Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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It’s Not The Customer’s Job To Figure Out How You Help!

Partners in Excellence

I am looking for some software tools to help our team. After listening to about 4 suppliers, I’m about to give up, it’s probably easier, cheaper to do nothing. As I reflect on our conversations: We’ve talked about our needs, what we are looking for, and what we hope to achieve. Sales people seem to be nodding their heads in the right direction, I take this for understanding.

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Answering your customer’s three critical questions

Membrain

In today's challenging and uncertain business climate, your customers have good reason to be cautious. They are unlikely to initiate new projects unless they see them as being strategically relevant, tactically urgent, and capable of delivering rapid time-to-value. The rest can wait.

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3 Tips for Hiring A Coachable Salesperson

Topline Leadership

This article describes how to hire a coachable salesperson. Here are the tangible qualities that sales managers should look for during the interview process to accurately predict whether or not a sales candidate will be coachable. When hiring a salesperson, sales managers are increasingly telling me that they’re paying more attention to “coachability” — mostly [.].

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When Even Selling for a Few Billion is Not Enough

SaaStr

We’re approaching the age of 1,000+ Unicorns and despite a global pandemic, this remains The Best of TImes in Cloud and startups in general. But there’s a quiet cautionary tale to just think about. The two latest $1b+ acquisitions weren’t quite as glamorous as they seem: Uber acquires Postmates for $2.6b. Amazon acquires Zoox for $1b.

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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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Sheena’s App of the Week: Toggl

Heinz Marketing

By Sheena McKinney , Executive Assistant at Heinz Marketing. I’ve always been drawn to productivity, time management tools, apps, and hacks. It all started back in the late 1980’s when I was introduced to the Franklin Covey system. See my previous post about the app I’ve used for years for my tasks, reminders, and lists: Awesome Note. .

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How to create outstanding sales growth with channel partners

Membrain

Channel partners can be a major source of high-profit revenue growth with the right business model. A great channel partner operates as an extended sales team, bringing in new business and nurturing accounts on your behalf, without the payroll.

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The 1 Simple Test to Know if You’ve Hired a Real VP of Product or Customer Success … Or Not

SaaStr

I remember the first time I had a “head of product” in SaaS. I’d known him for many years, and knew he was great … but didn’t really know what help he could give us. I just knew we needed help around $2m-$3m so I asked him to help. I told him just to help us however he thought best. He went away and first did something I didn’t totally get.

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7 stages of sales pipeline every entrepreneur should understand

Salesmate

Successful entrepreneurs understand the importance of generating a continuous stream of leads and turning those leads into customers. This is how your business grows. The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline.

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36 Tips to Stay Productive While Working from Home

Highspot

Whether you’re a seller, marketer, sales enablement leader, or another role, it can be challenging to achieve focus and stay productive with all of the distractions in the current environment. Here are 36 productivity tips from the Extreme Productivity Benchmark Report to help you succeed. Each of these correlate statistically to Extreme Productivity, and they make up the 9 Habits of Extreme Productivity.

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8 Letters that Can Double Your Income: an Intro to MEDDPICC

Sales Hacker

“ You can double your income with this. ” This is something my mentor once told me. At the time, I didn’t believe him. But I did what he said. I followed his system, and it changed my life. He taught me some obvious stuff, like that I needed to prospect more; I needed to build better business cases; and push executives for data, alignment, validation, and change.

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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 Manager

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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10 Things I Wish My Board and VCs Had Told Me

SaaStr

They say CEO is a lonely job, and I guess in some ways true, but in many ways it’s quite the opposite. If you do it right as a founder, there’s nothing more rewarding than getting to work on Monday. Checking in with the team. Being on a journey together. But what is hard is getting help seeing the forest through the trees. Here are the Top 10 things I wish I’d been told.

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How to write a gentle reminder email that gets noticed

Salesmate

An average office worker receives around 121 emails per day. You aren’t alone in the race. Your competitors are even trying to capture the attention of your prospects. Your prospect receives multiple emails in a day. So there are chances that your email might get buried in their inbox. Besides, nobody has time in this business world. So they ought to miss out on many emails in their inbox.

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Office or Remote Selling – Managing Effort and Effectiveness

Adaptive Business Services

In the last few weeks, many sales managers are deciding whether their teams should return to the office or stay home. No matter today’s decision, tomorrow brings new information that completely alters yesterday’s point of view. Professionals each have an opinion on what to do. Some are itching to get back on the floor with their teams. Others find the benefits of being at home more valuable.

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PODCAST 117: The Tools You Need If You Want to Succeed at Scale with Michael Coscetta

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. That’s an incredible success story in terms of their ability to work with and attract the best brokers, build a massive brokerage community, and give those people the tools they need to succeed.

