Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s SKO time of the year. I’ve been asking, “How much time are you spending in the field working with your people?” So far, it looks like the average is somewhere around 15-20%. I ask, “How are you spending your time? First, it’s enormous fun.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

” Another thing struck me: “And I love what professional selling is not. It isn’t the smarmy, pushy approach using sleazy tricks and gimmicks that unfortunately is how it’s still perceived by many. Why I Love Sales Dave, I found your question very thought provoking. It isn’t prescribed for you.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Like all of us, he was struggling to get the engagement he wanted. He was very focused on the customers and people he was prospecting. He leveraged trade shows to meet people, then followed up with prospecting notes. How do you know if he has the problem? How do you know if he cares?

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Search Engine Land

MAY 3, 2024

How to optimize local pages to win more local traffic All of your service area pages should target your most important keyword patterns, along with any long-tail supporting keywords you want to rank for in those areas (i.e., “[service] in [city]”). How does one combat that?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 15, 2024

Then, you must create what Google calls “ helpful, reliable, people-first content.” In this article, I will outline a process that shows you exactly how to do that and provide a simple template you can fill out to take your content to the next level. Step 1: Goals What is your goal for this content?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Greg Kihlstrom is a best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur and valued contributor to MarTech. Q: How did you get into marketing? It really taught me about this intersection of, back then, UX and marketing and technology. I don’t like one thing, I like all of it.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

You can spend a lot of money trying to increase the results of your marketing communications. But you don’t have to. If you have a halfway decent marketing martech stack and follow the best practices for your channel, maximizing engagement and response becomes easier. Here’s how. That’s right.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 1, 2024

Gary and I have stunningly similar sales backgrounds as well as our belief in the importance of developing selling fundamentals. Gary mentioned that he has always focused on making quality calls but has now modified that approach to include quantitative values as well. It all depends on the numbers. Calls to appointments.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s frustrating. You put time, energy and a lot of hope into a webpage. But it just won’t rank. Your competitors’ pages are ranking well, even though (subjectively) they’re worse. Yours deserves to be top of Google. So why isn’t it? This means you’ll likely need to optimize it further.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While SEO can be highly effective, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution for all businesses. SEO might not be the immediate answer to your digital marketing needs. Here’s why SEO may not be the best fit for a business, with alternatives and insights into when it may be a more valuable investment.

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PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

You already know who your customers are — but do you know what makes them tick and drives their decision-making? The psychology of sales can reveal all this and more. Key takeaways Understanding your customers’ fears, desires, and motivations can help you connect with them and build genuine relationships.

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Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s a scene from a bygone era when companies could woo clients with flashy presentations and empty promises. One scathing review or a whiff of buyer’s remorse on social media can hurt a company’s reputation faster than a retargeted ad. Well, not anymore. It should be the lifeblood of martech.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore what is permission based selling, as well as tips to help you close easier and more consistently. 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.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 28, 2022

In this guide, you’ll learn exactly how to sell high ticket services and their niches, by using a proven step by step formula we teach Sales Professionals, Business Owners and Consultants around the world. Read on to learn exactly how to sell high ticket services, and how you can implement it into your sales strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recently, in conversations with clients and other groups, I’ve been stunned at how few have performance plans in place for their people. Starting my selling career in IBM, we all had them. Starting my selling career in IBM, we all had them. How do they know if they are doing well or not?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Even the most traditional PPC manager can’t deny it anymore: Performance Max can do amazing things. Of course, that requires you to approach it with a different mindset than Search and Shopping. Let me give you an example. Try that with Performance Max, and you’ll force it into doing something it’s not built for.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Q4 is looming, and many brands are strategizing how to optimize their budgets to get more traffic to their products when buyer intent soars. Despite what you may have heard, TM+ models are a no-risk model – the affiliate site pays for the click and gets paid by the brand when the ads lead to conversions.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2024

The enduring truth of the statement “ people buy from people they know, like, and trust” remains a constant in the realm of sales. Sales authenticity” resonates with people in different ways. This week, we’ll dissect two areas that sales authenticity derives from and how to embrace it to – well, sell.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2024

