Score More Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Because buyers buy differently than they used to, smart sellers are now thinking about how they are viewed online and in various virtual ways. Various studies of buyer behavior show now that buyers are much further along their buying process when they engage with potential vendors. Build Sales with these LinkedIn Resources.

Lead Rank 256

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn 256

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sales ops executives are charged with improving sales effectiveness and efficiency. Provide the right processes, tools, structure and guidance to best deliver revenue. Your goal is to best enable sales. But is that the same as enabling the buyer to buy? Buyers don’t care about how your organization wants to sell.

Buyer 288

Buyer Telemarketing Cold Calling Buyer Persona 288

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 30, 2013

First an endless barrage of meaningless awards shows meant to squeeze the last bit of sales out of last year’s products. And an even greater number of post and articles telling you all the things you should do in 2014, most of which are retreads of things they advised you to do in 2013. So in 2014 Stop.

Face-to-face 276

Face-to-face Commission Objections Follow-up 276

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Sales gets off to a fast start at the beginning of the year. Come Q4, that lead has evaporated and now sales is threatening to miss the number. Your sales leaders will frantically try every trick in the book. The victims here are your potential customers who have to deal with a barrage of sales tactics. Best Practices.

Decision Maker 320

Decision Maker Maximizer Buying Cycle Top of Funnel 320

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

SBI’s content marketing offering has helped companies produce the content that buyers seek. It engages them and pulls them through the buyers journey. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. You will be working with Sales to conduct buyer research.

Demand Generation Agencies 316

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing How To Face-to-face 316

SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2013

This time of year, Sales Ops leaders are often faced with a pressing question. Today’s post is about a simple approach to improve efficiency with current sales resources. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Reduce your cost of sales.

Ideal Customer Profile 317

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Scale Hiring 317

SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

The sales field is suffering. Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. When will Sales catch up with Marketing? Sales field alignment with the modern day buyer requires more than lip service. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools.

Marketing 335

Marketing Top of Funnel Decision Maker Infusion 335

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Planning for 2014 requires a fresh look at the metrics that will determine success. Similarly, sales reps and managers require a new set of capabilities. Sales Operations must transform its reporting to track these key capabilities. They are all leading indicators that can help you forecast success in 2014. Social Reach.

Top of Funnel 326

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 326

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Let’s recap the time you have sucked out of the sales rep’s day. The goal is improved efficiency and sales rep effectiveness. You’re trying to help but you’re killing the sales teams’ selling time in the process. And you wonder why the sales team is a reluctant participant in the new initiatives. So What’s the Solution?

Decision Maker 320

Decision Maker Buyer Persona Trends Buyer 320

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations.

Strategy 115

Strategy InsideView Hiring Social Media 115

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

There is nothing more stressful than Q4 for a VP of Sales. Couple that with preparing for 2014 and you are maxed out. Schedule a review of your 2014 plan at your office here. We will use Sales Leader’s Q4 Critical Path Guide. Your Talent — How to improve your sales manager’s performance. The buyers are busy.

Territories 308

Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Most companies are in the heart of their planning process for 2014. Has your Sales Ops planning kept up with the new realities? Today’s post provides recommendations for revising your approach for 2014. By doing so, you''ll also get the Sales Ops Planning Evolution Guide. Self-Directed Buyers are the New Reality.

Buyer Persona 310

Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

Score More Sales

MAY 15, 2014

I had a chance to catch up with best-selling author and modern marketing expert Jay Baer who has been the host of the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014 Tampa this week. LR: Do you believe sales professionals can be online influencers, or is that role better for the face of a company – a C level leader? (in

Buyer 200

Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2C 200

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Top Sales Tool for 2014. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of FrameAngel at FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. This tool has been around for a few years now.

Sales Tools 45

Sales Tools Tools Training Collateral 45

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. Talent development is a key differentiator heading into 2014. This client is positioning itself to cater to the New Buyer. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption.

Training 300

Training Sales Management Hiring Social Selling 300

Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. It can be a critical step in filling your sales pipeline with great opportunities. Sometimes that need is something your product can address and hence a sales opportunity is created. Do you know how you help?

Prospecting 370

Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2013

Your Reach on LinkedIn will be one of your best sales assets in 2014. These numbers leave little room for doubt: More referrals = more qualified opportunities = more sales. These numbers leave little room for doubt: More referrals = more qualified opportunities = more sales. Is one of your buyer personas a CEO?

LinkedIn 310

LinkedIn Buyer Persona Referrals Networking 310

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 10, 2013

At this point, your 2013 sales number is essentially decided. Your thoughts should now turn to 2014. I speak with many VP Sales who say the same thing every year: “We have some underperformers that are killing us.” Before you really make any decisions, start with these questions: What are my key strategic initiatives for 2014?

Territories 300

Territories Scale Guidelines Groups 300

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few years ago, I interviewed Brent for a B2B sales rep job. This post is for HR and Sales Leaders who are seeking to hire the next Brent. It’s also for those who aspire to become top sales reps. This post includes a link to a valuable tool – the Top Sales Rep''s Satisfaction Index. What Top Performers Need.

