Sat.Jun 13, 2020 - Fri.Jun 19, 2020

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Negotiating On The First Tee (Part 1)

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog post, we discuss the practice of negotiating with your prospect before you begin your presentation. As is often said in golf, "All bets are won on the first tee," and you must be ready to negotiate price before you present to your client.

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What is strategic account planning and how does it drive growth?

Membrain

What is strategic account planning? The question seems simple on the surface, but ask five salespeople, and you’ll get five different answers.

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77% of You Aren’t Going Back to A Traditional Office. What That Means.

SaaStr

The pace of change recently has been breathtaking. Just a few weeks ago, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, was kind enough to join us at SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap. He said Slack wouldn’t be going back to the office until September. Now, just a few weeks later? Slack is going work-from-home forever. Along with Twitter and Square and Shopify.

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Social Media Monitoring: How to Listen to Your Audience

G2

Having your finger on the pulse of customer sentiment is essential, no matter what’s being said about your brand.

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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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Negotiating on the First Tee (Part 2)

Anthony Cole Training

In Part 1 of "Negotiating on the First Tee, we discussed the practice of negotiating with your prospect before you begin your presentation. In Part 2, we continue this discussion and add more to the conversation.

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3 Things You Can Improve With Sales Automation Workflows

Sales Hacker

64% of a salesperson’s time is spent on non-selling tasks on average. That’s a lot of time doing simple, repetitive tasks that don’t result in revenue. If you want to maximize productivity in your sales team and want them to spend more time selling and closing deals , then you can’t ignore sales automation and workflow setups. We’ll show you how to create automated workflows to jack up your sales pipeline and easily go from leads to deals.

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5 Reasons for Low CRM Adoption and How to Tackle It

G2

Most organizations rely on sophisticated customer relationship management (CRM) tools to manage their orders and revenue and organize business flows.

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5 Simple Tips to Quickly Improve Sales Performance

SaaStr

Q: What are the best 5 points to improve poor sales performance? Here are my 5 simplest ideas to quickly improve sales performance. They don’t solve bigger problems, but they usually work — and work quickly. Concentrate leads in those who can close. If you have a rep or two that just can’t close, that doesn’t work in the early days. Leads are too precious.

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The Triple Touch: How to Easily Accelerate Prospect Responses

Sales Hacker

What if I told you there was a simple, 3-step strategy that takes the guesswork out of your sales cadence and accelerates prospect responses? It may sound like magic, but it exists. We caught onto this in about 2016 and haven’t looked back since. For those of us on the front lines, sending emails, making our phone calls, and getting the attention of B2B prospects can be an uphill battle.

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“Best Way Out: Always Through”

Engage Selling

It’s not a coincidence that the word crisis—borrowed from the Ancient Greeks—meant “the turning point in a disease.

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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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Land that First Job: Advice for the New Grads

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. Can you believe it’s June already? It’s graduation season! Though graduations look a little different in 2020 than we’re typically used to, there are still new college grads entering the workforce and probably wondering how best to transition from student to professional. Inspired by a recent conversation I had with our own University of Washington Sales intern ( Go Dawgs!!

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10+ Simple Tips To Help Any Account Executive Close More

SaaStr

Q: How can I boost my sales if I am in B2B sales? My top tips for AEs: Grab your CEO and bring her into bigger deals. Ask your CEO to join you on a few sales calls a month. Deals will close at a higher rate if the CEO joins. Customers love to talk to the CEO. Even the CEO of a 4 person startup. Slow it down and hyper-personalize your emails and communication.

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The Continuing Education Of A Privileged White Male

Partners in Excellence

As are so many, I’m astounded, horrified, ashamed, saddened, and angered by the events of the past weeks. Several weeks ago, I felt compelled to write, to express my outrage. I shared the initial article with a number of friends, many black, some women, several different nationalities/religions. Fortunately, a few friends called me. They said it was “OK.” One was so honest to say, “Dave, nothing is wrong, I’m glad you are taking a position, but it’s not your b

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

Enterprise SEO has been my topic of choice for extracurricular “thought leadership” over the years. Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. While my presentation focused on the in-house side of enterprise SEO, I’ve also experienced (and written about ) getting things done—or trying to get things done—at an agency.

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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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Future-Proof Your Team: Creating A Team Of Superheroes

Sales Hacker

The word diversity can be seen as divisive in today’s society. Sometimes leaders can view it as something thrust upon them without choice. Companies are hiring Chief Diversity Officers and sending management to inclusion and diversity training. It’s natural to feel that this is forced and being done in the name of political correctness and not good business.

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Before You Hire That Awesome SaaS Veteran — Just Make Sure They Are Willing To Do The Work

SaaStr

One of the biggest changes since we started SaaStr is the massive number of SaaS veterans out there. The decade-long run of next-generation SaaS start-ups, and the explosion since 2015 of SaaS unicorns and decacorns has led to a lot of experienced execs on the market. This is great. I wish there had been even a fraction of this many SaaS execs when I was getting going.

