2017

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36 Apps Every Sales Rep Needs on Their Phone in 2018

Hubspot Sales

The Best Mobile Sales Apps for Salespeople. Slack. LinkedIn. Twitter. 30/30. Profit Story. HubSpot Sales. vTie. CamCard. Keynote. Close the Sale. Mobile CRM app. Doc Scan. Dropbox. eSignature app. Evernote. Dragon. Wunderlist. QuickVoice. Mind Tools. Skill-Pill. Feedly. Pocket. SmartUp. Pulse Auto Dealer. DealApp Vantage. AutoPoint Driver Connect. NADA MarketValues.

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The Ultimate Guide to World-Class Product Marketing

SBI Growth

Our show today demonstrates how to increase pipeline attribution, customer loyalty, and customer lifetime value through product marketing. Too often product marketing teams are focused on features and functions. Our conversation today is focused on associating product marketing excellence with.

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What To Do When Your Salespeople Hit a Sales Slump

The Center for Sales Strategy

Slumps happen to everyone. No matter how good you are or how long you have been in sales, sooner or later you're going to hit a sales slump. And they always seem to come at the very worst times. (Actually, when is it ever good to go into a slump?) It’s never exactly the same, but it sometimes looks like this: You've put a lot of time and energy into a prospect, and thought for sure he or she would say yes—but the person gives you a NO.

Sales 114
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5 Ways Sales Managers Can Improve Their Leadership & Culture At Work

MTD Sales Training

Last week, the CMI and Glassdoor published their research findings on management trends in their paper ‘Leadership and Culture at Work.’. It’s always interesting to see how companies are adapting to the wildly-changing world of business, and it’s studies like these that help us as sales managers and sales directors to understand how we need to shape up for future business opportunities.

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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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How to Reach Your Full Sales Potential on Large Accounts

Sales Latitude

Selling into large accounts can be challenging. As sales managers, we work so diligently to “even out” territories ensuring everyone has a chance to make lots of money. But, in many instances, we limit ourselves in how we go about reaching the potential of large accounts. Two scenarios with the same problem come to mind, all relating to your own perspective.

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How to Build Value in Sales Negotiations

RAIN Group

In our research report, The Value Driving Difference , we studied almost 500 organizations' practices regarding how focused they are on driving value for buyers. Companies that rose to the top as Value-Driving Sales Organizations had higher sales win rates, were more likely to grow revenue, had lower undesired sales staff turnover, and much more highly motivated sellers.

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Exclusive Q&A: Neal Schaffer and Rutgers Business School Launch Social Selling Program

Tenfold

When discussing digital transformation, it’s impossible not to discuss social selling and its impact on the sales cycle. Marketing and sales automation tools have made it possible to reach hundreds, if not thousands, of potential buyers instantly. This however has caused a decline in the effectiveness of email and cold calling techniques. As a result, now more than ever, personalized outreaches and pitches have become imperative for a successful sale.

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Things Clients Notice That You Don’t

Engage Selling

Are you blind to the major turnoffs you may be exhibiting to your clients and prospects?

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Why Going to a Baseball Stadium Is About More Than The Game

ReviewTrackers

Fans expect more than a win when they go to a baseball game, and that is evident when it comes to the New York Yankees. While the Yankees are one of the most successful sports franchises in history, Yankee stadium is rated No. 26 out of the 30 baseball stadiums in Major League Baseball. That’s according to the new 2017 Voice of the Fan Report by ReviewTrackers, which shows that the stadium of the Yankees, an iconic baseball team, doesn’t deliver an experience that meets fan expectations, even fo

Media 72
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Best of 2017: Top 10 Blog Articles of the Year

SBI

What a year it’s been. The Sales Tech space has grown dramatically as evidenced by the publication of our 2017 Sales Tech Landscape with 500 solutions. The buzz words for the year were predictive analytics, AI, ABM, ABS, and Coaching. Here are some of Smart Selling Tools stats for 2017: Published over 100 articles on our blog. Hosted 17 of our own webinars and participated in about a dozen others.

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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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23 Motivational Songs to Get You Pumped in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Prospecting for sales leads. not the most fun thing in the world. There’s no question that it’s incredibly important, but researching dozens of companies every day in the hopes of finding a few good fits isn’t the most titillating task. So we’re here to help. We’ve compiled the ultimate pump-up playlist to keep you sharp and focused while you pan for gold.

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The B2B Marketer’s Holy Grail for 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 leveraged the SBI annual workbook to guide our conversation.

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Five reasons people don’t leave Salesforce—even when they want to

Nutshell

If you’re a longtime Salesforce user, there’s a good chance that you’re miserable at work right now. Despite its reputation as the CRM market leader, Salesforce is infamous for being clumsy, confusing, and overpriced. It’s built for large enterprises—not for the people who actually have to use it. Considering that Salesforce can cost tens of thousands of dollars in technical setup and development before your reps even start selling, our best advice to sales teams is don’t get involved with it in

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7 Habits Of Highly Successful Business Development Managers

MTD Sales Training

A habit can be defined as ‘any behaviour that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously’. When we work on something continuously, we start to lay down a pattern of behaviour that is reflected every time that specific situation occurs. This behaviour becomes the norm for us and we see it as such; a normal way of doing things. So, what should a business development manager (BDM) develop as habits, the normal way of behaving?

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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 Is Understanding Individual Impacts So Important for Sales?

Sales Latitude

I still see so many salespeople struggling to truly understand how their customers’ challenges, needs and objectives impact individuals throughout the organization. Your customers and prospects are actual people with both personal and professional needs and goals. They are not buildings or firms. They may not have a product or service, or the right one, to help them attain required results.

