Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Now is the Time to Build Your Pipeline for 2017. At this time of year it is not unusual for salespeople and sales managers to simply focused on closing business to achieve their yearly objectives, maximize their compensation plans and unfortunately drain their pipelines. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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MarketJoy

AUGUST 6, 2020

However, in the last decade Google Adwords, mobile-readiness, landing pages, web forms, and the marriage between sales and marketing has become table stakes for effective lead generation. In 2018, Gartner predicted, “by 2022, two-thirds of all customer experience projects will make use of IT, up from 50 percent in 2017.”

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For astute sales professionals at digital marketing agencies, it’s a crucial concept that can produce remarkable results for your small and local business clients. This level of personalization can significantly enhance customer satisfaction and engagement, leading to increased sales and brand loyalty.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

In an instant, sales organizations saw their operations and teams rendered dramatically less productive. In addition to an uncertain economy, organizations now face dispersed sales teams and a lexicon of new phrases. Think of that in terms of sales, an industry on the forefront of change. It wasn’t just prolonged downtime.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Launches RevenueGrid.com, New Sales Engagement Platform that Goes Beyond CRM, AI And Redefines What Sales Engagement Tools Should Be. Through its unique, account-specific revenue signals and automated outreach, the enterprise cloud solution is promised to accelerate sales in a way that CRM and AI alone cannot. About Invisible.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

At least 69 percent of businesses invest significant time and money into email marketing, according to a recent survey by business news website The Manifest. In short, it’s important that marketers stay on target. The need to create personalized marketing messages isn’t new; it grew as a natural extension of the dot-com boom.

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SBI

MARCH 26, 2019

BigTinCan Launches Industry’s First Sales Enablement Platform for Adobe. New solution designed for marketers will leverage Bigtincan’s AI-driven real-time automation, intelligently delivering Adobe assets to meet the demands of mobile sales teams. David Keane, CEO of Bigtincan. David Keane, CEO of Bigtincan.

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Connext Digital

DECEMBER 3, 2018

There’s no doubt that email marketing is still effective. An effective email marketing strategy lets you create a unique value proposition and build rapport with your customers. In these cases, aside from segmentation, behavioral triggers can be maximized for email marketing. This all equates to millions in sales lost.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 20, 2023

This Top Workplace Award serves as a reminder of the numerous factors to consider when building a successful sales organization. It has become the vital fuel that drives sales growth and the biggest lever to improve performance. It has become the vital fuel that drives sales growth and the biggest lever to improve performance.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2018

As we embarked on our 2018 Business Performance Benchmark Study , our goal had not changed from 2017. We have a broad spectrum of opinions from 422 enterprise-level executives and sales leaders worldwide. Key Sales Insights to Improve Business Performance in 2018. Invest more in sales tech and methodologies.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Zuant Quantifies ROI for Event Marketers Worldwide; Kicks Off 2020 with Record Client Growth. Zuant’s success is based on the very real need to quantify event marketing investments. CMOs, event marketers and sales reps are spending considerable time and budget exhibiting at shows. Zuant CEO, Peter Gillett.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

What are the sales trends of 2018? Sales automation. And if history repeats itself, just like 2017 we’ll see major developments in the sales world. To find out what’s coming, I asked sales leaders, experts, and reps to predict the top sales trends of 2018. 4) Sales automation. Video prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Unfortunately, a lot of us in sales are doing a darn good job of imitating droids with our robotic “I think you’d really enjoy this new tool blah blah” emails. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t distribute your company content through your sales emails, because you should absolutely be doing that. 2) Focus on them first. It’s a reflex.).

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SBI

MARCH 6, 2019

The announcement follows Strikedeck’s win at the 2019 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service earlier in the month. “In Workflow automation, machine learning, predictive analytics, usage tracking, instant surveys, and flexible personalization enable Strikedeck customers to maximize the impact of their Customer Success.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

What are Sales Training Programs. Sales training programs are any type of formal or informal training that helps employees sell more effectively. For instance, a sales training program might teach you about the science of buying, how to ask questions to better understand your prospects’ needs and wants, or ways that people buy.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Deb Calvert, The Sales Experts Channel provides today’s Blog Story and her Proven Resource! Why I Created the Sales Experts Channel to Be A Proven Resource: I launched The Sales Experts Channel in 2017 with this stated Mission: “ _.”. I was serious about that mission!

