Anthony Cole Training

JULY 16, 2019

A majority of sales people are so happy to get in front of a prospect that they sometimes allow them to control the sales process.

Prospecting

ConversionXL

JULY 18, 2019

How do CRO professionals run experiments in 2019? We analyzed 28,304 experiments, picked randomly from our Convert.com customers. This post shares some of our top observations and a few takeaways about: When CROs choose to stop tests; Which types of experiments are most popular; How often personalization is part of the experimentation process; How many goals CROs set for an experiment; How costly “learning” from failed experiments can get.

A/B testing

Women Sales Pros

JULY 19, 2019

5 Things You Need To Know Have you ever had that sales call? That sales call that goes so well. The client is great, and the conversation flows. Their challenges are made for your products and services, and the solutions you offer are just what they need. Budget is no issues, and your timing is impeccable because they say they are ready to buy. You shake hands, leave the call, then nothing.

Follow-up

Engage Selling

JULY 18, 2019

Have you given sufficient thought to building confidence in your sales team? It goes without saying, but confident salespeople perform better than those who lack confidence.

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.

Sales

Anthony Cole Training

JULY 19, 2019

In this article, we discuss the "5 Keys to Sales Coaching", or the five critical steps you must know and execute in order to get the best effort and results out of your salespeople. They include: Insight. Feedback. Demonstrate. Role Play. Action Plan. Coaching salespeople is hard work and it helps to have a consistent and effective process to help keep you on course.

Construction

A Sales Guy

JULY 15, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture , . Lack of Coaching. Too Product-Centric and Not Problem Centric. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. Not enough training in the industry/space. Too much activity management. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. Not enough humility.

Sales

Engage Selling

JULY 19, 2019

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Sales

Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2019

Cold email is like door-to-door sales. You’re going to get a lot of no’s. Unless, that is, you learn how to write cold emails that actually convert. Keep reading to get 25 cold email tips — in 4 areas of mastery — that you can start using today: Cold email tips: the basics. Cold email tips for writing a better email. A template for cold emails. Cold email tips for raising open rates.

Objectives and Key Results

SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

A common VC-ism is that You Always Have Competition. This probably is mostly true, especially since 70% of the top SaaS companies are really just new versions of old, established categories. About 70% of SaaS Unicorns Are New Versions of Existing Categories of Software. But sometimes, you really are something new. Or so different, that it’s basically new.

Price

Membrain

JULY 14, 2019

Dave Roberts' stolen base in game four of the 2004 American League Championship started the Red Sox historic comeback against the Yankees that resulted in them winning the 2004 World Series.

Gaming

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.

Objection handling

Hubspot

JULY 18, 2019

All search engine algorithms are driven at least in part by links, which makes link building an essential aspect of SEO. It's also a cost-effective marketing principle that, when done right, allows you to essentially advertise on other reputable websites for free, while gaining high-quality referral traffic. The term "link building" refers to the process of creating links on other websites to increase search engine rankings and drive referral traffic back to your site.

Referrals

RAIN Group

JULY 17, 2019

Everyone is a periodic procrastinator. Twenty percent of people are chronic procrastinators. 1. Why? We all have something we want to do or know we need to do, but it seems difficult, so we avoid it. Often, that seemingly difficult task is the same activity that would provide you the greatest feeling of accomplishment, productivity, and return on your efforts.

Product

G2

JULY 17, 2019

Can’t find a comprehensive nonprofit statistics round-up? What gives?

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2019

My list: Same values and commitment as you. No matter how smart you both are, you also have to share the same values and commitment. Are you both 100% all-in? Are you both willing to go 18–24 months before initial product market fit? Are you both willing to do what it takes to win? Are there ego issues around titles? Is one of you willing to go fulll-time, but the other isn’t yet?

Engineering

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

Hospitality

The 5% Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Closing questions are a widely searched topic within the world of sales. As you read various articles, you’ll find that there is quite a variance of styles that people use and teach. In this article, we’ll be covering the five types of closing questions to use with your potential clients, but before we do; it’s important to know the context in which to use them so that you can use them successfully.

Closing

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2019

The first contractor got a proposal to us within a few days, the second contractor got a proposal to us later the same day and the third contractor gave us a price on the spot. On the responsive scale, the third contractor was the best. Certainly, responsiveness is not the only criteria that prospects weigh as part of their decision-making process. They may also consider: Trustworthiness.