ChatGPT and its colleagues are, too often, a debilitating cheat for sellers who don’t want to put in the work. There, I said it, I got it off my chest. Don’t get me wrong, these tools are very powerful and helpful. And 100% of the time, I get answers that are, at best, mediocre.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

He’s written an number of books trust in selling, the most famous is The Trusted Advisor. But I also know something about Charlie that very few people know. He responds to Nigerian princes with great questions about their offers, and suggestions about how they might find more money to send without the things they ask for.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2024

What will customers remember after they have experienced your website, product, service or people? What will they tell their friends or colleagues about their experience — will they even mention it? Do you think customers will talk about how they were “wowed” by their AI experience? Impressive!

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2022

One of the most powerful sales closes you can use to help your potential clients make a buying decision, is assuming the sale. A way that you can effectively do this, is by using something called assumptive close questions. Assuming The Sale – How To Use It Correctly. Why Is Agreement Important?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Our relationship didn’t start that way, in fact it was contentious. Jack has written one of the best books on business/financial acumen, I ‘ve ever read: Bottom Line Selling. He’s also written one of the best books on “communications,” in Lean Communication , as well as Strategic Sales Presentations.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2024

Whether your goal is lead generation or ecommerce, Menachem Ani, PPC expert and founder of JXT Group, shared valuable insights at SMX Next on how to optimize campaigns for Facebook and Instagram. When advertising on platforms like Google, you’re restricted to reaching people searching for your product or service.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

As a leader, you must be agile enough to pivot as you learn new information about the marketplace, your customers and disruptive new technology. It’s critical to constantly re-evaluate how you market and sell our products to customers because what worked last year, or even last month, may no longer be relevant.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2024

I think what founders get wrong is not understanding incentives. VCs really do want you to be a big success. No one is out to get you. And VCs at different stages have different incentives: Small funds and especially those outside of “Silicon Valley” often won’t want you to raise very much.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In this article, we’ll detail our consultative selling approach that work perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consultative industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. 2 – Building Rapport.

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Martech

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the second part, we’ll see how the LLM responded. As marketers, we can be most effective when we understand why we humans do what we do and use that information to help our customers make decisions others make on matters that concern us. If you can help them achieve their needs, they in turn will help you.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

Earlier this year, Google announced the expansion of its Gemini generative AI model to support more products, including ad campaigns such as Search and Performance Max. It combines your expertise with Google AI. While the AI model is not without criticism, here’s my take on Gemini after field testing its capabilities.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I can’t begin to count the number of “experts” filling my social feeds with the sage wisdom and advice on maximizing performance: “Give your best leads to your top performers!” You don’t want to be wasting your leads!” Our B players are no longer getting high quality leads.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2024

As a result, it’s not surprising to see this sentence in his story, “The collaborative nature of selling has always been appealing to me, as has the imperative to keep learning new things.” It was all about solving a problem. One of my dad’s theories about business was that “Everybody sells.”

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore something called the MEDDPICC sales methodology; including how it works, and how it can benefit your sales conversations to close more sales. Keep reading to learn how you can also utilise it within your own business or sales function.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Former member of the M&A team at Google, Brett Goldstein, now Founder at Micro and Co-Founder & CEO of Launch House Ventures, shares the nine things founders should know about getting acquired. First, there are three types of acquisition deals: Talent — To get the expertise on your team and more firepower.

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Selling finance products can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling finance products, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome products and results that’ll benefit them financially. Selling Finance Products – 5 x Effective Tips. Time frame.

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Spiro Technologies

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hello and welcome to Make It, Move It, Sell It. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products. I’m your host, Adam Honig, the CEO of spiro.ai. Thank you very much, Adam, for the quick intro and glad to be a part of this podcast.

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn the 6 steps of selling – without coming across as pushy, needy, or manipulative in any way. Learning and following a sales process would have to be the most important thing you’ll ever learn in sales, because it’ll deliver something you’ll need to thrive in selling. And that thing – is consistency.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

I’ve been getting a variety of people telling their stories on, “ Why I Am So Interested In Selling.” Dave: I’m posing the question, “Why are you so interested in selling?” ” to lots of sales people. ” They are fascinating and compelling.

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