The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

If you are in IT sales and marketing, there are three significant challenges of which you should be well aware when setting up your budgets and plans for 2016. Devices – PC and tablet sales are struggling, with smartphone spending and a Windows 10 upgrade cycle unlikely to make up for the expected 5.7% growth in 2014).

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sales software changes as rapidly as the sales landscape , which is to say at light-speed. The best way to stay current with sales technology is to look to the future. How we use it to guide sales decisions. Sales and customer support can both become more agile in their customer responses. Automation.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

And in the case of Dreamforce , the biggest software conference of the year, this is often those members’ chance to finally take it to the sea. Between the tips from both the seasoned travel vets and newly nomadic, find out how you can make the most out of your Dreamforce 2016 tickets this year: Make Yourself Visible to Your Prospects.

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OpenSymmetry

APRIL 29, 2016

The 2016 SPM Vendor Guide is an information resource that provides organizations an introduction to the leading suppliers of Sales Performance Management systems and solutions. The release of the 2016 SPM Vendor Guide comes at a busy time for OpenSymmetry as they prepare for various SPM vendor conference across the entire month of May.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

“It’s imperative to continually listen to what customers are saying , putting yourselves in the customers’ shoes and thinking of ways to better enable them,” Craig Williams, chief information officer at networking software company Ciena, told IDG Connect. Technology : Sales intelligence platforms and buyer intent software.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

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.

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SAP Real Estate Enterprise Enterprise 73

Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Industry: Productivity Tools, Scheduling, Software. Industry: Analytics, Basketball, Software, Sports. Industry: Audio, Collaboration, Messaging, Software. Founded in 2016 by Denise Woodard , the idea for the company came after Denise’s daughter Vivienne was diagnosed with severe food allergies. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia.

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Vainu

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft has grown to become a household name, offering an array of software products for computing devices, including its CRM solution, Dynamics 365 CRM, that was released in 2016.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. It may feel awkward at first because social media has become such a personal space for a lot of people, says Patrick Hogan, chief technology officer at sales software and services provider Tenfold. Author: Paul Nolan. read more

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 17, 2016

We were fortunate to be in the audience for the 2016 Notre Dame Commencement where Vice President Joe Biden , former Speaker of the House, John Boehner , and former Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired 4-Star General, Martin Dempsey were among the speakers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 2, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-07-01. Teaser: There’s a persistent “myth” in software development: great developers are 10X more productive than average developers. I call it a “myth” in quotation marks because there’s disagree­ment around that statement in the software community. Author: Scott Brinker.

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% Tying strategy to the sales process.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

What is the backbone of each and every B2B sales organization? Many would say it’s the sales reps: the ones grinding every day to transfer their belief behind the product to prospects, clients and customers. And it’s true, a team of engineers working together to build world-class software should be the core of any SaaS organization.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2017

Author: Ian Levine, Chief Sales Officer, RO Innovation The modern B2B sales and marketing journey has evolved. In fact, 2016 data from CEB shows that the average buying group has increased from 5.4 It can be even larger for enterprise sales deals. individuals to 6.8. It means 6.8 How peer-to-peer selling works.

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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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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0 They don’t have the skills or tools for success in a Sales 3.0

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The founders of Bryteboard , Sargun Kaur and Nicole Hardson Hurley, founded their business after recognizing fundamental flaws in the tech recruiting process — specifically when it came to technical interviews for software engineers. In 2015, Smith released AllHere — an AI-powered attendance intervention software for K-12 school districts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data? Additional data sources.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

“It’s imperative to continually listen to what customers are saying , putting yourselves in the customers’ shoes and thinking of ways to better enable them,” Craig Williams, chief information officer at networking software company Ciena, told IDG Connect. Technology : Sales intelligence platforms and buyer intent software.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. More than 86% of businesses surveyed in 2016 indicate that they plan to increase their upcoming email marketing budgets ( source )—and you should too. Listen to your team and invest in the software that makes sense for your company.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Beyond size, certain industries are more likely to champion innovation and product releases, including manufacturing, software, and business services, according to ZoomInfo data. Additionally, diversity-themed executive roles have been on the rise in companies since at least 2000, but made a noticeable jump in 2016, ZoomInfo data shows.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 1, 2016

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Then they write and tell me their sales organizations have been transformed, with a close rate of well more than 50 percent. But sales reps have work to do as well.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2017

What we are selling is not the software product – the set of all the features, in their specific implementation – because there are just not many buyers for this software product. The software just happens to be the part we’re able to build and ship (and the means for us to get our cut). million daily active users in March 2016.

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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

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. As the exclusive provider of inbound software, we were able to scale the company quickly from several hundred to several thousand customers. But by that time, we had a sizable lead in the market. million riders.

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PandaDoc

MAY 15, 2020

With the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 that has forced many businesses to quickly adapt to remote life, signature software is one tool that every industry must now rely upon. Our software also generates a unique barcode that emphasizes its certificate authority. Originally published August 30, 2016, updated May 15, 2020.

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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

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In B2B sales, it’s important to make a good first impression. 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. None of us in B2B sales has much patience. You are your brand.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

  Here’s a great event you don’t want to miss… I’m excited to be participating in the ELEVATE VIRTUAL SALES KICKOFF MEETING!   Velocify, the leading sales acceleration platform provider announced its inaugural virtual sales kickoff,  ELEVATE , co-sponsored by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP).

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1. Learn How to Message and Motivate Like Sales and Marketing. Recruiters have a tough task to act as both a marketer and sales rep- attracting candidates and closing the deal! Cold calls.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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System CRM Benefit Scale 109

Tony Hughes

MAY 12, 2019

He inspired me to dig deeper into WiseTech, a cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) provider for the global freight and logistics industry. They listed on the Australian stock exchange in 2016 and their share price has risen more than 600% in the last 3 years. WiseTech operates in 125+ countries and has 6,000+ customers.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

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Lead Rank Hubspot Microsoft Lead Scoring 99

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

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A 2016 Bizible and TOPO report featuring ABM Insights and Recommendations confirmed that, “ABM outperforms a traditional marketing approach across a number of categories, including sales and marketing alignment, overall customer LTV, contract value, close rate, and ROI.” These are the most important leads to sales.

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