Jeff Shore
JUNE 21, 2018
By Ryan Taft. I had a lengthy discussion with my good friend and business coach Mike Calderwood about barriers to effective sales execution. Specifically, what holds people back from crushing it on sales execution? Mike said something that caught my attention. He said that most people have “A.D.D.”. Now, he wasn’t referring to the A.D.D. that you and I usually think of.
Gong.io
JUNE 19, 2018
The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. So what makes this the best one you’ll ever read? It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. The analysis revealed concrete behaviors and patterns across the entire sales process that lead to successful outcomes.
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Membrain
JUNE 20, 2018
Everybody knows you need a good value proposition in order to sell effectively. But does anyone know exactly what a value proposition is? If you ask 100 sales professionals, you’ll likely get 100 different definitions, some more useful than others.
Hubspot
JUNE 21, 2018
Morning Motivation. Get up early. Eat a good breakfast. Optimize your alarm. Work out. Start with "Why". Remind yourself of your wins. Do something that makes you happy. Remind yourself of your goals. Make your bed. Journal. Meditate. It takes grit to be in sales. You will get rejected by prospects multiple times a day, there are some months when you won't hit your number, and losses are just part of the job.
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Jeff Shore
JUNE 19, 2018
By Jeff Shore. (Author’s note: This is part five of a series on how to talk to your customers. For parts one through four , click here. ). How much has fear cost you in your life? We cannot accurately answer that question, but I think we can agree that the degree to which fear impacts our lives is probably quite high. Your customer is no different. Fear is real, and fear has a way of undermining goals and dreams…unless you do something about it.
Gong.io
JUNE 18, 2018
Sales influencers have hypothesized about every phase of the sales cycle. They’ve come up with lots of tips and tricks over the years, mostly based on personal experience. But none of those influencers had access to the AI-driven analytics we use here at Gong.io. They tell us exactly what works and what doesn’t on sales calls. Our team of data scientists has analyzed more than 1,000,000 recorded sales calls.
Technology Sales Today brings together the best content for technology sales professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Hubspot
JUNE 18, 2018
Closing calls are sexy. They’re the calls where a deal gets moved across the line, contracts get signed, and you earn your commission checks. But closing calls are a bit of a fait accompli. Depending on who you sell to and what you sell, you could have already spent 10 to 20 hours with your prospect. You should have a good idea of whether the deal will close and for how much.
Understanding the Sales Force
JUNE 18, 2018
When you watch the news these days, it seems like all you hear is Russia, Immigration, North Korea, FBI, DOJ, liars and leakers, and the latest celebrities to be disgraced by their behavior. You would think there wasn't anything else going on! You might be having a similar experience with my recent articles as I have been sharing lots of data about salespeople - to the degree where you might think that nothing else matters.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 20, 2018
Why have a career in sales ? Tune in to episode 12 of the Sales Hacker podcast with Jaimie Buss , VP of Sales, North America for Zendesk as she talks about startups careers and transitions! What You’ll Learn. Building your career in startups and managing different career transitions. Working at Andreessen Horowitz and how large VCs support their portfolios.
KO Advantage Group
JUNE 19, 2018
Stephanie was beyond frustrated. Her business was doing well, but as her business grew she found it harder to close deals. That wasn’t supposed to be the case. Now a year into her business, she knew her clients challenges better, and could usually predict their biggest challenge within the first 5 minutes of the conversation. So with all this experience, and expertise, why was it becoming MORE difficult to close business?
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.
Hubspot
JUNE 22, 2018
Whether you’re working for a small agency or a major marketing firm, you’re probably eventually going to need to fill out a Request for Proposal, or RFP. Your company can’t do everything internally, and when your business needs to purchase a product or service from elsewhere, you might need to shop around. An RFP allows you to collect offers from various vendors and select the vendor that best meets your criteria, both in regards to skill and budget.
Jeff Shore
JUNE 20, 2018
In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Jeb Blount of salesgravy.com joins Jeff once again to talk about, objections – which just so happens to be the title of Jeb’s new bestseller. Being confronted with objections and dealing with possible rejection is painful. How painful? Well, our brain treats it like physical pain. While someone might give the advice – Deal with it.
Outreach
JUNE 19, 2018
Vanity metrics are a major obstacle to smarketing, or alignment between your sales and marketing teams. (Here are three reasons you really, really want to embrace smarketing.) Like vanity sizing , this type of metrics makes staffers feel positive and productive — after all, look how much interaction you’re getting on social media, the number of leads coming through the door, and email addresses gathered through form fills.
CloserIQ
JUNE 19, 2018
What’s your biggest challenge in sales? It very well could be converting, hitting quota, retention, qualifying, or any of the other 724 tasks you have to juggle each and every day. All of those are crucial, and none of them are particularly easy. That said, would it surprise you to learn that prospecting is considered the biggest challenge by 42% of salespeople , followed by closing (36%) and qualifying leads (22%)?
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!
Hubspot
JUNE 20, 2018
As a sales rep, you’re no stranger to rejection. You’ve made hundreds if not thousands of prospecting calls in your career, and regardless of how well you prepared or how perfect the prospect was for your offering, some of those dials resulted in hang-ups. Getting hung up on occasionally is an unfortunate consequence of being in sales. Nothing to obsess over.
