Paul Petersen interviews Jill Konrath, author of More Sales in Less Time. Jill Konrath’s career is defined by her relentless search for fresh strategies that actually work in today’s sales world. Jill’s newsletters are read by 125,000+ sellers worldwide. Her popular blog has been syndicated on numerous business and sales websites.

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Speaker

Jill Konrath is also a frequent speaker at sales conferences and kick-off meetings. Sharing her fresh sales strategies, she helps salespeople to speed up new customer acquisition and win bigger contracts. Her clients include IBM, GE, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Staples and numerous mid-market firms.

Author

Jill is the author of three bestselling, award-winning books. Her newest book, Agile Selling shows salespeople how to succeed in a constantly changing sales world. SNAP Selling focuses on what it takes to win sales with today’s crazy-busy buyers. And Selling to Big Companies provides step-by-step guidance on setting up meetings with corporate decision makers.

Thought Leader

As a business-to-business sales expert, Jill’s ideas and insights are ubiquitous in multiple forums, both on and offline.

THURSDAY - 7/12 11am Pac - We talked with Jack Kosakowski, the CEO (US Division) of Creative Agency. We will be covering topics around sales, social selling and Small Business Trends. In particular we will cover how sales people use social media, how to increase conversions, the roll content plays in sales and how its created, along with how SMB owners use and collect data for the sales process. The host is Paul Petersen.

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Headquartered in Salt Lake city, UT, GoldMine is “published” by Ivanti.  GoldMine is a leading provider of CRM Solutions for small and mid-sized businesses worldwide.  More than 25 years ago, GoldMine helped pioneer the CRM industry and they have been around for so many years because of their focus on being simple, affordable and proven.  www.goldmine.com

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This is episode two from the last program on CRM Radio entitled: How to Fix the Broken Customer Experience.  In this episode Augie MacCurrach, CEO of Customer Portfolios discusses how and why a company should look at their P&L differently, through a different lens. He talks about:

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• The advantage of a single view of the customer

About Our Guest Augie MacCurrach

Augie MacCurrach is CEO and founder of Boston-based Customer Portfolios. Under his leadership since 2001, Customer Portfolios provides its clients with actionable customer insight, strategy, analytics, and omnichannel marketing to move the needle on customer value and incremental revenue.

About Customer Portfolios

At Customer Portfolios (CP), it is our mission to increase the value of your customer asset in measurable ways. With our advisory services, we guide our clients through the process of putting customers at the center of their business. By using advanced analytics, we identify actionable insights about specific behaviors and revenue opportunities across the buying lifecycle. Leveraging these insights, we execute targeted and measurable Lifecycle Marketing campaigns using our proprietary database and marketing technology. The result is an increase in lifetime value across your portfolio of customers.

For over 15 years, CP has partnered with multichannel retailers to grow their customer equity and business with our products and services. Visit www.customerportfolios.com, read our blog and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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With all of the technology, some say in spite of the technology, many believe  the customer experience is broken.  Is it due to too much technology and no leadership? In this interview Augie MacCurrach gives us hope that lifecycle marketing can solve the issue and bring a predictable bottom line ROI if the CMO is smart enough, clever enough and has the CEO’s backing. This is episode one. 

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About Our Guest Augie MacCurrach

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Rapid insights from Trish Bertuzzi's interview on how long it takes to turn bring sales back.

A new sales manager comes in with promises to turn the situation around, even though he or she doesn’t know what caused. So how much time will it take to turn

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• The disease called Founderitis!

Over the last two decades, Trish has promoted inside sales as a community, profession, and engine for revenue growth. In the process, The Bridge Group has worked with over 200 B2B technology clients to build, expand, and optimize their inside sales efforts.Through a combination of hard work and timing, Trish and her team's research and ideas have been featured on Inc.com, in Forbes, by associations like SLMA and AA-ISP, and across more than 68 sites in the sales and marketing world.

We specialize in building, expanding and optimizing inside sales strategies for smart technology companies. We help Sales & Marketing leaders make the big decisions: on implementation strategy, productivity & performance, process, technology and tools. Since 1998, we've worked with 300+ B2B clients, helping them increase productivity, drive higher conversion from leads to revenue and maximize Inside Sales success.  https://www.bridgegroupinc.com/who-we-are

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Situation:  The company decided the sales slump was lasting too long, and they hired a new sales manager.  Out of all the things that can wrong in sales, the changeover of the sales manager is one of the most common tactics a company tries.

The new manager comes in with promises to turn the situation around, even though he or she probably doesn’t understand what caused it in the first place.  So how much time will it take to turn things around and make the company healthy again?  To answer this we have Trish Bertuzzi of the Bridge Group.  Bertuzzi talks about:

• The disease called Founderitis!

