Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Recruiting Better Salespeople: The Make-Up of Hall of Famers

Anthony Cole Training

Assuming for a second that when you think about hiring for a position in your organization, you are thinking about hiring the best- especially in the early rounds of looking for talent.

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Do You Make These 13 Mistakes During Your Sales Conversations?

Sales Hacker

Mistakes during your sales conversations cost you deals. Buyers have dozens of options and more power than ever before. That means you can’t afford to slip up during sales conversations. Your buyers won’t have it. They’ll move to another vendor faster than you can blink, leaving your pockets empty. Knowing the most common mistakes will help you avoid them.

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100 Case Study Interview Questions [Updated for 2018]

Hubspot

Case studies and testimonials are useful to have on hand. They help you earn a prospect’s trust, show them what life would be like as your customer, and validate that your product or service works. Consider creating a library of customer stories your sales team can use to share targeted and relevant content with your prospects via your website and sales proposals.

Referrals 101
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High Sales Performance Starts With This…

Engage Selling

This is the hidden secret behind high sales performance. If you follow my content, or any other sales thought leader’s work, you’ll find a plethora of great strategies, practices, and ideas that you can apply in your business.

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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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When to Thank Someone for a Referral

Score More Sales

Referrals in the sales world are the very best way to grow your sales book of business for many reasons. The first one is that if someone whom you respect refers you to work with someone else, nearly half the “work” in building trust has been done.

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Sales Hacker’s Yearly Recap & 2018 Roadmap For Growth (VERY Transparent)

Sales Hacker

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 300 people showed up to learn about all the new advancements in Sales Technology.

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8 Social Selling Tactics That Hurt Rather Than Help

SalesforLife

I really love the power that social media contains regarding the sales process. It’s such an impactful way to engage your prospects and clients. But there’s something about social selling that I think a lot of people seem to forget these days….

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“How I Work”: Wendy White, VP of Marketing at Egencia @wendywhite #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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31 Simple, Yet Brilliant Lead Generation Techniques to Supercharge Your Sales Pipeline

Sales Hacker

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Why am I sharing this? Because as a solo-founder, I wear many hats. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. As a result, I am the lead generator, the SDR , and the closer. While this may seem laborious, it gives me tremendous power over revenue.

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The Ultimate Guide to Small Talk: Conversation Starters, Powerful Questions, & More

Hubspot

Like it or not, small talk is integral to your success. Whether you’re networking, speaking with a new prospect, or warming up a customer before upselling them or asking for a referral, you must be able to build rapport with casual conversation. To help you master this crucial skill, we’ve written a comprehensive guide to small talk. What is small talk?

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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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The Perfect Lead

Pointclear

Merriam-Webster defines the holy grail as: “an object or goal that is sought after for its great significance.” Can companies reach the holy grail of marketing—the perfect lead? Well, what is a perfect lead? Those of us at PointClear do not believe in the alphabet soup of acronyms such as BANT, ANUM and the granddaddy of all acronyms, MAN. What is wrong with these formulaic approaches to lead qualification?

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How Sales Leaders Can Turn Tedious Pipeline Reviews into Productive Strategy Sessions

Openview

Pipeline review meetings are notorious for being dreaded by sales professionals and sales leaders alike. While they might not be appreciated in the moment, they do perform a necessary function as they help sales professionals identify problem areas in their pipelines while also providing leaders a better view of weighted probability and an opportunity to coach.

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Your sales enablement will fail without these 5 things

Membrain

Sales enablement is a multi-billion dollar industry, with more than a third of organizations reporting planned investments this year. Yet if history has anything to teach us about those investments, less than half of those initiatives will achieve most or all of their goals. The problem is that many organizations invest in point solutions without first laying the groundwork that will make their investments pay off.

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17 LinkedIn Sales Navigator Secrets All the Best Prospectors Know

Hubspot

Want to become a prospecting superstar? LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a fantastic resource. It simplifies the process of finding, contacting, and staying up-to-date with prospects, referrals, and customers. Rather than spending hours manually tracking prospect activity on the platform, you can get instant insights. That means more time for high-value activities like calling people or giving demos.

CRM 101
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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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The Myth Of The “Single Decisionmaker”

Partners in Excellence

How many people are involved in the customer buying decision? If you are a fan of CEBs research, the answer is 6.8. Other research says there is always a single dominant decision-maker. Still other research suggests there is a dominant influencer (or mobilizer), that drives the decision-making. Too often, when I talk to sales people, I get similar feedback, some will say it’s a group, but there is one dominant person in the group.

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Masters of our own destruction: Are you a hustler or a builder?

Heinz Marketing

Guest Post by Steve Woods , CTO & Co-Founder, Nudge.ai. At Nudge.ai we think a lot about the future of sales. That often means thinking a lot about the past of sales. The last few years have been a very interesting and instructive time as we’ve seen the dramatic rise and fall of sales approaches that, in their failure, lead to interesting lessons on where the future of sales might lead.

