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19 Closing Phrases to Seal a Sales Deal in 2019

Hubspot Sales

Heading into a closing conversation with a prospect is always nerve-wracking. No matter how impressed they seemed during your demo or how enthusiastic your champion is, there's always a chance you'll lose to the competition, they'll decide to postpone their decision until next quarter, or they'll ask for a price you can't deliver. A "yes" or "no" hinges on far more than just the specific closing sentence or question.

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Get ready for BOUNDLESS 2019! What to expect at Nutshell’s first virtual event

Nutshell

How would you like to attend the best sales event of the year without leaving your desk? Nutshell is proud to present BOUNDLESS , an all-day virtual conference dedicated to our wonderful customers and designed to offer the inspiration and sales hacks you need to make 2019 your most successful year ever. BOUNDLESS 2019 will be streamed live on Friday, February 22nd , and you can see the current agenda and speakers’ list here.

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5 Results-Oriented Sales Tips To Give You a Head Start in 2019

Openview

The sales profession is one of the most difficult in America and it is constantly changing. Hundreds of books have been written on how to excel in it, and with good reason. It is an occupation filled with pressure, high risk and endlessly overwhelming opportunities. Despite this, more than one in eight jobs in the United States are full-time sales positions according to a study done by The Brevet Group.

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Stop ‘Special’ Pricing and Start Value Pricing

SBI Growth

All businesses need to prove that their products are valuable; simply declaring it to customers will do little to grow the business. The window to prove your solution is worth the investment and is becoming increasingly brief. If there’s a.

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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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The 11-Step Guide to Getting Into Real Estate

Hubspot Sales

Are you considering a career in real estate? If so, you've come to the right place. The employment of real estate agents is expected to increase by 6% over the next eight years. With a positive employment outlook, now is a great time to begin your career as a real estate agent. We'll take a look at the steps to become a successful real estate agent and strategies to launch your real estate career.

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Ditch Your Powerpoint

Engage Selling

I have a challenge for you, ditch your powerpoint. Do this for the next week, or even the next month. Wondering why?

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Resolving the Customer Success Tension

SBI Growth

Dave Moore is the SVP of Sales for Businessolver a leading provider of benefits administration, technology, and services. In a phrase, they help organizations manage their healthcare spend as it relates to employee benefits. Tune in to hear more from Dave on the.

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The 15 Best Free & Paid Accounting Software Options of 2019

Hubspot Sales

A software helps automate your business processes and speed up the time spent on everyday tasks. If you're struggling to manage your small business accounting and an accountant isn't in your budget, accounting software is tremendously helpful. Only 18% of small to medium-sized businesses don't use accounting software. Isn't it about time to join the majority of businesses that use software to manage their income and expenses?

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Translating Your Goal to Theirs | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??It is common for me to get questions like, “How do I get my sellers to reach their sales goals?” Here’s my answer. First of all, you have to make sure they know what your sales goals are.

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What Do Your Salespeople Think of You as a Sales Manager?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Do other people really see you for who you are? Are you maximizing your natural strengths in your work? It’s often hard to know! I recently worked with a sales manager in our Executive Coaching program and helped him get to the bottom of how he was perceived by his sales team. It was an incredible discovery, and I think you will find the story both interesting and useful.

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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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The Top 5 Technologies to Support Revenue Enablement

SBI Growth

Your buyers are behaving differently. Now more than ever, they have access to increasing amounts of intelligence and will scrutinize every aspect of your solution against your competitors. Recently, HBR identified 40 unique points of value that your buyers consider before.

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The New Revolution in Sales Coaching

RAIN Group

Most leaders agree the opportunity to improve sales performance through coaching is tremendous, including: Maximizing sales wins for their most important opportunities. Filling the pipeline with new, qualified opportunities. Maximizing sales to key accounts. Focusing sellers’ time on the most important activities. Developing skills, knowledge, and attributes to get to the next level of performance.

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How to Optimize Your SEO Strategy and Close More Deals with Content in 2019

Drift

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post. Interested in contributing content to the Drift blog? Email Gail Axelrod at gaxelrod@drift.com. 59% of customers prefer to do an extensive amount of research before talking to a salesperson when buying a software product, according to a Forrester report from 2015. Does that mean sales is an unnecessary job?

