The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Prospecting. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. CNi Rapid Research. For Email Newsletters you can trust. February 2012. January 2012.

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Sales Meeting Pipeline Meeting Hiring 251

SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. Our research indicates this trend is increasing. The software company VP of Sales missed the shift in buyer power.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Get your copy now and gain instant access to dozens of e-books, special reports and audio programs from some of the sales world’s leading experts!

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling 212

The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Funnel management , Guest Post , Lead Management , Prospecting , Referrlas , Sales 2.0 , Sales Technique , execution.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Pipeline 257

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Guest Post , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Success , Webinar , execution. September 23rd, 2011.

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Cold Calling Pipeline Twitter Webinar Metrics 266

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Pipeline reporting tools are falling short of meeting the wide array of sales executives’, sales managers’, and frontline sales professionals’ needs.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 198

InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” Our own research shows that SDR quota attainment has fallen 6.6% since 2018.

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Quota Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 81

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Copyright © 1996 ~ Updated 2011 ~. This special report may be copied only with permission of the author. September 16th, 2011. February 2012.

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Pipeline Twitter Groups Cold Calling 298

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. You can run reports, set up meetings, manage cases and contact information all from your mobile device. Prospecting. CNi Rapid Research.

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Pipeline Hiring Travel Twitter 275

SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2013

Get the Checkup when you sign up for SBI’s 7 th annual research tour: How to Make the Number in 2014. These individuals deny that customers use social media to do research on potential purchases. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged vendors once they were 57% of the way through their buying cycle.

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Social Media Media B2G Ideal Customer Profile 300

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. In the process of prospecting a small business, you bring up a recognizable Fortune 50 company as a point of reference. Prospecting. February 2012.

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Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011. For Email Newsletters you can trust.

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Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2011

Improving sales’ ability to show benefits / value to prospects is the number one tactic to drive B2B sales performance in 2011, according to a recent survey by CSO Insights. The CSO Insights Sales Management survey for 2011 examined responses from sales executives at 850 firms.

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Buyer Proposal Survey ROI 60

Sales 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2012

If you use email and sell, this is well worth a quick read (hint: he even did research!). They want to be closing deals; they want to be connecting with prospects. Are your emails reaching your prospects? Response time to prospecting emails is a critical factor in determining success. Are they being read or forwarded?

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Social Media Study CRM Consumer 250

The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011. April 8th, 2011.

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Pipeline Meeting Webinar Metrics Strategy 216

InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” Our own research shows that SDR quota attainment has fallen 6.6% since 2018.

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Quota InsideSales Strategy Lead Rank 52

The Brooks Group

MARCH 15, 2011

And now it’s time to report. I was particularly impressed with the facts and figures that researchers revealed. Salespeople capable of helping prospects and customers through a complex decision making process will always be in demand. Anyway, I was also impressed by another report shared at the conference.

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Conference Report Face-to-face B2C 40

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In fact, according to one recent report, only 15% of B2B brands are running ongoing influencer programs ( source ). However, in a world where 72% of B2B buyers look to industry peers to research purchase decisions ( source ), it’s a mistake to ignore influencer marketing as a viable tactic. Improve content quality.

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Influencer Marketing Hubspot B2B 153

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 21, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Reading online is very popular, as Amazon report that more than 50% of books are read in this way. Prospecting. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Cold Calling 237

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2018

If you’re in sales, you’ve likely seen the 2011 “ Lead Response Management Study. ” It analyzed three year’s worth of data,100,000 call attempts, six companies, and 15,000 leads and synthesized findings to bring salespeople scientific answers to age-old questions like “ What are the best days to call my prospects? ” So, which is it?

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Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Referrals Survey 110

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Today's guest blogger is Dan Armstrong , Director of Research and Thought Leadership at ITSMA. That kind of connection requires that salespeople stand in the shoes of their foreign prospects. Prospects from countries like India or China are less likely to accept standard, non-customized services than those from, say, Germany or the UK.

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Closing Face-to-face Workbooks Conference 198

Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Much like sending flowers to someone before meeting them, sending a text before making contact with a prospective customer is often perceived as forcing an early personal relationship where one does not exist. 1] Portio Research, Mobile Messaging Futures 2012-2016, 2012. [2] With an estimated 9.6 Texting: A new frontier in sales.

