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Sales Lessons from Gareth Southgate and England at Euro 2024 ⚽   Anyone in sales or sales enablement knows the feeling. One minute you're celebrating a smashed quota, feeling like you're unstoppable 💪 The next, you're staring at a spreadsheet of missed targets, questioning every sales tactic you ever learned. It's a rollercoaster and sometimes it feels like the freefalls are never ending. 😭   This emotional pendulum swing reminds me a lot of Gareth Southgate and the England team so far at Euro 2024. Remember the heat he took after some shaky performances? The pundits were calling for his head, questioning every decision. Tactics? ❌ Lineup? ❌❌.   Then, Southgate did something bold yesterday. He subbed out his captain, Harry Kane, for a player, Ollie Watkins, that played ZERO minutes in the entire tournament. 😱 😱 A gamble some might say, but a gamble that paid off in spectacular fashion – Watkins bagged the winning goal against the Netherlands!   The lesson here? Even when the pressure's on, and the critics are circling, stay true to your strategy. Just because someone hasn't had their big moment yet doesn't mean they can't be your game-changer. So, the next time you're feeling like you're at the bottom of the sales well, take a deep breath, dust yourself off, and remember: 💠 Believe in your process. You got this far for a reason. Keep refining your approach, and the results will follow. 💠 Don't be afraid to make bold moves. Sometimes, shaking things up can lead to breakthroughs. 💠 There's always an "Ollie Watkins" out there. New ideas and approaches can come from unexpected places. Stay the course, and never lose sight of your self-belief. Let's go!!

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"I hope no-one from Cognism watches this..." 😅 The truth is, the SDR role isn’t dead - it’s evolved. Forget the days of hammering phones and spamming inboxes. The best SDRs today bring real value by ✅ knowing your business, ✅ understanding your pain points, ✅ delivering relevant content that keeps them front of mind. Even if it’s not the right time to buy, ✅ they know they’ll be top of your list when it is. In this clip, Global Sales Director (and £5-25M ARR ICP/GTM wiz) Paul Wingfield and I talk abut why we firmly believe SDRing is far from dead, and how companies like Cognism are nailing the modern SDR in to ICP game. 💬 What's your take on where SDRs win, or lose today? #sdr #cognism #sales #gtm #icp #MakingRevenueTick #podcast by Tick Talent

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🚀 Sales Confidence 2.0: Get SDRs Who Hit the Ground Running! 🚀 Tired of spending weeks onboarding new SDRs, only to realise they aren’t a fit for your fast-paced team? I know the challenges of hiring SDRs—getting the right person who’s not just great on paper but ready to sell from day one can be tough. Let’s face it, traditional CVs don’t tell you if someone has the grit to go out there to the market and have conversations. We provide pre-trained and pre-screened SDR candidates, ensuring your next hire can deliver results immediately, without the lengthy training process. Our Sales Confidence 2.0 ranking system highlights the most proactive, self-taught talent, so you can skip the guesswork and bring on SDRs who are proven to thrive in sales. 🌟 Meet Our Top Talent of today🌟 Jalil- an experienced B2C sales professional with entrepreneurial passion, showcased resilience and bravery in handling tough objections during his role play. Enrike -A charismatic listener who builds trust with strong questions, creating powerful, results-driven conversations. Zuhair- An adaptable professional with retail experience, skilled at handling tough conversations and solving problems creatively. Ali - An aspiring sales professional who thrives on the thrill of winning deals, bringing energy and enthusiasm to every prospecting challenge. Jiya - A versatile professional with a strong background in events, her energy and bubbly character from the role play can allow her to use humour to establish trust. Avishai- A future leader with a background in music, is a well-spoken and articulate professional who excels at getting to the point and handling objections with ease. If you are hiring reach out, remember 50% reduction fee.

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Here's the stark facts in sales today. - 31% of reps are making quota - Nearly half (44%) of deals slip - Sales cycles are double digits longer, win rates are double digits down - Inbound leads are down - Salesforce recognised the need to increase pipeline coverage to by 50% (from x2 to x3) Most of those we speak to recognise all these challenges. But they are stuck. "Do more with less" is the message. They have cut teams and fought for those remaining. Their organisations are stuck with blind hope and knives sharpening. The only solution they know is to fire and replace. Because the real problems aren't acknowledged. The market has changed and it's harder. But are teams are not more skilled. The same teams, that could achieve in the old world are failing in this one. And the last message anyone wants, is we need to spend some money to solve that. "That's your job isn't it?" cries the leadership to time-starved managers and leaders. Anyone want to guess what's going to happen to sales manager average tenure (already at an all-time low of 18 months)????

