The Sales Readiness Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

For many sales managers focusing on short-term day-to-day results, it is often challenging to think like a leader and focus on achieving a long-term vision. But that is exactly what a sales manager must do to maximize their team's performance.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 12, 2013

The art of selling has changed dramatically over the last 30 years, and the way that sales people and business owners now prospect and sell to the customers has moved on significantly from the. [[ This is a content summary only. Consultative Selling consultative sales process'

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eGrabber

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Are you looking for ways to shorten your sales process and make prospects purchase sooner? The less time a lead stays in your sales process, the more is your return on investment (ROI). Look for companies that are in the process of increasing their headcount. You will need the Sales Navigator premium account.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

According to the search results inside this blog, I have written on the topic of coaching salespeople more than 400 times or 25% of my articles. Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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CloserIQ

JULY 1, 2019

Whether it’s the one-hundred meter runner perfecting his starting position for the umpteenth time or the award-winning novelist that reliably churns out 1,000 words a day, extraordinary results are invariably preceded by many ordinary steps. . And the same is true of sales. An effective process is essential to consistent sales revenue.

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Braveheart Sales

JULY 9, 2020

I was working with a sales team last week that we have been working with for just a few months. We were discussing certain deals in their pipeline and where they were in the process. No definitive agreed-to next step was established. After all, the next step is most important in the sales process!

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. Today, we’re looking at several common recruiting horror stories—and providing you with the steps you can take to make sure these unfortunate circumstances never happen again. In fact, 75% of hiring and talent managers say they use recruiting software to improve their hiring process.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 3, 2012

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Building Your Sales Pipeline Is Not a One Step Process. Do You Have a Sales Funnel? It takes a clean set of nurtured contacts over time – who know and trust you, and who find the value in your offering to grow sales. This is the front-end of your sales process.

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Pointclear

MARCH 2, 2011

He blogs at [link]. But incomplete without a means to capture demand and convert it to sales. Blogging, engaging, listening to customers on Facebook or Twitter. But doing these things won’t help your business generate leads and convert sales using social media. Here's a 3 step process that will.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In Part I of “How to Design an Effective Sales Process,” we talked about how the sales process is your blue print to convert leads into prospects and prospects into clients. With a total allotted time line set for the entire sales cycle, the next step is to figure out each stage in the sales process.

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Zendesk Sell

MAY 2, 2019

Maybe you’re a new sales manager, stepping out of your sales rep role and wanting to find the best management practices. Excel at your position with a clear sales management process — the act of managing sales operations and a team of sales reps and implementing strategies to increase your company’s revenue.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

Earlier this week, I was interviewed by John Radkins, for his Sales Machine Blog, and he asked me to explain sales process for those who don’t want to be restricted by sales process. Think of the sales process as a journey rather than an adventure. A journey is planned.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2018

Welcome to our June B2B Blog Post Round-Up—a series where we highlight the great work our writers contribute to some of our favorite publications. If you worked in sales or marketing in the past year—you’ve already heard the news: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is an incredibly effective way to target qualified prospects and close more deals.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2020

Thanks for your interest in writing a guest blog for HubSpot. The award-winning HubSpot Blogs have over 7 million monthly visits, and we're always looking for more brilliant contributors to join our ranks. While we tend to skew toward content about specific sales tactics, that's not all we talk about. We’re glad you’re here.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Many companies are going through their annual planning process. Global leadership forces you to increase your sales numbers and reduce expenses, and you have to dance. You are asked for stretched sales numbers, and fewer programs than you pitched for, and you go back to the drawing board to make revisions. Here’s the rub.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2019

We all know how important sales referrals are… According to the Harvard Business Review , “Nine in 10 buying decisions are made with peer recommendations.”. Statistics gathered by Influitive tell us, “Business-to-business companies with referrals have a 70% higher conversion rate, and they report a 69% faster close time on sales.”.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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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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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Sales Process is your guide; your step-by-step road map to sales success. The Sales Process is your plan, your blue print on how to turn a lead into a prospect, motivate a prospect to become a customer and help a customer become a long-term client. Step I: The Total Sales Cycle Time .

