Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If your salespeople MUST be great on the -phone then why not find out, as early as you can, how GREAT they are on the phone?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. But is it really tougher than anything else in selling or are we just making it much tougher than it need be?

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Membrain

OCTOBER 11, 2020

As sales teams rapidly reinvent themselves, their skills, activities and the way they sell, the real transformation needed to achieve your goals starts with not just changing, but expanding your thinking. There’s always more than one perception.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Is your team getting virtual communication right? Communication in 2019 meant something different than it does in 2020.

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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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Force Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We spend a lot of time on our blog talking about challenges our customers face and possible solutions. We try to practice what we preach, making our blog content focused on our customer, and less about us. However, today we are breaking with the norm and sharing a little more about Force Management to help you align on your biggest opportunity to drive sales impact.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In the past 6+ months, the world has turned upside down. We have never faced simultaneous health, economic, social crises at the global scale that we are currently experiencing. We long for things to get back to normal. I dream of sitting in an airport–going to visit a client. Or sitting in a restaurant, enjoying a meal with friends, or going to a concert or the theater, or getting back into the gym.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. A few weeks ago Heinz marketing put on a three-hour Predictable Pipeline workshop with ON24, part of the fastFWD webinar series. This event had over four hundred attendees made up of marketing professionals across several different B2B industries. We polled to see how confident everyone felt going into the 2021 sales year throughout this live event and if they felt prepared in the areas covered during the workshop consistin

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We use remote deposit, a terrific convenience for depositing checks from the desktop without going to the bank. The only problem is that the software that runs the check scanner isn't compatible with the Mac OS. It only runs on Windows so we have to remotely connect to an old Dell that takes up unnecessary space. Oh, if only the software for the check scanner was compatible with the Mac.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Request For Proposal (RFP) process is broken, flawed, and disorganized. It is a complicated business routine that is vital to companies progressing, expanding, and forging partnerships where both sides win. When you’re down in the weeds, entangled in the messy process, it can be hard to figure out how to make improvements. Luckily, technology is our saving grace.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Q: What are some of the most costly mistakes done by novice investors? My biggest mistakes in SaaS investing actually in the end haven’t been truly costly because, in the end, power laws mean your winners overwhelm your losers if you do it right. A few winners more than make up for the mistakes. The real mistakes are just not getting in more winners.

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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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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2020

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. You are probably sick of hearing the term “content is king” and while I don’t necessarily agree, I do believe content is important. Content is used by sales and marketing to catch prospects’ attention, to demonstrate the benefits and features of a service or platform, to provide proof as to why a service or platform is superior compared to competitors.

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Membrain

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As of October 2020, Membrain is operating under a brand new pricing model that makes our CRM free with the purchase of any one of our award-winning workflow modules.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. Enterprise is generally behind the times and slow to move on new ideas. Their calendars are blocked with 76 meetings. And finding time is tough compared to an SMB executive. On top of that, you have multiple decision makers to be looped in. And to make it worse, everyone and their start-up cousin is calling them, which makes it tremendously difficult to stand out.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Q: Why are sales jobs the worst? Here’s why sales is tough: Can’t hide — not for long. At some point, you have to put real points on the board. Everyone will know. But in many other roles, you can sort of skate by if you aren’t too senior. Get a lot of No’s. A lot of them. Most of us can’t take it. Limited career path if don’t move into management. You’ll get a lot better in 2, 3, 5, 8 years.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2020

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. “How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series, and in the past, several sales experts (including Anthony Iannarino , Dave Brock and Trish Bertuzzi ) participated as well. We love to feature B2B sales, marketing or business leaders here answering what have become our standard “ How I Work ” questions.

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Sandler Training

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Everyone wants to know what business closed today. Or this week. Or this quarter. But is that really all we should be asking? Make no mistake. These are all critical key performance indicators (KPIs). It’s worth noticing, though, that what closed today, this week, and this quarter all are lagging indicators. Arguably more important in… The post Sandler Research Center Report: Pipeline Health appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales is the somewhat dark art of convincing people to buy stuff. I hope that rubbed you the wrong way. Maybe you almost jumped out of your seat to write a strongly worded comment about why that’s wrong. We don’t believe that — and you shouldn’t either. But the problem is that many people, including a lot of salespeople, do see sales that way. This idea is long overdue for an upgrade.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

SImple tips to Do Better in Q4 With What You Already Have: – Drive Down Churn – Drive Up NPS – Be More Grateful – Zoom with 10 Customers a Week – Promote Your Star(s) – Less Spam, more ABM – Weekly Webinar – Improve Lead Routing – Improve Lead Scoring – Talk to Every Prospect. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 10, 2020.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 3 Unconventional Sales Tactics for an Unconventional Time. Some unconventional tactics to catch your prospects’ attention and make an impact during these unconventional times.

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Sandler Training

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Given the upheavals and uncertainty of 2020, many leaders and salespeople have been asking us what we see on the horizon as the next year approaches. What skills and adaptations will be necessary not just to survive, but to thrive in 2021? After meeting with tens of thousands of sales professionals this year, we would… The post Sales Professionals: What is on the Horizon for 2021?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With a cold email, you can either drive hundreds of thousands in pipeline or send your prospects running for the hills. . We have plenty of resources on writing effective cold emails at Sales Hacker. But sometimes the difference between an okay cold email and a great one is specific feedback on what you have. . The teams at Outreach and REGIE created the Cold Email Grader to help you — you guessed it — write better cold emails. .

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Stewart Butterfield threw out an interesting statistic in a recent interview with Fast Company … over 20% of Slack employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit and the shelter order in SF went into place. 20%+ of Slack's employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit. How many by the time we "go back to the office"? 50%? 80%? @stewart.

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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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Yeah, I know I’m dating myself, but I’d like to paraphrase a line from the 1980 Johnny Lee Song, Looking For Love. There’s the famous line, “Looking for love in all the wrong places… ” Too often, I think we are looking to learn in all the wrong places. (I’ll come back to those who aren’t even looking to learn.).

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Sandler Training

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Mike Montague interviews John Livesay on How to Succeed at Better Selling Through Storytelling. Find John Livesay at: [link] In this episode: Best attitude, behavior, and technique to succeed at better selling through storytelling Turn a case study into a case story and people will listen and remember you The key to dealing with rejection is,… The post How to Succeed at Better Selling through Storytelling [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. It sounded crazy at first. Nearly every person in the room had doubts about whether this was possible. But, at the end of the day, the team did hit that first number.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Whether you just scored your Series A or are about to go public, there’s no reason to waste precious capital on tasks that could be automated. Of course, you should be thoughtful about what you choose to automate. No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code.

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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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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Email prospecting: we’re relying on it more and more during this new selling environment. However, unfortunately, the ratio of prospecting emails sent to responses are getting worse.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Navigation gives a user control, which is generally a good thing—but what about on a landing page, where the motto is “one page, one goal?” Should you use navigation on landing pages? While there’s not a one-size-fits-all answer (there never is in optimization), we do have some good data by which we can make a decision. Landing page optimization.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Today on the show we’ve got Ryan Walsh, founder and CEO of a company called RepVue, a place where you can get objective third-party information. Actually, it’s first party, objective information from reps themselves about how much people make at different companies. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If your competition doesn't offer phone support, But you do … Watch your NPS eclipse theirs, all things being equal. Isn't that worth a few bucks? — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 16, 2020. We’ve talked quite a bit on SaaStr about Customer Success, and there’s a very specific reason for it. It’s one of the most non-obvious drivers of revenue growth in Years 3, 4, 5 and beyond of your SaaS start-up.

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