Sat.Aug 26, 2017 - Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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Your Sales Operations Strategic Guide to Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Brad Reynolds, an executive who knows a thing or two about running a strategic sales operations function. Today’s topic is focused on how Sales Operations improves the efficiency of the sales team to increase.

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Follow This Cold Calling Sequence To Get An Appointment

MTD Sales Training

When you call someone for the first time, it can be a bit unnerving to get their voicemail. But it needn’t be, if you prepare effectively. It always surprises me how many salespeople are not prepared for voicemail. These days, buyers are busier than ever, and even if they are available, may put their phones through to voicemail, simply because they don’t have time to take calls.

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. It works for you if you can control it. Information comes from your sales team, your website and your press releases. Outside that – it’s a free-for-all. As we all know, the latter is the reality. What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms.

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How to Run Successful Corporate Hackathons with Ideation Software

Planview

“Every human being has a great idea.”. This quote by Lale Kesebi, Chief Communications Officer and Head of Strategic Engagement at Li & Fung, perfectly sums up an opportunity that’s right in front of every company’s face. Whether your organization has 100 or 100,000 employees, each individual has ideas for new products or improvements, drawn from their day-to-day experiences and knowledge.

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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 Right Go-to-Market Strategy to Cover Your Market

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Oni Chukwu, a software executive who knows how to make the number. Today’s topic is Go-to-Market Strategy. Oni and I leverage the How to Make Your Number in 2018 hbspt.cta.load(23541, '74afaaa6-ba2a-4936-a1ed-8fe80db57c38', {}); to access.

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Customer Relationships: No News is Bad News

S4 Consulting

Here’s a question: when was the last time you conducted an objective , multi-level assessment of the health of the relationship with your most critical customers? B2B relationships need to be measured on multiple customer levels. The traditional study that typically gets responses from only the technical user of your product or service puts you in the position of being easily blindsided.

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How to Answer “How Much?” | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Today, we’re going to talk about value and specifically selling value instead of price. If I had to guess, 75% of the times that I’m in front of an audience, the salespeople say, “My clients don’t care about value.

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Build A Team of A-Players

SBI Growth

I recently interviewed Chris Walter, a Vice President of Strategy who knows how to build a sales force. Today’s topic is dedicated to attracting and retaining top sales talent. Chris and I leverage the How to Make Your Number in.

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5 Ways FinTech Will Disrupt Your Company

Planview

A thoroughly modern, hybrid fusion of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, FinTech – or financial technology – has often been hailed as the next big thing. Though the hype may have initially outpaced reality, the fledgling movement has rapidly evolved in recent years to become a force in the financial services space. Now, it promises to bring further disruption and fundamentally alter the way businesses grow, manage their finances and most importantly, meet the needs of their customers.

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Clean Out Your Time Closet

Sales Gravy

The secret to an organized closet is to never bring in anything new unless you first get rid of something old. I recently sent out a survey to my colleagues, asking them to evaluate my personal brand.

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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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Notes from the Front Line: Sales Manager Excellence

Engage Selling

When you’re part of an organization whose sales team is spread out over a large territory, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s happening on the front lines, where staff work directly with prospects and customers.

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Three Sales Demo Disasters and How to Avoid Them

SBI Growth

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Why Businesses Should Focus on Local Search (With Tips)

ReviewTrackers

Online research is a key moment in the customer journey. “The vast majority of the U.S. economy is driven by purchases of products and services offline,” says Greg Sterling, VP of strategy and insights for the Local Search Association. He says that in in the retail context alone, more than 90 percent or purchases happen locally. “ Most purchases now include online research or influence, including reviews,” he says.

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4 Selling Questions You Should Be Asking

Sales Gravy

Since knowledge is power, use these high yield questions to learn more about your buyer’s needs and you will have a much stronger platform to sell from than your products alone can provide.

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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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Your Fear Could Be Leading To Missed Sales Opportunities

Sales Gravy

You could possess the most talented sales team in the world, equipped with sales reps who know how to ask the right questions, overcome objections, negotiate effectively, and it will still do you no good if these reps don’t ask for the sale.

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Eliminate Your Sales Blind Spots

Sales Gravy

In the context of selling, a blind spot is something you commonly do within your sales interactions that potentially threatens your success. And here comes the kicker… you’re not aware of it. I’m a sucker for sports cars.

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Kick Your Sales Team's Negativity To The Curb With These 6 Simple Steps

Sales Gravy

It is amazing how focusing on the positive will shift people’s thoughts, attitude and behavior. I just received a phone call from someone I met in the summer at a Bar-B-Q.

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First Impressions Are A Two Way Street In Automotive Sales

Sales Gravy

Every employee at a dealership must begin to treat every guest as a buyer. Otherwise, your people will continue to stop sales and your customers will go elsewhere.

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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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Differentiate Yourself: Align Your Price Model to Your Business Objectives

SBI Growth

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The CEO’s Guide to Generating Revenue from New Product Introductions

SBI Growth

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Your Next Head of Sales: Builder or Operator?

SBI Growth

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The 3 Types of Work Rooms Every Office Should Have

ReviewTrackers

There are different stages of the work process, a nd those stages require different types of external environments for focus, says Marilyn Puder-York, psychologist and executive coach. That’s why the variety of work rooms – quiet rooms, open areas, rooms to collaborate, and low-level noise rooms – is a vital component to any office that seeks to create a productive culture and foster employee well-being.

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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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Shelf Life of Online Reviews, Tweets, and Facebook Posts

ReviewTrackers

Here at ReviewTrackers , we believe in online reviews and customer feedback as an important source of learning for all kinds of businesses — from SMBs to enterprise-level organizations with hundreds or thousands of locations. We also understand the many ways reviews can generate critical customer data and intelligence, which in turn can equip organizations with the information needed to make smarter business decisions and drive more sustainable growth.

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Build a Strong Connection to Customers

ReviewTrackers

Welcome to Customer Insights , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. This week: We explain how companies from the finance, healthcare, insurance , and hospitality industries can better connect with their customers. Subscribe to receive these stories and more every week in your inbox.

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5 Tips for Responding to Reviews on Glassdoor

ReviewTrackers

This article was written by Sydney Frazer. As a Program Manager at Glassdoor , Sydney works with hundreds of accounts across universities, libraries, and blogs, helping provide them with content and tools to aid job seekers and employers. Outside of work, Sydney enjoys running, hiking, and searching for the perfect burrito. When you are about to make a big purchase decision — to buy a new laptop, invest in a backpack for your next wilderness excursion, or upgrade your fridge — you probably do yo