Iannarino

JULY 31, 2021

The Gist: Sales is made up of two parts: Opportunity Creation and Opportunity Capture. The more you focus on these major outcomes, the better your results. Your goals and measurements should be based on these two outcomes. The idea of the OKR (Objective and Key Results) comes from Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel in the early seventies. Grove had an admirable penchant to treat his sales force as the best source for figuring what was going on with Intel’s clients.

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STAR Results

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Fearless Sales Leader. Fearless sales leaders know that business success is defined as achieving an objective or goal. Sales leaders are accountable for making the company’s sales objectives and sales objectives equal success. As part of their role, sales leaders set the direction, create the culture, hire, develop, and retain top sales professionals, aiming to create an environment that facilitates success.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 5, 2021

Here at Anthony Cole Training Group, we are always striving towards helping our clients achieve sales success. We interviewed our Sales Development Experts for a curated list of how to be successful in sales for 2021. Their advice includes successful sales traits, habits, and characteristics. Use this detailed resource to your advantage, and boost your sales success in 2021!

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

For sales representatives, there’s nothing more attractive than closing calls. These are calls where the deal gets moved across the line, contracts get signed and reps earn their commissions. Unfortunately, closing calls depend on who you’re selling to and could take you tens of hours. This is where discovery calls come to the rescue. Round one of almost all sales pits you against a prospect in the ring by way of discovery call.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Gist: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Outdated approaches to sales, especially during first meetings, all but ensure a bad first impression. The key to a good first impression is the ability to create value for your client. You’ve been pursuing your dream client for months and have finally convinced them to meet with you.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 5, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. Helping people adopt new skills and habits can take many forms. One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. The stats, competitiveness, playbooks, execution, individual contribution to the team effort, and more. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

700 unread emails, 20 voicemails and over 50 unanswered text messages – that’s what one of our semi-busiest buyers’ phone looks like every day. I use semi-busy because Veloxy’s busiest clients were obviously too preoccupied to even bother with the tally (tally here meaning the IT guy). But what came as a surprise was that these weren’t even sales calls or spam mail.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Gist: It’s heresy to say so, but the sales process was designed to solve the sales organization’s problems. Creating a repeatable process for salespeople is supposed to ensure success, but it rarely creates value for clients. We are evolving our approaches too slowly and need to innovate faster. As you start to recognize how much professional sales has changed and how impotent the legacy approaches are, you start to realize just how many structures and strategies were designed to

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Tibor Shanto. Dynamics is a critical part of most interactions, core to nonverbal communication, which itself accounts for 80% plus of communication. The most dramatic pieces of music feature a full range of dynamics, often contrasted in unexpected ways. The best composers understand dynamics and can create just the right dynamic tension to thrill and win the audience.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 2, 2021

The post Why You May Want To Hire A Lead Generation Specialist appeared first on ClickFunnels. Sales are the lifeblood of any business. And lead generation is how you keep your sales pipeline full. But as an entrepreneur, you likely already have too much on your plate, so you may not always be able to give it the attention it deserves. However, neglecting lead generation can have disastrous consequences.

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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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Force Management

AUGUST 4, 2021

Five-time CRO John McMahon’s book, The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO , has been at the top of sales leaders’ reading lists since it was published in April. McMahon recently joined John Kaplan on The Audible-Ready Sales podcast to discuss the book’s themes and key takeaways for sales leaders. Listen to their conversation here.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. That first meeting can end with you impressing your client by using their time wisely and making the experience a valuable one, moving both of you forward in the

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 5, 2021

We've gone from don't wear a mask, to wear a mask, to wear 2 masks, back to no need to be masked and now back to wear masks indoors, even if you have been vaccinated. CDC Guidelines change almost weekly, often lack the science to justify their recommendations, don't take local conditions into consideration and are usually very confusing to say the least.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 2, 2021

The post The Best Practices To Improve Your Sales Funnel appeared first on ClickFunnels. Every business in existence has some sort of a sales funnel in place. However, it’s probably safe to say that most of these sales funnels weren’t designed intentionally, they “just happened”. What does that mean? It means that when entrepreneurs stumble onto something that works, they often continue doing it without ever questioning whether that’s the most effective approach.

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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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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2021

Every two weeks, on Friday afternoon, I have a call with Brent. Once a month, on Saturday mornings, Ned and I speak. Mitch and I speak monthly, Jill and I speak monthly Kelly and I speak about every six weeks, Rene and I have a talk every 4-6 weeks. The list goes on, it’s about 15-20 people. Tamara, Hank, Glen, George, Scott, Mike, Howard, Shari, Alice, Charlie, Bert, Maria, and more.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Gist: We have reached peak email prospecting, the point when its effectiveness begins an inevitable decline. Two emails aren’t better than one, and any more than two undermines your goals. It’s time to reimagine email’s role in prospecting. Every day, your clients wonder if they’ve been sentenced to one of the lower levels of Hell, perhaps a floor or two above politicians and attorneys.

