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The Similarities Between Politics & Sales

Anthony Cole Training

In this blog, we discuss what it takes to differentiate yourself as a salesperson in the market today, and how sales and politics can often be similar. As the public tends to avoid political candidates that sound like all of the rest, the same can be said in sales.

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Decoy Pricing: Did United Airlines Fire Their Behavioral Economist?

Neuromarketing

It appears that United Airlines has stopped using a classic decoy pricing approach for in-flight wifi options. The post Decoy Pricing: Did United Airlines Fire Their Behavioral Economist? appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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The Key to Faster Sales

Engage Selling

The key to faster sales is extremely obvious, yet also counterintuitive. It has to do with your efficiency. Obvious, right? Not so fast.

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An Uncomfortable, but Highly Effective Sales Strategy

Jill Konrath

After spending months trying to meet with a perfect prospect, the last thing you want to do is blow the opportunity. Yet all too often, that's exactly what happens—especially when you only have a short time together.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in 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.

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Creating Your Success Formula: The 5th Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our 5th Chapter of our Sales Productivity Tools blog series, we discuss the idea of creating a success formula for your sales team, which only works when you have a team that is committed, motivated, and takes responsibility for their decisions and outcomes.

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25+ Remote Work Statistics for an Evolving Workforce

G2

The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal. Forbes. Across every industry the hot topic for the future of business seems to be remote work.

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Sales Negotiation: How to Navigate the Gives/Gets for a Win-Win

Sales Hacker

When it comes to negotiation, the goal isn’t a win… What you want is a win-win. True negotiations are all about coming to a mutual agreement on something where both parties feel like they got something out of the deal. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t “win” a negotiation by making the other person lose. Both parties need to give and get along the way.

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16 Effective Ways to Build Your Online Presence

Hubspot

The other day I was trying to find the perfect dress pant yoga pants because I wanted comfortable, professional clothing options. When I searched for "dress pant yoga pants" on Google, I found the brand Betabrand. Amazingly, the company dominated the top four search results. The first two results were their website, the third was their Amazon page, and the fourth was a review of their product.

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SaaS CRO: What You’re Not Testing (But Should)

ConversionXL

Think back to the last experiment you ran for your SaaS company. What were you trying to learn or improve? Maybe you wanted to increase email captures or free-trial leads. . Now try to think of the last time you experimented with something other than your acquisition strategy. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone. . Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel.

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5 x Sales Coaching Tips For Sales Managers

The 5% Institute

Sales coaching is an important and useful part of a Sales Managers role, because there is a large number of benefits that come from coaching and mentoring your staff. Some useful benefits of sales coaching include building confidence, getting clarity on your goals among your obstacles, asking the right questions, prioritising goals and risks, and even employee retention.

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

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.

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Why Your Company Needs Performance Management (+6 Components)

G2

In today’s competitive hiring market, companies that take a hands-on approach to employee engagement and growth are leading the pack.

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The Ultimate Guide to Integrated Marketing

Hubspot

I fly Southwest Airlines almost exclusively. They offer reasonable prices, make it easy to rack up points, and always have fun and kind flight attendants. One thing I’ve noticed about Southwest is their branding is on point. Whether I’m booking a flight on their mobile application, being served my go-to in-flight ginger ale, or walking through the terminal at Midway Airport, I’m surrounded by Southwest’s consistent brand colors, messaging, and imagery.

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Measurement Protocol 101: Improve Your Google Analytics Data

ConversionXL

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager have limitations. Often, these limitations are outside your control (e.g., technical aspects of a website that can’t be changed). Fortunately, many issues—such as updating a user status from your CRM or sending refund data—are solved by using Google Analytics’ Measurement Protocol : The Google Analytics Measurement Protocol allows developers to make HTTP requests to send raw user interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers.

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5 x Effective Sales Training Activities To Boost Sales Skills

The 5% Institute

Sales training activities, exercises and games are a great way to make your usual sales training sessions fun, enjoyable, and easier to remember. When sales training activities are fun, there’s a better return on your time spent. As per conducted studies , Neurologists have found that fun activities not only help your team remember what they learn longer, but they will also be keen in coming back for more.

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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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What Is Content Syndication? (+Strategies and Best Practices)

G2

Content syndication is a useful tactic to get your content in front of a larger audience.

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How to Embed Video in Email [Quick Tip]

Hubspot

Nowadays, video is an undeniably popular channel for marketing purposes. In fact, in 2019, 87% of businesses use video as a marketing tactic -- a number drastically higher than just two years prior, when only 63% used video. If you're an email marketer, I'm willing to bet you've considered how you might spruce up your subscription and click-through rates with video.

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Effective Sales Management Is Emotion Management

Women Sales Pros

You’ve hired a good salesperson but the reality is you’ve also hired a human being. And even really good human beings bring faults and blind spots that will need to be addressed. (Anyone reading this married, in a serious relationship or raising children?) If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues.

