Sat.Mar 09, 2019 - Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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Show Me the Money

Anthony Cole Training

Without revenue, a sale cannot be made. However, making a sale is not all about the money, and it is a salesperson's duty to overcome their prospect's money problem and be prepared for what objections are thrown their way.

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Channel Sales for SaaS: What It Is, When it Works, and How to Build Your Own

Openview

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. Brands including HubSpot, Atlassian, Slack, Xero, Zendesk and Klaviyo use a variety of partner programs and other tactics to expand into new markets, scale their sales efforts and take advantage of partners’ existing connections and credibility.

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Improving Survey Analysis: 3 Steps to Get More from Customer Feedback

ConversionXL

Even if you collect customer feedback, it won’t have much value if your survey analysis falls short. From not preparing data correctly to jumping to conclusions based on statistically insignificant data, a lot can go wrong. Thankfully, there are some easy wins. This post shows you how to improve survey analysis in three steps: Choose the right questions to get useful data; Prepare your data for analysis; Conduct a driver analysis on your data.

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A More Beautiful Question

A Sales Guy

I just picked up a truly badass book by Warren Berger. It is absolutely straight fire. A More Beautiful Question. . If you’ve read Gap Selling , you know the key to executing is rooted in questions. The better you are at questions, the better you can execute the Gap Selling methodology. Since its launch and in almost all of my training sessions, I’ve been asked for more info on how to ask really good questions.

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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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You Only Get One Chance to Make a First Impression

Women Sales Pros

Before any sale can be made, a relationship must be opened. And if multiple sales are to be made to the same customer, that relationship must be maintained and maximized through continually opening new opportunities and, sometimes, new relationships that will enhance the buyer/seller partnership. Many sellers focus too much of their time and attention to closing sales.

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Is the bandwagon effect destroying your effectiveness?

Membrain

What do fashion trends, U.S. elections, and your sales team have in common? They’re all influenced, for better and worse, by the bandwagon effect.

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Struggling with Sales Enablement in Your Organization? Here’s How You Can Course-Correct Today

Miller Heiman Group

While many organizations reported increased adoption of a sales enablement function in recent years, several still struggle to use it effectively to achieve their goals. According to CSO Insights’ 4th Annual Sales Enablement Study , 61 percent of organizations have a sales enablement function. Of those, only 34.4 percent of respondents indicated they were meeting the majority of their expectations.

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Product Centric Selling, It Really Is About Us!

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been having an email conversation with a colleague about, “Why are sales people so product focused in their sales outreach?” We all know, at least I hope we do, that focusing on the customer, their issues/opportunities, and how we help them achieve their goals, is much more effective than pitching our products. Yet, why do so many organizations fail to do this?

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Our Numbers Aren’t Laws Of Physics!

Membrain

We tend to think of the Laws Of Physics as fundamental truths about how things behave.* For example, F=M x A (Force is equal to Mass times Acceleration). We always calculate force using this formula, it is universal. These Laws represent fundamental behaviors of objects and very predictable properties.

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14 Pro Tips for Running a Successful Business

Hubspot

Anyone can start a business. Fill out a few forms. Get the necessary permits or licenses. Advertise in some way, shape, or form. Running a successful business, though, is an entirely different story. For example, in the United States roughly 9% of businesses both new and old close each year. On the flip side, only 8% are opened. We're losing more than we're gaining for the first time since those statistics have been tracked, and the crossover coincided with the recession of 2007-2009.

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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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5 Ways to Improve CRM Adoption

InsightSquared

There’s nothing worse than making a huge purchase, taking the bow off, and then having it fall short of your expectations. Talk about buyer’s remorse. This is quite often the case with CRMs. The excitement generated throughout the sales cycle is quickly stymied once you realize that simply flipping the switch isn’t going to generate the massive ROI you anticipated because….

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Stop Focusing On The Top Of The Pipeline!

Partners in Excellence

Virtually every sales person and organization have pipeline/funnel problems. Almost all the time, they are anemic. Virtually every pipeline has quality and integrity issues. Likewise, there are too many velocity issues. It seems the universal, go to, solution for bad pipelines is to find more qualified opportunities. That is, we need to focus at the top.

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Dave Kurlan's 10 Rules for Effective Sales Emails That Connect With New Prospects

Understanding the Sales Force

They aren't personal, they aren't written well, their messages are identical, you want to delete them and I know you get these emails too. I had already decided to save some of these worthless emails for an upcoming article when Keenan posted this rant on LinkedIn. After you read his rant and related comments, please return to my article for a short tutorial on what's wrong with these emails and how to make them stickier.

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10 Compelling Above the Fold Content Examples to Inspire Your Own

Hubspot

In copywriting, there’s an old adage that states the purpose of your first line of copy is to compel people to read your second line of copy. In web design, the same principle applies. But instead of crafting a compelling first line of copy, you need to design gripping website content that sits above the fold. Above the fold content is what your visitors see right when they land on your website.

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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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Three Key Skills to Distinguish Sellers from Sales Managers

Miller Heiman Group

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. From day one, you’re in the spotlight, ensuring every salesperson on your team hits their target. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Guidelines for Conducting an Effective SDR Performance Review

CloserIQ

SDR performance reviews are essential for helping SDRs to improve their performance. They provide the best value to SDRs when managers are comprehensive in scope and constructive in delivering feedback. To that end, it’s helpful to use a standardized format for reviews. Use this template to guide the performance reviews. Here’s what to include—and how to be effective in each part of the review. 1) KPIs.

