November, 2019

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A Pre-Call Checklist is Your 7th Must-Have Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our 7th installment of Football & 9 Sales Productivity Tools That Will Change Your Results, we bring you the pivotal and "must-have" Pre-Call Checklist. Going into a sales call without a plan is similar to going into a football game without a game plan; it's a recipe for disaster!

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SaaS Will Hit $116 Billion Next Year. Wow.

SaaStr

Gartner has its latest Cloud report out , and while one can always pick at any report, it’s at least a well-resourced and reasoned source on the size of SaaS and the Cloud. The big learnings for SaaS founders and execs: Cloud overall will grow 17% next year to $266 Billion. That’s a lot of growth, and it means we’re solidly in the mainstream phase but not the mature phase.

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Do Less, Achieve More

Engage Selling

Yes, it is possible to do less and achieve more. As I’ve touched on recently, the general mantra for professionals in today’s world is “more, more, more.

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Marketing is Empathy

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. So much is written about how to instill empathy into marketing. A quick search online brings up how empathy is used in B2B marketing, how to enhance marketing with empathy, or how to make empathy part of your marketing strategy. In my experience marketing is empathy. They are synonymous in business.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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ABM Tricks that Boost Lead Generation and Sales Momentum

Sales Hacker

Account-based marketing isn’t new anymore. It’s time to stop winging it and to start doing it the right way. ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. At Belkin, ABM helps us process a huge volume of data. We use it to explore over 50 data fields each day, research up to 20,000 leads every week, and constantly make content for email-outreach campaigns and customer communication.

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12 Cognitive Biases E-commerce Marketers Need to Know

Neuromarketing

Understand how customer brains work - these are the most important cognitive biases for e-commerce marketers. The post 12 Cognitive Biases E-commerce Marketers Need to Know appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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Planning to Win: Your Sales Negotiation Checklist

RAIN Group

Preparation is often the greatest determinant of negotiation success. Across negotiation studies and surveys, sellers who get the best outcomes: Know what they sell. Research buyer wants and needs through sources other than the buyer. Have a keen understanding of the buyer’s day-to-day life and concerns. Prepare for each negotiation with trades, counteroffers, and knowledge of their walk-away points.

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Is the Motivation Pendulum Swinging Back?

Membrain

If it isn’t obvious from my many posts using the Objective Management Group’s database, I love to mine facts on salespeople. I’m fortunate to have access to this large database and all the information it provides. And recently I’ve noticed a slight trend shift regarding how salespeople are motivated that needs to be shared.

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When It’s OK Not To Grow

Engage Selling

Sometimes, it’s OK for your business and sales not to grow. You read that right. The general theme behind most advice online is to “grow, grow, grow!

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Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up Your Sales Game for 2020

Sales Hacker

Save the date! The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. WHEN : December 9–13, 2019. WHERE : Your office or home. COST : Nada. It’s 100% free. RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. We heard somewhere that December 13 is Salesperson’s Day.

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Executive

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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Non-Profit Persuasion Lesson from Jay-Z

Neuromarketing

Rapper Jay-Z used a classic influence principle for non-profit persuasion. The post Non-Profit Persuasion Lesson from Jay-Z appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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Creating Your Ideal Week: The 6th Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our next edition of Football & 9 Sales Productivity Tools That Will Change Your Results, we bring you our 6th tool, which is "Creating Your Ideal Week".

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Triple-Double-Double is Good. 10-100-110 is Enough.

SaaStr

Neeraj Agarwal of Battery Ventures a few years back simplified a lot of the journies top SaaS companies go on to TripleTripleDoubleDoubleDouble, T2D3. That the top SaaS companies triple in the early years, and then double after that to get to $100m+ in ARR. The best SaaS companies do indeed do this and it’s a great yardstick for VCs to measure potential unicorns and decacorns.

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Are limiting beliefs undermining your success?

Membrain

Every sales manager has encountered a salesperson who just can’t seem to “get it.” This is the underperforming team member you work with on the same thing over and over, and no matter how much training, enablement, and coaching you provide, they just keep making the same bad decisions, having the same bad conversations, and experiencing the same bad outcomes.

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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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Rethink SDRs: Your Future Depends on It

Engage Selling

There’s a disconnect between the future of sales and the current popularity of two-tiered sales structures that include sales development reps (SDRs) combined with field reps.

