Sat.Dec 23, 2017 - Fri.Dec 29, 2017

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Trouble Growing Sales? Solution #2: No More Bad Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

I’ve been working on growing sales for over 30 years. First with Nautilus Exercise Equipment, then in the insurance business and for the last 23 years with Anthony Cole Training Group. It’s been at least 25 years since I heard David Sandler, on a cassette tape, say; “there’s no such thing as bad prospects, just bad salespeople.” Not bad as in character, morals or integrity- just bad a selling.

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Uses of Cement

InsightSquared

There are different uses of cement such as to make cement mortar, cement concrete which are used in various types of masonry and concrete structures.

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5 Skills Every Sales Development Rep Needs to Master in 2018

Hubspot

SDR/BDR Skills for 2018. Video prospecting. Highly customized outreach. Active listening. Great voicemails. Resilience and Coachability. We’re about to turn the corner into 2018. And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. The standard process for SDRs or BDRs (whatever your organization calls them) of sending out sequenced emails, calling, leaving voicemails, rinse and repeat?

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Why your buyers are focusing on the wrong things

Membrain

It’s a tale as old as time. A sales team is closing in on a deal when, at the last minute, a competitor takes home the win. Being the good salespeople that they are, the team checks in with the customer to find out why they lost the deal, and the answer frustrates them. The buyer made the decision based on utterly meaningless criteria.

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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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5 Top Design Tips to Create Outstanding CTA Buttons

Partners in Excellence

Yours truly was thinking aloud about CTA’s recently: “As in, do CTAs really have the power to make or break website sales, as some inbound experts confidently claim, as they keep A/B testing their CTAs, over and over again?” Trust me, I didn’t have to look far and wide for an answer. Right around [ ] The post 5 Top Design Tips to Create Outstanding CTA Buttons appeared first on Search Engine People Blog.

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Snip, Snip, Hooray! Announcing Snippets and Inbox Bump for Outlook

Outreach

We’re on a mission to bring the same delightful Outreach experience you have in our app into your inbox -- after all, the average salesperson spends half their day in their inbox. Today, we’re excited to announce two new features that will increase productivity and organization when sending emails from your Outlook inbox: Snippets and Inbox Bump. Let’s just say, unlike the ill-filling pajamagram Aunt Judy got you for Christmas, these are two holiday presents you won’t want to return 😉 Sn

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The Sales Ops End of Year Checklist

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. The end of year can often be a stressful, exciting, and chaotic time of year for a sales organization. Passion runs high as the year comes to a close and we get closer to hitting our goals. It’s also a great time for retrospectives and planning for the year to come. As the sales team does everything they can to hit their numbers, it’s important that we (sales ops) do everything we can to help them cross the finish line.

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Sales Topic Revisit - Is Sales-Productivity an Obsolete Goal?

Score More Sales

Is productivity what we should be working toward in the sales department, or is it innovation? This new, weekly series revisits a smart article, post or podcast from the greater sales community that was published in the past six months or so that is worthy of more discussion. Today we look at a LinkedIn post by Billy Bob Brigmon, Sr. Principal, Emerging Sales Talent & Innovation at Workday.

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Moving from Selling as an Art to Selling as a Science

Membrain

We seem to be approaching or passing the tipping point where leading sales practitioners view successful selling as a disciplined, focused, engineered approach to engaging and creating value for customers. Stated differently: we're moving more toward selling as a science.

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10 Things You Need to Do Now for Sales Success in 2018

The Sales Hunter

This is it! The end of another year. How did you do? More importantly, how does next year look for you? Success is not what you did yesterday. Success is what you will do today, and with that it’s time to start moving forward. Here’s my list of 10 things you need to do now […].

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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.

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10 Free Templates Every Small Business Needs in 2018

Hubspot

Owning or working for a small business can be extremely rewarding. You have a good view of the business operations, your work is visible, and you have an opportunity to make a big impact during the company's critical growth years. But then there are the less glamorous aspects -- from tight budgets and limited resources to lack of direction and leadership -- that can really start to weigh on you.

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Sales, Art, Science, Craft?

Partners in Excellence

The article I wrote, Moving From Selling As An Art To Selling As A Science , has stirred up a lot of reaction in the various venues in which it’s appeared. There have been various comments, mostly supportive. Many suggest, I think correctly, that sales is a blend of art and science. Robert Racine added the great insight that professional selling is a blend of art, craft, and science.

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A Handy Visual Outlining The 7 Steps to Doing Online Research

ConversionXL

December 29, 2017 Here is another of our popular posts of 2017. This is a poster outlining the the different steps involved in doing digitally based research. ‘The poster features the 7 phases that.read more.

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Our Best Sales Tips of 2017

Outreach

There's no time like the end of the year to reflect on the past 12 months. This year, we've learned and shared a ton of sales best practices to help you and your team hit #PeakExcellence.

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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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This Facebook Ad Experiment Generated $1.1 Million

Hubspot

We write quite a bit about the most effective ways to use Facebook. How can you grow your audience? How can you reach the right people? And what's the best way to use ads? And in March, when Facebook launched its mobile-only Collection ads feature, marketers responsible for ad spend took note. Now, instead of simply publishing a single image or video, brands could now pair this visual content with something like a product catalog related to it.

