Hubspot Sales

MAY 20, 2020

Though tracking sales metrics isn’t necessarily the most glamorous part of working in sales, having a solid understanding of how the deals you close impact your company’s bottom line and future growth is a critical part of the job. Conversely, a high sales growth rate is often seen as a good sign for company stakeholders.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

But it should be a year-round priority for sales executives who want to build winning teams. Successful sales organizations in the 21st century will facilitate teams that leverage the strengths of men and women, young people and seasoned pros, along with people of all races, religions, and sexual orientations. Read more.)

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In B2B sales, it’s important to make a good first impression. If you’re a jerk, it doesn’t matter how great the business is. If you want to be seen as a trusted resource—a top-notch B2B sales pro with expertise to share, not just a product to push—you can’t use social media to blast strangers with sales pitches.

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Increase Sales

MAY 18, 2015

” For a small business owner this is very true especially with it comes to magnifying one’s marketing message. Unite with other small business owners! Locally, I meet with five other small business owners once a month. Doug Mogck – Business Succession: Plan Now For Success.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 2, 2016

In yesterday’s posting , I shared the top downloads during the first quarter of 2015 from my website analytics. This business data revealed the majority of downloads approximately 90% were articles from my website and the remaining 10% from this blog. Today, I am sharing the top viewed blog postings in January of 2015.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 22, 2014

There is a lot of noise within the sales advice world. Each month if not week, sales professionals are bombarded with the latest “sales flavor” from this or that small business consultant, sales coach or author. All this sales noise can be a barrier to the basics of the buying/selling process.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I even wrote a book about this time … “The Small Business’ Guide to Social CRM”. Jump to 2015 and LinkedIn and Facebook both make the decision to cut off third-party applications from accessing their member database. Take a look at Sales Navigator. This was done due to a concern for their member’s privacy.

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Troops

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today, Andrew oversees multiple sales teams at Square. Andrew has been building out sales teams at Square for the last four years. Not just one sales team, but a bunch of them: Sales Development: global inbound lead qualification. Vertical Sales: full sales-cycle BDRs and AEs. How to Motivate a Sales Team.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2015

Now that the parties are over, many sales reps are coming to the realization that last year’s bonus means diddlysquat when staring at a quota reset to zero sales. It’s not only stupid; it’s a waste of sales time. We’re individuals, and we expect the companies we do business with to treat us that way.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The goal of marketing within any sales process is two fold: Make a friend. Download this 7-Step-Sales-Process-ADVSYS. This article, The Most Important C Word in Sales , on LinkedIn Pulse (published November 23, 2015) as of December 6, 2015, has the following: 1,082 views. 18 comments. 2,065 followers.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 6, 2015

So I’m starting this New Year with a great sense of gratitude and purpose because of the sales professionals I reach, and who reach out to me. Extremely helpful and timely, and we are opting out of an equipment sale to a client that just isn’t right. I utilise social media to maximise sales every day, and it is very effective.

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Increase Sales

MAY 4, 2015

Unfortunately, these are usually the most obvious and ignored even with the plethora of marketing, selling and overall sales advice. One would think these crazy busy small business owners to sales professionals would have their contact information easily displayed. Obviously, that is not the case.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Guest blogger Carol Frohlinger explains how to corral your colleagues and make the sale together. My sense is that most salespeople, especially women in sales, would jump at the opportunity to learn how to win at team negotiations. © 2015, Negotiating Women, Inc. I think I’d flunk. to guest blog this month.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The upcoming changes in the ISO 9001:2015 standard for Quality Management Systems mandate a more holistic perspective of how we work. Even if we do not work within a regulated environment or our excuse is that we own a small business, isn’t it time to stop holding ourselves back from moving one millimeter forward?

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting?

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 18, 2016

The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment— independent small businesses. As our clients’ biggest advocate, we are here to eliminate the complexity of Sales Performance Management and help business goals become a reality.”. The 2016 Inc.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

One million B2B sales jobs in the US will be lost to self-service eCommerce by 2020, according to Forrester’s report, “ The Death of the B2B Salesman.” Yes, order-taker sales jobs will disappear. They will become more in-demand, even as millions of other sales jobs are rendered unnecessary. Want to remain in sales?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 25, 2023

Stage 4: Scaling At this point, you’ve successfully launched your business, you’ve achieved product-market fit , and sales are steady — but your business hasn’t reached the heights you imagined. In 2012, they got their first VC investment of $100 million and raised another $250 million in 2015. billion in the same year.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity as a social media channel as well as sales leads tool. Wishing you a stunningly good 2015. As I continue to write, interact with colleagues and clients, I always remember the wise words of Zig Ziglar: Sales is the transference of feelings. Endorsement) for any of my ‘Top 10’ Skills. (1)

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 8, 2015

You would have to spend into six figures to get these speakers on the same stage at one time, yet each will be sharing their most focused, hard-hitting sales thinking during this live broadcast for free. Mark Hunter – @ TheSalesHunter Sales motivation tips and proven sales training techniques to help you increase sales, profitably.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

What is all this talk about a Sales Process? Whether your organization is using CRM or not I find that most organizations have not taken the time to define, write out and train their sales team on how to use prescriptive a sales process. If your sales teams execute that well you get the production Subway does!

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 10, 2016

After working in a VAR partner organization for 8 years as a Sales Manager, leading an entire channel focused company for 8 years as a VP of Sales and spending the last 19 years consulting with vendors, distributors and VARs, dealers, resellers, partners all focused on channel based strategies, I believe I can say: I have seen it all.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Jordan Arogeti. Meka Asonye.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here's how a tiny company started closing huge deals with federal government agencies—and how you too can get started in B2G (business-to-government) sales. B2G stands to business-to-government. It simply means that a business is selling its products or services to the government. What is B2G? Why sell to the government?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Ilir Sela , the Founder and CEO of Slice, one of the fastest growing companies focused on the small business space in the US. . Slice helps pizzerias compete with Big Pizza and transforms the way they manage their business. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2018

Core competencies needed: Retirement planning Changes in Social Security Incapacity/death planning Small Business Owners and Freelancers With the creation of online e-commerce platforms like eBay and Etsy, more people are creating small online businesses. Even more shocking?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 11, 2018

Considering the vast amount of marketers who are (rightfully) making content marketing a priority, it’s surprising to find that more businesses, particularly small businesses and startups, aren’t taking advantage of the guest posting benefits. Be Careful.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2015

Is capturing new accounts your greatest sales challenge? According to CSO Insights’ 2015 Sales Performance Optimization study —a survey of more than 1,000 companies—58.1 percent of sales leaders say it’s their top objective this year. No other sales or marketing strategy comes close to competing with referral selling.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Your sales team has one month left to finish out 2015 with a bang. Just as importantly, how strong is your sales pipeline for 2016? If it’s not full of hot sales leads, they’re clearly not asking for referrals. 73 percent of executives prefer to work with sales professionals referred by someone they know.

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