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Want to increase sales?

Tibor Shanto

Then make it safe to be ambitious and safe to miss targets. Guest Post by – Matt Roberts. Yes, you did read that correctly. I am proposing that you make it safe to miss a sales target. Hear me out. I have some research that makes this a great debate to have in your sales team right now. Psychological Safety is important to team performance. It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit.

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4 Questions to Ask Your Prospects and Gain Clarity

Anthony Cole Training

If we don’t fully understand the reason for a prospect's statement, the purpose of their question, or dig deeper to find the real problem, we will waste time and miss opportunities.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Objections | Part 6

Iannarino

The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are designed to overcome objections. The legacy solution approach to B2B sales added a level of proof, to provide clients with the confidence necessary to adopt their solution. The modern approach requires the ability to resolve difficult concerns that prevent clients from moving forward. Some of the challenges of selling effectively grow more difficult over time—a natural outcome of greater complexity and its impact on our contacts and clients.

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5 Ways To Increase Sales Online For A Small Business

ClickFunnels

The post 5 Ways To Increase Sales Online For A Small Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Wondering how to increase your online sales? It boils down to: Increasing your conversion rate. Increasing your traffic. Today we are going to share five ways to do that. Ready to start making more sales than ever? Continue reading… Table of Contents #1 Create a Sales Funnel #2 Optimize Your Website for Lead Generation #3 Build a Popular Blog #4 Build a Popular YouTube Channel #5 Build a Social Me

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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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Meet Your Prospects On the Right Plane

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. In an effort to simplify things, sellers and marketers want to put people in neat categories and boxes. People are not that simple; their emotions and reactions change in many ways at different points in the cycle. Given most deals will involve multiple buyers, we need to consider how individuals evolve, and the interplay between them.

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Why Salespeople Can’t Be Good If They Don’t Use the CRM

A Sales Guy

The Sales world is desperate for an upgrade. We’ve been holding on to, too many outmoded approaches, ideas, tropes, and concepts. It’s time sales let’s go of the tired and ineffective belief systems if we’re going to truly deliver the value we say we want to in the 21st-century. The biggest miss and most unsettling issue facing sales today is their brutal and debilitating contradicting view of what’s most important to sales AND the value of the CRM.

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How to Create a Compelling Unique Selling Proposition

ConversionXL

Why should customers buy from you? How do you stand out and solve their problems better than anybody else? Every marketer knows these are important questions, but finding the answers can be a challenge. In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. We’ll cover why a unique selling proposition is important, how to uncover what your customers are hungry for and share a framework for developing and testing a

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How to Win More Deals by Making Better Human Connections

Membrain

People like to do business with people they trust. Unfortunately for sales professionals, salespeople are often the last people anyone trusts.

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What Is The Objective Of This Call?

Partners in Excellence

Do you have a clear objective for each call/meeting you have with the customer? Is it aligned with the customer’s objectives for the call? I talk to 100’s of sales people every year. They are constantly busy making calls and having meetings, but when I ask them, “What was your objective? Did you accomplish it? Could you have accomplished more?

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Stakeholders | Part 5

Iannarino

The Gist. The legacy laggard approach seeks the decision-maker. The legacy solution approach seeks the buying committee. The modern sales approach seeks organizational consensus. One of the most significant changes in the way that we sell involves who we choose to engage in the sales conversation. As buyers have changed how they buy, adapting to their new environments, salespeople have evolved different views of consensus and authority.

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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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How to Use Storytelling in Business to Build Captivated Audiences

ConversionXL

Who. What. When. Where. Why. Answer the proverbial “Five W’s” through storytelling, and you’ll build meaningful connections with your audience. Fail to do so, and you’ll likely lose their attention. Not every piece of content needs to tell a story. Applying storytelling in the right place, at the right time, in the right way makes all the difference.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 249: Q & A with Cay Gliebe @CayGliebe1

Heinz Marketing

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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A Few Thoughts On How To Think About Dilution

SaaStr

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to catch up with several Unicorn++ founders who, relatively speaking, had not raised that much vs their peers. We talked about a lot of things from scaling, to IPOs, to the journey, and more. But one thing all 3 brought up that surprised me was Dilution. They talked a lot about dilution. From a longer-termer’s perspective.

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True Confessions of a Legacy Laggard

Iannarino

The Gist. Embrace fearless value creation: respond to what your prospective clients need from you, in order to create and win an opportunity. Over time, sales approaches lose their efficacy and need to evolve. Salespeople adapt because they recognize the client’s needs for insights and work to address them. Without creating value, you cannot create or win an opportunity.

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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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How To Sell Coaching – A Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore how to sell coaching, by focusing on eight powerful and effective selling tips. These tips are commonly used by the top five percent of coaches all around the world, when it comes to their discovery calls , and closing new clients. Many people think that what they’re able to achieve is from pure luck. We’ll explore how this isn’t the case, and what you can do to improve your sales process , as well as your closing rate.

