July, 2020

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What Recruiting in the “New Normal” Looks and Sounds Like

Anthony Cole Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes. While some businesses have hit rock bottom, some are thriving and hiring at scale. Businesses in customer care, retail, healthcare, digital marketing, and online training industries are actively hiring because of the new market demands. But unfortunately, recruitment techniques that have been used for years aren’t the same anymore.

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The Only Thing That Matters When Cold Calling

A Sales Guy

Too many salespeople miss amazing opportunities to improve their cold calling success and conversions. They waste time trying to build engagement or be liked. The key is to establish credibility as someone who can help them as quickly as possible. Cold calling is about establishing credibility as quickly as possible. The post The Only Thing That Matters When Cold Calling appeared first on A Sales Guy.

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It’s Not The Customer’s Job To Figure Out How You Help!

Partners in Excellence

I am looking for some software tools to help our team. After listening to about 4 suppliers, I’m about to give up, it’s probably easier, cheaper to do nothing. As I reflect on our conversations: We’ve talked about our needs, what we are looking for, and what we hope to achieve. Sales people seem to be nodding their heads in the right direction, I take this for understanding.

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Nudge Marketing: From Theory to Practice

ConversionXL

It’s summer in the UK. Two cigarette disposal bins are erected on a littered street. One bin is marked Ronaldo, the other, Messi. The bins encouraged smokers to vote for the best football player with their cigarette butts. After twelve weeks, cigarette litter dropped by 46%. In the United States, a similar experiment reduced cigarette litter by 74% in six months.

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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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Create Winning Conditions for Video Meetings

Engage Selling

Recently, I explained that video is the new default in how we connect and do business with others now. It’s been a huge, rapid shift.

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How to Pitch Using Questions

Cerebral Selling

What’s your favorite movie? Chances are when you read that question your mind became both focused and very busy as you searched your data banks for a suitable answer. You were instantly focused, trying to reconcile both factual (which movies have I seen?) and emotional information (how did I feel about them?), if only for a moment. As a heuristic (or mental shortcut), your mind may have even contemplated whether you’ve been asked that question before, and if so, what you said last time!

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Why it is so Difficult to Compare Sales Effectiveness from One Salesperson to Another

Understanding the Sales Force

T. Today we'll discuss how to measure sales effectiveness of different salespeople despite there being so many variables to confuse the matter. You can scroll directly to that topic or, if you don't mind, please read my 3 paragraphs of context. In 1990, I founded Objective Management Group (OMG), and now, thirty years later, we are on the verge of evaluating our two millionth salesperson.

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“Look At Our Dashboards”

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was having a discussion with an executive team. Proudly, they said they were data driven and bragged about the dashboards they used to manage the business. They asked me to look at the dashboards to provide recommendations about what they might be doing. I looked at the dashboards, at first glance, I was impressed–tracking pipeline, tasks, lead disposition, prospecting, mix, accounts, perormance by sales person, and more.

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Public SaaS Companies Are Now Worth $1 Trillion

SaaStr

Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon have made the headlines for a while for crossing $1 trillion in market cap each. That’s crazy growth — almost all fueled by the crazy growth of the Cloud. No SaaS company is yet worth $1 trillion, through perhaps that is coming. What has happened though is the Top 30 SaaS companies together are now worth $1 Trillion.

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Want To Be A Sales Closer? Do This To Learn How

The 5% Institute

Do you want to be a sales closer? Meaning – do you want the framework to consistently close more sales, without being pushy or having to rely on outdated scripts? In this article, we’ll give you 8 x solid tips for selling more effectively, so that you can close more consistently and effectively. These tips for selling are centred around consultative selling.

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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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3 Tips for Hiring A Coachable Salesperson

Topline Leadership

This article describes how to hire a coachable salesperson. Here are the tangible qualities that sales managers should look for during the interview process to accurately predict whether or not a sales candidate will be coachable. When hiring a salesperson, sales managers are increasingly telling me that they’re paying more attention to “coachability” — mostly [.].

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8 ways to use pop-ups to generate more sales

PandaDoc

When most people think of pop-ups, they think of unrelated advertisements that appear while they’re in the middle of reading something. But that’s not all they can be! Used effectively, they can be a great way to generate more sales and draw your customers in. But how can you use them effectively? Here are a few initial tips. Place them in context. Pop-ups should always relate to the page on which they appear.

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Supporting Remote Teams: 5 Steps to Keep Your Team Thriving

Sales Hacker

As companies continue to return to the office , the demand for remote work is unlikely to disappear. Even before COVID-19, remote work was gradually gaining popularity. In 2019, 3.9 million workers in the US were operating remotely. In 2020, that number increased to 4.7 million employees. However, just because working at a distance is becoming more common, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its challenges.

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Helping Our Customers Face Uncertainty

Partners in Excellence

Probably the single biggest issue anyone and every organization faces today is uncertainty. Each of us faces things few have every experienced in the past–at least at this magnitude. We have a global health pandemic, economic, political and social turmoil. We have businesses that are facing massive disruption. We face impacts personally, to our families and communities.

