Sat.Oct 06, 2018 - Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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A Lesson In Commitment

A Sales Guy

How often do you commit to something and then not follow through? I get it, it happens a lot. We aren’t perfect. But not meeting a commitment scratches the surface of lying. No! You didn’t lie, but it has a similar effect. When we commit to someone, and then break that commitment, it undermines trust. In this video, I talk about a way to improve your ability to keep your commitments.

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The “Foot-in-the-Door Technique,” or When Longer Forms May Work Better

ConversionXL

“How can a person be induced to do something he would rather not do?”. Researchers Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser asked that question more than half a century ago. In their era, it usually meant convincing someone to endure a pitch from a door-to-door salesman. In ours, it often means incentivizing web form fills—gently prodding others to part with personal information that, they fear, could spark a swift, relentless inbox invasion.

Technique 113
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Sales And Sales Management Is Broken

Membrain

I have to admit being consumed with CSO Insights latest Sales Performance Report. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read it, make sure you take the time to download and study it. It’s filled with fascinating analysis, each chart presents huge opportunities for performance improvement.

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3 Ways to Help You Close Your “Non-Urgent” Buyer

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. ?It’s every salesperson’s worse nightmare – the non-urgent buyer. The buyer who says they are in no rush to make any type of decision. In fact, they may not even buy at all according to them. You know what this typically is? B.S. – buyer strategy! It’s important to understand that the buyer’s number one strategy is to appear non-urgent in front of a sales person.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Augmented Reality

Hubspot

Picture this: It's rainy Saturday afternoon and you’re spending your day indoors at a local art museum. You meander from room to room staring at all the art, but not really absorbing any information. The information next to the art is too small, too crowded, or frankly, too boring. You quickly lose interest and make your way to the cafe. If you’re anything like me, the situation I just described sounds pretty familiar.

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Stop Cold Calling – Start Warm Calling with your COI!

Women Sales Pros

Love it or hate it, there’s no getting around it. Prospecting is one of the most effective and fastest methods to grow your business. It’s also one of the most widely disliked aspects of a sales professional’s career. So how can you make it easier? Stop cold calling and start warm calling with centers of influence and referrals. As the saying goes, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

Cold Call 101

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3 Common Scenarios that Make Your Customer the Sales Person

Jeff Shore

By Jeff Shore. ?. ?I am going to propose three scenarios that are similar to ones you might come across fairly often in your sales career. ??Scenario #1: You sell life insurance. You are having a conversation with a friend in a social setting, and the talk turns to your friend’s insurance coverage. He says to you, “I would switch our policy over to you and your company, but my wife picked our life insurance and she likes the agent we are using now.”.

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How to Write a Business Proposal [Tips & Examples]

Hubspot

You've started a new business and you're building up your customer base. But how can you reach the prospects who might benefit from your product or service? A business proposal can bridge the gap between you and potential clients. It outlines your value proposition, and its primary purpose is to persuade a company or organization to do business with you.

Price 101
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Sales Coaching for the Digital Age

Openview

Maintaining a position of preeminence in the highly competitive IT industry requires leaders to adapt to changes in the business landscape more rapidly than the competition. Continued success also relies on innovative sales enablement techniques that boost performance, help meet customer needs and achieve bottom line results. While many corporate sales enablement functions are already leveraging state-of-the-art enablement mechanisms, like online and virtual trainings, chat bots etc., most are s

Territory 101
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Our Customers’ Stories

Partners in Excellence

Storytelling is important. None of us live in a world of data and logic, as much as we might pretend that we do. Stories are important. Stories provide contexts to teach our customers and help them learn. They provide a basis for helping our customers understand how we might help them. They help customer learn through understanding the stories of people and organizations who have faced similar issues.

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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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Which 4 Sales Competencies Best Differentiate Top from Bottom Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

The difference between great salespeople and weak salespeople has been debated for years. The articles in my Blog typically address these differences with science and data to support to my position.

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A Professional Yet Kind Rejection Letter Template

Hubspot

It's never easy telling a candidate they didn't get the job after hours of preparation and interviews. Oftentimes, the awkwardness leads to generic emails, like "We have chosen not to move forward with your application at this time.". You might feel like there's simply no good way to tell someone they've been rejected. Fortunately, that's not true. By wording your rejection letter kindly, you'll make it easier for the candidate to hear the news.

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6 Essential Marketing Trends For 2019

Heinz Marketing

Guest Post by Kayleigh Alexandra, Content Writer for Micro Startups. They say time flies when you’re having fun, but it goes even faster when you work in marketing. With summer out of the way and the colder seasons fast approaching, it’s time to start thinking about 2019. The digital world is incredibly fast-paced. From technological advancements in AR/VR to the ever expanding Internet of Things (IoT), B2B marketers have to work hard to stay ahead of the game with marketing trends.

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What is Sales Training?

RAIN Group

Sales Training Defined: Sales training is the process of improving seller skills, knowledge, and attributes to drive seller behavioral change and maximize sales success. To be most effective, sales training should be viewed, designed, and executed as a change management initiative. The global market for sales training is approximately $4.6 billion. Yet most sales training fails to deliver lasting results.

