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Moving From “If” to “Which”

Engage Selling

 Want to close more deals in less time? Try this simple tip (our customers who implemented this approach drastically improved their closing ratios)! The post Moving From “If” to “Which” first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Elevate Your Bank's Performance with One-on-One Sales Coaching

Anthony Cole Training

In the fast-paced world of banking sales, staying ahead of the competition requires continuous improvement. While group training sessions have many benefits, there's no denying the unique benefits of personalized one-on-one sales coaching. With over 30 years of experience working with banks, we have found that tailored coaching can be the key to unlocking your team's full potential.

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Don’t Bungle Your Bundles

Neuromarketing

Does grouping products together into a single-price bundle increase the perception of value? Most of us would answer “yes,” but surprising research shows there is at least one condition where such grouping can actually reduce the apparent value. Here’s the most surprising and counterintuitive part: the bundle may be seen as worth not just less [.

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Following Up with Existing Clients in B2B Sales

Iannarino

After a long pursuit, you have won your dream client. You have a signed contract, your operations team is executing, and you are pursuing your next prospective client. You have heard nothing from your team or your client, so you assume everything is going as planned—until your client calls to tell you they are having problems.

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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 Create Momentum

Engage Selling

 There’s an expression that I love in sales: money follows momentum. How do you effectively create momentum? Watch this video and find out! The post How to Create Momentum first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Q&A with Top Sales Leaders: Navigating Success in a Challenging Market

Force Management

We recently hosted a panel discussion with several top revenue leaders in the sales industry, facilitated by sales veteran and Force Management Partner Brian Walsh. Boomi CRO Marcy Campbell , NWN Carousel CEO and President Jim Sullivan , and Battery Ventures Operating Partner Bill Binch joined us to share each of their unique perspectives on what's driving positive revenue outcomes for sales organizations in our ever-changing economic environment.

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The Importance of Reading and Research in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Mark Twain once said that someone who doesn’t read is no better off than someone who can’t read. Yet, here we are in the third decade of the 21st century and we are post-literate. Most people you learned about in school—due to their accomplishments—were readers. They studied what was written before they were born, including the Greeks, the Romans, and the many great thinkers through time.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

Navigating through tough times can be quite a challenge, especially for CEOs looking to boost shareholder value and profits. Join us in today’s episode with SalesStar's Global Director of Learning, Alex Chan as we delve into how managers can hold their teams accountable and the importance of data-driven decision making.

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Do You Believe Your Value Proposition?

Partners in Excellence

I’m amazed at the number of sellers that really don’t believe their value proposition or value creation. How do I know this? They don’t know enough about what I’m trying to achieve to be able to articulate and quantify the value I should expect from their solution. They answer concerns I have with product capabilities, not what the solution means to me and my organization and what we are trying to achieve.

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My New Perspective on Sales Process and Methodology

Understanding the Sales Force

We were at the Zoo when we came upon this particular monkey. He was holding on to the chainlink fence with both hands and both feet – probably not very unusual for a monkey, but he was sitting on a basketball! So the monkey is following a traditional methodology for hanging on, but being authentic, allowing his silly personality to come through, and getting those who were interacting with him to laugh.

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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 Executive

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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Our Communication Breakdown in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Many salespeople want to act strategically but choose transactional communication mediums. You may believe no one wants to talk to you and that they prefer emails or text messages, although this is clearly not true. In sales today, the main variable is what and how salespeople communicate with their contacts and prospects.

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You Need to Know Your “Way” Every Bit As Much as The Mandalorian Does

Membrain

Could your sales organization benefit from being more like the Mandalorians?

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On Reflection…….

Partners in Excellence

“We do not learn from experience, We learn from reflecting on experience.” John Dewey, American Philosopher/Psychologist. This was the opening line in one of the best posts I’ve read recently. It’s from the brilliant Suzi McAlpine, be sure to read the post: 5 ways you can build in reflection to improve performance. This is such an important principle for all of us in selling and leadership, but somehow we seem so preoccupied with activity and busyness, we fail to take the

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Who champions martech replacements?

Martech

The results of the 2023 MarTech Replacement survey are in. In addition to the now predictable first place for marketing automation among solutions replaced — and cost now holding a close second place among reasons for replacements — we saw an interesting development in who advocates for replacements. Not a simple picture. Of course, we recognize that in real life there are likely to be many seats at the table for discussions of expensive software investments.

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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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B2B Sales and the Dance

Iannarino

For as long as anyone can remember, sales leaders have sought a way to ensure their team wins deals. They spent a lot of time and money developing a linear sales process that promised salespeople could consistently win deals simply by achieving the outcome of each opportunity stage. The fallacy is that the linear sales process disregards any other variables, including the quality of the salesperson, the value of the conversation to the client, and other elements that cannot be defined by a simpl

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Dear SaaStr: How Can You Grow a SaaS Startup Without Spending a Ton on Sales and Marketing?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Can You Grow a SaaS Startup Without Spending a Ton on Sales and Marketing? It’s hard but it can be done. A few examples: Mailchimp was bootstrapped to $1,000,000,000 in ARR Qualtrics was bootstrapped to a $6B acquisition Atlassian was bootstrapped all the way to … today $30B+ Veeva is very enterprise but only spent ~$3m in true venture capital.

