Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Industry: Productivity Tools, Scheduling, Software. About Gro Intelligence: Founded in 2014 by Nemo Semret , Sara Menker , and Sewit Ahderom , Gro Intelligence is a big data and SaaS company creating a more connected, efficient, and productive global agriculture industry. Industry: Analytics, Basketball, Software, Sports.

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Company Automotive Sales Qualified Lead Software 95

Anne Miller

AUGUST 11, 2022

This month’s newsletter is as timely today for sales training as it was when it originally ran in 2014, particularly because attention and retention are harder to achieve when so many teams are remote. See how two sales trainer pros prove that metaphor power is forever! Try a Little Rib Eye. The importance of a new procedure?

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Training Journal Campaigns Retention 62

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In contrast, Vrbo, a vacation rental company owned by Expedia Group, “crushed” Airbnb when it came to searches that did not mention a brand (“vacation rentals in Chicago,” for example). Successful strategies are buyer- and market-specific, added panelist Sally Duby, a managing partner at The Bridge Group, a B2B sales consultant.

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Marketing B2C Account Based Marketing B2B 120

SBI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

According to Gartner Group, Total Worldwide CRM Software revenue in 2014 is predicted to hit nearly $24 Billion. That means that $12 Billion worth of CRM investments in 2014 alone will face a questionable return. Here’s the stat that should concern any stat junky the most. Shocking… yes.

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CRM PipelineDeals Vendor Face-to-face 131

Groove.co

MAY 5, 2020

magazine has published its annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2020 , and Groove has earned a spot among a select group of companies recognized for having a vibrant company culture, high employee engagement, and comprehensive benefits. Groove’s recognition by the Inc. However, Groove’s superior technology is only part of the story.

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Survey Face-to-face Software Software 37

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Instead of companies with 100 prospects world-wide using it, the IP-based targeting can, through software and a little manual labor, be applied to companies with a much larger total available marketplace (TAM). For instance, let’s look at this chart about hospitals in the US (2014 Stats from the American Hospital Assn ). Number of U.S.

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Account Government 100

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Act-On Software. SAVO Group. SAVO Group ToolSkool. Seismic Software ToolSkool. That’s me with Sassy. “Event” is perhaps not the right word to use. ActonSoftware. Qvidian ToolSkool.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software technology corporation that is “reinventing the relationship between people and technology.” I started using Xactly back in 2014 when my previous company implemented Express, and they needed someone in Finance to help manage the system. How did you get your start?

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 69

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

There is also a four-way division which can be grouped by: Geography/ territory. The members of this group can even go into local businesses or do research on competitors. ONB: Onboarder The ONB is a group of people who manage the onboarding process for clients and their first use experience. Product/service line. POD Modeling.

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Hiring Lead Rank Scale How To 52

LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

” ~ Ken Thoreson, president of Acumen Management Group, Ltd. This could also be linked to auto-play feature trend started on Facebook from 2014 where creators of content were looking for ways to make their content engaging without using sound. These contests are also great for building camaraderie among the group.

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Training Hiring Trends Retention 52

Tenfold

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In the case of Eloqua, a software company, their average sales cycle has decreased by 20 days, with 25 percent more leads that convert to opportunities. A majority of B2B buyers across all age groups rely on social media, according to a 2014 IDC study. Get involved in business groups and community discussions.

Social Selling 71

Social Selling Enterprise Enterprise Social Media 71

Tenfold

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Back in 2014, gamification as a strategy for improving sales productivity was the trend – not that it was a new breakthrough idea then. In fact, Badgeville, one of today’s leading enterprise gamification software companies, started operating in 2010. It was able to raise $15 million in venture capital funding within its first year.

CRM 40

CRM Competition Motivation Software 40

Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

As a young salesperson I learned the power of this step, I found out the reason the client was purchasing my computer/software was to enjoy her weekends at the lake cabin! We suggest group meetings with a variety of employees, customer focus groups and brainstorming sessions during this phase. Step Three: Value Add Evaluation.

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Competition Meeting ROI Up-Sell 40

Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

2014), a book that explains a step-by-step guide on how marketers can set up and use joint ventures to help your business grow. There are free digital groups you can join such as LinkedIn Groups and Twitter that allow you to get really close to your targeted prospects. Software, which was amongst the first in CRM available.

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Lead Rank Networking Decision Maker Webinar Metrics 40

Sales Hacker

JUNE 22, 2021

So this is like I guess 2013, 2014, you were there, Adam Lehmann was there, Kayti Sullivan from Yelp was there, Brian Makowski was there. And the talking point that I’m using recently, which I believe to be honest, in a world where you work for a software business, the technology are lines of code and that’s the tech.

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Revenue Call-back LinkedIn Course 60

Allbound

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2014, their partner program included more than 100 employees, who together generated nearly 42 percent of the company’s customer base and 33 percent of their revenue. The post 7 Biggest Benefits of Starting a Channel Partner Program appeared first on Partner Relationship Management Software (PRM).

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Channels Benefit Scale Hiring 48

Allbound

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2014, their partner program included more than 100 employees, who together generated nearly 42 percent of the company’s customer base and 33 percent of their revenue. The post 7 Biggest Benefits of Starting a Channel Partner Program appeared first on Partner Relationship Management Software (PRM).

