September, 2021

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The Sales Manager’s Guide to Salesforce Automation

Veloxy

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. How are you expected to deliver Salesforce ROI to the C-Suite if your sales team is spending most of their time on data entry, manual pipeline management, and Salesforce minutia— that is to say if they’re even

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Please Stop Apologizing – It’s OK To Do Your Job

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. It takes a big person to say they are sorry, but it takes a good salesperson to know when not to. This is not an invitation for crude and sloppy behaviour, but more an acknowledgement that people are not perfect. Trying to cover it up with an apology may not have the desired effect. People will allow themselves to be led to a certain degree as long as they do not see risk.

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Sneak Peek: Click Funnels 2.0

ClickFunnels

The post Sneak Peek: Click Funnels 2.0 appeared first on ClickFunnels. The Secret Revealed! We’ve been keeping a secret. A really awesome secret. And we just shared it with a few thousand people at Funnel hacking Live 2021! …. ClickFunnels 2.0 is here!! We are beyond excited about it! We cannot wait to put a new and completely improved ClickFunnels platform into your capable hands.

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Sales Management Tip of The Week Tip #27: Manage Your Own Motivation

STAR Results

Manage Your Own Motivation. …this is an important one because sometimes we get frustrated as sales managers and tip #27 says to manage your own motivation. Welcome to management. As a rep, you lived in a highly supportive environment. In management, the environment is less supportive and filled with stress. It is incumbent on you to stay inspired so you can inspire the people around you.

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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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Why Companies Struggle with Hiring Quality Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

Finding and putting the best people in the right seats is the biggest problem identified by most business owners, especially as it applies to critical sales roles. Here are the 5 most common reasons most companies struggle with hiring quality salespeople.

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How to close more 6-figure deals, according to data

Gong.io

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Subscribe here and follow me to read upcoming research. “It’s about stakeholders. You have to get wide when you sell into organizations with 2,000+ employees.” .

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Be “Where The Buyer Is At”

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. While the exact number may vary, people in sales continue to accept the false assertion of an 80/20 world. Keeps the 80% out of the way, allowing the 20% to do their thing. This piece does not set out to change the concept, life will do that, but to explore the 20%. They not only do things differently and better, but start with a different vision, view if you will.

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ClickFunnels Acquires Doodly, Toonly, Voomly, Talkia, & Automatic Script, Forming Voomly LLC

ClickFunnels

The post ClickFunnels Acquires Doodly, Toonly, Voomly, Talkia, & Automatic Script, Forming Voomly LLC appeared first on ClickFunnels. BOISE, Idaho, Sep. XX, 2021 — ClickFunnels, the global leader in online marketing and sales funnels, officially acquired software products Doodly, Toonly, Voomly, Talkia, and Automatic Script from Bryxen, Inc and formed a new company, Voomly LLC, to manage the products.

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Most Sales Processes, Funnels and Pipelines are How Old?

Understanding the Sales Force

Have you ever conducted a Google or Amazon search for one thing only to be presented with search results that were completely different than what you were looking for? I was looking for an image of a sales funnel and couldn't believe what I found! My search results can be found here. Can you believe all of those images of sales funnels? Look them over and see if you can recognize the problem with all of them.

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How to Get Your Sales Leadership Questions Answered

Anthony Cole Training

When executives think about their sales teams, they often ask themselves if they have the right people in the seat and how they can become more effective. In this blog, we will discuss the leading questions sales executives face when considering their current producer team and how to get the answers they need.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Moving From Product Features To Insight

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was doing a workshop with a really great sales team. We were talking about how to engage prospects and customers more effectively. They enthusiastically embraced the idea that we have to talk about what customers are interested in; we have to engage customers in issues critical to them and their business. But then we decided to practice these principles.

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Cold Email: Everything a Salesperson Needs to Know

Veloxy

Cold hard fact #1 : Most cold email ROI sucks. Sales reps and managers are frustrated by the fact that today’s average cold email response rate is a lousy 1%. You spend 13 hours a week sending 180 emails to prospects, leads, and customers, and all you can drum up is 2 responses. Cold hard fact #2 : 86% of business professionals prefer communicating with you via email, not phone.

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80% Of Prospects Use One Of Five Common Objections

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While it may not be pleasant, it is a fact, so we need to learn to manage things. Which is not as had as people think, but most approach things emotionally, not with thought. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different.

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How To Effectively Run Digital Marketing Campaigns For Any Product

ClickFunnels

The post How To Effectively Run Digital Marketing Campaigns For Any Product appeared first on ClickFunnels. Having a product is not enough. You also need to market it effectively. That’s why today we are going to discuss: Why you should embrace agile marketing. Why you need to create a sales funnel. How to create an effective digital marketing strategy.

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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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Strategy Is Sexy, Execution is Boring

STAR Results

Strategy Is Sexy, Execution is Boring. Business success is a function of brilliant strategies and excellent execution. How are your sales to date? Every sales leader I have spoken with could easily answer this question. I am sure you can as well. Here is a more challenging question: How well are you doing when it comes to strategy execution ? This is a much more challenging question and there is no easy answer.

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The Sales Coaching Conundrum

Anthony Cole Training

The dictionary defines a conundrum as “a confusing and difficult problem or question.” I believe it is safe to say that we can put sales coaching into that category. In today’s blog, I want to give you some sales coaching tips that will improve your sales coaching skills.

