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5 Proven Tips That Can Increase Virtual Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Many people prefer purchasing things online nowadays. In fact, three-quarters of surveyed buyers prefer virtual sales over traditional sales. If virtual selling is already part of your business strategy, you might want to ramp your efforts up. Here are 5 proven tips to help you increase virtual sales.

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5 steps to martech stack success

Martech

There are many reasons marketing technology fails to deliver on its promise. Among the biggest are the questionable tactics of some vendors’ sales teams and customers who aren’t prepared for them. What follows is a way to be sure you’re prepared. In 2020, Real Story Group managing director and analyst Jarrod Gingras wrote about martech vendor bullying.

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The Invisible Sales Manager

Iannarino

A sales manager needs to be seen and heard if they are going to lead their sales force. One of the downsides of our technologies is that the salesperson can monitor their sales force's results over long distances. For as long as there have been CRMs, salespeople have feared their sales manager would act as Big Brother, monitoring their every move, tallying up their activities, and micromanaging their efforts.

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What is Team Selling and Why it Matters Post-Pandemic

Veloxy

Before the pandemic, Salesforce found that most customers were demanding a team selling approach to satisfying their needs. Fast forward to today’s post-pandemic business world, and our research shows that sales teams are starting to put the customer experience first—and team (or collaborative) selling is an integral part of that sales plan. What better way to satisfy the rising standards of customers than by inviting more trusted advisors from other departments into the sales process , such as

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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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Understanding the Customer Buying Motives

Anthony Cole Training

Knowing and understanding your prospect's buying motives allows you to make better decisions on whether to engage and pursue a potential sales opportunity.

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Salespeople close 172% more doing this to sell value

Membrain

Here’s a startling fact you may not know: Salespeople who uncover budgets are 172% more likely to close business than those who do not. This stat drives home the point that you must have a sales process that includes money discussions early in the conversation and you must help salespeople sell value by being more comfortable having those conversations.

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Critical Selling Skills – 5 x Must Haves

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll uncover five powerful critical selling skills to help you consistently close more sales. Whether you’re a Sales Professional, Business Owner or Entrepreneur; these details will help you win more sales in a consultative way. Read on to learn our recommended critical selling skills, and how and why you should implement this into your sales strategy.

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Dear SaaStr:  What Was The Best Advice You Ever Got From an Angel Investor

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Was The Best Advice You Ever Got From an Angel Investor. The best advice I ever got from one of my angel investors: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. I went to meet with one of my angels and mentors when things were probably toughest at my last start-up. My co-founder had walked out the door. We had about 4 months left of cash. I was out of ideas.

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Predictable Revenue And Wild Assed Guessing

Partners in Excellence

Predictable Revenue, a concept popularized by Aaron Ross in the first edition of Predictable Revenue (2011), is important. It’s important to us, perhaps to forecast commission earnings and when we might buy that new car or go on the big vacation. It’s important to our managers to know whether we are going to make our revenue commitments in the organization.

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Why Legacy Salespeople Lose to Truly Consultative Salespeople

Iannarino

The primary challenge in sales today is that the legacy approaches don't position the salesperson appropriately in the first meeting. Instead of positioning the salesperson as a business advisor with expertise in their industry, legacy approaches position them as someone who provides information about their company and their products.

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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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What’s Important to Your Buyer?

Force Management

Companies that drive significant growth in their markets all have one thing in common — cross-functional alignment around buyer value and solution differentiation. Through a conversation on the Revenue Builders podcast , Chief Marketing Officer at TripActions, Meagen Eisenberg shares why generating this company-wide alignment is critical, “To fight for larger players and enterprise deals, the entire company needs to know the value your solutions drive for your customers and understand how to dev

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Convert Consistently with Customs and Connections: Meet the Commanding Tribe

SalesProInsider

You may hear these questions in your sales conversations: Why is that? What does the research show? These are two questions a buyer who is in the Commander Tribal Type may ask during your sales interactions. And they are the focus for this installment of the series: Convert Consistently with Customs and Connections. This is your introduction to the Commander Tribe, including the descriptors, clues to look and listen for, and tips for selling with them.

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In The End, The “Covid Boost” in SaaS Was a Bust

SaaStr

Almost every category of SaaS exploded during the lockdown, but three saw just crazy boosts: Zoom went from $1B to $3.5B in a year! Shopify accelerated to 110% growth at $3B ARR! DocuSign’s billings growth accelerated to 61% at %1.5B ARR ! Incredible boosts, and their stock prices went on a tear. We’d never seen revenue acceleration like this ever in B2B software.

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Who Am I To Tell My Client What To Do?

Iannarino

The concept of being One-Up means you believe your client is One-Down as it pertains to decision-making and the better results they need help producing. It doesn't mean that your client isn't One-Up in other areas, and it doesn't suggest that you are always and forever One-Up, as you are One-Down in all the areas where you lack the knowledge or experience that would make you One-Up.

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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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Flexible Persistence

Partners in Excellence

Reading an outstanding article by Reid Hoffman, False Choices , one term leaped out to me—flexible persistence. It’s such an important and powerful concept. As sellers and managers we get, possibly to a fault, the concept of persistence. We know that success is based on constant and consistent execution of our strategies. We know we will face challenges and resistance–from our people and customers, but that we can’t give up.

