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How to Get an Appointment With Anyone in 3 Simple Steps

Hubspot Sales

In order to sell someone, you first have to get them to book a meeting with you. And as salespeople know, this is far easier said than done. Reps make countless calls each day, hoping and praying that one of their prospects will pick up the phone. Finally, someone does -- and what do they say? "I'm too busy for this.". "Can you just send some information?".

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5 Songs to Boost Sales Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Music can help you push through a difficult workout, it can calm your nerves, and it can even get you pumped up and geared towards success. Music can have a powerful impact on your mindset, and using music and the right rhythm to support positive thoughts could definitely get your sales performance headed in the right direction. Abba — Money, Money, Money.

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The Sales Motivation Myth You Need to Stop Believing

RAIN Group

This RAIN Group article was originally published on the LinkedIn Sales Blog. Some sales leaders believe that a quota and an attractive compensation plan are enough to ignite the hustle, passion, and intensity in a seller. It makes sense they think this way given recent Harvard Business Review articles with titles like "Motivating Sales People: What Really Works" that focus 100% on compensation.

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Building an Accurate Business Model is the Key to Ensuring Product Launch Success

SBI Growth

So, you have a new product investment you are excited about. How do you ensure that your idea holds up to leadership scrutiny, and has a big enough ROI to be considered a success? Understanding and building a business model.

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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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What's the Difference Between Sales and Marketing? A Simple & Easy Primer

Hubspot Sales

What's the difference between sales and marketing? Marketing informs and attracts leads and prospects to your company and product or service. Sales, on the other hand, works directly with prospects to reinforce the value of the company's solution to convert prospects into customers. Sounds simple, right? While these two business functions are different, they both share a common goal: to attract prospects and convert them to customers, ultimately generating revenue.

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Getting Past Gatekeepers

Engage Selling

Are you or members of your sales team having trouble getting past gatekeepers? It’s an obvious struggle.

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Should Your Field Marketing Team Own a Number?

SBI Growth

Pick five non-marketing employees at random, and ask them what value your field marketing team brings to your organization. If you’re reluctant to do this exercise, it’s likely because you want to avoid blank stares and wild guesses that humble you.

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The Top 5 Habits and Skills of Great Sales Managers

Hubspot Sales

Sales management is one of the most difficult jobs out there. Your responsibilities span the organization -- along with the VP or director of sales, you're working with people in Product, Marketing, HR, and so on. Most importantly, managers are responsible for the individual and collective success of their salespeople. Rallying reps to hit their quota is no easy task, especially when every team member is motivated by different things.

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The Top 5 Leadership Qualities a First-Time Founder Should Practice

Groove HQ

Starting a business is hard. But developing these leadership qualities will give you a chance of survival In addition to dealing with a million things on their plate at any given time, first-time business owners also need to learn to be managers for when their company starts growing—including all the leadership qualities that come with […]. The post The Top 5 Leadership Qualities a First-Time Founder Should Practice appeared first on Groove Blog.

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5 Tips to Take Your Sales Meetings from Good to Great

The Center for Sales Strategy

In 2016, I wrote a blog, " How to Get a Standing Ovation After Your Next Sales Meeting ," and I'm happy to say that I see way more productive sales meetings today than I did back then. So that made me think it might be an excellent time to share some tips on taking your next sales meeting from good to g reat !

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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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For Revenue Sake, Act Now to Engage Buyers and Influencers During Career Transitions!

SBI Growth

Tis the season – we’re past the holidays – tis the season for career transitions. End of year bonuses have been paid, budgets have been set, and resource decisions have been made. Your first thought may be “oh no, there.

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10 Sales Proposal Templates to Automate the Closing Process

Hubspot Sales

You're at the final stretch, and the prospect you've been talking to for the past month and a half is nearly ready to pull out their wallet. They just want a final proposal that lays out the terms and conditions of working together, how much the agreement will cost, and what services they should expect from your company. No problem -- until you create the proposal document, that is.

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Buyers are Busier than Ever: What to Do | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

????????We’re finding that buyers are limiting contact with sellers to manage their time. In fact, Jill Konrath put it best when she said, “buyers are busy and long-term planning is sometimes only a few weeks.

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Weekly Roundup: Lessons in Sales Leadership from John C. Maxwell + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "SETTING THE GOALS IS THE FIRST STEP IN TURNING THE INVISIBLE INTO THE VISIBLE". -TONY ROBBINS. - AROUND THE WEB -. > Lessons in Sales Leadership from John C. Maxwell — LinkedIn. We all know that strong sales leadership is important, and that it can dramatically improve a team’s results. But what makes a great sales leader? Which attributes can we hone to improve our positive impact?

