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The High Cost of Replacing Unsuccessful Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

Before the Salk Vaccine:

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How to Master the Mind Game of Sales

Women Sales Pros

I’ve always looked at sales as a mind game because there is so much planning and strategy involved. One could even say sales is a lot like golf. You’d never hit the ball until you analyze and reflect on the lie, wind speed, distance and direction and a hundred other variables on each hole; and plan how you’re going to reach your ultimate goal.Even the best planned strategy must constantly flex to overcome the next unexpected challenge or opportunity.

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What Exactly Is Sales Enablement?

Membrain

Sales Enablement is a hot buzzword bingo term these days. The problem is, were you to ask 10 companies what Sales Enablement is, you’d probably get 13 different answers.

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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Trends in 2018

Hubspot

Marketing moves at the speed of light … er, at least it feels that way when you’re brainstorming a new campaign or strategy, and all of a sudden, a new statistic or technology release changes everything. On a yearly, quarterly, and even monthly basis, new trends and techniques pop up and transform the way we attract, connect with, and market to our audiences.

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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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How to Talk About The Competition

Engage Selling

Let’s face it, your competition inevitably comes up every so often while you speak with prospects and clients. You need to know how to talk about the competition.

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How to Excel as a Sales Manager and a Sales Leader – At the Same Time

Women Sales Pros

If you are a sales manager, you probably received some solid training, read lots of books,and learned from experts in the field through seminars, webinars and blog posts.And all along the way, you learned that your primary job as a sales manager is to develop and coach your team. But then management tells you that you also need to be a sales leader.

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The 11 Best Virtual Staging Services and Software for Real Estate Agents

Hubspot

In a 2018 survey of more than 4,000 homes, 68% of staged homes sold for at least 9% more than those of their unstaged neighbors’. Whether you’re starting a real estate business or have been selling homes for a while, there’s clear and increasing benefit to professionally staging your clients’ homes. But the future of home staging goes beyond just hiring a designer.

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If the Whole Company Supported Revenue Generation

Score More Sales

If the whole, entire company supported revenue generation, how strong would your customer care or customer service team be? Would nothing ever slip through the cracks? If everyone supported revenue generation, how easily could we detect a disgruntled customer about to leave us?

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Behind the Scenes with Tamara Schenk, Sales Enablement Book Co-Author

Membrain

Perhaps more than anyone else in the world, Tamara Schenk knows sales enablement. She has been conducting research and publishing studies and research-based blog posts on the topic with CSO Insights for many years and is the top expert to consult when you want hard data and deep insights.

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Hiring Salespeople: 6 Must-Have Techniques for Making Better Hiring Decisions

Topline Leadership

Every experienced sales manager knows how costly it is to make a bad hiring decision because that bad hire takes a lot of your time and attention and then doesn’t contribute anything. Here are six “must-have” techniques that successful sales managers can use when hiring salespeople. Ask for a “Memo of Understanding” from the [ ] The post Hiring Salespeople: 6 Must-Have Techniques for Making Better Hiring Decisions appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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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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The Sales Manager Job Description Template That Will Help You Find the Perfect Candidate

Hubspot

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Great news: It’s time to hire a sales manager for your team. But before you can start interviewing candidates, you need to draw them in with a well-written, accurate, compelling job description that describes the role,

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Advice For The New Sales Manager, What You Need To Know

Partners in Excellence

Moving into the role of Sales Manager is a challenge for everyone. Most people struggle, and if you aren’t struggling, perhaps you should be worried. Often, new managers don’t get great coaching from their managers. Often, new managers don’t pay attention to the coaching they get from their managers. Too often, new managers rush in to change things–because they think that’s what managers do.

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Book Review - Sales Differentiation - by Lee B. Salz

Score More Sales

With so many options of items and services to purchase it is no wonder that buyers simply freeze sometimes and don’t make a buying decision. What’s the same, and what’s different about the companies’ services you are comparing? It seems as plain as day – a buyer needs to understand your service (or product) as compared to others and how any of the options will help the buyer.

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5 Ways to Improve the Behavior of Your Sales People

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. When sales teams aren’t performing up to standards or expectations, sales leaders are often puzzled as to why. Sales leaders know the correct behaviors that will lead to sales – rapport building, discovery, creating the experience, closing, follow-up, etc., but they often don’t know how to get their sales people to perform those behaviors (or perform those behaviors up to acceptable standards).

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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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The 15 Best Free PDF Readers of 2018

Hubspot

Even though they’re over 25 years old , PDFs are still one of the main types of documents on the internet. Whether you’re trying to access your W-2, a contract, or an eBook, it’ll probably be in the form of a PDF. But to view these important documents, you need to download a PDF reader on your computer. There are hundreds of PDF readers and some can cost you almost a thousand dollars per year, so we sifted through the internet to find the best free PDF readers that you can download online.

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From President's Club to chronic pain: How one top-performing sales rep conquered chronic pain with an unexpected cure

Outreach

I curled over the kitchen island in my home. My wife rubbed my shoulders. A searing pain shot through my upper back and along both sides of my neck. The pain was nothing new. By this point, I had seen 24 medical professionals to try and solve this strange health mystery that I had been living with for about 8 months. It was truly a living hell to wake up every day and be in so much pain that I couldn’t even go to the gym and lift weights like any active 31-year-old male should be able to do.