Referrals

Membrain

JULY 17, 2019

Most sales professionals are notorious optimists. We always think our next big sale is right around the corner, that the opportunity we were excited about last week is definitely almost ready to close, and that we’re going to absolutely make our quota this time.

Quota

SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

It doesn’t matter. On the face of it, there really should not be any termination clause in an annual contract, especially if the customer is paying a lower annualized rate vs. a monthly agreement, for example. If a customer is prepaying for a discount, why should they be able to get out? But the thing is, it doesn’t matter. If they do terminate, you’ve lost that customer.

Contract

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.

Retail

The 5% Institute

JULY 18, 2019

At times, sales can be a daunting activity. You may be lacking in getting leads, or perhaps you’re speaking with people- but you’re just not getting their business. When you’re asking ‘Why am I not closing sales?”, it can be for a number of reasons. We’re going to cover the top three reasons below. Why Am I Not Closing Sales? Why am I not closing sales reason one – the wrong people.

Closing

InsightSquared

JULY 17, 2019

It’s a saying you hear a lot: Your most important customer is the one you already have. Yet, it bears repeating for two reasons. One, it’s true: it costs less to keep an existing customer than it does to acquire a new one. Two, it’s so easy to forget. . So, maybe you need more than platitudes to keep your sales team, your executive team and your board focused on your most valuable customers.

Customers

G2

JULY 18, 2019

Sustainability is one of the most pressing issues for governments and environmental organizations around the world.

Engineering

Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

Let’s try a thought experiment. You will see some of the assumptions are very simplistic, they will become obvious as we move through the thought experiment. They don’t impact the thought experiment. For the moment, suspend your judgement and bear with me. The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent.

Territory

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.

Start-ups

The 5% Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Having the right sales mindset is crucial for sales and business success. The reason being is your mindset lays the foundation in which you build your knowledge, skills, and experience. With the wrong mindset, you can do all the training in the world, but you may not remember or execute what you learn. What we’re going to look at in this article, is three tips to boost your sales mindset, so that you can serve more people and close more sales. 3 x Sales Mindset Tips To Help You Close More Sales.

Closing

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2019

It’s an impressive statistic. But … it is difficult to know how seriously to take this without knowing true engagement, because Microsoft Teams is packed into so many editions of Office, etc. Just like Yammer was (and still is): Perhaps that means Teams will kill Slack. But perhaps it also means that the $600m+ ARR worth of folks are paying for Slack instead of something that comes essentially for free with Office.

Service

Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2019

Maybe you’ve heard the adage, “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.”. Nothing could be more true for Revenue Operations! Why? Because we tend to move too fast, and we get addicted to fixing symptoms, not root problems. In this article, I’m going to explain how these tendencies are breaking your sales stack and a smart 4-step process for fixing any sales stack — no matter how broken you think it is.

GTM

Partners in Excellence

JULY 19, 2019

In some recent projects, I’ve had the opportunity to analyze sales conversations. I’ve been tracking conversations sales people are having, from the very first conversation to the closing conversations. We know each conversation is different, they vary from company to company, customer to customer. But listening to enough of them, one starts to notice patterns.

Conversion

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.

High impact

Gong.io

JULY 16, 2019

Ever wondered what it takes to be successful at the next level of your sales career? Wonder no more. . We interviewed sales reps at Gong from commercial to enterprise to break down the recipe of their secret sales sauce. The post Gong Labs Live: Learn the Secret Sauce of Sales – Interviews with the Gong Sales Team appeared first on Gong.

Sales

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

The easiest “strategies” to get a higher price in an acquisition — which admittedly are very hard to deploy quickly : Raise a venture round at a high price. This is controversial “advice” because it can backfire on you. But the reality is, many M&A prices are driven by a multiple of the last venture round — at least in deals where the acquirer really wants to get it done.

Manufacturing

Hubspot

JULY 18, 2019

Have you ever found yourself working on a project in which you had to toggle between multiple software and applications? Perhaps you had to plug data from one system into another or rewrite the same content over and over again to ensure it was in multiple locations. Although few people have the time or patience for this type of tedious work, it’s highly common and often critical to your business’s success — these mundane tasks need to get done.

Contact

Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2019

My good friend, Andy Paul, and I were talking about the state of selling today. We were commiserating about the absence of discussion about “How Do We Win?” So much of the discussion about sales these days focuses on the top of the pipeline, that is, how do we find more opportunities. The reason people are worried about finding more opportunities is that we are struggling to make our numbers.

Pipeline

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