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The Secret to Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

In this article, we cover the basic principles of control in sales and how the little things are actually the big things when it comes to selling effectively and separating yourself from the competition.

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Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product, So Why Do You Keep Selling It?

Membrain

I’ve been sitting in a lot of deal reviews recently. The clients are in varied businesses, ranging from software technologies, medical devices, capital equipment, electronic components, financial services, and so forth.

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Sales Role Specialization

Partners in Excellence

A couple of people I deeply respect have written outstanding pieces arguing that we have take sales role specialization too far. Amy Volas wrote, “Is Sales Over-segmented,” Bob Apollo wrote, “Has role specialisation in B2B selling gone too far?” (There Bob goes with his “English” spelling.) Both articles are outstanding.

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A SaaS Founder’s Guide to PR

SaaStr

So as a founder, I was fired by 3 PR firms. In a row. Two actual PR firms, and the third, a solo shop. I was fired for one simple reason: I demanded results. First, I demanded we actually measure PR. That we score the PR hits each month, graded both on quality of the hit, as well as the prominence of my company in the piece. And second, I demanded we have a goal to Do Better.

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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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B2B Reads: Baby Boomers, Revenue Engines, and Lead Objects

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 5 Ways to Nail Your B2B Strategy with ABM. A look at some of the key areas for ABM optimization to improve your B2B strategy.

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How to maximize selling in a virtual environment

Membrain

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that almost anything can be done remotely if it has to be. But is complex b2b sales an outlier? Can you really do everything in a virtual selling environment that you can in-person? And can you do it well?

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Don’t Fire Your “Worst” Customers. Hire Them a Psychiatrist Instead.

SaaStr

There’s a lot of Internet advice that makes a lot of sense, but not necessarily in SaaS. Somewhat bad advice that entrepreneurs share again and again, without having really tested the ideas behind that advice. One bit of advice you hear again and again, that I 93% disagree with, is “Fire The Customers That Don’t Fit. Fire Your “Bad” Customers.” The ones that suck up too many scarce resources relative to the revenue they generate.

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How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges

Predictable Revenue

Generating and retaining business customers makes you deal with longer (and more complicated) sales cycles, more demanding customers, and huge amounts of data. But don't worry! Here's a little help. The post How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to build a winning sales pipeline to grow your business

Salesmate

Managing your sales pipeline plays a vital role in the growth of your business. “Getting prospects into the pipeline” is a widespread phrase you’d hear when you move through any sales circle. But what does it mean to ‘get’ prospects into a pipeline? “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins.

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Flexibility: The Key to Success?

Engage Selling

Could flexibility be the secret to success in 2021? We’re approaching the very end of a year that’s been, well, memorable to say the least. Regardless of how 2020 unfolded for you, it’s safe to say it’s a year nobody … Read More » The post Flexibility: The Key to Success? first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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SaaS Pricing Pages Do Seem to Use the ‘Decoy Effect’. But Not So Much For Bundles.

SaaStr

Q: How is the ‘decoy effect’ used to increase add-on and bundle sales in SaaS? It’s an interesting question in SaaS. Do we see the classic ‘decoy effect’ — vs. just highlighting the most popular version — on SaaS pricing pages? The classic decoy effect is the Medium tub of popcorn, priced just below the Large to make the Large seem cheap: What do we see in SaaS?

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7 Tips for Automating B2B Lead Generation

Sales Hacker

With all the events that took place during 2020, the digitalization of business has increased significantly. Businesses in all niches were forced to reconsider their models and seek additional profit streams online. While it is a difficult situation for an economy, it is a digital market shift that was not seen before. In the past, many were using digital tools to improve their business and be more efficient.

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“But We Did It This Way In My Old Company!”

Partners in Excellence

I was speaking with a Sales Executive. He was relatively new to the company, he’d been in the role for a few months. The organization had been performing reasonably well, but they wanted to expand and grow quickly. He had been recruited to lead that effort. As we spoke, he said, “Dave, I don’t understand. We’re doing well, but not as well as I had hoped.

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Key to Successfully Hiring Salespeople: Getting it Right Versus Getting it Over With

Understanding the Sales Force

I'll get to the content related to the title, but first, some context.

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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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500,000+ Tuned into Our Digital Events in 2020. Here Were The Top 10 Sessions.

SaaStr

Well 2020 was certainly an interesting year for SaaStr. Things start off looking bleak, with SaaStr Annual 2020 the first big tech event to be postponed due to Covid. And then we all plunged into what looked like a big tech recession — at first. But that lasted just a few weeks, really. The Cloud picked itself up, and accelerated 6+ years into the future.

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What is a Dofollow Link?

Hubspot

The easier it is for potential customers to find your site in search engine results, the more traffic (and sales) you’ll generate. As a result, there’s a kind of constant content competition underway as website owners and administrators look for ways to stand out from the crowd and improve search engine optimization (SEO). Gone are the wild, wild west days of the World Wide Web where keyword spamming and content stuffing were the norm to drive search engine interest.

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How We Built Highspot: Stories from Our Founders

Highspot

While working at Microsoft, Robert Wahbe, our CEO; Oliver Sharp, our Chief Solution Architect; and David Wortendyke, our Chief Product Officer, uncovered an urgent need for technology that could empower customer-facing teams to do their best work – and make the most of every buyer interaction. So they set out to build it. And thus, Highspot was born.

