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5 Ways You Can Leverage Sales Leadership to Close the Sales Gap

STAR Results

Unleash the 10X Factor to Close the Sales Gap. Do you want to close the sales gap? Doing nothing is not an option! Businesses are starting to open, which hopefully is a good thing. You are still responsible for generating your company’s revenue, and your colleagues are counting on your efforts and that of your entire team. Now is the time to get sales on track.

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Develop Your Sales Pipeline to Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Sales pipelines are similar to the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears. " This one is too fat, this one is too skinny, and the rarest one of all; this one's just right.

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What do you wish salespeople would stop doing?

Membrain

Ask anyone on the street what they wish salespeople would stop doing, and there’s a good chance they’ll have a long list. But we wanted to know what the experts in the industry think.

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Are You Being Helpful?

Partners in Excellence

We tend to overcomplicate things, particularly selling and leadership. Billions are spent on training of all sorts. Billions are spent on tools, content, consultants. Each has their own approach, models, techniques. Each emphasizes certain things. We might focus narrowly on prospecting, or account planning, or developing better deal strategies. Some focus on skills like objection handling, closing, negotiation.

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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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Powerful Virtual Sales Conversations: Preparing Buyers Before the Conversation

SalesProInsider

Virtual selling is here. Are you ready? Are you nervous? Have you already mastered how to do it well, or are you still in the trial and error period? Well, have no fear, my next set of videos is going to be giving you practical and actionable tips to be most productive and efficient in your selling efforts. Let’s Start with a Question. Over these last weeks, I have had so many people say to me, “What do I need to do differently to succeed in this virtual environment?”.

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How to attract hot leads to your sales pipeline?

Salesmate

As a business owner, your sales strategy must always include activities that help in maximizing the sales pipeline by constantly attracting new leads inside it. Filling up your sales pipeline with hot leads lets your business flourish and generate better revenue. Jump to your favorite section: 1. What is a sales pipeline? 2. What are the sales pipeline stages?

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3 Steps to Reshape Your Sales Approach & Reopen with Confidence

Sales Hacker

The influence of COVID-19 on the marketplace and our sales operations has completely changed the business landscape, and there may be no turning back. While many things can impact a sales team, most of us have never encountered the kind of confusion created by the arrival of the pandemic. More than ever, team leaders need to ask themselves how they can prepare for the future and use what they’ve learned during these last few months to excel in the days to come.

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Your Forecast Is Not About The Numbers!

Partners in Excellence

Let’s try a thought experiment. Imagine you are a VP of Sales. You see tremendous opportunity coming out of the pandemic and in the economic recovery. You want to be prepared to seize that opportunity. You justify hiring and onboarding 100 new sales people over the next two quarters. You need them to be able to execute the strategies to seize the opportunity.

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Solution selling: The guide you have been looking for all this time!

Salesmate

Do you know 60% of Buyers don’t rely on B2B Sales Reps? Why? Well, according to most of the buyers, some sales reps don’t listen to others are self-centric as well as manipulative. Woah! That’s quite a negative impression. Isn’t it? Well, think about your approach while selling over the phone. Do you call and try to discover your prospect’s challenges and goals?

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The New Flexibility

Engage Selling

Being flexible in the future won’t just be about pushing back a meeting by 15 minutes. The “new” flexibility will long exist into the future as a result of COVID-19.

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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 Tactics To Create Accountability for Remote Sales Teams

Sales Hacker

Well before the age of coronavirus — it seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? — we were seeing a steady, rapid increase in sales teams who were transitioning to remote work. And for good reason: It can benefit everyone. Employees, especially millennials , appreciate the flexibility to work from anywhere, and sales orgs open themselves up to a much larger pool of talent when they’re not limited to hiring locally.

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Banish Farmers And Farming!!

Partners in Excellence

No, I’m not making a political statement about our agricultural sector. Farmers and farming are what brings food to all of us. Possibly one of the most destructive concepts ever introduced into sales is the concept of hunters and farmers. It establishes a go to market strategy that, according to research, doesn’t really work, and absolves sales people of the responsibility for prospecting and constantly looking for new business.

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The Heinz Marketing Quarantine Cookbook

Heinz Marketing

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. During the past few months while working from home because of COVID-19, we at Heinz Marketing, have been fortunate enough to continue working with our clients. There have been slow times which has given us a chance to work on other, non-client related projects, such as The Heinz Marketing Quarantine Cookbook.

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How to Create Detailed Buyer Personas for Your Business [Free Persona Template]

Hubspot

Marketing Margie. Sales Sam. IT Isabel. Accounting Alan. Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? And if so, how much do you know about them? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. They help you focus your time on qualified prospects, guide product development to suit the needs of your target customers, and align all work across your organization (from marketing to sales to service).

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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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7 Ways to Improve Your Sales & Operations Planning Process

Sales Hacker

Without the right approach and structure, sales and operations planning (S&OP) can quickly become more of a burden than an asset. We’ve put together seven tips to improve your sales and operations planning process so you can avoid common pitfalls, improve ROIs, and develop responsive solutions in real-time. Identify Your Key Metrics for Individual Segments.

