Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2019

When I first built my email list, I was ready to create some drip campaigns. Just one little problem: I didn't know what to say. I felt like a salesperson with this perfect prospect, but I couldn't find the words to convey how I could change this person's business. I started chatting with a few of my friends in sales to learn more about their best secrets and corresponding open rates, and David Sneider , Sendbloom's former head of growth and current CEO of Deco.Network, provided the following qu

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Nutshell

JULY 24, 2019

When you can’t figure out why your sales have surged in one month and plummeted in another, it’s easy to shrug your shoulders and mark it up to “seasonality.”. Seasonality refers to fluctuations in your sales revenue that are caused by external factors and occur on a predictable schedule around the same time(s) every year. To be fair, you can’t really control seasonal shifts in consumer behavior, especially when those shifts are permanently tied to the holiday schedule or growing seasons.

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SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2019

Today Ray Oram, Global VP of Sales Enablement for IBM, joins us to discuss how to transform the seller experience. Traditionally, sales enablement groups have spent their time working on budgets, supporting sellers through training, developing digital assets, and knowledge sharing.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 9, 2019

It may sound strange, but there will be people you know you can help who will refuse to meet with you! How dare they! Don’t they know you have their holy grail, the answer to their prayers, the very thing they have been looking for? Of course, the world doesn’t work that way, and there will be prospects and customers who will reject your advances and avoid you at all costs.

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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.

Groove HQ

JULY 30, 2019

Amidst day-to-day struggles, we forget great support stems not from a mysterious alchemy of magnetism and magic. Instead, it arises from a certain set of core competencies. Behind the scenes of every experience are attainable skills that separate average or frustrating from truly exceptional customer service. But what skills matter? And how do you take […].

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 24, 2019

Not long ago, I spoke with two leaders from a top-notch company enrolled in our Up Your Culture program. The purpose of our conversation was to help them find ways to create a strong sense of unification employee engagement across their multiple markets. They know that companies with highly-engaged employees are 17% more productive and 31% more profitable, and they recognize that those with strong levels of engagement enjoy 26% greater annual increases in revenue and 233% higher customer loyalty

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Nutshell

JULY 23, 2019

Tracking your contacts and conversations aren’t the only tasks a CRM is good for. If you choose the right one, it can save you a ton of time on analyzing your sales numbers and creating your financial forecasts for the future. A study by IBM found that being able to consolidate sales data was one of the top four most important features that businesses wanted out of a CRM.

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Engage Selling

JULY 18, 2019

Have you given sufficient thought to building confidence in your sales team? It goes without saying, but confident salespeople perform better than those who lack confidence.

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RAIN Group

JULY 17, 2019

Everyone is a periodic procrastinator. Twenty percent of people are chronic procrastinators. 1. Why? We all have something we want to do or know we need to do, but it seems difficult, so we avoid it. Often, that seemingly difficult task is the same activity that would provide you the greatest feeling of accomplishment, productivity, and return on your efforts.

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Groove HQ

JULY 16, 2019

The story of the darkest months of Groove’s history “I don’t even want to go.” It all came to a head at my kitchen table at home. I was talking with my wife, and I was miserable. Anyone who’s been through it will tell you that the entrepreneur’s journey is full of peaks and valleys, […]. The post Why I Almost Walked Away From the $500k/mo Company I Founded appeared first on Groove Blog.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 18, 2019

Sometimes I wonder if our ability to measure almost everything is what gets in the way of us actually paying attention to what might be the most useful metrics. I’ve spoken with plenty of sales managers who are frustrated these days because someone upstairs has fallen in love with a new measurement, a new report, or a new way to look at familiar data.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 7, 2019

Are you a B2B account manager or sales executive who is serious about account-based sales or account-based marketing (ABM)? If the answer is “Yes,” chances are you understand your customers want partners, not vendors. To win new business and grow key accounts, account managers and sales executives must become thoroughly invested in their customer’s challenges, goals, and competitive landscape.

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SBI Growth

JULY 15, 2019

Are you growing faster than your competitors? Have you started the year off blowing out your plan? If you answer yes, congrats, you have a good “problem” on your hands. What CEO doesn’t want to grow even faster? It gets the.

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Engage Selling

JULY 4, 2019

If you want to make more sales, you have to think about this. First, understand that we live in an “on demand generation.” We can watch movies on demand. We can play any song on demand.

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RAIN Group

JULY 31, 2019

This RAIN Group article was first published on Selling Power. When it comes to sales prospecting, sellers are frequently told the following: "Cold calling doesn't work.". "It's impossible to get through to buyers cold.". "With all the information on the Internet, buyers do their own research and reach out later in the sales process.". "You shouldn't pitch your capabilities.".

