Iannarino

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

If your sales reps had an expertly crafted, clear-cut sales process, how much would their sales performance improve?

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Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By Tibor Shanto. Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. It is easier to hide in the shadows than be definitive, both in measures and actions. With a 4:1 closing average, every time I close a deal, I must get four more to stay afloat. The more salespeople fudge that line, the harder they to work.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The two most important skills that a salesperson must master are becoming good at asking questions and becoming good at listening which are advanced selling skills. We have identified four traits that all great relationship selling salespeople have in common. In part 1 of this blog series, we will discuss the first most critical trait, curiosity.

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The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore 8 x construction sales tips to help you close easier and more consistently. These tips are commonly used by the top five percent of sales performers all around the world. Many people think that what they’re able to achieve is from pure luck. We’ll explore how this isn’t the case, and what you can do to improve your sales process , as well as your closing rate. 8 x Construction Sales Tips To Close Easier.

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Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Seven Strategies to Energize Your Productivity. Work in ninety-minute blocks. Ninety minutes is enough time to complete many important tasks, and enough time to make significant progress on the rest. Three of these blocks will give you 4.5 hours of what Cal Newport calls “deep work” in his book of the same name—one of the more important texts on personal productivity.

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Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Amanda Holmes , is the CEO of Chet Holmes International which has worked with over 250,000 businesses worldwide. At age 24, she inherited her father’s multi-million dollar enterprise, which specializes in helping companies double their sales in 12 months flat. . Amanda has merged her father’s proven process with her own forward-thinking ideas to connect the old-school sales process with the younger generation of today.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I found it challenging to write this article. The company that provides us with cyber-insurance required that our entire team watch a series of 21 training videos to make us more aware of how hackers operate, how easy it is to be hacked, and what we must do differently in order to protect our data, privacy and accounts. Imagine my surprise when the first video described hacking operations as businesses with outbound prospecting operations whose goal is to convert their emails, texts and calls in

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sooner or later, you will have to address difficult issues or situations with your clients—even the genuinely nice, mature, and polite clients. Facing that prospect, you may well feel a sense of dread, your mind creating an endless series of ways the conversation might end badly for you.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

LinkedIn is filled with surveys about, “What is the highest priority focus for [Fill In Your Favorite Role]?” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. These cover things like comp/metrics, training, forecasts, hiring, sometimes even coaching. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process.

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Sandler Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The referral generation process we are about to share with you can transform your month, your quarter, your year, and your career. It should be at or near the heart of your prospecting plan. Learn it! Practice it! Use it! Share it with your organization! Step 1: Pick Your Referrers. Identify five people, five centers… The post Four Powerful Steps for Generating Referrals appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The way Google Ads automated extensions work is changing. Here’s what you need to know. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Engineering 128

Iannarino

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As the world continues to change, we know that we must change with it. But it’s often difficult to recognize when it is time (or long past time) to make a specific change, as inflection points rarely announce themselves.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Q: How do you market a B2B SaaS product in the early days? At the end of the day marketing is still “getting the word out” — just done with a lot of tools, systems, platforms and processes. But the playbook to do that varies based on the product, how mature the brand is, the space, and the skills of the marketer. Ways to get the word out: Press and PR.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

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. 5 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Explainer Videos. As a B2B company, you’re trying to get other businesses to buy and use your product or services.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You need to reach your dream client to schedule a meeting and create a new opportunity. You email on Monday morning, waiting for your prospective client to respond to your cold email with a date and time to meet, but your contact doesn't respond. You tell yourself that your contact hasn't had time to read your impeccably well-crafted email, as you followed the best practices that the email gurus promise will cause your client to respond.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With so many brand messages flooding customer inboxes and smartphones, it’s no wonder marketers are having a hard time connecting with audiences. Even with more technology solutions available than ever before, 74% of marketing leaders say they struggle to scale their personalization efforts, according to a Gartner survey. What’s more, that same data suggests brands may risk losing 38% of customers due to poor personalization.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Q : How Do I Know if My Competitor is Cold Calling My Customers? Just assume your competitor is cold calling all your existing customers. They should be. Be most worried if they are doing it well. They should be calling your customers. Yes, oftentimes the yield here can be low if your customers are very happy. But: First, it is almost always worth continuing to market to lost deals if you have the resources and are in a competitive space.

