business Networking: 5 Proven Strategies to Win in Business and in Life appeared first on Groove Blog.

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The Critical Elements of Proactive Client Retention [PODCAST]

Sandler Training

Brian Sullivan Interviews Jonathon Farrington on The Critical Elements of Proactive Client Retention. The post The Critical Elements of Proactive Client Retention [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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How to Calculate Your Company's Sales Growth Rate

Hubspot Sales

Though tracking sales metrics isn’t necessarily the most glamorous part of working in sales, having a solid understanding of how the deals you close impact your company’s bottom line and future growth is a critical part of the job. For companies that are focused on growing and scaling, an essential metric to keep an eye on is the sales growth rate. Understanding the sales growth rate is a critical metric that empowers companies to make data-informed decisions.

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Revising Your GTM Structure During the Shift to Cloud

SBI Growth

IDC predicted that “By 2020, 70% of enterprises will integrate cloud management—across their public and private clouds—by deploying unified hybrid/multi-cloud management technologies, tools, and processes.” CEO’s riding the cloud computing wave will have to be mindful of a consumption-based model.

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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

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Bouncing Forward: Summon Resiliency in Sales

Engage Selling

Recently, I interviewed my good friend, Richard Citrin, author of Strategy-Driven Leadership and The Resilience Advantage. We talked about how resiliency—what he describes as the ability to “bounce forward”—is a hardwired resource in all of us.

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Sales Strategies Achieving Results Right Now

Force Management

One of the most commonly asked questions our sales experts are receiving right now is, “ What are other companies doing right now? ”. We pulled together what we’ve been hearing from our customers into some key action steps for our blog readers. Our teams are talking to sales leaders across the country, every day. Below are the major themes we are hearing right now.

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Coaching the Sales Process: Overlooked Points in the DISCOVER Step

The Center for Sales Strategy

The third step of our sales process is often the most tedious. Discover —a lso referred to in other sales process steps as “define,” assessment,” or “needs,” all share the same goal of meeting with a prospect or client to uncover their desired business results. The key part of this stage is understanding each prospect's challenges and needs and establishing how your product or service can help.

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Behind the Numbers: How Leading Tech Firms Improve Their Customer Experience Metrics

Miller Heiman Group

Solving customers’ problems is table stakes in the technology industry: customers simply expect field techs and service reps to, for example, be able to install or repair equipment. It’s hard to dazzle customers by fixing something really, really well. It’s even harder to wow customers when they don’t even realize that they’ve been helped. Field technicians pride themselves on stealthily and quickly resolving customer issues.

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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.