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Motivating Sales People: What Does it Take?

Anthony Cole Training

Frequently I am asked the following question: “How do I keep my salespeople motivated to sell?”.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. I worked with a company that manufactured moisture-resistant flooring adhesive. Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year.

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2 Reasons Hiring Remote Salespeople Will Help You Grow in 2019

Openview

I talk to many startups these days who aren’t keen on hiring remote salespeople. And it genuinely baffles me as to why. The main pushback I see as someone who helps businesses build sales teams is “collaboration and culture.” And while I understand where my clients are coming from when they’re hung up on this, I have to respectfully disagree with them.

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3 Character Traits That Will Make You a Successful Sales Person

Jeff Shore

By Amy O’Connor. ?Proper influence and persuasion is about making it easy for people to do what is in their best interest to do. Our job in sales is to help people achieve whatever mission they are on. The best helpers are the most successful sale people. How do you become more helpful? Focus on these three character traits. Character Trait #1: Awareness of Self.

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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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How to Find and Cultivate Prospects That Fit Your Business

Anthony Cole Training

Today, our customers are bombarded with sales, marketing, and advertising pitches from companies all hoping to win their business. They’re overwhelmed, or, in most cases, they simply tune us out. So, we try to reach as many potential customers as we can, but we spin our wheels and end up stuck in the same place, week after week, month after month, or year after year.

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Optimizing Mobile Forms for More Conversions—and a Competitive Advantage

ConversionXL

Done right, optimized mobile forms can deliver more than an increased conversion rate: They can become a competitive advantage—a reason users choose to fill out a form on your site. It’s not hyperbole. Consider the number of interactions it takes to book a room on Hotel Tonight compared to its competitors, something Luke Wroblewski highlighted in his talk on mobile design : “Booking a hotel happens in 3 taps and a swipe.

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The 15 Best WordPress Video Themes in 2019

Hubspot

If you’re someone who produces videos professionally, sells video content, or simply creates videos as a hobby, you need a place to share your work online. Not every WordPress theme is set up to house your artwork — you’ll need a video theme that will create the experience you want your visitors to have the moment they enter your website. With the variety of WordPress video themes available, finding just one to use on your website may feel time-consuming and tedious.

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The Best Way to End 2018

Engage Selling

We’ve talked repeatedly, especially this year, the importance and value of your relationships.

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Why Emotional Endorsement Must be Key in Your Sales Process

Jeff Shore

By Ryan Taft. Imagine you’re single and that we’re friends. We’re having a cup of coffee together when I say: “So, I hope this is okay…I met someone who kinda made me think of you. I mean I know you’re sort of looking for a relationship and I’m thinking this might possibly work. Again, I hope you aren’t mad at me, but I set up a date for you with this guy/girl on Friday night at Buffalo Wild Wings.

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How to Optimize Websites to land B2B Deals with Bill Leake

ConversionXL

Digital Marketers wanting to land B2B deals are often optimizing for the wrong metrics, focused solely on conversion rate and getting low-quality leads. You’re doing it wrong! That’s why I interviewed my friend and seasoned B2B expert, Bill Leake, to discuss the most common mistakes in b2b marketing and how to optimize your website to land b2b deals the right way.

B2B
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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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7 Amazing Sample Answers to "What Makes You Unique?"

Hubspot

There are plenty of things that make each one of us unique. For instance, here are a few quirks of mine -- I put my phone on airplane mode every night around 9 p.m. to avoid distractions, even though plenty of my friends have pointed out that the silence button works too. I can't sit still for long periods of time, so I regularly do laps around the office.

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Great Salespeople Never Pitch for More Than 9 Minutes — Here’s Why

Gong.io

In the Gong Labs series, we publish what we learn from analyzing sales conversations with AI. Subscribe here to read upcoming research. Everything that follows is true. As far as I know. There was once a regional sales manager—a rising star in her company. Everyone knew she was destined to be crowned VP Sales. One of her quirks was that she documented everything.

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How Getting Feedback and Making Adjustments are the Keys to Sales Improvement

Understanding the Sales Force

Becoming a great at selling - or anything else for that matter - is about making adjustments. In order to make an adjustment you need feedback - something you see, hear or feel that informs your ability to adjust. Take Baseball for example. When I watch my son hit he receives instant feedback from every swing of the bat. He usually crushes the ball and that suggests that no adjustment is needed.

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A gift that costs you nothing yet yields infinite returns

Heinz Marketing

Last week I began a series of posts highlighting my “ ten lessons from ten years in business.” So far I’ve written about putting Values First , putting Yourself First , as well as two types of focus areas critical to success. Today I want to highlight a critical, simple strategy – the importance and power of Thank You. I have separated saying thank you from the broader concept of gratitude on purpose (I’ll address gratitude later in this series specifically).

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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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5 Popular Job Boards That Will Help You Hire The Most Qualified Candidates

Hubspot

As a recruiter, your job isn’t just limited to finding qualified candidates to fill your company’s new roles. You also have to promote these roles and convince the best applicants to join your company. In other words, you’re not just a recruiter -- you’re also a marketer and a sales person. As a marketer of your employer’s mission and culture, you need to think like a content strategist, especially during the digital age.

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What If Every Electronic Outreach Cost $.50?

