Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Not a day goes by when we aren''t talking with someone about their sales cycle and how long it has become. The quest to shorten the sales cycle is similar to the desire to shorten baseball games. In selling, there are even more options for shortening the sales cycle.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2018

What Is a Sales Cycle? Sales Cycle” refers to the specific actions salespeople follow to close a new customer. Sales cycles are often confused with sales methodologies. A sales methodology, such as the “ inbound methodology ,” refers to the framework for implementing the sales cycle.

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SBI

MAY 17, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Seismic levels the playing field for sales. This is the key.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sales is a function that has always been associated with low efficiency. Some standard workplace automation tools include: Lead generation software: This software allows sales agents to manage leads easily by automating tasks such as data entry and email communication with potential customers. A McKinsey and Co.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 3, 2022

If you’re a HubSpot user , your CRM is also connected with your sales, service, marketing, and operations software. By integrating payments and CRM, you’ll experience a number of benefits depending on which tool you use — here are some examples. How does integrating payments and CRM benefit your customers?

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 6, 2019

The same thing can happen to your sales cycle. It could be changes in the economy or something else in the marketplace that is impacting the time required to close a sale. Whatever the reason, a longer sales cycle time is not good for your business. It was an exhausting process but we eventually made the sale.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 1, 2020

There often comes a state in Sales, especially for new teams, when almost everything seems to be going haywire. Some of the best performing Sales teams worldwide profoundly understand and master their Sales cycles. Some of the best performing Sales teams worldwide profoundly understand and master their Sales cycles.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. No database searching or guessing.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The first thing we need to understand is what a sales cycle looks like and the different steps that it contains. In here, we will discuss the sales cycle definition, stages, and strategies for accelerating sales. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Sales Cycle Definition.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As sales cycles lengthen and new logo acquisitions become more challenging, more organizations are now shifting back to their existing customer base for revenue growth.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2018

Ahh, the never-ending quest to create the perfect, predictable sales cycle. To figure it out would be like discovering the holy grail of sales. But -- as you know -- the insane number of variables and blockers in each sale makes it near impossible to fool-proof the system entirely. How to Speed Up Your Sales Cycle.

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Nutshell

MAY 8, 2023

Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms are some of the best tools out there for marketing and sales. They can do all kinds of things for your business, from providing extensive sales reports to automating your email marketing. Of course, CRMs also cost money. That’s what we’re going to discuss on this page.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Free Trial Business Benefits of a DBMS Since quality data management implies a centralized view of data, teams need a solution that allows them to orchestrate everything, including monitoring who is accessing the system and where they’re accessing it from.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! These differences can include things that no longer benefit you, things you vow not to do any longer, as well as productive changes that you need to make. Happy New Year everyone! Not by any stretch.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover the essentials of guided selling, industry examples, and how it can transform your sales process. The Benefits of Guided Selling The Guided Selling Process Guided Selling Best Practices Guided Selling Examples When Should You Consider Guided Selling? What is Guided Selling?

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SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. With more than 50% of new B2B sales jobs being inside sales roles, it’s no longer a niche operating model. So what does Inside Sales mean and what’s the big deal about it?

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As sales leaders, we are required to periodically assess our sales organization. A sales assessment is an itemized evaluation of the entire sales organization. The purpose of a sales assessment is to uncover inefficiency, bottlenecks, and find improvement opportunities. That is the purpose of a sales assessment.

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Selling Energy

AUGUST 12, 2020

One of the most important parts of the sales cycle remains overlooked. It’s imperative that you “circle back” to every one of your customers and ask them how it went.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. Here are the details.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. Unfortunately, the number of leads that are actually sales-ready is fewer than we’d like to think. Probably not.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 13, 2017

It starts with the question, “Is reducing the time between customer meetings the only way to compress the sales cycle?” ” This focuses on what we call wall/calendar time (look at the clock or calendar on the wall, reduce time between meetings–shorten sales cycle).

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Apptivo

JULY 27, 2022

The sales pipeline is the representation of your prospects along the funnel. You can have a complete outlook on the sales stages and how the opportunities go through each sales stage. What is a sales pipeline? A sales pipeline is a visual presentation of where the prospects are in the sales process.

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Selling Energy

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the most important parts of the sales cycle remains overlooked. It’s imperative that you “circle back” to every one of your customers and ask them how it went.

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Closer's Coffee

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to careerexplorer.com , sales representatives report 2.5 out of 5 stars when asked about job satisfaction which puts sales in the lowest 5% for overall career satisfaction. As a result, more and more companies are adopting this idea of Gamification within the culture of their sales teams. It’s a win-win situation.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 11, 2020

Long sales cycles are a widely known problem among sales teams of all sizes. Longer sales cycles will mean you have fewer leads engaged per unit time. However, you can fix all of that – by shortening your sales cycle. A shorter sales cycle will help you close faster and close more.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 26, 2019

CRM systems don't always get a good rap in sales. Sure, there are notable benefits: They help sales professionals track deals and flag opportunities that might require additional nurturing. But to sales reps, they can seem like nothing more than tedious time sucks. Data goes in, and no clear benefit comes out.

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Emissary

OCTOBER 1, 2020

” Meaning better than the typical enterprise sales cycle. 2020 surely left a mark on enterprise sales and marketing: huge hits to pipeline, prolonged sales cycles, and heightened expectations from newly pressured buyers. Yes, you read that correctly. We said “the best.” Help Your Buyers Fix Today.

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Lead411

JULY 9, 2018

In today’s sales world, we are surrounded by time savers. One aspect of sales that has been traditionally slow, however, is the sales cycle. Should we add this software, do I trust that this will benefit the company, do we have the budget? No one likes to hear a sales pitch immediately upon meeting someone.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Troops

MAY 17, 2019

In this post, we take a closer look at the benefits of Account Based Collaboration. As sales teams have moved away from traditional ways of communicating in favor of frictionless and real-time collaboration tools such as Slack, the positive change it brings to the entire organization is undeniable. Faster Sales Cycles.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesLoft, Outreach, and every other sales organization of companies globally have as a result of Covid-19 been forced to pivot. A virtual sales training program can and will help remote selling teams and sales management grow sales opportunities and close more sales pipeline.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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SBI Growth

JULY 23, 2013

Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. Corporate Communications sees inherent risk in mobilizing a social sales force. Implementing a successful sales transformation. Sales reps are trained to spread messages quickly.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 19, 2014

Sales cycles are taking longer than ever, lengthening by 24% over the past two years, this according to research by SiriusDecisions. Just two years ago, the average sales cycle was 6.4 Why the longer sales cycle? However, the sales cycle delays are not just because of a changed buyer and Frugalnomics.

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