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SalesProInsider

AUGUST 4, 2021

Has This Ever Happened to You? Have you ever had a conversation scheduled with someone and yet you were distracted by something right up until the time of the meeting? Maybe something was happening on your phone or in your office. Maybe there was a television screen in the background that kept capturing your attention. That distraction is a detriment to having a productive conversation, to having the kind of information exchange that is needed to help somebody who is considering your service or

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 5, 2021

The post Lead Generation Vs Conversion – Here’s What You Need To Know appeared first on ClickFunnels. Marketing terms can be confusing. Everyone is talking about “conversions”… But is that the same thing as “lead generation”? Today we are going to discuss: What is conversion? What is lead generation? Conversion vs. lead generation. Want to get some clarity once and for all?

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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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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2021

My friend, Orrin Broberg, wrote a great post: 5 Critical Sales Enablement Mistakes To Avoid. His first point was stunning in it’s simplicity, we fail to give sales people what they need. It’s a critical issue, we have to understand, at a deep level, what sales people need to perform at the highest levels possible. But, too often fail and as a result, actually adversely impact performance or waste money, time, resources.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

The Gist: New leads are not better than old leads. Recency bias will cause you to believe that a new lead will be easier to convert, even though this isn’t true. It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. In Pee-wee’s Big Adventure , Pee-wee Herman is briefing his friends on his missing bicycle.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

App automation can remove bottlenecks, save time and money, help you provide a better customer experience, and improve internal collaboration. But it should never replace the human touch. In this article, we’ll show you how to leverage app automation to produce desired results and reclaim productivity. We’ll also explore examples to apply across the customer journey and tools you can experiment with and invest in today.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 3, 2021

The post 10 Prospecting Tips To Explode Your Sales appeared first on ClickFunnels. Prospecting is a crucial part of the sales process. You need to identify prospects, reach out to them, and persuade them to take the next step in your sales funnel. But all that is often easier said than done. Sourcing prospects can be time-consuming, cold outreach can feel awkward, and gatekeepers might prevent you from even speaking to the right person.

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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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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this article, we’ll detail our eight steps of the real estate sales process, which works for Realtors or Real Estate Professionals who’d like to use a more consultative sales process. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales and real estate. A sales process will give you consistency and will simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 4, 2021

At 4:30 AM each morning, I am greeted by my most faithful companion: it never strays more than a few feet away. Every morning, it serenades me with “Early Riser,” forcing each note out of the tiny speakers next to its charging port. All the other notifications are muted at that early hour, and no one calls or texts me until closer to 8, but I automatically palm the device anyway.

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Martech

AUGUST 6, 2021

As the business world struggles to understand the implications of the revolving news of the third-party cookie ban, digital ad targeting is growing more complex than ever. Google recently announced an extension of the third party cookie ban however the complexity and uncertainty remain. Whereas social media was perhaps the greatest tool to create a level playing field, the impending death of the cookie, the iOS 14 update, and the overall increasing complexity of ad targeting could make the risin

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2021

There is a lot to do in marketing. But a new VP of Marketing will really only do 3 things. Ask them what those top 3 are before you hire them. You may need something different. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 4, 2021. I’ve interviewed 100s of VP of marketing candidates over the past years and I can tell you one think — it’s easy to spot the ones that won’t work out.

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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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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore what value messaging is, why it’s important, and how to can help you close more sales in a non-pushy way. If you want to win clients – your value messaging needs to be on point. Read on to learn how. Value Messaging – Your Ultimate Guide. What Is Value Messaging? Put simply; value messaging is the way in which your potential clients see your product or service, after you’ve described how it’ll help them achieve their individual wants and needs.

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RAIN Group

AUGUST 4, 2021

If you want to be a successful salesperson, you need to get comfortable with skepticism. Why? Because people have doubts about one another. In its Trust and Distrust in America report, Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans think interpersonal confidence has worsened in the past two decades. Nearly half of Americans think the reason is unreliability.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2021

There’s a common misconception that both sales and marketing are not equally important. This can easily result in challenges between marketing and sales alignment. Sales and marketing might be different instruments, but they are all part of the same orchestra. If they are aligned well, there will be a special type of cohesion that will allow a business to flourish.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

We all know times are good in SaaS and Cloud — but just how good? Is it all the big public cloud vendors and a handful of outliers? Really impressive, accelerating, Datadog quarter. – $234M rev (+67% YoY) vs $212M consensus (10% beat) – $247M next Q guidance vs $225M consensus (10% raise) – Last Q YoY growth was 51% – >130% net retention – 7 months GM adj.

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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.

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