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How to Attract New Leads with an Effective Marketing Message

Anthony Cole Training

In today’s world of marketing and sales, a significant key to unlimited leads is a company’s ability to get potential buyers to find them. There is an entire industry dedicated to inbound marketing and one of the leaders in the industry is HubSpot.

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How-to Guide to Persuasive Writing

ConversionXL

Persuasive writing skills are among the few things in life that can give you massive returns. If you want to know how you can become better at writing persuasively, keep reading. I have analyzed examples of masterful copy, and identified the 3 core elements they all have in common. They are: What you say. How you say it. How you structure it. We’ll go through these one-by-one and define what you can do to ace them all, and get your reader to take the desired action.

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Free Trials Are Nice, But You’ll Be Broke Without Customers – Here’s 8 Ways To Convert Them.

Sales Hacker

Free trials are a great marketing tactic. Everyone loves free. Signing up for one is easy. A first name here, an email address there, and you have access. But as a business owner, there’s a massive gap between getting names and getting dollars. How many free trial users end up as paying customers? Depends on your conversion model: A Totango study in 2012 found an average of 50% when a credit card was required for the free trial, but only 15% when a credit card wasn’t necessary.

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23 Motivational Songs to Get You Pumped in 2017

Hubspot

Prospecting for sales leads. not the most fun thing in the world. There’s no question that it’s incredibly important, but researching dozens of companies every day in the hopes of finding a few good fits isn’t the most titillating task. So we’re here to help. We’ve compiled the ultimate pump-up playlist to keep you sharp and focused while you pan for gold.

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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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These Four Limiting Beliefs are Undermining Your Sales

Membrain

“Every salesperson has a collection of beliefs. When they are positive beliefs, they support positive sales outcomes. When the beliefs are negative, they sabotage ideal sales outcomes. Our thoughts and beliefs influence our actions, and our actions lead to outcomes.”.

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These Reps Will Destroy Your Sales

Engage Selling

As a sales professional, you have the privilege of coming into contact with a variety of different people and personality types.

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7 Questions to Test How Serious Your Prospect Is About Buying

Hubspot

You learn about a valuable treasure, but it’s at the top of a huge mountain. Reaching the peak requires overcoming extreme cold, fatigue, and high altitudes. To make the journey even less appealing, you’re not sure how much the treasure is worth or if you’ll even be able to spend it. Would you attempt the climb? Your prospects face this conundrum all the time.

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CXL Institute now an Official Education Provider at LinkedIn

ConversionXL

Attention current and soon-to-be CXL Institute graduates: We’re officially an authorized education provider on Linkedin. Here’s what that means for you: You can add your education, certificates, badges – everything you learned and earned at CXL Institute into the Education section of your profile. You can show off your hard-earned skills and strengthen your profile.

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My First Public Event in 5 Years

Engage Selling

Never Ending Value, Evergreen Relationships, Lifelong Business How to create and employ customer and client strategies for continual business with your clients Alan Weiss and I are hosting a live event in February 2018 in South Beach, Miami to help you grow … Read More »

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It’s Not About What Or How We Sell….

Partners in Excellence

How we define a problem inevitably constrains our solutions to the problem. That’s why it’s so important to think about the problem we are trying to solve and defining it in a way that enables us to solve the problem in a meaningful way. As we address the issue, “How do we drive sales, how do we grow our business, how do we achieve our numbers,” depending on how we frame the issues/problems around revenue growth, we could be seriously constraining the solutions that are

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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 Ridiculously Successful Way to Introduce Yourself Over Email

Hubspot

How to introduce yourself over email. Write a compelling subject line. Tailor your greeting to the industry and situation. Make your first line about them. Explain why you're reaching out. Provide value. Include a call-to-action. Say thank you. Writing an email to a stranger is easy. Writing an email to a stranger that gets a response? Not so easy. The typical professional gets so many messages on a daily basis it’s a feat if they even open yours -- let alone reply.

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Jobs To Be Done: The Secret Weapon for Boosting Cold Email Response Rates

Sales Hacker

Have you ever been misunderstood? Even in a time when you were 1,000% sure you explained yourself clearly? Of course you have, and it can feel maddening. But still, it happens. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening to your customers. You think you know exactly what they’re thinking and feeling… H ave you asked them? If not, you don’t fully understand the reasons why they’re buying.

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Charlie Transforms Into … Detective – A Discovery Tool

Adaptive Business Services

If you are not familiar with the Charlie App, it was a neat little platform that would discover social, news, and bio information on your contacts. Where it really shined was when it integrated with your calendar events and would deliver these dossiers, via email, to you prior to a scheduled meeting. Recently, Charlie shut down but, over the last year, what it was really doing was morphing into Detective.

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How Are You Different?

Partners in Excellence

I’m constantly amazed at the “sameness” of the majority of the prospecting I see. We inundate our prospects and customers with emails, social media outreaches, and phone calls that are virtually indistinguishable from those sent by everyone else. We blanket our prospects with one outreach after another. In most, we are pitching our products or our companies.

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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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Professional Invoice Samples: 10 Designs to Inspire You

Hubspot

Invoices and infographics may seem like two entirely different business materials, but they actually have one key thing in common: they both exist to convey information. However, while infographics are known for employing colorful designs and data visualizations, invoices are typically pretty straightforward. Of course, conveying important payment information in a clear and concise way is the name of the game - but that doesn't mean you can't add a little brand personality to them.

