Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As our new year will soon arrive, today’s Blog question, ‘Are You Goal-Driven?’ You can tell that I groomed myself at an early age to excel in the sales profession – unknowingly. You can tell that I groomed myself at an early age to excel in the sales profession – unknowingly. Photo by Akurian Design via Unsplash.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we dive into sales cycle management, let’s first focus on what a sales cycle is and the sales cycle steps. What Is a Sales Cycle? A sales cycle is a term used to describe the sales process steps, beginning when a sales rep identifies a potential customer to follow up after closing the sale.

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LeadFuze

MAY 16, 2019

If that sounds like a win to you, let’s get down to business on how you can develop a sales and marketing alignment plan in your organization. 1 Ensure you have the right infrastructure in place to support alignment. Before you build out a killer sales and marketing alignment plan, take a step back.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Enterprise is generally behind the times and slow to move on new ideas. Shifting your mental game. Leveraging information to become your prospects doctor. Tip #1: Shifting Your Mentality. Before you approach an enterprise account, you need to get the space between your ears ready to go for the day.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Even so, my sales book collection is mounting, thanks to the privilege of hosting Vengreso’s Modern Selling Podcast. Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. I’ll be the first to admit it! So, there you have it!

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” Initially, the list criteria was based off of the total followers salespeople had on social media, and the level of engagement they had from the community. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Update: June 26, 2020. Jordan Arogeti.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s usually the same recycled two or three points you find scattered across the web and every other self-titled thought leader’s blog (cue: “ 2019 will be the year or AI and Blockchain ”). But how do you identify and personalize the next big thing for your own industry , career, or even personal growth?

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Salesmate

JULY 28, 2020

The more you learn, the better you can perform when it comes to nurturing and converting sales deals. In sales, you need to keep learning to excel and surpass competitors. So, take the help of various sales books to enhance your knowledge and brush up your skills. 25 sales books you must-read in 2020.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 9, 2022

Our seventh episode of Ready, Set, Sell recently aired featuring Jeff Davis, associate director of business and brand strategy at AbbVie and the founder and principal of Aligned Growth Strategies. Using digital tools to seamlessly engage your customer. Establishing a feedback loop from sales to marketing. Who is Jeff Davis?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Obtaining a ton of qualified inbound leads can be a blessing for your sales team – provided they are enabled and opportunistic enough to take advantage of them. My former Ambition colleague Dan Nice once compared B2B sales and marketing teams to Allied Forces storming Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product, or a slew of new features, and you need to develop and launch a brand new sales strategy that will take your product to the top spot it was made for. There are an unlimited number of angles from which you can attack a sales strategy. What is a sales strategy?

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OpenSymmetry

AUGUST 17, 2015

The basic premise of the show was around a contestant being given a prize and then being presented with up to three unknown other prizes. The contestant would then have to decide, keep what I have or take a chance and see if I can get something even better. But how do they find the one that will remove the pains?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Does your (sales) funnel have flow? Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). Contents What is a Sales Funnel? What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. What is a Sales Funnel?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

As a lifelong learner, I turn to books whenever I want to expand my thinking or improve my performance. And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Hacking Sales.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

20 Questions Sales Leaders Must Ask Themselves When Reps Underperform. Modern media will have you believe sales motivation is best delivered in the form of an inspirational quote. But, while an inspirational quote can go a long way, it’s simply not going to fix any deep-rooted sales performance issues.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a fundamental part of life to have the desire to inspire others. But creating a business that inspires others can feel like an almighty task. Our collaborative Blog offers a two-step process to begin creating a business to spread inspiration. Creating A Business To Spread Inspiration. Start With What Inspires You.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. Celebrate taking time off to be with your family, kids, pets, friends, or alone with your thoughts. Imbalance is okay.

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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Quality inbound lead generation can accelerate your sales cycle, create happier sales reps, and bolster revenue growth. This playbook can be reused by any company looking to bolster inbound lead generation, accelerate sales cycle velocity, and retain and expand its existing client base. Dial into Your Target Audience.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Gone are the days when B2B sales were about making a hundred cold calls a day or visiting clients in person. Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. What is B2B Sales? b2bsales #leadership #sales Click To Tweet.

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As a business leader, you know that driving revenue growth is essential to the success of your organization. But achieving this goal can be challenging, especially as your business grows and becomes more complex. These functions often include sales, sales enablement, marketing, finance, and customer success teams.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Sales Overdrive

MAY 24, 2011

This is the fourth article in a series related to seven key areas that drive sales and revenue growth performance for organizations involved in business to business (B2B) sales of products and services. The first article focused on recruiting the optimal company-owned or outsourced sales force. Sales Processes & Systems.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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Nutshell

APRIL 17, 2020

Featuring live presentations from some of the brightest minds in sales, marketing, and customer retention, the event was a massive step forward from the first BOUNDLESS show back in February 2019 , both in terms of production value and attendance. On March 6th, 2020, Nutshell hosted BOUNDLESS 2020, our second annual virtual conference. (If

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Managing sales compensation is both a highly complex and highly consequential responsibility. The design and execution of a sales compensation program directly influences the performance and morale of a sales organization, as well as the overall financial success of a company at large. What is a Sales Compensation Manager?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 9, 2019

.” These might be the laws of sales, but they’re not great examples of real sales goals. Your business might be headed in a great new direction, and there might be a fantastic vision behind it, but without well-chosen, well-articulated sales goals, your sales team won’t be equipped to get where you want to be.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

when interviewing for a sales position? All the stars aligned. Your answers were spot on, and the rapport was effortless. Chances are, you went beyond just “answering questions” if you ended up getting the job. You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We have seen this same issue occur in IT spending over the past decade, where IT spending lagged significantly behind revenue growth following the bursting of the technology bubble in 2001, and are wondering if the same will now be true of marketing budgets going forward? For marketers, the news is good overall.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? However, most sales methodologies and most sales teams do not subscribe to a sales method that covers prospecting. What is a Sales Methodology? The Challenger Sale.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Think of this as a sneak-peek of what’s coming up at Unleash ‘19!

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Vendor Neutral

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Driving Customer Value with a Sales Enablement Technology Strategy. So many companies today say they’re focused on providing value to the customer, but most either fail to hit the mark or misunderstand exactly what it takes to get this important process right. A Sales Enablement Strategy Should Work Backward.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As the function of Sales Operations evolves within organizations, we are faced with several large challenges. How do we set priorities with all the competing initiatives coming our way? How do we help the sales organization absorb the changes to process, policy and systems which we implement? Actively Managed (AM).

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sales enablement continues to move from being a competitive advantage to a must-have asset for organizations that want to shorten the sales cycle, convert more customers and generate revenue. . Define Sales Enablement for Your Organization. Strategic Sales Enablement Tips.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Steve is an experienced leader in CRM and Sales Force Automation with a strong sales background obviously. What is actually QUALIFICATION and how does it impact results? To which type of sales does MEDDPICC® apply best? How to forecast deals with MEDDPICC® First line managers role with MEDDPICC®.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s time to modernize your sales enablement program. As the pressure of digitization on sales functions has ratcheted up in the past couple of years, companies are taking another look at sales enablement – for good reason. Among them: Selling is getting harder. What is sales enablement?

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Masterful use of LinkedIn is therefore essential for anyone seeking to progress their career or succeed in business and sales. If you're a leader or salesperson, you must transform the way you use LinkedIn by moving away from it being an online CV! Avoid posting or publishing your company’s brand, products or services.

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