December, 2010

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Selling Success Will Happen "Someday"

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Interview with Bruce Philp author of the new book Consumer Republic

Closing Bigger

'Today I had the opportunity to interview Bruce Philp author of The Orange Code and the soon to be released book Consumer Republic. We had a great discussion about the power of the consumer and our ability to vote with our pocketbooks. Here’s what the book site says about the book: Consumer Republic Using brands to get what you want, make corporations behave, and maybe even save the world.

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25 Ways to Get More Social Media Followers

Hubspot

Social media can seem overwhelming, especially when you're starting from scratch without any followers on your profiles. Building a following does take time, but there are many simple ways you can attract new followers. Here are 25 easy ways you can get more social media followers: 1. Enable Social Sharing. Add buttons to your blog and even other website pages that allow visitors to share your content on social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Lead Generation Best Practices: Summarizing the 7-Part Series

Pointclear

Just for a moment, let’s revisit the GAO’s definition of best practices described in the introduction to the series: “Best practices are the processes, practices, and systems identified in public and private organizations that performed exceptionally well and are widely recognized as improving an organization's performance and efficiency in specific areas.

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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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Pseudonyms and Other Creative Solutions to Make Things Happen.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Pseudonyms and Other Creative Solutions to Make Things Happen. by Lori Richardson on December 15, 2010. Recently I was searching on a professional association website and saw that the only way they listed members (so that you could hire one) was alphabetically.

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Overcoming Prospecting Challenges: What's Holding Your Prospecting Back?

Sales Gravy

Nobody likes awkward conversations. There are entire books and seminars devoted to “cold call reluctance,” and they all come down to the same thing: nobody likes calling strangers and asking for business.

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11 Social Media Tips in 140 Characters or Fewer

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'I tweet social media tips on a regular basis. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or for those who missed some of my tips this week, here are 11 tips on social media (if you have any to share please post them below): Social Media Tip: Focus on what you love and those who love the content you create. Social Media Tip: A single tweet may not create a best friend but it’s a doorway to many new relationships.

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What is a 301 Redirect and Why Should You Care?

Hubspot

In the simplest of "technical definitions", a 301 redirect is a permanent redirect from one URL to the other. For example, if your previous website was www.awesomewebsite.com and you wanted to change it to www.reallyawesomewebsite.com , you'd implement a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. Now whoever typed in your old URL (or clicked on a leftover link to your old URL), they'd automatically appear at your new URL.

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 5: Multiply Touches/Media/Cycles

Pointclear

Results multiply when lead nurturing strategies multiply. Successfully engaging prospects depends on a mix of tactics to maintain positive awareness of your offering until it’s time to buy. The resources and methodologies needed to address these requirements include a smart mix of three core processes : Multi-touch : Frequency matters. From initial engagement to lead qualification and through long-term nurturing, frequent and systematic touches are essential.

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What's Your Hair Style and Sales Plan for 2011? ? Score More Sales

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. What’s Your Hair Style and Sales Plan for 2011? by Lori Richardson on December 13, 2010. It is undeniable that when you work a plan, you are more likely to achieve your goals than when you fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Agree? If that is the case, why is it that so many business owners and sales people (even medium-sized or larger businesses) do not have up-to-date plans with goals and milestones to g

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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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Learn to Listen: Sell to the Customer's Expectations

Sales Gravy

Sell to the customer's value expectations, not to your value propositions.We’ve all heard the rule of listening to what the customer has to say, and there’s not a salesperson who thinks they don’t listen to the customer.

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New Recipe for Sales Success Formula

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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19 Social Media Tips in 140 Characters or Fewer

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'I just used this site called Tweet Scan to download all of my Twitter posts since I got onto Twitter. Truth be told — it only was able to recover a portion. Within it though I was able to dig up from my archive some social media tips that I have tweeted over the past year. I will share more over the next couple of weeks but here’s 19 social media tips: Social Media Tip: You can tweet until you are blue in the face – until you develop intimacy you’re not maximizing your R

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9 Reasons Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working

Hubspot

Social media is the hottest way businesses are reaching out to potential customers. When executed correctly, a social media marketing campaign can bring traffic to your website and generate new leads for your sales team. And there are so many options, from Facebook , to Twitter , to LinkedIn , to YouTube, and the list goes on and on. To many, social media can seem like an overwhelming black hole of time with no end in sight.

