The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As a sales professional what you need is practical and executable inputs that will help you close the year strong, and set yourself up for a profitable 2015. This is NOT another Marketing-Still-Sucks-Here’s-What-You-Need-To-Do-Better rant. Soothsayers, because many spend more time advising than selling.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. Then there’s outbound lead generation: identifying trigger events, determining relevant content to send in an email, creating messaging, preparing short videos, and networking on social media.

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

With just a couple months left in 2014, there is still time to step up your selling, meet your quota, and develop a strong pipeline filled with referral-based prospects for the New Year. If you want startling results in 2015, the time to get your ducks in a row is now. But begging for forgiveness doesn’t work in marketing and sales.

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Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Networking 276

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. Sales Process/Methodology.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

My Top 10 Skills are: (1) LinkedIn Training (2) LinkedIn Marketing (3) Executive Coaching (4) Coaching (5) Thought Leadership (6) Digital Strategy (7) Personal Branding (8) Writing (9) Communication (10) Social Networking. Wishing you a stunningly good 2015. Related Posts: LinkedIn Networking Run Amuck! Many thanks!

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

And which tactics will help us keep our pipelines full in 2015 and beyond? Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect?

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. First, it depends. What is your sales process?

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. For example, if you sell marketing automation solutions, you could join a Marketing Live Event and interact with others at the event. Of course, you don’t have to limit the use of the notification bell to prospects and influencers.

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Marc Wayshak

JUNE 22, 2021

Pay attention to the new psychology of selling in today’s market, and you’ll become much more effective every single time you’re in front of a prospect. Take a look to learn all about the psychology of selling in today’s market: 1. What you learned in 2015 is now old-school. We need to update our approach.

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Marketing Face-to-face Discount Up-Sell 75

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As Account-Based Marketing continues to rise in popularity among B2B companies, I decided to pick the brains of fellow industry experts and get their input on the matter. Today, in part 2, we hear from Adam New-Waterson , Chief Marketing Officer at LeanData. Account-Based Marketing is a philosophy, not a product. Buy more lists!

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SalesLoft

MAY 28, 2015

The other day I heard a sales executive say that by using email, sales reps were acting “like marketers.” It’s 2015, why wouldn’t we use email in addition to phone for prospecting and outreach? In today’s ever-occupied society you should be using all channels available to break through the chaos that consumes prospects.

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SBI

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Analyst for Smart Selling Tools and advises executives in SaaS MarTech companies and interactive marketing agencies who seek a competitive advantage in meeting the needs of marketers. -. I’ll separate the Snickers from the Candy Corn, or in this case, the really yummy tools that will energize your 2015 Marketing Journey!

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

Last week, I was making it rain opportunities through networking and education with over 1,000 sales professionals at SalesLoft’s Rainmaker 2019 conference. 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.

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Tenfold

JULY 18, 2017

To grow a business these days, one needs to understand why traditional sales and marketing strategies are failing and how to develop a sales marketing strategy that works. What is Sales Marketing? A well-crafted combination of sales and marketing is necessary for successful business growth. What Isn’t Working?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. TS: You say that inside sales is going to overtake field sales by 2015. But in your book, you introduce the concept of potent prospecting. Potent prospecting works more holistically.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Actually much of this probably should have been started 30 to 90 days ago, but there is still time to make 2016 far better than 2015. When end of year bank statements arrive, then within a couple of hours you should have 2015 financially closed and ready to go to your accountant. What prospects did not end up as customer and why?

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

That includes tracking prospecting, networking, email outreach, calls, meetings, pipeline growth, deal velocity, and, of course, closed-won and closed-lost outcomes. In fact, this is why LinkedIn ® asked me to speak at their Annual User Conference in 2015 when I was formerly a VP of Sales. Click To Tweet. LinkedIn ®.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2015

For ideas to fill that funnel and make 2015 your best sales year ever, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: How to Avoid the Trash Folder If you’re sending emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. And women are natural networkers and conversationalists!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 10, 2020

As recently as 2015, a sales pipeline was a rudimentary look at your ability to meet or exceed your quota on an aggregate basis. Meeting scheduled — typically referred to a scheduled introductory meeting where a salesperson would qualify the prospect and determine if they were worth pursuing.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2015