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Leads360 Unica Lead Rank Lead Scoring 109

Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Challenger Sale—popularized in 2011 by the book of the same name—posits that consultative selling is dead. The technique may backfire, because “when a salesperson challenges a prospect—particularly a new prospect—there is a strong potential for distrust and dissatisfaction to emerge.”. Perspective also moves the needle.

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Customer Face-to-face Scale Journal 51

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. Moreover, Best-in-Class companies report a 31.6% Source: Forrester, Metrics that Matter for B2B Marketers, October 26, 2011. decline among Laggards.

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Influencer Buyer Persona Lead Rank Case Study 162

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This was reported by almost 60% for responses from sales executives at over 200 $1B+ revenue companies worldwide by CSO Insights and Accenture. In the study, CSOs report that 42% of deals now take more than 6 months to close. Source: Connecting the Dots on Sales Performance – Accenture and CSO Insights Research: [link].

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Collateral Buyer Persona Sales Cycle Quota 80

Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

of sales prospects received a text message during the sales cycle. The research examined more than 3.5 million prospect interactions of businesses who use Leads360 to power their sales engines. Sales reps that sent text messages before contacting a prospect, cut the probability of contacting a prospect by 39.2%.

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Leads360 Sales Process Top of Funnel Study 74

HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Best New Sales Book of 2011. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. To some marketing departments, selling is simply a series of steps that you guide a prospect through. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 113

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Bob has three decades of experience in sales, technical support, consulting, research, and online community development. That’s something I’ve found in my research about how top performing businesses do their thing so well. My guest today is Bob Thompson. Bob is the founder, president, and CEO of CustomerThink.com.

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Inbound Quota Outbound Video 145

Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

My list of top sales books to read in 2012 consists of books that were published during 2011 and contain innovative, fresh ideas about selling, customer expectations, and how to improve your ability to win new business customers. Every conversation you have is an opportunity to find new prospects, win new customers, and increase sales.

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Social Media Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face 134

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The financial relief most expected in 2011 never came, as the European debt crisis and US credit rating downgrade renewed pessimism, and may even be driving us to another recession. Speaking with and evaluating prospective vendors (85%). Developing/reviewing business and functional requirements (98%) 2. corporate executives.

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ROI Vendor Survey Proposal 79

Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 18, 2018

Ever since CEB (now Gartner) published The Challenger Sale in 2011, the book has attracted much publicity. It provides five different profiles (detailed here ) based on research of 6,000 individuals. The research in the book indicates that individuals with a Challenger profile will outperform all other profile types.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Construction Analysis 40

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. SBI''s 7th annual research tour has begun. It is a risk mitigator, branding engine and market research mechanism. On April 18th 2011, BMW CEO Jim O''Donnell told a group of reporters: "Electric Vehicles won''t work for most people.

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Social Selling Top of Funnel Training Case Study 45

Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2018

Like so many things in sales, the more discovery, research, and evidence you can present in this discussion, the better in terms of influencing the final sales quota you receive. Look at analyst trend reports, prior year sales figures for your own business and your competition if available. Don’t just leave your success to chance!

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Face-to-face Quota Lead Rank Lead Scoring 73

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2011

by Lori Richardson on December 16, 2011. They cannot do simple reports to determine the cost of a closed deal this year as compared to last year, and they often don’t know what is fully in the pipeline of each of their sales reps. We talked with Gartner’s CRM Research Director Adam Sarner. Consulting. Unbelievable?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring CRM Top of Funnel 172

The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. This past year reported by 71% of respondents.

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ROI Decision Maker Proposal Forecasting 53

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

How Sales Pros Can Incorporate LinkedIn’s Active Status into Their Prospecting Outreach. A former economist, Heather traded the world of academia and research for tech startups in 2012 after moving back to the Bay Area after completing economic development projects in Egypt. Prospect on LinkedIn Without Being a Pesky Salesperson.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

Trinity Perspectives

MARCH 22, 2018

Like so many things in sales, the more discovery, research and evidence you can present in this discussion the better, in terms of influencing the final sales quota you receive. Speak to current customers and prospects to gauge their sentiment for the year ahead. Always remember a sales quota doesn’t exist in isolation.

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Strategy B2B Face-to-face Quota 62