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Who Are The Best Salespeople?

Iannarino

This question is often posed: Who are the best salespeople? The answer is salespeople who are One-Up. If you want to improve your sales results or those of your team, it's important to understand what One-Up means. But we before we explain, we need to define One-Up.

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The Best Open-Ended Discovery Question

Cerebral Selling

When it comes to running high-impact sales discovery, one of the areas so many reps struggle with is asking engaging discovery questions that customers actually want to answer! In other words, how choosing the right questions can help you avoid “politely interrogating” your buyers and encourage them to open up about the pain points, business goals, and solutions you’re after.

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Rethinking Account Based Selling

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was speaking to the leadership team of a sales organization. They were struggling with getting their people to develop and execute their account plans. They had invested a lot in training, content, and other programs to support the account based selling focus. But things weren’t changing. People were going through the motions of developing their account plans, they would review them with management, then they went back to doing their jobs in the way they had always done them.

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Sales Territory Planning: The Five Minute Territory Plan (& Template)

SalesHood

The Five Minute Sales Territory Plan Between sales kick-off season approaching and another year beginning, there’s a lot of talk about self-sourcing pipeline, prospecting strategies, and territory management planning. We believe there’s nothing better than old school, back to basics, sales territory analysis, planning and prospecting. Here's a short talk outlining how [ ] The post Sales Territory Planning: The Five Minute Territory Plan (& Template) appeared first on SalesHood.

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Welcome to the Future of Hospitality: Smart Rooms Start Here

Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless 5G connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to in-room entertainment and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that are enabling

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Webinar: Harness first-party data for conversion

Martech

In order to retain and grow existing customer relationships, leading organizations are betting on first-party data solutions that can drive impact for both acquisition and retention initiatives. Join ActionIQ and Hearst’s VP of acquisition and conversion as they discuss how Hearst is unlocking value by leveraging its first-party data to drive conversion across both subscriber and e-commerce products.

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Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Tilt a Bit in SaaS?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Tilt a Bit in SaaS? I think in SaaS, it’s time to pivot when you have a handful of customers, and they are happy, and it’s been 9+ months … and you are growing, but slowly. If you have no customers, it’s not really a tilt, it’s a restart or a total pivot. But in SaaS what can happen sometimes is you are close to a product the market really wants, close, but not quite there.

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2 Channels for Targeting Tech Personas, Part 2/2

Heinz Marketing

By Win Salyards , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. B2B marketers targeting tech personas know well at this point that they make attribution frustratingly tricky. We know where to reach them, but they’re notoriously skeptical and private. So, how do we make attributions or capture leads when a potential tech contact is moving through your content like a ghost?

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Right Co-Founder … Wrong CEO. Could That Be You? Be Honest.

SaaStr

On the investing side of life, the toughest meeting of all for me at least is probably the Right Co-Founder, Wrong CEO start-up. Great product, driven team, good early product-market fit, great vision. Check, check, check and check. But clearly — the Other Co-Founder should be CEO. It’s happened to me again twice in the past few weeks.

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Using customer journey orchestration to engage existing customers during the pandemic

Martech

The disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in businesses renewing their appreciation for existing customers, as well as customer journey orchestration (CJO) tools that help guide and enhance the journey. Marketers are especially focused on the latter stages of the journey, with an eye toward fostering relationships that yield recurring revenue.

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All the Tuesday Night After Parties at SaaStr Annual 2022 – SaaStr Nights is Back Sept 13th in Downtown San Mateo!

SaaStr

SaaStr Annual 2022, Sept 13, 14, 15 in the SF Bay Area is ALMOST here! We’ll be taking over the Bay, more specifically the San Mateo County Events Center and the greater San Mateo area for 3 days of content, community and so much more. 8,202 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs have already signed up to join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Problem Solving with Jay Hammans

criteria for success

Happy Tuesday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! This week's guest is long-time friend of CFS and sales expert Jay Hammans. Jay is the Vice President of Sales at DialAmerica Marketing, which provides on-shore B2B and B2C customer engagement services. H e has extensive experience in sales and sales leadership, and he is currently based near Wichita, Kansas. .

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Sales As We’ve Never Known It: How to Solve the Top 5 Issues Sales Teams are Having Now

Sales Hacker

Sales leaders have spent decades wrestling with ways to avoid uncertainty. Now, sales is as we’ve never known it. To help, Jiminny surveyed hundreds of B2B sales pros across the US, UK, and Nordics to see how sales teams have been affected in this post-pandemic and possible pre-recession world. So we’ve called up Tom Lavery, Nasri El-Sayegh and Brad Rosen, to break down each issue and share how you should tackle these challenges and reach success.

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Using Criticism to Maximize Sales

Engage Selling

If you want to maximize sales, use criticism! You’ve probably had to deal with professional criticism at some point (or often) in your sales career. In such a fast-paced, high-pressure … Read More. The post Using Criticism to Maximize Sales first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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You’re an SDR Manager, Now What?

Sales Hacker

In sales development, there’s no shortage of tips, tricks and resources to help SDRs excel in their role. . Yet, there’s so much still left to be explored to support SDR Managers get up to speed in helping their teams. . This masterclass gives you the first steps that every SDR leader can follow to ramp up, make an impact, and get the best of their people and their teams. .

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Get Higher-Quality B2B Leads That Convert!

B2B marketers face a number of challenges, including: continuously generating great leads converting leads to active sales prospects finding vendors that deliver real results Aggregage has proven content syndication, webinar, online advertising and intent signal marketing programs that deliver higher-quality leads. More than 700 companies have already benefited from our programs.

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Are You Winging It? Lack of Sales Training?

SalesBlog!

Have you ever dealt with a salesperson that was less than and pretty sure they were winging it? No real substance and professionalism? Not confidence inspiring and definitely not an evangelist for their offering? Pushy, almost panicked, to make a sale? Maybe you’ve found yourself winging it? How does this happen! Well, there’s actually a good explanation and it has to do with sales training.

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Sales Pipeline 101: What You Need to Know

TaskDrive

Manage your marketing and sales efforts better with a sales pipeline. Here's everything you need to know about building and managing your sales pipeline. The post Sales Pipeline 101: What You Need to Know appeared first on TaskDrive.

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The Keys to Assertive Selling

Sell Or Die

They key to making more sales and more money lies in your ability to Assertively Sell & Build Relationships.Not just close deals. In this episode we go over the key aspects to Assertive Selling including: - Building Authentic Relationships with your prospects - How to properly "close the sale" - How to sift through the "Sh*&&* Sales Material" that is constantly being taught out there - Your Ability to Ask Good Questions - What a "price objection" really means.

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Four Career Lessons from Climbing Mt. Everest

Highspot

On May 15, I stepped onto the summit of Mt. Everest. In the months leading up to the expedition, when I was job searching, I knew I’d need to find a company that encouraged people to make their dreams happen. When Highspot reached out for an interview, I let them know that I was planning a ten-week expedition to Nepal. Their reaction was full of support, and I soon joined the company.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.