Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Preface : Ron Guilbault has been a thoughtful sounding board for all sorts of ideas on selling. At times I’ve been asked for help in areas outside of what I was selling. Such trust is a key component of successful selling. ” Why am I so interested in selling? Selling is the flip side of buying.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2024

The first Saturday of every month, we reserve an hour or so to catch up on things, to share ideas. 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.” Don’t look back.

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Sell Education Sports Niche 73

Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The highest AI order share growth year-over-year was seen in skincare products, up 26%. “AI day one sales were down 4% YoY and day two sales were up 1%, indicating that digital consumers held out for better deals on the second day. Discounts were up 5% in the U.S. categories. Top performing categories in U.S. Discounting.

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Retail Territory Manufacturing Sports 110

Salesforce

AUGUST 25, 2021

Earlier this year, that career took him to a new role as an account executive at Salesforce, selling to small businesses in parts of Florida and Alabama. Olympians and Paralympians representing the elite of the elite, it’s little surprise they make up some of the best sports-to-sales stories. “I’ve Playing catch-up.

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Pharmaceutical Sports Gaming Commission 98

Search Engine Land

MAY 17, 2023

Nike sells shoes. Their website exists to sell running shoes. How do you figure out the primary entity associated with selling running shoes? Running Shoes Running shoes Exercise Sneakers Sports Tennis shoes Athletics Athleisure So what types of intent exist for Nike? Pages don’t exist in a vacuum. Why does it exist?

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Sports Objectives and Key Results GTM Angle 102

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Even better, you can do this bodyweight exercise wherever there’s a floor, making it an easy way to break up a sedentary workday. Some sports enthusiasts would even take their pups to wilder adventures (safely). Rent out yoga/dance studios or other community spaces, and offer private bookings for birthday parties or corporate events.

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Sports Niche Promote Follow-up 65

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. Over half (58 percent) of respondents believe that up to 80 percent of their data is not useful or reliable, implying that less than a quarter of data is actionable and trustworthy.” I read a scary stat, the average CRM has between 100 – 300 unfollowed up on tasks.

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Martech

MAY 2, 2023

Today, revenue and customer generation must be a team sport. Not all revenue strategies and tactics work The B2B buying and selling process is not how it used to be. Marketing generates demand, and sales follow-up on leads is the typical alignment recipe. Creating customers and growing revenue is an always-on team sport.

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Finance Sports B2B Contract 94

RAIN Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The in-person buying and selling experience usually goes something like this: You show up to your buyer's office, where they greet you and offer you coffee. You accept, and walk together to the kitchen, discussing your trip in and how the day's going.

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Sports Gaming Meeting Up-sell 136

Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Advertisers unfollowing X The numbers appear to back up the sense of a vacuum left by X advertisers. Furthermore, 64% said live sports are an important factor when it comes to selecting a streaming provider. “Also which platform you use matters as well.

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Martech

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The ad-free tier on Disney+ got bumped up to $11 when they introduced the ad-supported tier at the end of 2022. Prime Video’s takeover of Thursday Night Football, and free-ad-supported (FAST) app Tubi’s recent World Cup presentation lay the groundwork for more live sports and events being watched by cord-cutters.

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Sports Cross-sell Price Entertainment 114

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

A sales adventure would suggest winging it or seat-of-the-pants selling. The problem that people have with sales process is with the stages and milestones that make up the sales process. In some respects, professional selling is akin to professional sports where everyone who plays must play by the rules.

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SalesProInsider

AUGUST 13, 2020

Whether they are face-to-face or virtual, productive sales conversations are not a sideline sport. This episode of virtual selling, concrete results will help YOU make it a participative sport! Think about the last sporting event you watched…the key word is watched. Nope, in selling efforts, collaboration is king.

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Conversion Sports Objectives and Key Results Gaming 127

Salesforce

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You don’t have to sell people on the potential. What you do have to sell people on is how to go about it. You don’t have to sell people on the potential. What you do have to sell people on is how do we go about it. Tip #3: Governance needs to keep up with AI transformation Q.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 8, 2023

Meanwhile, Disney expects up to 70% of subscribers to switch to its ad-supported tier. If Amazon follows in its rivals’ footsteps, it would create huge opportunities for digital marketers to team up with the third fastest-growing ad business in the U.S., Netflix’s ad tier already has nearly 5 million monthly active users.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So much of the discussion about selling and marketing seems to focus on “the tricks” of engaging customers. ” OK I made that up, but you get my point. These conversations seldom happen in a Michelin rated restaurant or at a sporting event. I wonder what the data shows if we just did these simple things?

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Sports B2B Technique Closing 103

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 6, 2023

Google Ads to allow ads for sport betting in New York. 2022: Google Ads updated its gambling policy to allow ads for sports betting from certified and state-licensed entities in New York State. It was similar to Google’s live sporting events feature. Report: Yahoo Search Share Up After Firefox Deal.

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Sports Gambling Manufacturing Launch 127

Martech

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the vitriol ramps up in an election year, will users opt out? “We That said, if marketers do notice drops in engagement in the coming year, other digital channels such as digital video or streaming, as well as SEO investment, would be candidates to take up some of that channel space,” Gutter said. of all U.S.

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Entertainment Sports Niche Retail 138

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The deal with Yahoo gives Taboola the exclusive license to sell native ads across Yahoo’s sites, and the companies will share revenue from those ad sales. Yahoo also commented that they were attempting to "build up each of its products within its mini-media empire and capitalize on its audience." Dig deeper. Why we care.

