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Confirming the Role and Expectations When Hiring Sales Talent

Anthony Cole Training

When you get to the offer step in your hiring process, it can be tempting to rush ahead and get your candidate contracted. However, this is a critical point in your system that cannot go overlooked.

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The Few, The Proud, The Early Salesforce Adopters

Veloxy

Salesforce? If there’s one question reps and sales managers always ask themselves, it’s ‘where did all the time go?’ More often than not, it seems that there’s just not enough hours in the day to get everything done no matter how efficient you are. You’re not alone – research shows that even the top performing sales reps spend more than half of their time on non-selling activities.

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Is Your Pharmaceutical Sales Team Ready to Execute?

STAR Results

3 Steps to Flawless Sales Execution. The pharmaceutical industry has been far less impacted by the pandemic than most other industries. With modest single-digit declines in sales, the sector has fared relatively well. The most significant factor to a slowing of growth has been attributed to a reduction in in-person meetings between sales representatives and physicians.

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What psychology tells us about being a better sales leader

Membrain

As sales professionals, it’s easy to think about our jobs in terms of numbers: Quotas, forecasts, and commissions leading the way. It’s easy to forget the human side of things, and when you operate in a complex b2b world, it’s even easier to get caught up in technical details.

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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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Optimize for Branded Search to Create a More Effective Sales Funnel

ConversionXL

Ranking for those competitive keywords and optimizing your landing pages for conversions is undoubtedly an effective way to grow your traffic and increase sales. But what if I told you there’s something other than your site you should be optimizing that so many marketers miss? One of the most powerful ways to create a more effective sales funnel is to analyze and optimize your branded search.

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Imitation May Be The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, But It Sucks As A Business Strategy

Partners in Excellence

Sometimes when we lift our heads up and look outside our day to day work, our roles, and our companies, we look at others. We may look at our competitors and what they do. We may look at high performing companies, and what they do. We may look at individuals and how they work. We see others do things that are very successful and aspire to achieve the same success they do.

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What is Key Account Management? [+ Checklist]

RAIN Group

Your team just won a new logo! Congratulations! This one has buzz. It’s modest to start, but there’s potential to sell into multiple buying centers, across geographies, and the new product your company is launching will help the customer simplify their processes, increase efficiencies, and reduce strain on their supply chain. But that’s all in the hands of the key account team now.

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9 Reasons Good Salespeople Fail

SaaStr

Strong salespeople fail all the time in new roles. Good reps, that could otherwise do well, and have in the past. And it feels like it’s happening more often these days, when in tech at least, frictional unemployment approaches 0%. Why do good reps fail at a new role? Often, they simply pick wrong. And the faster people jump to new roles, and jump around, the higher the odds they may a mis-jump.

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Do Work That Inspires You!

Partners in Excellence

There are no easy sales or leadership jobs. The work is tough. As much as we try to find shortcuts and the “Easy Button,” we have to do the stuff that produces the results we are accountable for. We face challenges every day. Finding and engaging our customers. Developing and executing strategies that facilitate our customers’ buying journeys, culminating in shared success.

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The Art of Inquiry

Heinz Marketing

By Lauren Dichter , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. In a LinkedIn Learning course called Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity , author and Master Certified Executive Coach Joshua Miller makes a compelling case for curiosity. As a matter of fact, after taking this course, I think the classic refrain “Curiosity killed the cat” should be changed to “Curiosity opened the cat up to endless possibilities and knowledge”.

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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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Qualities Of A Leader – 10 x Needs For High Performance

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore the true qualities of a leader – and not just what makes you an average leader, but instead; what will make you really stand out. Although there may be different leadership types , depending on your role or even personality; there is a list of special qualities that’ll make you be respected, and help you drive high performance teams.

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10 Tips To Getting Better at Hiring in the Earlier Days

SaaStr

Q: What are some top hiring tips for early-stage startups? My top list: Hire an internal recruiter as soon as you are making 1 new hire a month. It’s worth the expense to make the process much more efficient. Just filtering candidates, scheduling the Zooms, and more becomes overwhelming once you are hiring even 1 new person a month. Do as much PR as you can.

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Hanging Out With People Different From Me

Partners in Excellence

It’s human nature to hang out people like us. Perhaps the people we are grow up with, perhaps those we went to school with. We tend to gravitate to people like us. Maybe it’s the shared experiences and backgrounds. Maybe it’s the comfort factor, the camaraderie. It shapes every part of our lives. Where we live, our friendships, where we work.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 239: Q & A Brendon Cassidy @CoSell_io

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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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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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

“This is Terry the Tech Exec. 54 and married with two kids. Terry hates Twitter, eating at his desk, and traffic jams. But Terry does love a good game of golf, eating Smarties, and hanging out with his two labrador retrievers.”. Yawn. Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale?

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Why M&A (Mergers & Acquisions) Is Weird and Unpredictable

SaaStr

HubSpot raised 5 rounds of private funding, followed by an IPO. Not a single one of our pitches made any mention of an "exit strategy" There is a very simple reason for this: We never really had one. — dharmesh (@dharmesh) March 23, 2021. There are 1000 reasons not to have an Exit Strategy when you are doing a start-up. Perhaps the #1 reason though is that acquisitions are … weird and unpredictable.