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Infographic: 9 Ways to Crush Your Sales Goals

RAIN Group

Most sales are won and lost based on one key factor: You. You hold the keys to your sales success. Competitors don’t win because their offerings are more impressive. They win because they deliver a superior sales experience. You can too.

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How to use a sales pipeline to boost revenue

PandaDoc

If you’re just winging it through your sales pipeline process without a steady stream of leads – and an understanding of how to move them through each stage – you’re leaving money on the table. This process is crucial to your company’s success and keeps new opportunities at your fingertips. According to HubSpot research, 72% of companies with less than 50 new opportunities a month didn’t achieve their revenue goals , while only 4% of companies with 101 to 200 new opportun

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The Ultimate Guide to Writing LinkedIn InMails That Get Results (With Examples)

Hubspot Sales

What if you tripled your typical email response rate? People are three times likelier to reply to a LinkedIn InMail message than a traditional email -- so if you’re going to reach out, an InMail might be the way to go. What Is LinkedIn InMail? You can only send LinkedIn messages to your first-degree connections. To contact someone who’s not in your network, you’ll need to send an InMail.

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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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7 Habits of Highly Effective People [Book Summary]

Hubspot Sales

7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is a self-improvement book. It is written on Covey's belief that the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.

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8 Popular Sales Methodologies Summarized

Hubspot Sales

Best sales methodologies. SPIN Selling. N.E.A.T. Selling. Conceptual Selling. SNAP Selling. The Challenger Sale. The Sandler System. CustomerCentric Selling. MEDDIC. Salespeople are very aware of their quotas and the need to reach them. However, they're not always clear on the steps they should take. That's where sales methodologies come in. Top Sales Methodologies to Consider.

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5 Effective Sales Prospecting Techniques You Should Be Using

Hubspot Sales

Though many salespeople despise prospecting, it’s an important part of sales. Unfortunately, the majority of reps use ineffective and outdated sales prospecting techniques, instead of the effective practices that could actually lead to a higher volume of better qualified leads (and make them more partial to prospecting). Just like every other aspect of the sales process, you need to put in the effort and focus required.

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5 Less Annoying Alternatives to "Please Find Attached"

Hubspot Sales

Between ebooks, case studies, data sheets, proposals, and contracts, you probably send email attachments on a daily -- if not hourly -- basis. And that means you might be using the common phrase “Please find attached.” Other variations include “Attached please find,” Please kindly find the attached file,” Please find the attached file for your reference,” “Enclosed please find,” and the ultra-wordy, “Please find attached herewith.”.

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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6 Soft Skills Every Salesperson Needs to Get Ahead

Hubspot Sales

To know how successful a salesperson is, just look at their numbers. Understanding why they’re succeeding is trickier. In sales, success is a reflection of two things: The strength of their hard skills and the strength of their soft skills. What are soft skills in sales? Unlike hard selling skills, which are relatively easy to teach and measure, soft skills are "fuzzy.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Qualification

Hubspot Sales

One of the most important conversations salespeople have with their prospects is the discovery call. Here lies the proverbial fork in the road for you and your prospect. Either they’re a good fit for your product or service and you can move forward with the relationship, or it’s time to part ways. But it’s not always immediately obvious which path to take.

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Sales vs. Business Development: What's the Difference? [FAQ]

Hubspot Sales

Sales and business development. Just two different ways to refer to the same activity -- getting your company’s product into customers' hands. Right? Actually, sales and business development should not be considered the same job at all.Instead, think of the two roles as complementary halves of a whole. It’s true that both positions exist to help grow your business, but they achieve this end in different ways.

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How to Build Rapport With Just About Anyone

Hubspot Sales

One of my guiding principles is that every business is a people business. It doesn’t matter what your industry is or what you do -- if you are not relating to the people you deal with, talk to, manage, or lead, your career will be a long, hard slog. That’s why building rapport is essential, especially when you’re forging a relationship and selling over the phone.

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The Truth About Sales Agility: Separating Fact From Fiction

Speaker: Michelle Vazzana

Every sales organization wants their sales force to be agile. Why? Because the world is rapidly changing, becoming more complex, and making the salesperson’s job harder. Organizational leaders are unsure of the best way to equip sellers to succeed in this new reality. Should they change their sales methodology? Should they adopt better technology tools?

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6 Keys to Closing Tough Customers in Sales

Hubspot Sales

In a perfect world, all prospects would love you starting the moment they shook your hand -- and then they’d eagerly sign on the dotted line. Unfortunately, deals are almost never that easy to win. And it can seem nearly impossible to close when you’re dealing with tough customers who make everything harder than it needs to be. If clients try to push you around, or they waffle indefinitely over their next steps, deals can drag on for weeks on end.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Prospecting: Tips, Techniques, & Tools to Succeed

Hubspot Sales

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. That’s the sound of the countdown that begins each day of every week of every month. It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Sell, sell, sell. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Time. And those two things often go hand-in-hand.

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10 Real Estate Email Templates to Use in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Homebuying is an increasingly digital process. Today, 80% of homebuyers conduct internet research when considering homes to buy , and 89% use the internet to find real estate agents. In fact, millennials are currently the largest group of homebuyers ( at 34% and growing ). Documents can be signed virtually, homes can be viewed by video, and realtors are expected to be online.

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5 Skills Every Sales Development Rep Needs to Master in 2018

Hubspot Sales

SDR/BDR Skills for 2018. Video prospecting. Highly customized outreach. Active listening. Great voicemails. Resilience and Coachability. We’re about to turn the corner into 2018. And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. The standard process for SDRs or BDRs (whatever your organization calls them) of sending out sequenced emails, calling, leaving voicemails, rinse and repeat?

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.