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E-commerce Entertainment Sports Finance 91

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google knows people buy and sell links, so moving away from this would always be a good idea. People go to the web and end up in the messy middle of Google search. The sport is set up for this with clear colors with red and blue corners. Implied link : A reference to the target resource, but not a link.

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Drivers/motivators Sports Engineering Follow-up 138

Martech

MAY 24, 2022

And all of this without the hassle of hiring a tour guide or looking everything up online. In both situations, the parties involved benefit from the ability to visualize the product up close without having the car with them physically. VR in the sports industry. What are the tools and software that enable AR and VR?

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Sports Construction Gaming Transportation 135

Martech

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This category creation resembles the mass-market expansion of Red Bull in the late 1990s and 2000s, when energy drinks gained traction through “extreme sports” marketing. But breaking ground in a new category requires marketing that builds from the ground up. In the U.S., kava beverages are primarily sold in dedicated kava bars.

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Technology Technology Retail Sports 84

Salesforce

JANUARY 24, 2024

The purpose of a cold call is almost always to book a meeting, not to sell anything right off the bat. But that’s not the only reason to pick up the phone. It frees me up mentally to keep “smiling and dialing.” Then schedule a follow-up reminder for yourself. What is the purpose of a cold call? Track your calls.

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Cold Call Prospecting Objectives and Key Results Sports 69

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

and “Go sell something!”. Countless studies report the vast majority of buyers now prefer virtual interactions as opposed to face-to-face selling. And while that may have also been true in the days before 2020, mandatory distant selling brought on by the pandemic has tipped the scale to give us the dreaded new normal.

Sell 52

Sell Sports Legal Finance 52

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. I often tie sports stories, analogies and themes to sales and sales management, and I generally have at least one in the crowd that doesn’t/cannot relate because they have not played sports or are just simply not into sports.

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Sports Drivers/motivators Sales Prospecting 200

Martech

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is now underway in Qatar, and brands are lined up to reach the 5 billion fans globally who are expected to watch the tournament, which runs through December 18. Younger viewers tend to stream sports across a variety of devices, and OTT advertising is a smart way to drive scale against that demographic,” said Hall.

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Cross-sell Sports Gaming Campaign 95

A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The theory suggests that sports fall into one of two categories, weak link or strong link. For example; Soccer is a weak link sport. Basketball, on the other hand, is a strong link sport. Great salespeople can’t help underperforming salespeople sell more. What percentage of the team do they make up?

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The problem is that salespeople are highly competitive, similar to sports figures. However, to continue the journey up the mountain of learning, it’s necessary to create a long-term goal to always have in mind as obstacles seemingly appear out of nowhere that can throw us off kilter. Soon, pride kicks in that we did it!

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Teamwork Negotiate Sports Referrals 78

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2020

Now, however, in the midst of the pandemic, with the economy struggling and businesses feeling the pressure to keep selling, empathy has become the star of the show, the central tenant to every sales strategy. Every marketing and sales strategy starts and ends with “ sell with empathy ”. Practice listening through role-playing.

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Technique Sports Sales Up-sell 141

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These correlations can then: Create product opportunities for cross-selling and cross-merchandising. Set up targeted ads. Tangential trends can also extend to other product use cases, sporting events, television shows, or other pop culture and media elements that influence a buyer's decision-making.

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Cross-sell UX Sports Follow-up 115

Hubspot

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It's tough to keep that effort up if you don't actually enjoy what you're writing about. You're probably not going to be able to monetize your site or sell ad space immediately, so you need to be in it — in large part — for the love of the sport. Stand-Up Comedy Instruction. If so, consider creating a blog up this alley.

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Niche Sports Entertainment Finance 101

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s not to sell for you but to watch what you’re doing and give quality feedback on how to improve. If you look at sports, for example, when a first baseman is having trouble. Salespeople need to know where they’re at and what their expectations are to see if they’re measuring up. Action 3: Skill-boosting Meetings.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The access challenge went way down, because now getting access was easy and near instantaneous, and the quality of content and engagement goes straight up,” Ohno said. And now they’re using Salesforce’s Customer 360 to dial up the wow. Show Up Fully.”. That, for Ohno, changed the game. Learn more. Find Purpose.

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Sports Gaming Up-sell Launch 98

Partners in Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

I’d had a few selling experiences as a kid. In Boy Scouts, there was always an event of some sort that we had to sell tickets for. My Mom usually bought the allocation I was assigned to sell. In high school, I worked afternoons and weekends at a local sports shop. But none in selling.

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Sell Retail Consult Strategic planning 97

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Don’t be afraid to ask for support from the executive team Invite them to an event (not just any event) Nobody needs more time booked up on their calendar – inviting prospects to an event must add value to them. Invite the prospect to a game for a sport they enjoy watching (bonus points if it’s the team they support).

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Pipeline GTM Cross-sell Sports 91

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

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Objectives and Key Results Sports Drivers/motivators Sales 168

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The article explored what happens to salespeople who are skilled at selling, but aren’t very good at building relationships, as well as those who are great at building relationships, but aren’t very skilled at selling. When Matt’s kids were younger, he NEVER missed a sporting or academic event.

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Relationship building Sports Networking Up-sell 77