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How Do Extraordinary Financial Planners Close the #Salesgrowthopportunity Gap?

Anthony Cole Training

What prompted this article was a post from Jeff Ferraris, a program manager for CUSO Financial Services in Austin,Texas. The article – " Leading With Planning: Master Financial Planning With These 6 Steps " – takes investment advisors through a best practices process to have success implementing financial plans for high net worth clients. Aside from the ‘know how’ and the licensing required, what else do your advisors need in order to be successful in their role?

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5 of the Most Poisonous Mindsets Killing Your Sales Performance

Jeff Shore

Amy O’Connor . As a sales coach, consultant and trainer, much of what clients pay me for or expect of me is to teach their sales teams sales techniques: how to ask discovery questions, how to close buyers, how to create urgency, etc. The problem is that most of the time the technique is just a small part of the issue. ?Your technique will only ever be as strong as you mindset.

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20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites to Use in 2018

Hubspot

Best Websites for Stock Photography. Negative Space. Death to Stock. Picjumbo. Stokpic. Kaboompics. Startup Stock Photos. Freerange. LibreShot. Fancy Crave. Unsplash. StockSnap.io. SplitShire. Life of Pix. HubSpot. Pexels. Gratisography. Jay Mantri. ISO Republic. New Old Stock. Pixabay. I got the image above for free on Unsplash. Yet for some reason, many publishers continue to push out cheap (and usually cheesy) stock photography to serve as a representation of their brand.

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Dedicate Time For Learning & Get Better at Anything

ConversionXL

Do you want to get better at your work? Are you even trying? Putting in the work and meeting with mentors will get you far, but dedicated time for learning WEEKLY will increase your chances significantly. You have the time to learn! CXL Institute All-Access has everything from digital psychology to Google Analytics courses. All-Access is great for teams and individual learners.

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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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Coaching for Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

We spend a great deal of time with our clients teaching and coaching them about how to drive sales growth. The process for them is rarely easy.

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Episode #062: The Buyer’s Mind Anniversary with Jeff Shore

Jeff Shore

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Jeff Shore has been in sales for over 30 years. A successful author, speaker and entrepreneur. – he launched The Buyer’s Mind a year ago to help sales professionals understand their customers better. In case you’ve never met him, this episode will help you to know him better. Join us for this inspirational interview with Jeff Shore!

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How to Gain Business Experience Fast

ConversionXL

You need business experience? Where should you work to get the best experience? Work for an agency! Working for an agency will allow you to view many business situations from the backend. Use your experience and CXL Institute’s course to Build a Brand for your Small Business. The post How to Gain Business Experience Fast appeared first on CXL.

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Cold Call Opening Lines that Work, According to New Data

Gong.io

Many salespeople swear this is one of the best cold call opening lines: “Did I catch you at a bad time?”. At one point, they were right to think so. Here’s the theory behind it: People like to say “no.”. It makes them feel in control. So when you ask “Did I catch you at a bad time,” they want to say “no.”. It opens the door to a successful cold call.

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How Snowboarding Taught Me to Ask Better Closing Questions

Jeff Shore

By Jeff Shore. You can read about closing techniques in my book, Closing 2.0. You can join me at the Closing 2.0 Academy. And there is always YouTube. But on top of all those amazing resource, there is one more high-impact method of perfecting your closing technique: Teach Yourself. The fact is that too many salespeople struggle in their closing attempts because they are not analyzing and reinventing their own approach.

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What is Public Relations? The Definition of PR in 100 Words or Less

Hubspot

What is PR? Public Relations professionals help a business or individual cultivate a positive reputation with the public through various unpaid or earned communications, including traditional media, social media, and in-person engagements. They also help clients defend their reputation during a crisis that threatens their credibility. There’s an old saying: “Advertising is what you pay for; publicity is what you pray for.”.

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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 Proven Ways to Elevate Core Performers

SalesforLife

Core performers make up approximately 70 percent of the sales team. Since they’re the majority, your core performers are responsible for the bulk of sales productivity. Even a small boost to their skills will translate into big differences in performance. In fact, some reports suggest improving core performers’ skills by a mere five percent pays off with a 60-percent boost to performance.

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12 Ways You’re Making Your Boss Look Bad (And You, Amateurish)

Sales Hacker

I work with many salespeople across multiple industries every month in my role of mentoring and data driven sales coaching. Many meetings feel like Groundhog Day or maybe I’m just becoming grumpy in my old age. But here are 12 common drivers of poor sales performance I see in salespeople that make them worthy of being fired. If you’re a sales manager or CEO, send this to the entire sales team and put them on notice that they will be held to account.

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Roller Coaster Case

Membrain

Today’s case covers a common issue with a new sales hire’s ability to meet their quota consistently in a complex B2B sales environment. A lack of confidence often leads to new reps pursuing many smaller deals.

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How to Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2013 and 2016 [Video Tutorial Included]

Hubspot

This post is an excerpt from the video series 4 Essential Microsoft Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Learn. If you want to become a master of the almighty spreadsheet, watch the full video series here. I know, I know … “VLOOKUP function” sounds like the geekiest, most complicated thing ever. But trust me: as was the case with pivot tables , Microsoft Excel's VLOOKUP function is easier to use than you think.

