Iannarino
JULY 23, 2022
One of the hangovers from the legacy sales approaches is that the salesperson undervalues the sales conversation for what it is: the only vehicle for creating value, creating an opportunity, and winning the client's business. Because salespeople trained in the legacy approaches have been taught to believe the value is located elsewhere, they fail to participate in the sales conversation in a meaningful way.
Membrain
JULY 24, 2022
It seems as if the phrase “sell on value, not on price” must have been around since shortly after the dawn of B2B selling, and it would be hard to argue with the sentiment. But what do we actually mean by value - and perhaps more important, how do our customers perceive value?
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Anthony Cole Training
JULY 28, 2022
It would be great if you could hand a new salesperson a manual, ask them to read it, take a knowledge test and they could successfully begin their job. Selling is a different animal and you will often hear the term “soft skills” in reference to training a salesperson. What are soft skills in sales? Let’s try to demonstrate that with a short example.
Sales Pop!
JULY 28, 2022
You are currently on the job selling to a specific audience. Training is complete but does not reveal how to resolve various issues concerning your clientele. First and foremost, to keep your job, it is necessary to know the company’s expectations of you in detail and where the boundaries are to avoid over-stepping. On the other hand, management will do best by considering whether they are training robots or humans to sell.
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Iannarino
JULY 24, 2022
What does resilience mean to you? A few concepts probably come to mind when you hear the word—concepts like toughness, the ability to bounce back from struggles, flexibility, and an indomitable mindset. If you’ve come to this post, you’re not only interested in resilience: You’re interested in how to coach sales leaders to embody these traits.
Veloxy
JULY 28, 2022
The average Salesforce instance has thousands of prospects, leads, and customers. Here’s the problem. Each of those contacts has a uniquely different propensity to buy. As a salesperson, every single day you have to find the proper balance between selling activity and non-selling activity. For example, you have to balance making calls and meeting customers with prioritizing your leads and opportunities.
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Sales Pop!
JULY 23, 2022
In the past, we have explored the topic of navigation in-depth. But this was only one type of navigation—toward those factors or destinations that had already been discovered. What about factors or destinations that have not yet been discovered? Finding things you already know is easy, especially given today’s navigation technology. Or, in the case of navigating a ship or an aircraft, the trained navigator knows the hazards and routes to take when heading toward a particular destination.
Iannarino
JULY 25, 2022
At some point in your life, someone will tell you that you need SMART goals. SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based. Anyone who has ever failed to reach a goal will recognize that, while these qualities are all helpful, they do little to help anyone accomplish what they want—or are capable of.
Veloxy
JULY 26, 2022
The Golden Rule. This is the moral principle that teaches people to treat others as they would want to be treated. It has been taught by every civilization in the world for thousands of years. But does it apply to the world of sales? Yes, but with a caveat. Sales has been around just as long as the golden rule , and some may say that the latter came about because of the former.
SaaStr
JULY 26, 2022
So in theory, SMB SaaS is better than enterprise, at least 9 times out of 10: Deals close much faster. Customers don’t expect as much in terms of security, compliance, etc. Customers often can deploy on their own. There is often just 1 stakeholder to sell to. Often can avoid procurement, RFPs, and so many other headaches. Customers don’t expect you to build a feature before they buy.
Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick
Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.
The 5% Institute
JULY 29, 2022
In this article, you’ll learn how to sell in a recession, by using these simple yet highly effective sales tips to make the most of the sales conversations you have with your potential clients. These sales tips are centred around consultative selling. This means that you’ll take a question based, and solution approach rather than purely presenting an option up front.
Iannarino
JULY 29, 2022
I am tempted to tell a long story about a comment on LinkedIn asking this question, but I am afraid I won't create enough value for you, Dear Reader. Instead, I am diving right into the answer without delay.
Sales Hacker
JULY 26, 2022
Sales pros, I’m calling on you to end the debate on live chat versus chatbots. Sure, on one hand, there’s the convenience and power of an automated chat function. On the other is the valid claim that technology used to replicate human interaction just isn’t there yet. In reality, we need to move beyond this “either/or” mentality. At a high level: Your chatbot should function as a qualifier to ensure the person on the other end is a real prospect.
SaaStr
JULY 25, 2022
Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do You Split Up Founder Shares? It’s a question for the ages. First, let’s note that most successful SaaS startups do not have equal founder splits. Less than 15% do. That data here: At the Top SaaS Companies, Founder-CEOs Own ~15% at IPO. And Most Co-Founders Are Not Equal (And That’s OK). Second, note that some founders leave.
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The 5% Institute
JULY 28, 2022
In this article, we’ll detail the consulting sales process that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consulting 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.
Iannarino
JULY 27, 2022
There are a lot of lists of attributes required of a great leader; most include things like vision, communication, and a strategic mind. There are far fewer lists of the soft skills that make for a great leader. The following soft skills would cause a team to recognize their leader as great.