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7 Ways to Ruin a Sales Job Interview

Spiro Technologies

Sales has a high turnover rate, in part because it’s a difficult job that quickly weeds people out. Additionally, there are usually quite a few opportunities available to anyone considering making a change. Unlike other professions, nearly every company has a sales force. Any salesperson looking to move up in their career needs to understand how to nail a job interview.

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How to Deploy Community as a Growth Strategy

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing. Online communities exploded in recent years with millions of active members, and it’s no mystery why. Instead of going it alone, a community of like-minded individuals becomes a sounding board for ideas and questions. The community boom demonstrates our desire to move beyond isolated content and toward collaboration.

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On Persuasion and Convincing Clients

Iannarino

There must be something in the water that is causing salespeople to suggest in writing their new desire to avoid persuading or convincing their clients to do something. Let's call this phenomenon "the super conscious salesperson." This newfound morality sounds nice, but it undermines a salesperson's obligation to provide the counsel, advice, and recommendations that would ensure the client succeeds in improving their business results.

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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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10 Common Misconceptions About Getting Funded

SaaStr

Q: What are some common misconceptions about funding a startup? A few: Things are magically better when you get funded. It helps a bit, but in the first few rounds, you rarely raise enough to let you hire everyone you want, do every campaign you want, etc. It helps, but it’s not a radical change. You often overspend after raising your first round. Startups that have never raised a funding round often overspend right after.

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Yahoo and DIRECTV open up addressable TV and streaming inventory

Martech

Yahoo and DIRECTV announced a partnership for advertisers looking to bridge the linear and CTV divide, making 25 million TV households addressable for advertisers using the Yahoo DSP. The partnership includes DIRECTV Advertising, DISH Media and Fios, adding to Yahoo’s CTV reach of 80 million households in the U.S. DIRECTV Advertising will be available through Yahoo beginning in Q4 2022.

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How to Successfully Run a Remote Business

Predictable Revenue

Michael Zipursky joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to successfully run a remote business and tips for working remotely. The post How to Successfully Run a Remote Business appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The Phone First Sales Organization

Iannarino

Every day, many thousands of salespeople send emails to their prospective clients. Their sales leaders allow their teams to send these emails, and what is worse, many count those emails as a prospecting activity. It is counted even if the message found its way to the contact's spam filter or was deleted without as much as a cursory glance.

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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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10 Things That Make Your Investors Lose Confidence

SaaStr

These are Strange Times Indeed in SaaS and Cloud. The best SaaS companies from Datadog to Snowflake to HubSpot to Salesforce are growing faster than ever, even past $1B or more in ARR. And yet, the stock market has taken a big tumble, leading among other things to dramatic change in the VC ecosystem. Venture funding almost overnight gotten twice or more as hard, often at half or less the valuation.

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Facebook agrees to revamp adtech over discrimination charges

Martech

Facebook’s parent company Meta will revamp its targeted advertising system following accusations it allowed landlords to run discriminatory ads. This is part of a sweeping settlement to a Fair Housing Act lawsuit announced Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department. This is the second time the company has settled a lawsuit over adtech discrimination issues.

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Round-Up: Top 9 Podcasts for Sales Leaders

Predictable Revenue

The team at Predictable Revenue has rounded up a list of the top 9 podcasts for sales leaders, so you can listen and learn from industry experts on the go. The post Round-Up: Top 9 Podcasts for Sales Leaders appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Prioritize the Fundamentals

Iannarino

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached 8.6%, the highest inflation recorded in the last four decades. Energy prices are up by more than 34%, food is up more than 10%, and the average price of an apartment just reached $2,000. The Federal Reserve has raised rates twice, each time increasing it by 0.50, with another increase of 0.75 announced on June 15, 2022.

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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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On Doing Whatever It Takes Featuring Brandon Bornancin

Sales Gravy

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to reach your goals and dreams, build your business, climb the sales leaderboard at your company, or bounce back from failure? Lot's of people have dreams but few actually grind it out and turn those dreams into reality. The good news is that you can defy the odds to get everything that you want in business and in life if you are willing to do whatever it takes.

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Are you still using spreadsheets to manage your work? Take our poll

Martech

Earlier this year, revenue orchestration platform LeanData released a report suggesting that lead management remains a “heavily manual” process. Based on a survey of more than 1,700 sales, marketing and operations professionals, the results showed that, despite all the talk of digital transformation, the number two challenge for revenue teams was too many manual processes and not enough automation (the number one challenge was insufficient pipeline).

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Financial services are missing the mark with customers — Here’s why

Salesforce

Financial services customers have a message for their providers: They like doing business online — and they aren’t going back to pre-pandemic habits. That’s the good news from a deep dive Salesforce took into financial services trends and the state of banking, insurance, and wealth management. The not-as-good news? Customers give financial services institutions only a middling “C” for their digital offerings.

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Active Listening Exercise for Your Next Sales Training Event

criteria for success

Looking for the perfect active listening exercise for your next sales training event? We can help! Here at CFS, we are big believers in group training activities. An effective active listening exercise accomplishes three things: 1. Collaboration. Sales can often be a very solo gig. Salespeople that are used to doing their own thing are a great fit for activities that encourage team building.

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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.