STAR Results
JUNE 20, 2019
Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. That’s right. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The reality is, they have one-on-ones, but their meetings tend to focus on business issues, follow up items and people issues.
Anthony Cole Training
JUNE 21, 2019
As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire.
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SalesProInsider
JUNE 19, 2019
For two weeks I looked forward to a sales appointment. An appointment where I was the buyer, not the provider. My company desperately needed the service being offered and I had high hopes I was going to get a solution to a nagging issue. Imagine my surprise then when Mark showed up at my office, sat at my table, opened his portfolio and said, “Well, I typically like to just get right into it.
Membrain
JUNE 19, 2019
I admit, I’m not a dog person. But those little lap dogs some people carry around are kind of cute, especially when they do little tricks like speak on command or walk at their owner’s heel.
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Women Sales Pros
JUNE 21, 2019
Strategies To Drive Sales It’s an age old problem, the friction between marketing and sales. In most organizations they are like oil and water with marketing feeling like they are doing all the heavy lifting – developing campaigns, strategies that tap new prospects and taking market awareness to a whole new level. While sales feels like marketing just gets in the way of the important work – the actual sale.
Anthony Cole Training
JUNE 17, 2019
Hiring an elite salesperson is tough work. It's not easy to find a sales all-star and it's even harder to keep them on board if you do hire them.
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Sales Hacker
JUNE 17, 2019
How do you ensure you’re maximizing your sales team’s potential? How do you inspire your team to go above and beyond what they think is possible? The answers may surprise you. According to the first-ever State of Sales Performance Survey , in partnership with Sales Hacker, Ambition, Gong, AA-ISP, Vidyard, and Factor 8, the key is modern sales performance management.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 16, 2019
I’ve been obsessed with failure recently. More specifically, I’ve been pestering close friends and mentors with the question: “If we know what we should be doing, if we know how to do it, if we know how important it is to our results, why do we consistently fail to do those things?” Unless you are brand new to sales, your name is Rip van Winkle, or you are absolutely clueless, all of us know what we should be doing.
Outreach
JUNE 19, 2019
Vacations and time away from work are great, but for sales reps, out of office (OOO) replies have historically required a gauntlet of manual workarounds to pause and resume the Sequence based on the prospect’s availability. And with as many as 18% of emails being OOO replies , that’s nearly one-fifth of a rep’s time bound to administrative organization rather than selling.
Hubspot
JUNE 21, 2019
You've just spent thousands of dollars, countless hours, and have had more organizational nightmares than you'd care to admit, but you're done. The brand new site design you've been working on is finally finished -- and it looks great. However, after a few weeks, you notice something's missing. Maybe it's a simple design error, or perhaps, a feature doesn't work or was overlooked.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an
Understanding the Sales Force
JUNE 18, 2019
Last week I wrote about First Impressions and today's topic is presentations. That's quite the change in direction from Consultative Selling, Sales Process, Assessments, and Performance. What do Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocket Man, Miracle and Argo have in common and what do they have to do with selling? What do Unbroken, Hunt for Red October, and A Few Good Men have in common and what is their relation to selling?
Sales Hacker
JUNE 19, 2019
I’m always impressed by the degree of ingenuity that leading sales teams put into their selling strategy. But every time someone from sales says they’re taking an omnichannel route to drive sales without incorporating live chat or messaging in their sales funnel, I think, “ Huh? ”. Don’t get me wrong… I am all for well-thought-out email blasts and industry events.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 20, 2019
We live in a FOMO, interrupt driven world. We are distracted by the Adrenalin rush of being busy, forgetting that we aren’t accomplishing the things we had intended to accomplish. One of the most devastating things to our goal attainment is our mistaken view of what it means to be “customer responsive.” Recently, I was watching a sales team work.
KO Advantage Group
JUNE 19, 2019
It’s that time of the year again--where we get the most “I’ll call you back” responses from clients. The slow months are up, and some clients will probably get back with us during the busy months, but we can’t really wait for 60 or more days. We need a constant stream of revenue, and we need to keep finding ways. Since we can’t have that long of a waiting period, or any waiting period at all (we need to make sales!
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Sandler Training
JUNE 20, 2019
Many organizations underestimate the power of content when it comes to boosting sales conversions. With the right content metrics in place, your sales team will be better prepared to tackle – and close – a lead successfully. Read Time: 5 Minutes.
SaaStr
JUNE 20, 2019
I’ve watched many bridge rounds over time from a far, and took $500k in bridge capital at EchoSign myself when our seed round didn’t end up being quite enough to get us to the Series A. But I haven’t really seen bridge rounds from the other side, as an investor, until recently. That’s mainly because over the past 2 years I’ve invested in more early-ish seed companies (vs later seed companies), that often end up needing a second seed, or bridge.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 18, 2019
A client asked me to interview a candidate for a key sales role. The sales person had several jobs over the past 5 years, none lasting longer than 18 months. He had been in his current job for 9 months. In each role, he outlined his stellar accomplishments, his great wins, his quota over-attainment. I was suitably wowed! I dug in a little, what’s the onboarding time for each of these roles?
