Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2018

Closing is a make-or-break moment in sales. Choosing the right phrases to seal a sales deal is crucial. And this moment is likely the final verdict determining whether or not your efforts will amount to anything at all. You're not the only salesperson who feels apprehensive about the close. However, without that feeling of risk, successfully closing a sale wouldn't be so thrilling -- which drives salespeople to continually strive for more.Because sales professionals are expected to generate the

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Nutshell

AUGUST 16, 2018

Definition of Cold Calling: Cold calling is a form of telemarketing in which a salesperson attempts to solicit business from potential customers who have not previously expressed interest in the seller’s product or solution. For outbound sales teams, cold calling is often the first—and arguably the most important—step towards creating sales opportunities.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s Crunch Time – the Beginning of Q4. Are you going to hit your 2018 number? What’s your forecast for 2019? Do you have the heads, processes, and funding to ensure a successful 2019? Only a handful of Sales Ops leaders can.

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RAIN Group

AUGUST 29, 2018

Technology sellers lament how impossible it is to get their buyers on the phone more than any other industry. Phone is one of the top ways sellers say they connect with buyers, yet sellers in the technology industry report extreme difficulty using it to reach their buyers. In our study on Top Performance in Sales Prospecting , we studied 488 buyers responsible for $4.2 billion of purchases and the prospecting habits of 489 sellers.

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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.

Engage Selling

AUGUST 23, 2018

Let’s face it, your competition inevitably comes up every so often while you speak with prospects and clients. You need to know how to talk about the competition.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

A salesperson on one of our workshops was bemoaning the fact that he had to make between 100 and 150 cold calls a week. He wanted our opinion on how to get more leads without having to cold call. My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. But how do you decide which ones make the most sense for your business? To point you in the right direction, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best and most popular B2B sales tactics from general practices to specific sales techniques you can use to close more of your deals.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2018

Joining us on SBI TV is Doris Raimundi, SVP of Consumer Banking Sales and Support for US Bank. In today’s show, Doris details how to orchestrate a world class customer experience. Why this topic? The customer experience trend is sweeping.

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RAIN Group

AUGUST 22, 2018

Email is one of the top ways to break through and secure meetings with targeted buyers. In fact, 80% of buyers say they prefer to be contacted by sellers via email. It's an essential part of any prospecting plan. However, too many prospecting emails fall victim to common mistakes that kill response rates. Recently, we shared 13 email prospecting best practices.

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Sales Latitude

AUGUST 2, 2018

As a sales professional, you may think your job is all about selling products and services, making quota, and driving revenue for your company. Sure, ok – that’s true. But that’s not the whole picture. Your job is really about helping buyers solve their problems and achieve their goals. Whenever I coach sales people and sales managers, I ask them specific questions to see how much they know about their customers and prospects, with an eye towards understanding the quality of their pipeline.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 9, 2018

The job of a sales manager is a challenging one. One of the biggest challenges that they face is how to keep a team of sellers motivated and producing quality results. Some of the best ways to make salespeople more productive don't include spending a fortune or sending them through another training class. A few of the best ideas are ones that help to reduce administrative burdens and increase time in the field or on the phones.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Great news: It’s time to hire a sales manager for your team. But before you can start interviewing candidates, you need to draw them in with a well-written, accurate, compelling job description that describes the role,

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Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. This is especially useful for companies that can deliver and support their products regardless of their customers’ geographical location.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2018

On July, 17 1955 it was well over 100 degrees in Anaheim, CA on the first day in the original Magic Kingdom. Women’s heels were melting into the asphalt, and people were thirsty but there wasn’t enough to drink. Yet.

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Sales Readiness Group

AUGUST 29, 2018

At some point, every salesperson goes through a slump. One month you seem to close every deal in sight, and then the next month you go ice cold. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to close a deal.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 13, 2018

There are many times when a client tries to intimidate or get the better of salespeople. Whether it’s because they feel they have to in order to get a better deal, or their ego is associated with getting one over someone else, or some other rationale, they feel the need to do something that gains them a ‘win’ of some sorts. One way they do this is to keep negotiating a discount , no matter what figure you have dropped or discounted to.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 17, 2018

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2018

M y name is John Sherer. And I spam my prospects. At least, I used to. You're likely thinking one of two things: " What a monster. I can't believe he did that. " or " How the heck did he ever stop? ". Unfortunately, I didn't stop mass email marketing until it stopped working. And, at that point, it's too late and you're left with no money. So, today I'd like to share the evolution of my. email prospecting. strategy and how it went from old school robotic to modern and strategic, with a series of

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 17, 2018

MailChimp is a beloved staple in the email marketing world. Almost everyone has heard of the platform, and if you communicate with customers for a living, there’s a good chance that you’ve used MailChimp to send out email newsletters and marketing drip campaigns. However, MailChimp can also be an essential B2B sales tool when used in the right context.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2018

Joining us on the SBI Podcast is Sarah Kennedy Ellis, the Chief Marketing Officer for Marketo. In today’s show, Sarah details how to apply the discipline of revenue attribution to marketing. Why this topic? CEOs, CMOs and CROs need to understand.

