May, 2021

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10 Creative Non Financial Ways to Motivate your Sales Team

Veloxy

If there’s one universal truth that resonates throughout every single company, it’s that cash is king for your sales team. Inside and outside sales reps are not only paid on commission, hefty bonuses and kickbacks also motivate them to work even harder. I mean, c’mon, you’ve seen all the movies right? Some of the leading salesmen in the US are literally swimming in money.

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Four Principles for Hiring Sales STARS!

STAR Results

Hiring Sales Stars . Whether you are starting a new sales force or hiring a new rep to fill a vacancy, the four principles of the STAR Process will help you select top sales performers. As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results.

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Can Quiet Sellers Gap Sell?

A Sales Guy

As Gap Selling has crossed the milestone of 50,000 copies sold , we are highlighting some of our favorite books to compliment your Gap Selling journey. Our 3rd book recommendation? Quiet!! To start…you may be wondering why the heck would I put Quiet and anything “Keenan” in the same discussion? These two words have probably never been shelved together, until now.

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What Is Your Development Plan For Your People?

Partners in Excellence

My friend, Tibor Shanto , and I were talking this morning. He asked me a fascinating question, “Why don’t managers have a development plan or roadmap for developing the capabilities and performance of their people?” The question caused me to pause and reflect. Very few managers sit down with their people and develop a plan to help them learn, grow, and contribute at higher levels.

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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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Why I believe we should blow up the BDR role in sales

Membrain

Did you ever notice how most supermarkets place the least capable cashiers in the Express Lane? Drives me nuts! The Market's perspective: Small orders will be easier for them to handle. My perspective: Let's go!!! They call it Express for a reason!

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Our Latest Podcasts: Coaching Lessons from Netflix

Force Management

This month's episodes packed an extra punch. With timely front-line sales tips and a guest appearance for ELAC Men's Basketball Coach, John Mosley Jr. (as seen on Netflix's Last Chance U: Basketball Series) — each episode has something for everyone in your organization. Here's a rundown of what each episode covers. Tune in and share with your sales reps, managers and other leaders in your organization.

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Consistency: Your Key to Sales Success

Engage Selling

When it comes to sales success, consistency is key! There is no magic formula for creating sales results. Each individual is unique, as is each organization, product, and consumer. We live in a world of distractions. One blog post might … Read More » The post Consistency: Your Key to Sales Success first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Want Success In Sales? Follow This System

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll detail exactly how to reach continuous success in sales and selling, by following an eight-step sales process. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. A sales process will give you consistency and will simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale.

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Start With The Customer

Partners in Excellence

When we look at our Go To Customer strategies, we make them more complicated than we need to. Our demand gen, marketing, sales organizational design, sales processes, customer experience—all of it are generally designed around us. It’s an internal view, primarily focused on internal objectives and goals. We may be trying to hit certain spend/budget goals.

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How hostage negotiators win - and how you can too

Membrain

Kirk Kinell knows negotiation. For more than 20 years, he was a professional hostage negotiator, who went on to train other hostage negotiators and to build programs to improve the effectiveness of those negotiations.

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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 Interesting Learnings from Monday.com at $240,000,000 ARR

SaaStr

So Monday.com has filed to IPO with some pretty incredible numbers, especially considering just how competitive the space is. At $240m in ARR, they are growing a stunning 85% year-over-year! And that’s with direct and indirect competition from Asana, Atlassian, Clickup, Wrike, Smartsheet, Notion and so many others. Pretty incredible for a product that just launched in 2014.

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Email Tracking: 5 Ways to Accelerate Sales and 5 Tools to Help

Veloxy

Once upon a time, a clever sales rep sent out a nicely crafted email to dozens of prospects. Then, he had to wait without any way of knowing whether the emails were opened, forwarded, or simply thrown in the spam folder. For during those old, dark days, there was no email tracking. Fortunately for us, salespeople are now equipped with advanced email tracking.

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Goals Without a Plan Are Useless | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

This week, I want to explore sales goals. I know we all have them. Our companies set them for us, our leaders set them for us, and perhaps you set some for yourself. Setting goals, however, is never the problem … Read More » The post Goals Without a Plan Are Useless | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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How To Close A Sales Deal On The Phone

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll share the exact blueprint on how to close a sales deal on the phone; without being salesy, and yet still remaining in control. Some people still use old school always be closing methods , and others a completely different and more consultative approach. By learning how to close a sales deal on the phone by using our method, you’ll close more sales consistently, without being pushy or breaking rapport.

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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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The Irony Of Change

Partners in Excellence

The other day, I was speaking with a colleague about the state of sales/selling. We started talking about the irony of change, how our jobs are all about change–yet we, somehow, seem the most resistant to changing how we sell. Sales/selling has little to do with what we sell. It is strictly about change, helping our customers/prospects recognize the need to change, helping them in that change process.

