2022

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How To Recruit Top Sales Talent

Iannarino

If you look at any leader with a high-performing team, be it a college football team, an orchestra, or a sales organization, it is likely that they prioritize recruiting.

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What Leaders Have to Say on Setting and Achieving Goals

STAR Results

The Power of Setting and Achieving Goals. New Year resolutions are nothing more than rhetoric. Despite the initial eagerness you may feel for the goals you have set, that enthusiasm tends to wane over time, often leaving you right back to where you started. Studies indicate that only 8-12 percent of people fulfill their goal-setting resolutions. Sure, your desire to achieve the goal is real.

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The Easiest Month-End Negotiation Tactic

Cerebral Selling

It was a couple of days before the end of the quarter. I was a VP back at Salesforce when one of my reps came to me with a request. “Hey David, I’ve been working with this customer for a while now and I think we can get the deal done by our deadline. We have all the terms ironed out. The only thing is, they’re asking if they can pay quarterly instead of annually.

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Ten Truths That Will Increase Your Sales Effectiveness

Membrain

I want to share with you the ten principles on which we developed our platform. These are also available as a download in my Sales Effectiveness Manifesto.

Sales 262
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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.

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8 x Construction Sales Tips To Close Easier

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll explore 8 x construction sales tips to help you close easier and more consistently. These tips are commonly used by the top five percent of sales performers all around the world. Many people think that what they’re able to achieve is from pure luck. We’ll explore how this isn’t the case, and what you can do to improve your sales process , as well as your closing rate. 8 x Construction Sales Tips To Close Easier.

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Becoming an Efficient Seller in Today’s Marketplace | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

Using technology will make you a more effective and efficient seller in today’s marketplace. In fact, it can make your entire organization more profitable. And there are three main reasons for this. 3 Reasons Technology Will Help You Become a … Read More » The post Becoming an Efficient Seller in Today’s Marketplace | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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The Sales Manager's Guide to Opportunity Management

Iannarino

To reach your goals as a sales manager, you need your team to hit their targets. Hitting those targets requires them to create new opportunities with existing clients and win new logos. When a salesperson logs a new opportunity in your CRM, you don't know whether they will win or lose the deal. You don't know if the new opportunity is real or another first conversation that is the salesperson's last conversation.

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4 Cold Calling Tips for Making a Good First Impression

Veloxy

Make a lasting and memorable first impression. Gone in sixty seconds. In addition to being a great Nicolas Cage movie, those four words also demonstrate what your prospect will be if you don’t have the right first impression formula for cold calling. Why do you need a first impression for cold calling ? While some salespeople at companies like Amazon Web Services and ServiceNow can leverage their company’s recognition during the first cold call, most salespeople need to inform and intrigue the

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The Why Of It All  

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Quota attainment remains under 60%, closed forecasted deals aren’t much better. One has to ask what is being enabled by the new breed of soothsayers. A structured and enabled mess is still a mess. As with most things it is rarely about the what and the how, success is always about understanding why.

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Will the C-Suite See You?

Anthony Cole Training

While there are many differences between elite salespeople and average salespeople, two of the more important distinctions are the ability to sell value (they can sell at a slight premium on price) and the ability to reach the top levels of the prospect’s decision-making team (typically the C-Suite).

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Prepare Now: 2025's Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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7 Lead Generation Statistics You Need To Be Aware Of

ClickFunnels

The post 7 Lead Generation Statistics You Need To Be Aware Of appeared first on ClickFunnels. It’s important to keep up with marketing trends. That’s why today we are going to share seven lead generation statistics that you need to be aware of. We will also discuss what you can learn from this data as well as how you can use those lessons to gain a competitive edge.

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The Five Root Causes of Poor Sales Results

Iannarino

It isn't easy to be a sales leader or a sales manager. There is an unrelenting need to create new opportunities, win new deals and the net new revenue that fuels a company's growth. There are a lot of variables to sales success, including the individuals in sales roles and the nature of their work. Two people in accounting in two different companies are not engaged in a contest to see which of them will win a third party's business, but this is exactly what salespeople do every day.

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6 Results-Driven Sales Scripts Used by Top Salespeople

Iannarino

Is your close rate where you want it to be? If not, the problem may be in your phone game. In fact, 86% of prospects aren’t satisfied with their phone sales experiences. But a phone sales conversation—especially cold calling — is nothing to sneeze at. I know firsthand just how challenging they can be.

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How to Be Truly Consultative

Iannarino

The evolution of the complex B2B sale has all but eliminated "transactional" approaches and is now moving past "consultative" to something like "super-consultative," or "truly-consultative.".

