June, 2021

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The Critical Shift to Competing by Creating Value

Iannarino

The Gist: Early legacy approaches to sales leveraged external factors to create a competitive advantage. Eventually, these approaches settled on “solutions” as the main advantage. Over the last decade, the competitive advantage has shifted to the salesperson’s ability to create value around decisions and results. Salespeople have tried many ways to compete for and win new business , most of which have produced uneven results.

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How to Run a Successful Virtual Selling Team

Veloxy

The pandemic has contributed a lot to sales transformation. For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. Well, here’s some hard news for you. Stop waiting. You shouldn’t even be thinking about going back to the old ways.

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Finding and Cultivating the Right Prospects for Your Business

Anthony Cole Training

Knowing how and where to reach our target persona will positively impact our ability to hunt, qualify, and discover potential new business.

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Want to increase sales?

Tibor Shanto

Then make it safe to be ambitious and safe to miss targets. Guest Post by – Matt Roberts. Yes, you did read that correctly. I am proposing that you make it safe to miss a sales target. Hear me out. I have some research that makes this a great debate to have in your sales team right now. Psychological Safety is important to team performance. It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit.

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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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Lead Generation Vs Prospecting – The Differences Explained

ClickFunnels

The post Lead Generation Vs Prospecting – The Differences Explained appeared first on ClickFunnels. The terms “lead generation” and “sales prospecting” are often used interchangeably. But should you do that? Here’s what we are going to discuss today: What is lead generation? What is sales prospecting? What is the difference between lead generation and sales prospecting?

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How to Get Customers to Answer Your Toughest Discovery Questions

Cerebral Selling

“How much money do you make?” “What’s your personal cell phone number” “How many sexual partners have you had?” If a stranger asked you any of these questions, would you feel comfortable answering them? Likely not. Yet in sales, we ask our reps to go out and ask our customers similarly contentious questions all in the name of moving our deals forward. “What’s your budget for this project?

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Sales Velocity: The Art of Growing Revenue Faster

Veloxy

We’ve all heard the saying over and over; time is money. Unfortunately, there isn’t really a method to calculate how resourceful we are with our time. Sure, you might have quotas and deadlines that show accomplishment, but what exactly is the rate of your efforts? Since time is literally money when it comes to business, sales leaders have devised a way to instill dollar value on a day’s work.

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4 Questions to Ask Your Prospects and Gain Clarity

Anthony Cole Training

If we don’t fully understand the reason for a prospect's statement, the purpose of their question, or dig deeper to find the real problem, we will waste time and miss opportunities.

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Time To Demo Your Change

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. I have always said that ‘demo’ is a four-letter word, as bad as any. Not the act of doing ‘a demo’, but more about timing and the purpose for one. All the people that came before you have taught buyers some bad habits. As always, you have a choice. You can cop out, and do the demo you think they want, or deliver a demo that moves deals?

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How To Use Google Analytics To Improve Lead Generation

ClickFunnels

The post How To Use Google Analytics To Improve Lead Generation appeared first on ClickFunnels. Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics solution out there. Today we are going to discuss how you can use it to improve lead generation: How to create a lead generation funnel. How to to analyze Google Analytics data. How to improve the lead generation funnel conversion rate.

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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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8-Year Old Houston Astros Fan Demonstrates a Huge Secret of Sales Success

Understanding the Sales Force

Walter and I attended a recent Boston Red Sox / Houston Astros game at Fenway Park. It was my first visit to Fenway Park since 2019 and it was exciting to see most of the seats filled. It was exciting to hear all of the fan noise that has been missing for so long but there was one fan in particular that I heard louder than all of the others. Starting in the fourth inning, Timmy, the eight-year-old Astros fan sitting next to me, didn't stop chatting with me for the remainder of the game.

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Trade Value, Not Intrigue: A Better Approach to Sales Competition

Iannarino

The Gist: Some salespeople try to acquire a meeting by mentioning their prospective client’s direct competiton. This approach is problematic because it implies that you’ll share confidential information that will somehow benefit your prospective client, making you untrustworthy. A better approach is to speak about your experience in your prospective client’s industry, something that shows both your expertise and your integrity.

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The 25 Best Cold Email Subject Lines To Help You Stand Out

Veloxy

Email marketing might be an effective way to promote your business. But according to The Radicati Group, the average business person gets 115 emails a day, and that number is growing. In other words, if you want to make an impact, you’ve got to craft an email that stands out from everything else in your customer’s inbox. One way to do that is to use a subject line guaranteed to get a great open rate.

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Why Salespeople Can’t Be Good If They Don’t Use the CRM

A Sales Guy

The Sales world is desperate for an upgrade. We’ve been holding on to, too many outmoded approaches, ideas, tropes, and concepts. It’s time sales let’s go of the tired and ineffective belief systems if we’re going to truly deliver the value we say we want to in the 21st-century. The biggest miss and most unsettling issue facing sales today is their brutal and debilitating contradicting view of what’s most important to sales AND the value of the CRM.

