DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

By 2020, the B2B SALESMAN WILL BE DEAD. Or at least that’s what a recent report by Forrester Research, an independent and leading research company in the marketing and technology space, has predicted. Ecommerce systems will eliminate 1 million B2B sales jobs by 2020 due to the shift to self-service platforms.

Lead Rank 120

Lead Rank B2B Education Research 120

Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

Top of Funnel 132

Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. So you pay your sales reps money to prospect and find buyers – it makes sense that you also invest in having the best representation of your company when they find it online. Inbound Marketing.

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Company Trade Show Engineering Ideal Customer Profile 215

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. Is it evolving like the marketing technology stacks have?

Scale 120

Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. Increase Opportunities.

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Real Estate Compensation Vendor Intent 249

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

As soon as Monday, you (yes, you and your mid-market or SMB company) can sign up for the Beta offering of IBM ® Watson™ Analytics. This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere. There is a premium version for bigger capabilities.

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Analytics Analysis Compensation Data 221

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Where are you?

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Social Selling Company Ideal Customer Profile Twitter 223

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JANUARY 8, 2015

At the beginning of the year, everyone should have hope and optimism for a bigger and better sales year ahead. If you do nothing else, make your meeting focused around what is in it for THEM (your audience – sales reps, front line sales leaders, account teams, marketing, etc). Close More Deals.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Who should read this : Inside sales reps will find a lot of high-value advice for smarter cold calling and actionable techniques for tackling specific sales challenges. Why salespeople need this book : It’s one of the best cold calling books on B2B sales prospecting—for both inspiration and insights.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. Your “value” should be conveyed in 30 seconds or in two sentences.

Ideal Customer Profile 120

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Nonprofit 120

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Only 42% of marketing generated leads were accepted and worked in those same years. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

As I was putting this post together, I hopped into my time machine and zipped back to 2015 when I first attended Rainmaker and wrote about my experience that year. What I realized in reading that 2015 blog post was that the more things change, the more they actually stay the same. In B2B sales, people still buy from people.

Conference 101

Conference InsideView Cold Calling Scale 101

The Bridge Group

JUNE 15, 2017

A number of readers have emailed in and the top three requests have been: Update the 2015 calculator with the latest data (allow tailoring by geography, rep experience, ASP, etc.). Welcome to our new and improved AE & Inside Sales Leader Compensation Calculator (now available both in Excel and Sheets formats).

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Based on independent research from MHI Global / CSO Insights, taking your value marketing and selling to the next level can: Reduce the number of deals ending in “No Decision” by 30% Improve win rates to 51% (a 40% improvement) Boost the number of sales reps meeting / beating quota to 69% and increasing the average annual revenue attainment to 87%.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Retaining top talent, especially in markets that experience a talent deficit.

Ideal Customer Profile 133

Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Jordan should be on your radar: It’s probably a good idea to get used to seeing Jordan Arogeti on these sales leaders lists. From SDR in 2015, to enterprise AE in 2020–and she’s gathered quite the following on LinkedIn. Why Brooke should be on your radar: Brooke Bachesta currently leads the mid-market SDR team at Outreach.io.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. With advanced stealth B2B technologies I'm aware of right now, essentially one person can do the work of an entire traditional inside sales team of 50 and the CEO can just fly in and seal the deal. Inside sales doesn't have to be a career path to outside sales.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script.

Social Selling 63

Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

Social Selling 66

Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Positive feedback from customers can be considered a success by the sales and marketing team. 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. Customers are now more informed than ever. Get eBook Now.

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SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

I've opined ad nauseam about the power of content marketing to create an octopus's garden to attract whales and that's an ongoing Challenge endeavor that Marketing and B2B salespeople should undertake together but that does not forego, the proactive whale hunting mentality each day. Is the engine full of sawdust?

Lead Rank 66

Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

Hiring 130

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And since founding in 2015, we had one flagship product that focuses the AI product, and it’s essentially a very intelligent repository, store contracts in there, executed contracts. Vishal Sunak: I began my journey in B2B SaaS at Backupify, and got the opportunity to learn the SaaS game from some real experts.

Scale 107

Scale Company Hiring Campaigns 107

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

QuotaPath is a little bit bucking the trend for me, in that I built the product and engineering team first and wanted to make sure that the end-user saw value in the product, imagine that, before going and building up a bad-ass B2B sales team. It was sales. Maybe we had marketing. I know you have product market fit.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 74