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Value Is Not A Destination

Partners in Excellence

Too often, when sales people talk about value, it seems it’s some sort of fixed outcome customers should expect if they buy the sales person’s solution. Corporate web sites and sales people talk about, “Our value proposition is… ” In all honesty, when in my early years in selling, I tended to position value as the endpoint customers would achieve if they bought the products I sold.

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How to scale SaaS without a messy tech stack

Membrain

Almost every B2B SaaS company runs into growing pains when it comes time to scale beyond a single salesperson or two and the original leadership team. Often, this happens when there’s an influx of venture capital and a need to grow quickly to satisfy stakeholder demands.

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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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The Breakfast For Champions Podcast Special – Sell Different! book discussion

Tibor Shanto

This week Lee Salz released his latest book, Sell Different! I invited Lee to sit down and break down the book for our listeners. I would recommend getting the book, listening to the interview, and taking advantage of the specials offered. The post The Breakfast For Champions Podcast Special – Sell Different! book discussion appeared first on TiborShanto.com.

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How To Use The Sales Funnel Approach To Improve Your Business

ClickFunnels

The post How To Use The Sales Funnel Approach To Improve Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Your website is not enough. You need a sales funnel. Here’s what we are going to discuss today: The #1 mistake people make when selling online. The traditional AIDA sales funnel vs. the modern Value Ladder sales funnel. How to build your first sales funnel in 7 easy steps.

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How To Use The Soft Close Correctly In Sales

The 5% Institute

The soft close is easily our most favourite sales closing technique, because you’ll have a higher chance of getting your outcome – and without the risk of breaking rapport. The magic of succeeding with the soft close, is all the work you do prior, leading up to asking for the sale. Without the close; your discovery call and everything else after may be wasted time, so learning how to ask effectively is critical for consistent sales.

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Do You Have a Sales Action Plan?

Anthony Cole Training

A goal without a plan is only a wish. An effective sales action plan starts with collecting, measuring, and inspecting key success metrics that directly impact the end goal.

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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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Moving From Information Scarcity To Abundance

Partners in Excellence

In the “good old days,” perhaps 10+ years ago, salespeople were the primary source of information about potential solutions for their customers. Customers and prospects sought sales people to learn about new solutions, trends in the markets, what other similar companies were doing. Customers, also, looked for other sources of information–through networking with others, conferences, trade magazines, research companies, consultants, and others.

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Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs

Martech

Oracle today announced the launch of Oracle Fusion Marketing, part of Oracle Advertising and CX. The new product tracks account engagement with both email and advertising channels, uses AI to score leads and predict opportunity for sales engagement, then delivers the qualified opportunity to any CRM system. The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. “Salesforce automation ha

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 38 – Brooke Friendly

Tibor Shanto

Subscribe today, and take the Breakfast on the go! Brooke Friendly is an experienced Marketing Director developing diverse customer solutions and revenue generating campaigns through new and innovative content for digital, web, video, radio, print & social media on a national scale. Brooke is NPS certified and has a passion for collaboration and creativity and skilled in Campaign Strategy and Design, Marketing Management, Sales, SEO and Loyalty Rewards.

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7 Lead Generation Examples That Work Like Crazy

ClickFunnels

The post 7 Lead Generation Examples That Work Like Crazy appeared first on ClickFunnels. Need some lead generation ideas? You are in the right place! Today we are going to take a look at seven lead generation examples that work like crazy. No matter what industry you are in, you will surely learn something that you can apply to your own business… Table of Contents: #1 Ramit Sethi #2 Brian Dean #3 James Clear #4 Mark Rosenfeld #5 Zero to Users #6 Matthew I.

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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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The Successful Sales Process – Revealed

The 5% Institute

In this guide, you’ll learn the steps of our successful sales process that works absolute wonders for our Students and Sales Professionals all around the world. Learning and following a sales process would have to be the most important thing you’ll ever learn in sales, because it’ll deliver something you’ll need to thrive in selling. And that thing – is consistency.

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The Average SaaS IPO Takes 12 Years

SaaStr

So how long does it take to really Go Big? We did our own SaaStr analysis a little while back and saw it took on average 10 years to get to a $1B+ acquisition in SaaS. And an IPO? Sapphire Ventures crunched the numbers. And the answer is 12 years to IPO. It’s a challenge to us all to push through the tough times we often see around years 4-5.

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Are We Having The Right Conversations?

Partners in Excellence

I was talking to a great sales person the other day. We’ve been talking for several months about how to improve his prospecting. In our last discussion, he said, “Things have changed completely, I’m now having the right conversations with my prospects!” It’s a common challenge, we struggle to get our customers to respond, we struggle to engage, we don’t make the progress we hope for.

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Using AI-powered predictive analytics to time your next move

Martech

Even in uncertain times, AI-driven predictive analytics can help marketers see what opportunities are coming down the pike. So why isn’t this technology being used by more CMOs? At his talk, showed some ways any marketing team can predictively leverage their data. And he also shared some head-scratching. “About two-thirds of CMOs said that they’re managing the present, they’re putting out fires right now, and only about a third are looking towards the future, even in a period of time

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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