Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

LinkedIn's some 722 million members make for a massive pool of data that could provide sales organizations with invaluable guidance about potential opportunities and ideal prospects. What is LinkedIn Sales Insights? LinkedIn Sales Insights is tailored toward Sales Operations and Sales Managers to plan sales and go-to-market strategies.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. And those opportunities you thought were progressing through the waterfall / sales process to “wins”? According to Forrester, prospects indicate that less than 12% of sales engagements are focused on outcomes and customer value.

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ROI Decision Maker Proposal Forecasting 53

A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Sales people are not leveraging the benefits of good sales data. What about your average sales cycle? We’re sneaking up on 2016 planning, and if you’re like most salespeople, you don’t know them and you DO NOT include those numbers in your plans or reviews. Don’e believe me? I loved it.

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Data Benefit Groups Remedy 60

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 10, 2016

Would you take a minute to nominate me for the AA-ISP’s “Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals for 2016”? If you’ve benefitted from either the scripts, videos or other products I offer, then I would really appreciate it if you did. Company: Mr. Inside Sales. Simply follow this link: Click Here.

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Inside Sales Objections Video Benefit 120

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, explains why in this month’s guest post. Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Fears also rose over technology stealing sales jobs following the advent of both the phone and internet.

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B2B Hiring Social Media Pharmaceuticals 120

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Like others who’ve offered their stories, John has a clear purpose: “Each sale represents not just a key performance indicator but also an opportunity to enhance someone’s life.” After thinking about my family’s heritage, I realized there was actually a rich heritage in sales.

SAP 73

SAP Real Estate Enterprise Enterprise 73

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Technology : Sales and marketing intelligence platforms and customer relationship management systems. Job titles involved : Executives, directors, and managers of product development, product marketing, marketing strategy, sales intelligence, marketing intelligence, and competitive analysis.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2016 by Denise Woodard , the idea for the company came after Denise’s daughter Vivienne was diagnosed with severe food allergies. About Goalsetter: Founded by Tanya Van Court in 2016, Goalsetter is a finance app for children and families that provides a next-generation, education-first banking experience. HQ: Dallas, Texas.

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Company Automotive Sales Qualified Lead Software 95

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 3, 2018

Author: David Sill, DiscoverOrg As sales and marketing professionals try to navigate a world increasingly crowded by new technology, which can admittedly automate and streamline many aspects of our work, sometimes there is simply no replacement for making a human connection. According to a 2016 Reuters article, an online survey of 400 U.S.

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Cold Calling Survey Education Research 220

The Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2016

June 9, 2016 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET. Communication is central to sales success, and communication is a multi-faceted experience. In a world where death by PowerPoint is the norm in selling, presenting yet another sales presentation may not be the way to go.

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Webinar Metrics Case Study ROI Lead Rank 120

Mindtickle

MAY 1, 2023

It’s the same idea behind sales certifications. It’s your way to measure whether a new hire is ready for actual sales — how much knowledge they retained, where the gaps are, and what they’ll be able to utilize when face-to-face with a customer. All you have to do is determine which key skills a sales rep must demonstrate to pass.

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Hiring Face-to-face How To Case Study 52

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Further sweetening the deal, impact investing — in other words, funds aimed at a social cause — will benefit nonprofits in 2021 given the economic, environmental, and racial upheavals in the U.S. Also, angel and seed funding accounted for nearly 18% of nonprofit investment. Want to do freelance or independent contract work?

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Teams perform better than individuals [ Kuhn, “Experiments on Motivation, Incentives and Rationality” 2007 ], and you and your bottom line can benefit from rewarding teams. By assembling teams that included the sales reps, sales engineers, customer service and invoicing specialists, the company beat their own aggressive goals.

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Incentives Incentive Compensation ROI 149

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sales Management End of Year Checklist. . Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. I decided to start with a Sales Management End of Year Checklist. Did it achieve your goals for 2016? Need to prepare a 2017 Sales Business Plan ?

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Quota 85

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2021

First-Layer Sales Questions. Examples of First-Layer Sales Questions. Second-Layer Sales Questions. Examples of Second-Level Sales Questions. Third-Level Sales Questions. When you leverage third-level questions, you’ll uncover information that will transform the entire sale. Let's get started.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. According to a 2016 study by Radford, “[ sales] employee turnover is once again at five-year highs across most of the technology and life sciences sectors. And alternatively, what drives them to leave their current sales roles?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Compensation Retention 136

Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 6, 2018

A majority of sales and service organizations now have dedicated staff and programs for sales enablement. But CSO Insights research shows that despite increased adoption, many organizations still aren’t seeing optimal results from their sales enablement investments. Sales Enablement Goes Mainstream.

