Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Just as we saw in the popular sitcom " The Office ," sales reps have a lot to deal with. Whether it's a prankster coworker like Jim or dealing with manual data entry, finding a way to be more efficient can be hard. For sales reps, a client management software or customer relationship management system ( CRM ) can do the trick. CRM is a software that manages all your relationships with clients and potential customers.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. These fictional characters usually have names, and they embody all the traits of your ideal prospects. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs.

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Think! Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

‘I sent my customer a proposal. They accepted it on the spot with no changes, and I closed the deal,’ said no salesperson ever! Salespeople must understand that submitting a first proposal to their customer is an invitation to the negotiation dance. A dance that includes price concessions, line-item negotiating, demands, and giveaway pressure. Even if you have executed your sales process flawlessly, there will always be missing information and uncertainty in a customer negotiation.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) has long been a strategic objective of B2C companies. Most of us have experienced firsthand how companies like Amazon and Apple have created sustainable competitive advantages. They create this differentiation not only with great products.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Imagine a sales conversation unfolding as follows: Salesperson: " So, you’re interested? ". Potential Buyer: " Yeah, I might buy this. How much will it cost me? ". Salesperson: " That depends — how much are you willing to pay for it? ". With prices readily available online and in-store, it’s likely transactions are moving this way. However, companies employing the value-based pricing model need to think about what the answer to that final question would be, if they want to employ the strategy su

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Too many salespeople fail to follow up, and often, it’s because they don’t have a follow up schedule that works.

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CSSP

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Focus of Strategic Planning Meetings. During a few strategic planning meetings in the last couple of years, I’ve noticed something that probably won’t surprise you: I started to get annoyed that we were spending too much time on things that weren’t important. This is one of the most common complaints about strategic planning, and it’s a valid one.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

If you’re in the business of selling to other businesses, the competition to land the sale can be fierce. With 58% of B2B buyers doing their own research before engaging with sales reps , many buyers are over halfway through the sales process before even speaking with a rep. With customers having access to more information than ever, how can you make your offering stand out?

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

All across the business landscape, working remotely is becoming more common. Remote work allows companies to source for talent from a much larger pool since proximity to the company headquarters is no longer a requirement. Workers who are allowed to work offsite can deliver amazing results and are often more productive than their onsite counterparts because they are able to plan out their workday better and minimize interruptions.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As a sales enablement leader, you had probably developed buyer personas years ago. There was a big announcement and possibly some training sessions, but then everyone forgot about them, and the sales reps almost certainly stopped using them. Slowly but.

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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.

Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sellers no longer can expect to win business simply by asking buyers to tell them about their business. With plentiful information available online, buyers expect more from sellers than ever before and expect them to know about their business prior to engaging them. Sellers instead need to fuel their conversations with perspective —a masterful combination of mindset, insight and experience—tailored to the buyer’s path.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Your organization needs an effective sales hiring strategy to survive. The average annual turnover for sales teams is around 27% , meaning that if you have 10 reps, you could lose three of them within the year. The only way to maintain — and, ideally, to increase — sales performance is to hire often and well. In this guide, you’ll learn the ins and outs of a successful sales hiring process. 1.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Whether they realize it or not, consumers travel through a series of steps before purchasing an item. For the consumer, this journey is not something they think about; they’re simply trying to make a decision. The process consumers follow to purchase a product or service has changed significantly over the years. To truly understand the consumer journey today , we must look at the past relationship between the brand and the consumer and how it has evolved over time.

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RAIN Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There are few areas of selling filled with more uncertainty, challenges, and conflicting advice than prospecting. Success in sales prospecting requires breaking through the noise to capture buyers' attention and influence them to meet with you. Which begs a few questions: What does capture buyers’ attention? Do buyers want to hear from sellers, and if so, when?

