Sat.Dec 31, 2022 - Fri.Jan 06, 2023

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How to Train Your Sales Team

Iannarino

B2B selling has never been easy, but in our current environment it is more challenging than ever. The contacts you sell to today are doing more research themselves, avoiding salespeople, and struggling to acquire the consensus they need to move their improvement initiatives forward. It's not uncommon to find a prospective client aborting their initiative soon after meeting with salespeople.

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7 Tips to Maximize Time for Prospecting

Membrain

If someone doesn’t spend enough time prospecting due to poor time management – it’s really a priority problem. We don’t find the time, we make it.

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Start the Year Strong: What Sales Leaders Are Doing Now

Force Management

As we close out a year of widespread economic uncertainty, many leaders are looking for ways to boost morale and prepare their teams to maintain or even recover revenue in a competitive market. The start of the year is an opportunity to capitalize on the mindset of a fresh start. Your sales team is setting goals and habits for the new year, and SKOs and strategy sessions are shifting their approach.

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8 Sales Enablement Best Practices to Level Up Sales Success

Highspot

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement? Sales enablement is a systematic approach of equipping, training, and coaching sales teams to close more deals effectively.

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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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Your Guide to Sales Qualification

Gong.io

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know if a potential customer is a good fit for your solution?

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The Dreaded Price Objection

Engage Selling

 We all deal with the dreaded price objection at least once in our sales career. Here’s a way I’ve found works very well to help diffuse that objection. The post The Dreaded Price Objection first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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How to Build an Effective Sales Outreach Strategy

Iannarino

Success in sales requires an effective outreach strategy. The more effective your outreach, the greater the number of meetings you will schedule with your dream clients. Outreach is how you fill the pipeline.

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3 Keys To Customer Service

Sales Pop!

Customers are at the heart of every small business. So, for your small business to succeed, you must emphasize customer service. When you get it right, you’ll be rewarded by a growing company and feel pride in building relationships with your customers. To give customers the desired experience, you need to set up protections through adequate physical and cyber security and commercial and cyber insurance products.

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The Fool-Proof Way to Get Referrals

Engage Selling

 What’s the very best way to get referrals (it’s easier than you think)? Watch this video to find out! The post The Fool-Proof Way to Get Referrals first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Prospecting via Email? You Need to Nail These 3 Things

Cerebral Selling

Email prospecting is one of the simplest and most widely-used strategies for generating sales leads. It’s also one of the most overused and abused. If you’re not doing it right, it can not only be a colossal waste of time but can also damage your personal and corporate brand. About 320 billion emails are sent and received daily around the world, increasing at a rate of about four percent every year.

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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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What Is a Good Customer Acquisition Cost?

Iannarino

The answer to the question “What is a good customer acquisition cost?” will be different across companies. One company's cost to acquire a customer may be considered good for their business but awful for another company or another industry.

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Taking Us Back—and Bringing us Forward—to a Stable Society

Sales Pop!

As Soren Kierkegard wrote, “ Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”. When sales is successful and beneficial, age-old principles and characteristics are involved. If we go back in time, rediscover these, and bring them forward to be fully applied today, we see that they benefit not only sales and commerce but all of society.

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EU hits Meta with $414m fine over advertising practices

Martech

The Irish data privacy board has imposed a fine of 390 million Euros ($414 million) on Meta over advertising practices that are illegal under European Union law. Because Meta’s European operations are based in Dublin, the Ireland board is the company’s EU regulator. Meta’s offense, the board concluded, was to incorporate user consent to use data for targeted advertising purposes within its terms of service, effectively forcing anyone using Facebook or Instagram, for example, to

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Consistent Customer Success is the Key to Scale Up Your SaaS (or Any) Company

Membrain

Happy, successful customers are the lifeblood of growing a SaaS business (or any business). When your business depends on monthly recurring revenue, you can’t afford to churn customers. And that’s not the only reason why a scaling SaaS company must invest in consistent customer success.

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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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The Five Things You Need from Your Sales Champion

Iannarino

A first meeting is not automatically an opportunity. You need more evidence before you can consider a first meeting to offer more potential. A confirmed second meeting is a positive factor worth considering, but what is often greater proof you have a real opportunity is the presence of a sales champion. A sales champion is a contact who will advocate for you.

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How to Show Your Sales Employees You Appreciate Them

Sales Pop!

Your sales team works hard to follow and nurture leads to meet their sales goals. Without your sales team, your business wouldn’t run. They are like the bread and butter of your operation – no sales, no revenue. Employees who are appreciated by their bosses and managers tend to be happier and will go above and beyond for a project. They’re also more likely to hold themselves accountable.

