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Sales Coaching for the Sales Coaches

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we focus on Sales Coaching for Sales Coaches. Often, in sales, the sales manager is not held to the same standards as those on the sales force. While sales people are monitored on their calls, emails, CRM activity, and follow-up methodologies, the same cannot always be said for sales management.

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The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

86% of all salespeople have beliefs that don't support ideal sales outcomes. That's important because beliefs influence behavior, and appropriate sales behavior drives results. Think about sales process, sales methodology, sales strategy and sales tactics. Salespeople who have the ability to execute those four elements of success are less dependent on their knowledge of selling than what they believe.

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Epic Sales Presentation Failures

Women Sales Pros

When I say sales presentation, I don’t just mean any sales presentation. This is the big one. Maybe you’re one of three finalists for a 5X deal (i.e. five times larger than your average deal size). Perhaps retaining your largest customer depends on your ability to convey why your customer should remain loyal to you against a sea of competitors. When it comes to TOP Line Accounts , your biggest and best opportunities often include a sales presentation.

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How to Increase Ecommerce Conversion Rates

ConversionXL

If you run an ecommerce shop, you’re always trying to boost your sales. Here’s how to increase the conversion rate of your ecommerce site. What’s a good ecommerce conversion rate? Don’t worry about “average” ecommerce conversion rates. A good conversion rate is one that’s better than what you have right now.

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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 Coveted Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers

Anthony Cole Training

Becoming, and staying, a sales manager is hard work. Becoming an extraordinary sales manager is grueling and time consuming. It requires attention to detail, the ability to have tough conversations with those who are not meeting their numbers, the desire and commitment to grow yourself and your salespeople, and consistent activity and patience.

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Sales enablement technology - good or bad?

Membrain

Technology is great when it’s used effectively for the right reasons. But far too often sales enablement technology simply allows us to do harmful and ineffective things quicker and in greater volume.

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Sales Not Up to Snuff? Is the Problem Lead Gen or Lead Conversion?

SalesProInsider

Why aren’t your sales up to snuff? Is the problem your lead generation (not having enough leads) or lead conversion (not converting those leads to paid clients)? It’s an age-old business question like the chicken and the egg (which did come first?). The question then becomes: If my firm isn’t growing as desired, where should I put my efforts? In marketing and lead generation, or in stronger lead conversion?

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The Buyer Yesterday vs. The Buyer Today

Anthony Cole Training

Today’s buyer isn’t your grandpa’s, or even your dad’s, buyer. They are coming to you much deeper into the sales process, meaning they are much more aware and informed than ever before.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2011, Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon by embracing the overlooked call center industry. 7 years later that hackathon project achieved Unicorn status while transforming the call center space. Join Tiago as he shares Talkdesk’s unconventional journey and what it takes to build a top-valued brand. Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2020 tickets.

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15 Powerful Open Ended Sales Questions To Close Sales

The 5% Institute

One of the most powerful tools you can have in your sales toolkit, is the ability to ask open ended sales questions. Most Sales Professionals and Business Owners have a flawed sales process ; they start by building a little bit of rapport, and then go into ‘pitch’ mode – talking about their fabulous features and benefits , hoping that something will stick.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to B2B Marketing in 2019

Hubspot

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. Between creative demands, budget limits, and channel decisions, marketers have a lot to juggle when developing their marketing strategy. The biggest determinant of effective marketing, however, is your audience. If you’re not properly targeting your buyer persona, your promotions and advertisements will likely fall on deaf ears.

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The Importance of Digital Marketing Analytics (+Pitfalls to Avoid)

G2

There’s an interesting paradox in the digital marketing and analytics landscape.

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How to create an anti-sales culture on your team

Membrain

Have you heard the story about the new sales director, whose predecessor handed him three envelopes on the first day of the job?

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What Is Consultative Selling – Your Ultimate Guide

The 5% Institute

A common question Sales Professionals and Business Owners have, is what is consultative selling; and should it be something I use as my sales process? First of all, let’s dive a little deeper with an example. What is Consultative Selling – and should you be using it? Picture this. You go into a doctor’s office, and before she starts asking you questions about your situation, how it’s affecting you, the problems it’s causing in your day to day life – she start’s telling you about what medic

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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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How to Identify & Work With the Best Brand Influencers for Your Business

Hubspot

When I scrolled through Instagram this morning on my commute, I commented on a friend's post about her vacation, scrolled right past an advertisement for a comforter, and double-tapped an influencer's post about a skincare brand. That's the thing about influencers -- you follow them for a reason, so you don't mind interacting with their sponsored content.

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For someone just starting out in SaaS sales (entry level Salesforce in November), what are your tips to accelerate growth/ability in early stages?

SaaStr

A few thoughts to excel as someone new to SaaS sales: Really learn the product cold. As fundamentally as you can. Every prospect and customer is owed a true solution sale approach. Sales is there to close a deal, yes, but that should just be 10% of it — 90% of the “work” should be to solve your prospect and customer’s problems. You can only solve a customer’s problems if you know the product you are selling cold.

