Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Update: June 26, 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. Megan Bowen.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2020

Many early adopters recognized the need to prepare their sales teams and began leveraging the necessary principles, organizational strategies, and supporting technologies. All of this to better empower and enable their sales representatives to be more effective in the field. . Room: Advance Stage, Playground, Grand Ballroom, Channel 1.

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Face-to-face Webinar Metrics Sales Enablement Conference 40

Crunchbase

JANUARY 26, 2021

While it’s impossible to predict what 2021 and the years beyond may bring to sales, assessing the confusing marketplace in 2020 does give us some useful insights to use as a launchpad. Channels in the sales playbook are evolving. Even before the pandemic began in 2020, the sales journey was growing increasingly complex.

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Trends Social Media Discount Decision Maker 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. 40% of businesses did not meet revenue targets in 2020.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2020 has been a year of massive change. But what does "growth" mean in 2020? In August 2020, Yelp reported that 165,735 businesses indicated that they have closed, and 97,966 (60%) of those were reported as permanent closures. This year, however, many organizations were forced to implement a fully remote or hybrid sales model.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Nearly half of American CFOs indicated they believed a recession would hit by mid-year 2020 in a Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey released in June 2019. CSO Insights found that less that 25% of buyers say they consider salespeople to be a resource to solve business problems.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Nutshell

AUGUST 4, 2020

We’ve divided the list into three different categories for your convenience: podcasts, YouTube channels, and blogs. Related: The BOUNDLESS 2020 reading list: 12 must-read sales and success books recommended by the experts. Ready to learn the strategies and tactics you need to succeed at sales in 2020 and beyond?

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If “ops” is in your job title, then this track is for you: Revenue Ops, Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Success Ops, or Business Ops. Attendees in Sales Enablement, Marketing, and IT buyers will also find value in this track. In this session, you’ll gain insight into automating core business processes for sales.

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Allego

MARCH 5, 2020

Shea serves B2B marketing and sales professionals with a focus on how business leaders must adapt to the empowered buyer. Not only is Mary an expert researcher with deep ties to the sales tech ecosystem, she’s also a practitioner with a lengthy career heading up successful sales teams. The first is sales engagement.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are a few sales methods to consider: 1. About 60% of sales professionals actively use social media as a sales device. In the B2B space, LinkedIn is the obvious social channel of choice. LinkedIn is fertile grounds for initiating, nurturing and, hopefully, closing sales too. Social selling.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 19, 2021

Solidify your soft skills for today’s buyer. Working from home requires better time management. In 2020, 48 percent of salespeople worked from home. Overall, 60 percent of sales executives experienced a transition into some sort of new work environment in the past year. Military in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Scale Advertising 52

Vendor Neutral

MAY 7, 2021

5 Impactful Sales Enablement Technology Solutions in 2021. 2020 changed many things, including totally redefining those tech clichés of “disruption” and “transformation.” 5 Sales Enablement Technology Solutions to Consider in 2021. Leveraging Trends for Greater Prospect Engagement. This tends to vary, however, by industry.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 6, 2021

Old sales strategies and sales tactics playbooks will be torn up as rapid innovation is changing how buyers buy. Unfortunately, many organizations have been slow to respond, preferring to rely on traditional sales strategies. These considerations are shaping the buyers journey alongside how they buy.

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Lead Rank Negotiation Face-to-face Buyer 66

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

AI adoption is growing in sales. 37% of sales organizations reported using AI in 2020, a 76% increase from 2018. Sales teams have reported major improvements in areas from sales forecasting to lead prioritization and more. The bottom line here is that sales AI adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Forecasting 62

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Face-to-face meetings have been replaced by video conferencing, and many sales leaders are scrambling to train their sales teams on how to sell remotely. A 2020 study by the RAIN Group found that pre-pandemic, only 27% of respondents reported conducting more than half of their sales activities virtually. Call-to-Action.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 111

Showpad

DECEMBER 13, 2019

As we inch closer and closer to the new year, how can you prepare your Sales, Marketing, and Enablement teams to provide the best buyer experience? Check out the latest news: 8 Ways to Promote Your Content to Grow Subscribers and Sales. To put your content to work, you’ll need to promote it via other Marketing channels.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 27, 2020

We didn’t just survive a singular event, and we can’t just re-set everything to January 1, 2020, and go forward. This is true for both buyers and sellers in almost every market. Social media channels offer a wonderful way to engage user communities or vertical market populations. Social Media – Talk and listen.

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Customer Enterprise Enterprise Social Media 77

Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Your LinkedIn profile should be a RESOURCE for your audience, and “About” becomes the story of how you help your buyers, prospects, employers, candidates, or donors. I know it’s your LinkedIn Summary, but ironically, it really needs to focus more on your buyer and their needs and wants than your own. Their needs?