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2018

The sales development role is here to stay. We’ve long known companies employing sales development (or business development) representatives see higher revenue and return on investment. The Sales Development Role and Daily Activities. We found sales development reps did an average of 93.8 daily activities : 37.2

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SBI

JANUARY 30, 2019

This isn’t just ‘awareness’ – it’s using machine learning to maximize engagement that results in higher conversions and more opportunities when clients reach out - Andrew Briney, Senior Vice President of Products, TechTarget. January 24, 2019, TechTarget, Inc.

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SBI

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Allego and Seismic Form Strategic Partnership to Optimize Sales Readiness with Personalized Content, Learning and Collaboration, All in One Place. New integration between market leaders delivers the benefits of Allego’s sales learning and readiness platform with Seismic’s advanced sales enablement solution. Rowe Price.

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Velocify

JUNE 13, 2017

A wave of new sales technologies is providing businesses unprecedented choice in building out their ideal sales stack. As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting.

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Mereo

APRIL 21, 2022

in 2017 to 32.4% Successful cultural and process adoption comes down to steadfast leadership, organizational alignment and effective sales enablement. McKinsey insights show that B2B companies are realizing the most growth from data analytics and AI in lead generation, people management, maximizing buyer lifetime value and pricing.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Demand generation marketers are focused on supporting sales teams, and a large part of their role is ensuring that carefully curated leads are moving through the funnel effectively. To that end, aligning with your sales team is critical to building an effective lead management process that drives results and helps achieve shared goals.

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SBI

AUGUST 15, 2019

Brainshark’s suite of sales readiness solutions was named a “Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution” winner – recognized for creating more prepared and effective sales forces. Every effective sales force needs the right combination of confidence and competence. That’s really what sales readiness is all about.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 27, 2018

Build a Consistent Marketing Plan. Whether your dream is to become the next Facebook ads guru or a master of Zillow conversions, the only thing you really need to know about marketing is that it's the one part of your business that never sleeps. What are the latest buying, selling, and pricing trends in your market?

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. What is a sales forecast? Of course, sales forecasts can also be woefully incorrect.

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SBI

JUNE 12, 2019

Zilliant , an industry leader in AI-driven pricing and sales growth solutions, today announced that it is joining the SAP® PartnerEdge® program and releasing Zilliant Price Manager integration with SAP Cloud Platform. Zilliant Announces New Partnership with SAP and Major Expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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EyesOnSales

JANUARY 30, 2018

For a sales team to continuously grow its goals, every member of the team must become better, smarter, and faster each and every month. HubSpot found in its 2017 State of Inbound report that 38 percent of salespeople find it increasingly difficult to get responses from their prospects. This is no easy feat. Still feeling stuck?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2017

This morning I was struck by some very kind words in a note from Dan Waldschmidt on my 2017 Charity:Water Campaign. Rather than treating them as commodities to be switched in and out, we focused on their success and maximizing their performance? Two words struck me, “ Uncompromising Dedication.”

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Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Paula Shannon , Chief Evangelist at Lilt , a machine learning company focused on language translation. Join us for an engaging conversation about language, sales, career success, and embracing cultural differences in leadership. What has changed in sales over the last two decades.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 18, 2023

“Read receipts” was one 2017 addition. Don’t sell: It’s futile to make such attempts to directly make a sales pitch and are unlikely to respond to such attempts. So, it’s best to save your sales pitch for after making your pitch. both with your request and your sales presentation.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 20, 2019

In a YouTube video in 2017, I described this idea as “the most” ridiculous idea in business. These things don’t happen when the inputs are not taken care of, and when short-term decisions are made to maximize shareholder value. Learn how to sell without a sales manager. You need to make sales. Get the Free eBook!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. Sales and Marketing Alignment is a trending topic and the role of Sales Development has been growing fast.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How to Maximize the Last Week of December. ” Jeff Davis , founder of the Sales + Marketing Alignment Summit , is looking to go back into the classic Good to Great. Andy Paul , founder of the Sales House and host of Accelerate! I started taking classes in 2017 during a sabbatical and I have kept at it.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Learn which eight sales associate skills you’ll need to empower yourself or your sales representatives to become top performers. RELATED: How To Develop A Next Gen Sales Rep w/Mor Assouline @Practice Panther. In this article: What Successful Sales Professionals Have in Common. Active Listening Skills. Be Prepared.

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