February, 2020

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Developing Master Sales Coaches

STAR Results

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Most sales managers lack the skills, tools and methodology to effectively coach their team so the reps just try to ‘wing it’ as best they can. Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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10 Things to Start & 3 Things to Stop When Hiring Better Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

Recruiting new sales talent and hiring better salespeople are complicated and time-consuming processes. Especially, when you're not prepared to fill a vacancy, don't have a pipeline of candidates, or have an idea of what "better" means for your business.

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From Sales Process to Buying Journey

Membrain

The idea of a “sales process” has been around since long before I was offered my first sales role. The concept has been heavily promoted by the mainstream sales methodology vendors and adopted with varying degrees of effectiveness by many sales organisations.

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Beware of Busy Buyers: Make Your Solution Easy to Buy

SalesProInsider

“Never underestimate the laziness of buyers.”. That was the advice a mentor gave me. He was someone I trusted, respected, and would take all of his suggestions and put them into play. Yet this advice was very offending to me because I’ve never considered my buyers or my clients as lazy people. No, they’re hardworking, they’re really smart, and they care about what they’re doing.

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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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Sandler sales methodology: 7 steps to sales success

Salesmate

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. But first, if you haven’t checked our detailed article on sales methodology, please check that out from here.

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How Companies Choose Sales Training Companies is Backwards

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door? (I've actually done that by accident - twice!).

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On Door Knockin’ and Donuts

Adaptive Business Services

I have spent a lot of time recently contemplating the state of outbound prospecting. To be fair, most of what I am about to discuss is based on my experience as a buyer vs. as a seller. As a salesperson, I see this as a very serious concern. I also need to make it very clear that, as we discuss these methodologies, we are looking at them for use in cold prospecting.

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How to make sales investments add up to more

Membrain

Dear Company Leader, I see you. You’re frustrated by your sales organization. By its lack of growth. The missed forecasts. Failing to meet targets. Your sales leaders send people to training, and nothing gets better. They invest in new tools, but the problems remain. You pour tons of investment into strategic consulting and big, fancy new initiatives, only to have them peter out and yield nothing or less than nothing.

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Objections or Opportunities? Your Mindset Matters

SalesProInsider

Last summer I visited Yellowstone National Park with my family. We looked forward to hiking, seeing cool geysers, and were hopeful we’d have the opportunity to see a real grizzly bear in the wild. Little did we know that on Day 3 as we rounded the bend during a hike, 150 ft away would be a mama grizzly and two cubs. Within moments, three out of the five of us hightailed it and ran.

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How to choose the best CRM for a digital marketing agency

Salesmate

If you have ever thought like “Wow, this app is amazing” or “It is so easy to make a purchase from this website”, there’s probably a huge contribution of a digital agency. Agencies are the best, period. They help their customers make, build, optimize, and market products. Agencies are at the spot where they have to make their customers happy, as well as end-users i.e.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Additional Health & Safety Rules for 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

We’ve added a series of additional Health & Safety rules to the 2020 SaaStr Annual. You can review them in more detail here. Note they are more substantially restrictive than other events , perhaps in some cases too restrictive. So please review them. And if you are sick, have been sick, or have been to China in the past 60 days, do not come to SaaStr Annual 2020.

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How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service

Predictable Revenue

In sales, the common misconception is that by saying the right thing you’ll win the deal. But what we started to realize after introducing Question-Based Selling (QBS) to our sales organization is that it’s impossible to know what to say without understanding the person and/or organization we were selling to. The post How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Consultative Selling Techniques: 6 Ways to Earn Trust and Sell More

Sales Hacker

A consultative selling approach is key to running a well-oiled sales team. To me, the difference between a traditional sales process and a consultative one looks a bit like the difference between a doctor and a therapist. What Is Consultative Selling? Rather than telling your prospects what they need, consultative selling is an investigative approach by which prospects are engaged with thought-provoking questions that help them identify their own pain points.

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What Problem Is The Customer Trying To Solve?

Membrain

Pause for a moment. Look at your qualified pipeline. Start at the bottom. Can you identify the problem the customer is trying to solve? Or the opportunity they are trying to address?

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

Traffic attribution identifies which sources drive visitors to a web property. And it’s impossible to credit a conversion to the correct source without first knowing how a visitor got to a website. In other words, the foundation of conversion attribution is traffic attribution. Simple as it may sound, attributing a session to its traffic source can be tricky, even impossible.

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Automate your follow ups with Text (SMS) sequences

Salesmate

In this article, you will learn about creating your own sets of automated text messages with text (SMS) sequences and merge them with your email drip campaigns for successful follow ups. We already have shown how sequences can be used as drip campaigns for putting your email follow-ups on autopilot. We know email campaigns have to be well-planned. Their lengthy and repetitive loop makes it difficult for users to keep a manual track on the execution and deliverance.

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The Best Catchy Email Subject Lines For Sales [2020 UPDATE]

Outreach

First impressions are key. Would you show up to a black tie event in your favorite Netflix binge-watching sweats? Of course not. Your sales email subject lines are the first impressions you project to your prospects with every email you send. Are you putting on your best suit every time you hit send? We've learned a lot about what works by analyzing the data from tens of thousands of our own emails.