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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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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 7: Measure Beyond Cost-Per-Lead

Pointclear

Conventional wisdom—that something called a “lead” can and should be had at consistently lower price points where it will still deliver value—is at the root of a host of sales and marketing problems and deserves a closer look. The value of a lower cost-per-lead approach may have merit early in the funnel where inbound marketing and marketing automation can be helpful in moving large numbers of sales prospects to raise their hands and express interest.

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Take control of every sales relationships by closing on every.

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Who Is Your Greatest Competitor?

Sales Gravy

The woman failed to listen and barged into the business because she had to talk to her as one business owner to another. My client then received a very loud earful about her unethical business practices and how she was stealing this woman's clients.

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New Year's Sales Resolutions - Success is NOT a Resolution

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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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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My Top 12 Social Media Blog Posts for 2010 according to Postrank (@postrank)

Closing Bigger

'Following are my most engaging blog posts according to Post Rank Analytics. They measure on-site and off site responses, votes, comments and links to each post and then rank the post. Having the Post Rank plugin installed into this blog made finding the posts that my readers have found most engaging easy. Thanks to everyone who has dropped by the blog, commented and shared my tips, strategies and podcasts.

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How to Add Email Lists in Facebook for Page Promotion

Hubspot

If your business is using Facebook as a part of its inbound marketing strategy, then it is likely that a goal of your marketing team is to expand your reach by attracting more people to like your Facebook page. For a long time marketers have faced a challenge in inviting new users through Facebook. While they have been encouraging people to visit their Facebook Fan Pages , it hasn't been easy to do the reverse--get email addresses into Facebook and send invitations through Facebook's messaging s

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

Pointclear

There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales. After all, shouldn't more leads deliver more opportunities? In reality, just the opposite often turns out to be true.

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Ensuring a Profitable Sales Day | Sell More, Word Less Blog by.

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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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How to Run a Successful Sales Contest: Tell 'Em What They've Won

Sales Gravy

Sales contests and promotions should be conducted with one thought in mind. Changing behavior to achieve a desired result or outcome.

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Create a Social Media Optimized Email Signature

Hubspot

Email isn't dead. We send literally hundreds of personal emails a week in our day-to-day jobs and are literally missing hundreds of opportunities to engage these people at a deeper level by incorporating social media into the mix! Adding in these elements used to require a fancy email platform and some advanced HTML knowledge. (Not anymore!). Anyone with an index finger and 3 minutes can make a great looking and social media optimized email signature with WiseStamp.

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Glossary: 29 Email Marketing Terms Marketers Must Know

Hubspot

According to Wikipedia , " Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fund-raising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing.". Above-the-fold - The part of a web page that is visible without scrolling.

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3 Metrics to Prove to Your Boss That Social Media Marketing is Working

Hubspot

Congratulations! You were able to convince the social media skeptic in your boss to let you spend some time on social media marketing. Let's say you've been trying it out over the past few months -- you're tweeting, managing a Facebook presence for your company, and publishing content links to LinkedIn and other social media sites. That's all well and good, but what do you do when your boss approaches your desk to request an update on how your time spent in social media-land is generating measur

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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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7 Proven Facebook Marketing Tactics

Hubspot

It’s been quite the year for Facebook. The company is nearing the 600 million user mark. It announced its new email massaging system. And Mark Zuckerberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Throughout 2010 companies and organizations of all sizes have taken advantage of all that Facebook has to offer. Most encouraging of all has been the degree to which companies have integrated Facebook – and other social media – into their marketing mix.

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Twitter Proven to Impact Search Engine Rankings

Hubspot

Over the past 3 years most of us involved with marketing have heard of Twitter. At the same time businesses have prioritized their adoption of Twitter differently. Some business have made it a core part of their inbound marketing strategy, while others have delayed adoption in favor of other tactics. More Signals to Prioritize Twitter. I know, there are so many things to do, and it’s hard to step away from focusing on the tasks that get visitors to your site from search sngines.

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Why Yellow Pages Ads Are Becoming Obsolete

Hubspot

The following is a preview of information from the upcoming HubSpot Webinar: "Why Yellow Page Ads Are A Waste of Money": Sign up today! Yellow Pages used to represent the final stage of the buying process when people were ready to make a purchase decision. But today the buying process is no longer a linear path ending with the book. Instead, it follows the curves and tools of emerging online technologies.

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When is the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts? [Infographic]

Hubspot

In working on the data for my Science of Blogging webinar tomorrow , one of the most important questions I could ask my data was "when is the best time to publish a blog post?". Over the past few years, I've researched and written a lot about the best time, and recently, I wrote a big overarching post for ProBlogger on the topic. Based on over 170,000 blog posts I've created a visualization of the best times and days to post for views, links and comments.

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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