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Top 10 Responsibilities of a Digital Sales Specialist

APACSMA

The Digital Sales Support Specialist role is responsible for meeting new business development goals as well as acting as a resource to the sales department in developing, selling, and maintaining digital marketing initiatives. Here are the Top 10 Responsibilities of a Digital Sales Specialist: All Rights Reserved by Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy.

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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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What To Do if Your TAM is Too Small for VCs

SaaStr

If your TAM really does seem too small for VCs, 2 choices really: 1. Just find that 1 VC that still believes. This can work. 2. At least build a 1.0 of a product expansion that shows a larger TAM. This often also works. Even if you have few customers to start. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 21, 2020. TAM (Total Addressable Market) is a tricky concept.

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Six Direct Response Copywriting Tips (and Examples)

Hubspot

Connecting with potential customers is critical to boost interest in your website and drive sales conversions. But this is often easier said than done — while many site owners understand the value of compelling content, creating copy that resonates with visitors is more complicated than it appears. Here's why: Gone are the days of keyword-stuffed content designed only to drive up SEO values.

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Podcast 141: How to Build an Achievable Revenue Plan with Mary Grothe

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 140, check it out here: Habits of a Bootstrap CEO: Depth Not Breadth with Zak Hemraj. What You’ll Learn. The biggest mistake is being too silo focused. How to build a realistic, achievable revenue plan. Revenue-based compensation is a resounding yes. Write your own definition for success. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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Roles and Responsibilities of a Sales Team Leader

APACSMA

Sales Team Leader The leader of the sales department is the glue that keeps the sales staff together, provides the manager with the preparation and inspiration to achieve selling goals. Typically, the work environment is fast-paced, and the team leader often moves from one task to another, answering questions, holding meetings, delegating responsibilities, and acting as an encouraging voice.

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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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45% of You Let Your Office Go

SaaStr

At some point in 2021, we’ll be on the other side of this. We’ll be back to events, including the SaaStr Annual 2021 IRL. We’ll be eating indoors again. And we’ll be back, in many cases, to the office. For many of us, it will be a different office. 45% of you said you’d let the office just go, and another 18% of you said you’d downsized.

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The Beginner's Guide to Keyword Density

Hubspot

Keywords are a critical part of your SEO strategy. Along with relevant content and optimized website design, ranking for the right keywords helps your site stand out from the crowd — and get closer to the top of search engine results pages (SERPs). So it's no surprise that a substantial amount of SEO advice centers on keywords: Doing your research can help you select and rank for top-performing keywords in your market, in turn boosting user engagement and increasing total sales.

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Banish These Words, “For Now…”

Partners in Excellence

Before continuing, I have to give credit to this phrase and important concept to Brent Adamson. Brent and I were having one of our frequent conversations about the future of buying/selling. We were discussing the pandemic and it’s impact on buyers and sellers. We’ve seen our worlds turned upside down. We and our customers are re-inventing our business.

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Prepare Your Sales Team With These Sales Training Best Practices

APACSMA

Corporate sales are a high-burnout job, filled with rejection and the stress of looming quotas, yet it’s crucial that sales reps are on top of their customer service game for each and every contact with customers. They have to be knowledgeable, pleasant and provide an excellent Customer Experience every time—that can be difficult for a new sales rep, or for someone who is just feeling overwhelmed with a big workload, or a wealth of new product information.

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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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“Imposter Syndrome” is Probably Just Part of Being a Founder

SaaStr

Q: How do I overcome impostor syndrome as a startup founder? Maybe you never do. When Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of $60B+ Atlassian, came to SaaStr Annual, he shared that he still hasn’t gotten over it: When I spoke with Todd McKinnon last week, CEO of Okta, he said he still felt vulnerable all the way to $30m-$40m ARR. And that it still hurts folks to think Okta isn’t “cool enough” or “big enough” … even though it’s now a $30B company!

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How to Prevent Redirect Chains from Destroying Your SEO

Hubspot

Have a website? Then you’ve likely heard about search engine optimization (SEO) — the process of making your site easier to find, crawl, and rank for search engines. The better your SEO, the higher your website ends up on search engine ranking pages (SERPs) — as a result, the greater the chance of your site being noticed by potential customers. And with 68% of all website traffic coming from organic and paid searches — rather than through social media shares and other marketing channels — the ri

UX 101
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Social Entrepreneur building a blockchain ecosystem to change the world for better.

Closer's Coffee

In this Closer’s episode we connect with Kim Raath, PhD, the co-founder and CEO of Topl. Topl Inc is an impact technology company that is building a blockchain ecosystem to prove a company’s ethical and sustainable practices. Topl’s technology simplifies the certification processes, drastically cutting operational costs and increasing transparency throughout the supply chain.

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Do’s and Don’t of CRM

APACSMA

When the CRM system is properly implemented, the results can be outstanding. However, for a variety of reasons, CRM projects sometimes fail. Here are our top ten do’s and don’ts to ensure the success of the CRM project: All Rights Reserved by Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy. The post Do’s and Don’t of CRM appeared first on APACSMA | Award-Winning Sales Consulting and Education.

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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.