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The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

6 Leadership Questions Sales Managers Must Ask + More

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It's Friday! And it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. 6 Leadership Questions Sales Managers Must Ask — SalesForce

What does it mean to be a sales leader that adds value to your organization—both the leadership above you, and the salespeople below? Here are six questions to get you thinking about how sales leaders can measure and improve their effectiveness.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

What Are the Odds? Use Inbound Marketing to Get Your Prospects to Come to You

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I am one of the Managing Partners here at The Center for Sales Strategy. I shift back and forth between working in the business and working on the business. I am working in the business when I am interacting with my team members while we all strive to serve clients well. But every week, I also carve out time to step back and think about the ways to improve the business. Like any small business, one of the key things we are continually trying to do is improve sales. This is more interesting for us in some ways because our business is sales. We get hired by B2B companies and non-profits to help them improve sales. We work with some of the smartest people around because it takes a smart person to know that they will be better with outside perspective, outside help. That’s where we come in.
 
When it comes to improving sales, you need to think marketing as well as sales. From a marketing standpoint, we need to have clarity on the problems we solve and be good at articulating that on our website and other branding materials. If we do that well, it will lead to sales opportunities.
Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales

Best Practices for Lead Response Management + More

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We've come to the end of another week, and now it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Best Practices for Lead Response Management — InsideSales.com

When are the best days/times to make contact with your leads? How many attempts should you be making? Learn what the most successful companies are doing to connect with and convert their leads in this infographic.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

Peer-to-Peer Coaching: Your New Secret Weapon + More

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It's Friday! Hope you've had a good week! Now it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Peer-to-Peer Coaching: Your New Secret Weapon — SalesForce

Peer-to-peer coaching reinforces best practices and builds a deeper level of trust with your peers. This article examines the benefits that peer-to-peer coaching can bring to sales training. Think about what would be possible if each manager finished training with an unconditional commitment to proactively coach each other.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

10 Habits to Adopt Now to Be Better at Your Job in 2016  + More

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Happy New Year! We've collected our favorite posts and articles that we've read this week, and we're sharing them here with you. Get ready for a great 2016!

1. 3 Sales Tips to Pounce on Before the Ball Drops — Salesforce

Streamline your sales tasks with technology. This post from Salesforce explains how implementing three tips will help you be more productive in 2016.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

5 New Year's Resolutions to Boost Sales Results + More

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Here we are at the end of another week, and the weekend before the holiday! In this post, we'll look at how to make sure you don't come back to an overflowing inbox and how you can use the downtime to plan to make 2016 your most successful sales year yet!

1. 5 New Year's Resolutions to Boost Sales Results — Salesforce

We love the start of a new year because it's a great opportunity to set new goals and get a fresh start. This post from Salesforce suggests 5 excellent goals for the new year that will boost your company's sales.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic) + More

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Hope you all have had a wonderful week! It's Friday, and time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic) — Entrepreneur

We've all been in those meetings: the kind that are a complete waste of time and that bore us to tears. But meetings don't have to be useless. This infographic offers nine ways to make them more effective.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

How Marketing Can Prepare Sales For Success in 2016 + More

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We've come to the end of the week, so it's Friday and time for us to share what we've been reading online this week! Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. How Marketing Can Prepare Sales For Success in 2016 — SBI

One of the main purposes of the Marketing team is to set the Sales team up for success. This post digs into how to streamline marketing operations for efficiency and effectiveness.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

7 Signs You Need a Sales Enablement Solution + More

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Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It's Friday, so it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. 7 Signs You Need a Sales Enablement Solution — SalesForce

Only one-third of sales reps meet or exceed quota, and only 10 percent are consistently high-performers. Sales enablement software can help to change that. Here are 7 signs that you should see what a sales enablement solution could do for you.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up

Native Ads May Help Marketers Combat Ad Blocking + More

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Happy Friday! We've come to the end of another week, and it's time for us to share what we've been reading online this week. Here are our "best" from around the web.

1. Native Ads May Help Marketers Combat Ad Blocking — Media Post

Good content is more important than ever. Native ads, or sponsored stories, aren't just ads—they're valuable to the reader. As such, they don't get blocked the way display ads do. This article from Media Post explains the dynamics, and why native ads are the future of effective advertising.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales Wrap-up