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Why Success in Sales Leads to Personal Freedoms

Anthony Cole Training

Achieving the work-life balance sales professionals all hear and dream of starts with having a personal vision and a set of non-negotiable goals. In this article, we will discuss the 4 must-do sales activities and the characteristics that all successful salespeople share when striving for the freedom of success.

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Finally – Sales Training That Doesn’t Suck

A Sales Guy

Not many salespeople enjoy sales training. The idea of taking an entire day out of the field sit and listen to some so-called expert, who hasn’t sold in years tell you how to sell isn’t what most salespeople pine for in their day-to-day. The exception to that is Gap Selling. And that’s why spots are going fast, for our May 16th Sales training.

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Begin With The End In Mind

Partners in Excellence

Stephen Covey’s famous 2nd Habit is: “Begin with the end in mind!” It’s great advice for most things, but stunning advice as we think about our deal/opportunity strategies. Sadly, too few sales people leverage this habit/principle effectively. The immediate reaction to this will be, “Dave, you’re crazy, sales people always do this, they are focused on getting the order and producing results!

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Six Sales Mistakes Guaranteed To Kill The Sale

Women Sales Pros

When it comes to mastering the art of sales, sometimes it can be more important to understand what not to do when trying to get the sale. Sales is one business where you cannot fake success. Your numbers, your goals and your bottom line results will always reveal your sales skills or lack there of! You can learn a lot from watching what sales professionals do to get the sale, but even more so from what they don’t do.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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What is a discovery call in sales? (PLUS a six-step discovery process)

Gong.io

What is a discovery call in sales? It’s the most important conversation in the sales process. Discovery calls set the trajectory of your deal and will determine how you’ll do everything else in the sales process. If you do it right, you’ll be able to establish an authoritative relationship with your buyer. If it goes wrong, you’ll be playing catch during all of your conversations, until your prospect eventually ditches you.

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How The Best SaaS Sales Teams Are Improving Close Rates Today

Sales Hacker

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. Whether prospecting, making cold calls, negotiating, or even researching, every small step a sales rep takes is tied to this goal. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority.

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1 Key SaaS Sales Metric to Fine-Tune Sales Productivity

InsightSquared

Sales is the Growth Engine. Sales is the engine driving SaaS company value. Top and bottom line performance are totally dependent on the sales organization and its performance. And sales expense is typically the largest expense item on a growth SaaS company’s income statement. When scaling the business, sales typically averages roughly 30% of revenue, so therefore sales spend is one of the biggest investments a company can make.

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Dave Kurlan's 23 Steps to Improved Channel Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

When you purchase a car, do you consider yourself a customer of the dealer you bought or leased it from, the auto maker, or both?

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Is your sales technology a tomtebloss?

Membrain

Like many Americans, we Swedish celebrate the New Year with fireworks, sparkling wine, and lots of snacks. Among our children, "tomtebloss" are a particular favorite. In the US, I think they're called sparklers.

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How to Be More Productive: 12 Key Drivers of Extreme Productivity

RAIN Group

There's abundant advice on how to be more productive. Endless hacks, tips, motivational quotes, trainings , apps, and tools all promising to increase your productivity. It's enough to make your head spin. It definitely made our heads spin over the years as we tried to help our clients increase execution and accountability after training programs. So, we asked the question, "What actually helps people be more productive?".

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Twitter Marketing in 2019: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot

Whether pop-culture, local or global news, work, or the brands I use and wear, Twitter is a powerful social networking tool and search engine in which I can typically find the latest information about virtually any topic. This also includes updates from the companies and businesses I care about. Businesses, like HubSpot , are able to market on Twitter to engage users and followers, increase brand awareness, boost conversions, and more (we’ll discuss the “more” shortly).

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Data-Driven Sales Enablement (In 4 Easy Steps)

Openview

Effective sales enablement in the Digital Age blends the traditional practice of aligning business needs to training with the (far trickier) task of finding new and innovative ways to make training as targeted as possible to the needs of the learner. Achieving this “recipe for success” poses quite a challenge—especially for those in the highly competitive IT industry, where a rapidly changing industry and strategic change further complicate the ability for sales executives to meet customer needs

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Changing “Sales Habits”

Partners in Excellence

We know how difficult it is to change our personal habits. For example, at the start of every new year, we make a resolution to lose weight and get fit. We may go so far as to join the gym, sign up for a class. It lasts for a few weeks, then we miss one session–we always have a good excuse, then the next session, again a good excuse. All of a sudden, we have forgotten that commitment and displacing it with something else.

