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It’s Not The Customer’s Job To Figure Out How You Help!

Partners in Excellence

I am looking for some software tools to help our team. After listening to about 4 suppliers, I’m about to give up, it’s probably easier, cheaper to do nothing. As I reflect on our conversations: We’ve talked about our needs, what we are looking for, and what we hope to achieve. Sales people seem to be nodding their heads in the right direction, I take this for understanding.

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Answering your customer’s three critical questions

Membrain

In today's challenging and uncertain business climate, your customers have good reason to be cautious. They are unlikely to initiate new projects unless they see them as being strategically relevant, tactically urgent, and capable of delivering rapid time-to-value. The rest can wait.

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3 Tips for Hiring A Coachable Salesperson

Topline Leadership

This article describes how to hire a coachable salesperson. Here are the tangible qualities that sales managers should look for during the interview process to accurately predict whether or not a sales candidate will be coachable. When hiring a salesperson, sales managers are increasingly telling me that they’re paying more attention to “coachability” — mostly [.].

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7 stages of sales pipeline every entrepreneur should understand

Salesmate

Successful entrepreneurs understand the importance of generating a continuous stream of leads and turning those leads into customers. This is how your business grows. The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline.

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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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36 Tips to Stay Productive While Working from Home

Highspot

Whether you’re a seller, marketer, sales enablement leader, or another role, it can be challenging to achieve focus and stay productive with all of the distractions in the current environment. Here are 36 productivity tips from the Extreme Productivity Benchmark Report to help you succeed. Each of these correlate statistically to Extreme Productivity, and they make up the 9 Habits of Extreme Productivity.

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How to create outstanding sales growth with channel partners

Membrain

Channel partners can be a major source of high-profit revenue growth with the right business model. A great channel partner operates as an extended sales team, bringing in new business and nurturing accounts on your behalf, without the payroll.

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How to write a gentle reminder email that gets noticed

Salesmate

An average office worker receives around 121 emails per day. You aren’t alone in the race. Your competitors are even trying to capture the attention of your prospects. Your prospect receives multiple emails in a day. So there are chances that your email might get buried in their inbox. Besides, nobody has time in this business world. So they ought to miss out on many emails in their inbox.

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Office or Remote Selling – Managing Effort and Effectiveness

Adaptive Business Services

In the last few weeks, many sales managers are deciding whether their teams should return to the office or stay home. No matter today’s decision, tomorrow brings new information that completely alters yesterday’s point of view. Professionals each have an opinion on what to do. Some are itching to get back on the floor with their teams. Others find the benefits of being at home more valuable.

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When Even Selling for a Few Billion is Not Enough

SaaStr

We’re approaching the age of 1,000+ Unicorns and despite a global pandemic, this remains The Best of TImes in Cloud and startups in general. But there’s a quiet cautionary tale to just think about. The two latest $1b+ acquisitions weren’t quite as glamorous as they seem: Uber acquires Postmates for $2.6b. Amazon acquires Zoox for $1b.

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8 Letters that Can Double Your Income: an Intro to MEDDPICC

Sales Hacker

“ You can double your income with this. ” This is something my mentor once told me. At the time, I didn’t believe him. But I did what he said. I followed his system, and it changed my life. He taught me some obvious stuff, like that I needed to prospect more; I needed to build better business cases; and push executives for data, alignment, validation, and change.

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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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11 essential sales pipeline metrics you should be tracking

Salesmate

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. While revenue is a good indicator of success, it only measures what’s coming out of the pipeline – in other words, the result. It doesn’t account for leads that have “leaked” out. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics.

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Where Does Pinterest Fit in Your Marketing Mix?

ConversionXL

When thinking about organic or paid traffic, Google and Facebook often come to mind. Pinterest, for most, does not. And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. Some 70% of users are adults between the ages of 30 and 49, and 41% have household incomes over $75,000 per year.

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Three Deadly Sins That Sellers Must Avoid

Miller Heiman Group

Sellers aren’t alone in suffering through the impacts of COVID-19: your customers are likely feeling the same pressures and stresses that are plaguing you and keeping you awake at night. Before you can sell to your customers, you need to understand their mindset and, more importantly, recognize how their mindset affects their decision-making. And you need to avoid the three deadly sins that trigger inaction.

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8 Tips to Advance Your Sales Career in Uncertain Times

Sales Hacker

No one could have predicted COVID-19, but the people who can adapt are the ones who will advance their sales careers during this time. With the current state of sales , everything is changing fast. Approximately 50% of B2B companies have reduced their budgets. Digital is now the preferred sales interaction, with a 250% boost in mobile app ordering. 96% of B2B companies have switched to remote selling.

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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 Risky Path Forward

Partners in Excellence

Our collective worlds have been disrupted and changed forever. Whether it’s how we interact in our communities or businesses, everything has changed. Markets and industries have been turned upside down. Some will take years to recover. The nature of work has changed forever–and that change is not just virtual. How we get things done within our companies, how we get things done with our customers, how we get things done with our partners and suppliers, have changed.

