Mon.Oct 03, 2022

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How to Motivate Your Sales Force

Iannarino

You never hear the head of the accounting department ask about how to motivate their accounts payable clerks to pay the bills on time. Somehow, the accounts payable clerks can pay the bills without their manager having to motivate them. It's odd that only salespeople need to be motivated to do their work.

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Sales Goal Setting

Anthony Cole Training

Sometimes that means just go do the work! Early on in our business, I established rules for our sales success. One of my rules was No Cold Calling. Even though there is lots of information on effective cold calling, by having that rule, I was forced to get introductions and network with centers of influence. This has worked well over the years and our entire team follows that path.

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A Radical Reinvention of Corporate Sales Training

Iannarino

Senior sales leaders often complain that sales training doesn't work. There are several reasons why they might be right, but the root cause is that corporate sales training needs a radical reinvention. The primary purpose of traditional corporate sales training is that companies can check the box proving they provided some kind of training to their sales force.

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Isn’t It All About The Buying Process?

Partners in Excellence

Yesterday, I published a rather long article on the Selling Process. It’s part of my series of articles about “Things We Thought We Understood About Selling But Really Didn’t.” Apologies, the article was rather long, but the selling process is so important. Understanding it, executing it well is the cornerstone to our success.

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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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Data analytics: Your stack’s past and limitations

Martech

At our recent MarTech Conference session, “It takes two to tango: How marketers and data analysts can excel together,” Arti Munshi and I talked about some high-level concepts marketers can understand to help them work efficiently with data analysts. A key part of this is understanding data’s limitations. One of those limitations is a martech stack’s evolution.

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Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most SaaS Startups Fail?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most SaaS Startups Fail? I’d like to suggest that web start-ups founded by quality teams often fail due to time. I know those hot start-ups seem to be lapping you, Growing faster, Raising bigger rounds. You should worry. But here’s the thing. UiPath took 10 years to get to $1m ARR. It’s worth $10B. Procore took 10 years to take off, only once mobile emerged.

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Lessons from Salesforce to Celonis: Tips to Scale Globally with Celonis COO Arsenio Otero (Video)

SaaStr

All companies depend on growth, and growth has to come from somewhere. How do companies that rely on hypergrowth—expanding as much as 100% yearly—achieve this kind of success? Celonis’ COO, Arsenio Otero, discusses this as a three-stage process with actionable steps. Designing the GTM model. When approaching a GTM exercise, one thing needs to be very clear: the company’s revenue strategy.

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The Selling Process–Yep, That Again

Partners in Excellence

Continuing my series of posts on the things we thought we understood about selling but really don’t, I’m tackling the selling process. I can already hear the groans and suspect many of you are about to click, moving onto something else. But hang in there, the selling process is one of the most important fundamentals to our effectiveness as sellers.

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11 steps to setting up a successful GA4 property

Search Engine Land

As many of us are already aware of, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is not an analytics update. It’s an entirely new Analytics product altogether. And along with implementing a new Analytics product comes the inevitable learning curve of not only figuring out how to set it up, but also familiarizing yourself with the new UI, finding and pulling reports, and analyzing the most important data.

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Why Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) Matters for Sales, According to Dropbox's Head of Customer Solutions

Hubspot

When I first sat down with David Stafford , Dropbox's Head of Customer Solutions, to discuss BATNA, he admitted what I'd also been thinking. "I'm going to be honest — I'm familiar with BATNA from business school and from a textbook point of view. But I never knew it as BATNA. So, this morning, I had to Google it.". I'd also spent the morning reading up on BATNA, so I could relate.

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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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How To Build Credibility In Dominated Markets with Kari Hanson (Business Growth Show Podcast with Sam Dunning)

Spiro Technologies

The post How To Build Credibility In Dominated Markets with Kari Hanson (Business Growth Show Podcast with Sam Dunning) appeared first on Spiro.

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How the Psychology of Sales Gamification Improves Workforce Retention

Closer's Coffee

Harvard Business Review estimates the annual turnover among U.S. salespeople runs as high as 27%—twice the rate in the overall labor force. In many industries, the average sales tenure is less than two years.These numbers are staggering, especially for small businesses, where building relationships can significantly improve the odds of securing a sale and retaining that customer for the long-term.

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5 x ‘Close The Sale Techniques’ To Sell Easier

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll share five effective ‘close the sale techniques’ we encourage you to use regularly, so you can close sales more consistently, and in a consultative manner. The reason we’ve called these effective ‘close the sale techniques’, is because they can give you excellent results without breaking rapport. Read on to learn our five ‘close the sale techniques, and more importantly; put them into practice so you can close more effectively and serve more people. 5 x ‘Close The Sale Tec

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How Adam Honig is Taking on the $54B CRM Industry (Billion Dollar Tech Podcast with Brendan Dell)

Spiro Technologies

The post How Adam Honig is Taking on the $54B CRM Industry (Billion Dollar Tech Podcast with Brendan Dell) appeared first on Spiro.

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