Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? Search less. Close more.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Author: Jim Ewel This should be the golden age of marketing. We have more tools at our disposal to implement and measure marketing, and, until the pandemic hit, advertising budgets were at record levels. The traditional marketing plan is broken. The traditional marketing organization is broken. How do we fix this?

Marketing 207

Marketing Advertising Advertising Twitter 207

SBI Growth

JANUARY 9, 2013

Our 2012 sales leader research finds it is still a big fear for 2013. A tool is available for download – a full syllabus of Sales leadership courseware. A tool is available for download – a full syllabus of Sales leadership courseware. Here are five steps for HR to build a sales leadership pipeline in 2013: 1.

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Sales Leadership Buyer Persona Exercises Course 310

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The Holy Grail of 2014 Planning: Marketing Contribution as a % of Total Revenue. 2013 is the last year executives accepted activity-level results from marketing. CEO''s don’t accept activity reports from Sales leaders without revenue results. Executive marketing leaders need to push the debris aside.

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B2B Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Generation 331

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

This tool has been around for a few years now. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. You will have access to guides, templates and tools to help your BPM drive revenue. Marketing is creating relevant content that the sales team can leverage throughout sales campaigns.

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SBI

JULY 22, 2014

If you’re a B2B seller you no doubt find it increasingly difficult to make sense of the marketing technology landscape. Scott Brinker of Chiefmartec has created a marketing solution map for each of the past few years. At Smart Selling Tools, we’ve been reporting on sales solutions for seven years. In 2012 it grew to around 350.

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B2B Tools Top of Funnel Marketing 123

Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . New tools include a quarterly business review, cross-selling and up-selling plans, and many more. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., KNOXVILLE, Tenn.,

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Influencer Marketing Face-to-face Retail 82

Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2013

There are SMB and mid-market sales organizations who have not embraced a cloud-based, customer relationship management system, better known as CRM or SCRM. Many CRM tools are set up in a complicated way so a rep spends too much time learning them and then using them. So how can we increase revenues with CRM? COMPLICATIONS.

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CRM Revenue SugarCRM System 291

SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? Sign up for our Make the Number Tour if you would like to see how your peers are allocating people, money and time in 2013. B2B companies are assigning their Marketing teams with lead quotas tied directly to a percentage of the corporate sales goal. What to do?”

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Quota Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation 276

Score More Sales

APRIL 23, 2013

They do what I used to do as an outside sales professional, except now they talk with buyers and prospects using video chat, webinars, video email tools, and social tools. Marketing is Not Immune, Either. Can we also get Marketing to be more accountable as well? Who else has modernized marketing?

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Inside Sales Revenue Webinar Metrics Hiring 209

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2013

Mid-sized companies need better tools to help understand what customers need and want. It went on to say that many midsize businesses still rely on traditional, non-integrated customer management, sales tracking or marketing systems. Create a visual representation or flow chart of data from marketing to sales to operations.

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CRM Guidelines Data Compensation 235

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. Download a time study tool at this event.

Marketing 300

Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Buyer 300

SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Top Sales World just held their annual ceremony for the Top Sales and Marketing Awards. You can tell they truly enjoy the opportunity to recognize people, resources and tools that advance our industry in one way or another. It’s truly an exciting time for those in the marketing and sales profession.

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Quota CRM SAP Forecasting 135

Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 30, 2012

Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue. Yes, I am fully aware it is still 2012 and there are five months left in this year to exceed your quota and hopefully you are well positioned from a pipeline, marketing and headcount to achieve your goals.

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Sales Leadership Revenue Hiring Compensation 68

HeavyHitter Sales

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Based upon my experience, here’s my list of the best companies to sell for in 2013. It is the fastest growing storage company in history in terms of both revenue and new customers. It’s a phenomenal success story and 2012 annual revenues were up 63%.

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Company Analytics Enterprise Enterprise 152

Fill the Funnel

JULY 2, 2013

Small business owners have learned the power of web tools. Sales and marketing leaders should open a line of communication with these small businesses to learn what is working to help them grow their revenue and customer base. 1 Biggest change in how you do business today – use, or use more, online marketing tools.

Small Business 124

Small Business Small Business Tools Social Media 124

Hubspot Sales

MAY 6, 2024

Your favorite graphic design software or AI tool may just be a unicorn startup dazzling in plain sight. Since the term‘s inception in 2013, they’ve attracted immense attention and praise; there's even a reality television show called Unicorn Hunters that capitalizes on this public fascination. Unicorns are extraordinary creatures.

Data 75

Data Scale Hubspot Social Media 75

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. LinkedIn has become a “cool” tool.

Face-to-face 132

Face-to-face Top of Funnel Call-back Social Media 132

SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And we have big plans for 2013. For starters, I’ll be launching www.NancyNardin.com , a sister site to Smart Selling Tools. The new site will allow me to provide targeted services to our end-user clients, all aimed at helping you identify the right steps to take to jolt productivity and revenue to new heights in 2013.

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Vendor Sales Cycle Software Software 128

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. This issue also features the 2013 Award Winners of the Top Sales & Marketing Awards in 18 Categories. We did pretty well this year!

