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It's the Little Things in Selling

Anthony Cole Training

Selling is a 'slight edge business' that is driven by one more phone call, one more prospecting effort, one more cold email outreach, one more social media push, and one more effort to build a new relationship and land a new client.

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Goals And Activities Are Different!

Partners in Excellence

I had asked a coaching client to put together a 90 day plan, outlining his goals over the next 30-60-90 days. The plan was very thoughtful. He outlined a lot of important activities. As we spoke, I said, “I asked for your goals, but you identified activities. How do you know those activities help you achieve your goals, how do you know if you’ve achieved your goals?

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What Is Digital Marketing? A New Definition for the New Age of Search

G2

To quote Brooks Hatlen from the The Shawshank Redemption , “the world went and got himself in a big damn hurry.”.

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Resources and Groups for Women in B2B Sales #WomenInSales

Women Sales Pros

I was able to contribute to the recent Sales Hacker post Top Communities for Women in Sales and Revenue written by Sales Hacker founder Max Altshuler. Max is a strong ally in the B2B sales world for diversity and inclusion. From the very first events that Sales Hacker put on six years ago, Max was asking for names of strong women keynoters and diverse speakers to change the face of the existing sales conference world which was full of all-male lineups on main stages everywhere.

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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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Deal or No Deal?

Anthony Cole Training

We've all been there before.I know that I have.

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What a Window Washing Company Can Teach You About Complex B2B Sales

Membrain

Up until the other day, any possible connection between window washing and complex B2B sales would have never entered my mind. That is, not until we were getting our windows cleaned. (When you live in NYC, you definitely don’t want to do this yourself.).

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5 New Social Media Platforms Marketers Should Watch in 2019

Hubspot

When you visit the App Store or Google Play and search "social media," there are hundreds of apps to choose from. But, as the pool of social platforms grows, will any of them really change the game for marketers this year? The truth is, probably not. In fact, HubSpot's own social media experts say we should be paying attention to how older platforms evolve in 2019.

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Your SKO Agenda: Planning an Event that Aligns with Your Company Business Strategy

Force Management

One of the keys to a successful sales kickoff is to execute it in a way that aligns with your organization's overall business strategy. From there, your SKO agenda should be prioritized by the objectives and the outcomes you want the event to drive as it relates to that strategy.

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So You’ve Qualified Your Prospect (Here’s What NOT to Do)

Sales Hacker

We all make mistakes…. Even the most experienced of us. One of the most common? Letting a qualified prospect fall through the cracks, never to be seen again. This can happen in a number of ways. The good news, though: all of these pitfalls are avoidable — if you’re consciously aware of them. Below are five common ways a qualified prospect can fall through the cracks (and what to do instead). 1.

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What Do I Need to Do to Become Great at Prospecting?

The Sales Hunter

Below is a list of 20 things I have found in common with the top 1% of all sales prospectors. Notice that each item on the list is an action. That’s right, they are things you can do! To be great at prospecting, you don’t have to be born with the “sales gene.” It simply means that you must make it happen day after day. Check out my video where I talk more about what it takes to be in the top 1% of all sales prospectors: As you go through the list, don’t just read it.

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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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How to Make Your Value Proposition Stronger

Jill Konrath

How can you tell if you have a weak value proposition? One telltale sign is that virtually no one responds to your emails or gets back to you on the phone.

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Ecommerce Email Marketing: How to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

As an ecommerce site, you likely send emails regularly. Black Friday emails, Valentine’s Day emails, BOGO emails, confirmation emails , thank you emails, reminder emails…the list is endless. Are you getting real results or simply opens and clicks ? Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy.

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Every Marketing Initiative, Every Channel … Plateaus. Plan for It.

SaaStr

Once you hit Initial Traction in SaaS, say that first $1m-$1.5m in ARR, you’ll finally find something that works. One channel, often. E.g., partnerships. Or Facebook ads. Or an app store. Or a specific outbound strategy. Or blogging, or podcasting, or something. Or paid webinars. A channel that works. Once you do, one thing I’ve learned, both as a founder, an investor, and now again at SaaStr: every marketing initiative, and every channel, plateaus.

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4 Ways to Overcome Communication Barriers in the Workplace

Sandler Training

In the past couple of decades, our workplaces have gone from the office to mostly virtual spaces. We get our jobs done and we communicate in the cloud. However, we still struggle with the same issues in communication which we had decades ago. Here are a few effective ways to overcome communication barriers in the workplace which you can apply right now.

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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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Why you should stop cooperating with your buyers

Membrain

“Cooperation is not good enough,” says Tim Ohai, Global Lead, Sales Process & Methodology at Workday. In this guest post on Keenan’s blog, he makes a case for sales professionals to avoid cooperation and claims it’s killing your sales effectiveness.

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Do Just This One Thing!

Partners in Excellence

Imagine coaching a basketball player, “All you have to do is master your foul shots, they are the single most important thing to win games.” All of us, even those who don’t play basketball, would say this is ridiculous coaching. We would argue you have to master everything—dribbling, passing, inside and outside shots, defense, playmaking, and on and on.

