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Who’s Coaching the Coaches on Coaching?

STAR Results

Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. That’s right. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The reality is, they have one-on-ones, but their meetings tend to focus on business issues, follow up items and people issues.

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How Do I Hire a Sales All-Star?

Anthony Cole Training

Hiring an elite salesperson is tough work. It's not easy to find a sales all-star and it's even harder to keep them on board if you do hire them.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Google “video hosting platforms,” and you’ll get about 50 million results, along with several paid ads. How do you choose the platform that suits your needs? There’s no single answer. The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend.

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It’s Not Small Talk; It’s Smart Talk

SalesProInsider

For two weeks I looked forward to a sales appointment. An appointment where I was the buyer, not the provider. My company desperately needed the service being offered and I had high hopes I was going to get a solution to a nagging issue. Imagine my surprise then when Mark showed up at my office, sat at my table, opened his portfolio and said, “Well, I typically like to just get right into it.

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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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“It’s All About Execution,” Easily Said

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been obsessed with failure recently. More specifically, I’ve been pestering close friends and mentors with the question: “If we know what we should be doing, if we know how to do it, if we know how important it is to our results, why do we consistently fail to do those things?” Unless you are brand new to sales, your name is Rip van Winkle, or you are absolutely clueless, all of us know what we should be doing.

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Declare Independence From Your Own Obstacles

Anthony Cole Training

As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire.

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6 Reasons Marketing And Sales Should Work Together

Women Sales Pros

Strategies To Drive Sales It’s an age old problem, the friction between marketing and sales. In most organizations they are like oil and water with marketing feeling like they are doing all the heavy lifting – developing campaigns, strategies that tap new prospects and taking market awareness to a whole new level. While sales feels like marketing just gets in the way of the important work – the actual sale.

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“When Do You Need A Response?”

Partners in Excellence

We live in a FOMO, interrupt driven world. We are distracted by the Adrenalin rush of being busy, forgetting that we aren’t accomplishing the things we had intended to accomplish. One of the most devastating things to our goal attainment is our mistaken view of what it means to be “customer responsive.” Recently, I was watching a sales team work.

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Revenue Success Secrets From Today’s Top CROs

Gong.io

The position of CRO is relatively new to most organizations and most are still hashing out the role’s nuances. That said, a few outstanding CROs have demonstrated an ability to drive revenue growth while aligning the sales, marketing, and customer success functions. Ever wondered how those folks succeed? We did too. We teamed up with Drift and OpenView to ask some of the top SaaS CROs to share their secrets.

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Prospecting and The 10 Rules You Need to Follow

The Sales Hunter

You don’t just think about prospecting. Prospecting is something you do, and you do it daily. Watch this video : 10 Rules of Prospecting, to learn more! 1.The number of deals you have to close directly reflects the amount of time you spend prospecting. The prospects you close with next month and next quarter are the people you prospect with right now. 2.

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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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How Bridge Rounds Work in Venture Capital: Messy, Full of Drama, and Not Without High Risk

SaaStr

I’ve watched many bridge rounds over time from a far, and took $500k in bridge capital at EchoSign myself when our seed round didn’t end up being quite enough to get us to the Series A. But I haven’t really seen bridge rounds from the other side, as an investor, until recently. That’s mainly because over the past 2 years I’ve invested in more early-ish seed companies (vs later seed companies), that often end up needing a second seed, or bridge.

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“Whose Success Was This????”

Partners in Excellence

A client asked me to interview a candidate for a key sales role. The sales person had several jobs over the past 5 years, none lasting longer than 18 months. He had been in his current job for 9 months. In each role, he outlined his stellar accomplishments, his great wins, his quota over-attainment. I was suitably wowed! I dug in a little, what’s the onboarding time for each of these roles?

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How to Motivate your Reps (Tips from the State of Sales Performance Survey)

Sales Hacker

How do you ensure you’re maximizing your sales team’s potential? How do you inspire your team to go above and beyond what they think is possible? The answers may surprise you. According to the first-ever State of Sales Performance Survey , in partnership with Sales Hacker, Ambition, Gong, AA-ISP, Vidyard, and Factor 8, the key is modern sales performance management.

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The Best 14 Website Plugins in 2019

Hubspot

You've just spent thousands of dollars, countless hours, and have had more organizational nightmares than you'd care to admit, but you're done. The brand new site design you've been working on is finally finished -- and it looks great. However, after a few weeks, you notice something's missing. Maybe it's a simple design error, or perhaps, a feature doesn't work or was overlooked.

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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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Now Live: Amplify Out of Office Return Date Extraction

Outreach

Vacations and time away from work are great, but for sales reps, out of office (OOO) replies have historically required a gauntlet of manual workarounds to pause and resume the Sequence based on the prospect’s availability. And with as many as 18% of emails being OOO replies , that’s nearly one-fifth of a rep’s time bound to administrative organization rather than selling.

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Putting Some Hollywood into Your Sales Presentations

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week I wrote about First Impressions and today's topic is presentations. That's quite the change in direction from Consultative Selling, Sales Process, Assessments, and Performance. What do Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocket Man, Miracle and Argo have in common and what do they have to do with selling? What do Unbroken, Hunt for Red October, and A Few Good Men have in common and what is their relation to selling?