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Friday Five – Getting Your Buyers Attention

Score More Sales

We all have buyers and future buyers who stop replying to us – for a myriad of reasons. Some of the biggest reasons are: They just don’t see enough value to spend time communicating.

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Two Types of Sales Prospecting Methods For More Sales

The 5% Institute

Sales prospecting methods can be confusing for Sales Professionals and Business Owners. However, whether you’re in B2B or B2C , sales prospecting should be a part of your daily activities. One of the reasons why Sales Professionals don’t do it daily, is because they either don’t know the sales prospecting methods to use, or they aren’t clear on the targets they need to hit to make it efficient and effective.

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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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When Less Is More

Partners in Excellence

It seems the universal answer to every sales performance answer is to do more. We’re chastised to close more deals, get more into the pipeline, spend more time with customers, spend more time–period, just do more. Regardless of where the challenge is, whether it’s our close rates, our average deal value, our sales cycle, our ability to create value, our pipeline volumes; the dominant solution is to focus on the top of the pipeline, prospecting.

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3 Drip Campaign Emails With An Above 40% Open Rate

Hubspot

When I first built my email list, I was ready to create some drip campaigns. Just one little problem: I didn't know what to say. I felt like a salesperson with this perfect prospect, but I couldn't find the words to convey how I could change this person's business. I started chatting with a few of my friends in sales to learn more about their best secrets and corresponding open rates, and David Sneider , Sendbloom's former head of growth and current CEO of Deco.Network, provided the following qu

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How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today

Understanding the Sales Force

Big ones, little ones, sharp ones and stubborn ones. I was pulling weeds from the garden when it became crystal clear to me. The various weeds were like the many types of opportunities in most sales pipelines. Big ones, little ones, those that hurt (we're behind the competition) and those who are stubborn (they aren't sharing important information).

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Where Do Sales Objections Come From?

The 5% Institute

If you’re a Sales Professional or Business Owner, you’re going to come across sales objections from time to time. Knowing how to handle sales objections is important, because it allows you use a step-by-step process to understand, empathise, and defuse the objection. However what we’re going to look at in this article, is where do sales objections come from in the first place?

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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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Our Customers Are Voting With Their Time

Partners in Excellence

Several years ago, Gartner research on how customers allocate their time in the buying process indicated about 17% of their time is meeting with sales people—all sales people, not just us. We just get a fraction of that 17%. (I’d be interested in seeing an update to that research, I suspect it will be less than 17%.). Customers are looking for, and finding, answers in other places.

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SEO is Not Just Keywords and Links

Heinz Marketing

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. The traditional days of using keywords and links to build SEO rank is changing as search has moved towards artificial intelligence to determine intent, instead of relying specifically on keywords. These practices are by no means dead but are becoming more outdated. Many other factors can affect your ranking results.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management

Hubspot

When thinking about ways to boost your revenue and grow your business, you might consider evolving your product line, reaching your buyer personas in new ways, or launching a brand awareness campaign. But what about considering the people who are working to sell your products every day? Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily.

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What Does It Mean to Be Extremely Productive?

RAIN Group

Productivity is often misunderstood. One person might think being productive is conquering their never-ending inbox by the end of the day, while another perceives it as working as many hours as possible. Here's the thing: it's not about getting through your email, and it's not about being a workhorse and cranking out eight or more hours of work every day.

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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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If Your Enterprise Customers Want An SLA — Just Give It To Them. You Owe Them That Much.

SaaStr

Many start-ups and even larger SaaS customers are reluctant to provide a Service Level Agreement — an SLA — that says they will, well, stay up. It’s not our fault, they think. What if Amazon goes down? Or our email provider? That’s not our fault. The lawyers tell you to try to not to do this. Sometimes, the accountants too.

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Underperforming Our Potential

Partners in Excellence

At the outset, I’ll apologize. This post is likely to rub some executives the wrong way. The premise is that many organizations are under performing their potential—possibly by huge amounts. The immediate reaction from many might be, “We’ve been beating our numbers year after year! How can you say we are under performing our potential?

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How to Create an Email Drip Campaign in 6 Simple Steps

ConversionXL

An email drip campaign is a series of messages that are sent, or “dripped,” in a predefined order at a predefined interval. So, for example, if someone joins your email list, they receive Email #1 upon signup, Email #2 three days later, Email #3 five days after they join, and so on. You can automate drip email campaigns with autoresponder software (e.g.

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Three Sales Management Practices that Chief Revenue Officers Can Use to Prepare Themselves for a Recession

Miller Heiman Group

The question isn’t if a recession is coming. It’s when. Nearly half of American CFOs indicated they believed a recession would hit by mid-year 2020 in a Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey released in June 2019. European business leaders feel similarly, as half of European companies stated that a recession is imminent in the next five years and 18% believing their country is already in one.

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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.