Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 27, 2020

We are in week 6 of lockdown, week 8 of voluntary work-from-home, while adapting, guiding and directing companies who still need to sell their products and services to generate revenue. At this point sales is about so much more than generating revenue for profit or to keep employees working. For most companies, sales is now about generating revenue to survive, as we stare down a whole new way of doing business.

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Membrain

APRIL 8, 2020

Sales managers can be a major multiplier for sales performance, but too often this critical role is overlooked when it comes to training. Not so at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 8, 2020

The sales pitch is a crucial part of the sales process , and one that you need to get right! Making a mistake while delivering your sales pitch can mean the difference between closing the sale – and breaking rapport and starting all over again. In this article, we’ll explore why so many Sales Professionals and Business Owners make mistakes when delivering their sales pitch, and what steps you need to include prior to delivering yours.

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 28, 2020

Due to the Coronavirus and the shelter in place, we made a quick pivot at A Sales Guy. We created a virtual Gap Selling training course for salespeople. With a price point of $99.00, it was designed to make it easy and affordable for salespeople to access the same training we provide to large sales organizations around the world. It’s been a wild success and its been a blast, but all good things must come to an end.

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Engage Selling

APRIL 10, 2020

A client once reported to me that the work we did with them last year is creating 35% more revenue to the company than it did in previous years.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 12, 2020

There’s a certain feeling of helplessness we each feel as we look at the current global health crisis, things happening in our companies, in our communities, even with our families. We are all facing things few of us, individually or organizationally, have ever faced. We each are struggling to find answers and to make sense of what’s happening.

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Membrain

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s no secret that I believe that many sales organizations are overspending on technology. Right now, while many organizations are cutting payroll and looking for other ways to grow lean during a challenging time, I want to encourage you to take a good, hard look at your tech spend.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 12, 2020

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, finances have been tight for lots of people and families around the country. I am thankful to still be working but, finances and budgeting have still been top of mind. For the past few months I’ve been using an app on my phone called NerdWallet and I love it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2020

Q: What sales tactics that are taught to new salespeople bother you enough that you refuse to use them? A few that I think really do you a disservice in SaaS, especially before you have a huge brand: “Be careful of prospects that waste your time.” Yes, your time is precious in sales. But this is backwards. Almost no one wants to waste a salesperson’s time.

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Engage Selling

APRIL 9, 2020

As you almost certainly, in some format, have adjusted your day-to-day schedules and routines, be sure to keep track of what’s working.

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Jill Konrath

APRIL 28, 2020

Keeping a positive mindset during these challenging times can be really hard. Especially when top prospects start ghosting you, big opportunities get stalled out, and finding someone new to talk to feels like an impossibility.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 6, 2020

What a month it's been! Not only how the Covid-19 virus has changed our lives and sent us to work from home, but how we are conducting our businesses from home. Green screens, virtual backgrounds, video calls and meetings, team chats, video team huddles, a blur between days, working hours and relaxing hours, and more. In today's article I'm going off topic so that I can share how we converted Objective Management Group's (OMG) 4-day Boston International Sales Experts Conference for OMG Partners,

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Membrain

APRIL 1, 2020

Most of Europe and the United States has been in a state of response to the novel Coronavirus pandemic for a few weeks now, and most of us are settling into a new sense of “normal.”.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 13, 2020

By Matt Heinz , Founder and President of Heinz Marketing. For three weeks, the idea of “selling with empathy” dominated discussions in sales management circles. That may have shifted late last week, as some sales executives in our new Sales Leader Cocktail Talks series started encouraging their prospects to organize, decide and act to save (even grow) their businesses amidst the current economic shutdown.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2020

I wrote an early SaaStr post way back in 2013 on my “Year of Hell” as a SaaS CEO in 2008. In 2013, we were just 2 years removed from the real recovery from ’08-’09. And the one thing that was clear to me was that as hard as it was to see at the time, once we got out of our Year from Hell at Adobe Sign / EchoSign … things roared back.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 14, 2020

