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Hitting Your Sales Goals – 3 Challenges to Overcome

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we discuss the 3 challenges facing salespeople today:

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Axonius, a cybersecurity asset management startup, raises $20M in Series B

Openview

The post Axonius, a cybersecurity asset management startup, raises $20M in Series B appeared first on OpenView.

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Micro funnels: What They Are and How to Use Them

ConversionXL

Lead generation is vital for any business. Once you’re generating some leads, the next logical step is to improve the conversion rate. Depending on your niche, there are different tactics and methods for improving conversions. One you may not have heard of is creating and optimizing micro funnels. This post covers what micro funnels are and how and when they’re best used—especially as a means to track form interactions.

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It’s Never “Just A Matter Of Training.”

Membrain

I was speaking to a friend the other day.He’s VP of Sales Enablement for a large technology organization. He had just come out of a meeting of his peers–the top management in the sales organization. He called to say, “the field VP’s proposed that we initiate a major sales training program and are willing to fund it.”.

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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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Sales Inspiration from Two Basketball Legends

Anthony Cole Training

The buyer's cycle has changed. These days, when a buyer wants to make a purchase, they have all of the tools located in the palm of their hand. If you are not making the buying process as frictionless as possible, then you are most likely going to lose out on a sale.

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Join me at Inbound19!

A Sales Guy

Register here –> INBOUND19. The post Join me at Inbound19! appeared first on A Sales Guy.

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The Complicated Relationship Between Social Media and SEO

Hubspot

Inbound marketing is in the middle of an interesting evolution. Historically, search has been a major source of traffic and leads for businesses leveraging online marketing. But, with the growth of social networks, social media marketing is even more heavily embraced today. But, you might ask, which is more important? The answer? Both can be key to your strategy.

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Why your people keep missing quota–and what to do about it

Membrain

Everyone has goals, big and small. Some we meet, some… not so much.

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Train The Trainer: What Most Sales Enablement Strategies Are Missing

SalesforLife

After seven years of working with 350-400 customers, it recently dawned on me that there’s a fundamental flaw in the sales training industry. For context, consultants like us typically go into market and provide sales leaders with basic training on how to be a coach of modern, digital sales skills. We then train the sellers so they can execute on these plans.

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Want to Build an Amazing MarTech Stack? Avoid These 12 Mistakes

ConversionXL

You want to do amazing marketing. You want to empower your team, collect the right data, create unique content, automate funnels, personalize communication, report with ease, act on insight, and achieve the snowball effect. If you’ve read my book or taken my course , you know that marketing technology is vital to your success. Now, you’re ready to learn about the mistakes that marketers have made—so you can avoid them, build marketing leadership skills , and get ahead faster.

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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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How to Send Effective Order Confirmation Emails [Examples + Template]

Hubspot

If you're a frequent online shopper like I am, you're likely already well-acquainted with order confirmation emails. At its most basic, an order confirmation email needs to signal to the customer that their order has been processed -- without receiving one, a customer might believe their transaction hasn't gone through properly. But an order confirmation email can do more than just act as a digital receipt.

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Did You Know That The Beatles Taught us About Selling?

Understanding the Sales Force

While this should be a fun, end of summer article I'm guessing that you don't actually believe that the Beatles taught us about selling. The Beatles recorded 18 songs where the lyrics talked about selling plus I included two bonus titles by other artists to bring the total to 20! The Beatles. Can you name the song that went on and on about building relationships?

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10 Must Ask Sales Interview Questions (With Reasoning)

The 5% Institute

Whether you’re a Business Owner or Sales Manager; if you’re going to grow your team you’re going to eventually hire staff who can sell your products or services. As a part of the hiring process, you’re going to want to hire the most capable people, with the best capacity to fulfil the role. To make this easier, we’ve jotted down 10 very important sales interview questions to help you with this.

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8 Effective Communication Skills for Salespeople

CloserIQ

In sales, it’s important to know the market and to know the best-practice techniques, but it’s not everything. At the end of the day, there is no use in knowing the market if you don’t know how to approach a prospect or handle a client. Effective communication is the link between your skills and knowledge and closing a deal. . It’s as if your know-how is the theoretical part of being a salesperson, and communication is the practical part of it ?

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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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9 Creative Ways to Use Instagram Questions & Engage Your Followers

Hubspot

Instagram is an undeniably powerful channel for businesses to reach a larger audience -- in fact, approximately 80% of the platform's one billion users follow at least one business on Instagram. The platform is ultimately a site for engagement: we "like" friends' photos, comment on their posts, and tag friends in influencer giveaways to try and win a free pair of yoga pants.

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What exactly does a thought leader do?

Women Sales Pros

Do you struggle with titles? Do they seem a bit arbitrary, and for the most part, irrelevant? There are some who say that it may be time to do away with titles, and I might agree. But I also know that there are always going to be those that take comfort in them because titles are a way to assign value, place, or order. At the same time, we seem to be questioning traditional titles like CEO, as we are starting to change them to mean something else, like Chief Experience Officer.

