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7 Reasons No One Is Returning Your Calls [Roundup]

7-reasons-no-one-returning-your-calls.jpgWelcome to your sales weekly roundup for March 31 – April 7. This week we’ve got 7 killer insights why no one is returning your sales calls, what makes a great manager from the perspective of 60 SDRs, and how to motivate your reps so they don’t quit. Enjoy!

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Setting Yourself Up To Crush Quota With Your Channel Sales Team

crush-quota-channel-sales.jpgWith the benefits of a channel program so well-established for any business looking to extend its reach into new, unexplored markets (and amp up its ROI in doing so), it seems like an obvious move to give a channel program a shot.

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The Biggest Flaw In Your Partner Sales Process

biggest-flaw-partner-sales-process.jpgLike in any area of business, the channel has its do’s and don’ts, its conventional wisdom about the best ways to operate and profit. But as partnering continues to grow in popularity and complexity, some of those old standby truisms about the right way to recruit, incentivize, and manage a channel team don’t apply the way they did even five years ago. It’s a new and rapidly changing world of partnering out there—the rules are changing.  

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Horrible Sales Emails II And How Social Selling Can Help

horrible-sales-emails.jpgMost salespeople have sent and received their fair share of unwelcomed emails. They wake up, check their inbox, and glaze over rows upon rows of standard subject lines. Maybe they’ll remember a time when they took on the blast approach, simply because they didn’t know any better.

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Bias In Sales: Will It Help, Haunt or Harm You?

bias sales help haunt harmAlthough the term bias is generally viewed as negative, in the world of sales you want bias. Here’s why.

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Cold Calling Advocates: Sincere, But Sincerely Wrong

cold calling wrongQuick, tell me what’s wrong with this strategy: let’s cut down a rainforest to print a book.

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3 Reasons To Use Video In Your Prospecting

video prospecting salesVideo seems to be everywhere these days. Your prospects are watching marketing videos on your website, seeing videos on Facebook and Instagram, and getting hilarious content from their friends on SnapChat. Video may be the coolest content on the block, but there’s one place it’s sadly lacking – prospecting.

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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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New Research: The Impact of Social Selling

Garnering insights from hundreds of sales, marketing and enablement leaders and professionals worldwide, the first bi-annual “Social Selling 2017 Trends” report examines how companies that have formalized a social selling process compare to those that lack one. Organizations are about to invest more heavily in social selling in 2017. But how they do it will be the defining factor between a thriving pipeline and a faltering one.

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Why Your Buyers Never Email You Back

buyers-never-email-back.jpgIt’s shocking to me how many terrible emails I still receive from sales professionals. Literally every day I receive at least 1-2 emails from sales reps pitching me their product/service that leave me completely dumbfounded.