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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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Lessons from a Marketer on how to Sell at Scale with Outreach

Outreach

I work at ConsumerAffairs.com , where our mission is to create a trustworthy information marketplace to connect consumers and brands through consumer advocacy, news, and reviews. In 2015, we started a content marketing team, which I currently lead. So what can I as a content marketing leader teach you about sales? At ConsumerAffairs, a content marketer’s job is to promote content by building personal relationships with media outlets, websites, and blogs, and encourage them to post and share Con

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Cloudinary’s SDR Team Increases Meeting Conversion Rates with Gong.io

Gong.io

Offering the most feature-rich, online image and video management solution available, Cloudinary is the media management platform for developers and marketers. More than 5,000 customers and 300,000 users around the world rely on its cloud-based software to cover their every image- and video-related need. Garrett Serviss is the Director of Global Sales Development for Cloudinary.

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New resources to help you up your coaching game

Membrain

Sales coaching can be a critical multiplier for sales performance. Some would argue that it’s the main driver to increase sales effectiveness. Yet, too few seem to be doing it well.

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17 Sales Closing Mistakes That’ll Stop a Deal in Its Tracks

Hubspot

Ask any sales rep what the hardest part of their job is, and I’ll bet they’ll say “closing.” After all, signing new customers and upselling existing accounts is how a rep makes quota. If they’re not getting prospects to sign contracts, they’re not going to hit their number. There are a handful of mistakes you need to avoid if you hope to be successful.

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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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New Data Reveals Why Veteran Salespeople Are Not Better Than New Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

I mined Objective Management Group (OMG) data and compared salespeople who have been with their company for 10 years or more, with salespeople who have been with their company for five years or less. Theoretically, the veteran salespeople should be better and stronger in every way. But are they? Let's take a look and then let's discuss exactly what we are seeing and why.

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Cold Meetings Don’t Convert to Sales Wins – Or Do They?

Openview

It’s one thing to get meetings. It’s another to generate sales wins. Too many sellers rely too heavily on inbound leads, referrals, and repeat business. However, there often isn’t enough of these to go around to allow you to reach your overall sales target. If you need to drive your own pipeline, you need cold meetings. Unfortunately, many sellers don’t even believe that cold meetings result in sales.

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The Bonding Problem

Membrain

Today’s case is a bit of a puzzle to solve. Here we have a situation where an underperforming salesperson’s activities - call volume and scheduled meetings - are equal to (or even better than) his better-performing peers. And yet, his win rate is low.

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16 Video Metrics Your Boss Actually Cares About

Hubspot

Conventional wisdom tells us that views, especially three-seconds ones, are a vanity metric. But Facebook tracks them for a good reason. In 2016, they analyzed their users’ video consumption data and discovered that 45% of people who watch the first three seconds of a video will keep watching it for at least 30 seconds. Facebook’s study suggests that views are a good indicator of how well your video’s hook performed.

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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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10 Tips for Building a Strong Sales Pipeline

SalesLoft

Technology has evolved, but has your approach to your sales pipeline? This list of 10 Tips for Building a Strong Sales Pipeline includes modern approaches and shows you how to apply technology to update a few classics that never go out of style. No matter your organization’s size or industry, the need for a robust pipeline is something every salesperson has in common.

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How Jitterbit Wins Back a Week of Productivity per Rep with Outreach Meetings

Outreach

Orchestrating a ‘meeting of the minds’ is the goal and lifeblood of any customer-facing team in order to win new customers or support existing ones. But all too often, trying to schedule that meeting can push even the most patient representatives to exasperation. Everyone has been there: the endless back-and-forth game of email tag, trying to nail down a date and time.

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Our Customers Are Doing Their Homework

Partners in Excellence

Every three years, I go through the same cycle. My car lease comes to an end. Every three years, the same thing happens; about 6 months before the lease end, the dealer(s) start to contact me. It’s always with an offer, “We can let you out of the lease early and get you into the latest model of your current car… ” I’ve just gotten into that 6 month window.

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The 15-Second Intro That'll Make Your Sales Conversations 10X More Successful

Hubspot

Up-Front Contract Example. (Appreciation and Time) [Prospect name], thanks for agreeing to meet today. Can I take three minutes …. (Agenda) … to give you some recommendations on [improving X] at [prospect’s company]? And then, iIf you have no further interest …. (Outcomes). you can hang up, but if you do have interest, let’s have another meeting. A great sales call depends on what we at Sandler Training call an up-front contract.

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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 Create the Underdog Mentality Necessary for Success

Selling Power

I joined Televerde in 1995 when the company only had a part-time supervisor and five callers set in a trailer in the middle of the Phoenix desert. To say it was a small operation is an understatement, but I could see the vision of success.

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Are Your Sales Enablement Initiatives Missing Something?

Miller Heiman Group

“In a mature enablement discipline, none of these services stands alone. As we often tell our clients: There is no content without training, and there is no training without content. … In turn, both content and training services require coaching to ensure the services are implemented and adopted appropriately.”. — “Sales Enablement: A Master Framework to Engage, Equip and Empower a World-Class Sales Force”.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Selling

SalesforLife

Sales leaders know there is much more to being successful with social media selling, or social selling, than merely using social media in the sales process.

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How Long Should Your Videos Be? Ideal Lengths for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube [Infographic]

Hubspot

When a video pops up on your Facebook feed, what do you usually do first? My guess is that you take a peek at its length, ponder whether it's worth your time, and let that thought process influence whether or not you press play. Once you do actually press play, how many times have you abandoned the video just a few seconds in and scrolled down to the next post?

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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.