Novelist Jonathan Franzen said, "One-half of a passion is obsession, the other half is love." With that in mind, ask anyone who's met Trish and they'll tell you - she is passionate about inside sales.

Over the last two decades, Trish has promoted inside sales as a community, profession, and engine for revenue growth. In the process, The Bridge Group has worked with over 200 B2B technology clients to build, expand, and optimize their inside sales efforts.

Through a combination of hard work and timing, Trish and her team's research and ideas have been featured on Inc.com, in Forbes, by associations like SLMA and AA-ISP, and across more than 68 sites in the sales and marketing world.

We specialize in building, expanding and optimizing inside sales strategies for smart technology companies. We help Sales & Marketing leaders make the big decisions: on implementation strategy, productivity & performance, process, technology and tools. Since 1998, we've worked with 300+ B2B clients, helping them increase productivity, drive higher conversion from leads to revenue and maximize Inside Sales success.  https://www.bridgegroupinc.com/who-we-are

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When to decide that Sales Training is Needed to Overcome Sales Shortfalls

After three months, sales are slipping and the sales manager is on the hot seat in the staff meeting. Everyone in the c-suite chimes in on what’s causing the slump. One of the things that always surfaces is, lets retrain the reps. It is as if they forgot:

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1. How to sell

Soon everyone agrees (usually except the sales manager if the reps are retrained everything will go back to normal. Not really. It’s as if they have all bought into the belief that the salespeople have forgotten how to sell. To address this issue today of knowing when to retrain your sales reps, we interview Mike Schultz, president of the Rain Group an award winning sales training company. Schultz will surprise you with his answers which debunk the average board room trash talk about sales.

About our Guest

Mike Schultz is president of RAIN Group, Director of the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research, and best-selling author of Insight Selling Rainmaking Conversations. He’s been named a Top Sales Thought Leader globally by Top Sales Awards. Mike and the team at RAIN Group have worked with organizations such as Toyota, Bright Horizons, BNY Mellon, BDO, Hitachi, Lee Hecht Harrison, Lowe’s, Agilysys, and hundreds of others to unleash sales performance. Business Week, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, MSNBC and hundreds of others have featured Mike's original articles, research, and white papers, and frequently quote him as one of world's leading sales experts. 

About the Rain Group

RAIN Group is a global sales training and performance improvement company that unleashes sales potential by delivering transformational experiences for clients. Named a Top 20 Sales Training Company globally by Selling Power, RAIN Group has helped hundreds of thousands of professionals, managers, and sales leaders significantly increase their sales results. Headquartered in Boston, RAIN Group has offices across the U.S. and internationally in Bogota, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, Sydney, and Toronto. 

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They work independently these marketing and sales departments but they shouldn’t. Their squabbling and fighting often resembles two 6-year-old kids in the back seat of a car pointing at each other and screaming.

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Their work should cross operational lines, after all they are on the same team, but they don’t in many (most?) companies.  And yet, to reach a company’s revenue target, they must work together.  Our guest this week is Christopher Ryan, founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners and he will tackle the importance of a defined, hand on the bible service agreement between the sales and marketing departments.

There is a lot of talk about teamwork but in many organizations that’s all it is TALK. 

1. How to get started – hint in the executive suite

About Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan has 25 years of marketing, technology, and senior management experience, and is a widely known expert in B2B marketing, lead-to-revenue modeling, sales strategy, and business startups. As both a services provider and in-house marketing executive, Chris has written four books on marketing and information technology, including the recently published Winning B2B Marketing.

About Fusion Marketing Partners

Fusion Marketing Partners (FMP) is a B2B marketing agency that specializes in helping companies create powerful lead-to-revenue machines to turn around their stalled or underperforming marketing and sales operations and build value in their business. FMP’s strategic expertise and vigorous execution of proven tactics has quickly driven measurable improvements in awareness, leads and revenue for B2B clients across the U.S. and internationally. The company was founded by principals with deep experience in B2B marketing, sales, business development, web marketing, and public relations — from successful startups to Silicon Valley giants. To find out more, visit   http://www.fusionmarketingpartners.com

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How Many Leads are Enough?

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As part of our series of CRM product reviews we focus on Venntive which is a powerful suite of marketing, sales, social media management, and collaboration tools that provide businesses and individuals with everything they need to build their brands online.

Venntive claims that no third-party plugins or applications are necessary and they say it is the most comprehensive business solution on the market.

We interview Venntive founder and CEO Lydia Sugarman as we discuss why sales marketing and the C-Suite likes Venntive.  The interview covers price, startup times and any other costs associated with getting the product started.

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