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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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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Nutshell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It always pays to read the fine print—especially when it comes to Salesforce contracts. While Salesforce remains the most well-known name in CRM software , their billing practices, one-sided contracts, and minimal user support can make them a bad fit for small businesses. Many Salesforce customers have encountered substantial financial hardships and unbelievable frustration simply because they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.

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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.

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 years , down by half from 2010. Furthermore, the average sales professional turnover rate is 35% — a dramatic number compared to the average turnover rate of all industries, which is just 13%.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2019

You see it all the time. An executive leader is scared to make bold decisions required to grow the firm. We call it “Incrementalism.” They quickly review minor successes of the past year and re-up. The meagerly reallocate funds towards.

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CSSP

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Annual Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning should not be a one-and-done business process. As a rule, your organization should conduct annual strategic planning even though it’s time horizon is typically multiple years. Why, you ask? Isn’t a strategic plan valid for more than one year? No, for a number of reasons. First, if the rate of change in your competitive environment is rapid.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Sales enablement is a broad and powerful term that covers a lot of sales functions under one large umbrella. We define sales enablement as the strategy, content, technology, and training that empowers sales teams to sell smarter and faster. Sales enablement tools put the right resources and content in the salesperson's hands right when they need it.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As Summer wraps up and a successful third quarter draws towards a close, it’s time for sales leaders to start looking towards 2020 and beyond as part of the annual planning process. Amongst the plethora of reports and discussions to.

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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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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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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sales success doesn't just happen. Sales winners aren't born with special knowledge or abilities that others don't have. Maybe it looks that way when you watch top performers from the outside, but they've worked to hone their skills, constantly learning and improving. And guess what? The secret to sales success isn't, as Blake says in Glengarry Glen Ross , to "Always be closing.".

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Sales managers and sellers can agree that developing trust with a customer is one of the most important parts of the sales process. Simply put, customers don't buy from people they don't trust. However, they buy more from people they do trust! Here are some tips on how to develop trust with your customers.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How mature is your organization’s sales enablement structure? If you don’t know how to answer that question, don’t stress. We’re here to help you figure it out. Sales enablement is the process of providing your company’s sales team with the resources they need to be successful. Common sales enablement resources include tools, automation, content, and information that prepares your reps to close new business.

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Groove HQ

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Whether you’re hiring for your first customer service representative or expanding a team, use these job interview questions to find top performers. (Hint, they’re not really questions.) A good friend of mine leads support at a fairly well-known software company. A large part of her job is finding, interviewing, and hiring new agents in various […].

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It doesn’t matter how good your product or service may be, or what kind of deal you’re offering potential clients. If you can’t clearly communicate your value proposition through a well-written and well-delivered presentation, you’re never going to land the sale. Savvy salespeople know that it isn’t just what you say. It’s how you say it. That’s why they invest in improving their proposal development and presentation skills in order to avoid the common mistakes too many sellers fall victim to.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Today’s consumers are distracted with numerous options and bombarded with loads of information. As a result, they often struggle to find the products or services that best meet their needs. In a rapidly changing industry, tools, and tactics that enabled sales and closed deals just a few years ago don’t stand a fighting chance today. Innovation and agility are keys to staying ahead of altering consumer demands.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This week’s guest needs no introduction: legendary consultative selling expert Neil Rackham joins host Greg Moore to reflect on his 50 years of research that’s changed the face of sales. Moore worked for Rackham early in his career, and their lively conversation takes us down memory lane, from the research that Rackham conducted that led to his seminal 1988 book, SPIN Selling, to where he sees sales evolving through technology and creativity.

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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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Strikedeck

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Christina Wong, (Director of Customer Success and Support at Badger Maps), talks about achieving measurable results through authentic , genuine engagements with customers.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Baby Boomers (1946-1964), Gen X-ers (1965-1979), and Millennials (1980-1995) have been the core generations that sales managers have long tailored incentive and engagement programs to. All have very different goals, needs, and work styles that require accommodation in order to improve sales performance, reach sales goals, inspire, and motivate. Entering today’s workforce is the fourth generation, labeled Generation Z.

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Revegy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We all know that all clients are not created equal. Your approach to managing and growing your most strategic accounts impacts your ability to optimize revenue. Why Focus on Key Accounts? Key Accounts are your most profitable, scalable, and tenured clients. For many companies, they are typically large, complex global entities with multiple buying units, functions and verticals.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Mapping the Customer Journey Is Complex – but It’s Worth the Effort.

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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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Sandler Training

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Selling to major accounts, also known as enterprise accounts, is radically different from selling in other spaces. For one thing, the major account selling cycle is a continuous process – continuous because there’s no end to the cycle of selling to and serving large accounts. The post Selling Major Accounts: Following the Roadmap of Value appeared first on Sandler Training.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

- MOTIVATION -. "If You Don't Stand For Something, You Will Fall For Anything.". -Gordon Eadie. - AROUND THE WEB -. > The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management - HubSpot. As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 4, 2019

We’re excited to announce we’ve opened the nominations for the 2020 Miller Heiman Group Icons program. The Icons program honors outstanding client facilitators as trusted ambassadors and advocates of our sales and service methodology and skills programs. The community extends across the globe, in diverse industries and of all company sizes. What Do We Look for in a Miller Heiman Group Icon?

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 3, 2019

You’ve probably heard some of the buzz around leading with fear.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Sandler Training

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Often, we’re frightened when we come to terms with a problem that has grown out of proportion and seems dangerous. As these problems manifest, we become more and more aware of the intricacies that have created it. The post The Worst Things We Do; We Do to Ourselves appeared first on Sandler Training.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Episode 36: Small businesses versus large, summary statements and a quote from Zig Ziglar. In this episode we look at how a smaller businesses differ from larger ones you may be dealing with. Our skillspill outlines the benefits of summary statements with buyers and how they can build trust and progress the sale. And a quote from Zig Ziglar. Take a look at this episode on [link].

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In a crowded, competitive market, it’s harder than ever to get an opportunity to woo a potential buyer. That’s largely because buyers no longer view sellers as a valuable resource to consult when making buying decisions. Buyers that participated in the CSO Insights 2018 Buyer Preferences Study ranked salespeople next to last in a list of preferred resources for solving business problems—behind websites, industry publications, peers and several other sources of information.

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Outbound Engine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Social ads are everywhere. You can find them while you’re scrolling on Facebook, reading an article on your favorite news site, and even when you’re watching your friend’s Instagram story. They’re everywhere because they’re effective. Marketers said they expect spending on social media to increase by 89% by 2022, according to this CMO survey.

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