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5 x Innovative Sales Training Techniques To Use With Your Team

The 5% Institute

Innovative sales training techniques are important in conjunction with your sales training sessions, because you need to ensure what it taught is implemented effectively. Repetitive, old school sales training can become boring, or no longer effective in today’s marketplace. Using innovative sales training techniques with up to date sales training , can be very effective when understood, and of course implemented when your team are speaking with their potential clients.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

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.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

Here is our countdown to our top ten most downloaded podcasts of all time. Sometimes oldies are goodies, especially when it comes to some of our most downloaded podcasts. Not only were they popular at launch but we continue to see our subscribers go back and listen to them time and time again… Here is our countdown to our top ten most downloaded podcasts of all time.

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The Salesperson's Guide to the Soft Sell

Hubspot

Put yourself in the position of a prospect. Let's say you're working with two salespeople from competing companies at the same time. The first sends you an obviously canned email asking for a five-minute call. They follow up the call with a demo, the demo with a pitch — and before you know it, they're asking for the close. The other salesperson comments on a few of your recently shared LinkedIn posts, sends you a personalized email, and, after learning a little more about your business needs, as

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9 Surefire Ways to Make New Sales Messaging Stick

Gong.io

Why do so many sales messaging launches fail? An overload of product information. . Reps rarely latch onto new stories, and that stops them from changing their behavior. To prevent them from focusing on features, you want to get them into customer-centric approaches as quickly as possible. Keep reading for the top 9 ways you can put that into action.

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Say This, Not That: Uplevel Your Sales Conversations With 5 Simple Shifts

SalesLoft

Anyone who’s dieted probably remembers the book Eat This, Not That. . The premise? Cut unhealthy foods from your diet. Replace them with nutrient-dense options that energize and satiate you. Essentially, the book is about giving your body more bang for the buck with the right type of fuel. . We know that empty calories will make us hungrier faster. Underwhelming conversations will starve our sales efforts, too.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

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.

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How To Dress For Sales Success – A Guide

The 5% Institute

Whether we know it or not, we are always communicating with the people around us. We have our verbal communication, our non-verbal communication – and our formal or informal communication. That’s why it’s important that before you go into your next sales presentation or negotiation, you dress for sales success accordingly. In this guide, you’ll learn why it’s important to dress for sales success, the enhancements that it can create for you, and some extra tips you can implement to help you win t

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The 28 Best Real Estate CRMs in 2019

Hubspot

When the housing market is booming, you have new clients coming in left and right, and you’re landing sale after sale, the last thing you want to do is hunt through a messy spreadsheet to track your client information. If you’re ready to take your business to the next level, allow us to introduce you to a life-changing tool: the CRM. CRM (Client Relationship Manager) serves as an online database to help you manage your contacts and save precious time on manual data entry.

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A Tale of 3 Squirrels and Their Human Counterparts in Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

It was rainy and cool so the leaves are dropping from the trees, the peak color has passed and it's time to focus on something else.

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5 Ways to Source, Assess, and Hire Talented Developers

G2

It’s 2019 and the war for tech talent continues to grow with no signs of slowing down. Hiring managers and recruiters still find it difficult to hire and retain in-demand tech talent.

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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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Stop the Interrogation: Go Forward with Conversion

SalesProInsider

I am a Law & Order SUV junkie – I enjoy figuring out the plot twists and whodunnit. I watch with interest how the detectives interrogate the suspects to get to the truth…or what they believe is the truth…and the information they seek. They sit across the table and look them straight in the eye. They ask questions that include assumptions and ask for the same information over and over if needed.

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The Sales Playbook to Social Selling

Hubspot

With nearly half the world’s population now active on social media, social selling is more relevant than ever. Sales leaders who'd rather be ahead of the curve than chasing it would be smart to start systematizing the practice in their sales forces. To support forays into social selling, we've put together this massive guide, covering everything from social selling's definition to its measurement.

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Team Selling: A Tactical Approach to Winning Deals as a Team

Sales Hacker

In sales, as in life, communication is everything. However, things get a little more complicated than that when you introduce entire teams into the mix. That’s why we’ve decided to outline the tactics you can use as a team to build pipeline and expand your company base. Teams have strengths that isolated individuals don’t, and we’re going to show you exactly how to leverage them to close even the most complicated deals.

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A Soft Miss vs. A Hard Miss in Sales

SaaStr

A lot of you around this time of year will have a lot riding on Q4. In many cases, hoping to end the year strong after a soft quarter or two earlier in the year. If you are going a rough patch though, it’s super important to distinguish between a Soft Miss and a Hard Miss. What’s the difference? In a Soft Miss, bookings are still growing.

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