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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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Spiro Technologies

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Have you ever had a conversation with somebody and afterward thought about what you should have said differently, or not at all? Most people have, and you’d be hard pressed to find a person who doesn’t have regrets over something that came out of their mouth at one point or another. Salespeople are no exception, and there’s nothing like a lost deal to force you to go over a conversation and pick it apart, convincing yourself that if only you had said this one thing and not said

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The issue, which occurred between 7:54 p.m. and 12:34 p.m. PST on February 9, has been resolved and the company is working on recovering the data. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

YouTube is emphasizing enhancements to it Shorts feature as well as laying out plans to improve shopping experiences in a blog post by Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan setting out its 2022 roadmap. While Mohan did not go into specific detail, he did provide a useful overview of what to expect from YouTube this year. Shorts. YouTube plans to keep adding features to its Shorts format, the platform’s answer to TikTok and Instagram’s Reels.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scaling a sales organization isn’t easy. Knowing which metrics matter and how to analyze them to increase your revenue and hit organizational sales goals is essential. . Waze sales executives Fernando Belfort , Head of SMB Sales, and Kendra Wrightson , Head of Sales Enablement, discuss optimizing sales processes for four essential data points: value, variety, volume, and velocity.

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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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RAIN Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In our sales negotiation research , we studied the factors separating the best negotiators from the rest. According to buyers, six out of 10 sellers cave on price at some point in negotiations. While it may be tempting to concede on price to secure a sale, a single concession can make a buyer expect more later on. Lowering the price also says a lot about the value you place on your offerings.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’ve been a sales manager for a while, it's inevitable that one or more people – or even your entire sales team – will get into a prospecting or selling slump. According to Dictionary.com, “slump” can be defined as: “a period during which a person performs slowly, inefficiently, or ineffectively, especially a period during which an athlete or team fails to play or score as well as usual.” For me personally, the period after the holidays or a vacation is usually the most co

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Martech

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“The pandemic has made customer journeys more digital than ever before,” said Tom Bianchi, VP of marketing EMEA at Acquia, in a recent webinar. “We believe marketing technology can help improve those digital experiences – helping your brand grow and increase revenue.”. Acquia’s Customer Experience report found that 94% of marketers claim their organization had changed their digital customer experience strategy in the 18 months following the 2020 pandemic.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

At SaaStr, we are bullish on SaaS. I am bullish on SaaS. And it’s hard not to be extra bullish right now. The leaders in SaaS are growing so much faster. Asana, Bill, Monday, HubSpot, etc. are all growing every faster at $200m, $400m, $1B in revenue than they did before! That’s beyond epic, and a reason to be hyper-bullish on SaaS. But revenue multiples might be a different story.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Predictable Revenue has been called “The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley”. This summary outlines key strategies to grow revenue without relying on cold calls. The post 15-Minute Summary of Predictable Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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David Meerman Scott

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People are naturally attracted to those who are passionate about the things they love, and this passion builds fandom. Yet too few people share their personal passions in their business life.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

CX software company VHT has announced the availability of their Mindful engagement app on the Genesys AppFoundry marketplace. The app aims at giving marketers better control over where conversations with customers occur. Using the Mindful app, users can transition customer conversations across channels. For instance, if during the conversation, a customer indicates that they need to switch from a phone conversation to text, the service rep can make that happen without dropping the conversation.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should We Pay Our Sales Reps on Renewals? Simple answer: most don’t. You can, especially in the early days. But very few SaaS companies pay sales reps on renewals as they scale. And you can definitely pay on upsells and account expansion. Longer reason: most SaaS companies don’t pay AEs on renewals — because you want to specialize.

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