Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2024

And, perhaps, it is this mindset that underlies the poor results we get from our prospecting. Somehow, we seem to have lost the idea there is a human being sitting at the other side of our outbound efforts. We see this in our own personal experiences, every day. What if we changed? They are human beings.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I guess I’m confused about why we accept what we get, rather than looking at what we have to do or what we might change to get what we want? Or how do we get 80% of our people achieving their goals, rather than 40%? Or how do we get 80% of our people achieving their goals, rather than 40%? What are you talking about?”

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Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Back to our regularly scheduled blog. At the core it is mindset, that of the leader and the front line. So, if leaders lack a plan for change, how will the front-line change, in fact why would they change? Change needs to be demonstrated not just talked about in abstract terms.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This 90-Day Negativity Fast Will Change Your Life On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Anthony Iannarino discusses the importance of avoiding negativity and engaging in positive thinking. This will cultivate a positive mindset and help counteract negativity. This allows for more meaningful interactions and deeper connections.

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Sales Pop!

MARCH 31, 2024

In today’s digital age, it’s more important than ever for businesses to keep up with the fast-paced changes. This means catching up with new technologies and fundamentally changing how we think and work. But Govind quickly pointed out that AI isn’t here to take our jobs. What Exactly Is Digital Transformation?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I’ll address the problems of these short tenures in a separate post, but this is just a simple example of too much of the flawed thinking I see expressed in our social channels. What would happen if we change this? What does it take to change this? What does it take to change this?” How do we change this?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2024

Task forces would be in frenzied action trying to figure out why this was happening and what need be done to change that win rate, getting it up to more acceptable levels in the shortest time possible. Sure we don’t want to waste time an resources on things way outside our ICP. Win rates are based on qualified deals only.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

These tend to fall into two categories: “Mis-diagnoses,” incorrectly identifying the problem/solution; and Missed Diagnoses, not recognizing that something might be changed or improved. But each requires different approaches with our customers. This article will focus on Missed-Diagnosis, or inciting customers to change.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In sales, the right mindset is everything. The mindset translates into some form of habits, which then translates into tasks and activities. At the end of the day, the mindset finally results in a person’s daily behavior. Starting Early In life, it is critical to begin forming a mindset as early as possible.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2023

When I read my feeds or listen to a lot of “experts,” the focus is always on hitting our quotas, maxing our commissions, achieving our goals. Our jobs are at stake, even our companies are threatened. The implicit thinking is, we don’t have the time to help, we are chasing after our number.

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Sales Pop!

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Strategies for Business Growth Success Business growth success depends upon embracing the mindset of ‘never give up’ no matter the conversation (s) behind our backs. Focus and mindset are the primary factors involved in strategies for business growth success. ‘ Liked-minded Themes: Gamify obstacles to improve.

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Sales Gravy

JULY 7, 2023

When They Say No: Overcoming Rejection And Shifting Your Mindset Introduces Andrea and Richard's new book, When They Say No, and provides valuable insights on overcoming rejection in sales. Learn practical strategies to effectively handle rejection and rewire the mindset for success.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s through questions and questioning, we think about change, doing things differently. But sometimes, our questions are less effective or actually weaponize our intent. As sellers, too often our “discovery” process really focuses on giving the opportunity to pitch our products.

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Martech

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nurture a culture of innovation and empower your team One of the significant differences between the platoon leader in our earlier example and a marketing leader is the way effective marketing leaders will delegate authority and encourage new ideas and innovative solutions. People, in general, dislike change. AI is just the latest.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We will provide references, case studies to support our arguments. We may leverage our relationships. Implicit in the act of convincing our customers is that somehow they must be wrong, and we are right. Even if they are, nothing we say will get them to change their minds—until they decide for themselves.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. It forces us to change our perspectives about how our customers buy—or drive their problem solving/change initiatives. Buying dynamics are changing dramatically.

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But how can we be confident that we are using AI to the best of our ability and pursuing AI excellence? Our Five Elements Framework outlines how to implement AI using trust, alignment, human design, a platform mindset, and innovation. Identify areas for process improvement and adapt to changing markets.

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Objectives and Key Results Government User Experience Trust 119

Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As I said then and still believe, this is not a channel-ending event for email, and I am not crying over the change. Many of our B2B and B2C clients are facing challenges now because they depend on open to confirm actions or show legitimate intent. Our clients succeed on clicks and conversions. Start the change today.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

Diminishing authoritativeness: Frequent topic changes make establishing authority in specific areas difficult. Embracing a topical map mindset Moving beyond the “jack of all trades” approach necessitates shifting your content strategy towards a topical map mindset. Now, our topical map is complete!

