Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2018

Welcome to our seventh installment in our series of B2B blog post round-ups. If you’re not familiar with the ZoomInfo blog, these monthly round-ups feature blog posts, articles, and guides the ZoomInfo team has contributed to outside publications. 2. How to Set Prospect Expectations During the Sales Process.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Welcome to our October B2B Blog Post Round-Up. If you’re new to the ZoomInfo blog, we use our monthly round-ups to highlight the work our writers have done for outside publications. This month’s round-up covers a variety of topics including email marketing, sales reporting, storytelling and so much more. Let’s get into it!

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Close.io

AUGUST 7, 2019

For all you future Buffets out there, the following sales blogs represent the best-of-the-web when it comes to sales content. You’ll hear from other sales leaders and discover the tips and techniques they use to sell more, faster, and better. Then, get on with your day and crush your sales goals. Sales Hacker.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As a sales leader, it is necessary to understand the performance levers which impact your bottom line. One encompassing metric that can help you understand these levers and improve sales effectiveness and efficiency in 2021 is Sales Velocity. Deciphering your.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. Create a practical exercise or project that mimics the actual responsibilities of the role—such as a writing prompt for content writers or a practice sales call for sales reps. And there you have it, our February 2019 B2B Blog Post Round-Up! Continue reading.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! “ Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. “ Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It involves assessing the performance, effectiveness, and alignment of digital strategies with business goals. Content: Reviewing the quality, relevance, consistency, and performance of digital content, including blog posts, articles, videos, infographics, etc. You know what makes your prospect tick online.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 12, 2023

Coaching for Performance: A Guide to Unlocking Full Potential Review season is upon us. As a sales manager, you’re prepped to provide constructive feedback to your sales reps. But there’s a challenging scenario: a top-performing rep with an attitude issue. How do you address this in the performance review?

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2019

But with the amount of data and analytics we have access to, it can be difficult to differentiate between the important marketing metrics and the not-so-important marketing metrics. Today we explain the five most important B2B marketing metrics. However, the average sales cycle can take weeks or even months. Keep reading.

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SBI

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Top 10 Blog Posts & SalesTech Acquisitions of 2019. TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF 2019. The importance of Marketing & Sales Alignment is obvious when it comes to tradeshows. Read “Sales Tools to Increase Tradeshow ROI” if you not only want to have better insight on event ROI but also want to ensure a higher ROI.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a good sales leader or a great sales leader? What makes a great sales leader? I have found that the two most important critical success factors to being a great sales leader are: Top sales leaders build winning teams by coaching , engaging and being a BOLD leader. What is stopping you from making the leap?

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

As the Director or Manager for Sales Enablement, you’ve probably been more focused on tracking participation metrics, like a number of training sessions completed, amount of content produced, and so on (a whopping 48% of enablement managers track only that!). With marketing, it’s easy – traffic and leads are your go-to metrics.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 27, 2016

As the Director or Manager for Sales Enablement, you’ve probably been more focused on tracking participation metrics, like a number of training sessions completed, amount of content produced, and so on (a whopping 48% of enablement managers track only that!). With marketing, it’s easy – traffic and leads are your go-to metrics.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Cycle 52

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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PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

“What is ACV in sales?”, If so, it’s a key metric you might be missing out on. It’s a metric that tells you about the yearly revenue generated by individual contracts. The importance of knowing ACV in sales ACV is an important metric for a variety of reasons. Your current ACVs can help you predict future sales.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a sales leader, you already know that effective sales performance management isn’t just setting lofty sales targets and then pushing your team to achieve them. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2022

In selling (marketing, sales, customer experience) and business, in general, data, measures, metrics, and KPIs are important, and, sometimes, helpful. A metric starts putting context around a measure. A metric might put a time element around a measure, for example, “I make 50 calls a day.”

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We have already discussed in our last post how managing a large sales team creates hurdles at tracking performance, analyzing sales data, providing personalized coaching, etc. Because AI empowers leaders to maximize human strengths rather than getting dragged into metric minutiae. Today’s blog starts right there!

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

In the world of sales, understanding how to implement an effective pipeline management strategy is paramount. From the initial stages of customer contacts to the final closure of a sales deal, we’ll elaborate on every step to help you and your salespeople stay more productive in handling the ebb and flow of the sales process.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 19, 2021

We have to know our healthy pipeline metrics that enable us to look at volume and velocity within the qualified pipeline. The healthy pipeline metrics are different for each person. While two sales people might have the same goals, the their pipeline dynamics may be very different. The forecast is different.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only one month into 2024, we’re already seeing a significant shift in the marketing metrics world. Part of this re-evaluation has led many to believe it’s time to bid farewell to the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) as a primary metric and embrace the concept of pipeline as the new kingpin of success in marketing efforts.

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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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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We measure a lot of stuff in sales. We have all sorts of pipeline metrics, activity metrics, prospecting metrics, account, territory, retention, renewal, mix, margin, and endless other metrics. Metrics are really just some sort of alert. Both have roughly the same average deal values and sales cycles.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A successful social media marketing strategy emphasizes monitoring campaign performance. Keeping a close eye on success metrics provides essential insight into which strategies are performing the best. It helps track success metrics and offers actionable insights to optimize future campaigns.

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G2Crowd - Sales Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. Examples of marketing vanity metrics include: Page views.

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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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Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To Churn 62

Mindtickle

APRIL 17, 2024

This is especially true in sales; no metric is used or tracked as much as the win or conversion rates. In this blog post, we’ll explore the reasons behind low conversion rates and provide actionable strategies to boost your win rates. What is the sales conversion rate, and why is it important?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to be successful– but sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Sales reps face a number of obstacles that can keep them from their goals and it’s your job as their manager to help them overcome these challenges. To put it simply, sales reps are only as effective as their managers enable them to be.

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Sales Qualified Lead Penetration B2B Face-to-face 207

Autoklose

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sales is challenging. Having proven rules to follow adds to predictability, which is of paramount importance to every high-performance sales development team. We’ve analyzed all that data and come up with these 10 tips for building and managing a high-performance sales development team. Monitor Relevant Metrics.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Scale Campaigns 98

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. Whichever solution you use, it should help share insights into performance success in a digestible way.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this blog post, we delve into sales content analytics, exploring its impact on modern sales techniques. What is Sales Content Analytics? Why Sales Content Analytics Matter? Ways You Can Leverage Sales Content Management Systems Top Sales Content Analytics to Track How Often Should You Audit Your Content?

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Awarathon

APRIL 12, 2024

Understanding the role of Generative AI in training The rise of Generative AI is transforming fields with the ‘adapt or perish’ mantra, and sales training is no exception. Generative AI is on the cusp of revolutionizing sales training programs. Let’s go through this in detail.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

My last blog discussed how to Make it Rain in Q4 and close the year strong. This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. Many sales reps are forced to accept a quota that is neither.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How well can you explain (or defend) the way your company compensates sales employees? In today’s world, where pay transparency and compensation fairness are increasingly in the spotlight, sales employees and high-quality job candidates want to know more than just “how” your sales reps are paid. Let’s get into it!

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The Sales Readiness Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Creating new sales opportunities and moving them efficiently through the sales process is a critical differentiator of high-performing sales teams. One answer lies in understanding sales velocity - a key metric that offers valuable insights into the sales team's efficiency.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). Second, when I look at most sales pipelines, they are a disaster. ” We have to track our prospecting opportunities, but we need to keep them separate from the pipeline metrics.

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