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6-Slide Proposal

KO Advantage Group

The proposal in the sales process is the last moment we get to bridge our relationships from prospects to clients. This is the last moment we get to show them the very best of us and ask "Are you ready to continue on this relationship"? So why do so many people get this critical step wrong? Why do so many people confuse this document with everything that a proposal shouldn't be, or send it through the worst possible way "I'll email you something".

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Get Back on Balance Now

Engage Selling

After months of global pandemic responses, including economic shutdowns, everyone has been thrown off balance.

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9 Ways to Crush the End of a Blog Post

Hubspot

When I graduated from college a few years ago, there were a couple of lessons that stuck with me. First, as a journalism student, I was taught to never write a conclusion for an article. While this became a habit, it's something I've had to unlearn as a marketing writer because you need to write a conclusion in your blog posts. Second, in my screenwriting class, I learned that every sentence you write should either move your story forward or reveal information.

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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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Aligning Your SDR Team With Your Broader Sales Organization

Force Management

BDR/SDRs are vital to an organization's ability to gain market awareness, grow and scale. Keeping a growth engine going around this function is not easy. Its propensity for high turnover can make it difficult to enable BDR/SDR teams to make a consistent impact.

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Dramarama: Coach Your Customer Experience Team From Surface Acting to Deep Acting

Miller Heiman Group

Customers who reach out to service teams have specific emotional needs—and a study that we recently conducted online with 5,500 global consumers confirmed that customers expect service employees to display a specific emotion in response to their issues. For example, an upset customer may expect the service rep on the other end of the line to respond urgently and with concern; a confused customer may expect a technical support rep to be patient and kind.

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5 Things to Cover In Your Weekly One-On-One Meetings with Salespeople

Sandler Training

That said, there are some important topics for sales leaders to cover during each weekly one-on-one meeting with any salesperson. The post 5 Things to Cover In Your Weekly One-On-One Meetings with Salespeople appeared first on Sandler Training.

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How to Audit Your PPC Campaign & Identify Metrics for Success

Hubspot

If you manage a Google AdWords account to supplement your organic SEO efforts, you know there are a plenty of metrics available to track and analyze. Sometimes it can be confusing and overwhelming. Since we all have limited bandwidth, it’s a good idea to narrow down the key metrics that really give you meaningful insight into what’s working -- and what isn’t -- in your paid search campaigns.

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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

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The #1 Most Important Thing You Can Do With Your Leads: Implement an SLA

SaaStr

Q: “What should your sales team do with marketing qualified leads? Follow-up. There will be a lot of spirited debate between marketing + sales in the lead hand-off process. Do you have MQLs and then … SALs? (Sales Accepted Leads)? Does sales get to reject leads from marketing? How long do they have? Etc. etc. As you scale, and refine this, you’ll have more and more nuances here in your lead qualification process. -> What matters most maybe even all the way to $10m ARR though I’ve found

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Sharing Perspective: Four Ways Sellers Can Stay Relevant During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Miller Heiman Group

Over the last five years, sales organizations have hit their revenue targets, even though individual sellers’ metrics declined. Our 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study showed that lead conversion and quota attainment were both down by double digits (13% and 10%, respectively). Deals were also becoming more complex, with an average of more than 6.4 decision makers involved in a deal and the sales cycle stretching beyond 5 months.

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Seeking to understand: Links, videos and resources for education, awareness and action

Heinz Marketing

The time I’d normally spend writing about sales and marketing this week, instead I’m using to read books, perspectives and challenges that quite frankly are uncomfortable and unsettling. I have a lot of questions, not the least of which are: How to better educate myself. What I can do personally. What I should be doing to help our kids increase their awareness, understanding and action.

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Bayesian A/B Testing: A More Calculated Approach to an A/B Test

Hubspot

What are some of the reasons you run an A/B test? When I think of the benefits of A/B testing, I think of one of the most popular and concrete ways to experiment with ad designs that are effective for target audiences. I think of how changing one simple element can be the deciding factor for customers, and that running a test will help me figure out the preferred design.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

SaaStr

Debt for SaaS companies done right is a gift. Done wrong, it can weigh you down like an anchor. Few folks have more data than Nathan Latka and he offers up some insights on how to properly leverage up in SaaS. — ed. Good — and Bad — Types of Debt. Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. .

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5 Reasons You Should NOT Buy Gong

Gong.io

We love Gong. We love what we do. We believe in the product we sell. We drink our own champagne (in the colloquial expression sort of way). But not everyone loves — or needs — Gong. And maybe that’s you. Maybe every single conversation your sales reps have ends in a Closed-Won. . If you’re on the fence about adding Gong to your sales tech stack, we created this guide with all the reasons why you shouldn’t buy our software. .

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The Art of Staying Focused Under Pressure

criteria for success

Most people feel a lot of workplace stress and pressure these days. It’s a common thing among professionals in all levels of responsibility and hierarchy. It’s also the reason why a some employees make mistakes along the way. This is especially the case with salespeople and other occupations where employees have to act quickly and maintain good relationships with a lot of prospects or clients on a daily basis.

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How to Create a Landing Page: The Simple Step-by-Step Guide

Hubspot

The other day, I was reading a blog post about using Twitter for marketing. While reading through the post, I noticed an offer for a free ebook about the same thing, and by clicking on it, I was taken to a new page. This page let me know what was in the ebook, how to download it, and the benefits of this content. I also noticed a few things that separated this particular webpage from others.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.