Sat.Dec 01, 2018 - Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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5 Tricks That Will Magically Get Prospects Interested in You

Hubspot Sales

It's easy to sell to prospects who are already interested in your product. They've done some preliminary research and decided you're a potential solution. Now all you need to do is answer some questions, get in front of the right people, and make sure they opt for you over the competition. But the best salespeople are distinguished from the average ones when it comes to uninterested prospects.

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2 Reasons Hiring Remote Salespeople Will Help You Grow in 2019

Openview

I talk to many startups these days who aren’t keen on hiring remote salespeople. And it genuinely baffles me as to why. The main pushback I see as someone who helps businesses build sales teams is “collaboration and culture.” And while I understand where my clients are coming from when they’re hung up on this, I have to respectfully disagree with them.

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How to leave better sales voicemails: 8 ways to boost your response rate

Nutshell

Crafting a quality sales voicemail has become something of a lost art. Considering how often cold calls go to voicemail, your ability to leave compelling sales voicemails can have an enormous impact on your success during the prospecting stage. Fortunately, this is a skill that can be learned and perfected. In this article, we’ll discuss why sales voicemails are important, eight tactics you can use to craft better messages, and three simple voicemail scripts worth stealing.

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How to Mobilize High-Potential Employees and Activate Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

High-potential employees comprise the next generation of leaders within your company. As you look toward succession planning or assigning resources to key strategic initiatives, the pool of high-potential employees is where most companies look to for resources who can solve.

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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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Are You a Thought Leader? 6 Ways to Tell.

The Center for Sales Strategy

In almost every industry, there are people or businesses we think of as being thought leaders. These people and organizations are the ones that you check on regularly with regard to innovation, market challenges, and new initiatives. The thought leadership position is certainly an advantageous position to have, as it can help with lead generation , sales, recruitment and retention, new business opportunities, and more.

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4 Quick Tips For The Up & Coming Sales Manager

MTD Sales Training

Very often, we see top quality salespeople made up to be sales manager and expected to deliver immediate success, as if they already have the necessary skills to succeed in that role. Think about it; just because they have been successful in one position doesn’t automatically ensure success in another. Many salespeople are excellent at organising themselves, can sell very proficiently and have achieved excellent results.

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Why You Should be Focusing on EX

SBI Growth

Joining us on SBI’s Fast Frame of the Week is Curt Redden, the Global Director of Talent Development for UPS Capital. If you’d prefer to listen to the podcast version, click here.

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5 Tactics to Activate Talent and Improve Sales Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Over the years I’ve written posts about my favorite NFL team, the Cleveland Browns. Most of my previous posts reflected on their losing ways and focused on “ what not to do ” as a manager. This post is different. This post sheds a positive light on the Browns related to activating talent and tells a nice story about how a new leader transformed the same players from losers to winners by changing five things.

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How To Increase Your Value To Clients Without Dropping Your Price

MTD Sales Training

When someone says “That’s good value!” what do they mean? Well, there are a number of ways of interpreting value and it can mean different things to different people. For some of your customers, it could mean the actual price they are considering paying. For others, it could enhance their overall satisfaction and experience with the products or services.

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How to Convert & Close Sales Demo Requests [Data]

Hubspot Sales

Is it possible to shorten the sales cycle? Yes, there is a chance -- if you employ the right tactics at the right stage to show prospects the value of your product so they want to buy from you. And at the beginning of the sales cycle, when prospects might be initially unfamiliar with your brand or your solution, the way you conduct a demo request can make or break the sale.

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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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3 Tips to Avoid Teaching Your Buyers to Expect a Q4 Discount

SBI Growth

We all know the famous saying, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” This can be applied to the way many organizations have trained their Buyers to buy, particularly in Q4. Discounts become the primary weapon of sales reps.

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Twenty Years of Sales Experience or One Year of Experience Twenty Times?

The Center for Sales Strategy

As we approach the end of another year, many people are planning for 2019. Today, I'm challenging you to consider how you are going to change the way you are doing business to improve your sales performance.

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How to Write a Customer Service Job Description That Attracts Top Talent

Groove HQ

When it comes to support, it’s worth hiring the best. Here’s how to write a customer service job description that will help you do it… Editor’s note: This post has been updated for accuracy and freshness. The original version first appeared on the Groove blog on November 11th, 2014 Imagine that there’s a website where […]. The post How to Write a Customer Service Job Description That Attracts Top Talent appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Real Estate Photo Guide: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Hubspot Sales

The importance of good real estate photography when it comes to property marketing and promotion is higher than you may think. Whenever a person stumbles upon your listing, the first thing they'll look at are the photos before doing any further research. The real estate rental and buying markets are highly competitive, and to be able to showcase all the benefits of your listing, it's crucial to work on your photography skills take excellent before you list your rental to attract as many people a

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Should the VP of Customer Success Report to the VP of Sales?