According to CSO Insights’ 2015 Sales Performance Optimization study —a survey of more than 1,000 companies—58.1 Growing market share is the life blood of most companies, but many sales organizations struggle to bring in new business. No other sales or marketing strategy comes close to competing with referral selling.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Why salespeople need this book : It’s one of the best cold calling books on B2B sales prospecting—for both inspiration and insights. Fanatical Prospecting.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2022

In addition, we’ll walk you through how to use Crunchbase’s sales prospecting software to connect with decision-makers at these companies and close deals, all in one platform. Mutiny offers a personalization website, advertising, account-based marketing and paid media optimization services. Learn More. Methodology.

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Cience

APRIL 2, 2020

In 2015, HubSpot published the result of their traffic research , stating that 46% of traffic that B2B companies across all the industries get to their websites is direct. Direct traffic remains an enigma for marketers. the email share) and marketing professionals are learning to set Google Analytics accordingly.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 18, 2015

With a market that’s exploding with new technologies by the second, SDRs need to be creative, competitive, and sometimes, a little strategic with how, when, and where they reach their prospects. They set up a booth at Rainmaker 2015 and raffled off an Apple Watch to a prospect who booked a demo with them right then and there.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For sales and marketers, social selling leverages any social networks to understand, relate to, and help your buyer, which ultimately should drives sales. Networking is more than just hitting ‘Likes’ The name of the game in today’s sales arena is knowing the contact before you engage with them.

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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.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

Join DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Shuck and Justin Withers, VP of Product Management and Marketing, for a conversation about what drives high-growth companies. It showed the concrete steps that a sales leader or a marketing leader can put in place to accelerate growth in the years to come.

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Artesian Solutions

MARCH 27, 2018

LinkedIn has talked a lot about how it has perfected its strategy for sales and marketing professionals, as well as recruitment consultants. As a B2B sales, marketer or business development professional operating in the UK and/or Europe, you will be affected. Tips for using LinkedIn effectively post-GDPR.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. According to Crunchbase data, 95,000+ companies have received funding (globally) from 2015-present, totaling $1.3+ Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. trillion worth of funding.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Vendor Pivotal 77

MarketJoy

JULY 10, 2018

By moving the leads effectively through the sales pipeline, SDRs are more towards lead generation, appointment setting and focus on prospecting. High time we shift the spotlight from the ultimate deal closers to the Sales development reps (SDR) as they are the real go-getters of the sales and marketing world. SDRs As the Educators .

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Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead Telemarketing Lead Rank 45

LeadFuze

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Businesses should produce quality content to win over prospects on their terms, long before they have any purchase intent. But it’s increasingly clear to me—and to many B2B professionals —that inbound marketing alone isn’t enough. Account-based marketing offers an alternate narrative, making outbound strategies seem cool again.

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Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. This is followed by personal networks at 15.6 Business websites lead at 84.3

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

When should a company associate with a marketing agency [12:19]. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect, every time, enabling personalization at scale, previously unthinkable. When should a company associate with a marketing agency [12:19].

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Lead Rank How To 105

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! You need to pinpoint the mobilizers, your advocates and build consensus amongst champions inside the prospect's ecosystem. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

During the last 6 months we have surveyed hundreds of partners, the number one topic that came up was: prospecting, or building pipeline values so let’s focus on that! I have listed a few slices to chew on in 2016: Prospective clients have done their homework as to their issues and potential solutions via the internet or other relationships.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

Hiring a salesperson could save you from having to do any of the sales work yourself, which could free up more time in your schedule to focus on other tasks like marketing or operations. It, however, was back in 2015. How will they leverage their digital sales network to grow revenue. Define Salary Range and Benefits.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98

Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

Hiring a salesperson could save you from having to do any of the sales work yourself, which could free up more time in your schedule to focus on other tasks like marketing or operations. It, however, was back in 2015. How will they leverage their digital sales network to grow revenue. Define Salary Range and Benefits.

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Hiring Paid Content Salary Sales Qualified Lead 98