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The 11 Best Virtual Staging Services and Software for Real Estate Agents

Hubspot Sales

In a 2018 survey of more than 4,000 homes, 68% of staged homes sold for at least 9% more than those of their unstaged neighbors’. Whether you’re starting a real estate business or have been selling homes for a while, there’s clear and increasing benefit to professionally staging your clients’ homes. But the future of home staging goes beyond just hiring a designer.

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Your CRM Isn’t Cutting It; How to Prepare for the New Wave of Analytics.

SBI Growth

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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How to transition from outside sales to inside sales

Nutshell

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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How to Talk About The Competition

Engage Selling

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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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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The Sales Manager Job Description Template That Will Help You Find the Perfect Candidate

Hubspot Sales

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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Orchestrating a World Class Customer Experience

SBI Growth

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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How Do You Know Your Customer Will Be A Returning Client?

MTD Sales Training

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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24 Quotes About Hard Work That’ll Help You Reach Your Goals

Hubspot Sales

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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If You Are Not Doing Customer Success Launch Planning in September, You Are Behind

SBI Growth

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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Not Enough Appointments? You Must Whip It!

The Center for Sales Strategy

When a problem comes along, you must whip it. When something's going wrong, you must whip it. Now whip it into shape… shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead. Try to detect it… it's not too late to whip it! Whip it good! -Devo, "Whip It".

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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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10 Ways To Combat Nerves Before A Sales Interaction

MTD Sales Training

It’s a common subject brought up on our training programmes, and it can affect even the most experienced of salespeople. How do we overcome the feeling of nervousness before having a sales interaction? First, let’s highlight why nerves may show themselves. Feeling anxious, uneasy or worried is a natural reaction to stressful or uncomfortable situations.

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10 Habits of Highly Effective Closers

Hubspot Sales

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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Have You Reviewed Your Pricing Model as Part of your Annual Pricing Process?

SBI Growth

Are you a company that evaluates your pricing as part of an annual process? Congratulations, you are in select company. The majority merely glance at the competition, evaluate their price, and make minor adjustments. The better organizations look at their solutions.

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3 Stages of Competitive Channel Programming

Openview

Crafting your channel program should be a very deliberate activity. Although you may start with the channel in an opportunistic model, building a program with careful thought and purpose will serve the business in the long run. I’d like to offer you a simple three-stage process model to help you build strategic, competitive channel programs and put you on the path to sustainable revenue from your indirect channels.

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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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4 Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers Who Retain Their Top Performers

The Center for Sales Strategy

SCENARIO: For the first time in a long time, you have sales positions open, but the most talented salespeople likely are already employed elsewhere. Well, this scenario is one managers often find themselves in. Even the most successful sales managers can find themselves in this situation if they aren't intentional with their management practices and focused on retention.

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The 7 Top Free Accounting Software Options for 2018

Hubspot Sales

7 Top Free Accounting Software Options. Wave. ZipBooks. SlickPie. GnuCash. CloudBooks. TurboCASH. xTuple PostBooks. If you’re an entrepreneur running a business, you understand how important it is to stay on top of finances. Cash flow, taxes, and managing finances are some of the biggest challenges businesses face. Knowing who owes you and if you owe a supplier or creditor is crucial to success.

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When the CMO Is the CEO Successor

SBI Growth

In 2005 nearly 50% of Fortune 500 companies had a Chief Operating Officer (COO). In 2015 less than 35% had a COO. Why does this matter to you? Once thought of as the obvious successor to the CEO, the COO is.

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The Forgotten Value in B2B Sales | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

??????????????????????????????If you’ve been on this website for more than 5 minutes, you know that I love to talk about value. I want you to start thinking about value in four different ways.

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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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The Best New Hire Gift: Clear Expectations + Realistic Goals

The Center for Sales Strategy

When onboarding new hires, managers have a lot of things to think about. What is the onboarding plan? Will there be pre-boarding ? Who will train them? Who do they need to meet and w ho will show them around and introduce them to the office, co-workers, etc.? But just as important , what is your new hire’s onboarding plan? If they walk in and have no plan and no goals, chances are they will struggle to find success in their new role.

