Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. Pick Up The Damn Phone!

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Think about it: You take the (upfront) time looking for high-quality leads best suited for your B2B sales efforts. It is entirely conceivable for a high-energy individual to channel his or her extra energy into activities aside his or her job on your behalf. As a result, that energy might be channeled away from the work.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

All the same guiding principles apply to social selling so it's been my personal mandate as of late, to advance social selling into something elevated that I've dubbed Advanced Strategic B2B Social Selling. Where I'm going with this is that Trigger Event selling is a science irrespective of technological channel.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Prior to Slack, Kevin spent four years as VP of Sales at Dropbox, where he helped build the outbound sales team covering SMB through large enterprise. Prior to that, Kevin spent 10 years at Salesforce where he moved from an AE role to various senior sales management operations and recruiting roles.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

Business Development Representative (BDR) A Business Development Representative (BDR) is a sales professional responsible for prospecting, qualifying, and generating new business opportunities for a company. B2B activities can include selling goods to other businesses, providing services, forming partnerships, or collaborating on projects.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every potential client is unique and no rep, manager, or sales leader can predict every outcome for every deal. By developing and implementing an effective sales coaching program , sales managers and leaders can pass on their expertise to reps in a more meaningful way. Sellers learn what to do and how to do it.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 8, 2022

And how can B2B sales reps leverage it on various social platforms? Social selling is a process where salespeople can leverage social media channels to reach out and connect with prospects. In fact, 87% of B2B buyers are open to interacting with salespeople who they met through a professional network like LinkedIn.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. In this article we’ll review the four main sales motions B2B SaaS teams use: Field sales ( outside sales ). Inside sales. Low-touch sales. No-touch sales.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For a great example of this, switch to the cartoon channel and check out those commercials. Multi-segment marketing is “safer” from the standpoint that if a company advertises across numerous channels, they’re bound to scrape up some revenue from one of them. Plug in your marketing channels. Yeah us too, bad example.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Heck, stand at the head of it. Doubt is a part of life.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

What area of sales do you specialize in? Do you have extensive experience leading B2B sales teams? Do you have a proven method for developing new sales reps into all-stars? We encourage everyone on the team, from sales to engineering, to contribute to our online brand and work together as a team to create momentum.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2022

My first foray into sales was with a Series C company called Vidyard. We were doing B2B video hosting, data analytics, internal communications. I started there about as entry level as you can get, as a sales development representative, managing inbound leads. I’ve been at two companies.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The complete question and comment was as follows: How does pricing support the sales function? How is data from sales fed back to pricing? Most B2B companies having a pricing function these days, usually one that performs some flavor of value-based pricing. 3) Sales Pipeline Conversion Rates (How effective is deal closing).

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DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

Across the board, tech has had a profound impact on both the B2B and B2C realms. They will expect your sales reps to be familiar with their organization’s market space and challenges, and demand to know exactly how your product/service will help them. Sales teams need to be smarter when it comes to serving the new digital consumer.

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