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How to Move Forward and Increase Sales During Uncertain Times

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog post, we pray for the health and safety of those at risk or sick during this time in human history.

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How to Turn a Field Sales Rep Into an Inside Sales Rep (And Still Make Quota)

Gong.io

Career shift? New sales model? Sales team temporarily grounded? There’s no shortage of reasons to make the case for moving outside reps to inside roles. Here’s what you – aka sales professionals – need to know to make the switch. . And keep knocking your number out of the park. #1 Master the Online Demo. It’s the ultimate test to becoming a world-class inside sales rep. .

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One Thing to Maybe Build Now: A Great Dashboard

SaaStr

Depending on who you are, and what you do, sales may or may not have slowed way down. But one thing I do know: the best SaaS companies will come out of this time with the strongest products. They will keep innovating. And I also know that the best investment you can make today is in your existing customers. The vast majority aren’t going anywhere, and may even upgrade to more seats.

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Why Content Marketing Is a Must-Have for Small Businesses

G2

When it comes to digital marketing for businesses, as the saying goes: content is king.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

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.

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Keep Your B2B Sales & Sanity Intact During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Sales Hacker

In sales, it’s normal to deal with slow seasons, bad seasons, and horrible seasons. But none of those compare to the current situation. The COVID-19 outbreak has been hitting the world where it hurts since February, ultimately affecting our lifestyles, our plans, and, naturally, our businesses. This is a lot to take in and adjust to. What to expect?

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Strategies for Managing Remote Sales Teams (By Choice or By Necessity)

Gong.io

The future of work is uncertain, but one thing is clear: the end of quarter will be remote. The bad news: quotas aren’t going down. The good news: the principles behind managing a team are the same whether they’re in the same room… or remote in their living room. We put together a few no-bs tips, and pointers on how to implement them, to home-deliver some of that bullpen energy your team might be missing. . #1 Make Pipeline Reviews Strategic.

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Striking Visual Storytelling Rules to Set Your Brand Apart

G2

Do you want your visuals to set your brand apart from the competition?

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Pick Up The Phone And Talk To A Customer

Partners in Excellence

It’s a unique time in history. We are all struggling with fear, uncertainty, risk. Physical separation and isolation is becoming increasingly important, both for our own safety, but also for the safety of others. Unfortunately, this separation and isolation creates social isolation–which is very unhealthy. Human beings are social creatures, we are used to and thrive on day to day interaction with our colleagues, suppliers, customers.

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Guest Post: Now More Than Ever, It’s Time to Help Each Other

SalesLoft

Guest post by Scott Leese, CEO & founder of Scott Leese Consulting , and founder of The Surf and Sales Summit. You’re home now, not in the office. Remote work is here for the foreseeable future. You’re used to having people right next to you to get advice. Or you’re used to coaching your team on the sales floor. Now you need to engage everyone from afar.

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COVID-19: It’s Not Time to Stop Selling!

Engage Selling

With everything going on the world with coronavirus, remember that it’s not time to stop selling! I understand at the moment, depending on where you are in the world, your situation may not allow for selling like you normally do.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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The Winning Sales Process for Your Startup in 2020

Salesmate

You’re the CEO and a proud founder of a new startup venture. You also have a reliable team of sales professionals. You are gearing up to launch your product’s sales process. Or maybe you are planning to expand your startup and are gearing up to explore the unknown territory. Your company is scaling at an affordable rate, giving you enough time to check how your operations are running right now.

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Buying During Difficult Times

Partners in Excellence

Complex B2B buying is never easy. I’ve written, extensively, about how difficult it is for buyers to align diverse priorities and agendas, and navigate the buying process. The majority of buying ends in no decision made. The need hasn’t disappeared, the customer, for various good/bad reasons just fail to make a buying decision. We are learning, as sales people, what we need to do is help the customer organize to buy and navigate their buying process.

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Selling in the Time of COVID-19: Pro Tips to Help You Hit Your Numbers

SalesLoft

COVID-19 may be changing the way you work and where you work, but one thing it doesn’t change is the need to hit your numbers. We feel your pain because we’re feeling it, too. . Travel restrictions, temporary hiring freezes, changes in market demand, and remote teams all create new challenges and make it harder to sell. We get it. As a SalesLoft customer, our #1 priority is to help you hit your numbers , so let’s talk about how we can do that.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Tim Stewart, trsdigital. An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Work can be a welcome intellectual distraction. It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times.

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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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Captivate Your Audience With Visual Branding

G2

Visual branding is of extreme importance for any business in multiple ways.

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COVID 19 Lessons For Current And Better Times

Partners in Excellence

The COVID 19 crisis is forcing all of us to deal with issues few of us have ever faced. The risk, complexity, uncertainties, fear are profound. It impacts every individual, organization, society. But it’s fascinating to see how tragedy brings out the best in people and the best in addressing crises. Everyday, we are learning things that help us deal with the challenges presented by the virus and it’s impact on our lives, companies, nations, and economy.

