Iannarino

MARCH 28, 2022

“A man is only as good as his tools.” -Emmert Wolf. When I moved to Los Angeles to play music, I showed up with two floor monitors and a microphone. Between the drummer, the bass player, and the guitarist, I was completely drowned out and couldn’t hear myself sing. Fortunately, I was making enough money to buy a PA and some column speakers. Once installed on each side of the rehearsal studio, I was able to match the volume.

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Martech

MARCH 30, 2022

Whenever I begin working with new clients who face major problems with their email marketing , one of the first things I review is how they conduct their email testing. A/B/n testing is the best way I know to structure effective campaigns and to measure whether a brand’s email strategies and tactics are succeeding or failing. But all too often, teams struggle to set up tests correctly and measure results accurately.

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Membrain

MARCH 30, 2022

If you visualize your sales as a pipeline, with leads going in one end and revenue coming out the other, it’s easy to see that the rate of flow through that pipeline matters.

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Pipeline Sales 148

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 31, 2022

There are three core sales competencies indicative of a salesperson who will set stretch goals and create an action to reach those goals. However, identifying and establishing personal goals, as well as following an 8 step process, is critical to creating an effective sales action plan.

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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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Iannarino

MARCH 31, 2022

Imagine a company is exploring some significant change. They've looked at a number of potential partners online, all of whom make the same flashy promises. A number of contacts have even started taking phone calls from salespeople—normally they avoid them like a bubonic cliché, but because the company is performing poorly, they are looking for help improving their results.

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Conversion Contact Sales 321

Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

After nearly two years of a global pandemic, where nearly all of the workforce worked remotely , things are starting to return to business as usual. While it might be a slow return in some places, you are probably starting to consider again how you want your sales force to work for your business. After years of remote sales work, you might be ready to evaluate what formula of salesforce will best meet your needs as a business and as an employee.

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Outside Sales Inside sales Cold Call Sales 217

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2022

I just received a note from Amazon. I had just bought a Kindle book. Along with the order acknowledgment, they congratulated me on earning a book credit of $1.40. I get those, often, but for some reason I paid attention to the email today. What leapt out to me was the fact that I had to use this credit in a very short period of time, otherwise it would expire.

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Iannarino

MARCH 29, 2022

After I started providing an executive briefing during quarterly business reviews with my contacts, executive leaders started joining these meetings. When my contacts started to share with their senior leaders our data, our insights, and what we believed would happen in the future, the senior leaders started to show up.

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Contact Start-ups Meeting Sales 306

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

A ways back, a Naval post on Twitter had my reflecting on the top advice I’d give to my younger CEO self: I missed one of the key Top 10 points — I ran out of 240 characters on Twitter), but thought it might be worth breaking them down in more detail on SaaStr below: 1. Go Long. This can be hard. The first start-up I ever joined as an employee was quickly acquired for $200m, which became $1 billion (!

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The 5% Institute

MARCH 28, 2022

Are you looking for a proven sales playbook to use for consistent, repeatable sales? In this article, we’ll detail the 10 step sales playbook that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales.

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Technique Sales Clients Consult 144

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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Membrain

MARCH 27, 2022

I was talking with a worldwide head of sales and their sales enablement team. They said they want their managers to start proactively coaching effectively and consistently. Throughout the conversation, everyone kept making a similar comment. “WE WANT ALL MANAGERS TO COACH 70% OF THE TIME.”.

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Conversion Sales 142

Iannarino

MARCH 26, 2022

Over the last couple of months, some significant amount of what I have written and published was intended to allow you to see something that might not have been visible to you. I started to try to illuminate this concept in a past newsletter with a thought experiment about how you might sell were you to have no product or service. More recently, I attempted to provide a view of the difference between selling a drill or selling a hole , suggesting that a lot of salespeople believe the hole allows

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

I was tempted to title this, “Selling–A Calling Or A Job?” When I speak with people who are sellers, I often wonder, “Why did they choose to do this?” For some, it’s the easiest job to get after college. Some are drawn by the potential compensation. For some, it’s the easiest job to get, to often, the bar to get a job selling isn’t very high (this is a management problem).

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2022

OK it’s the very last shot to apply to speak to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8!! We’re expecting over 2,500 to our open-air and outdoor venue right on the ocean in Barcelona! Join: CEO of $12B+ Miro! CEO of $24B+ ZoomInfo! CEO of $800m UserZoom! CEO of Redpoints! CEO of Demodesk! CEO of Marketo! GP at Atomico! GP at Index! GP at Iconiq!

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Niche 131

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

By Win Salyards , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Everyone and all companies make mistakes. That’s obvious. The trouble with mistakes always comes after, and with many mistakes, some opportunities come with them. So how do we take the errors we’ve made and grow from them? What we do after making a mistake matters. So here are the three key things you should do to make the best of your mistake.

