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3 Best Sales Objection Scripts for Building Consensus and Trust

Iannarino

When budget comes up as an objection in sales calls, seventy-nine percent of deals are lost. If you want to lower that number or increase the number of deals you win, you need a script.

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The Sales Game: 10 Lessons for Winning & Losing

Anthony Cole Training

It has been almost a month ago, but real fans will remember. It was a game for 45 minutes and then it wasn’t. I am talking about the Michigan, Ohio State rivalry football game played November 26, 2022. Up for grabs was the Big Ten Football Championship Game and a shot at being in the NCAA football playoffs.

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5 tips to extract true value from your data

Martech

“Data is an asset.” We hear that phrase in countless vendor presentations, conferences and advertisements. And for some companies, data is, indeed, an asset. For example, high-tech companies like Google are built on the value of their data. Google began by analyzing data from the web. With its search engine at the heart of data collection, it could offer data gathering of adjacent fields and analysis from that data.

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Sales prospecting: Ultimate guide to your B2B sales success

PandaDoc

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. B2B sales organizations may often find that this process is highly time-consuming and requires significant investments in manual labor. In many cases, just initiating the first contact doesn’t deliver any business growth. And poorly managed prospecting lists will result in seller fatigue.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

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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Real Sales Engagement

Iannarino

Technology companies often hijack terms from other industries and use them to name their offerings. This can confuse people who use a term in a different way. This is where we find ourselves with the term sales engagement. Here, we will look at both forms of sales engagement, the technological approach and the more important sales engagement, which helps you close deals and improve your results.

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5 Tips To Build A High Converting Landing Page For Your Ads

ClickFunnels

The post 5 Tips To Build A High Converting Landing Page For Your Ads appeared first on ClickFunnels. You may have the best product or service in the world, but if your landing page doesn’t convert well, you’re not going to make any money. In fact, you could even lose money. So how do you create a high-converting landing page? That’s what we’ll help you with in this guide — 5 tips to build a high-converting landing page when you’re driving traffic through ads (i.e. cold traffic)

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Google Search testing search in video

Search Engine Land

Google is testing the ability to search for spoken words in a video through a new “Search in video” feature. This is officially being piloted in India, but some are also seeing this feature being tested in the United States. The announcement. Google posted this news on the Google India blog, writing, “besides images, videos are also a rich source of visual information but it’s often hard to find something buried inside a long clip.

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How To Be a Good Sales Coach: 5 Proven Skills To Master

Iannarino

Sales managers are masters of wearing multiple hats. You’re a leader , a sales rep yourself, a recruiter… and a coach?

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How To Use Copywriting As An Important Branding Tool

ClickFunnels

The post How To Use Copywriting As An Important Branding Tool appeared first on ClickFunnels. Copywriting is a critical part of selling stuff online. But an often overlooked part of copywriting is how it can (and should) be used as a branding tool; to solidify market positioning, to build empathy with a specific audience, and to create a consistent image online.

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37% of You Are Cutting Your Marketing Budgets For Next Year. But 34% of You Are Increasing Them.

SaaStr

And so it often gets cut first in starts that are missing the plan, or just that need to stretch cash further. And indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in one of the latest SaaStr polls: 20% of you are really cutting your market budgets hard, 30% or more. 17% of you are cutting them a bit, 10%-20%. This seems pretty common where cash is an issue. 29% of you are keeping it flat.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

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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The state of intent data in 2023 and beyond

Martech

In B2B sales and marketing, intent has become an essential ingredient as salt and pepper are in cooking. You wholeheartedly believe it is required in every recipe, but you’re not always sure of the right amount or when to apply it. With our increasing reliance on intent data and its broadening definition, now is a good time to assess the state of intent and plan on what might be ahead.

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Cross Sell Vs. Upsell

Iannarino

There are differences between cross selling and upselling, and there are also similarities. Both strategies are a way to create new or greater value for your client. Both also improve your sales results by improving your client's results. We'll look at how best to pursue each of these sales strategies. We'll also look at cross selling versus upselling, and how to make it easier to employ each strategy.

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10 Tips For Building Landing Pages For Artists

ClickFunnels

The post 10 Tips For Building Landing Pages For Artists appeared first on ClickFunnels. Landing pages are web pages designed around a single conversion goal. They have the best conversion rates of all types of web pages which is why they are heavily utilized in online marketing. In fact, if you don’t use landing pages in your sales funnel, then you are almost certainly leaving money on the table.

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Right Back To Where We Were 3 Years Ago

SaaStr

So I firmly believe the market has over-discounted SaaS and Cloud stocks, that they are trading just too low. They shouldn’t be at almost historical lows, given the still epic growth rates at so many leaders, from MongoDB to Cloudflare to Monday to ZoomInfo. Some are growing more slowly than earlier in the year, but still in absolute terms, the growth rates are jaw dropping.

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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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3 pointers to navigate the confusing martech marketplace

Martech

Have you noticed how some marketing technology vendors constantly change the narrative around their products to suit their go-to-market du jour, especially those that have been around for a while? Over time, it looks something like this: It’s a browser-based content management and web development system. It’s a.NET CMS. It’s an enterprise website and intranet portal software.

