DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. Fit, intent, and engagement provide the core data you need to be successful with your account-based marketing program. You already know this. Fit, intent, and engagement.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Account 145

Altify

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to McKinsey “The five-year growth rate of total returns to shareholders for digital leaders is almost double that of all other firms”, when they undertake a digitally focused account planning strategy. This should focus the mind of all large enterprises when putting together their own long term Account Planning strategy.

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Account Lead Rank Education SalesForce 52

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Some sales people in my firm were discussing where they could get the best prospect lists. Some of the team were leaning towards a trial account with Hoovers. I jumped in to try and be helpful and told them I already had an Insideview account that they could use. You can grab these white papers here.

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InsideView Prospecting Hoovers Territories 322

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Maybe this situation sounds familiar: A company with a sales team of 50 reps decides its data is stale and its customer relationship management (CRM) features don’t meet business needs. These figures account for a combination of companies installing CRMs for the first time and other organizations switching CRM vendors.

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Analysis CRM Remedy SalesForce 246

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The million dollar question. I''ve written four White Papers over the last several years, all backed by science and data from the more than 700,000 salespeople and sales managers that Objective Management Group has evaluated and assessed. The Science of Sales Longevity.

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Study Outside Sales Inside Sales Video 203

SalesFuel

MARCH 29, 2024

Here are a few tips for creating content that will help drive sales. of site entries Account for 29.3% Photo by: Mimi Thian SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement decline in website traffic isn’t the only problem to worry about.

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Conversion Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Consumer 98

Allego

JUNE 11, 2024

Do you know what separates high-performing sales teams from the rest of the crowd? Sales enablement. In fact, research from HubSpot shows that 65% of sales leaders who outperformed revenue targets have a dedicated sales enablement person or team. What Is Sales Enablement? What Is a Sales Enablement Strategy?

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Strategy Hiring 62

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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Hiring Negotiation Decision Maker Coaching 62

Emissary

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But what does that mean for your account based marketing strategy? And marketing leaders can gain that advantage by deploying a distinct account-based marketing strategy that is unique to the challenges (and the opportunities) that 2023 has brought. Where does marketing stop and sales begin? 2023 is expected to be a bridge year.

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Account Based Marketing Account Strategy Demand Generation Targets 52

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The million dollar question. I''ve written four White Papers over the last several years, all backed by science and data from the more than 700,000 salespeople and sales managers that Objective Management Group has evaluated and assessed. The Science of Sales Longevity.

Study 149

Study Outside Sales Inside Sales Video 149

Allego

MARCH 28, 2023

Thanks to digital sales rooms (DSRs)—also known as digital experience rooms (DXRs) or digital solution rooms, you can help them with that. And using digital sales rooms, you can share content with customers and deliver a compelling, modern buying experience. However, teams other than sales can use them across the customer life cycle.

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eBook Video Buyer Education 62

Sales Training Connection

JULY 29, 2013

Major accounts are not just big little accounts; they are quantitatively different. So top performers selling to major accounts cannot just do faster and better what they did when selling to smaller accounts. Successful major account salespeople sell differently – starting with crafting sales strategy.

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Account Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Sports 115

Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While frustrating, that’s an unfortunate downfall of the lead-based selling model, and a great reason why pivoting to an account-based sales model could be beneficial for you. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald explains what account-based selling is and how you can implement it into your approach.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While frustrating, that’s an unfortunate downfall of the lead-based selling model, and a great reason why pivoting to an account-based sales model could be beneficial for you. In today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Donald explains what account-based selling is and how you can implement it into your approach.

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Exact Account Lead Rank Top of Funnel 40

The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2014

But the reality is that building in some flux to your sales time is an important element of success. I work with a lot of sales people who tell me exactly that, “I need to be doing something, otherwise I feel like I am not contributing”. Sales Execution sell better Tibor Shanto' It is important to create some empty time.

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Up-Sell Consumer Exact Account 317

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. How Does Dirty Data Affect Sales?

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Data B2B Churn Buyer Persona 251

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Avoid these sales management pitfalls. Sales execs recognize that coaching contributes to performance. Most sales leaders are so busy that the only coaching they have time for is asking reps who they plan to call during any given week. There’s no learning, no tips, and no accountability. But by how much?

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Coaching Sales Coaching Margin Small Business 237

Janek Performance Group

MAY 29, 2024

In B2B sales, business development is the activities and processes that promote growth and increase revenue. A recent Janek poll revealed 83% of sales organizations utilize detailed buyer personas. In addition, 94% of marketers say it increases sales. Often, sales organizations have between three and five.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Buyer Persona Lead Rank 62

Pointclear

JUNE 29, 2017

PointClear has proven methods for driving sales—and they’re discussed in detail in a white paper available for download now. Involving planning, collaboration and accountability processes, these sure-fire action items will help marketing leaders like you make real sales impact. K now your audience.

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Revenue Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Forecasting 170

Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 16, 2013

Write an industry white paper. White paper, or brochure? For the past decade, my weekly email magazine, Sales Caffeine , has been a major source of value to my customers and revenue to me. The post Jeffrey Answers a Question on Cold Calling | Real World Sales Wisdom appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog.

