Iannarino

OCTOBER 8, 2023

One way to prevent your clients from treating you as a commodity is to pursue a conversation that differs from your competitors’. When you look and sound like your rivals, you can expect your clients to believe you are no different. To differentiate yourself in your client’s eyes is to create value for them in the sales conversation.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 20, 2023

One of the most effective sales strategies is information disparity, knowing what your prospective client doesn’t know. If your contact already knows everything you tell them, it is difficult to create value for them in the sales conversation. This is one reason why buyers refuse a second meeting with a salesperson.

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Iannarino

JUNE 11, 2023

One mistake salespeople make in discovery is asking questions they should have answered through their research. These questions will show they didn’t prepare for a first meeting. While failing to do research is harmful in an average pursuit, it’s worse in an enterprise-level opportunity.

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Iannarino

MARCH 4, 2024

There are people who still believe that the sales contest is between two companies and their solutions. The truth is that the contest is between the salespeople vying for the opportunity.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Those who set goals and write them down increase their ability to reach them, but many goal setters still fail to create the outcomes they are seeking.

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Iannarino

JULY 10, 2022

Let's look directly at an inconvenient truth most are unwilling to recognize or acknowledge: Your company, as good as it is, has competitors who are equally as good (and some may be better).

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Iannarino

AUGUST 27, 2023

One salesperson wins a client’s business. All the other salespeople competing for the client lose the opportunity. In a contest that ends in winner-takes-all, it’s important to come out on top.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 2, 2023

Theodore Levitt, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School taught his students that people don’t buy drills; they buy quarter-inch holes. No one wants to buy a drill , they buy the outcome the drill provides them. Too many salespeople have been convinced that their solution is superior to that of their competition.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

This decision hinges on various factors, including the nature of the task, budget constraints, and long-term strategic objectives. For instance, AI-powered tools can automate email marketing campaigns, sales outreach cadences, social media scheduling, and data analysis, freeing up your team to focus on more strategic initiatives.

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Iannarino

MARCH 15, 2024

There is a logic to identifying and pursuing 60 dream clients. These 60 clients already buy what you sell; in fact, some of your competitors are supplying them now. Because your dream client is already spending a lot of money in your category, you don’t need to qualify them, nor do you need to wonder if they value what you sell.

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Iannarino

JANUARY 17, 2024

Discover the power of turning down the wrong clients to build a successful and integrity-driven sales career.

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Martech

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The post How to align teams early with a strategic event workshop appeared first on MarTech. Dig deeper: Beyond attendance: Unlocking B2B growth with event-led strategies Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The post Top 5 strategic trends for social media marketing in 2024 appeared first on MarTech. Dig deeper: B2B social media ‘sweet spots’: What’s working and what’s not Get MarTech! In your inbox. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

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Martech

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Explore strategic collaboration with external partners to combine and analyze data assets. The post Breaking data silos: Digital marketer’s checklist for strategic data collaboration appeared first on MarTech. Prioritize the collection and activation of first-party data.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 17, 2023

You need to capture the client's interest and position yourself as someone with the knowledge and experience to lead them to the better results they need.

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Iannarino

MARCH 28, 2024

The Beginnings of a Sales Career: Learning Through Cold Calls I started selling when I was 15. I made cold calls for a non-profit. I was not given any training, just a script and a list of phone numbers. That said, I was the only person to win two deals. Before that job, I washed dishes, where I learned the discipline of working.

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Iannarino

JULY 6, 2023

There is a concept used in geopolitics called strategic empathy, which is the antidote to strategic narcissism. The historian Zachary Shore’s concept of strategic empathy is “the skill of understanding what drives and constrains one’s adversary.”

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Discover the pivotal shift from product obsession to strategic selling that can set you apart in the competitive landscape of 2024. Join us in unraveling the art of winning without the blinders of solution love.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This tool could probably be more strategic. ) Sales leaders and managers demand their teams capture their activity and opportunities in the CRM. The sales leader desires to see every new opportunity logged as soon as the sales rep returns to their office.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Whether youre focused on leadership, skill development, or strategic planning, you can use these resources to help drive sales success in 2025. As 2024 comes to a close, were sharing our most read and favorite sales training and management content that helped sales teams thrive this year.

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Iannarino

JULY 27, 2022

There are a lot of lists of attributes required of a great leader; most include things like vision, communication, and a strategic mind. There are far fewer lists of the soft skills that make for a great leader. The following soft skills would cause a team to recognize their leader as great.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The upside of having data on your strategic clients is that you speed up your ability to contact them for a meeting. There are several things making it more challenging to acquire a first meeting , like the overwhelming volume of emails, voicemails, and other messages your contacts receive.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

From buyers who decide they prefer a salesperson-free buying experience, to companies who pursue consensus only to abandon what was a strategic initiative, it is clear things are different now. B2B sales has never been more complex or more challenging.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A successful sales culture provides a strategic advantage that is often underestimated. A successful sales culture produces better results over time. To have a successful sales culture, a sales organization needs to do more than ensure things aren’t toxic.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

These range from strategic alterations to investments you can make that will have a transformational impact. Assign Sales Territories Strategically The last thing you’ll want your sales teams and reps to do is compete to close the same clients. Improve Lead Prospecting At the heart of successful sales efforts is lead generation.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Discover why chasing higher activity in sales often misses the mark and learn the strategic approach that truly elevates your team’s success.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 16, 2021

He is the founder and CEO of Tfisot, an international consultancy firm that helps companies and sales teams improve their sales results by implementing a new strategic sales method and by transforming their sales approach. Lahat Tzvi is a leading sales authority, a world-renowned sales expert in the field of B2B and complex selling.

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Iannarino

JUNE 15, 2023

It isn’t difficult to acquire a strategic advantage in sales. Yet, most people refuse to take the single action that tens of thousands have used to succeed at greater levels than their peers and their competitors. Throughout history, the people you have heard of have one thing in common: They read.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 19, 2023

Every sales leader wants greater revenue , which is the primary strategic outcome for which they are responsible. However, some leaders believe their most important goal is increasing the speed in which their revenue is generated.

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Iannarino

APRIL 10, 2024

Discover the delicate balance of professional relationships and strategic client management through real-life business scenarios.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

But most sales professionals don’t approach question in a strategic fashion, meaning going beyond the obvious. Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2023

Many salespeople want to act strategically but choose transactional communication mediums. You may believe no one wants to talk to you and that they prefer emails or text messages, although this is clearly not true. In sales today, the main variable is what and how salespeople communicate with their contacts and prospects.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In his words, marketing leaders must evolve into strategic contributors whose insights drive core business results. As a result, many marketers struggle to elevate their focus from these operational concerns to the larger strategic priorities of their organization. Here are several steps to guide this transformation.

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