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The Death of Revenue: Why You’ll Lose 71% of Your Customers in 2020

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Did you know that the average B2B company is at risk of losing nearly three-quarters of their current customers in the next four years?

A massive Gallup research study of over 108,000 respondents worldwide found that only 29 percent of B2B customers are entirely engaged, while the remaining 71 percent are potentially ready to switch their loyalty to competitors. How can you stem this discouraging tide?

Below is an overview of truths uncovered, together with the best practices that can keep your company on the right side of these numbers:

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The Content We Need – Yet Another Request From Sales

 

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High Performing Sales Teams Know When To Press The Hard Reset

Hard Reset Conventional WisdomOver the last couple of years, I’ve attended nearly 100 sales kick-offs and quarterly business reviews. And at each one of these events, I’m always amazed at how much companies focus on the status quo. Every time, they focus these three- to four-day events on product-based information. They look at new tools and products they’re launching. They go through the features, advantages, and benefits, talk tracks, and call sheets for these new products. But where is the skills-based training?

When you look at the agenda for the few days, only a small portion is dedicated to skills-based training. I’m astounded at how many companies continue to focus on the status quo within the skills of their sales professionals. They’re running all kinds of new initiatives, new communications plans, new territories, and new products—but they’re not dedicating enough time to building the core skills of the sales professionals.

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8 Research Hacks That Create Insanely Effective Lead Gen Campaigns

 

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Challenging The Status Quo: Cold Calling And Sales Quotas

Cold Calling Status Quo“Brace yourself. This will upset a lot of people.”

That’s what one of my colleagues said after they read this. And then a few other colleagues basically agreed. Additionally, I sent this blog to three of my closest friends who are top producers at various companies. And, for good measure, I sent it to one of my favorite sales trainers from back in the day who still runs a very busy and profitable cold calling training company.

The net result? They all agreed with me. So, happy reading.

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3 Key Ways To Measure Your Social Selling Efforts

As a sales operations or sales enablement leader, are you constantly struggling with these two problems in your business?

  1. How do you get buy-in and accountability for Social Selling? In other words, how do you prove to senior executives that Social Selling will be effective and sell them the story?
  2. If you do sell them the story and are moving forward, how are you going to measure Social Selling success?
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Content Round Up: How to Leverage Social Media

 

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Executive Webinar Is Sales Prep Killing Your Pipeline? Empower Your Reps With More Insight On Their

 

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From Couch to Pro Blogger: How to Get Over Your Fears of Blogging

 

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Game-Winning Sales Strategy: Why Practice Is Key [Infographic]

Are you bringing your A-game to your customer conversations? Without the right support, coaching and reinforcement, sales professionals may find it difficult to hit their targets.

To turn your core performers into top performers, training with proper reinforcement is critical for success. In fact, without on-the-job reinforcement, sales professionals lose 87% of training insights within one month. When training and coaching is combined, there is an 88% improvement on impact.

Check out this infographic by CEB about the right game plan for a game-winning sales strategy.