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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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10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors

SaaStr

We’ve crossed 6,000 posts and answers on SaaStr and we held off for a long time on writing one on How to Have a Great Board Meeting, and most other VC tropes. We might write that post, soon, however, just from a founder perspective. But I thought it might be useful to assemble a “Top 10” list of things that are relatively easy to do, now, that will make your investors and board happier.

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The Sales Process Template – Win More Sales

The 5% Institute

In this guide, you’ll learn the exact sales process template that works absolute wonders for our Students, Sales Professionals and Business Owners 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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3 Ways You Need to Prepare to Sell Moving Forward

Engage Selling

It’s no secret that the selling landscape has changed over the last few months. The entire globe has been impacted, and now is the time to ensure you’re aligned with these three ways to sell moving forward.

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7 stages of sales pipeline every entrepreneur should understand

Salesmate

Successful entrepreneurs understand the importance of generating a continuous stream of leads and turning those leads into customers. This is how your business grows. The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline.

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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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Why Sales Leaders Make Sales Call Reluctance Worse (And How to Fix It)

Sales Hacker

Are you one of the millions of salespeople still searching for ways to overcome your phone fears and finally get over your call reluctance? Don’t worry. You’re not alone! In my 22 years in this industry, I’ve found that Telephobia is far more common than you think. Some of the best salespeople on the planet still have moments of fear when they reach for the phone.

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Are You Engaging The Real Customers?

Partners in Excellence

I was doing a series of deal reviews–not unlike most of the deal reviews I do. We were talking about the people involved in the buying process. What struck me in each discussion was how few people were being engaged at the customer — and that the right people weren’t being engaged, even by the customer buying group. Typically, the sales team focused their engagement strategy through one person–usually a friend or sponsor.

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A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan

SaaStr

I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it). But I did all the sales myself, and stupidly, had no sales comp plan at all ??. Then at Adobe Sign / EchoSign I had some good — and painful — learnings.

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“I’m Just Looking” – How To Handle The Sales Objection

The 5% Institute

Whether you work in retail, a showroom or generally just in product sales; you’ll most likely and regularly come across the I’m just looking sales objection. In this article, we’ll break down where the I’m just looking sales objection usually comes from, and how to handle it with ease using a step by step framework. The I’m Just Looking Sales Objection – Where Does It Come From?

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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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36 Tips to Stay Productive While Working from Home

Highspot

Whether you’re a seller, marketer, sales enablement leader, or another role, it can be challenging to achieve focus and stay productive with all of the distractions in the current environment. Here are 36 productivity tips from the Extreme Productivity Benchmark Report to help you succeed. Each of these correlate statistically to Extreme Productivity, and they make up the 9 Habits of Extreme Productivity.

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This Mistake Can Cost You the Deal | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

I want to share with you a tale of woe. One of my customers emailed me and mentioned they just lost two of their biggest clients.

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Conquer Cross-Departmental Deals With These 6 Key Questions

Sales Hacker

Sellers are having to work harder, get more “yeses,” and get more company stakeholders on the same page about ” why you?” and ” why now ?” than ever before. And that last part is the hardest aspect of just about any sale. In B2B sales, getting multiple decision makers on board is a dream. And these days, it’s becoming more and more necessary. This might sound overwhelming, but it’s doable.

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5 tips for working from home when your head and heart are distracted

Membrain

I spent the first six months of 2017 living in the hospital while my 5-year-old son, Ari, waited for, received, and rejected a heart transplant. During that time I’d spend my nights an hour away from him with our 3-year-old daughter and 6-month-old son. Each morning I’d fight Boston traffic to spend my days with Ari on the 8th floor at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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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 “Covid Boost” for SaaS Will Last Years

SaaStr

Q: What impact will the effects of covid have on the SaaS industry? Many of us in SaaS are really struggling now. Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries are in deep trouble. But on balance, Covid-19 is dramatically accelerating SaaS: During “Shelter Plus” times, in the end, we’ve worked more in the Cloud: More Zooms. You know this, but also.

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Mortgage Loan Officer Sales Training – Close Easier

The 5% Institute

In this article, you’ll learn about our online sales training program ; which will be perfect for your mortgage loan officer sales training needs. Many sales training programs focus on specific scripts; or are very niche and boxed in to the point that they don’t transfer across multiple service-based industries. That’s why we’ve created something to help new mortgage, loan officer and other related Sales Professionals thrive in sales, by focusing on the most important part of your sales toolkit

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Here's How to Delight Your Customers Using Database Marketing

G2

How many times have you opened an email from a brand or a company only to see your name spelled wrong or not included at all?

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How to write a gentle reminder email that gets noticed

Salesmate

An average office worker receives around 121 emails per day. You aren’t alone in the race. Your competitors are even trying to capture the attention of your prospects. Your prospect receives multiple emails in a day. So there are chances that your email might get buried in their inbox. Besides, nobody has time in this business world. So they ought to miss out on many emails in their inbox.

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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.