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3 Kickass Live Chat Campaigns You Can Create to Drive More Sales

Sales Hacker

I’m always impressed by the degree of ingenuity that leading sales teams put into their selling strategy. But every time someone from sales says they’re taking an omnichannel route to drive sales without incorporating live chat or messaging in their sales funnel, I think, “ Huh? ”. Don’t get me wrong… I am all for well-thought-out email blasts and industry events.

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The Simple Guide to Creating an HTML Email [+ Free Templates]

Hubspot

When you create an email using a drag-and-drop or module-based tool, you're actually generating an HTML email. There are two main types of email you can send and receive: plain text emails (these are exactly what they sound like -- any email that contains just plain old text with no formatting) and HTML emails , which are formatted and styled using HTML and inline CSS.

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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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Sell More, Faster During Slow Season

KO Advantage Group

It’s that time of the year again--where we get the most “I’ll call you back” responses from clients. The slow months are up, and some clients will probably get back with us during the busy months, but we can’t really wait for 60 or more days. We need a constant stream of revenue, and we need to keep finding ways. Since we can’t have that long of a waiting period, or any waiting period at all (we need to make sales!

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3 Ways Your Sales Team Can Work With Your Content Team To Increase Conversions

Sandler Training

Many organizations underestimate the power of content when it comes to boosting sales conversions. With the right content metrics in place, your sales team will be better prepared to tackle – and close – a lead successfully. Read Time: 5 Minutes.

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I Hate Prospecting!

Partners in Excellence

I know how unfashionable it is to say this, but I hate prospecting. We’re supposed to love it. According to many pundits/sales experts, it is the secret to sales success. We are supposed to love and revel in prospecting. I get it, if our pipelines are empty, we have to find new opportunities and we do this through prospecting. But my news feeds are dominated with things like “the Joy of Prospecting…” There are battles about which prospecting techniques are alive or dead,

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The Ultimate Guide to On-Page SEO in 2019

Hubspot

So, you've read dozens — if not hundreds — of SEO articles online. You've digested countless tips and tricks for improving your website's SEO. You've even (over)paid that self-proclaimed "expert" to help you develop an SEO strategy that aligns with your business goals. But after all of the reading and learning and strategizing, it dawns on you: You haven't actually done anything yet.

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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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If You Don’t Understand It How Can You Manage It?

Membrain

Even companies that enjoy the luxury of clearly superior products, realise that those products will not sell themselves.

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What World-Class Sales Organizations Do Right with Seleste Lunsford

Miller Heiman Group

In the latest episode of Move the Deal , CSO Insights Chief Research Officer Seleste Lunsford previews the upcoming World-Class Sales Practices Report and talks with host Greg Moore about shifts in buyer behavior, how sellers should respond and what it takes to be a world-class sales organization. CSO Insights is the research division of Miller Heiman Group.

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How Revenue Operations Helps Your SaaS Company Take Off

Outreach

“Y’all want transportation?” “Yes, Ma’am.”. The voices crackled in my headset as my brother expertly landed the two-seater prop plane at George T. Lewis Airport, Cedar Key, FL, a strip of asphalt 100 feet wide and just over a half mile long—the shortest paved runway in Florida. Our “transportation” showed up moments later— a sweet woman driving a minivan, her dog as her co-pilot.

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Multiple Decision Makers? 5 Strategies for an Easier Sales Process

Hubspot

You might sell a product that genuinely makes conducting business easier, but this doesn't grant you a simple sales process. The sales process can be long, tedious, and frustrating, no matter how innovative your product may be. Selling to businesses often means proving to multiple decision makers that your product can make their jobs more efficient, provide a significant return on investment ,and outdo competitors in functionality and price.

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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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From Impossible to Inevitable, 2nd Edition, is Out in Hardcover and #1 in New Releases on Amazon!! Get it NOW!!

SaaStr

The incredible, muchly updated From Impossible to Inevitable collection of content from Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin, SaaStr and new case studies is out. It is really good and a big (50%+) update to the original edition. It’s finally out on Hardcover and is the #1 New Release in Business Management. Please grab it today here ! The post From Impossible to Inevitable, 2nd Edition, is Out in Hardcover and #1 in New Releases on Amazon!!

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Tracking Common Problems: Why to Bother & How to Do It

criteria for success

At CFS, we often write and talk about tracking common problems you solve for your clients. We reference it as a best practice in blog posts, eBooks, and podcasts. But you might be wondering why we make such a fuss about tracking the common problems you solve. Why bother? Here are three reasons you should [ ] The post Tracking Common Problems: Why to Bother & How to Do It appeared first on Criteria for Success.

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The Buyer’s Journey: Seek a Solution

KO Advantage Group

As previously mentioned in one of my blog posts, the buyer's journey has five stages: awareness, seeking a solution, collaboration, decision, and experience. Customers go through these phases when looking for a particular product or service. Since we’ve briefly discussed the awareness stage before, let’s move on to the next: seeking a solution. The awareness stage gets your foot in the door.

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B2B Reads: Content Mediocrity, Wireframes, and the Sales Flywheel

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. Replacing The Sales Funnel With The Sales Flywheel. Should we be changing our current model?

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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.