STAR Results
JUNE 20, 2019
Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. That’s right. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The reality is, they have one-on-ones, but their meetings tend to focus on business issues, follow up items and people issues.
ConversionXL
JUNE 23, 2019
If you’re Amazon or Apple—congratulations! You don’t have any credibility issues. Most of us aren’t so lucky. Almost all but the biggest of companies have an uphill credibility battle every time a new visitor lands on their site. What’s website credibility? And why is it important? BJ Fogg , the world’s leading researcher on web credibility, has said that website credibility is about designing your website to make it appear trustworthy and knowledgeable.
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SalesProInsider
JUNE 19, 2019
For two weeks I looked forward to a sales appointment. An appointment where I was the buyer, not the provider. My company desperately needed the service being offered and I had high hopes I was going to get a solution to a nagging issue. Imagine my surprise then when Mark showed up at my office, sat at my table, opened his portfolio and said, “Well, I typically like to just get right into it.
Membrain
JUNE 5, 2019
“The mitigation of friction which impedes sales.” That’s Bob Britton, in a guest post on this blog, defining sales enablement. While I’ve certainly heard more extensive definitions, I find Bob’s concept to be pleasingly simple and useful.
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Women Sales Pros
JUNE 21, 2019
Strategies To Drive Sales It’s an age old problem, the friction between marketing and sales. In most organizations they are like oil and water with marketing feeling like they are doing all the heavy lifting – developing campaigns, strategies that tap new prospects and taking market awareness to a whole new level. While sales feels like marketing just gets in the way of the important work – the actual sale.
Miller Heiman Group
JUNE 13, 2019
Ostensibly designed to help sellers close more deals, in many organizations, the CRM is just another administrative task on a salesperson’s already crowded plate. It’s a way for sales managers to monitor deal status that adds little, if any, value to their selling activities. But this approach to CRM is changing. More and more businesses are adopting sales technology tools, such as our analytics solution Scout , that turn their CRM data into actionable insights.
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ConversionXL
JUNE 30, 2019
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Napoleon Bonaparte. When your competitors make mistakes, it makes winning so much easier. But what if it’s you who is making a mistake, while your competitors are off to the races? You won’t know until you figure out what your competitors are up to. Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 23, 2019
Before reading this post, think about the following quote from Abraham Lincoln: If I have 6 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe. I’ve had the great privilege of coaching/advising one of the highest performance sales teams I’ve ever worked with. They are led by a great manager who has built a talented team.
Membrain
JUNE 19, 2019
I admit, I’m not a dog person. But those little lap dogs some people carry around are kind of cute, especially when they do little tricks like speak on command or walk at their owner’s heel.
Women Sales Pros
JUNE 4, 2019
Lauren Bailey, President of Girls Club , asked me to deliver the closing keynote at their first annual conference. This presented a challenge for me. I teach sellers how to sell stuff…Now, I’m being asked to “tell my story” and share the failures and successes that got me where I am today. I had to be vulnerable and reflect rather than share my competence.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
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SalesforLife
JUNE 13, 2019
There’s no question that sales pros—especially territory-based sellers—have a weakness in a key skill. Let me explain, these sales pros are typically given a geographic territory or a specific vertical – but their weakness is that they lack the understanding that they need to treat their territory as if they’re the CEO of that territory. As the CEO of your territory, it’s your responsibility to understand the Total Addressable Market (“TAM”) of your industry, and be able to segment it between wh
Gong.io
JUNE 25, 2019
These 7 sales mistakes are just that: Horrifying. How many of them do YOU make? If you stop doing these, you’ll improve your calls. Big time. Once you read what NOT to do, I have something for you at the end of this post: What you SHOULD do to be successful instead. SALES MISTAKE #1: “Feature dumping”. Feature dumping is to sales what bad breath is to dating.
ConversionXL
JUNE 4, 2019
You don’t purchase products. You buy success, status, a lifestyle. Your purchases furthermore, are driven by subconscious perceptions and emotions. Semiotics, the interpretation of signs and symbols, helps decipher those subconscious elements. While it has plenty of lofty, academic associations, it has practical implications for marketers, too.
Engage Selling
JUNE 6, 2019
You no longer have an ideal buyer. You have to throw out the notion that there’s a singular contact inside an organization who makes the buying decision.
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Membrain
JUNE 30, 2019
I was at a golf practice range the other day. I took a nice, easy swing, heard that ultra-satisfying “click”, and watched the ball travel straight downrange and land exactly where I intended it to. And for a moment, one brief, fleeting moment, I actually believed I was getting better at this game.
Jill Konrath
JUNE 13, 2019
Today’s overwhelmed buyers don't care about what you're selling. They only care about what it does for them. That's why value propositions are so important today.