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Consult Prospecting Process Product 128

Iannarino

MARCH 27, 2022

A recent article asked the question: "How much would you pay for a discovery meeting with your dream client?" What makes this question interesting is that it suggests the salesperson is receiving something of value and not the other way around. The mindset here explains why so many salespeople have a tough time winning deals, something I tried to correct by explaining that the critical factor in the sales conversation is creating value for your prospective client.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2022

First, a disclaimer. This post is probably more directed to me than anyone else. I’m struggling with time. Make no mistake, through my career, I’ve been vicious in my time management and priorities. I constantly read and learn to improve my abilities. I invest in tools to help improve my productivity. I delegate everything I can, either to my virtual assistant, someone on my team, or a subcontractor.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

We haven’t spent as much time on SaaS security companies in the 5 Interesting Learning series as perhaps we should have. We’ve dug deep on Okta at $1B in ARR, but spent a bit less time at apps that run below the application layer. But there’s so, so much growth there. And CrowdStrike is a break-out leader. They’ve crossed $1.7 Billion in ARR growing a breathtaking 65% year-over-year. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1, 16,000 customers at an average of $100,000 per customer &

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Inside sales Growth Service Product 126

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Force Management

MARCH 30, 2022

With this month's podcasts, there's no shortage of educational insights and quick tips for sales reps, managers and leaders. Review the episodes below for actions you can take to drive accountability around your priority sales initiatives. Share the episodes with your front-line managers to help them improve their coaching skill set. Listen to the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast on your favorite podcast player, so you can easily download, listen and share.

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Education Sales 123

Iannarino

APRIL 1, 2022

There are some questions that salespeople just don’t like to ask their clients—usually out of fear that they’ll come across as selfish or even alienating—even when the answers will enable the client to get what they want or need. For example, some salespeople cringe at asking "Who is going to need to approve and sign off this initiative?" To the client, they’re afraid, these words sound like, "I know you have no authority to make this decision and I need to know who is going to sign my contract.

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Contract Clients Sales 278

Engage Selling

APRIL 1, 2022

?? Getting time on your side is a powerful strategy that will help you win more business! What do I mean by “getting time on your side”? I discuss this … Read More. The post Win More Business With This Strategy | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Sales Account management Clients Service 117

Sales Gravy

MARCH 30, 2022

The buyers in procurement are professionally trained to negotiate. Salespeople not so much. This can put you at a huge disadvantage with you are forced to negotiate with them. But not anymore. On this fascinating Sales Gravy Podcast episode, Jeb Blount who is the author of the sales negotiating book INKED and Mike Landers an ex-procurement buyer turned sales trainer teach you the secrets to playing to win, when negotiating with procurement.

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Negotiate Sales 116

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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Martech

APRIL 1, 2022

Marketers know they need great digital customer experience, but few know how to get it. While 84% agree that businesses must deliver excellent digital customer experience to survive, only 38% say they have clearly defined goals and strategies for it, a Forbes Insight survey found. Also, more than 80% say it is an important competitive differentiator, as essential to a company’s success as products, services and pricing.

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Price Service Customers Product 115

Iannarino

MARCH 30, 2022

There are a lot of bad ideas out there about sales and selling. Inevitably, some of them get treated as if they were unassailable truths, even when they are quite the opposite. So, for a change, here’s some bad sales advice—and why it doesn’t work.

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Sales Sell 271

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Pipeline Territory Legal Sales 115

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 28, 2022

I love learning what top performers do and what drives high levels of performance. As a result, I’m drawn to articles titled, “Top performers do this… ” of “X% of sales people doing this outperform everyone else… (And X is a stunningly big number.)” The “this…” varies, usually it’s tied to what the author is trying to sell, or their pet agenda.

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Referrals High impact Pitch Prospecting 114

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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Martech

APRIL 1, 2022

This week’s news about the purchase of TV-ratings giant Nielsen is spotlighting ongoing problems with its products and raising questions about the company’s value. What happened. On Tuesday, Nielsen announced it was selling itself to a consortium led by Elliott Management Corp.’s private-equity arm and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for about $10 billion.

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Profit margin Product Networking Price 115

Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2022

For women to make progress in the tech industry, we need to acknowledge that everybody plays a role. powered by Sounder. Hear our conversation with Eva Helén , Founder & CEO at EQ Inspiration and author of Women in Tech: A Book for Guys : Why the best leadership is focused on others. How to adopt a mindset of awareness, humility, and progress. Seven character prototypes on the matrix: advocates, allies, and the chauvinist.

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Meeting Conversion Sales 112

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

By Lauren Bensussen , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Why Incorporate Video? People are pestered with hundreds of emails entering their inbox daily, and that number skyrockets for business professionals in the B2B space. With such a large volume of emails to do something about, most people feel overwhelmed and delete, delete, delete the ones they can live without—these are most likely your marketing emails.

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B2B Follow-up Up-sell Sales 115

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: What are the Signs of an Entrepreneur Who is Over-Prepared for Meetings with Investors? Things that are a negative for me at least and are sort of in the “over-prepared” category: A written business plan. A deck is great. And a detailed operating plan in a Google Sheet or Excel is an A. But … a traditional, 20+ page written business plan though … tells me you don’t know how to start building the product, but instead, need to just talk about it mor

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Meeting Pitch Engineering Consult 111

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