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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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6 Quotes to Stimulate Productivity

KO Advantage Group

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11 essential sales pipeline metrics you should be tracking

Salesmate

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. While revenue is a good indicator of success, it only measures what’s coming out of the pipeline – in other words, the result. It doesn’t account for leads that have “leaked” out. To be successful in sales, you need to track specific sales pipeline metrics.

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How to Prepare for Your First Remote Prospect Meeting | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

In this week’s Sales Leader, I explore the importance of being aware and prepared for sales calls.

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Where Does Pinterest Fit in Your Marketing Mix?

ConversionXL

When thinking about organic or paid traffic, Google and Facebook often come to mind. Pinterest, for most, does not. And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. Some 70% of users are adults between the ages of 30 and 49, and 41% have household incomes over $75,000 per year.

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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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Explore How to Use the 12 Brand Archetypes for Your Business

G2

Marketing to the right audience will be the main ingredient behind the success of your business.

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The Risky Path Forward

Partners in Excellence

Our collective worlds have been disrupted and changed forever. Whether it’s how we interact in our communities or businesses, everything has changed. Markets and industries have been turned upside down. Some will take years to recover. The nature of work has changed forever–and that change is not just virtual. How we get things done within our companies, how we get things done with our customers, how we get things done with our partners and suppliers, have changed.

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7 Transferable Skills That Will (All But) Guarantee Your Sales Success

Sales Hacker

Moving into sales from another industry is tough. There’s new language to learn, new processes to master, new tools to get comfortable with, and so much more. There are many skills to master to become an expert salesperson, and those skills will change depending on the exact role. But there are a few skills that every salesperson needs for success. And luckily, many of these skills are ones you’ve already developed in your previous role.

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A 4 Point Test To Know If You Are Ready to Hire BigCo Folks

SaaStr

It’s easy to say “only hire people with start-up experience.” It’s also very tempting to hire folks that have worked at the partners, in the ecosystem that you work in, and at the companies you aspire to be like. And at some point, you have to scale. To scale, you do need some folks that have been there. Not everyone can be doing it for the first time.

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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.

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Key Foundational Elements for Any Reporting Framework

Heinz Marketing

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Everyone knows by now (or at least you should) reporting is a fundamental element in sales and marketing. You must be able to report on your efforts and performance and understand how you got there by using data from said report. In my almost four years at Heinz Marketing, I’ve spent my fair share of time working on reporting for clients whether building dashboards or creating a reporting framework to actually pulling the data

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On Virtual Buying

Partners in Excellence

Zoom, Teams, Webex seem to rule our professional and even our private lives. We have gotten to this place through the shut down, but are now discovering the value of these tools in working with each other. Without a doubt, these will become an important part of business going forward. Without a doubt, the tools will continue to be refined, enabling us to do more.

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Want to Build Greater Rapport Virtually? Do This One Thing

RAIN Group

88% of sellers find developing relationships virtually challenging. It’s one of the biggest challenges sellers face today. Many sellers lament that it’s just not the same as meeting someone face-to-face. They struggle to connect and build trust. Fortunately, it’s possible to develop strong relationships even when you can't connect with buyers in person.

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Integrations: The Newest Addition to Your Marketing Ops

Hubspot

Marketing isn't just about campaigns, content, and creativity. There's a whole lot of "getting things done" that needs to happen behind the scenes for campaigns to roll out on time and performance to scale. This is where marketing operations comes in. Also called marketing ops or MOps, marketing operations is how a marketing team is run. It's the processes, technology, data, and people that power a marketing strategy.

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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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Customer segmentation 101: Everything you need to know

Salesmate

Customer experience is quickly becoming the highest priority for online businesses. In fact, it’s well on the way to overtake price and product as the main brand differentiator. Yes, people value the experience more than money. Here’s why: they don’t want to spend money with businesses that don’t provide the experience they expect, let alone with those treating them badly.

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Prospecting Malpractice!

Partners in Excellence

There is no excuse for stupid prospecting! Sadly, too many organizations are committed to prospecting malpractice. None of us can escape or have spam filters powerful enough to filter out the stupid, irrelevant prospecting that is inflicted on us on a daily basis. Our emails, phones, texts, social channels overflow with poorly designed and abysmally executed prospecting.

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B2B Reads: Burn Out, Zoom Fatigue, and Sleep

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. Prospecting Is Not An Event! There’s so much about prospecting that we still get wrong, it’s not an event!

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Extended Marketing Mix: What It Is and Why It's Useful

Hubspot

Cooking is my favorite pastime. It's so much fun to find new recipes and learn about new ingredients. Plus, (usually) the results are delicious. Finding new recipes and ingredients is nothing short of delightful. One meal I love to make is grilled cheese — but not just any ole' grilled cheese. Instead, I use plant-based ingredients and add two condiments: butter, and mayonnaise (trust me).

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