November, 2013

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Hire Better Sales People, Part 2

Anthony Cole Training

'In my previous post, I discussed the cause and effect of hiring better sales people and generating sales growth. I took a dive into the first step of correcting that recruiting problem by creating a profile that attracts more of the right people. This next part will deal with finding those people. In today''s world, communicating nearly everything is done online.

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How to Know You’re Interviewing an “A” Player

A Sales Guy

'You want a killer way to know if you’re talking to an “A” player during an interview? There is one thing that the best of the best sales people do during an interview that others don’t. They ask the questions that matter. Let’s stop and think about it for a minute. What is an interview? An interview is a way for an employer to evaluate the ability of a candidate to do a job.

Hiring 120
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5 Marketing Automation Do's and Don'ts

eTourism

If you've ever daydreamt about sitting back and letting someone else do all your marketing for you, implementing a marketing automation system could be the answer. Well, almost.

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What to Do When You’re Prospects Don’t Keep Their Word

A Sales Guy

'We’ve all been there. Prospects say they will buy or they want your service or they will call you back and they don’t. They just disappear, in spite of their promises. Ray is a sales person with a client and he was struggling with this very challenge. I asked him to share his experience with this community, because his story is solid. You’re going to enjoy this.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Why Deals Get Stuck

A Sales Guy

'Deals get stuck for one reason and one reason only. Someone doesn’t believe what your selling is worth the effort, time or money at the moment. Deals get stuck because they lack urgency. Yes, your product or service solves a problem. It may make your customer’s world easier. It may help them launch a new product, reduce profits, minimize waste or whatever, but regardless of all that the buyer or someone else just doesn’t think that’s enough.

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When an Opportunity Arises, Can You Deliver?

A Sales Guy

'Last week I bought a new dining set for my home in the mountains. Because I’m not there often, I didn’t schedule a delivery date. I wasn’t sure when I was going to be up there to take delivery. The salesman told me that wasn’t a problem and to just call at least two days in advance to schedule the delivery. Well, I’m going this weekend, so I called them on Wed.

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The 25 Hour Day — How are you using it?

A Sales Guy

'We have been given a gift today. We’ve been given a free hour, an hour we can do anything we want. In a society where we are all squeezed for time, struggling to make due with the minutes we have, today is the ultimate gift, it’s a 25 hour day. You have an extra 60 minutes today, one whole hour. What are you going to do with it? You can sleep an extra hour like most do or you could be deliberate in using it.

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Marissa Mayer Drops Mad Wisdom at Dreamforce –

A Sales Guy

'Marissa Mayer impressed the f**k out of me at Dreamforce today. She was the afternoon keynote. It was called a keynote, but it was more of an interview with Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s CEO. I would have preferred Benioff sat on the sidelines for this one and let Marissa control the stage. Inspite of the format, Marissa nailed it, “it” being leadership and running a company.

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How to Prioritize your SaaS Customers to Maximize Revenue

A Sales Guy

'Your existing customer base is gold, right? We’ve all heard it before, the cost of acquiring a new customer far out weighs keeping an existing one. This is even more true in the SaaS world. More and more companies are rolling out SaaS business models. It just makes sense. Why? Companies don’t want to manage expensive hardware infrastructures, deal with complicated software rollouts, upgrades and more.

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Success Saturdays – What Happens When You Make it?

A Sales Guy

'I loved this short but quick hitting video. Most content surrounding success today addresses what happens when you get there. There is little info about what happens when success is actually achieved. I think that’s because so few of us reach the success we want. The less successful is a bigger market. Smaller market or not, once we achieve the success we’re looking for staying there takes just as much work.

Sales 110
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Diving into Diversity: Decoding the Foundations of Inclusion in Hospitality Talent Acquisition

Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course

Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i

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Sunday Morning Reading – Grit, Curiosity and Character

A Sales Guy

'I’m currently reading How Children Succeed by Paul Tough. If you have young kids, it’s a must read. How Children Succeed challenges the notion that cognitive abilities and test scores are the key to success and postulates that it’s actually grit, curiosity and character that makes our kids successful. . The book is filled with killer stories and research laying out what it takes to be successful in society,particularly in school and what the children who succeed are doing.

