ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What lead-gen solutions will work best for your business? That’s what we’re talking about in this guide! Get Our 2-Page Sales Funnel That Generated 185,372 Leads! What is a Lead Generation Solution? But what do you do instead? With a sales funnel. Start With a Sales Funnel. What’s a sales funnel ?

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Lead generation Real Estate Cold Call Commission 256

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What can AI take from your content? First, what can generative AI even take from us? I see five categories of what we’d actually stand to lose: Your entire work or multiple works Generative AI can take an entire piece you may have produced, like a blog post, a video, a social post, an image, or a combination of the above.

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Trust Presentation Follow-up Cross-sell 117

Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

How can a salesperson meet all of these standards while also enjoying what they do? What if the answer was this: Be more human. In this blog post, you’re going to learn about business anthropology and how it’s best applied to your everyday life in sales. Much has been said and written about the human side of selling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Some are written by sales experts. I am concerned about the subjects being curated for sales and sales leadership professionals. One or two are sales enablement topics.

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GTM Sales Manufacturing Lead generation 81

Iannarino

JUNE 13, 2021

The Gist: The legacy laggard approach to sales is transactional, even if some versions have added a few modern strategies. The legacy solution approach moved us away from transactional models, in response to what clients needed from a salesperson. In the 1950s, sales were much more consistently transactional than they are today.

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Veloxy

JUNE 22, 2023

In the world of sales, the power of an effective message cannot be underestimated. For instance, the presence of a sound sales enablement strategy has been found to improve sales messaging by 31% ! So how do YOU create a sales messaging strategy that resonates with your target audience and drives results?

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Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Sales Technique 130

Salesforce

MARCH 20, 2024

You can’t know why the AI does what it does until you understand how the LLM was trained and where its data came from. Is that what makes the cake taste a certain way? Corpus data Corpus data includes written or spoken data from books, newspapers, articles, websites (including blogs), academic papers, and more.

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Government Healthcare Trust Represent 113

ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

You need to make sales if you want to stay in business. So how can you convey the value of what you offer without the potential customers getting their guards up? If the content you share on your blog, YouTube, and social media isn’t valuable, then potential customers will assume that the same is true for your premium content.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing It’s no secret marketing and sales are equally critical to your go-to-market success. But sometimes, things go off track, and marketing and sales operate in their own silos causing them to be misaligned in the way they attract and acquire new customers.

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Go To Market Lead generation Sales Meeting 116

Veloxy

MARCH 24, 2022

Despite what you might be hearing in some trending podcast or reading in a bestselling book, cold calling is more alive and more profitable today than ever before. Because with the integration of real-time intelligence, sales technology, and AI-optimized sales processes, cold calling is shortening the sales process in record time.

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Cold Call Technique Referrals Inside sales 214

Iannarino

AUGUST 8, 2021

Less than half of salespeople reach their quota and more than half of buyers don’t change, evidence that what we’re doing isn’t working. The manuscript is due to the publisher in three days: my contract calls for 65,000 words, a good length for the publisher based on what people will spend on a book. No more pushy sales tactics.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic has contributed a lot to sales transformation. Instead, you need to train your team and hone their skills to make their experience remarkable. Make sales educational. The sales process matters. Remote sales coaching. The main one is to treat video sales meetings like in-person calls.

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Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s what we’re talking about in this guide. Understanding Sales Funnels for Lead-Gen Automation. At ClickFunnels, we build sales funnels. And what’s great about sales funnels as it relates to lead-gen automation is that these high-converting, page-by-page experiences are super-automatic and super scalable.

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Commission Real Estate Promote Start-ups 240

Iannarino

JUNE 23, 2021

You sit down with your prospective client, having promised to tell them exactly what you are doing to help their competitor, and they ask you flat-out to spill the proverbial beans. What exactly are you going to tell them that they couldn’t deduce from what they know about your company? The Problem with the Competitor Gambit.

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Appointment Clients Sales Trust 298

Highspot

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A recent study we commissioned from a leading B2B research firm, surveying 120 global sales leaders, found an average 16% increase in win rate with one thing in common—sales enablement. Here are data-driven tips to come out of this challenging sales environment on top. So, how do you enable your sellers to succeed?

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Sell Commission Quota B2B 91

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Supercharge field service with AI Learn what high-performing service teams are doing with AI and automation to boost field service productivity. See how it’s done Make the business case for upselling and cross-selling I’ve spent 15 years of my career in sales and sales leadership roles for software and hardware companies.

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Service Growth Cross-sell Appointment 105

Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks. This approach allows for a smooth sales process for the customer, and generates cross-sell and upsell opportunities for partners.

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B2B Cross-sell Hospitality GTM 109

ClickFunnels

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Get Our 2-Page Sales Funnel That Generated 185,372 Leads! What do you do if you don’t know who your dream customer is? Try to answer the questions above and see what everyone says. Here are three key questions we recommend including (you can adjust based on your industry and niche)… What made you buy our product/service?

