April, 2021

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The Art of Silence in Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Most salespeople are afraid of silence because they perceive it to be awkward or a sign that the prospect has mentally checked out. But that's simply not the case! It is critical that you let silence do some of the heavy lifting during your prospecting conversations.

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Sales AI: How to Accelerate and Increase Sales in 2021

Veloxy

A sales rep is only as good as the time they spend selling. Let Sales AI take care of all non-selling activities so your reps can focus on revenue generation. We already know that AI technology can drive vehicles, but did you also know that it can drive sales? AI has been around for a while now, but its applications have been relatively low before the pandemic hit in 2020.

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Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team

STAR Results

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently delivers outstanding results. Given limited budgets, you need to figure out how to maximize your ROI?

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How the planning fallacy can make or break a deal

Membrain

I don’t think we talk enough about the impact of timelines on making and breaking deals, especially in complex b2b sales.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. So when she told us that she’s uncomfortable providing her email address to companies—including ours!—and didn’t want more email clogging up her inbox, it made us stop in our tracks. Could this be true across the board? We dug into our data and quickly discovered that our users shared her sentiment.

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There is No Excuse for Being Blindsided | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

I’ve been working on numerous consulting projects recently, and I’m incredibly frustrated with clients who lost business for no other reason than they didn’t see it coming. They simply didn’t have enough contacts inside their accounts to see an accurate … Read More » The post There is No Excuse for Being Blindsided | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Outbound Sales: How to Build an Efficient System

Veloxy

Outbound sales has been a staple in the business for ages now. But it you’re going to do it, you’ll need the right strategy and approach. For those of you new to outbound sales, here’s what the process basically involves. Sales reps reach out to prospects and deliver pitches with the hopes of gaining customers. One classic example of outbound sales is cold calling , but modern reps also use email as well as other forms of communication.

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Quarterly Business Reviews – Drive Sales Performance

STAR Results

Quarterly Business Reviews . Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. To have an effective business planning process, companies must build in proper follow-up and follow through to ensure execution and establish accountability to the business planning process.

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Is your sales process a help or a hindrance?

Membrain

Far too frequently, competent salespeople are expected to channel their own activities into the areas that will produce the quickest wins. Unfortunately, left to their own devices, they don’t develop and pursue a formal strategy for moving a sale tangibly forward during each prospect interaction, neither do they have a clearly defined set of goals against which to measure the progress they are making.

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Problem Focused Growth

Partners in Excellence

I wrote about Product Led Growth. It’s the latest hot new strategy being promoted by many SaaS companies and VC’s. It’s not a new strategy, we’ve seen it so often in the past, companies with Hot Products focused just on fulfilling customer demand. In past decades we’ve seen both the pros and cons of product led business models.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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“I Am Willing to Learn” vs. “I Want to Learn”

Adaptive Business Services

When I was in sales management and I was looking for new salespeople, one of the things that I watched for was people who expressed a desire to learn. There is a huge difference between somebody who is willing to learn and someone who really wants to do so. I need a commitment! This is maybe even more important with experienced sales reps and even more more important with experienced reps from your industry.

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Increase Sales by Eliminating Misunderstandings and Closing Delays

Anthony Cole Training

In business, especially in sales; delays, misunderstandings, and communication can go awry. Sometimes, even with the influx of technology and communication tools, it is easy to misinterpret what a prospect, or salesperson, says. So, how do we make these communication lines more efficient?

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How to Increase Adoption of Your IT Solutions

Veloxy

“It’s not working, usage is declining. No, it’s the user interface which is not intuitive. I think people just find it hard to use these new IT solutions!” “Well, have you tried turning it on and off again?” This is just a sample of a conversation that happens in thousands of organizations every day. As technology and innovation advance at near light speed, the demands on IT leaders are more intense than ever.

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Our Sales Process For Startups

The 5% Institute

In this guide, you’ll learn our recommended sales process for startups that works absolute wonders for our Business Owner 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.

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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 Top SaaS Companies Have An Average of ~350 Integrations

SaaStr

Your API. If you are a B2D company, it’s your product itself, your API. But for most B2B companies, your API, your partner programs, and the like are extensions. Not your core product, but an important layer for improving customer experience. But how much effort should you put into your partner programs and external APIs — and when? Personally, I’m highly biased to as early as possible.