SBI Growth

Customer Success continues to be one of the hottest topics on the mind of the sales leaders and CEO’s we work with. Few will argue against the benefits of Customer Success – driving profitable growth, product adoption and customer reference-ability.

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Every Touchpoint Counts: Developing Authenticity and Setting Expectations

The Center for Sales Strategy

I recently attended a session at a conference that centered around incorporating authenticity into account-based marketing, also known as ABM. If you are not familiar with ABM, it’s simply a strategic approach to focus an organization's B2B sales and marketing efforts on a defined group of high-potential targets instead of everyone, in an effort to create more personalized messaging and content to increase engagement.

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The Best Way to End 2018

Engage Selling

We’ve talked repeatedly, especially this year, the importance and value of your relationships.

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Can You Afford a Bad Sales Hire? Read This Now

Sales Readiness Group

If you're a football fan, you're no doubt familiar with the woeful tale of Johnny Manziel’s brief professional football career. Manziel was a star college quarterback who won the Heisman trophy as a freshman in 2012. The Cleveland Browns later drafted him in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft, where he played for two injury-prone seasons in 2014-2015.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

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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Forging the Path for Customer Operations

SBI Growth

Scott Asher most recently led Customer Operations for RentPath, a leading digital marketplace connecting millions of consumers with apartments, condos, and houses for rent through their massive network and websites. Scott spent 6 years in the emerging role of VP of Customer.

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Best Performing Email Subject Lines for Real Estate Agents

Outbound Engine

Are you a real estate agent? Do you want more opens on the emails you send? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this list of best performing email subject lines for real estate agents is for you. When 35 percent of your clients decide to open an email based on subject line alone, it’s important to spend some time on what your subject lines communicate.

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When I Know Training will Work | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

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How to Prevent Your Next SaaS Demo Going Silent

Sales Readiness Group

On this Q&A episode: "What's the best way to follow-up with a demo? Even though m y demos go really well, the prospect seems to go silent after we meet".

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Negotiate Larger Deals More Quickly

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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Do NOT Release Funds for Your New Product Until You Know This

SBI Growth

Has your company got a new product in development? Is it working its through your organization, from R&D, to Product, getting feedback from Marketing and Sales and gaining fans and momentum as it travels? Perhaps it’s been described, prototyped, or.

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How Salespeople Can Better Prioritize Using Purchase Intent Data

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview John Steinert , CMO of TechTarget. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION? John: TechTarget’s data and insight products for sales called Priority Engine and Qualified Sales Opportunities are built on proprietary knowledge of enterprise purchase intentions and th

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Sellers Dilemma: It's Not What You Think

Engage Selling

You’ve seen—or even struggled with—this sales problem before: to close more deals today, you have to keep your head down and focus on the pipeline.

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The Top 5 Opportunities for Sales Growth in 2019 [Upcoming Webinar]

RAIN Group

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. -Peter Drucker. With the New Year less than a month away, it's time to think about what will be different in the year ahead. Where will you direct your focus to reach your goals and grow your sales? What are the opportunities for your organization? What do you need to do to seize them?

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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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Feature Launch: Mobile App for iOS

Outbound Engine

We know how important it is to stay connected. As a small business owner, it’s a necessity for your business to thrive. Communication is crucial to keeping your customers and finding new ones. Knowing this, we’ve been working hard on an exciting update for OutboundEngine customers. We are thrilled to announce that the OutboundEngine for iOS app is now available.

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The 7 ‘Musts’ in Customer Engagement

Strikedeck

Suraj shares how to target customer engagement with these key seven strategies.

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You Can’t Back Up Your Ears

Oratium

A recent comment got me thinking about the difference between absorbing information I read and absorbing information I hear. If you’ve ever read anything more than a couple of paragraphs long, you know that moment – you’re reading along, and a sentence triggers a thought, and your brain follows that thought for a few seconds. But your eyes, somehow oblivious to the fact that your brain is ignoring them, continue to scan the next few sentences.

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How Help Desk Software Increases Your Customer Support ROI

Help Scout

If you’re thinking about investing in customer support software, you’re probably wondering if the cost will pay off. Calculating the return on investment (ROI) of a new tool can be tricky. What impact will it actually have on bringing in revenue? Will it truly decrease the cost of doing business? This is an especially perplexing question for customer support teams, where measuring the impact of our actions on business metrics has always been a difficult exercise.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.