Online shopping makes it easier for consumers to shop more often, and throughout the day. According to research from the IBM Institute for Business Value and the National Retail Federation , 71% of consumers shop in “micromoments”—whenever the impulse strikes—and often while they are doing something else, such as taking a break from a work project, eating lunch or even running on a treadmill.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 13, 2020

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. In the tech sector alone, the direct losses from the cancellation of just 10 events are more than $1.1 billion. Many companies are canceling events or postponing them until after the crisis is over.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 9, 2020

Forget Consultative Selling, Value Selling and Sales Process - the things I talk about most often. The inability to sell that way is nothing - and I mean nothing compared with what I'm going to explain today! For most salespeople and companies, the last three weeks has been an absolute roller coaster. Most companies expect their sales teams to be not only active, but proactive; to replace face-to-face meetings with virtual meetings; and to continue pipeline building so that there is business to

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Membrain

APRIL 22, 2020

The gig economy, improved technology, and cultural shifts have led to more and more employees working from home over the past decade. But nothing has driven that change as fast as the current coronavirus pandemic.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 8, 2020

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Taking a break from COVID-19 content to share with you what I’ve recently learned about campaign hierarchies in Salesforce. I’m not sure how I didn’t know about this before but at least I know now! I am by no means a Salesforce expert but, I’ve spent my fair share of time in the platform.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

Things are so crazy right now, and beyond that, the pace of change is almost incomprehensible. Zoom has grown 20x in usage in a little more than a month. But at the same time, we added 6,000,000 new to the unemployment rolls. SaaS for some industries is being decimated in just a week or two. In other cases, unexpected upgrades and leads seem to come out of nowhere.

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SalesProInsider

APRIL 2, 2020

Have you heard the saying, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care?”. Now is the time that we should be keeping that mantra in mind as we proactively use these next weeks to reach out to people and set the stage for helping them, strengthening our relationship with them, building trust, and earning the right for business in the future, whether that’s short term or long term.

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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.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2020

One of my sources for blog topics is my friend, Brent Adamson. The other evening, Brent and I were trying to solve the problems of the sales world. I actually think he was trying to escape the “shelter in place” lifestyle we have adopted. One of his daughters was downstairs exercising, the rest of the family was some place else in the house.

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KO Advantage Group

APRIL 14, 2020

“ I am the second born of four in my family and currently studying Accounting at The University of Calgary. I moved to Canada 5 years ago. My favourite weather is Summer where I am able to go to Canmore, Jasper and Banff and enjoy the weather. I discovered my love for hiking when I moved to Canada. I will love to visit Japan next summer. What are some of the cool and exciting places to see in Japan?”.

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Membrain

APRIL 29, 2020

Everybody loves to hold others accountable, but very few of us enjoy being held accountable ourselves. It’s natural. We’re human, and very often “accountability” is a code word for “perform or else” where “or else” is a threat.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Events are out the window — for now. Here are two other ways to organically connect with leads using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. We’ve all seen talk of the “new normal” floating around rapid-fire tweets, deep-dive B2B podcasts, and earnest LinkedIn posts. If you know what this new normal is already, by all means, send me a connection request and fill me in.

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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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

In the last year we’ve been leveling up a lot of our systems at SaaStr, and as part of that, moving from a lot of self-service and simple products to more robust ones. Such is the way as you grow. And one thing I’ve been shocked about is how few sales processes have kept up. Pressure tactics, exploding discounts, 48-hour trials that end on you, us-vs-them pricing, are all still alive and well.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 20, 2020

They will begin reopening the economy in three phases, but with some restrictions. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? It's sure as heck much better than what we have today, but will it work? In this article, I'll explain why it won't work like they hope, and what must occur for the economy to thrive again.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2020

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had friends, colleagues, clients calling and to talk about the trials and tribulations of working from home. We’ve shared funny stories, frustrations, and swapped hints and tricks. Some people have been asking me for hints/tricks about working from home, knowing that I have had a home office for the past 20+ years.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 6, 2020

The REVCommunity is kind, generous, and thoughtful. They’ve proven themselves over and over through the years. It turns out that they’re not here just for the good times, they’re here for the hard times, too. They know that the market is uncertain and scary right now, and they’ve been graciously sharing their findings for job seekers with the REVCommunity over recent days and weeks.

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