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The Problem With The Selling/Buying Process

Partners in Excellence

Recently, sitting with a sales management team, we started discussing the “Sales Process.” They displayed their sales process. As you might expect, the process was divided int a number of stages. Things like prospecting, qualifying, discovering, proposing, closing. (Theirs actually had different labels and a couple of additional stages).

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Top 6 martech myths debunked

Martech

You don’t have to look far in the martech world to find breathless case studies about successful system deployments and extraordinary ROI. But what’s not so well shared are the failed or incomplete implementations, the teams struggling to get full leverage out of existing toolsets and the stack leaders wrestling with difficult vendor relationships. In my experience, those quiet struggles are more common than success stories.

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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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Sell To People Who Buy What You Sell

Iannarino

B2B sales continues to regress as many leaders value efficiency above all else. For these leaders, they believe that they need more. activity, more calls, more opportunities, and most of all, more emails. There is, however, one area where they do less: targeting their prospective clients.

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How to Prep Your Finances Before Applying for an SBA Loan

G2

Running a small business is no easy feat. Just when you think you've got everything under control, financial challenges can pop up like surprise obstacles to test your resilience.

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Google warns against content pruning as CNET deletes thousands of pages

Search Engine Land

Gizmodo published an article “exposing” CNET for deleting thousands of pages, as they put it to “game Google Search.” What CNET did. “Thousands of articles” were deleted in recent weeks (CNET declined to provide an exact number), according to Gizmodo. CNET confirmed the content culling. CNET decided which pages to “redirect, repurpose or remove (deprecate)” by looking at metrics such as: Pageviews.

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How to optimize your blog’s posting schedule to gain traction

Martech

The importance of a well-structured blog posting schedule cannot be underestimated. When done right, it can enhance audience engagement and maximize the impact of your content. Find out how to optimize your posting schedule with the following case studies and best practices. Key takeaways: Optimizing your blog posting schedule can boost SEO and audience engagement When determining blog posting frequency, analyze audience behavior, preferences and peak traffic times.

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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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The Story Your Client Needs to Hear

Iannarino

You have been taught, trained, and told stories in sales. These stories may include your company’s history, starting from its inception up to the present day, or the story of your solution and how your company discovered a better way to deliver value. But the most used story is about a client that bought from the salesperson’s company and achieved amazing results.

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The Official Guide to SaaStr Annual 2023 Parties and Side Events!!

SaaStr

Ok we’ll keep this page and list updated all the way through 2023 SaaStr Annual on Sep 6-8 in SF Bay Area!! This is just an early start: Tuesday, Sep 5: The Night Before Annual ChartMogul and Cladera are hosting a pre-Annual cocktail party at one of our favorite spots, Fogbird in downtown San Mateo just minutes from the venue. Sign up here.

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My New Co-worker Is a … Robot?

Salesforce

The exec summary Robots are coming … to some Salesforce offices. As an experiment to augment security teams, the Cobalt Robotics office robots (inherited from decommissioned Slack offices) recently started quietly roaming hallways to assist security by checking for: Security breaches Environmental issues, such as problems with heating or air conditioning Closed and locked doors The backstory you need With much news around artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can impact business, seeing robots

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CTV ad spend is growing, but not like retail media

Martech

Connected TV (CTV) ad spend is expected to reach $25.9 billion globally this year, up 13.2% year-over-year, a new study from WARC Media found. Although it’s a promising sign for CTV, it falls short of the growth seen in retail media networks (RMNs) and YouTube. “The market is fragmented, and CTV ad investment is mainly being drawn from existing budgets,” said Alex Brownsell, WARC Media’s head of content, in a release.

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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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Enduring Principles and Changing Sales Methodologies

Iannarino

Occasionally, I am challenged on my belief that sales has evolved—and it continues to. I often hear something like, “The old ways still work.” There are things that should not be lost, but sales methodologies are not among them.

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Are AI Companies Going The Way of Enron?

David Meerman Scott

The question facing any innovative company forging a brand-new path where regulation doesn’t yet exist is: Are we doing the right thing? Companies with huge artificial Intelligence development efforts including Google/Alphabet, OpenAI, Facebook/Meta, Apple, and Microsoft require moral soul searching. Just because you’re compliant with existing laws doesn’t make everything you’re doing right.

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GPTBot – OpenAI’s new web crawler

Search Engine Land

OpenAI has published information about its new web crawler named GPTBot. You can read the documentation on GPTBot over here. What is GPTBot. GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler, used by OpenAI to crawl the web, consume knowledge for its AI features, such as ChatGPT, and use that to provide AI-generaterd answers to your questions. Useragent. GPTBot’s User agent token is “GPTBot” and its full user-agent string: is “Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compati

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This week’s AI-powered marketing technology releases

Martech

While Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a part of marketing technology for some time, ChatGPT’s launch made the topic white-hot. As a result, more and more AI-powered solutions are being announced every day. Dig deeper: MarTech’s marketing AI experts to follow Here is a roundup of AI-powered martech products, platforms and features announced this week.

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