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Salespeople Are Not Problem Solvers, They're Business Improvement Specialists

Iannarino

The idea that salespeople solve problems is true. But this is mostly only true when solving the problem means selling their prospective client their "solution." Every product or service is designed to solve a problem, and because your client isn't going to buy what you sell if they don't recognize a need, you search for a problem.

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How to Increase Customer Lifetime Value

Iannarino

Lifetime value is what you expect a client to spend with you over the course of your relationship. Let's assume a large client has a lifetime value of $1,000,000. To reach that number, your client could spend $100,000 with you each year for 10 years. Avoiding churn is one way to achieve this with their clients; however, it is just the first step in maximizing lifetime value.

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5 Signs Your Company has a Toxic Sales Culture

Iannarino

When people are quietly quitting, working from home, and avoiding the office, it's important to make sure your culture isn't the root cause. Most sales cultures are okay, some are exceptional, and others are toxic. There is a saying attributed to the great management consultant Peter Drucker (even though there is no evidence he said it): "Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

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What Is a Trigger Event?

Iannarino

A trigger event is something that forces a company to change. For example, at the time of this writing, the Federal Reserve has raised the Fed Fund rate to the highest level in many decades. This is a trigger event for real estate agents, mortgage banks, and title companies. Real estate agents will have to change how they find potential buyers, mortgage banks may have to develop new lending programs, and title companies may be forced to take a little more time off.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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How Sales Really Works

Iannarino

There are two methods of starting a sales conversation. The first way to start the conversation occurs when a salesperson calls a prospective client to ask them for a meeting to talk about how their prospect may improve their results. This is called outbound, cold outreach, or prospecting.

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6 Elements of a Sales Process Flowchart

Iannarino

If your sales reps had an expertly crafted, clear-cut sales process, how much would their sales performance improve?

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Your Contacts Are a Reflection of Your Value

Iannarino

After I started providing an executive briefing during quarterly business reviews with my contacts, executive leaders started joining these meetings. When my contacts started to share with their senior leaders our data, our insights, and what we believed would happen in the future, the senior leaders started to show up.

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Willing Yourself to Do Work You Avoid

Iannarino

I was thirteen years old and just starting high school when a friend asked me if I wanted to go to work washing dishes at a big Italian banquet center. His mother had taken a job there and the owner mentioned they need dishwashers. I jumped at the chance to make money, and I was paid $3.35 per hour. The family that owned the business also fed me prime rib, lasagna, and chocolate mousse.

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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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10 Characteristics of Great Sales Managers

Iannarino

There are a lot of tough jobs in business, frontline sales manager is one of them. Those who succeed tend to have the right characteristics. While different sales managers may require different competencies, the following 10 are relatively universal in B2B sales.

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Why the Best Sales Conversation Wins

Iannarino

Imagine a company is exploring some significant change. They've looked at a number of potential partners online, all of whom make the same flashy promises. A number of contacts have even started taking phone calls from salespeople—normally they avoid them like a bubonic cliché, but because the company is performing poorly, they are looking for help improving their results.

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3 Sales Strategy Examples You Can Copy

Iannarino

A football team would never hike the ball without calling a play: Your sales team should operate in the same way. For your sales team to run smoothly, you need to have a comprehensive sales strategy that encompasses all of your goals and operations.

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On the Lack of Sales Culture

Iannarino

Without a sales culture, you will experience results that are less than they should be, including the net new revenue that leads to growth.

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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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How to Judge the Value of the Sales Conversation

Iannarino

One of the hangovers from the legacy sales approaches is that the salesperson undervalues the sales conversation for what it is: the only vehicle for creating value, creating an opportunity, and winning the client's business. Because salespeople trained in the legacy approaches have been taught to believe the value is located elsewhere, they fail to participate in the sales conversation in a meaningful way.

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The 7-Step Sales Prospecting Process to Close Any Deal

Iannarino

Sales prospecting is essential, but it can be challenging. Surveyed sales professionals even ranked prospecting as more demanding than closing. So, do you need a sales prospecting process, or can you just follow your gut and see what sticks?

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Slowing Down & Doing Good Work

Iannarino

Our culture worships efficiency as the high mark of civilization. We bemoan any Amazon order that doesn’t hit our porch within twenty-four hours. We exhort Netflix to post an entire series at a time, so we can binge watch without having to wait a week (the horror!) between episodes. We instruct our music apps to play the exact song we want at the exact moment we want to hear it.

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You Are Not Really Doing Discovery

Iannarino

The main outcome of discovery for most salespeople is to identify the client's problem and its impact. The reason the salesperson needs a problem is that in absence of a problem, there is no need for their "solution," a word designed to inflate a product or a service into something both the salesperson and their prospective client believes to be greater.

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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