Hiring 314

Hiring Social Media Compensation Buyer Persona 314

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

As a leader of the organization why not live where your buyers live? Get your copy by siging up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute ". This is why LinkedIn is a powerful tool to keep things professional and authentic. Attracting Customers. How-to Guide.

Decision Maker 328

Decision Maker How To Ideal Customer Profile Social Media 328

SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Whatever the Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) improvement, it will require funds to get it implemented. Or a redesigned compensation plan.

Hiring 288

Hiring Incentives Incentive Benefit 288

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This post is focused on organizing sales talent to help you make the number. The cost of sales is increasing. Hiring ‘A’ player sales reps is expensive. A symptom of this is: your revenue trends haven’t increased with your sales expense. How to Make the Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.

Revenue 316

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank How To 316

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Over these remaining weeks, conversations with SVP-Sales have focused on 3 areas: What can I still do to Make the Number in 2013 ? How should I be preparing to Make the Number in 2014 ? Sales Kick-Off is right around the corner – what am I going to do? I recommend you read it and download the tool. SKO is on the horizon.

Hiring 296

Hiring Buyer Persona ROI Follow-up 296

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2014

How are B2B sales leaders planning for their teams in 2015? Top 20 sales experts weigh in on this, including me. I was pleased to be a part of this e-book (download here) created by Velocify which addresses a number of issues that are on the minds of sales leaders everywhere. We will improve messaging and be buyer-focused.

B2B 241

B2B Twitter Inside Sales LinkedIn 241

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 17, 2013

With 2014 on the horizon, new sales targets will soon be set. Your 2014 number will inform decisions about the makeup of your team next year. Many sales leaders think an increase in revenue targets translates to an increase in headcount. Learn how to achieve this with the Sales Rep Productivity Guide.

Hiring 292

Hiring Follow-up Top of Funnel Analysis 292

SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

The CEO just introduced her to the new sales leader. The last VP of Sales got canned at the end of Q2. Kathy had done everything she could to support the sales team. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. Increases win rates through Buyer and Seller alignment.

Meeting 303

Meeting Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Gen 303

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. Information comes from your sales team, your website and your press releases. What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. B2B Buyer Behavior.

Outsourcing Services 79

Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Now he’s got a new book focused on sales , The New Rules of Sales and Service. A couple of weeks ago I went to the 2014 version of Inbound with about 10,000 other people and was thrilled to not only attend David’s talk but get him to do an interview about his new book and his thoughts on social selling. Buyers have changed.

Lead Rank 300

Lead Rank Cold Calling Lead Scoring CRM 300

SBI

JULY 22, 2014

He skipped 2013, perhaps because the market was moving too fast because, as of the 2014 version, the map has grown to a staggering 950 companies. At Smart Selling Tools, we’ve been reporting on sales solutions for seven years. We’ve kept a dynamic Top 40 Sales Tools guide updated for two years.

Tools 123

Tools B2B Top of Funnel Marketing 123

The ROI Guy

JUNE 4, 2014

If you were able to attend SiriusDecisions’ Summit, the Woodstock for marketing and sales enablement held this year in out hometown of Orlando, you were treated to significant research results as to the biggest challenges Sales faces over the next year.

Lead Rank 70

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face ROI 70

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. While it does provide a myriad of new ways to connect with potential buyers and customers, most who are providing the tips, steps, methods, tools and opinions are selling those very services that support the existance of a social selling industry. c) Copyright 2014 Dave Kurlan'

Social Selling 243

Social Selling Inbound Google Video 243

SBI Growth

JULY 30, 2013

This is the time of year when Marketing leaders start mapping out 2014 changes. Making the Number in 2014 starts now. How are you supporting the new “A” players in sales? Have you updated your buyer process maps (BPMs)? Participate and learn what top companies are doing to make the number in 2014. Background.

Lead Rank 325

Lead Rank Penetration Collateral Analytics 325

SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

There is a better way to differentiate your sales force from the competition. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Learn why a customized sales process is the ultimate competitive advantage. Not Just a Regular Sales Process.

Top of Funnel 276

Top of Funnel Competition Buyer Sales Methodology 276

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Great CMO’s set a strategy to make the number in 2014 and beyond. Like many marketing organizations, the sales organization doesn’t give you the time of day. Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) numbers were so low, they didn’t bother measuring it. Participate and learn what top companies are doing to make the number in 2014.

Hiring 303

Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 303

SBI Growth

JULY 31, 2013

They are experiencing a different buyer. As a sales leader, you know the importance of field execution. A big part of execution is how the team uses the sales process. You are asking yourself, “ Is Our Sales Process Good Enough? VPs told us Sales Process execution has surfaced as a bigger execution gap than years past.

Sales Process 321

Sales Process Buyer Persona Buyer Segment 321

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

If you are like most CMOs, here’s the problem: You’re way ahead of Sales. The competencies required by Sales for Marketing to be successful are just not there. Does the CSO/VP of Sales even understand how Marketing works? Does he or she understand the competencies required to support the new buyer? You should.

Sales Qualified Lead 312

Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals Incentives 312

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Set the time aside now, and learn how the three combine will help you sell better now, and into 2014! Sales Process Sales Skills Tibor Shanto' Click here for more detail and registration. Click here for more detail and registration. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto .

Webinar Metrics 273

Webinar Metrics Cold Calling Decision Maker Face-to-face 273