Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2018

For many sales reps, productivity is key to sales success. So, if your goal is to increase sales productivity, start by asking how much time you waste on non-selling activities. How much do you know about each prospect’s professional background? 15 Essential Blog Posts About Sales Productivity.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Photo by Andrea Schit z via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Know How To Increase B2B Sales? As a result, B2B companies don’t have to underrate the importance of building a robust sales strategy that targets high-value prospective clients and convinces them to transact with their brands.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, most sales teams rely on long-term accounts and word-of-mouth to maintain revenue, which is not a sustainable approach. Create a Formal Sales Process The first step in elevating your lead generation process is to build a definite sales process. Your website is your best source to pull inbound leads into your pipeline.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2019

No one really listens to sales pitching anyway. Or have you reverted to those old, tiresome sales pitches that go on and on about why you’re so great? But in the real world, it’s storytelling, not sales pitching , that makes all the difference. We have sales playbooks, when what we really need are sales storybooks.

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CloserIQ

DECEMBER 26, 2018

One of our goals this year was to create and curate the best sales content out there for advancing your career and building top sales teams. Every week we compiled our favorite posts on everything from sales strategies to hiring plans. Here are 20+ of our favorite sales blogs from 2018.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone. In this post, we’ll walk you through five simple, proactive, and cost-effective ways you can increase your brand’s online presence and impact this year. In the age of COVID-19, every industry is shifting as much as possible into the online space. Never fear.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Are you thinking about increasing sales with a webinar? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. Five percent of respondents planned to increase webinar production in 2020. By April 2020 (as the pandemic kicked in), the ON24 platform saw a 167% increase in webinars.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Pocus is mission control for your pipeline. Alexa’s passion for democratizing data for go-to-market teams began when she led sales strategy & operations at Dataminr, where she built internal solutions to power sales teams with data. 6:38) The concept of go-to-market 5.0, including jobs to be done. (12:48)

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 20, 2024

Notably, it’s essential to understand key metrics such as customer acquisition cost (CAC), customer lifetime value (CLTV), sales pipeline expansion, brand recognition, website traffic, lead conversion rates, and revenue growth. CAC is the cost associated with acquiring a new customer, including marketing and sales expenditures.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Join us at the gorgeous Proper Hotel in Austin on May 15-16 and hear how the top SaaS companies are leveraging partner ecosystems in their GTM motions aka Ecosystem-Led Growth. A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Support on pipeline movement.

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Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2024

What does it take to achieve strong and consistent returns from your sales CRM tool? From our sales experts’ experience, adjusting sales approaches as you go won’t give you the best ROI for your efforts. You will easily get lost or distracted, moving away from your sales targets. Increase sales revenue year-over-year.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 26, 2024

In the world of sales, salespeople are engaging with potential clients to guide them from the top of the sales pipeline, when they first discover a product or a service (level 1) to the bottom of it, the post-purchase stage (the final level). What is a sales pipeline?

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Keep reading to learn about what inbound marketing is, how it can benefit your business, and the steps to take to launch your inbound marketing strategy. How does inbound marketing work? What if instead of going out and finding leads, you could get leads to come to you? The benefits of inbound marketing Who can use inbound marketing?

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Scott Edinger also claims a similar result in Harvard Business Review : “In my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. ” If the failure rate is that high, how can businesses achieve any return on investment (ROI) of their CRM? times more than the $5.60

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). Why is the pipeline important?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Anthony Iannarino has some bad news for sales leaders who are depending on 20 year old sales models. Sales teams must be retrained to create value not sell benefits. Sales teams must be retrained to create value not sell benefits. Unlearning old sales habits is only the beginning. They just don’t work anymore.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Something to think about: According to Folloze, 77% of B2B sales and marketing professionals believe personalized marketing experiences make for better customer relationships. Because we’re focusing on B2B marketing, here are three key segments and how they fit with B2B customer segmentation. What Is Customer Segmentation?

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s common knowledge that working in sales is hard. Yet—what most people don’t understand is the extent to which sales pressure can negatively impact an organization. In today’s post we explain the effects of sales pressure and provide ways to mitigate this stress productively. So, how common is workplace stress?

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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. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

In today’s post, we’re going over how to track KPIs and which ones to choose for your marketing team. In today’s post, we’re going over how to track KPIs and which ones to choose for your marketing team. How Do I Track Digital Marketing KPIs? In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 5, 2024

This involves generating a consistent supply of quality blog content ideas, capitalizing on social media marketing, employing effective lead magnets, and crucially, devising a well-organized content calendar. Thus, the blog must deliver compelling, pertinent, and one-of-a-kind content that imparts value to the readers.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Each week, we will cover a different essential area of sales effectiveness. Build a Message That Centers on Value.

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

It‘s no secret that B2B sales (especially at the enterprise level) take a significant amount of time and effort to nurture and eventually close. The B2B sales funnel is a popular method for modeling this journey. Then, we‘ll discuss how you‘d actually go about using it in practice, and share a few helpful examples to illustrate.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Pipeliner’s Groundbreaking Revenue Intelligence. In my last blog, I introduced Piperliner’s new Revenue Intelligence Loop. The rapid road to a closed sale is only through revenue intelligence. It means predictable growth and instilling discipline regarding close dates, rating of deals and next sales process steps.

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Nutshell

APRIL 24, 2024

That’s why integrating it with the best Outlook CRM is the perfect way to expand its usefulness and empower your sales and marketing teams. An Office 365 Outlook CRM integration allows you to do so much more with your email service, including team collaboration, sales management, email marketing, and lead generation. Nutshell 2.

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There will always be customers who demand a tailored approach to seal the deal… And instead of trying to fit them into your standard sales process, create a new one and have multiple sales CRM pipelines. This blog will give you insights into the benefits of multiple sales pipelines.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Six Best Practices in Sales Pipeline Management to Boost Revenue. The most important thing in sales is a strong pipeline. Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Smooth Sale

JULY 25, 2023

Photo by The Digital Artist via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Will You Study How to Implement AI to Increase Business? Jeffrey Maganis, co-founder of AI Unlock, provides our guest blog, Will You Study How to Implement AI to Increase Business? Use sales automation tools.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, you can convey how investing in enablement helps leaders realize their business goals. By demonstrating how adoption leads to improved performance, leveraging analytics to prove how your programs drive sales outcomes, and highlighting stakeholder feedback, you can create a compelling business case for enablement.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you want to increase your sales revenue, it’s a good idea to track sales performance. Want to learn how to track your sales performance? This blog post is for you. It discusses why businesses should track sales performance and how to evaluate sales performance.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As the host of the Expert Insight Interview from Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the business world. Which centered on the pivotal ways business owners can increase capital and passive income.

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Highspot

JULY 5, 2023

This question is top of mind for sales leaders today, as research we commissioned from a leading B2B research provider confirmed that driving buyer urgency was ranked one of the top three sales challenges for CROs this year. Here are data-driven tips to optimize your buyer engagement and enable your reps to win more deals.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 18, 2024

Building relationships is essential in sales. Modern sales reps leverage many different techniques to build rapport. Sales mirroring is one that’s especially common and effective. In fact, research shows that sales mirroring can increase sales reps’ closing rates by 17%. What is sales mirroring?

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Unlock sales Insights: Track Historical Weekly Opportunities with Apptivo’s Snapshot feature” Introducing the Snapshot feature by Apptivo, a powerful tool designed to revolutionize how businesses capture and analyze their sales cycle.

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