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PODCAST 21: The Making of a Top-Producing Silicon Valley VP of Sales

Sales Hacker

On this 1×1 interview with Mark Cranney, the Chief Commercial Officer of SignalFx, we chat about the key elements of sales leadership and his journey to being a top VP of Sales. Tune in! If you missed episode 20, give it a listen here: PODCAST 20: How to Negotiate More Effectively to Close More Deals. What You’ll Learn. How to find success in sales management.

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“How I Work”: Bryson Duncan, Senior Manager, Integrated Marketing Programs at Workfront @BrysonDD #HowIWork

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. “How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series. We have our own series, a few years now! Weekly we feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader here answering newly updated “ How I Work ” questions. You can catch up on everyone we’ve featured thus far in the “How I Work” series here.

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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 7 Top Free Accounting Software Options for 2018

Hubspot

7 Top Free Accounting Software Options. Wave. ZipBooks. SlickPie. GnuCash. CloudBooks. TurboCASH. xTuple PostBooks. If you’re an entrepreneur running a business, you understand how important it is to stay on top of finances. Cash flow, taxes, and managing finances are some of the biggest challenges businesses face. Knowing who owes you and if you owe a supplier or creditor is crucial to success.

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7 Ways to Give Your Prospecting Emails a Makeover

RAIN Group

Email is one of the top ways to break through and secure meetings with targeted buyers. In fact, 80% of buyers say they prefer to be contacted by sellers via email. It's an essential part of any prospecting plan. However, too many prospecting emails fall victim to common mistakes that kill response rates. Recently, we shared 13 email prospecting best practices.

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What Not to Do in B2B Sales — 7 Signs You’re About to Kill the Deal

Sales Hacker

One of the reasons why B2B sales is so complicated is because of the many blind spots it involves that can ambush sales deals. You might optimize your prices and meet compliance regulations or you might have the best sales tools at your disposal. Yet, all else can fail if you don’t know what to do and what not to do in B2B sales. And no matter how much it’s drummed up about, I don’t believe there are any shortcuts to accelerating your sales funnel.

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What Happened To The Follow-Up?

Partners in Excellence

One of the biggest mistakes managers make is lack of follow-up. Recently, I sat in a review meeting. Almost surprisingly, it was very productive. The team was actively engaged, they were talking about important shifts in their strategies and how they would execute with the customers. There was great discussion to make sure everyone was aligned. They agreed on specific next steps and actions (though I had to hint a little at doing this.).

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Emotional Marketing

Hubspot

What does it mean to do something “like a girl”? This is the question Always asks in its empowering 2014 #LikeAGirl campaign , which sought to exploit and forever bury the term “.like a girl”. Turning an insult into a bold movement of confidence not only brought revenue and popularity to the Always brand, but the 2014 campaign also won an Emmy, a Cannes Grand Prix award, and the Grand Clio award — a recognition practically unheard of in the advertising world.

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Are You Using BAMFAM to Increase Your Sales?

Jeff Shore

By Ryan Taft . Recently I was working with a sales rep, I will call Nancy, who had fallen behind on her sales goals. After going through Nancy’s presentation and her strongest leads, I realized a major flaw. She wasn’t using BAMFAM. What’s BAMFAM? It stands for: Book. A. Meeting. From. A. Meeting. Like Nancy, a lot of sales professionals are fairly weak when it comes to follow-up.

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How to Sell Faster Using ChatBots for Sales Enablement

SalesforLife

When asked about the defining difference between successful sales outreach and those which fail to close the deal, there are two common, differentiating factors.

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The Essential Guide to Landing Your First Customer Success Job

Sales Hacker

In this article, we’re going to break down the key things you need to know before you start your customer success job search. This article will break down: The fundamental skills required for a Customer Success job. What an “ideal” candidate looks like and how you can look like one. Key tips for preparing for a successful job search. What is Customer Success and What Does a CSM do?

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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7 Scientifically Proven Ways to Get More Clicks on Your Content

Hubspot

ATTENTION. As marketers, before we can create interest and compel action, we must get our audience’s attention. That’s the job of the headline copy, which can take many forms: It can be the subject line of an email. It can be the title of an article or press release. It can even be the first sentence of hand-written note. Whatever the context, one fact remains constant: The headline is the most important sentence on the page.

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New Data Shows That Elite Salespeople are 700% Less Likely to Do This

Understanding the Sales Force

How effective are salespeople when it comes to creating urgency? I'm not talking about salespeople who create urgency by telling their prospects that if they don't order today the price will go up or it won't be available. I'm talking about salespeople who create urgency by asking questions to uncover problems, the consequences and cost of which, create urgency.

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Introducing the New Outreach Voice: Built for Meaningful Conversations, not just Dialing

Outreach

Texting, conversation intelligence tiles, and back-to-back sequencing help you increase connect rates and focus on having winning conversations.

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How to Craft the Perfect Cold Email in 4 Easy Steps

CloserIQ

When was the last time you replied to a generic sales email that had a boring subject line, listed vague features but promised no benefits, and lacked personalization? You probably can’t remember, because you probably never have replied to an email like that. If you want to hear back from the leads you’re prospecting, you need to strike a balance between writing up an easy-to-follow template and communicating a genuine desire to help your potential customer get what they want.

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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.