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Driving Change

Partners in Excellence

We all struggle with change. Most of the time it’s impatience with those around us who aren’t changing. it may be our people, our customers, others in our organization. They struggle with change, they resist it, they get confused. Change is always tough, it threatens us, it puts us in unfamiliar situations. We may be uncomfortable, we may not know what to do or how to do it.

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6 Leadership Stories from Sales Leaders On A Digital Sales Transformation

SalesforLife

I’ve seen all kinds of sales leaders. Some that are as inspiring to their sales teams as Churchill and Napoleon, some as forgettable as King Edward V (he lasted less than 3 months).

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6 Skills for Consulting Success

Heinz Marketing

Having a successful career in consulting requires sustained motivation. When your skills are a good match for the requirements of the industry, your superior performance will be an ongoing source of encouragement. A sensible first step towards a consulting-career would be to understand whether you have what it takes to excel in consulting. Here is a list of six skills that will make a difference in your consulting career and ensure your long-term success. 1.

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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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Sales Motivation Video: Year-End Sales Motivation! Record Your Successes!

The Sales Hunter

The end of the year is just days away, so NOW is the time to reflect on your successes of 2017. And don’t just reflect on them, but actually write them down. Yes, take a piece of paper out and write them down. You want to go into 2018 with a positive attitude about what […].

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Plateauing

Partners in Excellence

As we often do, at this time of year, we take stock of where we are in our business and personal lives. We look at what we’ve accomplished in the past year, and our goals for the coming year. Some of us develop “resolutions.” (I don’t.). I’ve been reflecting a lot on my personal performance and growth. While, from pure business outlook, things couldn’t be better.

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Technology Trends that Will Change K12 and Higher Education

Heavy Hitter

  I’ve had a great time teaching at USC’s MBA program for the past eight years. During that time the impact technology has had on students, teachers and higher education has been an incredible. However, I believe the biggest changes are yet to come.  Here are three technology paradigm shifts I believe will transform K12 education and universities.     1.

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Forms Follow Function

Engage Selling

Successful Formula D.C. residents — helped by behavioral scientists, design experts, and others — cut through red tape. No matter how dry or lifeless it seems, any subject can make for a good meeting. It just depends no how you frame and present things. Exhibit A (Subsection 3, Paragraph R, Line 5): Form-a-Palooza. Yes, it was an event designed to improve the experience of filling out government forms.

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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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I’m a Natural Born Liar!

Adaptive Business Services

What better way to end the year than with a confession. Might be good for my soul. I was sitting around the other day and I was musing about what terrible liars some salespeople are. They are actually terrible on two counts …. They lie about the most basic, and yet the most important, things. They are not even that good at lying. I can easily discern whether you are flat out lying to me or if you really not sure but, you tell me that you are anyway.

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Are Skills More Important Than Experience?

Partners in Excellence

I was reading an article from yet another guru—my apologies, I’m really getting tired of guru’s—with the premise, Skills are more important than experience. To add credibility to his statement, he quoted Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, but really took one statement out of an interview, removing the context that supported what she was saying.

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Don’t Set Goals. Achieve Goals!

The Sales Hunter

It’s too easy to sit back, dream up a goal, and allow yourself to believe it will happen. You compound the belief by carrying on with your life, doing nothing different, and still expecting the goal you dreamed up to be fulfilled. As a kid I remember thinking I would become an astronaut. Gee, it’s […].

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“How I Work”: Joshua Baez, Marketing Coordinator for Heinz Marketing @joshthebasil #HowIWork

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. “How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series, and recently several sales experts (including Anthony Iannarino , Dave Brock and Trish Bertuzzi ) participated as well. Periodically moving forward, we will feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader here answering what have become the standard “ How I Work ” questions.

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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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Digital vs. Print with David Mammano

Sell Or Die

Our guest this week is David Mammano, Founder and CEO of Avanti Entrepreneur Group For more than 20 years, David Mammano has been a serial entrepreneur. Having started seven businesses from scratch, he thrives on starting and growing businesses. Today he thrives on helping others start or grow their businesses by infusing the latest entrepreneurial principles into their strategy.

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How to Create Videos That Convert Leads into Customers [Video]

Hubspot

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New Years Resolutions 2.0: Habits, rituals & milestones

Heinz Marketing

My biggest problem with New Years Resolutions in years past is that they are too rigid and destination-oriented. Too often I set aggressive goals without thinking about how I’m going to tactically achieve them. Then when I fail to make unspecified progress, I (like a lot of people) give up an wait until next year. Last year I focused instead on a set of habits.

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Clarify How Decisions Are Made

Heinz Marketing

I recently read a book called Crucial Conversations. In the chapter called “Move to Action,” the authors describe four methods for decision-making. Command. Also known as the “executive decision.” This is when an authority or delegate makes a unilateral decision. This is appropriate when the decision must be driven primarily by the executive’s unique insight into the business environment, context or constraints.

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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.