Sat.Mar 02, 2019 - Fri.Mar 08, 2019

article thumbnail

How to Bring the Closing Magic

Anthony Cole Training

Great salespeople are masterful at asking open-ended, courageous questions of their prospects that either lead them towards, or away, from saying "yes" to their solution. There are many instances throughout the sales process where trial closes are appropriate to identify the prospects true compelling reason to make a change.

Closing 149
article thumbnail

Top 50 Women B2B Sales Experts

Women Sales Pros

Today we give a tip of the hat to the top women B2B sales experts of Women Sales Pros. These experts do varying roles within the sales industry – Some are top keynote sales speakers Some are top sales workshop and sales breakout speakers Some are top sales authors Some are top consultants Some are top trainers Some are top coaches Some lead big organizations, some are solopreneurs.

B2B 134
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Cold Emails: Can They Work, Or Are They Just Spam?

ConversionXL

Cold emails are unsolicited emails sent to previously uncontacted recipients. The term has a bad reputation. To many, cold emails are synonymous with spam and a nuisance—one reason why U.S. workers spend 3.2 hours checking their work email each day. Why would anyone want to use cold email? Because, when done well, it can work. Cold email is not a replacement for inbound methods but a supplement—a way to drive near-term growth while inbound campaigns gain traction.

CTR 130
article thumbnail

How to Effectively Follow-up After Sales Meetings

Openview

The average salesperson is losing up to 40% of their deals because they’re not following-up effectively. After a sales meeting, do you ever experience a prospect ‘going dark’ on you? Everything felt like it should have gone great – the prospect seemed interested in the meeting, they asked the right questions, your sales pitch was stellar. And then you send 2-3 follow-ups…but no response.

Follow-up 103
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A Paradox, The Sales Process And The Buying Journey

Partners in Excellence

As sales professionals we face an intriguing paradox. We know, for complex B2B buying, the buyer’s journey can best be described as chaotic. What we have always believed is a linear process–identify a challenge, commit to change, define the problem/needs, evaluate alternatives, select a solution, turns out to be chaotic, as illustrated by the picture below.

Process 108
article thumbnail

Why Coaching Causes Some Sales Managers to Hold On for Dear Life

Understanding the Sales Force

Over the past few months I've been coaching 30 sales leaders from 3 companies and while most are trying their hardest to do everything I recommend, apply everything they learn, and coach as instructed, there are enough that don't follow through and fail to move the needle for their teams. A few don't want to be coached. A few don't think they need to be coached.

Sales 107

More Trending

article thumbnail

Three Keys to Success in Sales: A BDR Perspective

InsightSquared

My transition into a BDR role at InsightSquared came shortly after spending my first few post-grad years gaining experience in a highly transactional, customer-facing sales role. If you’re late to the game like I was, life as a BDR is one hell of a grind. That’s not a gripe, either. It’s a fact. Believe it or not, the grind is the reason why I love my job.

Gaming 106
article thumbnail

50 Sales Champions: Winners of the Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards 2019!

Sales Hacker

Last year, we started a new Sales Hacker tradition: the Top 50 Awards. We received over 5000 nominations , and this year was even bigger! Most other sales awards end up going to the most popular influencer. The Sales Hacker Top 50 is different. These awards go to practitioners: people who not only did a fantastic job, but also elevated the sales profession through their actions last year.

Sales 109
article thumbnail

The Plain-English Guide to Meta Tags & SEO

Hubspot

In 2018, HubSpot found 61% of marketers said improving SEO and growing their organic presence was their top inbound marketing priority. Undoubtedly, you already know the importance of SEO. SEO enables you to get on page one of Google, and helps you rank for the keywords that matter most for your business. Good SEO can get you in front of the potential customers who are searching for your products or services -- and great SEO can help those users become long-term customers, and even brand loyalis

article thumbnail

5 Steps to Reduce Turnover | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????????Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of research with our clients and a lot of reading on sales turnover rates because it’s impossible to create a non-stop sales boom if you have high turnover.

Sales 94
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

If you really want to shorten your sales cycle, slow down!

Membrain

If the conversations I’ve been having with sales leaders recently are anything to go by, our sales pipelines are full of opportunities that start off looking like they are going to end up in a quick sale, but then get stuck somewhere in the middle (or towards the end) of the process.

article thumbnail

How to Write an Account Executive Job Description

CloserIQ

It’s a known fact of recruitment: A mediocre job description will attract a mediocre candidate pool. When recruiting AEs, don’t just put up a standard-issue job description. Instead, craft a compelling AE job description that’s unique to your company. You will see an improvement in your candidate pool. So, how to do that? Follow these best practices: 1.

article thumbnail

Total Addressable Market (TAM): What It Is & How You Can Calculate It

Hubspot

In college, I interned at a MarTech company that sold email marketing optimization software. With their software, brands could finally gain visibility into their email program’s deliverability rate or inbox placement, which almost all email marketing software, like MailChimp and Constant Contact, can’t do. The business’ largest revenue stream was a channel partner program that enabled email marketing software companies to sell my old company’s software to their own customers.

Niche 100
article thumbnail

5 Ways to Involve Your Marketing Team in Modern Digital Selling

SalesforLife

When customers approach us about modernizing their sales pipeline development process or go-to-market strategy, you might assume that most of those calls come from sales enablement leaders. So you might be surprised to learn that marketing teams make up 1/3 of every conversation we have with new customers.