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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

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Time-based branding makes it as easy as possible for your customer to find you and buy from you. Get this right and you will unlock new growth in even the most competitive of marketplaces.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You’ve seen article after article telling you why you should implement a CRM , but the last thing you need right now is another piece of software to learn. CRM — or customer relationship management — refers to software that tracks interactions with prospects and customers. But do you actually need to be using a CRM, if you’ve been getting by without one?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Finding a candidate with top talent to fill an open position is a good feeling. You’ve found someone that possesses the skills and experience necessary to perform the job at hand and do it well. Box checked! During the interview process, you focused mainly on their qualifications and professional background, but it was hard to get a sense of who they are and what they are about.

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Outbound Engine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Growing your referral business isn’t always a comfortable or easy process. While you can play the build-it-and-they-will-come game, we all know that getting referral business requires active planning and execution. 85 percent of small businesses say word-of-mouth referrals are the number one way that new prospects find out about their businesses. One advocate marketing firm found that referrals have a higher conversion, close faster, and have a higher lifetime value.

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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.

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

I want to highlight a sales strategy I’ve noticed perform incredibly well as of late. We started calling this the “land and expand” strategy. What is the “Land and Expand” Strategy?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Picture this — you’re at a major conference connecting with leads left and right. At the end of a stellar conversation with an executive whose company is the ideal fit for your product they hand you their business card and tell you to keep in touch. Cue the record scratch — business card? In 2020? Yes, you heard that correctly. Even with 2020 around the corner, business cards are still in circulation.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

- MOTIVATION -. "Everyone lives by selling something.". -Robert Louis Stevenson. - AROUND THE WEB -. > The 5 Sales Metrics That Every Sales Rep Should Be Tracking As Goals – Databox. Sales management is not for the faint of heart. Not only are managers responsible for recruiting, retaining, and training high-quality teams – they’re ultimately responsible for showing the results of those efforts.

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Force Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales managers play a critical role in driving your sales organization’s success. Leaders in today’s top companies understand that it takes an enabled, successful sales management team to really impact revenue.

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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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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The sales industry is complex. Just as industries like medicine and aviation combine high-tech innovation with low-tech checklists to achieve success, sales professionals need to do the same using a sales methodology. A methodology provides a framework to the sales process, describing exactly what to do, why to do it and how to connect the sales process to the customer’s path.

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Sandler Training

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This year, on Fridays, Dave talks about the attitude, behavior, and techniques of successful sales managers as he shares his thoughts on the 49 Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders. The post How to Succeed at Creating a Proactive Social Selling Plan [Podcast] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Highly-talented salespeople are more in-demand than ever. In fact, of the top ten emerging high-growth jobs listed by LinkedIn , five of them are some form of sales role. One significant result from our recently published 2019 State of Media Sales Report is that salespeople in these roles (and other sales positions) don’t want to be paid on 100% salary.

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Strikedeck

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Matt Myszkowski, VP of Customer Success at SAP, shares a strategic approach in creating a "growth mindset" in the organization and modernizing the CS program.

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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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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In this guest blog post, Tim Conroy, one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , learning and development director with Applied Materials and an expert on sales coaching strategies, shares how he drives sales managers to perform their best. Most sales managers arrived in their position because they’re outstanding at selling or at managerial skills like developing market share or driving revenue.

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Sandler Training

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Mike Montague interviews Scott Perry on How to Succeed at Being Creative on Purpose. In this episode learn: What does being creative on purpose mean? Are YOU creative? Four principles to be creative on purpose. The post How to Succeed at Being Creative on Purpose appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It seems like every year goes by faster than the last. I keep making plans to work on my summer tan, and suddenly, it's November. The holidays will be upon us before we know it and then – boom! We're in a brand-new decade. Before things get too crazy, this is an excellent time to think about how you can set your team up for outstanding results in 2020.

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Outbound Engine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

OutboundEngine is excited to announce our expansion into more than 350+ business categories. This change will help more small businesses get the great marketing they deserve. Meeting your customers where they are. Today’s consumers look online for brands and businesses more than ever. They expect their hairstylist to have a Facebook page and to send promotional emails throughout the year.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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