Sat.May 09, 2020 - Fri.May 15, 2020

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Go For The "No" Early in the Sales Process

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog post, we discuss the technique of going for the "No" early in the sales process. It may seem counterintuitive, but countless studies have shown that humans desire what they can't have.

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Honing Your Remote Selling Abilities

Engage Selling

Has your team started honing their remote selling abilities? That is, are you and your sales team prepared for the inevitable “virtualization” of sales that was already well underway prior to the pandemic?

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Here's why your salespeople will love Membrain

Membrain

When talking with one of our sales training partners recently, we were asked for content to help salespeople understand “what’s in it for them.”.

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“I’m Selling As Hard As I Can, Why Aren’t You Buying?”

Partners in Excellence

The universal lament of sales people is, “Why aren’t my customers buying? I’m busting my ass selling to them?” We make dozens of prospecting calls, send hundreds of emails. We find customers with some level of interest, then do everything we can to convince the customers to buy our products. We train ourselves about our products, become masters at pitching them and comparing them favorably with the competition.

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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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11 Concepts For Managing Yourself and Your Employees During Change

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog, we discuss the notion that effective sales leadership requires leaders to meet the challenge during times of major change.

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VC Founder Networking is LIVE for SaaStr’s New New in Venture!

SaaStr

[link]. Our VC <-> founder networking for New New in Venture on May 27 is now going LIVE! If you’ve registered as either a CEO or a VC, you should be getting an email to sign up soon. We already have 200+ VCs joining New New in Venture and 500+ founders of the 4,200+ registrants already. You just plug in the days you want to do meetings, in and around New New in Venture.

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Demystifying the Role of AI in Cybersecurity

G2

There's a lot of anticipation and expectation in business around the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and the cybersecurity benefits we can expect to gain from our diversified integrations.

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Three Ways Sales Leaders Can Shape What's Next

Force Management

The main goal right now for many organizations, including Force Management, is to effectively lead through the turnaround while supporting customers, employees and communities in the best way possible. That’s why we wanted to share some of the insights in this recent article by McKinsey & Company on how marketing and sales leaders can shape the next normal.

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Reprioritising your target accounts

Membrain

Having a clearly defined and actively worked new business target account list is a key strategy for anyone who is responsible for proactively developing their own territory (or who has BDR resources focused on their behalf).

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Why Are the Public Markets Strong When Unemployment is Terrible? Answer: The Cloud

SaaStr

Q: Why are investors doing well while unemployment is terrible? Because The Cloud continues to perform well during these crazy times. And the public markets have become … The Cloud. While a little dated, this is my favorite visual representation of the S&P 500. It has become The Cloud: The Cloud was already growing fast. It is, for now, growing even faster during Shelter.

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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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16 Ways to Grow Your Top Line and Bottom Line Revenue

G2

When you hear the terms top line and bottom line, you probably think of a profit and loss (P&L) statement that’s scoured over every month by your company’s finance department with thoughts on how to decrease overhead, especially in these days of a tightened economy with limited bandwidth and resources.

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The differences between electronic and digital signatures

PandaDoc

In today’s digital world, the signing process for a paper document is time-consuming, wasteful, and, quite frankly, unnecessary. So, it makes sense that with the rise in popularity of the electronic document, electronic signatures have become the new standard for brick-and-mortar and remote businesses alike. They’re more convenient for the signer, paperless, and perfectly suited for any business that is conducted remotely.

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Six engagement tricks for better customer retention

Salesmate

We have shared this thought in many of our blogs, and we will remind you again. Customer retention is more budget-friendly than investing your time and money on finding new customers. For business owners, clicks and conversions will always increase their costs. When businesses start out, they do not have much to start off. They make marketing strategies, they pool in their resources for converting potential clients into paying customers from their target customer base.

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37 Tips To Keeping Morale Up

SaaStr

These are challening times, even for SaaS companies doing relatively well. Shelter is getting tiring for many, its wears on us. Communication gets strained. What's your top tip for keeping morale up on the team? — Jason ?InItTogether? Lemkin (@jasonlk) May 13, 2020. I asked on Twitter for folks’ top tips for keeping morale up now, and got some great responses.

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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 Make Instructional Videos Your Audience Will Love

G2

When you’re interested in learning something new, whether it be how to fix something that has broken around the house, use a new software, or master a new skill, where do you turn?

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Sandler Rule: Sales is a Broadway Play Performed by a Psychologist

Sandler Training

How do your prospects feel after sitting across from you in a sales call? The post Sandler Rule: Sales is a Broadway Play Performed by a Psychologist appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Feeling Uninspired? Your Time is Now.

KO Advantage Group

Times are tough, nobody will disagree with that. COVID-19 has closed businesses everywhere. People like you, or your family members are getting laid off, and have no form of income. What if you saw this recession in a different light? It is time! It is time to start the business you always dreamed of, of becoming your own boss. Follow your dreams. Want to learn more about what sales looks like for your company?