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Want to Build Greater Rapport Virtually? Do This One Thing

RAIN Group

88% of sellers find developing relationships virtually challenging. It’s one of the biggest challenges sellers face today. Many sellers lament that it’s just not the same as meeting someone face-to-face. They struggle to connect and build trust. Fortunately, it’s possible to develop strong relationships even when you can't connect with buyers in person.

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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

ConversionXL

Google is the biggest search engine ad platform in the world. But Microsoft Advertising has potential advantages, including lower CPCs and less competition on Bing. It’s worth a look, and this article shows you how to get started. I’ll walk through the step-by-step process to set up Microsoft Ads as well as best practices for running campaigns. . How to set up your Microsoft Ads account.

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PODCAST 117: The Tools You Need If You Want to Succeed at Scale with Michael Coscetta

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. That’s an incredible success story in terms of their ability to work with and attract the best brokers, build a massive brokerage community, and give those people the tools they need to succeed.

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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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On Virtual Buying

Partners in Excellence

Zoom, Teams, Webex seem to rule our professional and even our private lives. We have gotten to this place through the shut down, but are now discovering the value of these tools in working with each other. Without a doubt, these will become an important part of business going forward. Without a doubt, the tools will continue to be refined, enabling us to do more.

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The 1 Simple Test to Know if You’ve Hired a Real VP of Product or Customer Success … Or Not

SaaStr

I remember the first time I had a “head of product” in SaaS. I’d known him for many years, and knew he was great … but didn’t really know what help he could give us. I just knew we needed help around $2m-$3m so I asked him to help. I told him just to help us however he thought best. He went away and first did something I didn’t totally get.

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Customer segmentation 101: Everything you need to know

Salesmate

Customer experience is quickly becoming the highest priority for online businesses. In fact, it’s well on the way to overtake price and product as the main brand differentiator. Yes, people value the experience more than money. Here’s why: they don’t want to spend money with businesses that don’t provide the experience they expect, let alone with those treating them badly.

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10 Tips for Memorizing Your Sales Script

Sales Coach Dew

Most salespeople love presenting but feel most comfortable when we loosely know an outline and then wing it. When it comes to following the company presentation or memorizing a sales script, we can feel constrained. I hear salespeople complain all the time that they’re “bad with names” or they can’t work from a script. I say, nonsense!

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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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Prospecting Malpractice!

Partners in Excellence

There is no excuse for stupid prospecting! Sadly, too many organizations are committed to prospecting malpractice. None of us can escape or have spam filters powerful enough to filter out the stupid, irrelevant prospecting that is inflicted on us on a daily basis. Our emails, phones, texts, social channels overflow with poorly designed and abysmally executed prospecting.

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10 Things I Wish My Board and VCs Had Told Me

SaaStr

They say CEO is a lonely job, and I guess in some ways true, but in many ways it’s quite the opposite. If you do it right as a founder, there’s nothing more rewarding than getting to work on Monday. Checking in with the team. Being on a journey together. But what is hard is getting help seeing the forest through the trees. Here are the Top 10 things I wish I’d been told.

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3 ways to effectively manage a remote sales team

Salesmate

Did you know that a sales team can be 13% more productive when they work remotely? However, there are many moving parts to a sales process, and leading a remote sales team isn’t a stroll in the park. Besides following the basic principles of sales management, you also need to set up your team and adopt a management strategy that addresses the unique challenges of remote working.

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Key Foundational Elements for Any Reporting Framework

Heinz Marketing

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Everyone knows by now (or at least you should) reporting is a fundamental element in sales and marketing. You must be able to report on your efforts and performance and understand how you got there by using data from said report. In my almost four years at Heinz Marketing, I’ve spent my fair share of time working on reporting for clients whether building dashboards or creating a reporting framework to actually pulling the data

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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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My New Book, Complex B2B Selling

Partners in Excellence

A reader asked me, “Dave, when are you publishing a book on complex B2B selling? I’d really like to see something from you.” I thought about it a moment, I hadn’t thought of doing a book on the topic. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on the topic–and look at how little they have really contributed to changing how we sell and improving our ability to create great value.

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Why Consumers Subscribe and Unsubscribe from Email [New Data]

Hubspot

Think email marketing is dead? Think again. Email marketing is actually thriving. In HubSpot's 2020 State of Marketing Report , roughly 80% of marketers said their brand's email engagement had improved in the last year. Our researchers also discovered that brands make an average of $42 for every dollar spent on email advertising. mail marketing is still widely used and continues to offer many benefits to marketers.

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7 Transferable Skills That Will (All But) Guarantee Your Sales Success

Sales Hacker

Moving into sales from another industry is tough. There’s new language to learn, new processes to master, new tools to get comfortable with, and so much more. There are many skills to master to become an expert salesperson, and those skills will change depending on the exact role. But there are a few skills that every salesperson needs for success. And luckily, many of these skills are ones you’ve already developed in your previous role.

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B2B Reads: Burn Out, Zoom Fatigue, and Sleep

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. Prospecting Is Not An Event! There’s so much about prospecting that we still get wrong, it’s not an event!

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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.