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How to Sell in Any Market

Anthony Cole Training

There is always something going on in the market that makes selling difficult. However, you can choose to develop strategies and utilize virtual technologies to get in front of your prospects and clients.

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Why the Future of Selling Resemble Won't Resemble the Past

Understanding the Sales Force

It's April 17 and nearly every salesperson is selling from home. It's just temporary, right? Maybe. But what if it's not? According to the President, Vice-President, Scientists and some Governors, the economy will begin reopening in stages, perhaps as soon as May 1. So it's back to the office and your territories, right? Wrong. You'll still be home.

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Moving From Helpless To Helpful

Partners in Excellence

There’s a certain feeling of helplessness we each feel as we look at the current global health crisis, things happening in our companies, in our communities, even with our families. We are all facing things few of us, individually or organizationally, have ever faced. We each are struggling to find answers and to make sense of what’s happening.

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How to upsize sales performance while you downsize your tech

Membrain

It’s no secret that I believe that many sales organizations are overspending on technology. Right now, while many organizations are cutting payroll and looking for other ways to grow lean during a challenging time, I want to encourage you to take a good, hard look at your tech spend.

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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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Make the Business-to-People Sale

Anthony Cole Training

Most Sales Managers would agree that completing prospecting activities and hitting sales goals are critical to success.

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Grow Something That Matters. Even If It Isn’t Revenue.

SaaStr

Times are tough for many of us now. What do you do, if half your customers have just gone out of business? If your growth has gone from 60% to 0% overnight? Well you can’t fix everything. And maybe — you can’t even grow your ARR. Some of you won’t be able to grow revenue at all for now. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still grow.

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How to Plan a Virtual Event That Generates Leads in 4 Easy Steps

Sales Hacker

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. In the tech sector alone, the direct losses from the cancellation of just 10 events are more than $1.1 billion. Many companies are canceling events or postponing them until after the crisis is over.

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How to Build a Sales Playbook You Can Be Proud Of

G2

When presented with a task, our first thought is to explore options on the best way to approach it.

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10 Things New Sales Reps Are Taught. That They Shouldn’t Be.

SaaStr

Q: What sales tactics that are taught to new salespeople bother you enough that you refuse to use them? A few that I think really do you a disservice in SaaS, especially before you have a huge brand: “Be careful of prospects that waste your time.” Yes, your time is precious in sales. But this is backwards. Almost no one wants to waste a salesperson’s time.

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From Selling with Empathy to Compassionate Urgency: Sales Leader Focus Areas This Week

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , Founder and President of Heinz Marketing. For three weeks, the idea of “selling with empathy” dominated discussions in sales management circles. That may have shifted late last week, as some sales executives in our new Sales Leader Cocktail Talks series started encouraging their prospects to organize, decide and act to save (even grow) their businesses amidst the current economic shutdown.

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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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The New Face-to-Face: Lead Generation Without Events

Sales Hacker

Events are out the window — for now. Here are two other ways to organically connect with leads using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. We’ve all seen talk of the “new normal” floating around rapid-fire tweets, deep-dive B2B podcasts, and earnest LinkedIn posts. If you know what this new normal is already, by all means, send me a connection request and fill me in.

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Sales Pipeline Management Tips For Real Estate Brokers

Salesmate

Real estate pipeline management is as important as for other businesses. Lest, there is one small yet crucial difference; real estate business is a single-deal model where you have to keep looking for new prospects. For a real estate agent, this is a challenge. You are always hunting the market for leads making the process a bit competitive. But we are not here to tell you the obvious, right?

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Offices Are Going to Get Smaller After This. Except Maybe for Salesteams.

SaaStr

Gartner recently did a survey of 317 CFOs and finance professionals, and found the vast majority plan to permanently shift to more remote work going forward. This doesn’t mean letting their loffice eases expire. It does mean cramming more folks into the same or even less space. The one exception seems to be sales teams. Only 8% of sales leadership planned to make related changes here.

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Behind the Numbers: How Consumer Retail Benefits from CX Training

Miller Heiman Group

Online shopping makes it easier for consumers to shop more often, and throughout the day. According to research from the IBM Institute for Business Value and the National Retail Federation , 71% of consumers shop in “micromoments”—whenever the impulse strikes—and often while they are doing something else, such as taking a break from a work project, eating lunch or even running on a treadmill.

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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 Build a Successful Sales Enablement Initiative in 5 Steps

Sales Hacker

Facing the pandemic and related challenges all over the world, the need for change is huge. That’s true in all areas of our lives — including how we run our businesses. Looking at the sales space, we are facing a few very specific challenges. Buyers are in fear, postponing decisions and cutting budgets. As a result, all selling approaches that focus on selling a product or taking an order will fail.

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Meet Our Team

KO Advantage Group

“ I am the second born of four in my family and currently studying Accounting at The University of Calgary. I moved to Canada 5 years ago. My favourite weather is Summer where I am able to go to Canmore, Jasper and Banff and enjoy the weather. I discovered my love for hiking when I moved to Canada. I will love to visit Japan next summer. What are some of the cool and exciting places to see in Japan?”.