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Channels Benefit Scale Hiring 48

Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

His most recent book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press), which was cited as, “the best sales book of the year” ( Strategy + Business ), “a must read” ( Gartner Group) , and “perhaps the best sales book ever” ( Forbes ).

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Channels Marketing Retail How To 42

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Although no number of lead prospecting tools can replace the value of the personal touch of relationship building, taking advantage of modern sales prospecting software is an easy way to cut down on tedious and repetitious tasks so you can close more deals. For instance, software can be used to search and manage a prospect list.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. Marketers thought that the new CRM software would solve their customer service and customer retention problems. Senior marketers should be deeply aware of the capabilities of the software.

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Marketing Strategy Eloqua Marketo 266

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She worked at HubSpot from 2009 to 2015 and was part of the enterprise scale up from 2011 through the IPO in 2014. So that’s how I got into software. Do we join different LinkedIn groups? She’s now an advisor to Crayon and is also working with a number of other high-growth companies. So how do we do that?

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Scale Hiring Hubspot Ideal Customer Profile 53

Tenfold

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

According to the same group, unreliable forecasting can cost. Use available software, such as UnDupe, to check for obsolete, duplicate and incomplete data. As of 2014, enterprise companies have invested a total of $8 million in big data. All respondents agree on the importance of accurate forecasting.

Forecasting 47

Forecasting Data Lead Rank Margin 47

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high-performing organizations across North America. It started in a backyard in 2006; I invested when they had one location in 2014. So, my right-hand man who has been with me since 2014, is a rocket scientist from Princeton, EMBA from Kellogg.

Scale 70

Scale Call-back Hiring Company 70

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Darrin Mossor , DiscoverOrg’s Software Development Manager, points to a few key areas we focused on, to grow in a way that produces an evolving, ever-better product for our customers: Build alignment with leadership. I joined DiscoverOrg in 2014 to lead the technology team. Read on to see if anything sounds familiar.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

In research on the economic impact of various software spending plans, Sarah Friar, from Goldman Sachs finds that as the economy tightens, two of the most likely projects to be delayed are upgrades to Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office. The former delivers free fixes -- for both security patches and other bug fixes -- to everyone.

Microsoft 40

Microsoft Remedy Marketing ROI 40

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2019

After adopting social selling practices and LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator, marketing software company Eloqua decreased their average sales cycle time by 20 days , and boosted the rate of leads converting to opportunities by 25%. Join LinkedIn groups and other relevant forums. Join groups that your buyers are in.

Social Selling 129

Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Twitter 129

SBI

JULY 7, 2020

NICK: I’m a big believer in the power of a great experience in almost any context be it a software user interface, physical product design or pretty much anything else. Turtl began as a few lines of code written by founder Nick Mason in 2014. Q: SHOULD SELLING BE VIEWED AS A BUYING EXPERIENCE AND WHY.

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Collateral Consumer Research Exact 139

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 10, 2014

We came across an interesting research study by Software Advice that examined the performance of their inside sales team – analyzing data collected from over 6,000,000 visitors to their web site. As Derek Singleton of Software Advice noted, “Of course, it’s also important to understand that not every buyer deserves a call right away.

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Inside Sales Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead 106

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Following Sailthru’s sale to CM Group in 2018, Cassie took on the expanded role of Chief Customer Officer for CM Group’s 200MM+ martech portfolio. A people person with extensive C-Level experience in enterprise software, business development and operations. Founder and Managing Partner at Reality Works Group.

Hiring 130

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2018

Look at the software you already have ­– or the software solutions you’re putting in place. 9) Integrated software. The extra features provided with VoIP solutions mean that businesses have no need to invest in extra software. The solution includes collaboration software that helps your team stay connected.

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Scale System SalesForce NetSuite 51

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SaaS sales, or “Software as a Service” sales, is the process of offering cloud-based services through a system monitored and updated by an external provider to customers. According to the 2014 State of B2B Procurement Study by Accenture’s Acquity Group , 94% of B2B buyers gather data and research online before buying.

SalesForce 40

SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2020

In 2014, I was working at a digital product agency, and my team had the opportunity to pitch to a major entertainment brand on building a loyalty program for their number-one TV show. From there, we went into the proven solutions slide where we explained the overview of our software. And then there’s the third group.

Top of Funnel 73

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Call-back 73

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. He then ran the corporate division for GrubHub, which IPO-ed in 2014. We hired a group of people who went out and evangelized this market.

Company 55

Company Hiring Scale How To 55

Cience

MAY 7, 2019

jobs on average during 2009-2014. Months) in 2018 (similar to 2016, but less than 2014). Purchase software necessary for an SDR. There are several ways to do it: Purchase from a platform (software solution). Order a list from a lead gen company like CIENCE that uses both human intelligence and software.

Ideal Customer Profile 58

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 58

Cience

MAY 7, 2019

jobs on average during 2009-2014. Months) in 2018 (similar to 2016, but less than 2014). Purchase software necessary for an SDR. There are several ways to do it: Purchase from a platform (software solution). Order a list from a lead gen company like CIENCE that uses both human intelligence and software.

Ideal Customer Profile 40

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America. So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR. He was at a company called Dachas Group, which was in social media analytics prior to TrendKite. We can talk about that.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 77

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 Power Partner Networking How to Maximize Your Networking Group Investment. Inside Sales Experts Blog (The Bridge Group, Inc). A Post Worth Your Time.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98