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I helped launch Salesloft , Gong , 6sense and many others in the UK via Sales Confidence I’ll be honest I’ve not been as excited about a new GTM technology as much as I am about Clay (And for once I’m not being paid - yet ;) ) The flexibility, possibilities and opportunity to impact your pipeline is incredible. This has the feel of the Salesforce , HubSpot ecosystem effect. I’m seeing consultants, agencies, experts popping up in my feed particularly in the US rapidly over the last 6 months. I’m not surprised they have just raised $62 M at a $500 M valuation! Varun Anand and Kareem Amin are doing amazing things! I don’t really see it as a SDR or sales person end user tool…tell me if you feel differently? However, it’s application to drive productivity and efficiency accross your sales team is epic! Are you using or thinking about Clay in your tech stack? What love to hear about your use cases. What’s working and what isn’t? Who in the UK or Europe should I be following?

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We conducted the largest sales coaching specific survey EVER. Now its time to talk through the results and share what we discovered. Next Tuesday at 2pm UK time, join myself and Imani Cracknell from Aircall . Standby for: - How Sales Reps really feel about the amount and quality of coaching they are currently receiving - The huge disconnect that exists between sellers and leaders which companies have to pay attention to. -The type of sales coaching sellers crave (and what they want less of) - The correlation between great coaching and quota attainment. These results are a huge wake up call for Sales Leaders, who are perhaps convinced they have a fulfilled and happy sales force when it comes to their personal development. This webinar will share the specific things you need to be focused on as you plan for 2025, to finally put coaching front stage of your agenda. Register your spot here: https://lnkd.in/eESH_MDq

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SDRs who deserve to be AEs... ✅ Help coach other SDRs ❌ Are in it for themselves ✅ Hit quota every month ❌ Sometimes smash it ✅ Build amazing internal relationships ❌ Moan about their AE and Manager ✅ Prioritise the team winning ❌ Think they're an individual contributor ✅ Train every single day ❌ Believe they know it all ✅ Compete against themselves ❌ Compete against others in the team ✅ Are genuinely happy when others win ❌ Get bitter when others are successful 99% of success is in WHO you are. And HOW you do things. Embrace being different. Embrace being better. What am I missing? ---- PS. My SDR to AE bootcamp closes tomorrow. 5 seats left; https://lnkd.in/ejFQERRF

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Are you tired of the same old sales scripts and automated messages? 🥱 It's time to step out of the automation rut and bring back the human touch to your sales outreach 💥 Join us for an virtual webinar aimed at SDRs hearing insights from Mike Hamberg, Head of Pipeline at YuLife and Emma Ward 🌜, SDR Manager at Lunio as they'll be unpacking... 🚀Innovative Outreach Techniques: Discover new, creative strategies to connect with prospects that go beyond the typical automated messages 💪 Enhanced Autonomy: Learn how to take control of your sales process, making decisions that reflect your unique personality and style 🤝 Building Authentic Relationships: Master the art of building genuine connections with prospects that lead to lasting professional relationships 🔥 Boosted Engagement and Conversion: Understand how personalized, creative outreach can significantly increase your response rates and conversion metrics Secure your spot now: https://lnkd.in/eJDrxKBk #steppingoutsideofautomation  #SDRswebinar  #salestips

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RANT: Time For School - Intelligent outbound calling puts ANY other B2B sales channel to shame... let's talk facts: https://lnkd.in/d4j7_WAY Want to enable your sales team to effortlessly have 1) Live conversations on-demand in 4.5 mins with ONLY impossible to reach named decision makers at your dream accounts (whether you have their direct dial or not) 2) Get smarter with every call I can get you set up for FREE... 1) To have more conversations in a day than you've likely had in the last month 2) Identify areas of opportunity to levelup your targeting, data, messaging, rep sales craft that you couldn't learn any other way Book in a time to discuss here: https://lnkd.in/dPTGV9qm I'll share my own cold calling metrics for 2024 year to date below... if you want to operate at this level... We can operationalise this in days for your reps to deliver your phone-optimised value proposition to your unqiue target list... #outboundsales #insidesales #sales #coldcalling #salesleadership ConnectAndSell, Inc CRO Connected Pavilion RevGenius GTMfund Modern Sales Pros

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Boost your cold email CTR by 60% with this simple change (and double your lead conversions in 30 days). Wondering why your cold email CTAs aren’t hitting the mark? It’s not just about having a strong ask—it’s about how and when you deliver it. → Start with rapport: Ease into the conversation with thoughtful questions relevant to their pain points. → Keep it focused: Stick to one clear action—don’t overload with multiple asks. → Tailor your CTA: Adapt your ask based on where you are in the conversation. In early emails, focus on engaging them first. → Close with clarity: Make your CTA easy to act on—no confusion, just a simple next step. Let's talk CTAs that convert! Drop me a message. #ColdEmail #B2BSales #MarketingTips #EmailOutreach

