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10 Things to Start & 3 Things to Stop When Hiring Better Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

Recruiting new sales talent and hiring better salespeople are complicated and time-consuming processes. Especially, when you're not prepared to fill a vacancy, don't have a pipeline of candidates, or have an idea of what "better" means for your business.

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From Sales Process to Buying Journey

Membrain

The idea of a “sales process” has been around since long before I was offered my first sales role. The concept has been heavily promoted by the mainstream sales methodology vendors and adopted with varying degrees of effectiveness by many sales organisations.

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Beware of Busy Buyers: Make Your Solution Easy to Buy

SalesProInsider

“Never underestimate the laziness of buyers.”. That was the advice a mentor gave me. He was someone I trusted, respected, and would take all of his suggestions and put them into play. Yet this advice was very offending to me because I’ve never considered my buyers or my clients as lazy people. No, they’re hardworking, they’re really smart, and they care about what they’re doing.

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If Cold Calling Is Dead, Why Is The Topic So Hot?

Partners in Excellence

Someone tried to suck me into a LinkedIn discussion on cold calling today. The article declaring cold calling dead was written by a colleague I deeply respect, and I have no disagreement with the points in her article. By the time another friend tried to bait me into diving into the discussion, it had been live for 18 hours, there were over 75 reactions and over 52 comments, with many very smart and dull people weighing in.

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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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Increasing Sales in 2020 | Ask Your Prospects Better Questions

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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How to choose the best CRM for a digital marketing agency

Salesmate

If you have ever thought like “Wow, this app is amazing” or “It is so easy to make a purchase from this website”, there’s probably a huge contribution of a digital agency. Agencies are the best, period. They help their customers make, build, optimize, and market products. Agencies are at the spot where they have to make their customers happy, as well as end-users i.e.

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Making It Safe To Fail? Hogwash!

Partners in Excellence

I read an article from a very large consulting company entitled, “Have you made it safe to fail?” Frankly, it’s social psycho-babble. It’s the equivalent of saying, “everyone gets a trophy, regardless of whether they win or lose.” The article will draw eyeballs, but I think they miss the point, consequently much of the value around failure.

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How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service

Predictable Revenue

In sales, the common misconception is that by saying the right thing you’ll win the deal. But what we started to realize after introducing Question-Based Selling (QBS) to our sales organization is that it’s impossible to know what to say without understanding the person and/or organization we were selling to. The post How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The Best Catchy Email Subject Lines For Sales [2020 UPDATE]

Outreach

First impressions are key. Would you show up to a black tie event in your favorite Netflix binge-watching sweats? Of course not. Your sales email subject lines are the first impressions you project to your prospects with every email you send. Are you putting on your best suit every time you hit send? We've learned a lot about what works by analyzing the data from tens of thousands of our own emails.

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

Traffic attribution identifies which sources drive visitors to a web property. And it’s impossible to credit a conversion to the correct source without first knowing how a visitor got to a website. In other words, the foundation of conversion attribution is traffic attribution. Simple as it may sound, attributing a session to its traffic source can be tricky, even impossible.

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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 to Maintain Communication in a Remote Work Environment

G2

The trend of companies going remote is here to stay.

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Customer Service and Insider Sales: Different for a Reason

Engage Selling

Imagine you’re preparing a delicious meal and you’re short on olive oil. Would you add vinegar to make that oil go further? Of course not! Those are complementary ingredients, not interchangeable ones.

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Two approaches to marketing messaging at odds

SaaStr

By Shane Murphy-Reuter, Intercom SVP of Marketing. Most marketers I know struggle over the same competing messaging challenges: to what degree should we focus our messaging on the function of what our product can do, versus the emotion of how it makes me feel when I use it? The benefits of both approaches are clear. We’re all human, so if brands can tap into a higher, more emotional meaning for us, we reward that with loyalty.

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Social Selling, Bar Hopping, And Relationship Commoditization

Partners in Excellence

Listen to the proponents of “Social Selling,” and it is the future of selling. It is the way for us to “develop relationships,” extend our reach, capture new prospects and customers. The Social Selling experts talk about extending the size of your networks, many talking about how many 100’s or 1000’s of connections their methods can help you achieve in weeks.

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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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Want to Drive Revenue Growth? 5 Behaviors to Develop in Your Reps

Sales Hacker

As a sales manager, your job is to drive growth. The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. In other words, you can’t just be a sales manager. You have to be a sales LEADER. How do you do that? There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team.

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My Simple Approach for Implementing New Sales Skills | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Over the last 12 to 16 months, I have been working with clients to help them implement a new sales methodology. And I’m telling you we have come up with a magic formula for implementation accountability and producing great results.

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How do you pull your SaaS competitor’s customers to your SaaS instead?

SaaStr

Q: How do you pull your SaaS competitor’s customers to your SaaS instead? You have to be where your competitors are. You have to show up. Many startups try to avoid the places their larger competitors are. They avoid the same tradeshows. They don’t sponsor the same newsletters and services. They try to stake out their own marketing white space. While that’s a good idea, you also want to be exactly where your competitors are.

