SalesBlog!

MARCH 15, 2022

Taking this to the next level… Couldn’t compliments become a powerful tool to get this message across and thus motivate? Do smile! “A A fantastic feature of LinkedIn , for example, is that it gives you a powerful platform to say great things about your connections. Who doesn’t want to be recognized and complimented?

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Gong.io

JUNE 17, 2021

Turns out, a lot more than you’d think. The stakes in a sales deal may not literally be life or death. But success in any negotiation depends on knowing what you’re doing every step of the way. . Know who’s top dog in that realm? Chris Voss. We were pumped when Chris joined us recently as a guest on the Reveal podcast. Focus on training .

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These signals take many forms — verbal commitments in sales calls, emailed questions about product features, or smiles and nods during negotiation — and can surface at any point in the sales process. You’ve done your customer research, made prospecting calls, and connected with a potential buyer. Maybe they’ve even agreed to watch a demo.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the past, customer loyalty was earned with a friendly smile at the corner store. Today, it’s all about the ease of clicking “add to cart” from the comfort of your living room. Recently, “omnichannel” has emerged as a buzzword in the industry. Now, leveraging an omnichannel loyalty program is not just an advantage but a necessity.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 6, 2021

His meaty smile and magnetic gaze were one aspect of the older brand that symbolized Gong’s approachable personality. Few things are as comforting as the presence of a dog in the workplace. Dogs greet you at the door, humor you in the conference room, nuzzle you at your desk. Gong embraces the company of dogs as well. Or were they?

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Smile and relax. Empathy is one of the most powerful tools you can have in your toolkit as a Sales Professional; especially when building rapport with customers. How To Build Rapport With Customers. What Is Rapport? Those that develop rapport have similar interests, values, knowledge and behaviours. Appearance. Give a firm handshake.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2023

I’m simply seeking to convey that using video as a job hunter has truly incredible power. Video is the absolute best tool for job hunters. Hands down. It’s the open secret to success! It’s the future, and the future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet). Within three hours I had a reply, and had an interview set up within a day.

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A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2021

As Gap Selling has crossed the milestone of 50,000 copies sold , we are highlighting some of our favorite books to compliment your Gap Selling journey. Our 3rd book recommendation? To start…you may be wondering why the heck would I put Quiet and anything “Keenan” in the same discussion? not a sponsored post…). I call b t. Stay with me here.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 6, 2024

I remember sitting in one of the trainings, and he looked at me with one of those trademark “Mark smiles” and said, “You’re going to know this – do you want to actually listen to me tell you things you know already?” When I was asked to write this…I was stuck. Fair warning…I wrote a lot. A son to Virginia Hall and Curt Brimblecom.

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Salesforce

JUNE 21, 2022

Events have the power to generate a lasting impact on your audience that extends well beyond the live experience. If you’ve ever been to a Salesforce event, you probably know that we take our fun pretty seriously over here. At Salesforce, events help us build our customer base and accelerate business. The basics of event marketing.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 8, 2020

Ultimately, they embody the most powerful marketing force in the world — die-hard fans. When we are part of a tribe, when we speak the same language and know the rituals, we feel powerful connections with others who share that same interest. Fandom spans generations to bind individuals together in excitement, purpose, and buying power.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Today, we will read dozens of heartfelt remembrances of 20 years ago. I’ve already read a few from friends who were supposed to be in those buildings at the time. Their writing brings back stark memories. I spent the first 12 formative years of my career in Manhattan. For a couple of years, I actually had an office in Tower1.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A positive interaction that includes a smile, a friendly gesture, kind words – all go a long way and in the long run will make you and your organization shine.” You also have the honor of being the face of your company. In fact, you may be the only person from your employer that a customer ever sees. Here’s what they said.

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Jeff Shore

MAY 17, 2018

This one is simple yet crazy powerful. They are hacking their way to more sales while you’re still stuck in the same old rut you’ve always been in. If you want to sell more, like those top-performing salespeople – there’s a hack for that! Here are the 7 hacks that make a great salesperson: Hack #1: They live and die by a schedule. .

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Salesforce

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ask a sales pro if they want to do some cold calling, and you’ll likely get some form of, “Do I have to?” For many, the idea of calling a stranger out of the blue isn’t so appealing. But mastering the art of the cold call can spell sales success, and it doesn’t have to be painful. What you’ll learn: What is a cold call?

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The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Smile and relax. Establishing rapport in real estate is an absolutely crucial part of the sales process, because it can be the difference between winning the sale, or going back to the drawing board and starting the prospecting journey all over again. Establishing Rapport In Real Estate. What Is Rapport? Appearance. Give a firm handshake.

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SalesBlog!

JUNE 4, 2022

In my last meeting… all were bobbing their heads and smiling in agreement with what I had presented. Powerful information! Have you been tempted to manage and train your sales, sales management, teams to perform like clones? Are you doing this now? Be honest… If so, you’re most likely making a huge mistake! Frustrating!”

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Seven billions smiles, and yours is my favorite. Historically speaking, more powerful. If you're anything like me, you take about four minutes choosing a filter for your Instagram photo, and about four hours deciding on a caption. And I'm a writer -- go figure. Funny Instagram Captions. I call it lunch. I tried to be normal once.