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Sales Talent Video Course Up-Sell 235

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. However, the story is quite different when Marketing is asked about their own priorities. 2013 - The Year for Sales Enablement?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Marketing Qualified Lead 73

Allego

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Ever since the market started to recognize the convergence that’s happening in the sales enablement space between sales readiness, sales content management, and digital selling, we’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment. And we feel it solidifies our position as one of the most forward-thinking revenue enablement providers in the market.

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Revenue Vendor Report Sales Enablement 71

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Prioritization through 3 lenses: What sales productivity problems should you fix in 2013? How do you know fixing these problems will have the greatest impact on revenue? Your peers told us what they are doing during this event and how they are prioritizing for the 2013 sales strategy inside their regions. H ow to Sequence.

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Scale Face-to-face Promotion Lead Rank 282

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, according to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , the number of businesses with a dedicated enablement function has increased from 19% to 33% since 2013. What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. Two things.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Picture this: we opened the presentation with this question: “Are you going to make your 2013 revenue number?” This article will provide you with insights and strategies for still making the number in 2013. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. It’s simply not worth it.

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Pipeline ACT Competition Top of Funnel 306

SBI

MARCH 5, 2013

You are not allowed to hire new reps, nor can you rely on new products or new markets to hit the number. It would be insane to think your team can sell twice as much next year as you do this year, with the same number of reps, same products, and same markets. There are many more tools to put in your arsenal along side your CRM system.

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Revenue Hiring Decision Maker CRM 127

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I was able to brush up on technology–personally, I spend a lot of time getting updates on marketing automation. But from the point of view of new, interesting, and emerging technologies focused on sales, marketing, and customer service professionals, it’s awesome.

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Lead Rank Meeting Conference Marketing 80

SBI Growth

JULY 1, 2013

You see visions of making your 2013 and 2014 sales number. 1) Sales / Marketing Budget Spend Shifts. Examine the overall sales/marketing budget spend left for 2013. By this time, it’s the end of 2013. You’ll need to show, without a doubt, how your project will yield revenue lift. Then reality hits.

Salary 267

Salary Epiphany Top of Funnel Revelation 267

SBI

JULY 23, 2013

You will not be allowed to hire new reps, or rely on new products or new markets to hit the number. It would be insane to think your team can sell twice as much next year as you do this year, with the same number of reps, same products, and same markets. 9 New and Exciting Sales Tools Added. I’m betting your answer is YES.

Revenue 121

Revenue Vendor Hiring Sales Tools 121

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

And revenue is a lagging indicator. Of all the new capabilities leaders could drive, here were seven that stood out in 2013. If you use the wrong tool for measurement, eventually you end up in the wrong place. Specifically: Problem - Marketing does not generate enough demand. Download the tool and measure your year.

Scale 282

Scale Exercises Compensation Follow-up 282

Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Preparing for 2013. I thought I might simply highlight a few points from both sessions since there are pertinent for everyone as we move into 2013. There were four panelists -all with real world experience in selling and marketing. Panel Discussion. Some thought that it was a 4:1 ratio. . .

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank 71

Score More Sales

MARCH 18, 2014

We have always had to communicate with potential buyers, ask for referrals, work trade shows, and advertise / market for new business. The big change now is the tools and technology. 10 tools and technologies to be most helpful. As long as I can remember, selling has ALWAYS been social. The basics that are often overlooked.

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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 250

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As a solution provider, the lengthening decision cycle can be frustrating and costly to you, as deals stall and critical sales revenue is delayed. So, the big question: Do your sales professionals have the right tools and content to help them facilitate and streamline your buyer’s decision-making process? You Decide.

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Sales Cycle Decision Maker Proposal Buying Cycle 72

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Many executives are evaluating how tablets can be used to drive a much-needed boost in selling effectiveness for 2013. But providing the same old presentations and marketing content on a tablet won't necessarily advance sales engagements, or do the trick to drive revenue growth.

eBook 68

eBook Research Revenue Strategy 68

The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

To kick off 2013, Gartner predicted that the reigns on worldwide IT spending would loosen, forecasting an increase of 4.2% 2013 Challenges for IT Solution Providers Revenue growth is extremely important for IT solution providers, as this growth is required to sustain high valuation multiples and shareholder equity. by mid-year).

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Forecasting ROI Decision Maker Proposal 67

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

Although I too am more optimistic about 2013 compared to last, there are clear and immediate challenges that deserve action regardless. 2013 Challenges for IT Solution Providers Revenue growth is extremely important for IT solution providers, as this growth is required to sustain high valuation multiples.

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Proposal Decision Maker ROI Lead Rank 71

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In a 2013 study by IBM, 33% of CEO’s are out of touch with customers. Marketing - Poor lead quality and quantity of opportunities can lead to a downward revenue spiral. Done incorrectly it will negatively impact revenue, deal size, and margins. Product Development – Below expectations of year 1 revenue goals.

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Customer Sales Qualified Lead Demographics Margin 306