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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 Challenged Customer

Partners in Excellence

Our customers (and us) live in worlds characterized by information overload, rapidly changing circumstances, increasing demands, rising management expectations, scarcer resources, increasing scale, disruption, distraction, and complexity. It’s impossible to avoid feeling overwhelmed, unbalanced, and distracted. Getting things done, getting the support and resources to move forward is increasingly difficult.

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The 10 Best Receipt Scanners for Effortless Organization

Hubspot

Whether you're managing your small business' finances or filing taxes, it's necessary to know where your money is being spent. But receipts from your purchases are likely to get lost in a sea of documents and miscellaneous papers. If you struggle to keep track of your receipts, a receipt scanner can come in handy. Some receipt scanners include online tools that allow you to access your receipts from anywhere, so receipts will be consolidated and you can access them whenever you need them.

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Six focus areas keeping B2B CMOs up at night

Heinz Marketing

Over the past two months we’ve hosted dozens of B2B chief marketing officers for breakfast (including of course bacon ) to share ideas, best practices, hard lessons and priorities for the coming new fiscal and calendar year. The discussions at each CMO breakfast range widely from strategic to tactical topics, from professional development to managing culture and marketing technology stacks.

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How to Use Netflix Secrets to Create Binge-worthy Effective Sales Pitches

Sales Hacker

They say the average human attention span is shorter than a goldfish’s. Yet, a new study just came out saying that the average person watches 18 days worth of Netflix a year. The math doesn’t exactly add up. But what’s the difference? How do you get your viewers to figuratively “hit full screen” and give you their complete attention, instead of Amazon Prime shopping in the background?

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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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Has Social Media Changed Sales Management? Not Really.

Selling Power

The only legitimate sales management function that seemed to be improved by social media was recruiting and hiring new salespeople.

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Startup Burn Rates Explained in 500 Words or Less

Hubspot

It’s tempting to write off “burn rate” as cute startup jargon or a funny subplot on the television series “Silicon Valley.” But a correctly calculated burn rate is crucial for the responsible growth, planning, and success of a business. In fact, 82% of small businesses fail because of cash flow problems. But what exactly is a cash burn rate and how do you calculate it?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 134: Q&A with Weldon Long @WeldonLong

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. Welcome to another addition of Sales Pipeline Radio , our weekly Thursday broadcast replay and transcription blog post. This episode is called “How Consistency and Focus Took Weldon Long from Jail to the Fortune 500” Catch the show live at 11:30 a.m. Pacific. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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SPIN Selling – Everything you need to know about it (Infographic)

SalesHandy

SPIN Selling is quite an old concept, yet it’s being popularised again these days. Everywhere you look, people talk about SPIN Sells and what the best SPIN technique is. The idea of SPIN sells came about back in 1988 when the SPIN Selling Book was released by a guy named Neil Rackham. The idea behind the technique lies in asking the right questions at the right time, which makes is sort of a technical solution to a very technical problem, the problem of selling stuff to people.

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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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Do’s and Don’ts for your 2019 Sales Kickoff

SalesforLife

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The Return on Great Service | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

????Did you know that customers that receive an exceptional customer experience are 80% more likely to reorder than those who have a subpar experience?

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4 Common B2B Marketing Mistakes Made by Business Leaders, Bosses and Bigwigs

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. I’ve been marketing for longer than I care to admit. Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to have met and worked with many smart and talented business leaders and entrepreneurs. Most of these folks, regardless of their experience or education, have good instincts and realistic expectations when it comes to B2B Marketing.

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What Does “Insight” Mean In 2019 And Beyond?

Partners in Excellence

The concept of providing our customers rich insight has become “standard” for complex B2B selling for at least the last 7 years. Some of us have been doing that all our careers-without knowing that we are providing insight. There are lots of definitions around what insight is, but most of them tend to be around concepts of “commercial insights.” These are generally stories and data around things happening in our customer’s industries and markets that may impact th

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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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3 Key Considerations for More Accurate Sales Reports

RAIN Group

If you've worked in sales for any length of time, you've likely heard the phrase, "Sales is a numbers game." It's true. A profitable sales organization relies on the careful analysis of success metrics, performance data, and sales reports. If your sales reports are incomplete, inaccurate, or just plain wrong, the outcome is simple: misguided and ineffective selling.

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New Details Have Emerged on the Facebook Data Attack. Here's What You Need to Know.

Hubspot

Facebook today released new information regarding a data attack that compromised the personal data of 30 million users. First reported on September 28 -- approximately three days after the full issue was allegedly first discovered -- a vulnerability in Facebook's "View As" feature allowed hackers to gain unauthorized access to private account information for personal user accounts.

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The Fastest Growing Companies in Boston Hiring For Sales

CloserIQ

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. With so many companies in the neighborhood, looking for a new job can be pretty overwhelming as well as exciting. Here are the companies you should consider to jump-start your job search. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles.

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Matt’s App of the Week: MailTag

Heinz Marketing

We are thrilled to welcome our first paid sponsor of Sales Pipeline Radio, MailTag. I LOVE what these guys are doing to turn Gmail into a sales productivity machine. Email tracking, in-app appointment scheduling, click tracking, auto-sync to your CRM, etc. If you’re a small business or individual sales rep and use Gmail for prospecting or managing your sales pipeline, you’ll definitely want to check them out.

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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.