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Marketing Strategy 101 – What You Need To Know

The 5% Institute

You may have an awesome product or service; but without knowing how to it get in front of the right potential audience – you’re not going to have much success. An effective way in crafting how to do this, is putting together something called a marketing strategy. In this guide, you’ll learn what a marketing strategy is, as well as what you need to focus on to make it successful.

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What were the signs you missed before you lost a major customer?

SaaStr

I remember the first time I lost a six figure customer. It was a surprise: They used the product every day, and constantly. They had done a case study for us. In fact, they were on our homepage. They renewed the contract and added additional seats. And then one day, we got a call. Our competitor had been there, on site. And convinced them they had a better solution for a few critical 10x features.

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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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8 Brilliant Ways to Increase Sales

Hubspot

Are your sales numbers flat this year? Are you struggling to get to hit your sales quotas? Do you need something extra to get the team motivated and meeting aggressive goals? I asked a few sales experts about their current favorite techniques for increasing sales — and threw in a few tips of my own. Finish the year strong and find your new favorite technique in this list. 1.

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12 copywriting myths debunked with Momoko Price

ConversionXL

How do you become a great copywriter? Do you blindly follow copywriting best practices and what people say online? I scoured the internet to find 12 things people say you must do and ran them past my friend, Momoko Price one of the best conversion copywriters out there. You’ll be surprised to hear what she says. [This post contains video, click to play].

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10 X Powerful Sales Discovery Questions To Add To Your Toolkit

The 5% Institute

Although many Salespeople focus on learning the latest closing techniques ; the most important part of your sales process by far is the art of asking the right sales discovery questions. Sales discovery questions open dialogue with your prospect to discover pain, their biggest desires; and help them sell themselves on the idea of doing business with you.

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Insight Is Always Contextual!

Partners in Excellence

HBR recently published an article, “Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don’t Know’ Is Bad Advice In B2B Sales.” The title is very “clickbaity,” upon reading it, the theme was very different, though perhaps not well explained. I don’t think anyone would argue, insight is important. It’s key to capturing the attention and imaginations of our prospects and customers.

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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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Creating a Culture of Accountability

InsightSquared

It is crucial to have a “clean” Salesforce instance, but it’s another daunting task to maintain it. Startups are built from the ground up and one of the major stepping stones is promoting an environment of accountability among your sales reps to properly input data and to follow sales best practices. If reps are not accurately updating opportunities properly (MANA, close dates, value, next step fields, etc) then the validity of your sales process diminishes.

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Get Clear on Your Prospecting

Engage Selling

Are you clear on your prospecting? You’re probably familiar with the saying “always be closing.” Sure, not a bad idea.

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Do successful SaaS companies have “transformational” opportunities beyond selling more and more of their core product?

SaaStr

Many do and have. As we see more and more SaaS companies cross $1b+ in ARR (wow!), Twilio being the latest, we see more and more adding new core products to their existing core products. Twilio started with SMS. Now that’s just a piece of Twilio, and its 81%+ growth at $1b (double wow!) was fueled by its entry into email marketing by buying Sendgrid: Twilio Crossed $1 Billion in ARR Growing 81%.

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“I Don’t Do Templates!”

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I met with a group of great sales executives. They were looking to raise the bar on performance, driving growth. We talked about a number of things, I was trying to understand what they had in place, the challenges they had, and their execution discipline. They had invested a huge amount in very powerful training and tools for the sales people.

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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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Lead Generation Landing Page: 10 Steps to a High-Conversion Page

Sales Hacker

“Just Google it.” Today, the first stage in any purchase is a Google search. And B2B buyers are no different. In fact, most won’t talk to a salesperson until they’re nearing the final stages of the buying journey: 94 percent of B2B buyers perform online research before making a purchas ing decision. . 45% of buyers are spending more time on research before making a purchase.

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How to Turn Networking Into Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

If you’ve been following me for a long time, you know that I don’t consider networking the same as prospecting. Too many people go to a networking event but call it prospecting simply to avoid prospecting. Far too many prospecting events are nothing but a bunch of salespeople hanging out together trying to sell each other. Whether it’s an industry networking event, a local business open house, or a chamber of commerce event, they are typically a huge waste of time.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

Recently there was a lot of discussion around if there are truly “10x engineers” or not. It’s a complicated topic. But one thing that is clearly true — there are 10x Features. Talk to any experienced SaaS sales leader in a competitive space. She’ll agree. What’s a 10x Feature? It’s a feature that, for a material number of customers and prospects, wins the deal vs. the competition.

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Sales Performance Improvement, Where To Start

Partners in Excellence

I wrote, “Improving Sales Performance Without Changing How You Sell.” Readers started responding, “This is great, where do we start?” Here are some thoughts: “One size fits all:” Too often, we have a “one size fits all” approach to performance improvement. We focus on one thing, for example prospecting or pipeline coverage, and inflict this on the entire organization.

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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.