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9 Web Design Tips to Help Your Site Earn More Money

G2

You’ve set up a website for your new business, and it’s getting plenty of traffic.

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Is Your Organization Ready for a Culture Shift?

Heinz Marketing

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. What is sales and marketing alignment? Is your organization ready for a culture shift? Sales and marketing alignment is a shared system of communication, strategy, and goals that enable marketing and sales to operate cohesively towards a common business objective. Wherein, not only are group goals met, but everyone feels like they have contributed to the organization’s overall success.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, The Starting Question | Part 2

Iannarino

The Gist. The legacy laggard approach starts the conversation with “why us?” The legacy solution approach starts with “why us and our solutions?” The modern approach starts with “why change?” See My Part 1, From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches . It’s difficult to imagine that the legacy approaches are still taught and trained after seventy years of cultural and economic change.

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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 Two Things to Do. When You Don’t Know What to Do.

SaaStr

There may come a time, or two, in your company when you just don’t know what to do. When: You aren’t growing fast enough. and/or. The competition seems to be getting the best of you. and/or. You can’t raise financing. and/or. You just lost an important deal. Or maybe more than one. and/or. That great new initiative you were so excited about.

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What if we started with a blank sheet of paper?

Membrain

Buying is changing profoundly. This impacts everything we do to try to engage our customers, creating value through their buying and usage journey. To effectively engage our prospects and customer, we have to rethink all our strategies and approaches in working with them.

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Lisa’s App of the Week: Harvest

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. We recently adopted a tool at Heinz Marketing called Harvest for time tracking. In short, Harvest is “simple time tracking your team will actually use,” and I can vouch for that statement. We evaluated a few options in our search, and found that this one was the most simple, straightforward, and customizable in that it is available in whatever format each of our team members wants to use—their browser, Slack, desktop or mobile applica

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5 Leadership Tactics That Get Results

Force Management

Great leaders are great leaders — no matter the court they operate in. On the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, John Kaplan, Force Management President, had a chance to chat with Coach John Mosley Jr. from Netflix's Last Chance U and East Los Angeles College. Coaching inspiration can come from anywhere. Below are our top takeaways that you can apply to your own sales teams.

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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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6 Tactics to Retain Angry Customers

SaaStr

Q: What are the different strategies to retain an angry customer? Let’s start with one important learning: angry customers usually aren’t lost customers. If they’ve already decided to leave you for another vendor, they generally just go dark instead. So you still have a shot not just to save them and keep them, but turn it around. A few basic thoughts: Have the CEO talk to them — and if possible, make a commitment to fixing one issue (even if small ).

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Your 2021 Sales Enablement Platform Buyer’s Guide (+10 Tools to Consider)

Sales Hacker

If you could spend a day with sales teams from some of the most successful companies in the world, what would you see? Here’s my guess: you’d see a GTM organization working together like a well-oiled machine. They’re all on board – marketing, sales, product, customer success, and executive leaders. Their sales tools are integrated effectively, coaching is readily available, and sales reps are happily using their CRM.

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2021 Sales Consult Playbook: Building Trust at Every Stage of the Buyer’s Journey

G2

Building trust with today’s leery buyers seems impossible.

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B2B Reads: Expectations Crushing Creativity, Remember 2020, and Lego Inspiration

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 4 Paths To Building Buyer Trust Through Empathy And Humility. Marketing and sales traditionally believe that the path to building buyer trust is by providing answers through education, experience, and training.

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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 Owe Customers That Don’t Renew?

SaaStr

Since the dawn of the age of the subscription, forcing people to keep paying to use some small part of a web service has been a common strategy. Millions of folks still pay just to keep their “@aol.com” email addresses. And making it hard to leave a subscription has probably been a strategy employed by some since the very first gym opened.

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Building Your Own Productivity Process to Make the Most out of Your Workday

Sales Hacker

Skipping sleep can only go so far. The amount of productivity you can squeeze out of every hour can drastically impact your earnings, success, and your quality of life as a whole. Scott has spent over a decade refining his productivity process. It’s allowed him to host multiple podcasts, an annual event, publish books, stay fit, spend time with his family, and even get a healthy amount of sleep (unbelievable, we know!).

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How Top Sales Reps Rise Above the Rest

Highspot

ValueSelling Associates and Selling Power surveyed more than 150 B2B senior sales leaders to find out exactly what differentiates the best in the sales profession. The insights from this survey can help all of us salespeople hone our sales skills and learn tips from the winners. The survey results were striking, and uncovered that desire, drive, and discipline separate top performing salespeople from the rest of the pack.

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Must-Have SaaS Tools for Small Sized Businesses

Predictable Revenue

As the world is changing at a fast pace, the use of business-related software has increased. SaaS tools provide an excellent opportunity for small-size businesses to promote their efforts and improve the workflows. The post Must-Have SaaS Tools for Small Sized Businesses appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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.