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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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5 Patterns To Interrupt In Prospecting Outreach

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. One thing that great prospectors have in common, is an understanding that at first contact, we are an interruption. If your email, InMail or phone call is not scheduled, you are an interruption. You are about to cost them 23 minutes of productivity , like it or not. That initial interruption is never welcome, leading many sellers to want to “normalize” the conversation too quickly.

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5 Ways To Increase Sales Online For A Small Business

ClickFunnels

The post 5 Ways To Increase Sales Online For A Small Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Wondering how to increase your online sales? It boils down to: Increasing your conversion rate. Increasing your traffic. Today we are going to share five ways to do that. Ready to start making more sales than ever? Continue reading… Table of Contents #1 Create a Sales Funnel #2 Optimize Your Website for Lead Generation #3 Build a Popular Blog #4 Build a Popular YouTube Channel #5 Build a Social Me

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Sales Leadership on Steroids

STAR Results

Peer Group Discussion and Coupled with Leadership Coaching Will Pump you Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they, too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. Two critical areas will help you pump up your leadership quotient. The most effective ways are networking with a peer group of like-minded sales leaders who face similar challenges and utilizing a sales leadership coach.

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One Cause of an Aversion to Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: Prospecting isn’t easy, but it’s even harder with a poor strategy. Our only tool in sales is a conversation, making language a primary variable to success. An aversion to prospecting is often caused by horrible approaches to asking for a meeting. The salesperson who called me was talking very fast, and I had a difficult time making out what she was trying to say.

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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 Complete Guide to Cold Call Scripts

Veloxy

Are your cold call scripts costing you potential qualified leads? Cold call scripts are not one-size-fits-all, so what works for one team may not work for the next. If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant.

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How to Create a Compelling Unique Selling Proposition

ConversionXL

Why should customers buy from you? How do you stand out and solve their problems better than anybody else? Every marketer knows these are important questions, but finding the answers can be a challenge. In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. We’ll cover why a unique selling proposition is important, how to uncover what your customers are hungry for and share a framework for developing and testing a

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The Monday Morning Breakfast Podcast

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Does the world need yet another podcast? Normally I would side with the NO group, but in this case I’ll make an exception. As you know (or should know), I host a live broadcast every Friday morning called the “Breakfast For Champions.” It airs live on LinkedIn Live , YouTube live , and the usual outlets. And while it is available to view forever on YouTube or LinkedIn, you can’t take it on the go.

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Lead Generation Vs Lead Nurturing – What You Need To Know

ClickFunnels

The post Lead Generation Vs Lead Nurturing – What You Need To Know appeared first on ClickFunnels. Online marketing terms can be confusing. There’s lead generation. There’s lead nurturing. But what’s the difference between the two? That’s exactly what we are going to discuss today. Want to get some clarity? Continue reading…. Table of contents What Is a Lead?

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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 Win More Deals by Making Better Human Connections

Membrain

People like to do business with people they trust. Unfortunately for sales professionals, salespeople are often the last people anyone trusts.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Objections | Part 6

Iannarino

The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are designed to overcome objections. The legacy solution approach to B2B sales added a level of proof, to provide clients with the confidence necessary to adopt their solution. The modern approach requires the ability to resolve difficult concerns that prevent clients from moving forward. Some of the challenges of selling effectively grow more difficult over time—a natural outcome of greater complexity and its impact on our contacts and clients.

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How to Use Body Language to Increase Sales

Veloxy

Crafting a killer sales pitch? Well, did you know that it’s not what you say but how you say it ? In fact, how you’re visually perceived by your audience can matter more than what you say. You could have the best speech written down and not a single person would remember it if you spoke in whispers while looking down. How you deliver a pitch is far more important that what you actually have to put across.

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Creating a Habit for Sales Success: Time Blocking

Anthony Cole Training

Do you block off time in your calendar specifically to perform the sales activities required to be successful? If not, why?

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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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Meet Your Prospects On the Right Plane

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. In an effort to simplify things, sellers and marketers want to put people in neat categories and boxes. People are not that simple; their emotions and reactions change in many ways at different points in the cycle. Given most deals will involve multiple buyers, we need to consider how individuals evolve, and the interplay between them.

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Creating A Sales Prospecting Process That Works

ClickFunnels

The post Creating A Sales Prospecting Process That Works appeared first on ClickFunnels. Sales are the lifeblood of any business. And to get more sales, you need to get more leads. So how can you convert more potential customers into leads? That’s exactly what we are going to discuss today: What is sales prospecting? How to create a sales prospecting process that works?

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How to Use Storytelling in Business to Build Captivated Audiences

ConversionXL

Who. What. When. Where. Why. Answer the proverbial “Five W’s” through storytelling, and you’ll build meaningful connections with your audience. Fail to do so, and you’ll likely lose their attention. Not every piece of content needs to tell a story. Applying storytelling in the right place, at the right time, in the right way makes all the difference.

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The Fight In The Dog

Iannarino

The Gist: It is natural to believe that a larger competitor has certain advantages. The advantages of size don’t create any value within the sales conversation. Your power has less to do with the size of your company and more to do with the value your approach creates for your prospective clients. We take our lessons where we find them. Today’s lesson is about size, and comes from the world of professional boxing.

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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