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One Thing Your SDRs Are Spending Too Much Time On

Outreach

There’s been a lot of discussion around the possibility of automating sales development reps. Some people think they’ll be replaced by technology, and others believe the human element is a crucial part of their success. Whatever your sales development stance and process is, there’s one thing that needs to be really thought out. How they manage their time.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Business Strategy: What It Is & How to Build an Effective One

Hubspot

In the business world, professionals are obsessed with tactics because they can help them meet their short-term goals. But if all you do is focus on the short-term, you won’t spend enough time or energy figuring out how you can succeed in the long-term. Fortunately, building a strategy can help you achieve both your short-term and long-term goals. Strategy focuses on principles, which help you think, instead of tactics, which help you execute, so it allows you to concentrate on why your business

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Time for Enablement or Training? Three Metrics Your Company Should be Tracking Today

Openview

Bringing in outside training and/or building a sales enablement function is an expensive investment, yet it’s critical to the success of your sales organization. But when do you do it? Well as in life, timing is everything. Too early and your team won’t have the proper baseline or pipeline to measure the results of these efforts. Too late and they are locked into bad habits and poor practices that impact your scalability.

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What’s the most efficient way to allocate inbound leads?

SaaStr

A few thoughts in the early and early-ish days: Segment your leads, once you have enough reps to do so. At least, by Small, Medium and Larger leads (if they aren’t all the same size). Let reps specialize at the business process changes, questions and needs of customers of a specific size. Reps may all want the “bigger” deals, but in reality, a rep that can close fast can often make as much or more money serving a higher volume of faster-closing leads.

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Your Competitor is Not Who You Think It Is

The Sales Hunter

You probably think your competitor is the big evil company that just came out with a more superior product than yours. No! That big evil company is not your primary competitor. Your two biggest competitors are: 1. Your own self-limiting doubts about what you can’t do. 2. The “no decision” response that too many customers ultimately decide on.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)

Hubspot

In the paid acquisition world, clicks can seem like the holy grail. But if you really think about it, clicks only tell you if people arrive to your content. They don’t reveal whether they stayed or not. But how do you know if your content is engaging and emotionally resonant enough to persuade your audience to stay and ultimately buy your product or service?

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Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M

Openview

The post Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M appeared first on OpenView.

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If You Had These 30 Attributes, You Would Be the Best Salesperson in the World

SalesLoft

Want a blueprint for how to become the best salesperson in the world? Or how about a yardstick by which to measure your leadership abilities? The good news is that you don’t need a career counselor or full 360 to get that additional insight. All you need is to be self-aware. Be honest with yourself about where you’re really strong and where you can struggle.

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How to Minimize the Sales Cycle Time

Closer's Coffee

“In the real world outside economic theory, every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something that others cannot”. – Peter Thiel. I was at my favorite restaurant last week and the time it took to get seated was twice as long as on my previous visit. A quick check with the hostess confirmed my thinking. She explained that with the recent opening of two large employers in the area, the restaurant had been abnormally busy.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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25 Google Search Statistics to Bookmark ASAP

Hubspot

In many ways, marketing is a game of trend watching. The marketer who’s best at spotting and using trends earns their business market share, brand recognition, and ultimately, revenue. But how do you search for trends? And where do you start? Well, since they own about 92% of the global search engine market, the answer to both of these questions is, “Google.”.

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Will You Hit Your Goals This Year?

Engage Selling

We’re approaching the halfway mark of the year (already!), will you hit your goals? At the beginning of the year, most of us had goals set for the next 12 months.

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Get Excited! Here’s how to meet with VCs at SaaStr Europa.

SaaStr

It’s hard to believe but we’re exactly 36 days away from SaaStr Europa. Use this opportunity to learn from investors how to scale up your company. From small group meetups to one-on-one meetings and even larger scale sessions, there will be lots of different ways to engage with VCs in Paris. Check out some of our VC day sessions! ????. “Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment” with OpenView Venture Partner Ashley Smith. “1How to Lie (to Yourself) wit

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Is too much data hurting your sales performance?

PandaDoc

Long ago, in a time before the internet, sales organizations struggled to gather enough quality data. Activities were manually logged in spreadsheets or on paper and CRMs didn’t exist as we know them today. Decisions based on guesswork or intuition were the norm. It was a dark time. Today, we have the opposite problem. We wear “data-driven” like a badge of honor, but in truth, many B2B sales professionals simply suffer from data overload.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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The Best 10 Appointment Scheduling Apps and Booking Software

Hubspot

How much time have you spent sending emails today? Most salespeople spend 21% of their day writing emails. Unnecessary emails and coordinating can take up a lot of that time. Tools like appointment scheduling apps and booking software help automate the process of scheduling meetings with potential and existing customers. So, why should you invest in an appointment scheduling app?

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Sales Leadership Requires Being Authentic and Transparent

The Sales Hunter

You can’t just run and hide. You can’t exhibit one style on Monday and then be a completely different person on Tuesday. The days of faking it are over. We’ve all read stories and seen companies falsely live out their mission statement. News flash! This same behavior that we see in companies is sadly alive and well in all of us. Too often, a person will profess that they are a great leader and then immediately turn around and do something stupid.

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What’s Next? What’s Your Deal Strategy?

Membrain

In any given year, I may be involved in doing 100’s of deal or opportunity reviews.

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Hit Your Targets with the Valid Business Reason

Miller Heiman Group

kIn today’s business selling environment, change is a constant. That makes selling—like everything else—a moving target and consequently a tougher proposition than ever before. In fact, the 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report from CSO Insights showed that only slightly more than half of sales representatives (54.3%) are meeting or exceeding their quotas.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.