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Knowing Who You Are, What You Want, and Having a Plan to Get There
You want to take ownership of what’s wrong. Whether it be personally or creating an environment where you’re facilitating people being open to taking ownership of what’s going on. Learn from your pain. I think pain is a valuable teacher in life and I know it’s not always fun in the moment. But as we…
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Sales Psychology: Running Away from Pain Instead of Toward Pleasure
Thank you Keenan for sharing the psychology behind running away from pain rather than toward pleasure – a tenant of successful selling! Should we sell to the root cause (pain)? Listen as we discuss addressing business problems, through determining technical problems and root causes. “Old school selling like … old school sales training. I believe…
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Letting Passion Drive Your Career
Ali Punjani, Go-to-Market Professional at GiveCampus is also a Gates Millennium Scholar, and a TEDxPonceyHighland Co-Organizer. Listen in as he speaks on Letting Passion Drive Your Career during our ABSTRAKT Podkast. Starting his career without a particular “plan”, Ali worked in a few internships and gained experience that would help him determine his actual career path.…
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What is a BASHO Email and Why SDR’s Should be Writing One
Why do SDR’s target who they target? Is it making a high quantity of dials every day, week, and month? And adding a high number of activities like emailing? There are formulas you can count on that will tell you the numbers these sales motions will produce. What do top Sales Performers do that sets…
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B2B Buying Behavior – Is It Shifting to B2C?
Consumerization of how people are buying software is the overarching theme of this podcast about Sales Development with David Dulany, Founder & CEO of Tenbound and Greg Reffner, Founder & CEO of ABSTRAKT. “It kind of dawned on me that the key to successful sales development, in general, is strong project management so you can apply…
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The Oprah of Sales Leadership
Companies reach out and say we want to attract and hire more women in sales and I always ask them what plans or what measures do you have in place to retain them. The ones that you have and the ones that you’d like to bring in and 9 times out of 10 there’s no…
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Incremental Improvement, Also Known as “How to Suck Less”
One of the things that we’re going to talk about even more hopefully is making it measurable. How do you know if you’re actually sucking less?” “… We’re going to focus on incrementally 1% performance, improving something you do every day till it becomes a noticeable muscle memory”
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Embracing Remote Environments
We’ve all been told that going remote was a thing of the future, and the future is here! Active listening skills, paired with proper use of Conversation Intelligence software are the yin and yang of quota attainment. Listen to this podcast as Keith Lubner and Greg Reffner discuss how human experience, emotion, art, and the…
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The Future of the Software Sales Rep
Are you intrinsically motivated? In software sales, that can mean a large difference. Also knowing what you want and why.
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Outbound Prospecting
The first sales book I ever read was Skip Miller’s best selling book, ProActive Selling. To say we are excited to have him join us on ABSTRAKT’s podcast is an understatement, especially on the eve of his newest book coming out, Outbounding. Together, we dive into some helpful hints on what sales teams can be…
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Advancing Your Career From Home
Revenue Collective has become a staple in the B2B Sales Community, gaining popularity as sales leaders and reps look to connect, and share best practices. Today, on the ABSTRAKT podcast, we are lucky to have the founder, Sam Jacobs join us to share what his community is doing to help members progress their careers, along…
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Challenges of Remote Onboarding SDRS
The Sales Development Playbook has helped many leaders grow SDR orgs across the world! As the Chief Sales Officer at The Bridge Group, Sally Duby knows a thing or two about ramping a SDR team. She joins us on Abstrakt’s podcast to share a few tips and tricks about ramping SDRs in a completely remote…