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How to win more deals with stakeholder mapping

Membrain

In my experience, the #1 problem for salespeople engaged in complex b2b sales is failing to understand how customers and prospects make decisions.

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HubSpot’s Growth Accelerates to 41% at $1.1B in ARR. And New Customers Grew Even Faster.

SaaStr

Hubspot didn't just grow an incredible 41% in Q1'21 to $1.1B in ARR. It accelerated. * Revenue growth accelerated from 32% to 41% * And new customer growth accelerated to a crazy 45% YoY * All while keeping ACVs constant at ~10k. They did it the hard way, with SMBs. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) May 6, 2021. We last checked in with HubSpot as they crossed $1B ARR , and ordinarily, it would be a little quick to check back in.

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3 Common Issues in ABM Sales and Marketing Alignment

Heinz Marketing

By Win Salyards , Marketing Coordinator at Heinz Marketing. Sales and marketing alignment is essential to any ABM strategy. It can make or break your ABM strategy. Only 3 in 10 sales and marketing professionals think their organizations are fully aligned. To ensure ABM success, we need to understand issues that can arise or are present when aligning sales and marketing teams.

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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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They Want to Renegotiate…Now What? (Part 2 of 3)

Engage Selling

It can feel like a big, scary problem when your customer starts demanding you renegotiate terms and prices on an existing agreement you have with them. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. As a sales leader, there are … Read More » The post They Want to Renegotiate…Now What? (Part 2 of 3) first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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The 5 x Best Sales Techniques To Win More Clients

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll uncover the five best sales techniques to help you consistently win more clients. Whether you’re a Sales Professional, Business Owner or Entrepreneur; this article will help you win more sales in a consultative way. Read on to learn our best sales techniques, as well as how and why you should implement this into your sales strategy.

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Rethinking Rev Ops

Partners in Excellence

There’s a lot of discussion about rev ops. In a lot of it, I wonder, “What problem are we really trying to solve?” To be honest, I think much of the justification we use in looking at Rev Ops misses the true opportunity. Much of the discussion is around improving alignment and collaboration across marketing, sales, customer experience.

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Referral request reluctance

Membrain

Gaining referrals can seem harder than cold calling. It’s something I’ve recently noticed. There are many salespeople who would rather talk with relative strangers in the form of prospects than to ask current clients for referrals. I know that I struggled with it previously in my career.

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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 Avoid Being Replaced as CEO by Your VCs

SaaStr

Worried about a bunch of VCs replacing you? You should be a little worried, probably. A ways back, a CEO that I know fairly well was fired by a VC. Strange thing was, the VC didn’t talk to the rest of the board. Who didn’t agree. So he got un-fired. Awkward. CEOs getting replaced and fired in start-ups doesn’t happen every day.

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Three Ways Sales Leaders Balance Short- and Long-Term Goals

Force Management

I often have the conversation on “balancing long- and short-term sales goals” with sales leaders. Finding the time to fix execution gaps that you know exist, while in the flurry to hit your number is a common challenge. So the question becomes, “How do you handle the pressure of the quarter while ensuring achievement of the long-term goals for your sales organization?”.

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5 Resources for Professional Development

Heinz Marketing

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. When work gets busy, it’s easy to become so distracted by meetings, emails, and deliverables, that we completely lose sight of our professional development. And it makes sense – when it comes to prioritizing our list of to-do’s, there are usually many items that take precedence.

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How To Close Inbound Sales – A Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll detail exactly how to close inbound sales consistently, by using a step by step consultative selling approach. Our sales closing plan that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service-based businesses, inbound sales, as well as people selling high ticket products and services. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales.

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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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15 Great Call to Action Examples That Simply Work

G2

Your ability to write ads, landing pages, or emails that make readers take action – whether it’s to buy something, download an eBook, join your email list, or something else – is one of the keys to becoming a successful marketer.

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Why sales transformation achieves better results than sales training alone

Membrain

You finally have that big new 4K flat screen mounted on your wall but now the movie you are streaming isn't sharp because your inconsistent internet connection negatively affects the resolution and the big screen makes it even more obvious.

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AngelList: Early Stage Valuations Actually Aren’t Up That Much. It’s The Top Startups That Are On Fire.

SaaStr

It can be hard to tell from the media and Twitter just what’s happening in SaaS and Cloud startups these days. We see emerging leaders like Brex quickly raise at $7B+ and ClickUp raise at $1B just months after raising at a fraction of those valuations. We see hot earlier-stage startups out of top incubators getting funded at record valuations.

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From Guessing to Guided as Told in Memes

Xant

The consumer experience has changed significantly. When smartphones hit the scene, data was used to understand our behaviors and provide more relevant content, and we, as buyers, became more independent with endless information at our fingertips. Of course… the data isn’t always spot on. B2B buyers are completely digital and in control. Buyers are used to having the information and resources they need to build their own criteria.

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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