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A Radical View of How to Onboard a New Sales Rep

Iannarino

In another time, onboarding a new salesperson would not have been difficult. In fact, many new salespeople did not go through onboarding at all. There was very little preparation to ensure the salesperson would be successful in their new role with a new company. The person accepting the job would be expected to know how to sell, and their onboarding might have consisted of being given information on their product or service, a territory, a phone book, and a wish for good luck.

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The Importance of Time Off in Sales | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

?????????? Don’t underestimate the power and importance of time off in sales. I was on a call the other day with a client of mine who’s a great sales manager. … Read More. The post The Importance of Time Off in Sales | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Is it Selling or Giving?

Anthony Cole Training

We work with many community banks and while the commercial side of the bank usually has some “sales chops”, we often hear from leadership that retail bankers are less comfortable with “selling.” Or they may even avoid that word altogether. We like how the book Go-Givers Sell More positions the process of selling: Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

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5 Salesforce Dialers to Boost Connection Rates

Veloxy

Do you struggle to get leads to pick up the phone? For salespeople, predictably connecting with interested leads can be a daily challenge — and that’s where the right dialer for Salesforce can make all of the difference. Is your outbound queue prioritized by spelling, first in first out, or buyer signals? Can you access your dialer from home and when you’re on the road?

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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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A list of Top 10 Sales Training Tips for Success

Iannarino

Ask any sales leader who has paid for sales training whether it works, and you will find a large percentage will suggest that it doesn’t. The leaders who suggest sales training doesn't work are telling the truth. But that is only their experience, and other similarly situated sales leaders are wildly successful with training.

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3 Ways To Increase Online Sales Through Social Media

ClickFunnels

The post 3 Ways To Increase Online Sales Through Social Media appeared first on ClickFunnels. Building a social media following can help you grow your online business faster. But it’s important to remember that merely having a social media following isn’t enough, you also need to know how to monetize it. That’s why today we are going to share three ways to increase online sales through social media.

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7 Tips for Differentiating in the Selling Process

RAIN Group

Differentiation often starts with marketing, but it truly comes alive in the selling process. Even if your company’s products and services are superior to all others, this means nothing if you can’t convey that to your buyers. Differentiating in sales is more than a good pitch—you need to differentiate in the right areas, adapt to your buyer’s needs, and build value.

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A B2B Sales Job Description

Iannarino

The role of the B2B salesperson has never been particularly easy, but as the world, and business, become more complex, so too has B2B sales. When the client's needs change, so must salespeople.

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Do You Want to Kill the Pain, or Solve the Problem?

Membrain

Most of us know that in order to stay healthy, we need exercise, good nutrition, rest, and to take our vitamins. But very often, we get busy with life and forget these essentials. Before long, we start to suffer for it. At that point, we all know we should slow down and address the problem - but more often, we seek a pill to kill the pain so we can keep going.

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Sales Drills – 5 x Ideas To Help You Succeed

The 5% Institute

These sales drills are a great way to make your usual sales training sessions fun, enjoyable, and easier to remember. When sales drills are fun, there’s a better return on your time spent. As per conducted studies , Neurologists have found that fun activities not only help your team remember what they learn longer, but they will also be keen in coming back for more.

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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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Changing economy? Help Your Salespeople Prioritize the Right Opportunities Faster

Force Management

Given the current economic downturn, your salespeople may be more inclined to invest time in an unqualified deal or skip important steps in the sales process to keep pipelines moving. If the current economic landscape is amplifying the pressure your sales team is feeling to hit revenue targets, address this challenge head on and have a direct conversation with your team now.

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One-Up and the Limits of Your Solution in B2B Sales

Iannarino

According to the legacy sales approaches , you are supposed to identify your client's problem and their pain. Once you have done that, you are supposed to explain how your solution can easily solve the problem.

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How to Make Every Conversation a Coaching Conversation Using One Question by Keith Rosen

Membrain

The biggest complaint I hear from managers is they don’t have time to coach, especially when they’re spending most of their time helping their team close more sales, resolve problems and handle customer issues. During these time-sensitive situations, compounded with the pressure to drive results, they feel they must be direct and tell people what they have to do, right?

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The Hunter And Farmer Sales Model Explained

The 5% Institute

If you’ve been involved in sales for a while, you’ve probably come across the hunter and farmer sales model. However – which one is right for you? And which one of the two is the best strategy to increase your leads, sales, and overall profit? In this article, we’ll look at what the hunter and farmer sales model mean, and which one you should focus on depending on where you are at with your business and required sales outcomes.

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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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How Growth Mindset Cultivates Marketing Success

Heinz Marketing

By Matthew Lallas , Marketing and Sales Intern. For many, growth mindset is likely a buzzword that you hear quite a bit. A utopian idea that if someone is simply “open-minded” to learning and growth, they’ll become radically more successful or productive. While this pop culture view of the practice holds some elements of truth, the reality of growth mindset is much more nuanced, and even has specific applications within marketing organizations.

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"L" is for Lesson Not Loss

Iannarino

Professional B2B sales is more like mixed martial arts than boxing. In boxing, there are competitors who don't have any losses, like Floyd Mayweather (50–0) and a number of young fighters like Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, and my favorite, Jaron "Boots" Ennis. In MMA, world champion Francis Ngannou has won 17 bouts and lost 3. To match the UFC heavyweight champions’ effectiveness in sales you'd need an 85% win rate.

