January, 2022

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4 Cold Calling Tips for Making a Good First Impression

Veloxy

Make a lasting and memorable first impression. Gone in sixty seconds. In addition to being a great Nicolas Cage movie, those four words also demonstrate what your prospect will be if you don’t have the right first impression formula for cold calling. Why do you need a first impression for cold calling ? While some salespeople at companies like Amazon Web Services and ServiceNow can leverage their company’s recognition during the first cold call, most salespeople need to inform and intrigue the

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What Leaders Have to Say on Setting and Achieving Goals

STAR Results

The Power of Setting and Achieving Goals. New Year resolutions are nothing more than rhetoric. Despite the initial eagerness you may feel for the goals you have set, that enthusiasm tends to wane over time, often leaving you right back to where you started. Studies indicate that only 8-12 percent of people fulfill their goal-setting resolutions. Sure, your desire to achieve the goal is real.

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7 Lead Generation Statistics You Need To Be Aware Of

ClickFunnels

The post 7 Lead Generation Statistics You Need To Be Aware Of appeared first on ClickFunnels. It’s important to keep up with marketing trends. That’s why today we are going to share seven lead generation statistics that you need to be aware of. We will also discuss what you can learn from this data as well as how you can use those lessons to gain a competitive edge.

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Three Keys to Banking Sales Training

Anthony Cole Training

With the past couple of years working remotely, many of your bankers’ skills are rusty and they may not be using the tech tools they should be. During these times, they must be better than ever before at reaching out and communicating effectively and consistently.

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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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What Does Your Client Gain by Meeting with You?

Iannarino

I knew the salesperson would not have much to say when he started our call with, "how's it going," a dead giveaway that the conversation would be short. Sure enough, he followed up with "how's business?" then pivoted to "What is the biggest problem you have in your business right now?" At that moment, I was tempted to shoot back, “The time I’m wasting on this call!”.

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The Best Plans Starts With You

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. I’ve read several pieces offering suggestions that now is the time to develop the right plan for the year ahead. One can argue about the timing, some, me included, would say the planning should already have been done. January, or any first month of a fiscal year, should be used to hit the ground running, not planning. But if you’re going to plan, there is more to it than Territory or Account Planning.

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Close More Deals With This Strategy

Engage Selling

If you want to close more deals faster, it’s important to make your buyer part of the solution. Confused about what this means, exactly? Let me explain. Primarily, they want to co-create the solution with you and be a part … Read More » The post Close More Deals With This Strategy first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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MY NEW BOOK (sneak peek)

ClickFunnels

The post MY NEW BOOK (sneak peek) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Wanna ‘New Years’ surprise…? Hey – it’s New Years, and everyone is talking about goal setting and resolutions (which is SUPER COOL)… And my next book (I can’t tell you the title yet. But it’s gonna be AWESOME) is actually about how to achieve anything you want in life…. And walks you through my blueprints for success (with doodles and all).

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The Pull of Resistive Inertia: One of the Biggest Sales Challenges

Anthony Cole Training

One of the biggest sales challenges to overcome is a prospect who becomes indifferent when they decide that doing nothing is the easiest thing to do. How do you challenge the decision and not the prospect to help them overcome their choice to maintain the status quo?

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Your Sales Effectiveness in 2022

Iannarino

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2022. If you are a sales leader, a sales manager, a salesperson, or in some other role where you are responsible for revenue growth, your number one priority in 2022 should be sales effectiveness.

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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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Upgrading Your Base As Often As Your Phone

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. In a world of monthly subscriptions and the battle for new clients/revenue, the victim is often margin. To be frank, it is no different in a purchase cycle , bringing on clients without margin is, well, costly. So, I think it is important to plan how you upgrade your current account base, and potential targets. Sometimes the best hunting is in your own pond, growing your margin requires replacing, and upgrading current accounts.

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How to Use Segmentation to Boost Cold Email Engagement

Veloxy

Helping you prevent the dreaded list fatigue. While your competition may be scaling back their cold email outreach, there is a simple strategy you can use to scale up your cold emailing—list segmentation. What is email list segmentation? It’s the practice of continuously reviewing your database or CRM for prospects with similar characteristics and grouping them together.

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Top 10 sales methodologies for complex B2B sales

Membrain

Implementing the right sales methodology for your complex B2B team can provide a major boost to sales effectiveness. But choosing the right methodology training company can be a challenge.

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The SCHEDULE For Tomorrow (Ecomm VS Expert)

ClickFunnels

The post The SCHEDULE For Tomorrow (Ecomm VS Expert) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Here is the plan…. AHHH!!! We get started TOMORROW!!! I’m SO EXCITED! Real quick, here is the schedule of events again for tomorrow: We start Thursday January 20th Private VIP Session starts @ 10:00 AM Eastern (With Russell) NOTE: IF YOU DIDN’T UPGRADE TO VIP – THIS IS YOUR LAST SHOT!