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What Does A/B Testing Have to do with Machine Learning?

Hubspot

To some marketers, A/B tests are a no-brainer. After all, there's nothing like knowing which marketing content is preferred with your target audience, before sending it out to the masses. Even though the test is a timeless marketing technique, it can be a little frustrating because of the uncertainty of it all. Thankfully, there's an unlikely superhero to point to when we're talking about the upgrades to a regular A/B test — machine learning.

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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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Word Tracks – Do They Still Work In Sales?

The 5% Institute

Word tracks – they’re regularly taught in sales training programs and are used plentifully by Sales Professionals in all sorts of industries. But do word tracks work? And if not, what should you be doing instead? In this article, you’ll learn whether to use word tracks when speaking with your potential clients, and a framework we recommend you use to effectively close more sales.

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Take The Time to Reflect

Engage Selling

How often does your sales team take the time to reflect? What do I mean by this? Look, it’s no secret that salespeople work hard and often put in long hours.

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To Have Great Support — All Of It Has to Be Great

SaaStr

The other day I had a whiplash moment as a customer of a Unicorn SaaS company. I had a large problem with a piece of software with a lot of integrations in it, and it really wasn’t clear whose problem it was. But one of the vendors stepped up and said they’d solve the problem. They worked over the weekend and fixed it! Beyond above and beyond.

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The Death of the Third-Party Cookie: What Marketers Need to Know

Hubspot

What do marketers and Sesame Street monsters have in common? They LOVE cookies. For years, we've been using them to track our website visitors , improve the user experience, and collect data that helps us target ads to the right audiences. We also use them to learn about what our visitors are checking out online when they aren't on our websites. But the way we use cookies could change dramatically with Google's announcement that it will phase out the third-party cookie on Chrome browsers by 2022

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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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The 8 Step Sales Process – A Detailed Guide

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll detail the 8 step sales process that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. 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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Use This LinkedIn Strategy to Build a Strong Digital Presence (7 Tips)

Sales Hacker

Social selling became a buzzword around 2014 in the sales industry, and it’s already becoming outdated and ineffective for teams that use LinkedIn as just another inbox. 91% of executives rate LinkedIn as their first choice for professionally relevant content, but the content they’re looking for isn’t in their inbox, it’s delivered straight to their feed.

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Gotta’ Read: ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear | Motivation, Action, and Keeping Good Habits

Heinz Marketing

By Josh Baez , Client Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. To start things off with my conclusion: You’ve gotta’ read Atomic Habits by James Clear. Like nearly everyone else in the world, one of my 2020 resolutions is to read more. Generic, I know. But it’s something I’ve always found myself wanting to do more of. The problem is that when I read, I find myself constantly getting distracted— there’s always something else I could be doing.

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12 Benefits of Email Marketing Your Marketing Team Must Know

Hubspot

As a marketer, you might've heard coworkers talking around the watercooler about how email marketing is dead. It's been a common concern for many marketing departments. Well, I'm here to let you know that you don't have to worry because email marketing is still going strong. In fact, 40 percent of B2B marketers say email newsletters are most critical to their content marketing success , and 73% of millennials prefer communications from businesses to come via email.

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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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Positive Sales Quotes – 50 x To Inspire Success

The 5% Institute

Positive sales quotes can be useful to motivate your sales team, or even inspire yourself if you’re feeling like you’re in a bit of a sales slump. There are various reasons as to why positive sales quotes can have a beneficial impact: They can inspire you to focus on your end game. It can give you the energy you need to navigate through hard times. They serve as a daily reminder as to what’s possible, when your mind is in the right place.

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Why Sales Managers Struggle with Effective Hiring

Miller Heiman Group

Sales organizations face a paradox: although many continue to increase hiring, attrition is on the rise, according to our 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report , creating a major pain point. What’s the problem? Though sales organizations hire more sellers than ever to grow their business and compensate for losing salespeople, studies show that they may not be following hiring best practices: 84% of sales leaders say they lack the sales talent they need to succeed in the future.

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Getting Started with Outbound Sales? (Let’s Start with Strategy)

Sales Hacker

Trying to get started with outbound sales? You need a solid outbound sales strategy in place. Because honestly, when it comes to outbound sales , if you haven’t done the footwork and created the infrastructure needed for success, it can get messy. On the other hand, if you lay the groundwork and develop a smart strategy, you’ll start seeing the results within short order.

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How HubSpot Manages a Giant Website With a Tiny Team

Hubspot

I can’t write a single line of code. So, it was a big surprise to me when I was asked to lead our new global web strategy team three years ago. If you've followed HubSpot's history, it’s also probably a big surprise to you that we had 20,000 customers and went public years before we had a team to manage our web strategy. And, as you might expect, things were pretty complicated before my team was implemented.

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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.