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51 Machine Learning Statistics to Get You Thinking

G2

If machine learning were a kid in school, it would be a combination of the most brilliant and coolest student in class.

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Your Sales Cycle is (Probably) Too Long. Try This Instead.

Sales Hacker

Two years ago my wife and I were winding through the mountains on a train back from Aguas Calientes, Peru. We had just seen Machu Picchu (a place which lives up to EVERY ounce of the hype. That place is stunning). One of my wife’s work colleagues challenged me to a game of chess. I happened to think I was pretty good, despite not having played in forever.

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Managing 80/20 Prospecting Time to Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective and increase sales. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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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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All New Customer Standards and What to Do About It

Veloxy

At the core of every business is the customer. Happy customers not only help you build credibility, they also rake in more business. Research shows over 75% of customers are likely to recommend your company to a friend if they received great service and had a positive experience. This is why your main focus and priority should be keeping your customers happy and satisfied.

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8 x Consultative Selling Tips To Close More Sales

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore 8 x consultative selling tips to help you close easier and more consistently. These tips are commonly used by the top five percent of sales performers all around the world. Many people think that what they’re able to achieve is from pure luck. We’ll explore how this isn’t the case, and what you can do to improve your sales process , as well as your closing rate. 8 x Consultative Selling Tips To Close More Sales.

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How to Get Ahead in SaaS Sales in 7 Easy Steps

SaaStr

For someone just starting out in SaaS sales (entry-level Salesforce in November), what are your tips to accelerate growth/ability in early stages? A few thoughts to excel as someone new to SaaS sales: Really learn the product cold. As fundamentally as you can. Every prospect and customer is owed a true solution sale approach. Sales is there to close a deal, yes, but that should just be 10% of it — 90% of the “work” should be to solve your prospects’ and customers’ problems.

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8 Common Technical SEO Mistakes Businesses Make

G2

Technical SEO can be daunting.

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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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The Definitive Guide to Video Prospecting

ConversionXL

Like everything in the digital world, traditional prospecting is undergoing a big transformation. Picking up a phone and cold calling (or emailing) is just not as effective as it once was—you need to be smarter both when it comes to which users you’re engaging and what kinds of messages you’re using. This second point is especially interesting: the types of messages you send can have a big effect on your outreach results.

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How Telling Stories will Help Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Storytelling is a powerful tool in sales. It can take prospects on a journey, assist in developing deeper relationships, and helps them connect to you as a sales professional.

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6 Lessons Learned from A Year of Pandemic Selling

Cerebral Selling

April 7th, 2020. After spending a year and a half writing a book , I never thought it would be released at the fearful onset of a global pandemic. . Customer budgets shifted and evaporated overnight. Key stakeholders changed roles and even companies. And massive shifts occurred in how people and organizations evaluated their investments as they adjusted to the changing landscape. 365 days after the release of Sell The Way You Buy , here are some of my key sales lessons learned from a year of pan

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Trust Based Selling – Your Ultimate Guide

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore the premise of trust based selling, as well as how to build trust with your potential clients during your sales conversations, and before you present your offer or solution. So, what makes trust based selling different to the older models of selling ? In this article, you’ll learn: What is trust based selling? Behaviours that’ll break trust.

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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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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? Well of course it does. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved.

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Small Business Productivity: 4 Methods to Help You Save Time

G2

If you’re running a small business, chances are you grapple with low productivity from time to time.

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A Marketers Guide to TF-IDF Optimization for SEO

ConversionXL

As digital marketers, content is a critical part of everything we do. And while analyzing and refreshing content may take a lot of time and effort, the results for generating more traffic and improving SEO are clear. . With the many things that go into creating content, such as competitor research, outreach and technical aspects of content, improving older content frequently takes a back seat—which in most cases, is a costly mistake. .

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Rethinking The Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

Preface: It’s always dangerous to preface an article with a warning. This is a long article. In some ways, I’m writing it to help clarify my own thinking. We are seeing a profound shift in buying, with customers preferring digital engagement channels to sales engagement. I am beginning to explore what this means for our overall engagement strategies, moving from a sales led, digitally supported to a digitally led, sales supported process.

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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.