Sat.May 06, 2017 - Fri.May 12, 2017

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How to Transition Channel Partners to Cloud Solutions

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Steve Blum, an executive sales leader who knows how to Make the Number with channel partners. I’ve known Steve for a long time and he’s always been on the leading edge of channel management.

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How to Get Past Gatekeepers

Engage Selling

Are you or members of your sales team having trouble getting past gatekeepers? I’ve noticed a trend.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with.

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How This Year’s Digital NewFronts Presentations may impact your business…

Pinnacle View

2017 is a big year for Digital NewFronts. NewFronts, run by the IAB, are an annual series of events and presentations from digital media companies featuring pitches aimed at both video content creators and advertisers. During this year’s May event series, 32 separate digital media companies will host their own NewFronts. The companies presenting include big names like Twitter, DigitasLBi, Turner, and Google.

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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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3 Core Processes for Sales Operations to Enable Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Christopher Fris, an executive sales operations leader who knows how to enable revenue growth in a meaningful way. Today’s topic is focused on how Sales Operations enables the sales plan. During our discussion, Chris and.

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Change Your Buyer’s Mindset from “If” to “How” | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

I would like to talk to you about a proposal format that you can customize for whatever business you’re in. You can use this whether you’re in a products business, a service business, or a hybrid of both.

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What To Do When Salespeople Are No Longer Needed…

MTD Sales Training

All our research is showing that, in the future, the role of the salesperson will not be to sell anything. Prospects can now research company information, reviews, feedback, and all manner of information online, so the need to have a salesperson presenting and demonstrating benefits is becoming less and less necessary. If the role is going to change so significantly, what can you do to be ahead of the game?

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The Technology Marketer’s Guide to Customer Marketing

SBI Growth

Joining us for today’s show is Jennifer Arnold, a marketing executive who knows a thing or two about generating revenue. Today’s topic is customer marketing and how to grow revenues from existing customers. We first met Jennifer a few years.

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Word of Mouth is NO Accident

Engage Selling

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most powerful tools in sales today and yet it remains deeply misunderstood and under-used.

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Advancing the Practice of Lean in the Digital Age: the Spigit and eVSM partnership

Planview

Your organization embraces a culture of quality. You seek continuous improvement. At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. The possibilities of seeing the whole. The rationale of starting with the customer and working your way back into the organization from there to create the value stream. The energy that comes from getting everyone on the same page in terms of the problem to be solved: the waste to be removed.

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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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NEVER Ask This Question While Closing the Sale

MTD Sales Training

You can find a ton of material on terms, phrases and magic words to use while attempting to close a sale. Some closing statements and remarks may be very helpful and some may make no difference. However, one question is extremely damaging and will often kill the sale. “What do you think?”. While this question may seem harmless and necessary, it is the opposite.

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Attitude is Everything You Need for Opportunity

Sales Gravy

“I realized years ago that my job is not selling cars. My job is to give customers every possible detail and every reason to make the decision to work with me, my dealership and our products.

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Secrets for Keeping Top Sales Talent

SBI Growth

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Patient Perspectives Important for Future of Healthcare

ReviewTrackers

Welcome to This Week In Reviews , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. This week: Two healthcare industry thought leaders say the industry needs to use the patient perspective as a metric to assess the value of healthcare. Subscribe to receive these stories and more every week in your inbox.

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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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Why Your Account/Territory Plan Ends Up in the Trash Every Year

Sales Latitude

Most sales people hate working on their account/territory plan. Not surprisingly, they’d rather work opportunities. But, hold on a second – are they not one and the same? We’ve all heard the stories of the “one and done” account/territory plan: you do it once a year to show to management, then put it in your desk drawer. Or, the trash. The Typical Account/Territory Plan.

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5 Lines that Build "Real Value"

Sales Gravy

This technique builds value in the most important part of any sales transaction — you and your belief in your product or service. You hear it all the time — if your price is higher than your competition you’re told to “build value.

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How to Know Which Partners to Invest In

SBI Growth

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Customer Experience Conferences and Events to Attend in 2017

ReviewTrackers

Customer experience (CX) — defined as “the cumulative impact of all interactions and experiences between your business and the customer, at every touchpoint across the entire customer journey, and viewed entirely from your customer’s perspective” — has become one of today’s most important business benchmarks. CX is also a great competitive differentiator, helping companies respond to and exceed customer expectations, improve satisfaction, drive loyalty, reduce churn, and increase revenue.

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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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When the Selling Stops, Whose fault is it Really?

Sales Gravy

Start setting your own expectations, using your own sales process, and building the tools you need. Make it happen. You don’t have to change jobs yet. So often when sales reps aren’t selling the first inclination is to blame the sales rep.

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Are You Negotiating with the Right Person?

Sales Gravy

This makes the salesperson a shrewd negotiator, choosing to negotiate with the weaker party, making it more likely that a deal is done. One of the things I hear from sales leaders most often is that their sales force cannot negotiate.

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Winning isn't Everything, Managing the Sales Process

Sales Gravy

Winning is the result of excellence, not the other way around.Too often we recognize and reward only outcomes and thus miss out on the opportunity right under our noses to help our salespeople become truly excellent by improving their processes.

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21 Questions You should be Asking about Your Sales Day

Sales Gravy

What is important to remember is in today’s competitive world your prospects and customers are watching every move you make. Imagine how mispronouncing or forgetting a client’s name can change that person’s perception of you.

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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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Creating Urgency and Closing the Deal

Sales Gravy

More than half of the sales deals I’m called to look at and advise on how to move it forward have an unauthorized person down as the decision maker. Sell your incentive and close the deal.

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10 Ways to Outmaneuver Gatekeepers

Sales Gravy

You show your value by engaging with them in the exact same way as you would the decision maker.

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Mid-Year Budget Review Time: Here’s What You Should Ask Your CMO

SBI Growth

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Is Your Sales Forecast Fool-proof?

SBI Growth

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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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Stop Wasting Money on Sales Training

SBI Growth

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How to Recover from a Q1 Sales Revenue Miss

SBI Growth

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How to Fast-Track New Rep Productivity

SBI Growth

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Why a Low Sales Turnover Rate Could Mean Trouble

SBI Growth

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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.