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Sales Readiness Group

AUGUST 17, 2018

To maximize sales results, a sales manager has to ensure that his or her team is operating at their peak level like a sports team. That’s where coaching comes in—it’s one of the most important things you can do as a manager to drive better sales results. Coaching is the time you spend 1:1 with your team members to improve their ability to sell. The most common obstacle preventing sales managers from coaching their teams is time commitment.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 6, 2018

Trying to get your prospect to interact with you can often be a frustrating nightmare. Making a call that is interrupting their day, especially when it sounds like a typical sales call, can be the quickest way to get a slam-dunk from the other end of the line. What can we suggest, then, that will at least get the prospect listening for a few moments?

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Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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Groove HQ

AUGUST 1, 2018

Solve complicated scenarios with great communication. There are a few main difficult scenarios you’ll most likely face as a support representative. In customer service, every interaction matters, and there is no 100% right or wrong way to deal with any situation. Even though the ability to think on a case-to-case basis is one of the […]. The post 5 Customer Service Email Templates for Tough Situations appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 24, 2018

Success doesn’t come easy. Even the most dedicated entrepreneur sometimes finds it tough to stay on track. You’ll battle things beyond your control and encounter issues you couldn’t have predicted. So, how do you keep your eyes on the prize? How do you make sure the struggle doesn’t divert you from your ultimate goal? Allow the words of those who have gone before us to motivate you and keep you focused.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 28, 2018

Technology has disrupted the traditional techniques we have used to approach prospects. Today, the most successful developers of new business have a smart and focused prospecting strategy. They concentrate their efforts on a disciplined strategy that provides more appointments and more revenue. The shotgun approach of yesteryear is dead. Before technology disrupted our approach, we could sit down and call 100 prospects and get ten appointments.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2018

How often do you hear sales and marketing teams being critical of the product portfolio? Your products! It is easy for people to sit in the cheap seats and judge. But why does it continue to happen? Ironically, it’s because.

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Speaker: Michelle Vazzana

Every sales organization wants their sales force to be agile. Why? Because the world is rapidly changing, becoming more complex, and making the salesperson’s job harder. Organizational leaders are unsure of the best way to equip sellers to succeed in this new reality. Should they change their sales methodology? Should they adopt better technology tools?

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Sales Readiness Group

AUGUST 30, 2018

Since the day the first contact management systems added features to enable Reps to keep track of their opportunities, there has been a constant struggle between manager and sales rep to keep the pipeline clean and “update the damn CRM.” Management wants a roll-up of their reps’ pipelines to enable better visibility and produce accurate forecasts, while reps are not motivated to spend precious selling time on administrative tasks and data entry that doesn’t help them close business.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 22, 2018

Unless you’re working with customers who are purely in transactional mode, the holy grail of sales is gaining repeat business. Turning a one-time customer into a loyal client increases revenue, profit and probable recommendations exponentially. So, how can you tell if the customer you’re dealing with will return and do more business with you? Here are some ideas to work with: 1) Ask what makes your customer use specific suppliers.

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Openview

AUGUST 3, 2018

Becoming the absolute leader in your market is not a luxury. It’s a necessity to survive. The old battlecry of “If we can get 1% of a $10 billion market, we’ll be rich!” is some of the biggest maladvice in business history. It sounds so good on paper (the young VCs always think they’re going to make their careers with these investments). But it’s not how markets work in reality.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2018

If you asked most people what activity they associated most with sales, I’d guess that many of them would respond the same way: Closing. And it’d be no surprise. For one thing, it’s the most visible part of the sales process -- all of us have been closed at one time or another, whether we’re buying a new vacuum cleaner or a new Learjet. For another, there’s nothing sexy about prospecting or discovery calls.

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What if there was a better method of changing the conversation with your customer from delivering pricing to delivering value solutions? A method that would help keep you in control, manage the uncertainty, and close larger deals more quickly for you and your company? There is.

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