October, 2019

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Decoy Pricing: Did United Airlines Fire Their Behavioral Economist?

Neuromarketing

It appears that United Airlines has stopped using a classic decoy pricing approach for in-flight wifi options. The post Decoy Pricing: Did United Airlines Fire Their Behavioral Economist? appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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The call of the machine, or how to make selling more human

Membrain

You know that scene in The Matrix when Neo wakes up in a metal tank and discovers that his entire life has been a lie and that he is merely a battery helping to power a world run by machines?

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Mindset Matters: Why You Must Slay Your Mental Monsters

SalesProInsider

When I was about 8 another kid told me a scary story about a woman who lived in closets and attacked children. Every night for months I was afraid that “Mary” was in my closet…and no matter how many times my mom and dad opened the closet door to show me there was nothing inside, I was terrified and ended up in their bed at some point. Our mind is powerful.

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B2B Video Marketing: A Strategy for Lead Generation

ConversionXL

Video marketing is booming. It’s no longer news. Cisco predicts that, globally, video traffic will be more than 80% of all web traffic by 2022 (up from a prediction of 75% made in 2017). Other recent reports claim a 17% leap in video content usage in 2018, with the average person watching more than 90 minutes of online video every day. In the same report, 85% of surveyed consumers said they would like to see more videos from brands.

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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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An Uncomfortable, but Highly Effective Sales Strategy

Jill Konrath

After spending months trying to meet with a perfect prospect, the last thing you want to do is blow the opportunity. Yet all too often, that's exactly what happens—especially when you only have a short time together.

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10 Of The Best Sales Books To Level Up In 2021

The 5% Institute

Best sales books; with so many articles, which one’s should you focus on reading? Personal development, such as listening to informative podcasts, business and sales related audio books, and sales training should be a part of your daily activities if you want to succeed and win more sales. Another important, yet sometimes forgotten activity (due to our busy lifestyles and schedules), is reading books.

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5 Questions from Psychology You Need to Ask Your Sales Team

Membrain

“There are five questions that determine whether a person will do something or not. These five questions have been heavily investigated at the individual psychological level, the psychobiological level, all the way down to cells and molecules. If you know the answers to these questions, you know whether the person will do something or not.”.

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Learn to listen and ask questions like a natural with this game.

Women Sales Pros

When I hired a sales coach over a decade ago, things didn’t just start happening in my professional life; things started happening in my personal life as well. It started with a small change in the way I interacted with my husband. At the end of most days, he would come home, greet the dog, grab a couple of beers, and trek down the stairs to my home office.

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Confidence Intervals: A Guide for A/B Testing

ConversionXL

Confidence intervals are a standard output of many free and paid A/B testing tools. Most A/B test reports contain one or more interval estimates. Even if you’re simply a consumer of such reports, understanding confidence intervals is helpful. If you’re in charge of preparing and presenting those reports, it’s essential. In this article, we’ll look at confidence intervals—what they are, how to interpret them, some caveats, and oft-encountered issues.

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The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Rebranding in 2019

Hubspot

When you're first starting a business, branding is likely the last thing on your mind. After all, it's hard to sit down and flip through fonts when you're still trying to figure out who your customers are (and where to find them). Plus, even if you made creating a brand identity a priority in the beginning, a change in business plans might have made your initial branding strategy obsolete.

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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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5 x Sales Coaching Tips For Sales Managers

The 5% Institute

Sales coaching is an important and useful part of a Sales Managers role, because there is a large number of benefits that come from coaching and mentoring your staff. Some useful benefits of sales coaching include building confidence, getting clarity on your goals among your obstacles, asking the right questions, prioritising goals and risks, and even employee retention.

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25+ Remote Work Statistics for an Evolving Workforce

G2

The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal. Forbes. Across every industry the hot topic for the future of business seems to be remote work.

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A fresh perspective on the Challenger Sale research

Membrain

First published in 2011, “The Challenger Sale” must be one of the most widely-read sales books of the past decade, and with good reason. Together with its successor “The Challenger Customer” (which I believe is an even more influential book), it served to introduce powerful new perspectives about today’s increasingly complex B2B sales environment.

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How to Create a Strong Blueprint for Your Sales Management Team

Force Management

Sales managers deserve support from your organization, starting with a clear definition of what success looks like in their role. Great companies start with a strong blueprint that includes the processes and tools that enable sales managers to drive success at the team level.

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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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“Best Practices” for Link Building Don’t Work. This Does.

ConversionXL

Five years ago, I was trying to build links—and failing. In fact, I was failing so hard that I had to work without getting paid while building only a couple of links a month. . My team and I followed the “best practices” for link building, starting with our content. We put together some excellent research that showed you didn’t need an Ivy League degree to become a successful entrepreneur.

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16 Effective Ways to Build Your Online Presence

Hubspot

The other day I was trying to find the perfect dress pant yoga pants because I wanted comfortable, professional clothing options. When I searched for "dress pant yoga pants" on Google, I found the brand Betabrand. Amazingly, the company dominated the top four search results. The first two results were their website, the third was their Amazon page, and the fourth was a review of their product.