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Struggling Sellers

The Center for Sales Strategy

A New Year's resolution is a tradition in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life. Perhaps you, or a salesperson on your team, had a lousy 2018 and are ready to make some changes in 2019.

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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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The CMO Guide to Data: Why Your Marketing Database Is Broken, and How to Fix It

SBI Growth

Technology has fundamentally changed the role of Marketing. What was once seen largely as an art, has increasingly become less about fancy pictures, and more about deploying revenue generating messaging to the masses. The rise of radio and television made.

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How To Stop Objections Before They Are Raised

MTD Sales Training

It’s one of the most-frequently asked questions on our sales courses – ‘how do we overcome objections to our proposals?’. It’s often asked by salespeople who face similar concerns and objections in every call, almost becoming an expected retort for every call. First, though, we have to understand that an objection isn’t always caused by the prospect trying to get you to lower your price or make you change your offer in some other way.

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The Measures that Matter

Engage Selling

In part one of this series, I explained the difference between signaling metrics and performance metrics. The former just tells us stories. The latter reports facts. The key distinction between them is who they are serving.

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Management Secret: You Can Change the Behaviors of Others by Simply Changing Your Own

The Center for Sales Strategy

Wouldn't it be great if you could snap your fingers and change the behaviors of those you manage? Well. maybe. but you can't. Since you can’t directly change the behaviors of others, it is vital that you concentrate on changing your own behaviors. This will make the biggest difference in your relationships with others and will help propel them to success.

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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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SBI’s December 2018 Pricing Newsletter

SBI Growth

3 Tips to Avoid Teaching Your Buyers to Expect a Q4 Discount Learn three best practices for Finance to enable Sales to close year-end deals without the use of heavy discounting… Ways to Use Bundling to Drive up Your Average Sales.

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12 Step Guide to Choosing the Best Help Desk Software in 2019

Help Scout

Choosing the right help desk software for your company can be daunting. Every provider has its own page of checkmarks demonstrating how their product is at least three ticks better than anyone else’s. The help desk you choose can’t deliver great customer service for you, but it is a critical early step in setting up customer support at your company.

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How to Use a Google Reviews Widget

ReviewTrackers

Google Reviews Widgets. Google reviews widgets, available in various shapes and sizes, enable you to embed or display online reviews from your Google business listing on your own website. Using widgets to display a business’ Google reviews has become a go-to strategy for today’s marketers. This allows them to leverage reviews as a powerful form of social proof.

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Top Articles of 2018: Sales Culture + Company Culture

The Center for Sales Strategy

Today, we are bringing you a recap of the most popular sales culture and company culture posts we've published in 2018. Providing quality content that helps our clients and visitors improve their sales performance is a goal of ours, and we hope this blog has brought you insight, education, and tips to get you on the path to success. We've searched for the most popular blog posts of 2018, and we've curated these lists to bring you some of the most informative content from the year.

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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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The Top Sales Enablement Conferences and Events to Attend in 2019

Showpad

A rep’s focus is hitting their monthly, quarterly, and annual numbers, but the steps to get there can often be unclear. Professional growth is vital to a salesperson’s success, and sales and sales enablement conferences are one of the best ways to get a new perspective and learn best practices. They provide sales reps with a change of scenery to reset, expand their knowledge, and meet industry experts from across the globe.

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16 Customer Service Skills that Every Employee Needs

Help Scout

There are certain customer service skills that every employee must master if they are forward-facing with customers. Without them, you run the risk of finding your business in an embarrassing customer service train-wreck, or you’ll simply lose customers as your service continues to let people down. Luckily, there are a few universal skills that every support member can master that will dramatically improve their conversations with customers.

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Weekly Roundup: 2019 Sales Trends, Predictions + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- MOTIVATION -. "BEGIN BY ALWAYS EXPECTING GOOD THINGS TO HAPPEN.". -TOM HOPKINS. - AROUND THE WEB -. > 10 Critical Sales Trends That Will Define 2019 (And Predictions) — Sales Hacker. This post reviews the recent 4th Annual Sales Enablement Study (2018) and the performance, impact, and trends of sales coaching and organizations this year. >>> READ MORE.

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