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How Good Are “Best Practices?”

Partners in Excellence

Thousands of blogs, books, articles, video’s, and podcasts talk about “best practices.” They cover every topic imaginable. Every nuance of marketing, sales, customer experience, business, dating (oops) talk about best practices. As consumers of information about how to improve, we devour best practices. The thought is, “If I know what’s best practice, and apply it in my organization, we will be doing the very best things we can be doing and should see huge performan

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Why Social Selling is Killing Your LinkedIn Strategy (How to Transition to a Strategy That Works)

Sales Hacker

With over 660 million members , LinkedIn is undoubtedly one of the most relevant social platforms for sales professionals. We’re able to connect with buyers in just a few clicks, but the question is, are we taking full advantage of this platform to engage our audience and build relationships? Traditional social selling is too focused on selling. Our inboxes are filled with unsolicited LinkedIn messages from sellers trying to push their products and services.

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How to stop failing at account management

Membrain

The words we use affect the way we think. Positive, uplifting words can induce a positive, uplifting mood and an optimistic approach to tasks. Negative, depressing words can have the opposite effect.

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How to Use Google Data Studio to Build Better Dashboards

ConversionXL

Set up the measurement tool. Clean and process the data. Turn it into information. Analyze it. Extract insights. That’s hard work. But to have value, there’s still another step—the work must also be well communicated. You want data to form a straight line from KPIs to influencing business decisions. If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it.

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Hit your sales target using MEDDIC sales methodology

Salesmate

I know your time is precious, and so I wouldn’t like to waste it. But before we get to the popular “MEDDIC sales methodology” lets mull over a hypothetical situation (Don’t worry, I am not going off track). You enter a store, and a lovely pair of shoes captures your attention. But unfortunately, your size isn’t available. So, you decide to go for a size smaller thinking that you’ll manage.However, after a few days, the blisters and discomfort remind you of the mistake you’ve made by investing in

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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7 Powerful Sales Questions for Winning More Deals

Topline Leadership

This article provides seven powerful sales questions along with the reasons why you should ask them. These questions can help you expand customer needs, shift your prospect’s focus from price to value and improve your understanding of the buyer’s thinking. The questions you ask your prospects are more important than anything you say. Here are [.]. The post 7 Powerful Sales Questions for Winning More Deals appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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Why 97% of Sales Leaders Want a Playbook

Women Sales Pros

What is a Sales Leader Playbook? Is a Sales Leader Playbook the same as a Sales Playbook? The short answer is ‘No!’ A sales leader playbook is a book of ‘Plays’ for sales leaders – Sales VP’s, Directors and Managers. A reference guide mapping out the best practices associated with all the aspects of their challenging jobs. Sales Playbook vs. Sales Leader Playbook: At a high level, your Sales Leader Playbook might include: Sales Leadership and associated plays Sales Methodology (the management

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If Cold Calling Is Dead, Why Is The Topic So Hot?

Partners in Excellence

Someone tried to suck me into a LinkedIn discussion on cold calling today. The article declaring cold calling dead was written by a colleague I deeply respect, and I have no disagreement with the points in her article. By the time another friend tried to bait me into diving into the discussion, it had been live for 18 hours, there were over 75 reactions and over 52 comments, with many very smart and dull people weighing in.

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Stop your churn and grow faster with a customer success mindset

Membrain

Every year, businesses lose billions of dollars in sales due to bad customer service. In 2016, a survey from NewVoiceMedia quantified the amount of money lost that year by US businesses at roughly $62 billion.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Customer Service and Insider Sales: Different for a Reason

Engage Selling

Imagine you’re preparing a delicious meal and you’re short on olive oil. Would you add vinegar to make that oil go further? Of course not! Those are complementary ingredients, not interchangeable ones.

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A Basic Structure for a VP, Sales Comp Plan: 50/50/25+ (Updated)

SaaStr

We put together a basic 50/50/25 VP of Sales comp plan early on at SaaStr, and it seemed time for an update. Incentives are critical, and the VP Sales will likely be the Seemingly Most Expensive hire you ever make. That’s stressful. So let me tell you what I’ve done and learned both myself and across 25+ high growth startups I’ve invested in or advised.

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Customer Meetings: How the Best Sales Reps Approach Them

Sales Hacker

In Sales, there are many areas where sales reps truly have control over the impact they make on a prospect to maximize their chances of winning the deal. One of these facets is being ultra prepared for customer meetings. . “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus – these are the things we can control.” — Tim Tebow.

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Using SNAP Selling for winning more deals successfully

Salesmate

In our 7 tried and tested sales methodologies, we highlighted the importance of each for your sales process. In this article, we will share insights on SNAP sales methodology. In case you haven’t checked out our in-depth blog on sales methodologies, you can check out from here. Now talking about SNAP sales methodology, it aims at helping your sales team understand the decision-making process of your customers.

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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