Openview
JUNE 21, 2018
As a sales leader, you have to make a choice each and every day. Do you control your sales process to the point of scripting out calls and messaging word for word, or do you let your sales professionals express their individuality and give them complete flexibility? Most sales leaders would say that neither of those options is the right one. If you control too much of the sales process by scripting every possible move, you turn your sales professionals into robots.
criteria for success
JUNE 20, 2018
There are endless work-life balance articles on the internet today. That’s why I decided to write this best-of-the-best post and feature some incredible work-life balance articles that already exist. I figure there are plenty of “tips and tricks” out there! Why add to the noise when I can share the most valuable articles? So let’s [ ] The post 4 Best-of-the-Best Work-Life Balance Articles appeared first on Criteria for Success.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 22, 2018
No sales business model is “forever.” As our markets change, as our customers change, as our own business strategies change, there is a necessity to reassess our sales business models and go to market strategies. Unfortunately, too many companies ignore these transitions. They stay stuck with one model, working harder and harder, failing to produce the results, but failing to recognize the characteristics of their markets have changed–requiring a need to change the sales busi
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!
Hubspot
JUNE 21, 2018
Understanding the difference between UX and UI can get confusing -- the roles work closely together, and sometimes the terms are used too ambiguously to firmly understand either one. To understand the difference between UX and UI, let’s start with an example: YouTube. Take a look at the YouTube home screen. Everything you’re seeing -- the search bar at the top, the “Trending” and “Subscriptions” and “History” categories on the left, the “Recommended” videos below -- is all the work of a UI desig
Heinz Marketing
JUNE 21, 2018
By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. “How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series, over the last few years several sales experts (including Anthony Iannarino , Dave Brock and Trish Bertuzzi ) participated in our own series. Each Thursday, we feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader here answering what have become the standard “ How I Work ” questions (recently updated).
criteria for success
JUNE 21, 2018
As a leader, you are in a unique position to help your employees find a better work/life balance. But it can be hard to find ideas! In this post, I’ll share 12 examples of work/life balance initiatives for you to consider. Remember, as an employer, helping your employees improve their work/life balance will help attract [ ] The post 12 Examples of Work/Life Balance Initiatives appeared first on Criteria for Success.
Score More Sales
JUNE 18, 2018
After reading a recent post from Dave Kurlan about The Latest Data Shows that Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought made me want to immediately publish a plea to company leaders and heads of sales to enable sales managers to do more and better coaching. Using research from 9,000 sales managers and their sales teams, the findings are grim.
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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
Hubspot
JUNE 20, 2018
I have some bad news: Your email marketing database degrades by about 22.5% every year. Your contacts' email addresses change as they move from one company to another, opt-out of your email communication, or abandon that old AOL address they only use to fill out forms on websites. As a marketer, it's your job to make sure you're constantly adding fresh contacts to your email marketing campaigns so you can keep your numbers moving up and to the right.
PandaDoc
JUNE 20, 2018
Back in the day, simpler sales meant simpler playbooks. Sure, sales playbooks still resembled comprehensive, step-by-step guides and collections of best practices. But playbooks from several years ago were nowhere near as detailed, scalable, and flexible as today’s versions—as one-size-fits-all sales are no longer the norm. More modern playbooks read less as a linear script, bound via binders and split up tab-by-tab, and more like adaptable, collaborative resources.
Outreach
JUNE 21, 2018
We’ve all seen (and avoided) them. You know. salespeople. The successful ones might become those high-pressure bulldozers who coerce people into purchases on the merit of their charisma alone. We might imagine that, in the evenings, these self-promoters attend cocktail parties as buddies of the regulars, instant best friends to the newcomers — social butterflies with the ability to strike up delightful conversations on a dime.
Engage Selling
JUNE 22, 2018
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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.
Hubspot
JUNE 18, 2018
There’s a reason we’re so invested in movies and watching something play out on a screen versus reading a book about the same topic. Motion is exciting to us, and often conveys a message difficult to express through text alone. Granted, watching animated logos all day isn’t quite as fun as binge-watching The Office , but nonetheless, it still often wins in a contest against its static alternative -- doesn’t it?
Miller Heiman Group
JUNE 19, 2018
Selling isn’t getting any easier. With just a little more than half of all sales reps meeting or exceeding their quotes these days, sales organizations are struggling to keep up with constantly changing buyer expectations. The gap between buyers and sellers continues to grow, and many customers today are stuck in an apathy loop. But it’s not all bad news for sellers.
SalesforLife
JUNE 19, 2018
For our fourth sales play (see Storyboard Sales Play #1 – “Sphere of Influence,” Storyboard Sales Play #2 – “Stack Ranking” & Storyboard Sales Play #3 – “Market Intelligence” ), this play is one of my favourites. I’d like you to remember the movie The Wizard of Oz , in which Dorothy and her motley crew of friends (Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) are trying to get to the land of Oz and visit the wizard inside the Emerald City.
Outreach
JUNE 22, 2018
We build a lot of outbound sales campaigns. Often we’re starting from the ground up with nothing but a list of prospective buyers. We utilize Outreach to go beyond basic “spray and pray” tactics and generate 3-4X more sales opportunities consistently in the same period of time.
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.
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