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Sales Enablement Ideal Customer Profile How To Face-to-face 72

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

On a recent episode of the Business Breakdowns podcast , Schuck talked about lessons from ZoomInfo’s mergers and acquisitions, discussed how data influences today’s sales teams, and offered advice to aspiring business builders. By doing so, the sales process becomes not only quicker, but smarter.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 23, 2022

When my co-founder and I started Dooly in 2016, we did so out of pain. I knew that every other sales rep on the planet was going through the exact same struggle, and there were no solutions in sight. We suspected this problem had been exacerbated by the pandemic, so we surveyed 600 sales professionals in the U.S. Search less.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Our business profiles are a valuable source of sales intelligence and contain information on 20 million organizations. IBM IBM has been a champion of our top ten list, appearing in 2016, 2018, and now 2019 at number one. Accenture Coming back from 2016 and 2017’s lists, Accenture comes back as one of our top ten yet again.

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Company Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 100

SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Organizations are ditching quantity for quality when it comes to leads and they’re enjoying the real and measurable benefits of ABM. You can achieve a higher close rate with an ABM strategy if 1) you’re focused on best-fit accounts, and 2) your sales and marketing teams are aligned. These are the most important leads to sales.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Inbound Lead Rank 132

Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2018

Plus, according to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study, only 49% of study participants had Sales Enablement Content Management solutions with adoption rates of 76% or better. What is sales content management? A broad variety of content is needed for salespeople throughout the sales cycle.

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Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

When UberEats first launched in EMEA in 2016, my team and I found ourselves immediately confronted with the challenge of scale. The solution required a distributed and remote sales force, with reps living in central locations so they could cover multiple countries and languages. Maintain Territory Ownership.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Hiring Face-to-face 52

SBI

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Chris Heinrich , VP of Enterprise Sales for Adobe Sign. Reduction in sales contract cycles by an average of 2 weeks.

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Microsoft ROI SalesForce How To 139

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Technology : Sales and marketing intelligence platforms and customer relationship management systems. Job titles involved : Executives, directors, and managers of product development, product marketing, marketing strategy, sales intelligence , marketing intelligence, and competitive analysis.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

“I don’t have time for any distractions,” a CEO replied many years ago to my sales call. His comment was impactful because it made me think about my sales approach. I thought of myself as a helpful, well-intentioned sales professional. When we lose a sale, we say, “They don’t get it.”

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Influencer How To Decision Maker Incentives 62

Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2018

With reps in every timezone selling this technical service, CodeScience set out to ensure the right things are said on sales calls, and that client needs are met in handoff and beyond. We started to rework our sales process about a year ago,” recalls Director of Sales, Jeff Goree. One of the key benefits of using Gong.io

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Scale Discount SalesForce Conversion 88

LevelEleven

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, coaching is crucial to success in sales. According to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Report , “Sales coaching is a leadership skill that develops each salesperson’s full potential.” Just like sales pitches, coaching sessions are not “ one size fits all ”.

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Coaching Guidelines Sales Coaching Construction 54

DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

Sales enablement is a rapidly growing trend, with the potential to significantly transform business results for the better. Yet, some business leaders continue to resist the trend, while others remain unsure of the ways in which a sales enablement initiative can benefit their organization. Long Sales Ramp-Up Times.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Quota 68

Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Sports Coaching Call-back Inside Sales 62

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. But Coke’s biggest beverage brands have reached more than $1 billion in sales -- something Pepsi has never quite been able top. When I spoke with business owners, I had to explain what these concepts were and how they worked.

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Loyalty Inbound Skype Consumer 105

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Well it seems 2016 the pendulum is coming back to centre, where all techniques can be leveraged and combined for sales success. When recently asked what is the biggest mistake sales people commit when prospecting? The post High Profit Prospecting – Book Review appeared first on Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Call-back Cold Calling 120

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Further sweetening the deal, impact investing — in other words, funds aimed at a social cause — will benefit nonprofits in 2021 given the economic, environmental, and racial upheavals in the U.S. Also, angel and seed funding accounted for nearly 18% of nonprofit investment. Want to do freelance or independent contract work?

Nonprofit 130

Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 130

SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

We’re here at Rainmaker 2016 and we’re live blogging the keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions throughout the event. This morning we heard from Kyle Porter and the Salesloft family , and then 3 of the industry’s top thought-leaders ‘ opinions on the modern sales model. But before you have plays, you need people.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale Motivation 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you work in sales and marketing, I’ll bet you think a company’s employee count on LinkedIn is the absolute best way to determine how many employees work at that company. I’ve been optimizing DiscoverOrg’s process for gathering firmographic data since 2016. Why is employee count important for sales? I would know.

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Social Media Media LinkedIn Data 179

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you find Walton’s proselytizing as entertaining as we do, there’s plenty more to be had in his own 2016 memoir, “Back from the Dead: Searching for the Sound, Shining the Light and Throwing It Down.” The Grateful Dead turned the traditional business model of touring to promote album sales on its ear. Create a unique business model.

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Lead Rank Marketing Strategy Trade Show 149

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111