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Nailing Your Sales Discovery Calls: 5 Key Tips I’ve had a lot of reps, from SDRs to founders, asking about how to improve their discovery calls lately in coaching sessions. It’s great to see more SDRs recognising the clear difference between cold calls and discovery calls, and even better, more teams are getting SDRs to run their own discovery calls. This is such valuable prep and practice before moving into an Account Exec role – in my opinion, it builds the foundational skills needed to truly succeed in that next step. Recently, Richard Smith & Mark Ackers from MySalesCoach ran a great webinar on this, and Richard also shared a solid blog early this year. Here are 5 things that really stand out: 1️⃣ Prep is key: Know your prospect and their industry before the call. 2️⃣ Ask more, talk less: Get them talking, and really listen. 3️⃣ Don’t pitch too soon: Build trust by understanding their problems first. 4️⃣ Qualify properly: Make sure they’re the right fit before moving forward. 5️⃣ Clear next steps*: Always wrap up by agreeing on what happens next. *IMO, if you don't have a clear next step, you don't have a deal/ sales cycle Master this stage and your close rates will go up. I’ve linked the blog in the comments for more info. What would you add to make discovery calls even better? PS - If you need help in structuring better discovery-calls, and looking for Sales Coaching support, DM and I'll see where I can help #Sales #DiscoveryCalls #SalesPerfomance

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Sales leaders - What’s the general consensus on buying prospect (B2B) data lists these days (UK)? Yay or nay? Apart from the obvious scoping of the data around my ICP, what should I be looking for? And finally, who’s gonna recommend someone to provide this for me based on you having a great experience with that data company? Data will be managed via Hubspot, if that helps.

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Too many sales leaders are obsessed with scaling: - More calls - More leads - More emails - More meetings - More opportunities Without nailing: - ICP - Discovery - Messaging - Buyer journey - Value proposition Better to 2x what works than to 10x what doesn’t.

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Calling all B2B sales professionals. With our friends at Aircall, we need your help with our State of Sales Coaching survey 2024. 3-5 minutes of your time could win you amazing prizes - the latest AirPods, Sonos speaker, Nespresso machine, and of course MySalesCoach scholarships. Sales coaching is widely considered the most critical function of a frontline sales leader. Previous studies demonstrate that it significantly boosts win rates and quota attainment. However, many sales organisations find it challenging to establish and execute an effective sales coaching culture and strategy. Our survey seeks to identify the key trends, best practices, and impacts of sales coaching in 2024. You'll be first to get the study published in October packed with insight, data and trends. Leaders and Individual Contributors should complete the survey - with scholarship places up for grabs for each. Your voice really matters, complete today for a chance of these amazing prizes and to be first with the report. Link here to complete - https://lnkd.in/eKRcTPXV

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Lesson for sales leaders and individual contributors here... Yes LinkedIn is a great way to get in touch with prospects. Yes, automation can help. But you can also do that in a very wrong way... 1) Connection request with zero personalisation 👿 2) Pitch slap right after I accepted the connection 👿 3) That was sent on a Saturday, proposing "a quick only demo today". 👿 4) My response, addressing that total failure in terms of automation got zero reply. 👿 5) Now, 4 (!) years later, the next message (strange cadence...) 😲 6) Sent Friday afternoon at 16:58, proposing "a slot later this week". 👿 A real shame for the sales industry - this is the type of outreach that makes our profession look so bad... Or is it just me being overly sensitive? Have a great weekend! Unplug, and get rest so you can be fired up and ready to go again on Monday morning!

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Daily Vlog 15/100 - A-Level Results / Pass or Fail. Don’t bother going to Uni - get into sales Instead. I’ll be posting daily videos for the next 100 days on the trials, tribulations and posting revenue results publicly. Sales Confidence 2.0 Helping people get sales jobs Goal: Help 1000 people enter the sales profession in 2024 Thought of the day - Sales is fun, challenging and the most exciting career to get into. No degree or academics required. Good attitude, strong personality and motivation is all your need. ——— Follow me for the journey! Want a sales role register in the comments Hiring salespeople DM me Upskilling your sales team DM me

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Reduce your cold calling costs by 90% Our AI agents can help you reduce your cold calling costs by 90% and improve your results by 200%, heres how. All sales people want to prioritise speaking to prospects who are prequalified and serious. Thats where our AI agents come in, the interact will all new enquiries no matter from where or at what time. Our agents prequalify the prospects by asking a series of questions and then based on the answers our agents will arrange a call for the prospect to speak with a member of your sales team, in this way your sales team are only speaking to prequalified prospects who are serious. We don't stop there, our AI agents also reach out to your cold, old and dead data to revive them, answer any questions and then arrange a call for the prospect to speak with a member of your sales team. The best bit is - you only pay us on results DM for more information

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Removing friction from the buying process equates to objection handling - both move the buyer along the journey

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