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Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest?

SaaStr

Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest? It’s confusing. Why do VCs need to own “so much”? Why do they often have these specific targets? Isn’t just making your investors a good return enough? It’s because it’s really hard for VCs to make enough money otherwise. To meet its own financial goals, a VC firm has to return 3x the amount it invests.

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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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Tempted to Peek? Why Sequential Testing May Help

ConversionXL

Raise your hand if you’ve ever struggled with a decision between disciplined testing procedures and expedient decision-making. For example, think of a time when you’ve had to decide between sticking to your A/B test design —namely, the prescribed sample size —and making a decision using what appears to be obvious, or at least very telling, test data.

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The Optimization Cadence: Intervention That Drives Adoption

SalesLoft

This is the final post in a blog series on how we’re using our own platform to fuel success. This post is by Jackie Reale, a Customer Success Manager at SalesLoft. You can check out the other articles in this series here: Part 1: How SalesLoft Uses SalesLoft to Drive Customer Success. Part 2: The New User Cadence: Help Your Customers Help Themselves.

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The 5 Most Common Sales Problems Salespeople Experience

criteria for success

Our list of common sales problems salespeople experience is about a mile long. As sales leaders, we're often faced with challenges or obstacles. It's our job to see the opportunities in those challenges and lead our team to do so, too. We’d like to help you and your sales team identify and solve common sales problems —so, we’ve plucked out what we believe to be the five most common sales problems salespeople experience and offer some tips on how to solve them.

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Catch Up on The Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week

SaaStr

Since Shelter-at-Home, we’ve seen a micro-explosion in growth on our YouTube Channel. Perhaps it’s part of the general trend in eLearning all across-the-board. That must mean it’s a good time to get caught up on the Best of SaaS. So what are The Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week? Let’s take a look! #1: Where SaaS Stands Today: Benchmarks and Lessons from 17,479 SaaS Companies. #2: A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator, with Michael Seibel. #3: Funding in the Time of

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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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The 2020 sales and marketing tips for startup owners

Salesmate

As a startup owner, I am sure you are always looking for ways of building a huge audience for your business? But it’s easier said than done, isn’t it? If you are a SaaS startup, you will be hungry for more signups and subscribers, if you are a digital product development startup you will want more clients that will pay for your services. . Being a startup, you have to push your idea forward into the market, and before you get noticed you need to market yourself in front of everyone.

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Why Virtual Collaboration Is Essential to Your Workforce

G2

Virtual collaboration isn’t a trend – it’s here to stay.

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How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #19 ? Never help the prospect end the interview

Sandler Training

David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-time Author, talks about his Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book, The Sandler Rules: 49 Timeless Selling Principles and How to Apply Them. The post How to Succeed at Sandler Rule #19 – Never help the prospect end the interview appeared first on Sandler Training.

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How To Get 1,000+ Top Leads in Q2. At The Summer of Apps.

SaaStr

Coming off the heels of the 17,000+ that registered for our first SaaStr digital event, Bridging the Gap , we have 2 more large scale digital events coming up. Next up is New New in Venture on May 27t h, where we’ll connect 250+ VCs, 1,000+ CEOs and founders, and 10,000+ attendees to share what’s new, and what’s changed in venture capital.

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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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36 Account-Based Marketing Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot

As marketers, we've become experts in our target audiences. We know their typical demographic, what they like, the platforms they spend time on, and what they value in a product. But unlike sales reps -- who talk to and learn from our biggest prospects each day -- we don't always know tiny, but crucial, details about the brands or people we most want to sell too.

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Great Customer Relationships Are a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Highspot

This is particularly challenging when you consider the role of functions like account management or customer success in building lasting customer relationships. Without the critical content, guidance, or training they need to elevate every interaction, post-sales engagements will suffer. And while this may have been dismissed by buyers when business was booming, during periods of uncertainty, these fractures become fault lines — capable of leveling renewal and expansion efforts when they matter

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Sales Management Training – Your Ultimate Guide

The 5% Institute

Effective sales management training can be the difference between keeping your Sales Managers performing at the status quo or reaching new heights that’ll leave the competition behind. But what should you include in your sales manager training? What core and fundamentals modules should be in all effective sales management training programs? In this article, we’ll look at: What is sales management training?

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SaaStr’s New New in Venture is Coming! Check Out These Awesome Sessions.

SaaStr

SaaStr’s New New in Venture Virtual Summit is coming up on May 27th. This will be a 1 day, 2 track event with over 10,000 attendees. (and it’s FREE to attendees). The top VCs in cloud and SaaS will share what’s really going on in venture capital right now if now is a good time to raise a round, and what’s coming next. Check out some of our sessions!

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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.