Martech
JULY 28, 2022
This year, mobile gaming is set to surpass a 60% market share of global in-game advertising, according to a new study by marketing intelligence firm IDC and app analytics platform data.ai. Mobile gaming spend will climb from $120 billion in 2021 to $136 billion in 2022. This makes mobile gaming advertising 3.2 times bigger than console, and growing at 1.7 times the rate of the industry overall.
SaaStr
JULY 29, 2022
The Day in SaaS, 07.28.22: Public SaaS companies are worth exactly 50% of What They Were 12 Months Ago: [link] pic.twitter.com/pbK4BmoNwo. — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 28, 2022. So we’re in a bit of a weird world and time in venture capital. The public markets are down 50%+. The best of the best in SaaS and Cloud, truly the fastest growing and most iconic SaaS companies, from Snowflake to Datadog and more are way, way down.
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.
Partners in Excellence
JULY 27, 2022
Everything I read, every conversation I have with sellers; the same issue arises. “How do we get customers to respond, how do we get meetings with customers?” I’ve been reflecting on this issue for some time. I’ve finally come up with the solution. It’s a slam dunk guarantee–ignore the gimmicks and tricks all the experts and guru’s offer.
Iannarino
JULY 26, 2022
If your most senior sales manager left unexpectedly, how long would it take your team to fill the role? In the face of the Great Resignation , that hypothetical has become a reality for thousands of companies.
Sales Hacker
JULY 29, 2022
Front line sales managers are always looking for new and innovative ways to generate leads. As the manager, your job is to give your lead generators the tools they need to be successful. This involves training them to quickly on their feet, being able to read body language well, projecting a confident yet friendly manner, and building rapport instantly to gain trust.
Sales Pop!
JULY 28, 2022
Getting a big tax refund can feel like winning the lottery. For many people, it’s their biggest paycheck of the year. Every year, about 3 in 4 Americans get a tax refund. The average refund is around $2,300. Although you’re getting a big tax refund, keep in mind that the money you’re getting back is all yours. It’s not a bad deal for Uncle Sam since he doesn’t have to pay any interest.
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Partners in Excellence
JULY 29, 2022
There’s a lot of good conversation around creating Digital Selling Rooms. Increasingly, we see very powerful ways that sellers and customers can engage in their buying process and learning. Typically, sellers invite customers to Digital Selling Room. The rooms enable sellers to provide relevant content for use by the customers. They can track how this content is used, which content the buyers focus on.
Iannarino
JULY 28, 2022
Many salespeople underestimate the importance of how they present themselves when they walk into their prospective client's office for a first meeting. The One-Down salesperson will, without meaning to, project that the client will not be able to count on them to help improve their results. The content of the conversation is enough for a decision-maker to recognize this isn't the salesperson they need.
Engage Selling
JULY 29, 2022
Positivity in sales is a choice, not a feeling. It doesn’t require much effort to feel worried about the state of the world these days. And if you’re already feeling … Read More. The post Positivity in Sales: A Choice, Not a Feeling first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.
Sales Pop!
JULY 28, 2022
Introduction: What is a Virtual Data Room? In the last few years, virtual data rooms have become the main tool for mergers and acquisitions of different companies. Thanks to them, specialists from different fields of activity can easily exchange, store, organize and process huge amounts of data. Thus, the electronic data room has found a new life as an auxiliary device for merging different projects.
Speaker: Kevin Burke
AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.
Membrain
JULY 27, 2022
You won’t even go to the grocery store without it, yet you expect your high performing sales teams to do their best work without this tool. What is it? A checklist, of course.
Sales Gravy
JULY 27, 2022
Are You Using LinkedIn's Marketing Power to the Fullest? I sat down with my good friend Daniel Disney, author of The Real Secret to Becoming a LinkedIn Selling Machine. He is a guru for using LinkedIn's marketing power, and as mentioned in Fanatical Prospecting, I believe that it is one of the greatest sales tools ever created - along with the car, Google, the internet, email, and the telephone.
SaaStr
JULY 27, 2022
So when we started SaaStr waaay back in 2012, I never would have thought of profiling Microsoft and its old fashioned desktop software. But fast forward to today, and Microsoft truly is a Cloud and SaaS company, with Azure and LinkedIn its fastest growing business units! Perhaps most importantly. Azure and other cloud services grew a record 40% and the total Microsoft Cloud grew to a $90 Billion run-rate.
Sales Pop!
JULY 27, 2022
When you are starting a business, you may work from your home and use your personal vehicle for work. But as you begin to grow, you’ll start to realize you may need more people to do the job. You’ll also probably notice your home doesn’t give you enough space. A growing business is a good problem, but more resources mean higher upfront costs. For example, you may need commercial property, and if you do, should you rent or buy?
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