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28 Sales Traits to Identify When Hiring Better Salespeople

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog post, we ask the question, "Are you looking to hire better salespeople or are you looking to hire salespeople that will simply replace your former employees?".

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Committed To Failing

Partners in Excellence

We have very confused attitudes and beliefs about failure and failing. In sales and marketing, specifically, this confusion is somewhat ironic, since failure is such a large part of what we do. Recently I wrote about a terribly dangerous view about failure: “Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash!” There’s a lot of social pscho-babble on failure, the thinking parallels the thinking that, “everyone gets a trophy, win, lose, just show up… , it’s the effort that counts!

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Are sales leaders wrong to focus on changing behaviors?

Membrain

In the sales effectiveness world, we talk a lot about changing behaviors. Are your salespeople engaging in the right behaviors to get the right outcome? Do their behaviors match up with best practices? Are they aligning well with buyers? How can they change their behaviors to get better results?

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The New York Times' Misleading Article on Assessments and Their Use Cases

Understanding the Sales Force

I'm not usually late but I'm really late on this topic! Back in September The New York Times, which is often accused of publishing fake news, published an interesting article comparing personality tests to astrology. The story included specific assessments like The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , The Hartman Personality Profile (Color Code), Plum , and DiSC.

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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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Do Your Customers Like Talking To You?

Engage Selling

Do your customers like talking to you and members of your sales team? When we talk about effective sales professionals, we often only think about, well, their sales!

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9 Questions To Ask Candidates for Your First Head of Customer Success

SaaStr

The good news today, is there are tons of customer success veterans out there. So you can find folks to join you. Even just a few years ago, there weren’t enough folks when enough experience to be your first “head of customer success.” But the bad news is, many can’t really do the job a start-up needs at a leadership level.

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6 Trade Show Tips for a Breakout Sales Booth (Infographic)

Sales Hacker

Lack of audience engagement in trade shows and conference presentations severely hurts your ability to communicate critical information about your company’s products or services. When your audience is not engaged, you are losing out on a huge opportunity to generate leads and build interest in your product. In collaboration with Diana Ohlhaver , we’ve put together 6 simple trade show tips + an infographic that will go a long way toward making your next conference or trade show sales booth more e

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How to Use LinkedIn: Must-Have Tips for Professional Success

G2

LinkedIn is the world’s leading social platform for business professionals.

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Coronavirus, Trade Shows and Value vs Venue

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. Is nature accelerating a trend that been a long time coming? The usual rush of spring events in B2B sales and marketing has almost entirely been eliminated in just the past couple days , in an appropriate abundance of caution. Countless hours of work by organizers, presenters, sponsors and even attendees – gone.

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Using BANT Methodology for Improving Sales Team Productivity

Salesmate

Have you ever heard about BANT? If you belong to the sales and marketing initiatives, you will be aware of it. We have previously discussed 7 tried and tested sales methodologies in a brief article. In this article, we’re going to break down BANT for you and help you understand how it will enable your sales team to be more efficient. So, what is BANT?

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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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PODCAST 99: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Flourishing at Work w/ Stephanie Blair

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Stephanie Blair , Founder and CEO of Know and Flourish. Stephanie founded her executive coaching and consultancy company focused on grooming and growing innovative talent within sales centric and growth focused teams. As an expert in digital transformation and in fueling modern organizations for sustainable success prior to Know and Flourish, she spent over eight years at eMarketer in assorted individual contributor and leadership roles, and b

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Debt: Raise It. Just Don’t Spend It.

SaaStr

I’ve always been a fan of venture debt and similar products, used properly. Back in the day at EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we crossed $10m in ARR having raised less than $8m. But we also quietly raised a few million in venture debt, which let me made more hires and keep the engines running without having to raise another round. I’ve also seen many start-ups I’ve worked with quietly do the same.

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Making It Safe To Succeed

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash! ” It was a rant about the social psycho-babble around failure. We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Yet, we never talk about the concept of “making it safe to succeed.” Some might think it’s the other side of the same coin.

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The 7 Best Social Media Analytics Tools for Marketers in 2020

Hubspot

Social media is an undeniably powerful marketing tool in 2020. We've seen the stats that back up using social media as a legitimate business practice. And we've seen examples of companies that saw phenomenal ROI after a social media campaign. But how are marketers managing multiple social accounts, encouraging proper engagement, and analyzing and proving their social platforms ROI?

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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 Benefits of AI in Sales (& AI-Based Tools You Didn’t Know You Need)

Sales Hacker

AI for sales is nothing new. But what are the real benefits of AI? Is it a lot of buzz or does it deliver real value? Sales tools using machine learning and deep learning are already widespread in the market today. And while the scope of AI’s impact may still be limited to certain types of activities, the power and scope of AI will continue to grow.