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One Question Provides Salespeople with Instant Feedback on How Well They Differentiated

Understanding the Sales Force

Most salespeople do not know the difference between their prospects' decision-making process compared with their decision-making criteria. What's worse is that even more salespeople don't even bother asking about it. According to data from Objective Management Group (OMG) who has evaluated/assessed 1,841,209 salespeople, only 27% of all salespeople are strong qualifiers so it's likely that the majority are not asking.

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The 15 Best Lead Generation Tools in 2019

Hubspot

Online lead generation is difficult. There’s no way around it. There are tons of companies competing for the attention of a finite group of website visitors, and the content marketing world is only getting noisier. So this leaves you with three broad options: Bring in more valuable and relevant traffic. Create better, more enticing offers. Optimize your lead generation pathways on your site.

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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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Taking time to think: Do you dedicate time for thinking? Here’s why you should.

ConversionXL

Are you taking time to think, just think? Dedicated time for thinking is the key to your own personal growth and development. In this episode, Peep discusses why and how dedicated time to just think actually creates more opportunities for growth and better quality ideas. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. The post Taking time to think: Do you dedicate time for thinking?

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How to Audit and Trim Your Sales Materials

CloserIQ

Like your home, your business could do with a good spring cleaning every now and then. Mountains of sales content pile up naturally from day-to-day operations. It’s a common strategy in sales , especially in early stage startups, to create more and more content. But if it’s not managed, the hordes of materials can overwhelm sales reps and hurt performance.

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Selling IS A Service

Partners in Excellence

It seems the world is migrating to an “As A Service” model. Everyday one hears a new (sometimes not so new) XaaS approach. The model, at least as a subscription payment approach, is not new. We’ve had various subscription, rent, lease capabilities for at least decades, if not centuries. The application of this model to different areas, is interesting.

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10 of the Most (& Least) Successful Brand Extensions to Inspire Your Own

Hubspot

After watching The Edge of Seventeen , a moving coming-of-age film starring Hailee Steinfeld as Nadine Franklin, a witty yet socially hopeless 17-year old girl who struggles to come to grips with her best (and only) friend dating her golden boy older brother, I was in awe of Steinfeld’s performance. As fiery and smart as her character was, she was just as insecure and resentful, and the euphoric highs and heartbreaking lows she experienced throughout the movie triggered memories of the wholesome

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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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Your Sales Plan Isn’t What You Think

Engage Selling

“Why aren’t we just doing what our biggest competitor is doing?” That’s what the Sales VP of a product manufacturing company kept hearing from the firm’s owner, who was frustrated by the lackluster sales numbers being reported.

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How do you price your SaaS product while finding the Product market Fit?

SaaStr

Just start with comps. With comparables. Software is very expensive to build, but for the most part, costs almost nothing to ship. It might cost you $0.10 a month in hosting charges per user for an app that isn’t server or storage intensive. So why is one app $5 a month and another $150 a month? The answer is value provided, yes (that’s why Salesforce and Workday can charge so much) … and also, comparables.

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3 Things Strategic Sales Managers Do Differently

Topline Leadership

Strategic sales managers take time to think critically about the crucial role and responsibility they have for improving their team. Trouble is, most sales managers don't set aside time to think. They are so crazy-busy fighting daily "fires" that it’s easy to skimp on the strategic thinking front. Harvard guru Michael Porter defines "strategy" as [ ] The post 3 Things Strategic Sales Managers Do Differently appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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5 Ways to Figure Out What to Sell on Amazon

Hubspot

With nearly 50% of U.S. internet users starting their product searches on Amazon in 2018 (compared to just 35% who started on Google), it's no wonder you want to sell a product on one of the internet's most profitable sites. But the wide assortment of products available on Amazon likely makes you apprehensive. Amazon sells over 12 million products -- which products in particular are most likely to provide you with a high ROI?

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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 to network with people in business with David Gonzales from IMParty

ConversionXL

Why is networking and building business relationships important for growth? It seems that most people who go to conferences or industry events don’t know how to network. How do you become better at networking? [This post contains video, click to play]. In this episode, Peep and David Gonzales, Founder of Internet Marketing Party discuss building better business relationships, establishing trust, and the importance of having an advisor or partner to keep you in check.

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Don’t Overlook this Talent Source | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????????I’ve been working a lot with sales managers over the past few months and interestingly, we’ve been talking about recruiting, retention, motivation, and top performance. They all have one thing in common.

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How to Think on Your Feet When You Talk to Prospects

Selling Power

Every sales rep has struggled to answer a curveball question from prospects at least once. Here’s how to develop your ability to think on your feet.

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How to Successfully Negotiate Your Salary (Script Included)

Hubspot

You've done it -- after countless informational interviews, phone calls, and in-person interviews, you've finally landed your dream job. But as you peruse the contract, you find yourself a little hesitant about what they're willing to offer you. You're torn. You know you're going to love this job. Shouldn't you just accept their first offer? Unfortunately, your inability to negotiate now won't just affect the next year or two of your life -- instead, it will create a snowball effect that could r

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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.