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How to Make the Perfect Follow-Up Sales Call in 2018

Hubspot Sales

If you’re in sales, you’ve likely seen the 2011 “ Lead Response Management Study. ” It analyzed three year’s worth of data,100,000 call attempts, six companies, and 15,000 leads and synthesized findings to bring salespeople scientific answers to age-old questions like “ What are the best days to call my prospects? ” and “ What time should I contact my leads?

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Top Grading Your Sales Talent Should Be a Quarterly Exercise

SBI Growth

How Often Should Sales Talent Be Assessed? The Answer: Quarterly. Talent should be assessed every quarter to ensure A-players are developed and C-players are removed quickly. Nothing is more toxic to revenue growth than a complacent sales team. To keep sales.

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Your Frontline Sales Managers are a Key Cog in the Coaching Process

Showpad

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? It may seem obvious, but a study by ATD discovered that only 11 percent of organizations train their sales managers to a high extent.

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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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Weekly Roundup: If You Abandoned this Sales Tactic, You've Been Misled + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

- WHAT'S MOTIVATING US THIS WEEK -. "DIFFICULTIES BREAK SOME MEN BUT MAKE OTHERS". -NELSON MANDELA. - DON'T MISS THIS -. > How Inbound Can Turbo Charge Your Outbound Sales Efforts — LEADG2. Outbound sales tactics are alive and well. The key is that your sales organization can't survive relying solely on this alone. That's where inbound comes in. In this webinar, we'll explore how inbound and outbound efforts work together to help your salespeople improve sales performance and reach revenue go

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Why “Don’t Send Emails At Night” Is Terrible, Outdated Advice

Hubspot Sales

It's midnight. I'm sleeping when I hear my iPhone ding next to my pillow. It's an email from my boss. Our meeting is moved to Friday. I eagerly swipe open my phone, squinting into the white light beaming into my eyes through the darkness. I find the email and immediately reply, knowing he'll be SO IMPRESSED at my prompt response. Download our free email report here to discover the best times to send sales emails to increase open rates.

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Why Effective Quota Setting Is Different for a Services Company Than a Product Company

SBI Growth

Done well, quota-setting is an enabler to achieving your top-line revenue or bookings targets. How you as a Sales Operations leader determine quotas also has significant impact on managing sales expense. Poorly done quota-setting will have devastating effects on retaining.

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Presenting Transform 18: The Largest Sales Enablement Conference

Showpad

For the past 6 years, we’ve hosted Showtime, Europe’s largest sales enablement conference in Ghent, Belgium. After thousands of attendees, 3 award shows and a roster of internally acclaimed speakers, we’re excited to bring this premier conference to North America. Join us on Nov 13-14 for Transform 18, as we reimagine sales enablement. This is the first event of its kind in the United States, gathering hundreds of sales, marketing and sales enablement leaders to network, connect and get inspir

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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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Prospecting is Dead… Long Live Prospecting

The Center for Sales Strategy

Did you know that your chances of making a sale go up a gazillion percent when the prospect actually asks to be contacted by you? Of course you knew that! So how do you make this happen?

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How 3 Salespeople Closed $83,000 of Business at Industry Events

Hubspot Sales

Major industry events are all about entertainment, motivation, and connection, right? Well, sure. But they’re also great opportunities for salespeople to build relationships and generate revenue. Each year, the INBOUND event draws thousands of sales and marketing professionals to Boston ( Hint: It’s happening in about two weeks, so click here to sign up ).

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How to Fire a Customer

Help Scout

Can you remember your toughest customer? Chances are, the experience involved some sweat, maybe some tears, and a few extra cups of coffee. When you’re dealing with people, there’s no rulebook. A rational approach doesn’t necessarily evoke a rational response. Learning to tease out the nuances of interactions with difficult customers and untangle the right solution takes time, thoughtfulness and skill.

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Presenting Transform 18: The Largest Sales Enablement Conference

Showpad

For the past 6 years, we’ve hosted Showtime, Europe’s largest sales enablement conference in Ghent, Belgium. After thousands of attendees, 3 award shows and a roster of internally acclaimed speakers, we’re excited to bring this premier conference to North America. Join us on Nov 13-14 for Transform 18, as we reimagine sales enablement. This is the first event of its kind in the United States, gathering hundreds of sales, marketing and sales enablement leaders to network, connect and get inspired

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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.