Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

Confession time. As I look at selling, today, it requires far too much effort—far more than I’m willing to do. After all, we have to send 1000s of emails a day, we have to make 100s of calls, we have to spend hours doing outreach in LinkedIn and other channels. How could I sell more, with much less work?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 16, 2019

Author: Jeff Winters You wouldn’t expect Michael Phelps to skim the pool for dead mosquitos before a big race — he’s too busy warming up. So why drown your B2B sales team in administrative tasks better served by artificial intelligence? It makes about as much sense as asking Phelps to spend his time cleaning instead of swimming.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It doesn’t matter if you are a Formula 1 engineer, an Olympic sprinter, or a sales manager; everyone is striving for efficiency. . More efficient race cars are lighter and require less fuel, more efficient sprinters can run faster with less effort, and more efficient sales teams can close more and higher-value deals with fewer resources. .

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2023

Sales is a tough job under normal circumstances, but throw in a recession and things get even more complicated. Here, we cover the top consumer spending trends in 2023, along with five key strategies for selling during an economic downturn. US consumers are spending more conscientiously right now.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

Somehow when we open our mouths or send an email or do an outreach, all it accomplishes is driving our prospects and customers away. Prospects and customers can always sniff it out, regardless how we try to cover it up. It is all about them and has little to do with the customer. They continue to be all about us.

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Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Social Media Up-Sell 73

Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2023

In order to drive awareness, MQLs, pipeline — and ultimately revenue — from B2B advertising, you need to track the best success factors and strike a balance between top, middle, and bottom of funnel metrics. It’s crucial that you also measure key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with sales.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Behavioral Segmentation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

However, among the reps relying on data, a whopping 85% say it makes them more effective. To help you power up your reps’ efficiency, boost the bottom line and deliver a customer experience that lasts long after the initial sale, here are a few ideas for leveraging data as part of your B2B sales strategy. They need data.

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Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

Regardless of your business type or industry, a well-thought-out and structured client onboarding process is the secret to long-term customer retention. It’s where the rubber meets the road, and the initial relationship you’ve built with your customer before their purchase is put to the test. But there’s more to do.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2022

“How do we get customers to respond, how do we get meetings with customers?” ” I’ve been reflecting on this issue for some time. Drum roll please…… Yes, the tension is building, I know some of you have leapt forward in this article to get the answer. I’m offering this up freely.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

That’s the question I asked more than 500 sales pros. If people don’t know exactly who your team wants to meet, it’s really hard for them to refer you. More Doesn’t Mean You Hit the Jackpot. It’s an exercise in futility and wasted time. Refer you to other ideal clients. Even better, working with them is fun.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

Sales teams are under immense pressure as businesses navigate economic uncertainty and mounting customer expectations. They must do more with less and move quickly to close deals at a time when the B2B sales cycle has slowed. A few years ago, sales teams could rely on inbound leads to meet their quotas.

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Gong.io

MARCH 15, 2022

Sales forecasting isn’t revolutionary — it’s been around since the dawn of time. Take a single deal: A sales rep who is overly aggressive may have a different looking forecast compared to a rep who is more conservative. It’s inevitable and it happens all the time. Who is more accurate? Prospecting .

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Conversational AI for sales teams can eliminate a lot of repetitive tasks such as follow-up emails and customer queries and even generate sales collateral. Operationally, conversational AI speeds up processes within tools like your CRM or CMS, makes reporting easier, decision-making more effective, and so much more.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I was meeting with a group of sellers, talking about engaging their customers. I asked the question, “Who are the people, at your customers, most important to your ability to sell something? How do they spend a typical day? ” The more questions I asked, the fewer the answers were. . ” I asked.

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Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

So if you’re ready to be more productive in your sales job and learn new strategies to improve sales productivity, keep reading! So if you’re ready to be more productive in your sales job and learn new strategies to improve sales productivity, keep reading! You try to do too many things at once. You make too many cold calls.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 12, 2022

It seems in virtually every professional endeavor that the prep work is as important, sometimes, more important than the actual work itself. Doctors are the same, despite the hundreds of times they may have done a procedure, they study the patient. Every professional athlete prepares for the event. They study their opponents.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. And it only works if you have a referral system in place to ensure sales reps ask for referrals every day. Reduce the time it takes to close deals. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting.

