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Best Practices for Selling to Government Agencies

The US government spends over $235 billion on goods and services each year. Because of this, selling your product or service to a government agency can be a great way to increase profits. A government buyer also offers consistency, at least for the duration of your contract. However, there ...

Published: Sep 10th, 2018

Paradigm of Strategic Value-Based Discounting for the B2B Industry

Discounted pricing is a strategic tool, which when used correctly can drive a variety of business goals, from marketing through to sales strategy. This best practice PDF explores the paradigm of strategic value-based discounting for both marketers and salespeople involved in the business-to...

Published: Jul 30th, 2018

How to Build a Data-driven Sales Team

Many companies are not happy with their sales reps’ data collection process. In fact, 79 percent of opportunities go unrecorded in CRM. So how do you get managers the data they need when sales reps hate data entry? Learn how to build a data-driven sales team.

Published: May 14th, 2018

Best Ways to Prepare for an Event

A few tips to prepare you for an event and be successful. Whether it is before, during or after you have to make the best impression. 1st interactions are the most important!

Published: Mar 29th, 2018

BANT is Not a Qualified Lead

Dan Marx says "BANT is an old way of qualifying leads. Unfortunately, call centers still use this as criteria for a qualified lead. BANT (Budget, Authority, Needs, and Timeline) only identifies a target market, it does nothing to qualify a lead." Download the article to learn why....

Published: Aug 7th, 2017

5 Data-Driven Best Practices to Boost Sales Onboarding Success

The key to rapid — and successful — sales onboarding is to establish a data-driven process and implement supporting technologies that can both manage and measure onboarding effectiveness. In Qstream's latest eBook, they discuss the benefits of a data-driven approach that enables sales leaders...

Published: Mar 28th, 2017

How To Attract, Hire, And Retain Inside Sales Talent During The Biggest Hiring Frenzy In History

Attracting, hiring and retaining people is harder than ever before as companies compete for the same, small, limited pool of revenue-generating talent. It’s an insidious problem that can thwart inside sales initiatives and diminish a company’s ability to hit sales and revenue goals. &...

Published: Nov 30th, 2016

The Ultimate Sales Coaching Playbook

Download ExecVision's entire Ultimate Sales Coaching Playbook.

Published: Nov 14th, 2016

Stop the Numbers Game on LinkedIn That Even the Social Selling Experts Are Playing

See how LinkedIn marketing, social media and social selling consultants like Jay Baer, Sandra Clark, Josh Turner, Darren Kurilko, Jeff Molander, John Nemo and Brynn Tillman are playing a numbers game, and how their approach can affect your success if you have a complex sales process that requires re...

Published: Oct 6th, 2016

Turn Service Reps into Bench Strength for Your Inside Sales Team

Left in the lurch when a member of your Inside Sales team turns over? Here are five ways to turn your customer service organization into an incubator for Inside Sales talent that’s ready to step into a revenue generating role from Day One.

Published: May 31st, 2016

"Stupid Pet Tricks" for Sales Pros - 8 Language Tips You Can Take to the Bank

Selling is essentially about influential language skills. In this highly practical white paper, you can learn some unique approaches to dealing with resistant buyers. You might not feel comfortable trying all 8 techniques, but as you read them, you can recognize that your growing verbal agility (you...

Published: May 2nd, 2016

CRM for CEOs: Are you looking at the right data?

As a CEO, you are expected to know a good deal of very accurate data about your sales organization. How can you be sure you're looking for the right data, and at the right data?

Published: Mar 22nd, 2016

Five Reasons You're Losing to a Competitor

Are you tired of losing to your competitors? Is there a particular competitor that you find yourself constantly coming up against? Is there a new competitor in your space that's starting to gain traction? While every industry is obviously different, there are similarities in w...

Published: Mar 22nd, 2016

Get Better Leads

Optimize Lead Quality by Addressing the Sales vs Marketing Debate The work of getting better leads often sparks a conflict that goes something like this: Marketing believes sales is not following up on their leads. Sales believes the leads they receive are unqualif...

Published: Mar 20th, 2016

Focused Outreach Outbound Prospecting

Learn Strategies that Deliver Beyond Your Current Expectations. Are you tired of hacking through a jungle of information about outbound prospecting? This Focused Outreach - Outbound Prospecting Best Practice Guide will give you ten step-by-step practical...

Published: Feb 1st, 2016

Account Planning Best Practices

A thorough account plan provides many useful details about an account. Details are not useful unless they are put to use in a winning strategy. A good sales manager will use each detail from the account plan to formulate a particular part of the strategy that results in more closed sales. This artic...

Published: Dec 7th, 2015

Building the Right Team to Scale a Startup

For early-stage entrepreneurs, getting the product or service right is critical. Botch this and the company does not even make it out of the blocks. In this article, you'll hear what founders need to do when the company gets beyond proof of concept into the "second stage," when scaling ...

Published: Nov 23rd, 2015

A Look Inside the Recent FCC TCPA Declaration - and What are the Next Steps

Now, more than ever, it is important for companies and sales teams to be in compliance with industry regulations and restrictions, including the recent FCC TCPA ruling for wireless dialing. This article takes a look at what the recent FCC TCPA Declaration means for sales organizations and best pract...

Published: Oct 23rd, 2015

Getting To BANT: What Questions To Ask

Many have heard of the term BANT to qualify leads, but don't know the questions to ask. Get to BANT quicker with these helpful questions.

Published: Sep 14th, 2015

The Importance of Call Scripts

Your reps need to make the most out of every call. When you have a top performer who clearly does one part better than the rest, convert it to call scripts, and help everyone to perform like your top performer.

Published: Aug 31st, 2015

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