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The Secret to Account Churn is Not Dedicated Account Managers

Understanding the Sales Force

I do my own weeding and that "hobby" takes up a lot of my free time. Weeding is like playing the arcade game wack-a-mole where you pull the weed, use a weed wacker, or poison the weed on Monday and two more weeds appear in its place on Tuesday. If you think about territory sales or sales into a specific vertical, reps should be calling on the same customers and prospects all the time.

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Does your email copy persuade or sell?

Martech

What’s the one thing you would do to make more money from your email program? . Your first thought might be to add an automation platform, invest in new email designs, maybe even switch ESPs. But all of those cost time and money, and they don’t necessarily address the real reason your emails don’t drive the results you need. What could make the difference?

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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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On Driving Performance

Partners in Excellence

As leaders, a key element of our job is to maximize the performance of each person on our team. We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. We set performance goals, we measure their attainment against that performance.

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Why Your Client Buys from a One-Up Salesperson

Iannarino

In October 1992, I had a grand mal seizure while walking up the steps of my Brentwood, California, apartment. It took some time for the paramedics to convince me that I needed to go to the hospital. The thing about having a seizure is that you may be the only person that doesn't know you had a seizure. When I eventually arrived at UCLA Medical Center, I was immediately given a CAT scan, followed by an MRI, an indication that there was something wrong.

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Not The Top 20 Attributes of Successful Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Several OMG's Partners reached out to me asking if I had seen the email that was circulating about the Top 20 Attributes of Successful Salespeople. "I have," was my response and, "Look for a blistering review on Monday.". The article was 100% junk science and to use the word science would be a disservice to the word junk.

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Alteryx, ZoomInfo Have Blow Out Quarters. Datadog grows 74% at $2B in ARR. Ping Identify Acquired for $2.8 Billion. Don’t Call it a Downturn.

SaaStr

Atleryx, ZoomInfo have blow out quarters today, trade way up. But sure, call it a downturn [link]. — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 3, 2022. So are we in a downturn in SaaS? Certainly, segments are. eCommerce, video, and more are having post-crazy growth hangovers. And inflation is awful. And startups that had planned on a big up round this year are in many cases, really struggling.

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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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Why Are We So Incurious?

Partners in Excellence

If I were forced to identify the single most important capability for anyone, at any level in selling, I think it would be curiosity. I wouldn’t identify prospecting, relationship building, closing, goal orientation, or any of the numerous competencies/capabilities of great sales people. I don’t mean to diminish their importance, but as you peel each of those back, underlying these capabilities is usually some aspect around curiosity.

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How Your Love for Your Solution Keeps You One-Down in B2B Sales

Iannarino

What you are about to read may sound like heresy at first. But if you open your mind, you may see something that will allow you to improve your sales results. If you can see it, you can multiply your effectiveness and make it easier to create and win new opportunities. Sometimes, improvement requires removing something instead of adding to what you are already doing.

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74% of B2B marketers expect budgets to increase next year

Martech

Despite all the economic turmoil, 74% of B2B marketers expect their budgets to increase in the coming fiscal year, up from 68% last year, according to a new report. However, only 12% expect a large increase compared to 26% last year, according to digital marketing agency Wpromote’s State of B2B Digital Marketing report. Nearly two-thirds expect a moderate increase.

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10 Things Not to Say During a VC Pitch

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What should you not say to a VC during a pitch meeting? A few things: “We hope to sell for $20m-$100m in a few years to a BigCo. ” While this may be the right strategy, the VCs likely won’t make enough money off an outcome like this. You won’t sound ambitious enough. “We’re a bit burnt out after doing this for years. ” I feel you. I’ve been there.

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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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8 Personality Traits That Will Destroy Your Sales Career

Spiro Technologies

There isn’t a “right way” to be a salesperson. Different types of people can be successful in sales, from the brash to the methodical, the friendly to the businesslike. And despite what some people say, sales is a skill that can be learned and mastered, whether you have natural ability or not. There are, however, certain personality traits that can prevent an otherwise competent and ambitious person from making something of themselves in the competitive world of selling.

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20 Leadership Lessons Learned From 20 Years at Salesforce

Salesforce

After reaching my 20th Salesforce anniversary, I’ve been reflecting on my journey and thinking about all of the people and experiences that have impacted my leadership approach. I am the senior vice president of ISV Sales at Salesforce. I get to grow high-impact technology partnerships to ensure that both Salesforce and our partner ecosystem are growing, innovating, and delivering customer success.

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A look at martech investment and innovation

Martech

At CabinetM we define martech broadly. For us, as a martech management platform, it’s any product that supports developing and managing the customer experience or contributes to acquiring, engaging and retaining customers. This eliminates artificial lines between marketing, sales and customer success or between adtech, salestech, etc. However, the reality is we add any product to our directory of 15,000+ products that a customer wants to include in their martech stack.

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Every Venture Backed Startup is Now Competing for Reserves

SaaStr

So much has changed in venture capital since the start of the year, and many founders don’t fully understand it. It’s just a radically different business than it was in January. And founders don’t really need to understand all the changes in venture capital. But they should understand some. One is the concept of “reserves”, which is super important to VCs, but not something founders usually need to understand in The Best of Times.

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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.