Software Sales Guru
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Salespeople Need Emotional Buyers The buyer’s journey is a series of emotional states represented by the five squares below. Every buyer starts on the left and moves right, with or without the involvement of a salesperson. Emotion is what moves a buyer forward The root of selling is how buyers decide. This physiology is well-established by scientific research.
Account Manager Tips
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The post How Persuasion Skills Set Top Key Account Managers Apart first appeared on The KAM Coach Discover how persuasion skills help key account managers influence decisions, build relationships, and drive business growth. Practical tips included.
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The Center for Sales Strategy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Effective prospecting is the backbone of sales success, yet finding candidates with the right skills can be challenging. Sales professionals need a unique blend of persistence, creativity, and communication to excel in prospecting. Companies can better evaluate these abilities by focusing on key indicators during the hiring process. Here, we'll guide you through the steps to identify strong prospecting skills in potential hires, ensuring you select the best candidates to drive your business forw
Force Management
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This week, we hosted a webinar with Force Management Senior Partner Tim Caito. Tim is our resident expert on sales negotiation and has years of experience planning and leading sales kickoffs. He joined us to share his do's and don'ts when it comes to planning a sales kickoff that drives measurable results on company strategic goals and revenue objectives.
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.
Vantage Partners
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
If you ask any professional services provider team about the criticality of stakeholder alignment to winning business and delivering successfully, they will tell you it is indispensable. Yet, few provider firms institutionalize building stakeholder alignment as an organizational capability.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Ah, the wonders of modern technology! Where every solution is just a voice command away. We now have smartphones fully equipped with voice assistants to make the best recommendations.
Strategic Accounts Today brings together the best content for strategic account managers from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Center for Sales Strategy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The 2024 Talent Magazine dropped a bombshell on the state of workplace engagement, and spoiler alert—it's not pretty. From burned-out bosses to a workforce on the brink of a mass exodus, these numbers are a wake-up call for anyone with a stake in the corporate game.
FinListics Solutions
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The pressure is mounting for B2B sales teams. It’s no longer just about selling well—today’s sales environment demands more. Sales organizations must not only close critical competency gaps in selling skill sets but also must leverage the right solutions and form smart partnerships to stay competitive.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Upselling is a great way to increase your customers’ lifetime value, strengthen relationships, and even improve a customer’s experience with your business. And when implemented effectively, upselling doesn’t have to be awkward for the sales rep or annoying for the customer. In fact, upselling can be a key component of your company’s growth strategy.
Sales Gravy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
In this episode of The Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount Jr. hosts Barrett King, Senior Director of Revenue and Partnerships. In this episode they dive into key insights on building effective sales training, the importance of a well-defined go-to-market strategy, and the power of partnerships to drive customer success. Barrett's approach to how sales enablement and partnerships can dramatically reduce the time it takes for a sales team to become proficient, creating stronger, faster results.
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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
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
All images are designed by DALL-E, with all rights reserved to ECXO.org. Article originally posted at: [link] To start my article, I’d like to hear your thoughts: Do you believe that a strong connection between employee experience, empowerment, and innovation is crucial for generating truly innovative outcomes, or is there something more extraordinary required?
Vantage Partners
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
If you need the other side to work with you after you sign the deal, then how you get your deals done matters—a lot.
SBI Growth
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
With the right information and strategic bets in place, leaders prime their organizations for revenue excellence in 2025 and beyond. But even the best revenue plans can fall short of delivering their projected results if the execution and rollout aren’t up to par. In our discussions with market leaders, we often see the best organizations go beyond fixed multiyear project plans; they are agile, constantly adapting to the market and achieving higher returns faster.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Navigating the complexities of B2B sales, especially with high-value enterprise deals and multiple stakeholders, can be challenging. The Miller Heiman Sales Process is designed to tackle these difficulties and guide you through the sales process. In this post, we’ll break down the Miller Heiman Sales Process, outline its step-by-step approach, and help you determine if it’s the right fit for your sales team.
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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.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Even in an era of ABM, intent data, and AI-driven marketing, lead nurturing still has an essential role to play in helping B2B marketers drive revenue and maximize the ROI from their demand generation efforts.
The Center for Sales Strategy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
In sales, there are only two kinds of customers: the ones you know other salespeople are trying to steal. and those you don’t know other salespeople are trying to steal! You should treat all accounts as if someone else is trying to win them over and take your lead. So, what are some steps you can take toward Key Account retention?