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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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Stop Whining and Start Winning Deals in Regulation

Anthony Cole Training

One of the biggest challenges in sales is outplaying your competition, especially if that competition currently has the business.

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Using 4 Common Sales Metrics to Reach Your Goals

Iannarino

There are four metrics we commonly track in sales to measure progress toward our goals: number of opportunities, average deal size, win rate, and velocity. No one disputes the value of these four metrics, but few salespeople recognize a relationship between them that can cause problems.

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You Get What You Plan For

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Last week I started these two parts look at planning for a successful sales year. One thing that may not have come across is that planning is an ongoing process, rather than a periodic thing. Like training or coaching, it is not a thing but a companion, one that must be constantly cared for. The reality is you get what you plan for; we need to be constantly planning.

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Professional Character: Define it for Today’s Buyer

Engage Selling

Are you being intentional in how you define your professional character? So far in this series that looks at the four big, cold-hard facts that are radically reshaping the sales landscape today, I’ve talked about time-based branding and why it’s … Read More » The post Professional Character: Define it for Today’s Buyer first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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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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If Practice Makes Perfect, Why Do We Keep Practicing The Wrong Things?

Partners in Excellence

We know to master any skill, it takes practice. It may be Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours to mastery. Or we look at what great athletes, artist, musicians, and others do. They are constantly practicing to improve their skills and capabilities. We know that to get really good at anything, we have to continue to work on developing our capabilities to do the things that produce the outcomes we hope to achieve.

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Creating a Soap Opera Sequence That Sells [GUIDE]

ClickFunnels

The post Creating a Soap Opera Sequence That Sells [GUIDE] appeared first on ClickFunnels. Russell Brunson first heard of the Soap Opera Sequence from a friend of his, Andre Chaperon. And he loved it so much that he popularized the idea in his book, DotCom Secrets. But what is the Soap Opera Sequence? How can you use it to engage your leads, build rapport, and sell your products or services?

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Selling Value vs Price

Anthony Cole Training

One of the top challenges we discuss with sales managers and leaders is how to get their salespeople to start selling value and stop caving on price.

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How to Stay Positive in an Uncertain World

Iannarino

Your experience on earth is largely about how you frame things that occur around you. How you choose to interpret and process things that happen (or don't happen) determines whether your attitude is generally positive or negative.

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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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Changes As A Competitive Advantage – Omicron Edition

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. I have regularly talked about the importance of deliberate and intentional change. Some tell me I go on and on about the 360 Degree Deal View , way too much; but I can’t help it. It is just one element of learning. The video below was prompted by an article from McKinsey, Intentional learning in practice , apparently their 10th most popular article for 2021.

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Win/loss analysis – are you learning as much as you should?

Membrain

I’m always stunned by how little win/loss analysis we do. Of course, when we win or lose a deal, there is some reason code–usually some drop down in CRM that gives us a handful of choices about why we won or why we lost.

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There Is No Excuse For Not Doing Your Homework!

Partners in Excellence

To the annoyance of most school children, virtually every night, their parents ask a question, “Did you do your homework?” Growing up, sometimes I would blow off doing my homework, I’d not lie, but I’d find a way not to answer the question. Eventually, that would catch up with me, I’d not be prepared for class, my grades would suffer.

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16,528 People!?! What’s Your #1 Question?

ClickFunnels

The post 16,528 People!?! What’s Your #1 Question? appeared first on ClickFunnels. Holy moly – did you see this? So, we’ve got over 16k people registered for the “Ecomm VS Expert” SMACKDOWN this Thursday and Friday…! I’m SO EXCITED! Alison is jumping in a plane from Puerto Rico (85-degree weather) and flying to Boise (8-degree weather) so we can serve you for TWO DAYS… for FREE!

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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 Steps to Improve Your Outbound Sales

Anthony Cole Training

To improve your outbound selling success, you must have a process that you strictly follow and regularly improve upon, be a continual learner, and focus on building relationships. If you are a sales leader or a salesperson in need of an outbound sales strategy, here are our 7 steps to improve your success.

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The Positive Value of Being Self-Oriented

Iannarino

Of all the ways to lose a deal, the most reliable is to project a self-orientation. When your client feels that your motivation is limited to transferring their money to your wallet, with a brief stopover in your company’s checking account, they’re all but certain to disengage and choose a salesperson who is truly interested in helping them improve their results.

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How to Build an Audience with Social Media Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 billion. They’ve grown to attract big-name clients like LinkedIn, PayPal, and Shopify, mostly through social media channels rather than organic search. Gong is an excellent example of a company dedicated to finding the best content marketing fit and delivering insights that resonate in formats that engage.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 57 – Craig Rosenberg

Tibor Shanto

Includes Overtime Segment. You can read the bio below, but there is more to this episode than a simple bio. Craig brings a deep wealth of knowledge about sales and revenue success. Sitting at the intersection of sales tech and sales methodology. Craig has a proven and unique ability to identify trends that impact sales and how to either leverage the good, and avoid the risky.

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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