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Segmenting Your Sales Goals by Customer Category: Growing. Struggling. And Dire Straits

SaaStr

Everyone usually gets pretty good at segmenting customers by ACV. Large, Medium and Small. Or at least by splitting up sales-driven and self-service revenue. Or enterprise vs smaller customer. And later, we often start segmenting by vertical and industry. More of you right now should be putting that aside a bit and segmenting your customers into 3 new groups: Growing.

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Impact of Coronavirus on small businesses and what can be done about it

Salesmate

COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down. Suddenly it stepped in like a monster and consumed many lives. It isn’t only a threat to our lives but also our businesses. This outbreak is posing challenges to many companies. The Coronavirus crisis is the worst nightmare for small businesses. 96% of small business have been impacted by the outbreak 75% of them say their business has been impacted by fewer sales 51% of small businesses say they will only be able to continue operating for 0-3

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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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How to Avoid Getting Ghosted by Your Prospects (4 Steps)

Sales Hacker

It’s been six weeks since you gave your prospect a demo. You’ve sent your fourth follow-up email , and left them a few voicemails. You cringe as you enter your Monday-morning pipeline meeting knowing that, yet again, you’ll have to tell your team that the deal’s “ still in the works.”. The week drags on, and you keep refreshing Gmail or Outlook. You watch as the proverbial tumbleweeds roll across your inbox.

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Agile, Secure, Flexible: The What and Why of Private Cloud

G2

Private cloud is an essential element of a broader enterprise journey to cloud, including public and hybrid cloud.

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Bridging Buyer-Seller Gaps like It’s 2020

SaaStr

By PandaDoc Marketing Specialist Travis Tyler. Even before a global health crisis slammed into the world economy this year, global sales leaders were already pretty shakey about the current state of deals. We know this because hundreds of them told us so in a joint study PandaDoc did with G2 in January of 2020. The results culminated in a comprehensive research report titled: 2020 The State of Deals Report.

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Working From Home

Membrain

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had friends, colleagues, clients calling and to talk about the trials and tribulations of working from home. We’ve shared funny stories, frustrations, and swapped hints and tricks.

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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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Staying Visible

Engage Selling

During these times, what are you doing to stay visible? Obviously, many industries are being impacted, some more heavily than others by COVID-19.

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The Hardest Job in Sales Just Got Harder: Sales Management Strategies in Crisis

Miller Heiman Group

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. The uncertainty of a crisis only heightens the challenge of balancing these demands. During this crisis, sales managers play an even more critical role than usual in your organization’s strategy: because they typically oversee 8 to 10 sellers , sales managers exert tremendous influence over whether your organization’s approach to the crisis succeeds or fails.

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Your New Plan for May: Just Do Better Than The Last 30 Days

SaaStr

Ok for many of you, everything since March 15 or so has been just crazy. Sometimes, terrible. Sometimes, rough. Sometimes, just crazy. But crazy. If your bookings dropped, if your churn went way up, then … it did. Things changed. Now you have the data. You know what your New Normal is like, mostly. From the past 30 days. Maybe you are only growing 20% now.

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Igniting a new normal, together #EventHack2020

Heinz Marketing

If you’re in the event industry, the last 60 days hasn’t gone as planned. That goes for organizers, producers, sponsors and an enormous ecosystem of support tools, services and more – Socio among them. I’ll admit that Socio wasn’t on my radar until a couple weeks ago, when Corey McCarthy joined our CMO Coffee Talk series on a Friday morning and shared something I thought was brilliant.

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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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How to Host a Webinar That'll Keep Them Coming Back for More

G2

Whether you’re speaking to an audience of 10 or 10,000, there’s something about standing before a crowd of people that makes a lot of our knees shake with fear.

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Selling From Home? Use These Sales Tools to Hit Your Goals

Sales Hacker

Even when everything is going as planned, winning at sales is easier said than done. And if you add a curveball to the equation — such as the current health crisis that has forced tens of millions of people to work from home — it’s even more challenging to hit your goals. Whether you have experience doing remote work as a sales professional or were thrust into this position for the first time, there are a variety of sales tools you can use to stabilize your situation and continue to perform at a

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New Incredible Sessions added to FREE SaaStr Summit on April 22: CEOs + CIOs Twilio, Zuora, Zendesk, and Much More

SaaStr

Ok we are almost at our cap of 10,000+ attendees for the FREE SaaStrSummit on Bridging the Gap on April 22. Many of the sessions already have 5,000+ registrants or more already. Some of the newer additions you may not have seen: What It’s Really Like Selling to the Enterprise Now — With CEO of Zuora + CIOs of Zendesk and Nutanix. This should be an incredible deep-dive on the opportunities and challenges to selling into the enterprise right now.

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This is Marketing’s Leadership Moment: 8 topics on the mind of CMOs this past week

Heinz Marketing

Perhaps never before has the chief marketing officer been so centrally in charge their organization’s overall response, strategy and action plan to move out of and through a crisis. The many layers of adversity the coronavirus has thrown at companies – managing shifting market demand, communicating the organizations position, considerations for brand strategy, guiding employees through a new work environment, etc – requires marketing leaders to work at the forefront in each and every conversatio

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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.