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"Why Do So Many of My Salespeople Fail to Perform as Expected?"

Anthony Cole Training

Why do so many of my salespeople fail to perform as expected? It's a loaded question. Or, is it? In our corporate sales training experience, we've seen that evaluating underperforming salespeople in the pre-hire sales assessment is crucial for success in your business.

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B2B Video Marketing: A Strategy for Lead Generation

ConversionXL

Video marketing is booming. It’s no longer news. Cisco predicts that, globally, video traffic will be more than 80% of all web traffic by 2022 (up from a prediction of 75% made in 2017). Other recent reports claim a 17% leap in video content usage in 2018, with the average person watching more than 90 minutes of online video every day. In the same report, 85% of surveyed consumers said they would like to see more videos from brands.

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8 X Questions To Ask A Prospective Client

The 5% Institute

Questions are an excellent way to win sales – because when asked correctly, they achieve three distinct outcomes for you. First of all – they identify if the potential client is qualified or not for your offer. By qualified, I mean can they afford your offer, fit into one of your buyer personas , and benefit from your offer. Secondly, when asking effective questions (like the questions to ask a prospective client you’ll learn here), you open up and understand what really it is that they’re wanti

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How to Create a Wikipedia Page for Your Company

Hubspot

If you're anything like me, you probably mainly consider Wikipedia a good source for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Game of Thrones , or a collection of random facts on Zebras. In short, you likely haven't given it much thought as a channel for brand awareness. But, if you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the best third-party sources for ranking on page one of Google.

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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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6 Functions of Human Resource Management

G2

Much like shows about hospitals and law-practices, popular media tends to paint the wrong picture of human resource management.

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Finding the Right “Touch” for Lead Generation

SalesProInsider

Do you need to grow the number of prospects or leads at the top of your funnel? Most businesses do. And there are many ways of yielding potential buyers. It’s like my need for fresh vegetables…I want them fresh and have more than one way to get them. I’m a regular Saturday morning farmer’s market kind of girl. Wisconsin in the summer and Florida in the winter.

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15 Tried and True Ways to Improve Your Sales Skills

Hubspot

Just like Liam Neeson in " Taken ," to be a successful salesperson, you need to have a particular set of skills. As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% more deals and the profit margin on sales-won improved by 12.2%.

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Adobe Analytics Implementation: Hacks You Don’t Know About

ConversionXL

A few years ago, our developers rolled out Angular on a few key web pages—without consulting the web analytics team. The pageviews on some of the pages suddenly dropped to almost nothing. I bought two books on Angular to try to find a solution. Meanwhile, my manager stumbled on an alternative syntax for tracking pageviews in Adobe Analytics. As we found out, a similar alternative syntax also exists to track clicks (and anything else).

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Is it Time to “Argo” Your Sales Team?

Women Sales Pros

“Argo” is the 2012 movie about a high-stakes rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis. Ben Affleck stars as CIA operative Tony Mendez, who is charged with getting these diplomats out of the country safely. They do so by pretending to be film crew members making a science fiction movie. There is a compelling scene where Mendez is quizzing – well, drilling — the diplomats about their new personas.

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6 Common LinkedIn Selling Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

RAIN Group

LinkedIn is a powerful prospecting and sales tool. It’s a great way to connect with new buyers, stay top of mind, and engage with your network.

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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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When Business Is Slow, It's Time to Work on These 13 Things

Hubspot

Mark Zuckerberg once said, "Move fast and break things. Unless you're breaking stuff, you're not moving fast enough.". However, that tendency in startups can lead to burned-out sales reps and a business ill-prepared to scale. That's why the goal shouldn't be to grow fast but to grow better. So when you experience slow business, remember that slow and steady wins the race.

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Your Sales Efficiency Will Probably Plummet Toward $10m ARR. Plan For It.

SaaStr

When a great SaaS business starts to come together, and crosses Initial Traction ($1-$1.5m), growing nicely (8-10%+ Month-over-Month Growth) … often times, the founders start to see the first bit of real economic returns on the model. It finally starts to make sense, this SaaS stuff. As you cross $2.5m, $3m in ARR, you can start to see a path to real cash flow and financial independence, even though you aren’t there quite yet.

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“They Aren’t Using CRM!!!”

Partners in Excellence

The first time a sales manager made this statement to me, in frustration, was about 20 years ago. Since then, it’s become the common complaint I hear from managers (If I had a nickel for every time…… ). It’s what happens next that explains a large part of the problem, I always ask, “Let’s sign onto your CRM system and take a look at what’s going on… ” You can probably guess what happens.

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How to improve performance with a shared sales language

Membrain

In the sales industry, we often talk about how process, methodology, technology, and enablement can improve performance.

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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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Drop The Stereotypes!

Engage Selling

Could your organization be giving into certain stereotypes? There are a limitless amount of companies out there seeking to cater to certain generations.

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SaaStr Comes to Art Basel!! December 5 at 500 Startups Miami!