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How do VCs value startup?

SaaStr

There is one common factor, that founders know, but often lose track of in their pitch: every VC, at any stage, is looking for outliers. Your pitch, your team, your metrics, your market position, your vision, your TAM, your everything, should honestly and transparently but aggressively and positively show how you can be an outlier. It is hard to make money as a VC, as odd as that may sound.

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The Ultimate Guide to Business Development and How It Can Help Your Company Grow

Hubspot

Imagine working for a company without any employees dedicated to growing and developing the business. Nobody to challenge you to improve or tell you about new business opportunities, changes in the market, what your competition is up to, or how you can attract your target audience more effectively. This would make it pretty hard to succeed, don’t you think?

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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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What If You Lost Your Biggest Customer? | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????????????????????????I recently talked to a CEO whose sales were down $16 million. That represented a 20% decrease from the prior year. Thus, they were concerned.

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“What Could Go Wrong?”

Partners in Excellence

It seems to be human nature that we don’t want to think about what could go wrong. Particularly in sales, we are continually optimistic, we want to be positive, particularly with our customers. So why would we ever want to talk about what could go wrong? Particularly when we are in the middle of the customer buying process? But it’s an important discussion with our customers, primarily because it helps them think differently and more completely.

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90-Second Pre Call Planning: A Simple Process for Cold Calling Success

Sales Hacker

As a sales trainer, there’s always a balance between research and just picking up the phone and dialing out. How much research do you do before just picking up the phone and dialing? Too little, and you sound like a cold call , and you’ll get disconnected. Too much, and you waste time you could spend connecting with the people who you can convince to take an appointment and eventually to buy your product or service.

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How to Use Social Media for Sales Research

RAIN Group

This RAIN Group article originally appeared on MarketingProfs. Sellers have a huge opportunity to take advantage of the vast amounts of information about their buyers that's available on social media. And yet, they don't. Whether you're researching new prospective buyers before reaching out, a buyer before a sales conversation, or a target industry, social media should be one of the first places you look.

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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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Contributing to the Sales Community – Gartner Style

Score More Sales

Today, like yesterday, has been professional development for me, and it made me wonder about how you and your sales team go about learning and gaining new perspectives.

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What Is Networking?

Partners in Excellence

In the “old days,” networking seemed to be about meeting people, learning about them, building a bit of a relationship. There was value in networking. Often, our networking may have been a passing meeting, a chance to get to know someone for a few moments, have an interesting conversation, only to move on in our separate directions. Sometimes, it led to something more substantive, perhaps some follow up conversations, perhaps a deeper relationship.

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Top Communities for Women in Sales & Revenue (And How They’re Changing the Game)

Sales Hacker

Gender inequality in STEM has been making news for a while. But that’s not the only space where women are underrepresented. It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. To many, this is an all too familiar problem — but not just for women.

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Lead Velocity: What It Is & How to Calculate It

Hubspot

If you’re just measuring success against how many deals you close -- you’re doing it wrong. A quick Google search of “Most important sales metrics” will turn up a variety of answers, from customer acquisition cost (CAC) to win rate to average contract value (ACV). One voice and answer reigns supreme, however. You can’t open an article about lead velocity (including this one) without seeing SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin’s now-famous quote about how your lead velocity rate is the single most importa

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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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How long does it take to negotiate a term sheet? Who should open the negotiation on valuation – VC or entrepreneur? What are the top tips for entrepreneurs preparing for a term sheet negotiation?

SaaStr

It shouldn’t take more than a week, or even just a few days, to negotiate a term sheet, once a VC decides they want to do a deal. There really aren’t many variables these days, really just price and how much you raising / selling. Most of the rest of the terms are much lower drama than they used to be. Most VCs aren’t trying to control your board and your company in the early days anymore.

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What Do Uber Drivers And SDRs Have In Common?

Partners in Excellence

Think of this post more as a thought experiment or even a wild ass prognistication. What do Uber drivers and SDRs have in common? Let’s look at Uber first. Uber has made it very clear, autonomous vehicles are their future. There are a lot of reasons for this. Autonomous vehicles eliminate much of one of Uber’s biggest challenges: Consistency of customer experience.

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The Benefits of Self-Guided Online Learning

Sandler Training

Below, you will find some DON’Ts , some DOs , and some concise guidance TIPS on getting the very most out of the extraordinary learning and reinforcement tools available via online learning portals like Sandler Online. Read Time: 4 Minutes.

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The Buyer's Journey: The Challenge

KO Advantage Group

When the prospect starts collaborating with you to help them figure out how to fix their business troubles, expect the next stage of the journey to be a little tricky—the “challenge” stage. Don’t be mistaken. This is a good signal that you’re moving forward. It’s just that the prospect will begin firing you with questions or objections to challenge your expertise, recommendations, and your budding client-business relationship.

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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.