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I Hate When This Happens

A Sales Guy

'It seems like every 4 or 5 months I get into a real funk when it comes to this blog. I get, what equates to writers block. I just can’t come up with any good topics to write about. I am a streaky writer. If you watch basketball you’ll know what I mean. There are some shooters in basketball who appear to be just lights out for awhile, but then can’t make a basket to save their life.

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Maximise Your Blog: The Post-Publication Checklist

eTourism

Nothing beats hitting 'publish' on a new blog post, but even when the new content is finished and up on your site, there's work to be done to maximise its reach. This simple post-publication action plan will help you get more out of each blog you publish.

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Mobile Website Checklist

eTourism

Mobile web usage is at an all-time high and most businesses know that a mobile strategy is an essential component of a successful online presence. Building a mobile-friendly version of your resort's website is the first step, but what happens next?

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A Buyer’s Guide to Future-Proofing Your Restaurant Tech Stack

The race to 100% digital is on. With the restaurant industry still in the early innings of its digital transformation, brands need an airtight strategy when it comes to building out their tech stack. Download the buyer’s guide to learn where to prioritize your efforts and get the most out of every investment.

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How To Use Vine to Market Your Resort

eTourism

It has only been ten months since Twitter introduced its video sharing service Vine, and in this short time the app has gathered more than 13 million users worldwide.

Market 52
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5 Quick SEO Tips

eTourism

Great SEO isn't just about ranking highly for those carefully chosen keywords and phrases anymore.

Market 52
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Four Ways to Customise Your Facebook Campaign For Christmas

eTourism

Christmas is just around the corner, and as people begin to decorate their homes for the season, it's time to think about how you can change up your resort's Facebook strategy to promote engagement and spread some festive spirit.

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5 Basic Rules For Better Content Marketing

eTourism

Google's 'Hummingbird' switch up has made it more important than ever to continually create high quality content to get noticed in search results and drive traffic to your resort's website.

Market 40
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Beyond The Meeting Room: Luxury Magazine Resource

Escape into a world of luxury and dive into the future of tech, fun takes on the American pastime, and many inspirational individuals. With engaging reports on fashion, food, travel, finance, sports, and more, download now and enjoy the read!

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Six Ways to Optimise Your Social Media Presence

eTourism

Social media has become an essential component of every business's digital marketing toolbox. Used effectively, it's one of the best tools at your disposal for generating buzz around your resort, promoting guest engagement and driving bookings.

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What Twitter's Visual Media Update Means For Your Resort

eTourism

Twitter has come a long way since the days when simply posting a few lines of text and a link to an image or blog post was the limit of its marketing capabilities.

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Top Travel Marketing Trends For 2014

eTourism

Want to know what the online travel marketing industry has in store for 2014?

Market 52
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Bing Adds TripAdvisor Content to Search Results

eTourism

TripAdvisor recently announced that content from its vast portfolio of hotel reviews will now appear in the Bing search results pages.

Hotels 40
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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Pinterest Introduces 'Place Pins'

eTourism

Once upon a time, travel enthusiasts planned their adventures by sticking pins in a wall map.

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Rejection and the DNA of Sales People

A Sales Guy

'The other day I was listening to a RadioLab podcast called Cut and Run. It was a RadioLab short. I love RadioLab. You can listen the the podcast here. This particular show tried to answer the question why Kenyan long distance runners are so much better than everyone else? I’ve always known that Kenyan’s are really good at long distance, but what I didn’t know is that it’s not all Kenyan’s.

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Sales People and How They Create a Competitive Advantage

A Sales Guy

'While at Dreamforce last month, I attended a CEB session on insights and the challenger sale. I’ve read the book, I’ve worked with clients who are implementing it. There wasn’t anything new I learned, BUT it did remind me how important sales people are to an organization and how we make a huge difference in the success in our clients business.

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Success Saturday: One of the Best Talks on Success I Almost Missed — And Glad I Didn’t

A Sales Guy

'I stumbled on this video on Storeboard.com. It’s a speech from Barbara Corcoran for the 2013 Entrepreneur Magazine ‘s 5th Annual Growth Conference. I almost didn’t watch this video. It showed up in my Twitter stream: What got me to watch was, it was Barbara. I love the Shark Tank and wanted to learn more about Barbara. I didn’t know anything about her.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.