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Sheena’s App of the Week: BambooHR

Heinz Marketing

By Sheena McKinney , Executive Assistant at Heinz Marketing. We recently implemented BambooHR and so far I’m loving it. BambooHR is an HR tool for small to medium businesses. Check out this short, entertaining video overview to get the gist better than I could relay. Like any new tool, it takes time to implement and customize but I have actually enjoyed this portion of the process more than I expected.

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Who’s Your Laziest Salesperson?

Partners in Excellence

Increasingly, there is a tendency to measure our value by activities and our “busyness.” Managers set activity metrics, rigorously measuring performance against those metrics. Sales people rush from activity to activity, seldom having the time to meet their goals. We implement new technologies, enabling our people to increase the number of activities they can accomplish in a given period.

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6 Brands That Used Social Media to Boost Their Subscriber List

Hubspot

More than likely, you've heard the debate on whether it's more worthwhile to invest in email marketing, or social media marketing, to turn leads into customers. Of course, ultimately, the most effective approach to marketing would be to integrate both social media and email marketing, so you can make the most of your email subscribers as well as social media followers.

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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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What was the biggest acquisition failure or missed opportunity by a company?

SaaStr

Q: What was the biggest acquisition failure or missed opportunity by a company? It’s hard to really force rank a list, especially of deals you don’t know about. And it’s easy to be an arm-chair quarterback on all this. Still, my partial list in Cloud/SaaS: Google letting Microsoft buy / outbid for Github for $7.5b. If you want to own the developer relationship, you own Github.

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Qualifying Sales Leads – A Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

Qualifying sales leads is one of the most important tasks of the sales process. The reason qualifying sales leads is so crucial in sales, is because by doing so correctly you’ll save a ton of time, energy, and potentially money. In this guide, you’ll learn the importance of qualifying sales leads, how to do so, as well as a list of qualifying sales leads questions to help you with the task.

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7 Sure Fire Ways to Sell More. Faster.

KO Advantage Group

About a year ago a woman came into my office. She was running a fairly successful marketing firm yet she struggled to get her clients to connect with her sales message. To her it felt "icky". She liked educating. She liked showing her clients what she would do for them. But they would respond, "okay. if you're so confident, how about we pay you when you generate us the results.".

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Why Marketers Need Responsive Emails in 2020

Hubspot

The other day, I received the following email from Adobe and opened it on my desktop at work: This email from Adobe gave me a top-notch email experience on desktop. However, I didn't have time at the moment to "Learn more", so I marked the email as unread and saved it for my commute home. An hour later, on the T, I re-opened the email on mobile. Now, imagine if I opened this email on my phone and the image was low-quality, the text was too small to be read, and the call-to-action button was brok

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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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So You Joined a Startup as the First Sales Hire… Now What?

Sales Hacker

Joining an early stage SaaS startup can be exciting, but it can also be daunting. The founders often have lofty goals, minimal structure or direction, and the company is just beginning to build out its sales motion. If you’re the first sales rep at a startup — or one of them — you’ll be responsible for helping the founders acquire the company’s first customers, establish a system to sales, and achieve wins in an initial niche market.

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The Complex Sales Process – A Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

If you’re selling B2B – also known as business to business; something that’ll be foundational to your success in your industry, is enacting a complex sales process. But what exactly is a complex sales process? And what steps should it include? In this article, you’ll learn what a complex sales process is, as well as all the key ingredients you need to include to ensure your complex sales process works wonders for you time and time again.

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3-Step Framework for Leading Effective Sales Coaching Conversations

RAIN Group

Many sales managers and coaches are never taught how to lead effective sales coaching conversations. So they start with, “What’s up?”. Then they listen to sellers for an hour with a bit of back and forth about this opportunity or that one. They may talk about the need to fill the pipeline or come up with an idea to move one of the opportunities forward.

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How Long Should Blog Posts Be in 2020? [New Data]

Hubspot

If you're a blogger, you've probably asked your editor "how long should this blog post be" more times than you'd care to admit. And most of the time, you'll hear an answer that sounds something like this: "However long it needs to be.". There's certainly a nugget of truth in there — you shouldn't beholden yourself to a character count that's either too low or too high.

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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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What do you expect from your business partner?

SaaStr

Q: What do you expect from your business partner? A true partner: Is as committed as you. You can count on , every day. Is ideally strong at something core you aren’t, or at least, can own something important so you don’t have to. Carries the weight when things are tough. In the end, someone where your founders equity is worth far more, even with the dilution, than without her.

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Forget About an Ideal Buyer | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

I want you to throw out the concept of an ideal buyer. They just don’t exist anymore.

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Are You Happy with Your Current Sales Methodology?

Selling Power

At BTS, we have a sales methodology that will help you create the buyer-specific value propositions you need, and accelerate your sales.

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Media Planning: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot

For any business to be successful today — no matter the type, size, or industry — it must create and share media content (images, videos, infographics, social media posts, podcasts, etc.) with its target audience members. This is a large part of how you boost brand awareness, engagements, conversions, and revenue (among other things) for your business.

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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.