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5 x Effective Sales Training Activities To Boost Sales Skills

The 5% Institute

Sales training activities, exercises and games are a great way to make your usual sales training sessions fun, enjoyable, and easier to remember. When sales training activities are fun, there’s a better return on your time spent. As per conducted studies , Neurologists have found that fun activities not only help your team remember what they learn longer, but they will also be keen in coming back for more.

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38 Most Dynamic Women in Sales (The 2019 Edition)

Sales Hacker

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. That’s not really honest, is it? What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? And why let LinkedIn’s algorithm decide who is the best?

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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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6 Functions of Human Resource Management

G2

Much like shows about hospitals and law-practices, popular media tends to paint the wrong picture of human resource management.

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7 Deadly Sins of Selling {Infographic}

SalesLoft

The original seven deadly sins are lust, pride, greed, gluttony, envy, anger, and sloth. Did you know there is a selling equivalent to those? The “7 Deadly Sins of Selling” are scary mistakes that salespeople make in their sales processes. The “7 Deadly Sins of Selling” include: Not Listening. Wasting Time. Being Insincere. Avoiding Social Media.

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SaaS CRO: What You’re Not Testing (But Should)

ConversionXL

Think back to the last experiment you ran for your SaaS company. What were you trying to learn or improve? Maybe you wanted to increase email captures or free-trial leads. . Now try to think of the last time you experimented with something other than your acquisition strategy. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone. . Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel.

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How to Create a Wikipedia Page for Your Company

Hubspot

If you're anything like me, you probably mainly consider Wikipedia a good source for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Game of Thrones , or a collection of random facts on Zebras. In short, you likely haven't given it much thought as a channel for brand awareness. But, if you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the best third-party sources for ranking on page one of Google.

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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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5 x Innovative Sales Training Techniques To Use With Your Team

The 5% Institute

Innovative sales training techniques are important in conjunction with your sales training sessions, because you need to ensure what it taught is implemented effectively. Repetitive, old school sales training can become boring, or no longer effective in today’s marketplace. Using innovative sales training techniques with up to date sales training , can be very effective when understood, and of course implemented when your team are speaking with their potential clients.

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Finding the Right “Touch” for Lead Generation

SalesProInsider

Do you need to grow the number of prospects or leads at the top of your funnel? Most businesses do. And there are many ways of yielding potential buyers. It’s like my need for fresh vegetables…I want them fresh and have more than one way to get them. I’m a regular Saturday morning farmer’s market kind of girl. Wisconsin in the summer and Florida in the winter.

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The ONE Value Proposition You Need

Jill Konrath

If you’re like most sellers, you envision finding the perfect way to position your products/services. You want ONE perfect phrase that’s so attractive to prospects that they immediately respond to your voicemail or email—literally begging you to meet with them as soon as humanly possible.

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The Surprising Connection Between Productivity and Happiness

Heinz Marketing

By: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group. A number of years ago, one of our clients said the following to us after a training delivery: “The program and reinforcement were great. The people who are adopting it are seeing strong results. How, however, do I get more of them to adopt it? How do I get them to stop complaining they don’t have the time?”. Thus, we started a multi-year study of productivity and accountability.

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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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Measurement Protocol 101: Improve Your Google Analytics Data

ConversionXL

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager have limitations. Often, these limitations are outside your control (e.g., technical aspects of a website that can’t be changed). Fortunately, many issues—such as updating a user status from your CRM or sending refund data—are solved by using Google Analytics’ Measurement Protocol : The Google Analytics Measurement Protocol allows developers to make HTTP requests to send raw user interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers.

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8 Little-Known Instagram SEO Techniques for Increasing Reach

Hubspot

Instagram is an undeniably viable platform for marketing in 2019. In fact, Instagram has officially reached more than one billion active monthly users -- which means it's now more popular than social media giants such as Twitter or LinkedIn. That's a lot of users sitting around, waiting to see your content. So, how can you reach all of those users and create opportunities for them to engage with your brand?

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What Is Strategy Selling? A Detailed Guide

The 5% Institute

Strategy selling, also known as strategic selling; is the step by step system you put together to serve more qualified clients and win more sales. There should be numerous parts to focus on when strategy selling; from your overall arching sales and marketing plans, your prospecting efforts, and of course – your step by step sales process. In this article, we’ll be looking at the different parts of your strategy plan, and what you can do to implement this.

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Using Search Engine Marketing & Empathy To Connect With Customers

Women Sales Pros

Years ago when I decided to pursue a career in marketing, I was driven by the concept of motivation and persuasion. Why do people do what they do? Why is it that given the same circumstances and environment, people can have completely different perspectives? Why do people make the decisions that they make? Why, why, why… I was determined to find out, so I studied marketing plans, demographics, customer segmentation versus mass marketing, and sales processes.

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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