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 9, 2024

The rates of change and disruption seem to be accelerating. Workloads seem to sky rocket as do demands on our time. Distractions whether device based, app based or self inflicted consume our time. And it would be unrealistic to expect any of this change for the better. Define and viciously focus on your ICP.

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Successful agile marketing transformations happen when: Change is incremental rather than all at once. Employees have a voice in how change is happening. Senior leaders are aligned with a common reason why change is needed at this point in time. Here are four common problems — and how to avoid them.

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Spiro Technologies

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Because of how difficult and mentally challenging sales can be, mindset is a critical component of sales success. Without the right mindset, the average person would quickly burn out after facing the myriad of rejections and never-ending hurdles that are part of every sales role. Here are some ways you can make sure you do too: 1.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 29, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore the sales mindset you need to become successful at consistently selling your products or services. The Sales Mindset You Need To Be Successful. The Sales Mindset For Success Tip #1 –Decision Makers. The Sales Mindset For Success Tip #2 – The Pre-Frame/ Intent Statement. Pain points.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2021

I’m playing with your mindset, hoping you consider a different perspective. But, focusing on sales restricts us from a complete view of selling–how we engage our customers most effectively, when they are buying… To understand selling, let’s focus on buying. In the past, sales engaged and educated buyers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

They recognize they are working with human beings struggling not only with their day jobs, but making changes they have little experience in doing. We have no interest or understanding of their problems–rather focusing on presenting our products, expecting customers to do the hard work. Not a bad mindset!

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Sales Pop!

APRIL 5, 2024

The workplace is forever changing, and the staff at some companies is comprised of multiple generations. Mindset Encompasses Sales Strategy Every conversation outcome, whether with friends, associates, staff, prospects, or clients, depends upon our frame of mind, which affects business considerations.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 9, 2021

Inevitably, the world changes, things we do to achieve success require us to change. They stuggle with learning anything that doesn’t reinforce their current beliefs and mindset. When those things that have always worked, no longer work, they don’t have the capability to adapt and change.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2022

Whether socially, politically, or in our businesses, we struggle with disagreement. But there are a lot of problems with disagreement–or at least our ability to understand and manage disagreements, productively. It raises our stress levels, disagreement makes us uncomfortable.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 2, 2024

We’re hoping this degradation in net-new traffic won’t occur for one of our clients. For years, our client spent $3,500 in video advertising every month. Right now, we’re holding our breath (and monitoring closely) to see the impact of that budget cut and ascertain the degree of any degradation in traffic and conversions as a result.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How do we know that we are actually being helpful with how we engage our customers, helping them make sense of what they are trying to do? And then how to we use that to improve our sensemaking activities in engaging customers? How do those questions change during the buying process? Do they find it helpful?

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Our previous article in this series ended with this line: How do you want your reality to appear? If we knew, many decisions would be different because we increasingly filter out reality from our mindset, in a similar way that people in love only see things “through rose-colored glasses.” What is really going on? Not really.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Check our blog next week for the newest installment, or subscribe for updates straight to your inbox.

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SalesProInsider

MAY 20, 2020

It’s estimated that 90% of sales conversations are happening virtually these days and that though skepticism remains, many people, more than 50% believe that this mode of selling is as effective as our old practices. A New Mindset for a Proven Sales Mode. The second thing that hasn’t changed is that they need you.

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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Coming to the final article in our series on sales ethics, let’s now cover its most practical aspect: sales ethics characteristics. A salesperson must be teachable because we all have to learn—about our products and services, our company, and most importantly, our prospects. I highly recommend you read it.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 23, 2023

” The intensity of focus on what we are doing to achieve our goals today blinds us to the fact that things are changing at a rate we have never experienced. It’s unreasonable to think of being completely strategic in our focus, paying more attention to how wonderful things might be. Chess is an interesting analogy.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. This shift requires not only a change in skills but also a fundamental shift in mindset.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than helping to shape the GTM strategy, it is forced to adopt a tactical mindset and cannot focus on its most impactful mandate: driving behavior change. The Role of Enablement in Modern Sales Organizations Enablement’s primary directive should be driving behavior change.

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