SalesforLife
JUNE 30, 2019
When I was doing my Master’s degree in Australia, I quickly learned that an MBA program is different than an undergrad program because you learn most of the content from your peers and discussion. This is in contrast to doing an undergrad degree, which is centered more on asynchronous learning. In an undergrad program, you learn on your own through textbooks, videos, and self-paced learning, and also some synchronous learning through lectures.
The 5% Institute
JUNE 30, 2019
One of the most important factors for a Sales Professional or Business Owner; and probably in-fact the most important factor of them all, is being able to be consistent in achieving your specific goals and outcomes. Discipline in sales. An often overlooked, yet very important ingredient if you want to be successful in this game of selling. Let’s break this down into two categories, so I can help you and your team towards discipline in sales.
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ConversionXL
JUNE 26, 2019
Many SaaS companies launch a product-led growth model —but never update it. When the executive team calls me and asks why they aren’t converting users into customers, I tell them to buy a plant. Seriously. If they don’t water the plant, it’s going to wither and die. If they water it and give it sunlight, it’ll grow. Everyone knows how the system works.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 16, 2019
I’ve been obsessed with failure recently. More specifically, I’ve been pestering close friends and mentors with the question: “If we know what we should be doing, if we know how to do it, if we know how important it is to our results, why do we consistently fail to do those things?” Unless you are brand new to sales, your name is Rip van Winkle, or you are absolutely clueless, all of us know what we should be doing.
Membrain
JUNE 26, 2019
Far off the coast of Ecuador, deep in the South Pacific Ocean, lies a collection of tiny, remote islands called the Galapagos. There in that ocean, in the midst of the Galapagos, a rim of volcanic rock rises from the sea to surround an ancient crater, together forming a hot and treeless island called Daphne Major.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 17, 2019
How do you ensure you’re maximizing your sales team’s potential? How do you inspire your team to go above and beyond what they think is possible? The answers may surprise you. According to the first-ever State of Sales Performance Survey , in partnership with Sales Hacker, Ambition, Gong, AA-ISP, Vidyard, and Factor 8, the key is modern sales performance management.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.
Women Sales Pros
JUNE 14, 2019
Depending on when you are reading this, the Score More Sales Summer Sales Challenge is about to begin or it has begun already. No matter, you can get in on it at any point, although the sooner the better. For some people the Summer months are for planning long weekends, outdoor barbeques, and trips to visit family and friends – or just to get away on vacation.
The 5% Institute
JUNE 27, 2019
Whenever I’m running a sales workshop, one of the questions I like to ask the audience is what are the two types of competition in business? The answers I generally get back are the other types of businesses they are directly competing with for their potential clients. If you’re a Marketing Agency that helps businesses find leads, they assume it’ll be other Marketing Agencies.
ConversionXL
JUNE 23, 2019
Why is it that some books become bestsellers and others can hardly sell a 100 copies? Why do you read some books with passion and interest but can’t get past the first 10 pages of others? What’s the difference? It’s simple: word choice. The words you use—and the order in which you use them—make all the difference when it comes to crafting sales copy that wins sales.
Hubspot
JUNE 26, 2019
During the 1950s, Volkswagen sold a bus. Although now considered a classic vehicle, the bus remains an icon for the car company decades later. The cool part? Volkswagen just introduced their new VW Bus this year — it’s electric and features modern and sleek styling. Volkswagen’s marketing for the vehicle is eye-catching, unique, and fun, and it fits the original “hippie” vibe the company was once known for.
Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications
Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.
Membrain
JUNE 23, 2019
I recently gave a presentation at the ESA Leadership Summit on ways to optimize a sales organization. The four components and main points I discussed are applicable to sales organizations in every kind of industry, so I want to share them.
Outreach
JUNE 19, 2019
Vacations and time away from work are great, but for sales reps, out of office (OOO) replies have historically required a gauntlet of manual workarounds to pause and resume the Sequence based on the prospect’s availability. And with as many as 18% of emails being OOO replies , that’s nearly one-fifth of a rep’s time bound to administrative organization rather than selling.
Miller Heiman Group
JUNE 4, 2019
It’s a buyers market, even in B2B sales. Buyers now expect the innovation they’ve experienced as consumers when they’re buying solutions at the workplace—and less than one-third report that B2B sellers exceed their expectations. One way that sellers can work on improving buyer perception and exceeding those expectations is to consider the role that service plays in B2B sales.
The 5% Institute
JUNE 23, 2019
A lot of sales training out there teaches you about the tactical – how to sell someone, or the step-by-step process to help a person make a buying decision. However not many cover the psychology behind why people invest and buy in the first place. This is important, because once you know why people make purchasing decisions; you can tailor your messaging, empathy, understanding, strategy and tactics to centre on it.
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