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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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SBI Names Mike Hoffman Managing Director of Private Equity

SBI Growth

Sales Benchmark Index (SBI), a management consultancy specializing in revenue growth, today announced that Michael Hoffman has joined the firm as Managing Director – Private Equity. Mike has over 20 years of experience in executive, private equity, and board-level roles.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Income Statements

Hubspot Sales

A company’s income statement serves as its report card. It reveals the important parts of any organization that you can’t immediately see on the surface. This comprehensive guide to income statements will provide everything you need to know about a company’s sales activity, its cost of producing or buying, and its expenses. The income statement reflects the financial activities of the business during a specific accounting period, which can be monthly, quarterly, annually, or some other finite pe

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What Sales Leaders Need to Do to Hire and Evaluate Talent More Effectively

Miller Heiman Group

Sales leaders do not want to make mistakes when hiring new members of their sales team. In 2018, just 54 percent of all sellers met their sales quotas, according to CSO Insight’s 2018-2019 Sales Performance Study. Furthermore, only 16 percent of sales leaders say they are confident they have the talent needed to succeed into the future, according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Sales Talent Study.

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Turn Goals into Reality with a Solid Prospecting Plan

The Center for Sales Strategy

We are now a few months into the new year. Often, at the end of the prior year, I spend time talking about the year ahead. I ask the sellers that I coach what they want to accomplish. Where do they want to be at the end of this year? We discuss their professional sales goals, and then we begin to make a plan together to help them achieve those goals.

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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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5 Ways to Quickly Meet Customer Experience Expectations

Strikedeck

Brian shares five quick tips with real examples to ensure that the Customer Experience never breaks down.

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How to Create the Service Level Agreement Your Customers Expect

Hubspot Sales

When you purchase a product from a company, you expect to receive a certain level of service in return for your investment. Let's say your company bought a CRM database software. You're on a time crunch and need to run a sales performance report before you meet with the Vice President of Sales in three hours. You select your report parameters, click the " Run Report " button, and … nothing happens.

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How to Reignite a Prospective Customer that Suddenly Goes Dark

Miller Heiman Group

Have you ever had a prospective B2B customer suddenly go dark? You likely feel frustrated and nervous, as you may have spent as much as five months in the sales process with this prospect. A 2018 CSO Insights study found that B2B buyers at medium- to large-sized companies spend an average of five months to make a buying decision of $10,000 or more—involving an average of 6.4 colleagues.

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Pay Attention to Your Superstars, but Don’t Forget Your Rock Stars

The Center for Sales Strategy

As a department project, our group read the book Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Everyone had a different primary takeaway, but the one that stuck with me was the difference between Superstars and Rock Stars. What's the Difference between a Superstar and a Rock Star? Most managers know the definition of a Superstar. They are usually your one or two top performers , who are hardworking, ambitious, great at what they do, expect to be paid that way, and love the accolades.

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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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An Underrated Selling Skill That'll Give You a Competitive Edge

Sales Readiness Group

On this Q&A episode: "What's an underrated selling skill that salespeople can develop to get an edge over their competition?".

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There are Only Two Types of People in Business

Jeb Blout

This message is designed to motivate you. To make you feel proud about being a Sales Professional. To encourage you to keep grinding. Sales Professionals are the elite athletes of the business world. You keep the economy humming. Most people in your company are employed because you are out on the front lines getting deals done. Of course, that doesn’t mean that […].

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Qualifying Buyers Using Greater Focus, Successful Sales Meetings & A Quote From Bob Burg

MTD Sales Training

Episode 25: To my sales professional connections (and trainers). This podcast includes: Qualifying buyers using greater focus. How to make your next sales meeting more successful. A quote from Bob Burg. Take a look at this episode on [link]. The post Qualifying Buyers Using Greater Focus, Successful Sales Meetings & A Quote From Bob Burg appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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What is Leader Standard Work?

Kainexus

Standard work is the documented and current best way to do a particular task, procedure or process. Workers develop the standard and follow it until an improvement process results in a new standard. Standard work ensures that results are consistent and forms the foundation upon which improvements are made. Leader standard work applies this same concept to the task of driving Lean thinking and behavior throughout the organization.

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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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SalesTech Game Changers Magazine 4th Edition

SBI

SalesTech Game Changers 4th Digital Magazine: 5 Executives Tell us How Their Solution Changes the Game for Sales. game changer. noun. Definition of game changer. :a newly introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in a significant way: “The revelation has been called a game changer in the world of data protection as regulators seek to raise awareness about how to secure information.”.

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2019 Email Marketing Roadmap for Business Owners

Outbound Engine

The 2019 Email Marketing Roadmap for Small Business. We all write and send emails. Most of us do this every day without a lot of thought because we know we have to send them. But when email marketing is part of your business (and it should be!), there is more pressure on your emails. Having to write emails to a large audience that can make a big impact your bottom line is daunting.

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Why Analytical Reading Is a Must-Have Skill

Help Scout

If you’re an experienced support manager or agent, you’ve probably read some of your junior colleagues’ answers and been surprised at the approach they have taken. You might wonder, “Didn’t he notice the customer wants to know how to buy our new software, not just what its features are?” Or “Didn’t she see that the customer had two complaints, not just one?!”.

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21 Questions to Help You Apply the Principles of Lean Management

Kainexus

We’ve written before about how the Lean management approach is prevalent in almost every industry. That’s because its twin pillars of continuous improvement and respect for people make sense in every sector. Supporting those pillars are the five principles of Lean. This post takes a closer look at each of them and will give you some questions to ask yourself that will help you find how best to apply them in your organization.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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.