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Abandoned Cart Email Offers: What We Learned from 1,000 Ecommerce Brands

ConversionXL

Cart abandonment is a huge issue in ecommerce. So cart abandonment emails are often a top revenue generator. And discounts and offers within those emails are proven tactics for increasing conversions. All standard wisdom. But we wanted to see how ecommerce brands deployed their offers. Are “best practices” for offers prevailing? Which strategies are brands using—or neglecting?

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Brainfluence Now Has An Italian Translation

Neuromarketing

Roger Dooley's book Brainfluence has just been released in an Italian translation. The post Brainfluence Now Has An Italian Translation appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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Sell Better. Coach Better. Hire Better.

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog or "vlog", we bring you our newest Anthony Cole Training Group's brand video.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35B in August of 2018. The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp and Facebook among others. Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team.

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How to Use LinkedIn to Build High-Value Relationships

Sales Hacker

“A bigger following means more sales.” It’s a common idea is sales, but it’s a big mistake on LinkedIn. I’ve grown my LinkedIn following by 185% in the last 2 years (from about 7,000 people to 13,064 as of the writing of this article). But by itself, that’s just a vanity metric. Having a large audience is nice, but it shouldn’t be your true goal. Making meaningful connections with the right people is what you should be aiming for.

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A Follow Up Schedule That Works

Engage Selling

Too many salespeople fail to follow up, and often, it’s because they don’t have a follow up schedule that works.

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On Gratitude

Partners in Excellence

Today, in the US, it’s Thanksgiving Day. In principle, a day of giving thanks, though most often displaced with overindulging in food and drink, followed by football games or binging on Netflix (now you know my plans). While this is not a novel idea, it’s amazing that we reserve one day, out of 365, for giving thanks. I have to confess, as much as I try, I tend to slip up, not taking the time each day do find something to be grateful for—though there is always so much, when I j

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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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Best Business Books of 2019 – Strategy+Business

Neuromarketing

Friction made strategy+business's 2019 list of Best Business Books, one of just three in the management category. The post Best Business Books of 2019 – Strategy+Business appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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Creating Your Success Formula: The 5th Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our 5th Chapter of our Sales Productivity Tools blog series, we discuss the idea of creating a success formula for your sales team, which only works when you have a team that is committed, motivated, and takes responsibility for their decisions and outcomes.

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How to Prepare Yourself to Be a Great CEO

SaaStr

Being a founder is easy. You just start something. Grab a smart friend, hop on over to WeWork, hit 99 Designs for the logo, and you’re off to the races. Being a CEO is tough. You have to convince people to join you. To drag the troops up the hill. To invest in you when there’s no logical reason to. To do the impossible. You probably haven’t done it before.

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10 Essential Traits of Highly Successful Salespeople

Sales Hacker

The most successful salespeople think and act differently than your average sales rep. What sets them apart? They’ve discovered the traits that ensure selling success, and work incessantly to cultivate those traits in themselves. We’re going to share with you their secret sauce. We’re going to tell you the top 10 traits of successful salespeople — and how you can use them to up to go from a good salesperson to a great one.

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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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B2B Reads: Attention-Grabbers, Mr. Rogers, and Thanksgiving

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. Attention-Grabbers: Five Publicity Lessons From Unique Billboard Ads. Billboards are having a revival, here are some things you can learn from a traditional advertising method.

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A Simple but Brilliant Account Management Strategy

Engage Selling

I was working with a group of sales managers at a workshop a few weeks ago and one of them introduced this strategy.

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Women in Sales Speaking Resources

Women Sales Pros

If you were new to the career of professional selling and you looked on Amazon for top sales books today, you’d find them authored by men (nearly ALL of them, with a few standout options.) If you went to the airport bookstore to find a sales book, it will be authored by a man, nearly every time. I looked for sales classes on Udemy this week. The first 45 courses I saw were authored by men.

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Smart Targeting: The Better Way to Reach Audiences & Customers

Hubspot

Have you ever visited a website you frequent and found that the text interacts with you? For instance, when I log onto Mailchimp , my dashboard says, "Welcome back, Kayla" -- this is because my account with the site has my first name in its system and uses smart targeting to make my interaction with the website more delightful. Smart targeting provides a more individual experience for webpage visitors.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.