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I was growing up in the 1960’s, I watched meteorologist Don Kent give his weather forecasts on WBZ channel 4 in Boston. 1960’s Don Kent is like a 2020’s salesperson. Before long, nobody will listen and worse, sales management won’t be inclined to provide feedback. When will you…?

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Decision Maker Call-back 203

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

What Is Sales Training? Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Cincom Smart Selling

MAY 27, 2020

We didn’t just survive a singular event, and we can’t just re-set everything to January 1, 2020, and go forward. This is true for both buyers and sellers in almost every market. Social media channels offer a wonderful way to engage user communities or vertical market populations. Social Media – Talk and listen.

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Customer Enterprise Enterprise Social Media 62

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. The Challenger Sale. Buyer-Centered Selling. Hacking Sales. Management and Operations. Sales Manager Survival Guide. The Ultimate Sales Machine. Sales Management.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

With sales now oriented primarily around a company website, this kind of approach can be unwieldy and impractical. The modern method — inbound sales — is centered on the actions of a buyer and takes advantage of automatic methods of data capture. Step 4: Collate your info and define your buyer personas.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

The sheer amount of competition is mind-numbing and buyers have so many options to choose from that your solution may now be considered a commodity. How can your sales reps stand out from the crowd and start building their sales pipeline ? You need prospecting techniques that will actually work with the modern buyer.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

Buyers are still firmly in control of the sales process, so it’s essential for sellers to find new ways to add value for them. But they’re missing out: for example, customer service reps have the greatest insight into how buyers feel, because they touch customer accounts 10 times more than sales reps do.

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Strategy Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 55

Sales Hacker

APRIL 9, 2019

Well, those stereotypes have real-life consequences on sales teams. By 2020, Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce. It’s time for sales leaders to cast aside the stereotypes and take a hard look at Millennial motivations, strengths, and shortcomings. Their connectivity can erase the distance between buyers and sellers.

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DialSource

JULY 8, 2020

At this point, there is no more discussion about inside sales vs outside sales and which is more optimal in terms of a company’s growth strategy. . Based on the 2020 pandemic and corresponding lockdown measures, overnight, everyone was transformed into an inside sales or digital selling role. This is the next normal.

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Inside Sales Scale Outside Sales Face-to-face 69

Chorus.ai

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses make very few high-impact decisions nowadays, in SaaS and beyond, without consulting a sales analytics solution first. This is particularly true post-COVID, where even minor decisions (like a product launch or new buyer personas) can have lasting negative effects on your bottom line and brand perception.

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Analytics Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing 62

Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Another year is in the books—so it’s time to ready your sales game-plan for 2020. In this post, we look back at the sales posts and topics that sparked the most engagement in 2019. As you devise your own sales approach for the next year, incorporate the outreach , negotiation , and sales development tactics shared below.

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B2G Outbound Government Sales Forecasts 89

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

It may seem that cold calling in sales is dead — but the numbers say otherwise. According to research conducted by the RAIN Group , 69% of all buyers surveyed have received and accepted cold calls during the last year, and 82% of them have accepted meetings with sellers. Choose the most appropriate time for calls. Disclaimer.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Keep reading to learn what sales tracking software is, what a proper sales tracker tool looks like, and the eight best sales tracking software options available to you in 2020. What Is Sales Tracking Software? This information can then be used to fine-tune a sales approach that closes the deal.

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Software Software Tools Top of Funnel 71

Chorus.ai

MARCH 10, 2021

Top sales managers today understand the value that cross-functional teams can yield. Channeling a mix of different skill sets, responsibilities, and approaches towards a common goal can transform a sales effort. Of course, bringing out the best in cross-functional teams requires dedicated, skilled sales management.

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How To Channels Enterprise Enterprise 110

Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2021

If annual sales are rising year-on-year, and your rate of growth is positive, then your strategy is sound. By breaking down sales growth, you can get a better grasp of your revenue growth by quarter, as well as with a host of by-class sales metrics: by region, age-group, buyer persona, and more. Get the Report.

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Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Lead Rank Discount 62

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Michael Smith, Managing Director at Blue Ridge Partners. The ongoing pandemic has significantly impacted how businesses operate before 2020, compelling employees to work from home by embracing virtual channels. Do you think changing the entire sales architecture all of a sudden is so easy? No, not at all!

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Strategy Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 98

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Go-to-Market Strategy Benefits As you develop a new product or service, it’s vital to start drawing a go-to-market strategy that’s customized to fit your budget and your buyer persona. You’ll have three variables to test: the channel you advertise on, the audience you target, and the message you share. Next, optimize your audience.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Crunchbase

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018. Our research has found that now around 84 percent of sales professionals missed their quota in 2020. So, how do teams adjust to the digitally transforming sales landscape?

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Pivotal Strategy Face-to-face Consumer 105