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5 Real-World Lessons On How To Start a Social Selling Program

SalesforLife

The LanguageLine leadership team made a decision nine months ago to embrace social selling. Very quickly, we understood that social selling is a permanent component of the sales landscape and that to ignore it would be perilous. It did not take long for us to grasp that our buyers have changed, and the majority of the buying journey is now completed before a salesperson even becomes involved.

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Is Being Passionate About Sales a Valuable Trait?

The Sales Hunter

During the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some spirited discussions — both pro and con — about the role passion plays in the sales profession. I’ve had people say in today’s business climate, there is no room for passion, and I’ve had others say because of the business climate, you have to be passionate. […].

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Do Customers Really Want A Frictionless Buying Experience?

Partners in Excellence

It seems to be fashionable to talk about creating “frictionless buying experiences?” I suppose the concept draws readers, perhaps it’s an extreme expression of removing barriers to the customer buying process. But does the concept make sense? Is it what customers want? And if we looked at the concept of “friction in the buying process, what is the greatest source of friction?

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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 Top Sales Trends of 2018

Hubspot

What are the sales trends of 2018? Video prospecting. Greater emphasis on SDR training. Messaging and chat. Sales automation. End user selling. Focus on the middle of the funnel. Account-based selling. 2018 is just around the corner. And if history repeats itself, just like 2017 we’ll see major developments in the sales world. You can let these changes happen to you -- or you can prepare for and take advantage of them.

Sales 101
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Bad Referrals Are Your Fault | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Recently, I’ve been working with a lot of financial selling professionals. This particular group was whining to me that they used to ask for referrals all the time, but they were terrible.

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Create Your W.I.L.L. To Identify Your Highest Potential Customers

SalesforLife

90 days ago, I was frustrated with our sales production. I had a call with Chad Nuss at InsideOut Sourcing, and I just vented. I explained our current sales plateau, and was hoping he could shed some wisdom from his experience. His main piece of advice was pure gold, “Have you done a W.I.L.L. analysis?”. W.I.L.L. stands for What Ideal Look Like from your past and current customer data, to help you develop your Leading, Current and Lagging indicators for the type of customers you really want to s

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Nuance, So Subtle, We Often Miss It

Partners in Excellence

Nuance is important to our ability to connect with impact to our customers and our people. Yet, too often, we miss it, or completely ignore it. Let’s start with what nuance is: 1 :a subtle distinction or variation. “Nuances of flavor and fragrance cannot be described accurately …” —Scott Seegers. “… these terms have certain nuances of meaning …” —Ben F.

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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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13 Email Examples That Totally Nailed Personalization

Hubspot

If you're anything like most people, you can probably rattle off 100 different things you'd rather do than dig through your inbox. It starts to feel like a chore, because what's in there isn't very interesting. In fact, only 21% of consumers reported that they've received a memorable promotional email in the past two months, according to a study by Litmus.

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Guiding Our Customers On The Wrong Buying Journey

Membrain

I have to start this post with a story. I’m an obsessed reader. At least once a week, I have to sign into Amazon to feed my reading habit. On logging in, I’m immediately fed suggestions of books I should buy.

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A Recipe For Failure: When Sales Leadership Fails To Embrace Change

SalesforLife

Growth doesn’t happen without change and change doesn’t happen without a compelling reason to shift off the status quo. Without change, your sales organization cannot open new opportunities, remain competitive or stay current to what the market demands. But the unknown nature of change can be scary! So why change? Well if you're working in most organizations, you may have noticed that sales goals are continuously growingly while hitting them becomes more continuously more challenging, buyers now

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Sales Enablement Gets Defined

Score More Sales

It felt like history being made as more than 250 people from sales enablement practitioners, sales leaders, vendors, and industry experts gathered at University of Texas at Dallas (and a nearby hotel) to help define an industry.

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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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4 Secrets to Writing a Great LinkedIn Headline (With Examples)

Hubspot

When it comes to icebreakers, “describe yourself in three words” is by far one of the toughest. You’re a complex person, with unique ambitions, experiences, preferences, and traits -- how are you possibly supposed to distill yourself down to three mere words? Unfortunately, get-to-know-you conversations aren’t the only time you’ll face this prompt. LinkedIn headlines are essentially the professional version: They ask you to describe who you are and what you do in just one line.

Retail 101
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How To Use A Scorecard To Find Your Dream Sales Gig (Scorecard Series: Part 2)

Sales Hacker

Editor’s Note: This article features a downloadable job scorecard template to help you find your dream gig! Part 1 of this series features a scorecard template for hiring managers. We hope you find both of them useful! As someone who has had a few sales jobs over the past 20 years (and not all of them blew my socks off), I can say with confidence that it’s easy to lose sight of what’s important in the interview process when you’re scoping out a new gig.

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Why Cold Calling Doesn’t Work

Engage Selling

With a 0.3% success rate with cold calling, why not abandon this ancient form of technology and focus your team’s efforts on something that works?

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Are you data rich, but insight poor?

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Mike George, Business Systems Analyst at Toast. Don’t over-serve your executive team. We like to think we’re data-driven. To support that belief, we tend to gather as much data as possible — because more data equals more insights, right? Don’t give yourself a pat on the back just yet. With more data than ever before at our fingertips, we’re at risk of creating cluttered dashboards and wasting our time on the wrong numbers.

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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.