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Why Social Selling Is A Cold Caller’s Best Friend

We’re at a critical time in the sales industry. I wanted to write about this topic because I’m seeing a shift happening in the market.

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Upcoming Executive Webinar: How To Engage, Enable And Manage The Millennial Sales Rep

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In December of 2015, Millennials surpassed Baby Bloomers as the largest living generation. In fact, The U.S. Census Bureau found that more than one-in-three American workers today are Millennials. Millennial workers bring new attitudes towards technology and the workplace and B2B leaders need to adapt their management and enablement approaches to effectively engage, motivate and retain these resources.

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How Content Transforms Salespeople And Influences Buyers [With Visuals]

Does your sales team understand your content strategy? Chances are the answer is a resounding “No.” And you’re not alone. Recent research from Richardson, a Philadelphia-based sales training consulting firm says that there is a disconnect between the content that marketing produces and the needs that sales reps have to advance sales opportunities.

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The Business Case For Hiring More Women In Sales [Infographic]

In many ways, things are getting better for women in the workplace. They make up nearly half of the US workforce at 47%, according to the most recent data, and 51% of people employed in management and professional jobs.

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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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Hiring For Modern Sales Organization: A Prescriptive Approach


Sales Team Skills Accelerate RevenueDo you hire based on gut feeling, personality assessments, and the like? Full disclosure: I do, too. I bat less than 500 when it comes to hiring. As a sales leader, I’ve always hired based on gut feel. And the instinct of sales leaders is to hire people similar to you—the thinking being that if you’re successful, you want people with similar traits and styles so that they’ll also be successful.

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How To Create An Effective Service Level Agreement (SLA) To Improve Sales And Marketing Alignment

Service Level Agreement Sales MarketingMany organizations suffer a major problem where their sales and marketing departments sit in silos. The outcome is a slower follow-up of leads and a disjointed process of engaging MQLs. So how do you solve this?

Alignment between an organization’s sales and marketing departments is critical. But did you know that the Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an important way to achieve that alignment? The SLA is the document that builds trust and accountability between sales and marketing departments. It’s going through the act of building the SLA and readdressing the SLA every month in a meeting that builds the foundation for sales and marketing alignment. Without this document, your organization is susceptible to a decrease in the number of qualified leads and opportunities won.

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Two Sides Of The Same Coin: Sales And Marketing Alignment


If your marketing and sales teams are working at cross purposes, the resulting disconnect can eat into your company’s financial well-being. These two departments should function as opposite sides of the same coin, but it’s not always easy to know how to initiate effective collaboration. Research cited by SiriusDecisions found that B2B organizations with tightly aligned marketing and sales achieved 24% faster revenue growth and 27% faster profit growth over a three-year period.

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How To Improve Account Management With Social Selling

Account Management with Social SellingAccount management is a laborious task that many sales professionals have to execute daily. I’m not referring to Account Management (emphasis on capitals), which is a function of managing existing accounts for your company.

I’m describing the overall account management process of executing a series of tasks for any account you’re working on – this even applies to SDRs and Account Executives who are working on active opportunities.

Social Selling is a great channel for you to manage accounts as it enables the research, collaboration and communication into accounts at incredible speeds.

I wanted to make this post tactical, so here are some classic examples of things you can do right away to get started with the process. If you’re doing some of these already, I tip my hat to you – but don’t stop, accelerate your results by diving in deeper.

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The 7-Step Gameplan To Get Leadership Buy-In For Social Selling

7 Steps to Get Leadership

Getting a social selling program started is turning out to be a tough sell for many “change agents” within companies. While size and vertical of the company doesn’t seem to be a factor, maturity of their market certainly does. We know this after speaking with, literally, thousands of people across the world.