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5 Tactics to Improve Your Follow-Up Cadence [With Examples]

Sales Hacker

There’s been a shift in how B2B organizations communicate through follow-ups and outreach. They’re taking a more B2C-like approach, optimizing the buying experience to win more business. Eight out of ten business buyers want the same experience as when they’re buying for themselves. This means that even in the B2B space, your buyers want ultra personalized experiences, they want their needs to come first, and they want on-demand engagement.

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How to turn 100 LinkedIn profiles into 10 meetings with Tom Abbott

Predictable Revenue

To achieve exponential growth, a consistent source of predictable opportunities is needed. That source is outbound sales. Tom talks about how he sources and closes leads on every salesperson’s favorite social media site, LinkedIn. The post How to turn 100 LinkedIn profiles into 10 meetings with Tom Abbott appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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Beware: 7 sales call mistakes that you shouldn’t commit

Salesmate

History repeats itself. The same dissatisfying sales result again. As per the sales reports, you’ve made many calls. However, the question is how many out of them were successful? Sales call failures are the root causes of many lost deals. Sales call is one of the main communication channels used to interact with potential buyers. 92% of all customer interactions take place over the phone – Salesmate .

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Automation Run Amuck

Partners in Excellence

Technology is a double edged sword. We can use it to improve the impact, value, effectiveness, and efficiency in engaging prospects and customers. At the same time, we can use it to drive away customers/prospects by creating crap at the speed of light. Unfortunately, rather than doing the former, in focusing on our own self centered objectives, we end up doing the latter.

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How to kill your sales organization with bad assumptions

Membrain

Every great salesperson knows that a bad assumption can kill a deal. Assume that the buyer understands the cost of not acting. Assume that the buyer understands the benefits of your offering. Assume that they know where to find the budget for your solution. Assume that there's one primary decision-maker.

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3 Ways AI and Machine Learning Will Affect Sales (& How to Prepare)

Sales Hacker

Informed and actionable business decisions now happen easily, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). B2B salespeople can, at a single click, determine the customer’s buying behavioral patterns and personalize content and ads to align with their browsing history, industry trends, and interest. The stressful lead scoring and nurturing in the sales process is gradually becoming a soft work.

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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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Now Is The Time to Upgrade Your Discovery Funnel and Process

SaaStr

In talking to dozens of SaaS companies this week and past, it’s clear most of us are seeing a big slowdown in new deals. Not all of us, but most of us. But one thing is still going on outside of the most impacted industries — discovery. In fact, in some cases, tech companies that are WFH have more time as customers to do discovery for new vendors.

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Get Busy: Responding to the Crazy Week That Was

Force Management

It's Saturday morning and I am reflecting on this past week. It started off with my sluggish reaction to the time change; moved through a free-fall of personal wealth and ended with overwhelming public health concerns for my company and global community. I like to talk and write about things that give people “spirit”. What often happens, is that I wind up getting the most spirit out of the exercise.

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Is it ethical to keep selling right now?

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz, President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. I’m not usually one for hot takes, but this might be one. I’ve chosen the word “ethical” in this question intentionally because of its implied severity. I could have asked “is it uncomfortable to sell right now” or “is it inappropriate to sell right now”. And I think we’ve all seen examples of companies that clearly meet that bar in the past few days.

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Coronavirus Talk #1 – On Prospecting [Podcast]

Sales Gravy

On this special unscripted and uncut podcast, Jeb Blount addresses questions leaders and salespeople are asking about whether or not they should continue prospecting during the Coronavirus shutdown. Listen to Coronavirus Talk #2 - On Excuses Listen to Coronavirus Talk #3 - On Time Listen to Coronavirus Talk #4 - On Excuses On this special unscripted and uncut podcast, Jeb Blount addresses questions leaders and salespeople are asking about whether or not they should continue prospecting during th

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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How to Use Internal Linking to Improve Your Website's SEO

Hubspot

Great content and attracting inbound links are major elements of your SEO strategy. If you’ve created an exciting blog post or ebook, you’ll naturally want to work on making sure that you are driving as much traffic to it as possible. Part of that strategy should always include internal linking, and understanding how the other pages of your website can contribute value toward your new page.

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Is having multiple investors back a startup in the first round a good thing?

SaaStr

Q: Is having multiple investors back a startup in the first round a good thing? As a rough rule, every investor that owns more than 10% will act, at least ideally, as a “lead” investor: They will “reserve”, i.e. save, some more money in case you need it and do reasonably well. They will lead a “bridge” financing if you struggling but doing well enough to perhaps earn a little more money from the existing investors.

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How to work from home when your kids are there too

Heinz Marketing

Most of the “how to work from home” blog posts I read last week missed one important element – how do you do it when your kids are stuck home with you as well?! I posted this question on LinkedIn last week hoping that other parents facing this new reality for the new couple/few weeks would have some ideas (proven or otherwise). And boy did you guys deliver !

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What Is Cryptocurrency and How Does It Work?

G2

Imagine if a 12-year-old boy received $1000 from his grandmother, invested it, and became a teenage millionaire.

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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