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4 Sales Problems You Need To Fix In 2016 [Infographic]

Attention sales professionals, which one of you enjoys putting accurate and timely data into your CRM? Most likely just a minority of you all because 53.85% of sales forces have the challenge of inputting inaccurate pipeline data into their CRMs. Another challenge sales professionals face is the need for more training and better training options to help with their development. Is your organization providing the right training options for your team?

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How To Leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator For Account-Based Selling

As an Enterprise SDR in a startup environment, I sometimes have to wear multiple hats when converting Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) into Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Our marketing team does a stand-up job of generating leads through content creation & our marketing automation platform.

Although I have inbound leads to follow up with, I am also responsible for generating outbound leads within key target accounts. Whether your sale professionals have the same responsibilities, or are focused entirely on outbound sales into targeted accounts, LinkedIn Sales Navigator has to be the best tool on the market for getting this job done.

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So You Just Purchased LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Now What?

If you or your company has made the strategic decision to implement LinkedIn Sales Navigator, it’s time to start thinking about adoption and usage. After all, your input into the program will determine the outcome or results you’ll ultimately attain.

One of the top 5 questions we’re asked by sales, marketing and enablement leaders about LinkedIn Sales Navigator is: what can I expect or what do I get?

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15 Apps For The Traveling Executive

Your phone is your office now. The IDC forecasts that by 2020 around three out of four US workers will be fully mobile. This is especially true for executives that travel numerous times a year for business.

Get comfortable inside your new office with some apps that make your life a breeze. We’ll start with the essentials and then move on to some massive productivity gainers. Before boarding for your next flight, make sure you’re well equipped with these lifesaving apps. Give them a try and enjoy yourself office on-the-go.

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A Broke Salesperson’s Guide To Free Prospecting Tools

“Don’t poison the watering hole.” There’s a bit of old-time cowboy wisdom to start your day moving in the right direction. Say what you want about cowboys, but they understood how to do prospecting the right way.

Poisoning the watering hole means overworking your prospecting source. When everyone on your sales team is running the same LinkedIn searches for prospects, there’s trouble on the horizon. You could pay for prospects, but there’s no guarantee that expensive leads are quality leads. Instead, you could find and qualify prospects in minutes for $0 if you only knew where to look.

Don’t sweat it, cowboy. No matter what other Social Selling problems you encounter, finding high quality leads online shouldn’t be one of them. The World Wide Web is a rich gold mine, with somewhere around 3.2 billion active leads. Here are free tools to help you find, qualify and contact them quickly. The rest of your team probably doesn’t know about these tools yet, so feel free to share as you see fit.

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The Only Thing Standing Between You And Your Social Selling Success

The Only Thing Standing Between You And Your Social Selling SuccessIt’s not you, it’s me.

That’s the typical TV line we all know. Anytime we want to try and let someone down in a sensitive way, we find ourselves repeating these words.

But alas, I’m here to burst your bubble. If you’re not succeeding with Social Selling, it’s not me, or your manager, or your company, or LinkedIn, or Twitter, or anyone else.

It’s you.

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4 Premium LinkedIn Features You Can Totally Score For Free

One of the coolest parts about Social Selling is that there are many tools and resources available to you. Social media and supporting apps can and should be give you immensely valuable tools for bringing in new business. You just have to know where to look for them.

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Fly Under The Radar With These 7 Prospecting Tips

Why are sales people spending so much time on LinkedIn? If you’re asking that question, you might not know all the “under the radar” tools that can make you more productive for lead generation and prospecting. These Social Selling tips are not obvious, and their relative obscurity allows the people who use them to go farther and faster than you. That ends today. Log on and strap yourself in, because there are no brakes once the leads start rolling in:

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Strike Like Lightning With Salesforce CRM Redesign, What This Means For You

Salesforce created the market for Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM tools in 1999, slowly attracting attention from companies looking for a change in their solutions. While its CRM solutions provide many benefits for your sales activities, the company has kept the same basic layout and interface since its introduction. Until now, that is. Salesforce Lightning is a complete redesign of the Salesforce interface, bringing it up to date with a modern UI and adding features based on the feedback they’ve received from over 150,000 users.

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12 Sure-Fire Ways To Find New Prospects On LinkedIn

12 Sure-Fire Ways to Find New Prospects on LinkedinIs your pipeline full? It should be. There are 255 people born every minute, so you could have over 1,275 new leads by the time you finish this blog. The problem is qualifying them adequately. If you want to become a Social Selling rock star, you’ve got to qualify as you search. In the days before LinkedIn, you had to be lucky or charming. Now, you just have to be smart. It all starts with this magic 8-ball of clever ways to locate your best leads on LinkedIn.