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Rob Jolles

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Imagine this scenario for a moment: You’ve worked really hard to pin down a prospect, and you’ve secured an appointment. You’ve mapped out your travel route and your timing, but your preparation is far from over. Shared connections: Look for any mutual connections you might have with your prospect.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I can’t imagine more of an understatement. We are trying to incite our customers to change, we are trying to help them navigate a very difficult process, we are trying to help them make a decision–for which there may be a good amount of personal risk. The things that, in fact, drive the customer away.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2021

It is strictly about change, helping our customers/prospects recognize the need to change, helping them in that change process. Until our customers recognize and commit to a change, we have no opportunity to help them buy and move forward. Much of the time, the impetus to change is generated by the customer, themselves.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 27, 2023

They need to achieve more with less, making sales enablement more important than ever. Challenges in Today’s Sales Environment (and How AI Can Help) How Sales Teams Currently Use AI How AI Can Refine Sales Enablement Strategies More and more organizations are now turning to AI as part of their sales enablement efforts.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, RevOps teams play an active role in supporting every function that drives revenue growth, from sales to marketing to finance to customer success. Because RevOps is such a critical function of any GTM motion, RevOps professionals often shoulder the heaviest burden during times of economic hardship or uncertainty.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) helps you identify, source, and prioritize prospects — but how do you create an accurate ICP in the first place? It takes time, money, and people to attract, convert, and delight new customers. You can’t market to everyone. What is an Ideal Customer Profile?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 2, 2024

With AI, sellers can boost productivity and close more deals , and CROs are taking note by investing accordingly. If you’re reading this post, you probably already know what sales enablement is. With AI, sales enablement teams can support more sellers with fewer resources. But what does AI for sales enablement look like?

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DocSend

MAY 17, 2022

When do you need sales enablement? This enables you to train a sales rep by walking them through a pre-designed learning path in order to understand the topic at hand. On-time enablement. The idea here is that when a sales rep is working on a deal and moves it to another stage, you know it’s happened.

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Pipeliner

JULY 20, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Joel Stevenson discusses the most common errors in sales business structures that keep you from being more efficient. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The importance of efficiency during difficult times. You can achieve efficiency in multiple different ways. Back to Basics.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2017

I am not sure where it originated, but we have all heard the question/expression: “Do you want to be right – or do you want to be rich?” A question many managers have asked, and fewer reps have answered. While there is no right or wrong answer, most managers tell me they prefer to hear ‘rich’ more so than ‘right’, you decide.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 12, 2022

Universally, we hear, “We just need to be talking to more customers!” ” More seems to be the universal answer to all sales problems. At the same time, customers are not responding to our outreach. We spend millions on tools to free up sales person time, automating the processes.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 21, 2013

But there’s one way to get an even better return on your time! When you get referrals to the Ideal Clients you really want, you increase your close rate and decrease the costs involved in making sales. More Isn’t Always Better. Why would you want to clog up your sales funnel with anyone else?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sellers try to generate interest in every outreach, “People like you have these challenges…… We can solve your problems…” Our “discovery” is focused on, “Do you have this issue… We have a solution!” 60% of the time they abandon the project.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As a society, our constant need to be connected has expanded our pool of potential customers and made them infinitely more reachable. But, what do you really know about social selling? Today, we provide you with a little more insight into the world of social selling. Let’s get started. alone ( source ).

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2022

You check your email to find out that a deal you were dedicated to just fell through. You pick up the phone and no one is answering your calls. After countless attempts to connect with prospects and land a meeting to no avail, you’ve hit a wall. But this is the opposite of what you should do at this moment.

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Score More Sales

MAY 12, 2014

Today is a GREAT day for you to make a plan this week for MORE of the RIGHT activity that leads to more sales opportunities. That means LESS of the activity you might be doing that does nothing to lead you toward revenue. You can increase the right sales activity several ways. You should.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Market downturns are troubling times for any business — but the concerns can suddenly hit home if you find out that your company needs to cut your sales department’s budget. Learn more about how to leverage a handful of tactics to survive budget cuts and keep your team intact.

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SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

New technology offers new and exciting opportunities, but it's also easy to lose touch with your happy customers. From an advertising perspective, you're missing out if you don't spend some time on social media platforms looking for potential leads and getting that much closer to the people who matter most-your customers.

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