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“Customers Are Taking A More Measured Approach To Their Purchasing Decisions”

Partners in Excellence

In announcing reductions at Salesforce yesterday, Marc Benioff was quoted, saying customers “are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions.” We’re taking deep breaths, trying to understand what that means, looking at how we, sellers, respond and move forward. What does it take to succeed? Pile onto this all the shifts in buyer behavior we see, increasing numbers of buyers actively disengaging with sellers, preferring to navigate their buying processes with o

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MarTech’s B2B marketing experts to follow

Martech

B2B marketing is as direct and personalized as it gets. You’ve got to know what your customers do, how they do it, their needs and goals. You’ve also got to know their company’s processes, organization and purchasing cycles. Then you have to communicate with them in the best possible way, at the right time and with the information they’re looking for.

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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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How to Elicit Buyer Intent in the Sales Conversation

Iannarino

Some buyers make their intent known, sharing what they want and why. They are transparent about their intentions. Other buyers are opaque, concealing their intent. Dealing with this second type of buyer can feel like a guessing game. Some contacts may sit quietly, uncomfortable discussing their intentions because they don't know enough to engage in a conversation.

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How To Settle Your Finances This Year

Sales Pop!

It’s a new year, and with a new year comes new goals, and for many of us these goals include tackling our finances. The last few years have been pretty rough on most of us, even if we have been stringent with our finances. And many of us have turned to doing a loan application online. However, now it is time to settle your finances, and figure out how you can better manage your funds.

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10 Conversion Copywriting Tips That Can Explode Your Business

ClickFunnels

The post 10 Conversion Copywriting Tips That Can Explode Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Are you looking for ways to increase your business’s revenue? Conversion copywriting is a powerful tool that can help. It’s the science of using words to persuade people to take action and buy from you. If done correctly, it can be incredibly effective in boosting sales and conversions.

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Webinar: 7 ways to keep your customers coming back in 2023

Martech

Over half of consumers would stop buying from a company after multiple bad experiences. Is your company doing enough to drive loyalty? . Join PwC in their live webinar as they reveal the results of PwC’s 2022 Customer Loyalty Survey, a comprehensive look at over 4000 customers, and provide insights on what keeps customers engaged. Register today for “7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back in 2023,” presented by PwC.

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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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15 Critical Sales Techniques You Must Master

Iannarino

The word technique means you have a way of doing something to produce an outcome. Because success is individual, it is important you master your techniques to improve your sales performance, create a better sales experience , level up your win rate, and close more deals.

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Things To Consider Before Selling Your Home – Real Estate Guide

Sales Pop!

Owning a home makes the odds extremely high that someday you are going to sell it. People living their entire lives in their first homes are extremely rare. Selling a house is also considered somewhat less complicated than going for buying one. But also, this doesn’t necessarily mean that people actually sell their houses properly just because the process is easy.

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Don’t Draw The Wrong Conclusions from 2022

SaaStr

To many of you, it may feel like tougher times in SaaS. One thing I can tell you: Things don't bounce back overnight. But they do bounce back fast. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) December 30, 2022. So this last year was one of so much change. Change at a pace we haven’t seen since 2008, when the world of SaaS was just so, so much smaller.

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5 tips for finding standout CMO candidates

Martech

While evaluating a short list of CMO candidates, I noticed something interesting. On paper, each candidate had similar experiences and appeared to fit well. Yet, when we spoke to each, their narratives were completely different. While not shocking, what stood out was their approach to the role and perceived context of the market. Why such a stark difference?

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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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7 Critical Steps Your Sales Outreach Strategy Needs

Iannarino

More prospects, more sales. Right? Not always.

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Business 101: The Importance Of A Successful Marketing Strategy

Sales Pop!

Regardless of what products or services are provided by a company, every business owner needs to know what effective marketing strategy they can utilize to promote their brand. The marketing section of the business is really important to ensure that your brand can reach and attract people, thus they will be inclined to hire for the service or buy the product your business offers.

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SaaStr Fund: Looking to Fund 2-4 Great SaaS Companies in 2023

SaaStr

So I’ve been investing since 2013, and have done fairly well. Some of my top investments at seed stage include Pipedrive, Salesloft, Front, Talkdesk, Algolia, Gorgias, Greenhouse and more: But 2022 was a quiet time. My first year with no brand new investments, only follow-ons. So we’re behind. The goal for SaaStr Fund is to invest in 2-4 of the very top seed / late seed startups from $10k-$150k in MRR.

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On Discomfort And Familiarity….

Partners in Excellence

A characteristic of every human being is the tension between Discomfort and Familiarity. Some of you might respond, appropriately, “Well Duugghhh Dave, isn’t that why it’s called discomfort?” It’s obvious, we are comfortable with that which is familiar. How we work, how we spend our time, where/who we find joy. The more familiar it, is the more comfort we have, the more we tend to stick with doing the familiar.

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