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The $1,300 Sales Meeting

The Center for Sales Strategy

Sales meetings are more than just a routine; they have the potential to inspire, motivate, and educate your sales team. A productive sales meeting introduces your team to new information, solutions, and opportunities, ultimately driving revenue. But a poorly executed one?

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A Sales Managers' Role in Discovery Meetings

The Center for Sales Strategy

Discovery meetings are a vital tool for uncovering new business opportunities. In these conversations, sales managers and sellers have a unique chance to learn about potential clients, understand their challenges, and present solutions tailored to their needs.

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Mastering the Art of the Discover Meeting

The Center for Sales Strategy

In the dynamic world of B2B sales, the pivotal moment of any successful sales journey is, without a doubt, the discovery meeting. Let's dive into the essential strategies that transform a discover meeting from a mere conversation into a powerful tool for driving sales success.

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How to Plan Engaging Sales Meetings that Motivate Your Team

SBI Growth

If you have ever run a sales meeting, you know that most salespeople aren’t thrilled to attend and prefer to spend time selling. However, with the right approach, sales meetings are an excellent opportunity to transform your team into high-performers fueled by a shared vision of success.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

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How Can Pipeline Meetings Be a Coaching Opportunity?

Hubspot Sales

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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How to Reschedule a Meeting Professionally in 2024

Hubspot Sales

I‘ve been on both sides of the “how to reschedule a meeting” dilemma. It can be tough to know how to reschedule a meeting appropriately and effectively. How to Reschedule a Meeting Professionally When should I reschedule a meeting? Offer context about your schedule — potential through a meeting scheduler tool.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Download this eBook to find out!

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. More meetings. Increasingly discerning buyers. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

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. But how do you prepare your sales teams to do that?

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Cold Calling Tips and Tricks

In fact, less than 2% of today’s cold calls actually result in meetings, and 63% of sales professionals say it’s what they dislike most about their jobs. In recent years, cold calling has become synonymous with rejection and failure.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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Essential Guide to Sales Engagement – Overcome the Challenges of Remote Selling

Sales teams are trying to prospect, connect, and manage an effective sales cycle, yet many companies are falling short of hitting their sales numbers. You will learn: What sales engagement is. Effective meeting engagement tips - pre, during and after. How to measure your sales engagement efforts.

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The Essential Guide to Selling by Telling Your Touchstone Story

In our fast-paced, digital world sometimes the best way to stand out in sales is to slow down and connect. Genuine connection facilitates an openness to trust, which leads to consistent sales. Sales reps who learn to tell rather than sell have a critical tool for creating connections with their prospects.

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Intent Signal Data 101

How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions? Which type of intent data is best for meeting specific goals? “B2B buyers spend just 15% of their time interacting with brands before making a purchase decision” (Gartner). Intent signal data can help.