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

An Overview of the Marketing Agency Sales Process The sales process in a digital marketing agency is a multi-step journey that requires a thorough understanding, strategy, and execution. This initial step requires extensive market research to understand potential customer needs and challenges.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s a big problem with many of the sales blogs you read. One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. The rest of you should be doing the following at least on an annual basis: Evaluate your sales force.

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Marc Wayshak

AUGUST 22, 2018

B2B sales can be a lot more complicated than B2C sales, with many stakeholders and steps involved. However, by structuring your sales process into different steps and make preparation for each of them, you are much better equipped to handle potential customers.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In Step I of designing your sales process, you determined the total length of time of the optimum sales cycle. Then, in Step II , you designed the individual sales stages. Let us use a hypothetical sales person whose sales process looks like this: Suspect Indefinite.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Looking for a list of the BEST sales blogs to read in 2019? If you want to level up your sales game, your best bet is to read the best sales blogs the pros are learning from. If you don’t see your favorite sales blog listed below, be sure to write a comment. The 18 Best Sales Blogs.

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Vainu

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

A successful B2B salesperson is an expert in handling uncertainty and one needs to have a stable sales process to succeed. In this blog, we'll introduce you to an outbound sales process taught at Vainu Sales Academy.

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Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

Yet, working together, they’ve built a high-performance sales enablement function at TOUGHBOOK Europe—the European Mobile Solutions Business Division of electronics giant Panasonic. They designed new industry research methods that include both customers and sales reps. Before 2020, Panasonic didn’t have a sales enablement team—at all.

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Babette Ten Haken

DECEMBER 28, 2017

When I started this blog in 2009, I focused on the thorny issues involved with communicating across the sales-engineering interface®. The post-sale care and feeding of customers is relegated to just about everybody who had zero to do with acquiring these customers. Are you a Process Expert or a Process Spectator?

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2013

There are millions of business and sales blogs to be discovered every day. In fact, I support some of my professional colleagues who are sales consultants, sales trainers and sales coaches by broadcasting their blogs. So what makes this business and sales blog any different than theirs?

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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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Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In this interview, Tom shares how the partnership between marketing and sales made all the difference in rolling out a new digit al sales strategy. . “If I’ve worked myself into a marketing job, but 80% of my career has been in sales, account management, and creating marketing programming and other services to support sales teams. .

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Showpad

JANUARY 12, 2023

Meet Ljiljana Budimir Vukicevic , Sales Enablement Digital Capability Lead at Schneider Electric. In her 20+ year tenure with the global energy management and automation company, Ljiljana has seen and led major technological evolutions across the business — from customer care to IT support and, most recently, sales enablement. .

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A great content marketing strategy isn’t only about growing an audience but mostly about delivering value while paving the way for the sale. Instead of hoping that visitors will somehow rediscover your blog later, you want to take actionable steps towards building a communication channel—so you don’t lose them.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

These third quarter zinger blog posts focus on how “what we do” impacts the customers we serve. So often, all of us get caught up going through the “steps” of someone else’s process or “how to” formula. Instead, these third quarter zinger blog posts concentrate on the value of YOU. Subscribe to my blog. Contact me.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

11 Steps to Build an SMB Lead Generation Strategy. Lead generation is the process of advertising, optimizing brand reach, engaging with nurture campaigns, and maximizing digital channels. Build a lead nurture campaign – Not every lead that shows up on your radar will engage with your sales and marketing teams.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Read any “how-to” guide, and 9 times out of 10 the first step is something having to do with planning or strategizing. Closing more sales. The ultimate goal?

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Nimble - Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of sales, where consumer behaviors, technologies, and market trends constantly shift, achieving success is tied to the mastery of the sales process and the adept management of sales pipelines.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Steering Your Business In the Better Direction Steering Your Business Better IIf your business has been enduring a rough year or two or more, regardless of the cause, it’s urgent to find a way to turn things around—step into being the captain of your ship to navigate calmer seas.

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