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Sales Leaders: You Don’t Need Permission To Use Social Selling

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If you believe that technology is changing the world faster than ever before in our civilization, you’re not wrong. It is. And it’s not stopping.

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Less Reps, More Revenue: 4 Ways Social Increases Baseline Performance

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Are you being tasked with doing more with less? Increasingly, more sales leaders are. This is the new world that we’re living in.

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The Biggest Influencer Of Your LinkedIn SSI Score

boost-ssi-score.jpgAs an active social selling organization, it’s imperative that you focus on driving your SSI score up. And the reason we say that is because the SSI score is a conglomerate of four key areas that determine whether social application is happening.

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Blog Sales and Marketing Sales Process

Are Salespeople Allergic to Content?

It’s a fact, it’s real. And there is no point of ignoring it. Salespeople are allergic to content. The reasons are far and they’re varied and the list is long, but salespeople are not seeing the value of sharing content. After training 80,000 salespeople worldwide, here are some common things that we’ve picked out on why salespeople are not sharing content. But, before we go into that, let’s talk about the value up front.

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Blog Sales 2.0 Sales Management

Cold Calling: The Salesperson’s Paradox

Seth Godin’s words drip in gold. Actually, that would be an understatement.

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The One Salesperson Who Will Never Be Replaced By AI

sales-ai-replace.jpgIf you believe that this is truly the age of the customer, as Forrester says it is, then customers are firmly in the seat of control. Customers are driving a lot of power in transactions today, and it’s all because of information democratization. The Internet, social, and digital technologies are bringing customers out of the woodwork to conduct buying research at record speeds, so they can bypass salespeople and traditional marketing assets more than any other time in history.

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Do You Believe In The Ghost of Selling Yet To Come? Don’t Be The Scrooge Of Sales [With Data]

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The day is already here where our buyers are really different. And if you don’t believe that, then you’re in for a big, big Christmas surprise.

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Will Sales Professionals Get Disrupted By Technology?

sales-disruption-technology.jpgWhere were you on December 7, 2016? I believe that’s a question we’ll all ask in the future or one that will be overlooked despite the day’s importance.

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Blog Social Selling Tools

Could Facebook Be The Newest Social Selling Tool?

facebook social selling toolIs Facebook moving into the social selling space? And if so, could Facebook be the next LinkedIn killer? Members at Facebook’s development team revealed to Sales for Life executives the company is planning to expand into the professional network space by 2019.

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New (LinkedIn) Interface, Old Lessons: Why Top Sales Teams Manage Change

new-linkedin-interface.jpgThere have been stirrings in the market about changes to the LinkedIn UX (user experience). I’ll be the first to admit these changes are inevitable. Just like with any company, LinkedIn as a product must continue to evolve. I’m more concerned with the lessons LinkedIn’s evolution can teach us. But first, the updates.