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Cold Calling Face-to-face Trade Show Referrals 233

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Maybe this situation sounds familiar: A company with a sales team of 50 reps decides its data is stale and its customer relationship management (CRM) features don’t meet business needs. These figures account for a combination of companies installing CRMs for the first time and other organizations switching CRM vendors.

Analysis 130

Analysis CRM Remedy SalesForce 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Propel them further down the sales funnel with white papers and webinars. Sellers must humanize their sales processes in a world where sales are increasingly being led by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Treat them like real people, not like a business or an account.

Social Media 227

Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Conference 227

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

It’s just a restating of the obvious need for marketing to be accountable, but it’s getting more attention. AT Internet also has a wide range of white papers to guide and teach the uninitiated. White Paper Review: Marketo's Marketing Metrics Guide - Must Reading. Does Marketing Own the Pipeline? About the Author.

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Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

If you’re like most people, you will have found there are hundreds or thousands of entries and within the top three is LinkedIn (but only if you have an account; if you haven’t, shame on you!). MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Read on when you’ve done it. Happy selling! Sean McPheat.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Cold Calling LinkedIn 197

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Startups are super exciting but they can turn a “rockstar sales person” into a “loser”. Most startups make their first sales through the founders. In fact when you boil it down they make their first sales through social selling. This is often when the founders call in a “sales professional”. Startup sales reality.

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Scale Hiring Collateral Social Selling 373

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2020

He posed the question, “Which of the following workflow is more important, Prospecting, Opportunity Management, Account Development, Partners.” But that focus—excluding balanced focus on the other areas–can be devastating to sales performance and brand reputation. Or reduced our sales cycle.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Social Media Account 117

SBI

JULY 10, 2018

For many sales and marketing teams, discovering an in-month deal requires a whole lot of luck. A marketing team judges how qualified a lead is based on engagement alone; a sales team takes that lead and discovers it isn’t a fit at all. What happens next is predictable: marketers and sales professionals lose trust in one another.

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Intent Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 138

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Virtual sales meetings are becoming increasingly common as teams transition to working from home and offices are spread out in different cities. In the past, a virtual sales meeting, whether by video or phone call, was generally not given the same consideration as an in-person meeting.

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Sales Meeting Meeting How To Face-to-face 118

SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

No longer are sales development metrics in the minor leagues. The top of the funnel sales model has officially gone pro. Traditional sales organizations have always had these three mainstay metrics for Account Executives: The concept of opportunities. A consistent sales cycle. An account conversion rate.

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Account Top of Funnel Scale Sales Qualified Lead 52

The ROI Guy

MAY 11, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM) and Selling (ABS) methodologies are becoming more popular, with almost 40% of B2B solution providers now leveraging this strategic approach to better target and more personally engage with prospects. However, we find these targeting efforts falling flat with buyers.

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Account Based Marketing Account Marketing Face-to-face 45

Mereo

JANUARY 10, 2022

AUSTIN, TX (JAN 2022) — Mereo LLC, a revenue performance consultancy to Fortune 500 B2B organizations and high-growth mid-enterprise organizations backed by private equity firms, has been awarded the gold medal in the 2021 Top eBook/White Paper category in the Top Sales Awards. DOWNLOAD THE AWARD-WINNING EBOOK.

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eBook SAP Banking Exercises 56

John Barrows

MAY 15, 2019

I still believe it would rival some of the best sales tools out there today if it was still available. Timing in Sales. Timing isn’t just critical with business ideas, it’s also extremely critical in sales. Sales used to be a pure numbers game. It was basically Salesloft + InsideView + Nova.ai Uber wasn’t the first Uber.

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Outsourcing Services Ideal Customer Profile Intent Data InsideView 187

Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2014

Coaching sales strategy. Ask sales managers and salespeople what makes them successful. Sales managers can’t help salespeople become more talented, but they can help them become more skilled. However like a lot of good ideas, coaching sales strategy is easy to say but no so easy to do. 4 tips for coaching sales strategy.

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Coaching Sales Management Strategy Face-to-face 99

Sales Training Connection

JULY 14, 2014

Medical Sales. If you missed some of our medical sales and medical device blog posts, here’s a chance to look at some of our most popular posts – in the Medical Sales – Blog Round-up. The 4 blogs are: Medical sales – grabbing physician attention. MedTech sales: when customers change – so must you.

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Health Care eBook Guarantee Negotiation 63

Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. The COVID-19 pandemic gives sales managers the perfect opportunity to work toward transforming into more capable leaders. Shift From a Sales Manager’s Mindset to Sales Leader’s Mindset. Get the Study.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Strategy Funnel 110

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s a popular saying in business circles, but it holds true: People do business with people they know, like, and trust (especially in sales). Propel them further down the sales funnel with white papers and webinars. Treat them like real people, not like a business or an account.

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Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Conference 130

SalesLoft

MAY 13, 2016

Modern Account Based Sales Development enthusiast, and Sr. Director at Birst, Chris Pham is joining us on the Salesloft blog as part three of a five part series on trends in sales development. — Sales development traditionally came from a world focused on the process of optimizing a lead.

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