Miller Heiman Group
JUNE 18, 2019
In the latest episode of Move the Deal , CSO Insights Chief Research Officer Seleste Lunsford previews the upcoming World-Class Sales Practices Report and talks with host Greg Moore about shifts in buyer behavior, how sellers should respond and what it takes to be a world-class sales organization. CSO Insights is the research division of Miller Heiman Group.
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How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.
KO Advantage Group
JUNE 21, 2019
As previously mentioned in one of my blog posts, the buyer's journey has five stages: awareness, seeking a solution, collaboration, decision, and experience. Customers go through these phases when looking for a particular product or service. Since we’ve briefly discussed the awareness stage before, let’s move on to the next: seeking a solution. The awareness stage gets your foot in the door.
Outreach
JUNE 18, 2019
“Y’all want transportation?” “Yes, Ma’am.”. The voices crackled in my headset as my brother expertly landed the two-seater prop plane at George T. Lewis Airport, Cedar Key, FL, a strip of asphalt 100 feet wide and just over a half mile long—the shortest paved runway in Florida. Our “transportation” showed up moments later— a sweet woman driving a minivan, her dog as her co-pilot.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 17, 2019
I know how unfashionable it is to say this, but I hate prospecting. We’re supposed to love it. According to many pundits/sales experts, it is the secret to sales success. We are supposed to love and revel in prospecting. I get it, if our pipelines are empty, we have to find new opportunities and we do this through prospecting. But my news feeds are dominated with things like “the Joy of Prospecting…” There are battles about which prospecting techniques are alive or dead,
Hubspot
JUNE 18, 2019
You might sell a product that genuinely makes conducting business easier, but this doesn't grant you a simple sales process. The sales process can be long, tedious, and frustrating, no matter how innovative your product may be. Selling to businesses often means proving to multiple decision makers that your product can make their jobs more efficient, provide a significant return on investment ,and outdo competitors in functionality and price.
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criteria for success
JUNE 18, 2019
At CFS, we often write and talk about tracking common problems you solve for your clients. We reference it as a best practice in blog posts, eBooks, and podcasts. But you might be wondering why we make such a fuss about tracking the common problems you solve. Why bother? Here are three reasons you should [ ] The post Tracking Common Problems: Why to Bother & How to Do It appeared first on Criteria for Success.
Force Management
JUNE 19, 2019
You know what’s working within your sales organization. And, perhaps more importantly, you know what isn’t. Maybe your sales team isn't focusing on value in the buyer conversations, and they're giving up too much margin or losing deals all together. You need better access to the economic buyer and frankly, a better understanding of how your prospects buy.
Closer's Coffee
JUNE 19, 2019
How to Choose the Right Sales Manager for Your Company. The sales manager is arguably the most critical person in the company. Hiring a leader for a sales organization is a decision that is more critical for a company. Majority of CEOs would agree that by hiring the right sales manager would catapult the growth of your business by improving efficiency and profitability.
Hubspot
JUNE 20, 2019
The best billboards demand your attention with bold fonts, in-your-face messages, and bright, eye-catching graphics. The best Facebook ads take the exact opposite approach. If you want to reach and engage with potential customers on Facebook, you need to create ads that blend as seamlessly as possible into the rest of the content on their newsfeeds.
Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.
The Sales Hunter
JUNE 21, 2019
Before a prospect meets with you, they do one thing: Google your name and your company! They want to see what the Internet says about you. How well or poorly does the Internet speak of you? Watch my video on this here! It’s not good enough to just have a social media reputation that isn’t stupid. Today, it’s about having an image that says you’re smart.
Sandler Training
JUNE 18, 2019
This is a special bonus episode, a look back at this year’s Sandler Summit and one of our opening keynotes by Andy McCredie. He is a Sandler trainer from the UK and did a killer hour-long talk on closing the sale. The full talk is available in Sandler Online. Here are some quick tips on How to Succeed at Closing more Sales. Listen Time: 11 Minutes.
SaaStr
JUNE 16, 2019
Salesforce was an outlier (as you’d) expect from the #1 largest player in the industry. Look at their growth rate in the early years — even when Cloud was 100x smaller than it is today: Winning Strategies for Scaling Your Sales Team | SaaStr. Today, this type of growth, while crazy, is more common. See, e.g., Zoom, Twilio, Slack, Dropbox, etc. By growing so quickly, so early in the cycle of Cloud and SaaS, Salesforce was able to rocket to $1b in ARR before most SaaS apps really came into their o
Hubspot
JUNE 17, 2019
You can't deny that video is a vital part of any business's marketing strategy in 2019. In fact, video traffic will be a whopping 82% of all global IP traffic by 2022 -- up from 75% percent in 2017. It's clear that web visitors are shifting to video -- Facebook Watch, IGTV, and of course, YouTube have all picked up steam in recent years. The only question is, are you going to take advantage of that trend?
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
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