SBI Growth
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Sales professionals frequently talk about “selling value,” but few know how to focus the conversation on issues that impact value for the buyer. That’s unfortunate because the best way to offset pricing pressure is by identifying, quantifying, and presenting value. Selling value begins with a deep understanding of your customer’s business and how your solution positively impacts it.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Integrating your CRM with the rest of your business tools can help you get even more from your CRM and manage your customer relationships more efficiently. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new integration with KrispCall , an advanced cloud-based telephony solution. With this integration, you can automatically track your calls in Nutshell, sync contact information across both platforms, and make calls directly from Nutshell.
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.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Managing the employee lifecycle is critical to an organization’s success. This includes the key stages of onboarding, promotion, offboarding, and everything in between. Each function requires precise coordination between human resources (HR) and information technology (IT). Yet, this coordination often presents challenges, especially when departments operate within separate silos.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
In a recent episode of the Strategy and Leadership podcast , Anthony Taylor sat down with Toby Southgate , the global CEO of Forsman & Bodenfors , to discuss the intricacies of leading a global creative agency. With a background that includes a stint as Chief Growth Officer at McCann World Group, Toby brought a wealth of experience to the conversation.
Groove HQ
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Help desk software is essential for any small business, especially if you offer support via multiple channels. What tool you choose will have a huge impact on your team’s efficiency, as well as the customer experience you provide. There are lots of options out there. Most help desk software offers similar core features, though: omnichannel […] The post Top 10 Help Desk Software for Small Businesses appeared first on Groove Blog.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
When Nutshell launched in 2010, open API access was at our core. Today, we’re launching broad new swaths of API access via REST API, with a comprehensive documentation and testing suite (powered by Readme.com). How will the new REST API documentation benefit my team? We’ve made it easier to access data with better filtering and searching capabilities via our new list APIs.
What if there was a better method of changing the conversation with your customer from delivering pricing to delivering value solutions? A method that would help keep you in control, manage the uncertainty, and close larger deals more quickly for you and your company? There is.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Your CX ROI metrics roadmap is a cause-and-effect sequence that multiplies growth. All customer experience metrics used today are lagging indicators of growth. You’re measuring what already happened with customers. Therefore, it’s lagging. Leading indicators are what you are doing that causes the lagging indicator. A leading indicator shows what customers will soon experience.
Revegy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Trade shows offer sales teams a unique opportunity to connect with potential clients face-to-face, build relationships, and showcase products. In fact, 72% of attendees are more likely to buy from exhibitors they’ve met in person, making trade shows a powerful lead generation channel. But to stand out in the hustle of a crowded event floor, […] The post Maximize Trade Show Success: A Sales Team Playbook appeared first on Revegy.
Brooks Group
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
As a sales leader, you know filling the top of the sales funnel is as important as closing deals. Without new opportunities, your sales team will never make quota. Success depends on effective prospecting. Your job is to help your team develop a sales prospecting plan. Here are eight tips for coaching your sales professionals to fill their pipelines with qualified prospects that lead to sales. 1.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Remember when uploading your resume to LinkedIn and asking colleagues to rate your skills was enough? Today, a sales or marketing team member’s LinkedIn bio needs to shine to stand out and impress prospects in the social arena. To help you take your LinkedIn page to the next level, we’ve compiled some of our favorite LinkedIn profile summary examples in this post.
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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.
Customer Think
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
(Marketing’s role in driving revenue generation and growth at B2B companies has never been more important. However, research continues to show that the influence of most CMOs with their CEO isn’t as strong as the importance of marketing suggests it should be.
Hubspot Sales
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Let’s face it: AI isn’t going anywhere. In fact, when it comes to the big wide world of sales, folks seem to be getting nice and cozy with the idea of using AI for all things sales-related. In the last year alone, I – and the entire world, it seems – noticed that AI made quite the impression on multiple industries worldwide, from digital marketing to healthcare (in all honesty, I genuinely haven’t witnessed this much hype around a topic since the global explosion of One Direction … you just had
Groove HQ
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
It’s not enough to offer a high-quality product or service. If that’s all you bring to the table, buyers don’t have a clear reason to choose your business over the competition. So if you’ve put a lot of time into development and marketing, but you’re struggling to attract and/or retain customers, your focus might be […] The post Your Guide To Building a Strong Customer Experience Team appeared first on Groove Blog.
Nutshell
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Custom fields are an important part of customizing Nutshell for your business needs and organizing your CRM contacts. Nutshell lets you create custom fields for people, companies, and leads to gather and manage information like customer order numbers, important dates, and ICPs. With the newest custom field enhancements, you can also add descriptions to custom fields to provide your team with additional context about the purpose of your fields.
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Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.
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