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Lead generation Follow-up Campaign Niche 239

Veloxy

MAY 21, 2022

Someone in your office finds a creative subject line in a blog post. Luckily for you, this blog post is going to put the power of 50% open rates and 15% response rates straight into your hands. Luckily for you, this blog post is going to put the power of 50% open rates and 15% response rates straight into your hands.

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A/B testing Prospecting Sports Pitch 173

Salesforce

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Should you train your own LLM? Customize a pre-trained open-source model? Training your own LLM is a daunting and expensive task. In this blog post, we’ll review the different strategies to work with LLMs, and take a deeper look at the easiest and most commonly used option: using existing LLMs through APIs.

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Trust Engineering Government CRM 138

Iannarino

JULY 15, 2021

The Gist: Sales is a competition, a contest with a single winner and multiple losers. How you sell—not what you sell or who you work for—is your most important competitive advantage. Most things that provide an unfair advantage are within your control, including some elements of your overall approach to sales. Greater Mindshare.

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Gaming Clients Contract Up-sell 309

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We provide training, tools, content to reduce their ramp time. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!

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CRM Pipeline Process Product 103

Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Sales Technique Objection handling Pitch 52

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Testing the best generative AI tool for PR content In August, Katie Delahaye Paine , CEO of Paine Publishing, and I uploaded four posts on successive Fridays to a blog, Facebook, and LinkedIn. million in ticket sales to four optimized press releases. Ever wondered which is the best generative AI tool for writing PR content?

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Objectives and Key Results Campaign Referrals Gaming 116

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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Technique Construction Legal Sales 98

The 5% Institute

APRIL 6, 2021

Objection handling training is one of the most beneficial things you can learn to dramatically increase your closing rate. It’s important part of the sales process , and something you’re most likely to come across time and time again. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales? Where Do Sales Objections Come From?

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Objection handling Trust Presentation Clients 143

Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this blog you will gain insight into what a GTM team looks like, helpful tips to boost productivity within your go-to-market process, and technology you can use to align your teams and launch new products successfully. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? 5 Tips for a Productive Go-to-Market Team What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Launch 52

Partners in Excellence

MAY 13, 2022

Here’s a pop quiz for sellers and sales enablement folks. Be honest, don’t cheat…… Raise your hand if you have had a formal training program on change and change management! Our sales training programs spend a lot of time helping us develop skills around what we sell and how we sell.

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Sell Objection handling Negotiate Customers 81

Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

From the data-rich ‘2023 Sales Enablement Analytics Report’ to actionable advice like ‘5 Tips to Go Beyond What Good Looks Like With Enablement,’ this curated selection covers a range of essential topics crucial for success in sales.

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Sales Strategize Growth Product 52

Martech

JULY 10, 2023

Rapidly disrupting our personal and professional environments like a runaway train, AI is poised to be more impactful than the internet. Almost overnight, tools have been created to do most of what I teach my communications students. There will be an AI for that! AI advances are astounding. Keeping up with these tools is impossible.

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Entertainment Education Launch Presentation 134

criteria for success

MAY 4, 2022

Many senior executives in sales and marketing don’t know who their buyers are, and don’t know how to position a selling conversation. Using a buyer persona template will allow your sales and marketing teams to be more effective by understanding more about your buyers. What the tangible benefit was to the other party.

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Sell Strategize Launch Consult 96

Martech

JANUARY 26, 2023

Marketing operations is what makes the magic happen. They are the maestros, modelers and makers who make sure the trains run, the data is digestible and that you have the programs you need. I even had the IRS coming after my dad for sales tax that I failed to report properly.” Where would we be without them?

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Legal Consult CRM Technology 111

Gong.io

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Chris Orlob, John Barrows, and Mark Roberge know a thing or two about how to create this unfair advantage and dominate sales. Chris was an early Gong guy (Nov ‘16 start date) where he’s served as the Senior Director of Product Marketing followed by the Head of Sales for Existing Accounts. Cold emailing (SPAM) to blogging.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Sales Pitch 121

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. But the most vital thing to remember is that training isn’t just for onboarding. Ongoing training and continuous development are crucial to a rep’s and an organization’s success. Training isn’t just for onboarding.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Up-sell Promote 93

Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I’m a huge fan of sales enablement and some of the outstanding sales enablement practitioners who I count as friends. I think, however, one of the biggest problems with sales enablement is not what they do, or the quality of the programs they develop. When I asked, “How is sales management involved?

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Sales High impact Conversion Process 120

Heinz Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant / Client Services Operations at Heinz Marketing I’m going to stick with the attribution theme ( see my recent blog post ) since it’s continued to be a popular topic in B2B Marketing. Another way to think about how to define lead sources is by sales metrics and velocity.

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Tradeshows Consult B2B Contact 103

Heinz Marketing

JULY 29, 2022

But once the dream candidate is onboard, we need to ensure our brand of B2B, the Predictable Pipeline methodology, is well trained and adopted. We have our own proprietary training program that includes 1-on-1 training sessions, videos, a workbook and quizzes to assess knowledge gain and comprehension.

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Pipeline B2B GTM Consult 107