Sell 90
article thumbnail

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!

article thumbnail

STOP blindly copying competitors! They are just as clueless

ConversionXL

Can you achieve growth by copying your competitors? No, this is not the right growth mindset. In this episode, Peep breaks down why simply copying your competitors will not lead to the growth results you are expecting. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. The post STOP blindly copying competitors! They are just as clueless appeared first on CXL.

Growth 89
article thumbnail

Building a Connection With Clients

Engage Selling

Building a connection with your clients is important. Have you ever wondered where you stand with one or more of your clients? You deliver value, help them achieve their goals, but there’s always a nagging feeling of “not enough.

Clients 87
article thumbnail

The Ultimate List of Business Name Ideas to Inspire You

Hubspot

A lot of strategy and planning goes into building a business from the ground up. Before your startup is ready to launch, you need to think carefully about your brand and the image you'll present to consumers. So, how can you stand out from your competitors? Create a unique business name. With a catchy, creative, and descriptive name, your business and brand will be memorable.

article thumbnail

Are Traditional Sales Managers Even Necessary?

Partners in Excellence

Sometimes, I think Tim Ohai and I are brothers from different mothers. So much of what he writes is aligned with what I think. At least we are aligned, hopefully, we aren’t tragically wrong. Tim has been writing a series on sales management, Why Can’t We Build Better Sales Managers? In this particular article, Tim suggests we may not need traditional sales managers anymore.

Sales 86
article thumbnail

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!

article thumbnail

Why Saying NO is the key to growth and success.

ConversionXL

Do you keep getting product or service requests? Are they related to your core offering? In this episode, Peep discusses how saying no to customer requests that go against your core offering is a key to business growth and successful product development. Warren Buffet says, “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” [This post contains video, click to play].

Growth 87
article thumbnail

Salesforce Field History Retention Policy: What It Means and Why You Should Care

InsightSquared

At InsightSquared, we talk a lot about using your historical Salesforce data to expose and identify patterns from years past to dramatically improve accuracy in the present and future. But starting this spring, Salesforce will start enforcing a policy that limits client access to their Field History data that is older than 18 months. So, what data is being impacted by the policy?

article thumbnail

The Complete Guide to Effective Sales Voicemail (Plus Scripts and Example Recordings)

Sales Hacker

My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. The other 97% of the time, they had no choice but to leave a voicemail. In a typical week those voicemails could generate a grand total of one returned call each day.

article thumbnail

Driven By Distraction

Partners in Excellence

Friday mornings are usually “Coaching” days. I have a number of standing calls scheduled with coaching clients. This morning, there was a call with “Bob.” At the appointed time, I called Bob, he picks up saying, “Hi, Dave…” “Bob, what should we focus on …… ” I started. Bob, “Excuse me a moment, I’ve just got to take this call, I am double booked.” “Don’t worry, call me back when you are ready for this

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

4 ways ‘cramming’ is killing your sales

Membrain

When you were young, did you ever stay up all night “cramming” for a test? Did the adults in your life criticize you for this behavior, and explain to you that you would learn better if you studied a little at a time instead of all at once?

Sales 83
article thumbnail

Overcoming Client Objections

KO Advantage Group

It’s not unlikely to encounter clients that are hesitant with our recommended solutions, those who want to make sure that your solutions will work for their business. Objections are normal, and there are ways you can overcome it. Sometimes they’ll ask for testimonials--more of it--to ease their mind. But that doesn’t always work. And these situations are more than just reviews.

Clients 81
article thumbnail

5 Things To Do Before Unleash ‘19

Outreach

This Sunday, more than one thousand people will be arriving in beautiful San Diego, CA, for one place, one purpose. To go to LEGOLAND THE sales engagement conference of the year, Unleash '19 ! . If you're one of the lucky sales leaders, movers, and shakers who scored a pass, get ready for three full days of high quality learning, networking, and sales-engaging (it'll catch on).

article thumbnail

Turbulence And Fear Of Buying

Partners in Excellence

I spend too much of my life on planes. The other day was a rough flight, it was typical winter storms. I’ve become immune to the occasional shaking, even the captain suspending service for a few minutes. But this flight caused me to pause. We hit a pocket, it seemed like we dropped 100 plus feet. The bouncing was worse than I experienced. We hit a few more pockets, a few of the overhead bins popped open, I could hear carts crashing in the galley.

Consult 81
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Friday Five – Women in History Month

Score More Sales

The B2B sales world lacks women in sales and sales leadership. Men and women in sales leadership and company leadership can help move the needle to solve this long term issue. 1) Resource: Gartner’s Why Sales Must Hire More Women.

B2B 75
article thumbnail

How to Stuff Your Sales Pipeline

Selling Power

To fill your sales pipeline, the phone should still be your primary means of connecting with prospects. The problem you’re probably having is that it takes many attempts to reach one prospect.

article thumbnail

Social Sales: All B2B Brands Will Soon Be Media Companies

SalesforLife

I read an interesting blog a couple of days ago titled 'Why All B2B Brands Will Be Media Companies in the Next 5 Years.' That's a catchy headline - it certainly caught my attention anyway. Could it be true? How will your B2B sales team operate in a media environment?

B2B 71
article thumbnail

Strategic Procurement And Sales, On Parallel Paths

Partners in Excellence

Probably, ever since the first sale was made to a customer that involved a buying agent, procurement and sales professionals have viewed each other as adversaries. Every time I talk to a sales person about procurement, eyes roll, a groan escapes their lips, and the nightmare begins, “All they are going to do is beat me up on price, they don’t understand, I’ve got to hit my numbers… I don’t trust them…” When I spoke to procurement folks, the story wasn

article thumbnail

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.