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SDRs: How to Follow Up Without Being a Stalker

Sales Hacker

The post SDRs: How to Follow Up Without Being a Stalker appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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23 Client Gifts that Keep Your Company Top of Mind All Year

Hubspot

Client Gift Ideas. A Terrarium or Succulent Garden. Professional Notebooks. Coffee or Tea Blends. Calendars. Coffee Table Book. Toiletry Bag. Gourmet Food Basket. Portable Phone Charger. K-Cup Coffee Sampler. Kindle. Custom Water Bottle. Online Classes. BarkBox. Better Swag. A Charity Donation. Beer Brewing Kit. Restaurant Gift Card. Bakery Delivery.

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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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Whose Job Is It To Understand The Buyers?

Partners in Excellence

George Bronten just published a fascinating post, “Your Sales Enablement Will Fail Without These 5 Things.” I agree with him on at least 3 of the 5, and kind of sorta, but not quite agree on the 2 remaining items. But his first critical success factor really struck me, Understand Your Buyers. I absolutely agree with this–but thought, is this sufficient?

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How to Overcome 3 Common Prospecting Conversation Challenges

SalesforLife

Prospecting conversations are some of the hardest conversations in the sales process , even for the most experienced sellers. Though difficult, they're also the critical beginning of what should be an enjoyable customer experience. As you're coaching your sales team, consider using these methods to overcome three common prospecting conversation challenges.

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Creating a new axis for SPIN® Selling

Membrain

Like many people of my generation, I was brought up on SPIN® Selling. It’s a little chastening to reflect on the fact that the book was first published nearly 30 years ago, but it (as Neil Rackham himself pointed out in a recent APS conference) remains a highly relevant element of the complex B2B sales toolkit.

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How to Turn Off Instagram's New "Last Online" Feature

Hubspot

Instagram scrollers beware: your favorite photo-sharing app recently released a new feature that shows friends when you were last online. Similar to the activity status found on Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Instagram's new setting is now turned on by default in your account. Only people you follow or have recently DM'd will be able to see when you were last active.

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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 Not Trying To Sell You Anything……”

Partners in Excellence

I don’t know why I picked up the phone, I knew better. It was one of those calls, you know what I’m talking about, the area code and the first three digits of the phone number exactly matched mine, but it was a number I didn’t know. I knew it was a sales person, leveraging local presence, trying to make me think he was in my neighborhood.

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Talking Shop Tuesday with Kevin Bobowski: The Field Marketing Resurgence

Outreach

Welcome to Talking Shop Tuesday , where we sit down with sales and marketing leaders to learn their tips for achieving #peakexcellence. Today, we're chatting with Kevin Bobowski, former CMO of ActOn Software and former VP of Exact Target, about the resurgence of field marketing in account-based sales.

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Sales Motivation Video: Using Silence in the Selling Process

The Sales Hunter

You have to be able to give your price or ask a question and WAIT. Silence is vital to the selling process. Be silent and allow the customer to respond. Check out the video to see what I mean: A coach can help you excel in your sales career! Invest in yourself by checking out […].

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How to Use Instagram Insights

Hubspot

It's no secret that we love data. Data helps you understand your audience. It tells you how they do things, what they prefer, and who they are. And when it comes to social media, our love for data doesn't fade. That's why we love analytics and insights. They help you measure the impact of your marketing efforts across different channels to see if there's something you need to do differently -- like target a different audience, post at a certain time of day, or experiment with a new content forma

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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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Book Review for “The Cadence of Excellence” by Matt McDarby

Topline Leadership

Matt McDarby's new book, "The Cadence of Excellence", is an outstanding book that every sales manager – and those who manage sales managers – should read. The book includes many real-life examples of leading companies that have refocused their sales managers toward a new, early stage and value-creating operating system. The post Book Review for “The Cadence of Excellence” by Matt McDarby appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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5 Ways LinkedIn PointDrive Is A Massive Competitive Advantage for Time Management

SalesforLife

Research by TOPO indicates that the reason 83.4% sellers fail to hit quota (their number) is because of their improper time management skills. Why is this? It’s because sellers mistakenly spend a disproportionate amount of time of equalizing touches on all accounts, or spend too much time with accounts that aren’t ready to buy yet. Whether your sellers are targeting 10, 100, or 1000 accounts at a time, time management is a blessing for quota crushing A-players, and the kiss of death for your B &

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Protected: [Infographic] The Story of Customer Effort Score (test)

InsightSquared

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YouTube vs. Vimeo: Which Video Platform is Best for Your Business?

Hubspot

By 2019, video content is predicted to command a hefty 80% of all web traffic. If you haven't started thinking about how video fits into your long-term marketing strategy, now's the time to start taking it seriously. Before you dive into creating videos, it's important to figure out where you're going to host them. YouTube is obviously the largest video hosting platform on the web, but it might not be the best choice for every business.

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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.