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3 Ways to Use Sell Me This Pen to Hire Sales Superstars

Sales Readiness Group

The “sell me this pen” test is a classic go-to question for sales managers interviewing sales candidates, and it’s easy to see why. This one simple, industry-neutral example can quickly test whether a salesperson knows how to sell. Here are three ways to use this timeless question in your hiring process.

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Two 2023 financial benchmarks for law firms: The Law Society/Hazelwoods and the Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM)/Crowe

Red Star Kim

I regularly review and summarise benchmark reports for law, accountancy, property and consultancy businesses. So here are two 2023 benchmarks for law firms: The Law Society/Hazelwoods and the Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM)/Crowe. It’s interesting to compare the results from the two benchmarks. The Law Society and Hazelwoods Law firms show resilience despite difficult times, Financial Benchmarking Survey shows | The Law Society (10 March 2023) Resilient law firms reported a st

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33 Stats to Know if You’re Considering or Planning a Sales Career in 2023

Hubspot Sales

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. Choosing the right position based on your personality, likes, and dislikes can ensure you thrive in your new career. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. You may have heard negative things over the years about salespeople, such as stereotypes that depict salespeople as pushy or aggressive.

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Sales Prospecting: The Top Mistakes Companies Make and How to Fix Them

The Center for Sales Strategy

If you're looking to grow your business, prospecting is a crucial part of the process, as it allows companies to identify potential customers and clients and generate new business opportunities. However, many companies make mistakes when prospecting that can hurt their chances of success. Let's talk about some of the most common mistakes companies make when it comes to prospecting and how to avoid them.

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Sales Competencies of Top Sellers

RAIN Group

You’d be hard-pressed to find an organization that didn’t want its sellers and sales teams to meet their goals in the face of challenging conditions and do so with high win rates and strong pricing. Sales training is one obvious way for organizations to build such teams. While sales training often fails to meet its promise, our research shows that highly effective sales training is correlated with higher win rates, sales goal attainment, and premium pricing.

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Unlocking Key Fundamentals of IMPACT Selling® in Uncertain Times

Brooks Group

This article is part of our Key Fundamentals of IMPACT Selling ® series. Mental Models, Cognitive Tunneling, and the Crisis of Qantas Flight 32 On November 4, 2010, Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny entered the cockpit of an Airbus A380 headed from Singapore to Sydney, Australia. Qantas Flight 32’s routine takeoff quickly escalated into an emergency that de Crespigny, his 29-person crew, and 440 passengers will never forget.

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What’s Better? Virtual or In-Person Meetings?

Whetstone

Has the pandemic dramatically changed the way you work and interact with your customers? You’re not alone! The painful shift from in-person meetings to virtual ones has been a major adaptation for most businesses and organizations. While we’ve always understood that in-person meetings are beneficial, we’ve learned over the last few years that virtual meetings provide opportunities that we were previously unaware of.

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How you can benefit from sales processes automation

PandaDoc

There’s a simple reason behind automating sales processes — less time spent on low-value-added activities results in more time spent on actual selling. That goes for the rest of your sales team stuck following established steps — how much of that time could they have spent doing something more productive than administering routine tasks? What is sales process automation?

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Apr 05 – Customer Success Jobs  

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada (On-site) Organization: Optix As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll be helping potential and existing customers through a variety of channels, such as video calls, live chat, and email support, acting as a product specialist and responding to queries about products. Conducting demos are your chance to learn more about what Optix’s potential customers are searching for and whether we are a suitable fit.

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Relationship Selling – How to Deliver Value to Customers

Upland

There are many “lone wolves” in B2B sales. But what if we told you that the old ways of making deals happen were out of touch with modern realities? What if we told you that relationship selling – putting your relationship with your customers at the heart of each and everything you do – is what really moves the needle? To do this well, it takes more than just merely being “liked” by customers.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Apr 05 – Customer Success Jobs  

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada (On-site) Organization: Optix As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll be helping potential and existing customers through a variety of channels, such as video calls, live chat, and email support, acting as a product specialist and responding to queries about products. Conducting demos are your chance to learn more about what Optix’s potential customers are searching for and whether we are a suitable fit.

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Revenue Team – It Takes a Village to Close a Deal

Upland

With an ever-evolving buying journey, businesses need a revenue team behind them to create the best experiences for customers, build key relationships that matter, and grow and retain revenue in accounts. We’ve seen the era of lone wolf sellers come and go. Those sellers are quickly seeing the rug pulled out from under their feet as buyers are looking for the human touch to help guide them through big B2B purchases.

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Account Planning Best Practices

ProlifIQ

Account Planning Best Practices Sales account planning is a critical aspect of any business that seeks to manage its customers effectively and generate more revenue. An action plan that outlines the sales account planning process is crucial for any company that wants to succeed. Mostly in growing and closing large enterprise accounts. The goal of sales account planning is to develop a customized selling approach that maximizes each customer’s potential and builds strong relationships.