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Are you the “Toast” of your meetings?

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Sales Tip: The Kick in the Pants Your Team Needs

Engage Selling

'Please vote! I’ve been nominated on Top Sales World for 2014’s Top Sales Blog, Top Sales Book, and Top Sales Video. You can vote once per day between now and when voting ends on December 12th.

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Understanding Customers’ Perspective To Improve Client Interaction

MTD Sales Training

Unfortunately, conflict is an unavoidable aspect of the human condition, and is likely to creep into the conversation any time expectations differ. Conflict can raise stress levels and leave long-lasting effects on employee health, decreasing job satisfaction, and increasing absenteeism and tenure rates. It is critical that employees who interact with clients on a regular basis work to improve their conflict management skills, and specifically, their ability understand the customer perspective.

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Is There a Sales Enablement Bubble and Will it Burst?

SBI

'Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Scott Santucci of Forrester Research, published an article entitled, “ Is the Sales Enablement Space a Growth Market or a Hype Bubble? ” I have to give him some credit – he got my attention and raised a very important question. I wanted to know what drove him to write the article and I talked with him last week.

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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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Guest blog: 8 Questions with New York Times Bestseller Joe Sweeney

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Handling Internal Turf Wars

Engage Selling

'In fighting on your sales team? Never! Turf wars need to be managed quickly and succinctly. In today’s podcast, I’ll share ideas on how to do it. In fighting on your sales team? Never! Turf wars need to be managed quickly and succinctly. In today’s podcast, I’ll share ideas on how to do it. Podcast Series: The Sales Leader 3D Sales Training System Colleen Francis Engage Selling Solutions Lead Up!

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12 Tips to Close Your Deals in December

Sales Gravy

It’s December! For most sales reps and sales managers that means it’s crunch time for achieving your sales goals. With just weeks left in the year, you need to close sales fast, but don’t want to appear desperate.

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Ending Voicemail Frustrations

Engage Selling

'Voicemail – your best friend and your most frustrating adversary. On one hand, it allows you to ignore phone calls that you don’t want to answer and also allows important contacts to leave a message even if you aren’t available. On the other hand, your prospects have the same power. They can just as easily […].

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Why Your Attitude is Killing Your Sales

Sales Gravy

Motivation and incentives are powerful tools that can improve performance and add to the bottom line when used effectively. They can be just as powerful in re-enforcing negative attitudes if improperly applied.

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Why December is the Best Month to Reach Decision Makers

Sales Gravy

Decision makers will typically not accept a meeting from mid to end of December. However, if you request a date to meet NEXT year (which is just days away), their calendars are usually wide open.

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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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Operation Green Turtle: Avoid Professional Embarrassment

Sales Gravy

In an effort to minimize any self-inflicted embarrassment, the astronauts. established an informal incentive program amongst themselves, which they referred to as “Operation Green Turtle”. When an astronaut slipped up.

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How to Make Your Sales Business Successful

Sales Gravy

If you are a mid-size to small business owner or even a sales professional, now is the time to strategically think about today’s results and tomorrow’s goals.

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The #1 Rule About Sales You Need To Know

Sales Gravy

I suggest that you commit to completing your business development activities first thing in the morning to make sure they get completed.

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The Five Whys: Helping Your Customers by Solving Problems

Sales Gravy

The Five Whys is to problem solving and critical thinking what removing weeds at the root is to gardening.

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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 Your CEO Develop the Company's Sales Culture

Sales Gravy

CEOs are visionaries, they know where they want to end up, but it is up to his people to provide the map.

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Loose Lips Sink Deals - Why Paranoia is Required in Sales

Sales Gravy

My first sales manager taught me to be paranoid. He constantly warned us that loose lips sink deals.

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Learn to Close More Sales in Only 30 Minutes! Part 1

Sales Gravy

Can you really learn to close more sales in only 30 minutes?Yes you can.

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Qualify Early and Often

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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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Visionary: How to Describe a Great Leader!

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Learn to Close More Sales in Only 30 Minutes! Part 2

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The Number One Sales Rule

Engage Selling

'Out of all the sales rules, there is one in particular that should never be broken. Being loyal to this one single rule can mean the difference between sales success and sales disaster. What is the number one sales rule? Drum roll please! The number one sales rule to follow is to never end your […].

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