SaaStr

We’re back to Miami for our second ever SaaStr meet-up there, this time bigger and better than ever during Art Basel!! Come join us on December 5 hosted at 500 Startups Miami for an evening of SaaStr talk, mentorship, unicorns, VCs and more. We’ll have cocktails (or something similar) and some great discussions, including several great pieces of content, including a fun discussion between me and the co-founders of Cloud Unicorn Digital Ocean.

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Are Sales People “Coin Operated?

Partners in Excellence

We are facing a crisis in sales retention. Average tenure for sales people and managers has plummeted to 16.5 months. As I speak to sales executives and managers about the reasons for the increasing voluntary turnover, too often, they respond, “It’s all about compensation! Sales people are coin operated, if they have the opportunity to make more money some place else, they will go after that opportunity.” But the data shows a completely different picture.

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The Ultimate Guide to Personal Selling

Hubspot

As a business owner, entrepreneur, or manager (or all the above), you know how important sales is to the success of your business. Salespeople make critical prospect connections, communicate the value of your product or service, and directly impact your bottom line. However, it’s also no secret that salespeople can sometimes get a bad rap — ever see a comic strip or a meme poking fun at the stereotypical pushy, tactless nature of the traditional salesperson?

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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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The End of the SDR?

Predictable Revenue

Sure.rapidly improving prospecting tools and AI will change the SDR landscape, but are the predictions of the end of the SDR role correct? The post The End of the SDR? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Always Be Closing – Why This Is Terrible Advice

The 5% Institute

Always be closing – a phrase made famous by the 1984 movie Glengarry Glen Ross , is a popular term is high pressure sales teams all around the world. Also known by the acronym ABC, always be closing means you should always have the intent for closing your prospects and potential clients every step of the way. Everything in your sales efforts and sales process, should be focused on closing the person in front of you (or of course, on the phone).

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The Pipeline Review

Partners in Excellence

I was meeting with a client, we were doing the first pipeline review as part of their implementation of the Sales Execution Framework. Pipeline reviews are a great starting point for the process, a good pipeline review helps identify and isolate potential challenges as well as the performance leverage points. The client was a very large company, the current pipeline had thousands of opportunities.

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Self-Employed: What You Need to Know to Be Your Own Boss

Hubspot

Setting your own hours. Being your own boss. Calling the shots in the workplace you’ve created. Sound appealing? These are some of the perks of being self-employed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 16 million Americans are currently self-employed. However, self-employment isn’t without its challenges. While being able to call your own shots sounds glamorous on the surface, being your own boss takes hard work, dedication, and incredible focus — with no guarantee of pay, benefits,

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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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The Awesome Things That Happened at InsightSquared in September

InsightSquared

September is surely a busy month with the end of quarter drawing near and everyone working extra hard for a strong Q3 finish. However, it didn’t stop the InsightSquared team from having another awesome month with tons of activities and fun. This month, InsightSquared welcomed Sitters Without Borders into the office for a lunch-and-learn event.

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Cross Selling – Your Ultimate Guide

The 5% Institute

Cross selling is when you offer a complimentary or paid product or service to your clients, when they buy one of your other products and services. So how can you effectively implement cross selling as a part of your sales strategy, and what is the difference between cross selling and up selling? We’ll look into this and much more below. Cross Selling – Your Ultimate Guide.

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What If We Kept “Target Close Date” Sacred?

Partners in Excellence

Just finished one of those “aha” conversations with a client. Thought I would share the concepts with you. One of the things I pay a lot of attention to, as I review pipelines or deal strategies, is the Target Close Date, and how many times that date has been changed. I believe sales people should do everything possible to: Identify the most realistic target close date possible.

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Willing & Able

Sandler Training

What kind of salesperson should you always be on the lookout for? What specific traits does the ideal sales hire always possess, no matter what industry you’re in, and no matter what your market looks like? The post Willing & Able appeared first on Sandler Training.

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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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Tech-Based Communication Solutions to Improve Sales and Marketing Processes

InsightSquared

With communication taking on digital forms, tech-based tools and solutions are lucrative to the success of a modern sales and marketing strategy. A successful tech-based communication strategy depends on defining the plan, finding and implementing the right tools, and taking measures to ensure their longevity. The following steps can help create a strong and highly engaged workplace with tech-based communication strategy. .

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Sales Leadership: 4 Keys to Successfully Promote a Rep to Sales Manager

Sales Hacker

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force. If your sales manager does not perform, you won’t generate cash — which you MUST do to survive!

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Email Marketing vs. Social Media: Can They Intersect?

Hubspot

This morning, I woke up to this email from Glossier in my inbox: After clicking on the email, I checked Glossier's Instagram and saw the same promotion, plus customer comments raving about the products, which convinced me to purchase. Ultimately, if done correctly, email and social can work together to drive leads and build brand loyalty with your target audience.

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How Big of a Role Does Age Play in Sales Effectiveness?

Membrain

I'll be 64 in November which means that just like everyone else, I'm getting older. There are certain things that younger people do that change when they get older.

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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.