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Why Change?

Partners in Excellence

The salesperson was getting frustrated. We were doing a deal review. It was a huge deal for him, and important deal for the company, for the quarter. He’d been working on the deal for several years. In recent months, he’d finally gotten some key users interested in the product he sold. They had committed to take the proposal to senior management to get approval. “I’m confident this will close this quarter,” he stated.

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The Two Types of Sellers

Engage Selling

Have you noticed that the crisis has brought to light the two different types of sellers? The first type of seller is choosing to “wait out” the crisis and hopes for things to get back to “normal.

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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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3 Steps to Transform Your Mindset and Overcome Any Challenge

Sales Hacker

Mindset is the driving force behind sales performance, and as sales professionals, we all have to be pretty mentally tough. But mindset matters even more during a crisis like COVID-19. If you find yourself anxious and stressed , you’re not alone. But remember, you’re no stranger to challenge. You’ve had targets assigned that seemed unachievable. You’ve had game-changing deals fall through.

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Free Trials Done Right Work. But Here Are 5 Times They Don’t.

SaaStr

Q: Is free trialing still an effective way to get customers in your B2B SaaS these days? Free Trials are Great. And really, it would be great if every app had one today. It’s 2020! But they don’t always work. It depends. We aren’t all Zoom. 5 Interesting Learnings From Zoom. As It IPOs. Downsides to Free Trials: The Free Trial Has To Work — and Be Great.

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“Do Or Not Do, There Is No Try”

Partners in Excellence

I’m dating myself with this quote from that master philosopher, Yoda. This goes back to the first Star Wars movie in 1977 (Of course, I was in kindergarden at the time. I’m stunned by the number of sales people that don’t understand the principle. Everyday, I encounter sales people who are very busy. They are working very hard to get what they get.

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Lauren’s App of the Week: Daily Burn

Heinz Marketing

By Lauren Dichter , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. It’s safe to say we’ve all downloaded some new apps since the pandemic hit. Most people are looking for a distraction from this tumultuous time we’re in, and that distraction comes in many forms. There are apps for gaming, online shopping, entertainment, learning new skills, and more. Right now, my favorite kind of apps are wellness related.

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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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Stop Asking About Past Quota Attainment in Sales Interviews

Sales Hacker

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? Not so fast. According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations. It turns out that quota attainment has become the exception, not the rule.

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SaaStr Crosses 57,000,000 Views on Quora. Here’s What Everyone’s Reading.

SaaStr

So SaaStr crossed 57,000,000 views on Quora. What’s on everyone’s mind? What are we most thinking about? Here are the Top 10 Most Popular Answers of the past 12 months: #1: “I’m tired of running my (very) successful (VC funded) startup after 5+ years. What should I do? “ A classic we’ve written about on Quora and on SaaStr.com.

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Outsourcing Coaching….

Partners in Excellence

It started as an intriguing call. The VP of Sales called to ask for my help, “I need you to coach my people.” I started asking my normal questions, “What’s going on with them, what are the areas they need the most help in, how is this impacting their performance, what behaviors to you want to see, why is this important to them, why is it important to you…… ” I went on, “Are there specific skills you are looking to develop?

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How to Create and Support a Learning Culture in Your Organization

Sandler Training

I believe we should start by simply acknowledging the reality that telling our employees that we have a learning culture does not mean that we actually have a learning culture in our organization. The post How to Create and Support a Learning Culture in Your Organization appeared first on Sandler 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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The New KPIs that Matter to Modern Sellers (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. In it, VP of Revenue Collective, Jake Reni , talks with our Scott Barker about the new KPIs that modern sellers need to focus on. What You’ll Learn. How to discover your secret recipe to sales success. Understand the buyer verifiers that get you to the next stage. The importance of empathy.

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B2B Reads: Live Videos, Programmatic Ad Spending, and When ‘Less is More’

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. Give Better Answers By Rethinking Your Customers’ Questions. Great look at how to give you customers the answers they need about your company.

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The Future Of Sales Is Virtual….

Partners in Excellence

It seems the pandemic has created a new future for selling. Apparently, it’s virtual. According to so many, we’ve discovered that we can accomplish so much more through Zoom, Teams, Skype or any number of video conferencing platforms. While there will be a need for face to face, it will be the smallest part of the customer engagement process.

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10 Email Preview Tools For Different Inboxes

Hubspot

You know the expression, "What you see is what you get" ? Well, when it comes to email marketing campaigns, that might not always be the case. Since everyone uses different email providers such as Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo, emails can appear differently for various subscribers. Sometimes images are blocked, alt text is missing, or fonts won't render.

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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.