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Sandler Training

JULY 25, 2019

In the past couple of decades, our workplaces have gone from the office to mostly virtual spaces. We get our jobs done and we communicate in the cloud. However, we still struggle with the same issues in communication which we had decades ago. Here are a few effective ways to overcome communication barriers in the workplace which you can apply right now.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 11, 2019

If your sales meetings are typically just focused on reviewing the budget pacing numbers and other housekeeping notes, then WOW are you missing a great opportunity. Sales meetings are a great place to do sales training or sales warm ups. While most sales managers agree with this, they often share that one of the reasons they don’t do that sort of activity is that they don’t have time to prepare.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Your sales team is working harder than ever to differentiate your product or service and close new business. In fact, HubSpot research shows 72% of companies with less than 50 new opps were unable to meet their goals. That number shrank to just 4% with companies earning 101 or more opportunities each month. Reps need to prospect, sell, and close -- and that doesn’t always leave a lot of time for administrative or big-picture work.

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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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SBI Growth

JULY 28, 2019

Driving effective cross-functional interlocks is a best practice for B2B organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth. However, one interlock that often gets overlooked in go-to-market transformations is the relationship between Sales and Pricing. Too often, Sales views Pricing as a.

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Engage Selling

JULY 19, 2019

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Nutshell

JULY 5, 2019

Referral marketing is the unicorn of B2B marketing. In simple terms, referral marketing is when you get your customers to tell their friends about you. But referral marketing isn’t just for brick-and-mortar businesses. In the B2B space, 84% of decision-makers start their buying process with a referral. Which is bad news if you don’t have a referral program in place—you’re pretty much leaving money on the table. .

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Groove HQ

JULY 15, 2019

Here’s something you won’t expect a customer support platform to say outright: Gmail is awesome for customer support. In fact, a lot of customers who come to Groove were using Gmail for customer support in the past. (What’s more, plenty of small businesses we talk to don’t actually need customer support software.) Why? Because if […]. The post Gmail for Customer Support: 10 Best Practices You Need to Know appeared first on Groove Blog.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 4, 2019

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in 2016 and has been updated. At least once a week, I get asked by a sales leader if there is a business book I would recommend they read that will help them improve their game. That is a tough question to answer, because there are so many very good books out there, and depending where you are in your career (or your current business situation, or what you have already read) the right book for you could be one of several.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2019

Salespeople get a bad rap. In HubSpot Research's newest study, Buyers Speak Out: How Sales Needs to Evolve , respondents were asked to submit the word they most associated with salespeople. The #1 response? "Pushy.". Yikes. Persistence is part of being a salesperson. In fact, 80% of sales require five or more follow-ups. And there's an obvious difference between consistently adding a bit of value with each check-in and doggedly pursuing prospects who have, in no uncertain terms, told you they're

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RAIN Group

JULY 10, 2019

Productivity is often misunderstood. One person might think being productive is conquering their never-ending inbox by the end of the day, while another perceives it as working as many hours as possible. Here's the thing: it's not about getting through your email, and it's not about being a workhorse and cranking out eight or more hours of work every day.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

The question isn’t if a recession is coming. It’s when. Nearly half of American CFOs indicated they believed a recession would hit by mid-year 2020 in a Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey released in June 2019. European business leaders feel similarly, as half of European companies stated that a recession is imminent in the next five years and 18% believing their country is already in one.

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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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Engage Selling

JULY 26, 2019

??????????????????????????I recently talked to a CEO whose sales were down $16 million. That represented a 20% decrease from the prior year. Thus, they were concerned.

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Sandler Training

JULY 29, 2019

Tim Priebe, Founder of T&S Online Marketing, talks about how to integrate Sandler into your marketing and shows you the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques needed to be more successful at marketing the Sandler way. Get the best practices for marketing collected from around the world. Listen Time: 30 Minutes.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 3, 2019

Tomorrow is the 4th of July, or Independence Day. It's a day that we as Americans reflect on our freedom, our heritage, and our history. In honor of this, we asked a few of the CSS team to chime in for this post. We asked, "If you could pick one historic American leader that would make a great sales leader today because of their strengths and talents, who would it be?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2019

Are you ready to take make your side hustle your main hustle? Or maybe you’ve got an idea -- you just don’t quite have the details fleshed out. You may be considering an incubator or accelerator to help you get started. But what’s the difference? And which one is right for you? Before you find your nearest Erlich Bachman, get the quick guide to incubators and accelerators below, and learn about alternatives to both.

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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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