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The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Smile and relax. Building sales relationships and rapport is an absolutely crucial part of the sales process, because it can be the difference between winning the sale, or going back to the drawing board and starting the prospecting journey all over again. Questions for building sales relationships & rapport. What Is Rapport? Appearance.

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Sales Nexus

APRIL 8, 2021

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford The mind is a very powerful force. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford The mind is a very powerful force. The Power of Mindset: The Tale of Two Reps. With that, we need to plan for a full year of COVID in 2021.

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Sales Nexus

APRIL 8, 2021

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford The mind is a very powerful force. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford The mind is a very powerful force. The Power of Mindset: The Tale of Two Reps. With that, we need to plan for a full year of COVID in 2021.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Power Posing" was my secret trick -- and I truly believed it helped calm me down. Their study, called "Power Posing", asked participants to sit in either a high-power pose or low-power pose for two minutes. A high-power pose is any open, expansive posture, whereas a low-power pose is a closed, contracted posture.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2024

Mozilla deprecated third-party cookies in its Firefox browser in 2018; Apple did the same for Safari in 2019. In January 2020 Google announced it would deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser, and here we are, more than four years later. Deprecation has been postponed again and again. billion default users have already been permitted to opt out.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The hard sell is easy. Just automate and repeat. Spam the e-mail lists. Program the ad buys to follow the online buyer around the web, wherever they go. Wouldn’t it be easier to just talk to the online buyer? Conversational marketing tries to do that. Conversational marketing is personalization, but it takes data and dialogue to make it so.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The sales landscape changed this year — likely forever. The pandemic accelerated the shift to digital sales and caused buyer expectations to irreversibly change. Sales leaders had to pivot to adapt and evolve their strategy, quickly. But how do you plan for a situation that is constantly changing? But things have changed.

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Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2015

Getting chosen to speak at a TED conference is no easy feat. Attending a TED conference -- as in, sitting in the audience -- is a little like applying for college, with a short essay-style application including questions like "What are you passionate about?" But to speak at a conference is even harder. Who gets chosen to speak? The question is, why?

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Hubspot

APRIL 15, 2020

Here, I'm going to tell you about the best practices we've learned as a result of listening to both candidate and interviewer feedback, so you can learn how to create your own powerful virtual recruitment process in 2020. Knowledge (and resources) is power. Be human, and keep the personal touch.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this guide, we’ll explain what makes emotional marketing so powerful and how you can leverage it to connect with your audience and encourage them to act. What does it mean to do something “like a girl”? This is the question Always asks in its empowering 2014 #LikeAGirl campaign , which sought to exploit and forever bury the term “.like

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Follow me to read upcoming research. My grandfather was a field sales rep for 3M in the ‘90s. . He was the definition of a “people person.”

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But remote work is also tough. You're hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from your colleagues; your home workspace probably lacks some of the bells and whistles of a traditional office; and your work-life boundaries can quickly become nonexistent. This book is divided into seven chapters, each dedicated to a pillar of WFH success.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 27, 2020

I call it the Secret Smile. In the next 25 minutes, I’m going to share everything I’ve learned from sending over 1,000,000,000 emails during the last five years. You read that right — 1 billion! Along the way, I’ve also sold over $100,000,000 worth of products and services. That number may sound crazy, but it’s true.

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Hubspot

MAY 18, 2015

2) Smiling Faces. A variety of studies (including several here on HubSpot) have demonstrated the effect a smiling face can have on your conversion rate. The human-free version of the HubSpot landing page below actually converted 24% better than the one with a smiling face that you're seeing. 1) Minimalistic Design.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 28, 2018

Smile like you mean it. One of the first cold call lessons I was given was to smile while delivering my pitch. It sounds cheesy, but you can actually tell when someone speaks with a smile on their face – even over the phone. Do you get voicemails from anyone other than your mother or grandmother? Keep the message short.

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 29, 2014

You are a few weeks into the brand new year. You wrote out your goals and got all excited about your 2014 plan. I want to know. What is different about 2014? That is the question I have been asking salespeople and entrepreneurs the last few weeks. Most people look at me with a strange face and say; Oh it’s better already! Get excited about it!

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 18, 2019

Probably when you hear the word Nordstrom, you can’t help but smile and think great service. What company do you work for? The name of your company is seen in your email address, email signature, business card and many other places. I can even look at your profile on social media and see the name of the company you work for.

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Openview

MAY 11, 2018

In today’s rapidly changing world of SaaS, artificial intelligence , big data and CRM, a firm handshake and killer smile only go so far. From smart cities and driverless cars to artificial intelligence, big data and SaaS, 2018 is ripe for companies to achieve record revenue and profits. That is, if they have the right sales team in place.

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Outreach

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the midst of a mundane work from home day, I opened my email to see and hear a smiling face talking to me instead of reading lines of text. Is this even new anymore or is it just normal? Whatever “it” is, we’re all in it together and we all are trying our best to do our jobs and find success for our companies. Did you say FREE? Yes, I did!

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