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14 Example SPIN Questions + Real World Scenarios To Use Them In

Iannarino

“If you can’t solve a problem for your customer, then there’s no basis for a sale. But if you uncover problems you can solve, then you’re potentially providing the buyer with something useful.”.

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10 Ways To Use Email Marketing To Increase Customer Retention

ClickFunnels

The post 10 Ways To Use Email Marketing To Increase Customer Retention appeared first on ClickFunnels. Acquisition is about getting new customers. Retention is about maximizing the value of your existing customers. According to every available statistic , one is clearly a better use of your time than the other…. Repeat customers have been measured to spend an average of 67% more than new customers.

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The Latest Perspective on My Most Popular Article on Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

The lessons from my annual Nutcracker post have not changed at all in 12 years but my perspective changes. This year three new thoughts come to mind.

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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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5 Interesting Learnings from Adobe at $18 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So we focus more on the newer up-and-coming public SaaS companies in this 5 Interesting Learning series, from Datadog to Zoom to Snowflake to Monday and Shopify. But Adobe’s a good one to examine right now. Why? They aren’t seeing any decline in their business at the end of 2022. None. At almost $18B in ARR, it’s still growing an impressive 15% year-over-year on an FX-adjusted basis.

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How to Calculate Your Closing Ratio

Iannarino

On LinkedIn and other social media platforms, you will find advice like "Don't close deals, open relationships." This implies that asking your client to sign a contract will somehow harm them. In reality, closing the deal allows you to provide the improvement they need. Your role as a salesperson requires you to create and win opportunities. That is how you help your organization and your clients.

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8 Email Marketing Tips For Architects

ClickFunnels

The post 8 Email Marketing Tips For Architects appeared first on ClickFunnels. Email marketing can be incredibly effective when done right. Yet architects rarely use it which means that they are likely leaving a lot of money on the table. That’s why today we are going to share eight email marketing tips that can help architects grow their businesses!

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We’re All in Sales – Or Maybe Not

Membrain

We’re all in sales, right? Well, maybe. I think the answer depends on what you mean by that (intent) and how you define “sales.”.

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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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If the VP of Sales Doesn’t Believe, It’s All Over

SaaStr

If the VP of Sales Doesn't Believe, It's All Over. Back them Help them Get them budget Join the calls Get on the Zooms Build together Have their back. But if the day comes when they truly no longer believe, They need to find a new place. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) December 10, 2022. So there’s a moment in time I’ve gotten pretty darn good at spotting in SaaS startups.

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How to Write a Basho Email

Iannarino

It is a rare occurrence that a decision-maker will open and read your email. If you are unknown, your odds are about the same as winning the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries in the same week. There are too many emails flooding into their inbox, some from their internal teams, and likely even more from external people and companies. There are ways you can break through with a BASHO email, an approach developed by Jeff Hoffman.

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5 Tips To Use Email Marketing For Brand Awareness

ClickFunnels

The post 5 Tips To Use Email Marketing For Brand Awareness appeared first on ClickFunnels. You probably already know how to use email marketing to sell your products and services. But how can you use it to increase brand awareness? Table of Contents: What Is Brand Awareness? The Email Marketing Conundrum #1 Set Up an Automated Welcome Sequence #2 Launch a Link Roundup Newsletter #3 Create Exclusive Content For Your Email Subscribers #4 Share Your Other Content With Your Email Subscribers #5 Come

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Top 10 Sales Resources of 2022

RAIN Group

It seems like the world of sales is moving at a breakneck pace. Between new digital tools, hybridized sales teams, and economic shifts, it can feel overwhelming to keep up with everything. And it can be tempting to try to be everywhere and do everything at once just to stay competitive.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

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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A Basic Guide to Working Better With Your VCs in 2023

SaaStr

So in the Boom Years of late 2020 to early 2021, a lot of best practices working with VCs fell apart. Founders stopped caring. VCs did so many deals, they stopped caring. Everything was Up, Up and Up!! Now, it’s tougher times for almost everyone. If nothing else, it’s dramatically harder to get funded at the Series A and B stages, and almost impossible at C and D unless you are executing to perfection.

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On next year’s to do list: Clean rooms and better data

Martech

Over the past few years, brands and marketers have been bombarded with an ever-changing landscape around identity and privacy regulations. Throw in Apple’s privacy restrictions and Google’s impending deprecation of third-party cookies , and it’s no wonder everyone’s dizzy trying to keep their data-driven campaigns from falling off a cliff.

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Our Five Top Blog Posts from 2022 (and One MVP from the Past)

Membrain

Here at Membrain, we’ve been producing The Art and Science of Sales blog for ten years. It’s been quite a journey, and fascinating to see which topics become favorites again and again each year.

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Stealing B2C Black Friday tactics in the sales development world

Predictable Revenue

Jenell Riesner joins Collin Stewart on this episode of the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss applying B2C Black Friday tactics to the sales development world. The post Stealing B2C Black Friday tactics in the sales development world appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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