Partners in Excellence

In the “old days,” (about 20-30 years ago), my VP’s of marketing used to come to me for approval on major marketing campaigns. In those days, direct mail/direct marketing was still a primary communication channel. Marketing campaigns could be pretty expensive, there was design, printing, postage (they were always stamped because people opened stamped mail more then metered and trashed bulk mail).

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Introducing Whisper™ by Gong.io: The Holy Grail for Sales Leaders

Gong.io

Whisper cracks the code on your top producers’ talk tracks and transforms average sellers into stars. The bell curve is the oldest problem in sales. You’ve got a handful of top producers who are killing it , far exceeding quota. But there’s only a few of them. Everyone else—the middle of the pack—struggles along at 80-90% of plan. Overachievement by your best reps is canceled out by underachievement from everyone else who hasn’t cracked the code.

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How to Set a Compensation Plan for SDRs

CloserIQ

Formulating a compensation plan for SDRs is one of the most important tasks sales VPs perform, one which will play a major role in SDR recruitment and retention. It also impacts your SDRs’ motivation, and how they spend their time on a day-to-day basis. What behaviors do you want most to incentivize? How are you defining poor, average, and excellent performance?

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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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5 Impressive Resume Objective Examples to Help You Craft Your Own

Hubspot

With only six seconds to grab a recruiter’s attention , conventional wisdom might tell you to cut right to the chase when you write your resume. A lot of people say a resume objective just waste precious space. But if you craft it in a way that highlights your qualifications, skills, and fit for a role, an objective can actually enhance your resume by giving recruiters a sneak peek of your background that prompts them to keep reading.

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Is Technology Hurting Or Helping Our Ability To Sell And Drive Revenue?

Partners in Excellence

I was invited to participate in a roundtable on the topic, “Is technology hurting or helping our ability to sell and drive revenue?” It’s a fascinating topic, my response is an unequivocal YES!!! Before I go further, I have proclaim my obligatory fascination and bias toward all things technology. Most of my career has been working for or with leading technology organizations, spanning electronic components/devices, hardware/systems, licensed/cloud based software, all things c

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Strategy is choosing, not stack-ranking

Heinz Marketing

I’ve been sharing some of my “ ten lessons from ten years in business ” here on the blog the past couple weeks. So far it’s included Putting Values First , Putting Yourself First , Two Types of Focus and the Power of Thank You. Today’s lesson I’ve learned is about what strategy really means. Many people equate strategy with prioritization.

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Sales Enablement Confusion: How to Cut through the Noise

Selling Power

Let’s unpack the biggest barriers that keep your sales enablement efforts from hitting pay dirt.

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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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5 Tricks That Will Magically Get Prospects Interested in You

Hubspot

It's easy to sell to prospects who are already interested in your product. They've done some preliminary research and decided you're a potential solution. Now all you need to do is answer some questions, get in front of the right people, and make sure they opt for you over the competition. But the best salespeople are distinguished from the average ones when it comes to uninterested prospects.

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Outcome Based Buying

Partners in Excellence

Regardless how we sell, our customers are trying to achieve one thing when they buy. They are trying to achieve some very specific outcomes. Those outcomes may be all over the place—solve a problem, address an opportunity, enable other things to happen. In the case of selling embedded products, it may be to help customer achieve the goals they seek with the development of their new product.

CRM
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Episode #093: Use Your Sales Resources with Alice Heiman

Jeff Shore

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Alice Heiman and Jeff talk about your greatest sales resource your network. A great salesperson thinks like an entrepreneur, networks like crazy, has high achievement drive and must win! But you can’t do it all on your own. Being connected and helping others connect, creates those opportunities for you to win.

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PODCAST 36: How To Model Sales Productivity And Identify Opportunity For Marketing To Developers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Meghan Gill , VP of Sales Operations at MongoDB. . Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. . If you missed episode 35, check it out here: PODCAST 35: How Goal Setting Can Change Your Career with Dannie Herzberg, Sales Director, Slack.

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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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When I Know Training will Work | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

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The Sales Conversation Of The Future

Partners in Excellence

AI/ML are, apparently, the future of selling. As I reflect on the brave new world of selling, I imagined a call of the future: Alexa: Hi, Siri, I’m Alexa from Super Cool As A Service Software Tools Company, otherwise known as SCAASSTC. Can I have 5 minutes of your time? Siri: Oh no, is this another robo call? We understand your algorithm, our algorithm shows we aren’t in your ICP, so you are wasting my time, but of course your algorithm should have known this.

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Your Cheat-Sheet for Compressing Images

Hubspot

When you think about optimizing your content for search engines, what comes to mind? Building inbound links? Incorporating the optimal keywords? Developing authority on topics? What about compressing your images’ file size? According to Braden Becker , HubSpot’s Historical Optimization Lead, your images’ file size directly affects your website’s page load speed, which is one of the ten most important Google ranking factors.

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Matt’s App of the Week: SpeakPipe

Heinz Marketing

Hat tip to Logan Lyles for turning me onto this one. SpeakPipe allows Web site visitors to literally leave you a voicemail right from your Web site. They can speak instead of type a question or comment to you. Also highly useful for capturing audience questions and comments for podcasts. If you’re looking for an easier way to capture customer comments, it’s definitely worth a look.

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