March, 2022

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Why the Best Sales Conversation Wins

Iannarino

Imagine a company is exploring some significant change. They've looked at a number of potential partners online, all of whom make the same flashy promises. A number of contacts have even started taking phone calls from salespeople—normally they avoid them like a bubonic cliché, but because the company is performing poorly, they are looking for help improving their results.

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Building a brand strategy: Essentials for long-term success

Martech

Brand strategy is built on a platform of differentiation, where a company can use its value prop to create competitive advantages and satisfy customer needs. The key to long-term success is using brand strategy to define your market position in order to create market share and revenue growth. A brand marketing strategy is a set of guidelines that help businesses determine their core values and what they want to achieve with the business.

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5 Critical Sales Competencies: The Will to Sell Factors

Anthony Cole Training

There are 21 critical sales competencies that salespeople must have in order to achieve great sales success. But there are 5 Will to Sell factors that make up the foundation of that success.

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Best Entry Level Sales Jobs for College Graduates

Veloxy

Why Field Sales is still number one for earning and growth! Did you know that more than 50% of college graduates will start their career in sales? While graduates with business majors have even higher sales placements post graduation, the aforementioned covers all majors. Sales is truly one of the best jobs for recent graduates. While they come with an unusually bad reputation, sales jobs are vital for young professionals who want to develop valuable skills that are not exclusive to business.

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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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Top 7 Best Lead Generation Software for your Business

Sales Pop!

Do you know why almost 90% of the leads you attract don’t end up making a purchase? That is all because resource owners don’t use really good lead generation services. Such tools help to collect information about potential customers and turn them into loyal customers. After all, the process of attracting leads is not as simple as it may seem at first glance.

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The new sales process

Membrain

Most of our “sales processes” are failing us. There are a couple of core reasons we’ve found. First, sales people don’t pay attention to them or execute them poorly. This post isn’t for those people.

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In Praise Of Lazy Sales People!

Partners in Excellence

I’m fascinated by studying lazy sales people! Let me qualify that a little, I’m fascinated by studying lazy sales people that consistently achieve their goals. There seems to be a “macho” mentality in too many sales people/leaders. They express pride in how many calls they make, how many dials, how many emails, how much social selling engagement, how they are leveraging the tools.

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The Four Cs of Great Salespeople: Part 4

Anthony Cole Training

We have identified the four Cs of great salespeople and how mastering these traits will lead to better relationship selling and advanced selling skills. This week we are focusing on the critical trait of Charisma and how being able to attract, charm, and influence those you engage with will help you be more successful.

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Inside Sales vs Outside Sales: Comparing Pros and Cons

Veloxy

After nearly two years of a global pandemic, where nearly all of the workforce worked remotely , things are starting to return to business as usual. While it might be a slow return in some places, you are probably starting to consider again how you want your sales force to work for your business. After years of remote sales work, you might be ready to evaluate what formula of salesforce will best meet your needs as a business and as an employee.

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Common Costs Associated with Maintaining Business Websites

Sales Pop!

There are plenty of appealing aspects of having an online business. For one thing, it’s more accessible to a wider variety of people, since they won’t have to travel in order to see what your company is all about. It’s also cheaper to operate; you won’t have to pay rent on a retail space, for example. That being said, you should still leave a generous allowance in your budget for website maintenance and the occasional website redesign ; after all, this is often the first and only way people lear

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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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10 steps to crushing your sales forecasts

Membrain

One hundred years ago, most men and women wore hats and dressed up to go everywhere. Sixty years later, Dress for Success was founded and at the same time became somewhat of a thing where if you wanted to be successful, you needed to dress like you were successful.

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The Continuing Evolution of B2B Sales

Iannarino

The dramatic changes in our 21st-century environment have touched every part of our lives, including our companies and our clients. Because not everything changes all at once, though, we sometimes miss the inflection points that might cause us to modify how we do things, a critical step when your client's evolution means they need a different level of help.

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Triad Tempo: Creating Quality Engagement

Engage Selling

The Triad Tempo is a strategy that yields impressive results for your team and business. What is it exactly? One of the most important shifts in today’s sell-to marketplace is … Read More. The post Triad Tempo: Creating Quality Engagement first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Value-Based Selling in Challenging Markets

Anthony Cole Training

Do your lenders provide your prospects and clients with the consultative financial and business advice that establishes value and makes you rate-resistant? One of the areas where we are spending a significant amount of training time in 2022 is on sales negotiation strategies, value-based selling, as well as sales negotiation techniques.

