Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Your reps need to learn and retain all of the company-specific skills and knowledge in order to succeed in their jobs.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

As marketing leaders, it makes sense to explore multiple channels to reach your target audience. With so many options, it quickly becomes not only expensive but also difficult to manage. How do you decide which channels will be worth the.

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RAIN Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Everybody's brain has two different processing centers: emotional and rational. The emotional brain is old. It developed millions of years ago, first with raw instincts—like fight or flight—that all animals have, and then into more complex emotions for us humans like anger, aggression, desire, fear, hatred, passion, love, disgust, sympathy, and so on.

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Sandler Training

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most important ways to retain clients is to view an honest understanding of their interactions with your company. What are the different touch points and how well does your company act and react at all those points along the way? Read Time: 6 Minutes.

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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.

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

How do you increase value? You may think it’s by improving your product quality or better pricing strategies or better terms to customers. Instead, your real value lies in developing your overall sales skills, so you help your clients to improve their business over time. Value can be seen as your overall worth to the marketplace and it’s how you increase and improve that value that will see you improve and build your reputation with current and future clients.

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Tidio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Great reviews sell stuff. Period. Why? Because they’re an indication of the product’s quality. It’s a social proof, where a bunch of people point something out and say “ hey, we want that! ”. It always works the same, regardless if it applies to products, services, or applications. Table of Contents. Why having good reviews is important Tips for getting reviews.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Your obligations as a Revenue Operations leader are under constant pressure. Your sales team is constantly under the watch of the Executive Team and Board of Directors; however, their priorities aren’t necessarily coordinated. The lack of clarity from the top.

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Groove HQ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When building a successful business, everything screams for attention. Within that flood, why prioritize customer service? The post Why is Customer Service Important? 11 Ways Customer Satisfaction Correlates with Business Results appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Prioritization 99

Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Today we are announcing a landmark moment in the sales performance marketplace: Miller Heiman Group will join Korn Ferry to create an unprecedented force to deliver the most comprehensive solutions ever offered to the market. As a 20+ year veteran of the sales and service performance market, I could not be more excited for our employees, our clients and our Independent Sales Consultants to be a part of this next phase of Miller Heiman Group.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There’s a saying in negotiations that goes ‘The person in control of a conversation is the one asking the questions.’. Think about that for a moment and you can see the sense in it. When someone asks you a question, they immediately put you on a course of finding the answer. Your thought processes are controlled by the nature of the question, and you seek the answer to what they have asked.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Do members of your sales team freeze up at this key moment? Especially with newer or lesser experienced sales reps, the following scenario is fairly common. They secure a sales meeting with a prospect. They get ready for the meeting.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a sales professional, the rate at which you’re expected to guide prospects through the sales process and drive revenue for your company is likely increasing. Many companies create ambitious targets requiring growth, scalability, and hustle. How do you achieve these goals? Through growth hacking. The term growth hacking refers to strategies aimed at creating scalable growth through improved productivity and efficiency.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Over the past few years, marketers are increasingly held responsible for revenue goals. If you’re like most CMOs, you can identify with at least one of these: You’re not sure how to calculate the number of leads you need to generate. You.

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Groove HQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It felt like the exact wrong thing to do. It was crazy. Maybe even a little stupid. We had recently finished our rebuilding project, trying to rescue our company from a slide into failure, and we were just starting to find our footing. Things were going well, but after working our way out of the […]. The post Vacations Are Important, but Most Founders Do Them Wrong appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Founded in 1959, The Second City improvisational comedy theater in Chicago has produced some of the greatest comedic acts of all time. Such beloved performers as Bill Murray, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey have all performed on its stage at the start of their careers. Today, The Second City is just as well-known as a training ground, developing the next generation of comedic talent through its highly regarded classes.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It’s the time of year where competition is in the air. Not only is a little fantasy football floating around the office, but we’re about to tackle the end of another fiscal year. We’re all going for the “Hail Mary” pass with, what feels like, only seconds remaining on the clock. Similar to having a successful season on your fantasy football league, having a great sales quarter takes strategy, skill and taking advantage of every opportunity that comes your way.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There’s a truth about price objections that you need to be familiar with. We’ve all been there as sellers. We walk into a buyer’s office, shake hands and are immediately asked what our pricing looks like.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As we creep closer to the end of the year, it’s natural for sales leaders to reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and to map out their priorities for the year ahead. But what are the matters that are most important to them? The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research asked 423 sales, enablement, and company leaders to find out. What bubbled to the top was fascinating.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Many sales leaders like you are deep into annual planning right now. As budgets are determined, can you confidently defend the sales rep headcount you have now? Or perhaps more importantly, can you make a strong case for additional people.

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Sandler Training

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In our book THE SUCCESS CADENCE, Tom Schodorf, Bart Fanelli and I ask these questions: How can leaders scale aggressive sales growth consistently? How can they achieve rapid, dramatic growth in their company? How can they sustain that growth over time? The aggressive, sustainable growth so many company leaders seek, but few can actually point to,… The post Three Steps to Implement a Culture of Growth appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Quick question: Which software tool does your company use for project management and planning? What about time management? Or resource scheduling and invoicing? If your answer is “a bunch of different tools that I barely remember how to log into” or “nothing,” you might want to see this. Paymo is a work management platform for small and medium-sized businesses that has served over 150,000 users worldwide since launching in 2008, offering a wide range of efficiency tools that help teams work smar

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

On a scale from 1 to 5, one being extremely easy and five being extremely difficult, how easy is it for you to balance between new business development and servicing your current customers?

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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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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

????????????????????????????????Whether it’s a prospect or a client you’ve been doing business with for years, you need to over-communicate, not under-communicate. Far too many sellers believe that no news is good news.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While tracking metrics is an important activity for all sales organizations, B2B sales teams face unique challenges. Selling to other businesses is completely different than selling direct-to-consumer. In B2B sales, the stakes are often much higher, and closing the deal can be a more involved process. That's why defining and tracking relevant metrics for your B2B sales organization is critical for success.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional CRMs are excellent at optimizing opportunity management, but their lead management functionality is often lacking due to the ad hoc nature of lead management. This results in BRD teams tracking their prospecting activity outside of the system in a.

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Sandler Training

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The aggressive, sustainable growth so many company leaders seek, but few can actually point to, lies in moving yourself and your organization into a growth-driven sales culture. The following three steps are essential preliminaries to that shift. Read Time: 6 Minutes.

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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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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We often get salespeople asking “What’s the best ‘close’ I can use?” or “How can I ‘close the sale’ more often?”. Putting the emphasis on the ‘close’ can be a big mistake in the sales process. Too often, the salesperson will try to get the order and prescribe an answer before determining and diagnosing the real problems that occur in every business.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

At one time or another, we’ve all wished that people came with an instruction manual. A guide that answered questions no one thinks to ask and provides information we often forget to share. Every big-ticket, important, valuable item comes with instructions. Why are people any different? The beauty of humanity is that we’re all unique. However, our differences often lead to frustration, miscommunication, lack of productivity, and can even end up threatening our job performance.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Have you ever stopped and ask yourself what the return on investment is for your clients who work with you? It’s an important thing to quantify.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

You know they're important. HR is on your case about getting them done. But, they're time-consuming, uncomfortable, and difficult. And as a manager, you have more important things to focus on right now. We're talking about the dreaded performance review. While not exactly fun – and oftentimes stressful – performance reviews are among the most underused levers for affecting behavior in your organization.

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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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