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Are Your Value Statements Stale? | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Are you sharing the same messages today that you were sharing a year ago with your clients? Are you approaching them with the same value propositions, teaching them the same things, or providing them with the same insights today as … Read More » The post Are Your Value Statements Stale? | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Sheena’s App of the Week: WorkFlowy

Heinz Marketing

By Sheena McKinney , Executive Assistant at Heinz Marketing. I recently was introduced to WorkFlowy and I find it so helpful. It’s so good, once you see the power and benefit of it you want to tell everyone you know. According to WorkFlowy it is a “zoomable document that provides unprecedented flexibility in organizing your ideas.” It helps you “organize your brain.” Who couldn’t use that?

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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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Three steps to improved negotiation and sales success

Membrain

What happens when a salesperson isn’t an effective negotiator? Often, they simply write a proposal.

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7 Things as CEO You Can Do Today To Be a Better Manager

SaaStr

My time as an investor is really the first time I’ve ever worked with CEOs who weren’t formally (or at least, informally) trained as managers. My bosses all came up through the ranks. I went from Director to VP to Founder to CEO. Most of my SaaS CEO peers, back in the day, had management experience under their belt. It’s fine. You can learn this stuff, and all that really matters is attracting a great team under you.

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Why startups should invest in CRM?

Salesmate

You are a budding entrepreneur and your start-up is just gearing up to take on the market. Obviously, though, you are stretching thin on the financial aspect, and you don’t think you have the capacity to invest in a new tool that’d help your company grow. You are already aware that a CRM would be the viable option to invest in for the growth of your start-up, but you aren’t sure how it’ll be beneficial to you, especially at such an early stage of your business.

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How to Spot and Prevent Sales Team Burnout

Predictable Revenue

There's a prevalent tendency in business circles to laud the benefits of work-life balance as effective ways to maximize company-wide performance. But the defeating fact is that most organizations still encounter a worrying amount of burnout. The post How to Spot and Prevent Sales Team Burnout appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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What Eye Tracking Can Teach Us About Form Optimization and Design

ConversionXL

Eye tracking has long been used in the fields of UX and CRO to accurately map where a user’s focus is when navigating a website. There have been many practical conclusions that have come out of this research such as this article published by CXL last year. However, as form specialists , we wanted to hone in on what eye tracking could tell us about web forms and how to improve their user experience.

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Beginner’s guide to the sales process for startups

SaaStr

When you start your first company, one of the most critical but often overlooked roles you take on is that of a chief salesperson. If you want to hire your first sales rep and close more deals, you need to understand how the sales process works, what tools your team needs to be successful and learn to speak sales. Sales definitions you should know. Sales terminology might feel unfamiliar, but the beautiful thing about using sales customer relationship management (CRM) software is that it provide

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6 Roadblocks and Solutions for Better Marketing and Sales Alignment

Sales Hacker

The key to unlocking a stronger opportunity pipeline and an increase in qualified leads is a unified, cohesive marketing and sales team. Alignment between sales and marketing is how you’ll build a system rooted in strategy, data and targeted initiatives to better reach prospective clients. Only 46 percent of business owners describe their marketing and sales teams as “highly aligned,” meaning it’s time to get back to the drawing board for the other 54 percent.

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Account Management: It’s About Keeping Customers!

SalesPop

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough. Technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-area* advertising was obviously wasteful.

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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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Do Blog Posts Actually Lead to Purchases [New Data]

Hubspot

In our 2021 Executive Marketing Leadership Survey , 20% of marketing leaders described company blogs as one of their "most important channels" for hitting goals. The enduring importance placed on blogging isn't shocking. Not only can blogs boost your SEO, overall site traffic, and online presence , but they can also help prospects learn more about your industry, brand, product, or service.

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The 5 Best Pieces of Advice I Got From My Mentors

SaaStr

Q: What is the best advice you have received from a mentor? I’ll make a short list: When you don’t know what to do — go visit your customers. Yes, this has to be on Zoom these days, but the advice holds. Your customers know one thing — how you can at least double. They have your roadmap to double. Not always to 10x, but to double. A related post here.

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How to Build Continual Improvement Into Your Sales Process

Sales Hacker

Let’s get meta for a second: How do you build a process for improving your sales process? That’s exactly the puzzle this expert panel unravels as we dive into perspectives from sales managers, RevOps leaders and sales VPs. This past year has revealed where sales teams were lacking, and now, with 2021 well underway, it’s time to start building continual improvement into your sales process.

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Person Or Personality?

Partners in Excellence

One of my favorite writers is John McPhee. Recently, I was rereading a short story, A Philosopher In The Kitchen. It’s outstanding, both as a masterpiece in writing and in the ideas he conveys. While it’s about a chef, it provokes thinking about the highest levels of practice in any profession. One of the lines that struck me, “He would like to be known for what he does, but in this time, in this country, his position is awkward, for he prefers being a person to becoming a pers

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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.