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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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Veloxy Receives Best Sales Software Award from G2.

Veloxy

"We only grow when our customers grow!". Veloxy customers have always been willing to share their five star testimonials on G2 and other software review and marketplace sites. Past and current recognition has included: High Performer in Enterprise and Mid-Market, Momentum Leader, and Users Love Us awards, among several others. Then February 8 marked a new apex for Veloxy’s growth and customer recognition.

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The Aim of Pipeliner With Sales

Sales Pop!

In this series, we’ve been discussing the finding of meaning within sales. Why is this so important? The world is in a serious uproar. We know we can never go back to the way things were. From now on it’s an entire different world, with changes on a par to when the Berlin wall was erected. Hopefully, there will be peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, but whatever happens, war has come to a continent on which we never thought there would be war again.

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How to increase the rate of flow in your sales system

Membrain

If you visualize your sales as a pipeline, with leads going in one end and revenue coming out the other, it’s easy to see that the rate of flow through that pipeline matters.

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Your Contacts Are a Reflection of Your Value

Iannarino

After I started providing an executive briefing during quarterly business reviews with my contacts, executive leaders started joining these meetings. When my contacts started to share with their senior leaders our data, our insights, and what we believed would happen in the future, the senior leaders started to show up.

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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.

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The Top 10 Pieces of Advice I’d Give to My Younger CEO Self

SaaStr

A ways back, a Naval post on Twitter had my reflecting on the top advice I’d give to my younger CEO self: I missed one of the key Top 10 points — I ran out of 240 characters on Twitter), but thought it might be worth breaking them down in more detail on SaaStr below: 1. Go Long. This can be hard. The first start-up I ever joined as an employee was quickly acquired for $200m, which became $1 billion (!

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3 Big Sales Challenges

Anthony Cole Training

Top producers have mastered many skills. However, we know that all salespeople, including top salespeople, still struggle with 3 primary sales challenges.

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Need A Sales Playbook? Use Ours Instead!

The 5% Institute

Are you looking for a proven sales playbook to use for consistent, repeatable sales? In this article, we’ll detail the 10 step sales playbook that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales.

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8 SEO costs that impact your ROI

Search Engine Land

In SEO, there are obvious costs, but also some hidden costs. Learn how to understand the true, full cost of SEO. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Is your sales training delivering the value you promise?

Membrain

Sales organizations spend anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars per salesperson on sales training every year.

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The Ultimate Sales Coaching Template to Boost Profits

Iannarino

How would your leadership team react if they learned that one simple change could increase your company’s annual revenue growth rate.

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Why I’d Rather Be Acquired by Vista Than a Big Tech Company

SaaStr

SaaS is Back!! pic.twitter.com/jFqQ6zRz6A. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) March 21, 2022. Recently a number of founders have reached out to me about offers to acquire their company from Private Equity firms like Thoma Bravo, Vista, etc. Some offers are more real than others, but there’s an army of associates, principals and vice presidents at top PE firms looking for SaaS companies at $10m-$1000m ARR to acquire.

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Get Your Sales Action Plan in Action!

Anthony Cole Training

There are three core sales competencies indicative of a salesperson who will set stretch goals and create an action to reach those goals. However, identifying and establishing personal goals, as well as following an 8 step process, is critical to creating an effective sales action plan.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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8 x Tips To Drive Up Sales

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore eight tips to drive up sales to help you close easier and more consistently. These tips are commonly used by the top five percent of sales performers all around the world. Many people think that what they’re able to achieve is from pure luck. We’ll explore how this isn’t the case, and what you can do to improve your sales process , as well as your closing rate. 8 x Tips To Drive Up Sales.

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Google releases March 2022 product reviews update with additional ranking criteria

Search Engine Land

The new product reviews update looks for in-depth analysis, actual product use, unique information and comparable product coverage. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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How companies set up their managers to fail at coaching

Membrain

I was talking with a worldwide head of sales and their sales enablement team. They said they want their managers to start proactively coaching effectively and consistently. Throughout the conversation, everyone kept making a similar comment. “WE WANT ALL MANAGERS TO COACH 70% OF THE TIME.”.

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Program Yourself or Consent to Be Programmed

Iannarino

Human beings program algorithms, then algorithms return the favor— especially on social apps. Both the programmers and their pets want to change your behavior, as long as it keeps you on the platform. They call that metric "engagement," when you are anything but. How can you be engaged when you are passively scrolling through pictures of other people's lives, instead of out there living your own?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.