The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In essence, harvest time! Seems everyone is not only back at work, but also have a “back to work” mind set; gone are the excuses (on both the buyers’ and sellers’ part) of summer. Buyers are expected to produce for their companies as much as you are for yours, so leverage that for your mutual success.

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Harvest Pipeline Knowledge Base ACT 257

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Tuesday we enter the “final half” of the sales year, the unofficial intermission that is summer comes to a figurative end, and harvest season is upon us. Now if you did a good job of ploughing, seeding and nurturing (even fertilizing), in the spring, you are truly in a position to harvest.

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Harvest Maximizer Pipeline Groups 120

BuzzBoard

AUGUST 19, 2023

So says Umesh Tibrewal, Founder and CEO of BuzzBoard, as he builds the company vision to make sales more personal, more effective. Unfortunately, all they were getting out of these pre-existing frameworks was generic, stock content that provides little room for true personalization, and ignores a bounty of signal data about the prospect.

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Scale Harvest Data Buyer 52

SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential. A resource and functionality gap between marketing and sales.

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Harvest Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

By Dan Sixsmith According to a newly published report, there is a serious disconnect between the content that B2B buyers expect from marketers, and what is actually being produced and delivered. Translation: a sales pitch. Unfortunately, most marketing is not what buyer’s expect - value focused and personalized.

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Buyer Marketing Harvest B2B 83

Allego

JUNE 29, 2021

2020 was a transformational year for sales organizations. The challenges caused by COVID-19 launched a boom in virtual selling and an estimated 90% of B2B sales are now virtual. > > Watch Now: How to Use Rep-Centric Sales Enablement to Future-Proof Your Revenue Engine. This data reveals the impact of the pandemic.

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Sales Enablement Scale Hiring Harvest 123

Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 23, 2023

Sales is the transfer of conviction and inspiration: The person who is most certain during the interaction will win. Because your prospect is uncertain. Which means your sales conversation will either inspire in them the certainty to say yes — or it will reinforce their uncertainty, and they will say no. A staggering 2%.

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Closing Harvest Top of Funnel Relationals 52

Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This is a big trend – a new holistic approach around communicating value to your buyers and customers. Harvest your customer projects and extract the relevant data on specific business problems, investments, and actual customer value that has been delivered using the metrics that matter to them. Yes and no.

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Trends Sales Enablement Harvest Data 119

SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. Are sales reps being squeezed out of the equation? Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest. Leave gleaning to the farmers (agrarian type - not the sales type). Your prospects and customers are doing the same.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Harvest Social Media 321

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

” Don’t panic, that would just be a waste of your time, and time is something you don’t have in abundance; instead, get prospecting. Prospecting in two ways, first reworking all your current assets, the second is going beyond to prospects and buyers that you will need to identify, engage and move through the process.

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Cold Calling Harvest Referrals Call-back 120

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All focus was on maximizing growth, and frontline sales managers were most worried about what to do if their reps were regularly exceeding quota. It’s altered so much of the context surrounding sales, from the kinds of companies able to buy to the language that wins deals. The recent pandemic has changed sales best practices, too.

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ROI Buyer Persona Churn Follow-up 118

Apptivo

AUGUST 17, 2022

Sales is an important part of business. In reality, sales people face a lot of tension and negativity in their day to day routine work. It is definitely hard to keep oneself motivated in spite of being rejected and working among uninterested hostile prospects. What are good sales quotes? Introduction.

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Motivation Harvest Incentives Incentive 52

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Target "For Sale by Owner" Listings. It’s the perfect place to meet prospects in similar life stages who are awestruck by the home you’ve helped their friends buy. Neighborhood sales usually generate fresh homeowner interest, and a housewarming party can turn cold leads to hot. Not hitting up open houses to harvest new leads?

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Real Estate Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 139

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We’ve all been on a sales call that goes from bad to worse in under five seconds. Is your prospect moments away from throwing a mouse at the screen share? Learn from these tips, and save the sale next time a call goes off the rails. Start by confirming the qualification criteria you or your BDR have harvested.

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How To Harvest Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 97

Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Just like listening to a conversation in a language you don’t know, without context, information is simply various data points – which means the silos of Big Data you’ve purchased or harvested, waiting to be leveraged by some brave salesperson or marketer, are just silos full of noise. This is a two-way analogy. This is a two-way analogy.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Harvest 180

Vengreso

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Every sales professional wants to be closing sales on a higher level. But what most of us don’t realize is that we don’t achieve that through learning better sales techniques. It is his belief and experience that these things will amplify our position as sales leaders and enable us to close sales as a result.

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Closing SAP Harvest Pivotal 111

Pointclear

JANUARY 17, 2012

Are marketing resources or sales reps the right resources to do lead qualification and lead nurturing in the B2B complex sale? Ideally, what emerges at the other end—ready for professional handling by a lead-hungry sales force—is a steady supply of qualified leads, each with a defined process and timeframe for buying.

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Lead Qualification Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Lead Leads 133

Showpad

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Sales enablement represents specific tools, systems and practices that play essential roles in improving the sales process. Numerous businesses are looking to implement this best practice in the interest of maximizing their sales efficiency and performance. The root of data-driven sales enablement.

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Data How To Lead Rank Sales Enablement 64

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In the business world, there are times when we, too, are interested in a bigger fish story – winning larger accounts, from a more fertile pond, representing a potential harvest that can propel our revenues manifold. So how can you fortify your sales professionals to go fishing with the big boys (and girls)? Know What Needs to Change.

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Account Scale Decision Maker Harvest 72

LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The ability to listen to an almost inexhaustible supply of training, case studies, and applicable tips via sales podcasts shouldn’t be taken for granted. From individual sales reps to Founders, there are so many great “shows” to help you become better at your job.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

Gong.io

JUNE 29, 2022

No matter how intuitive and well-designed your product is, you can’t expect your buyers to know how to use it. The best SaaS onboarding processes help buyers achieve their goals and make it part of their workflow. Whether through a free trial or a sales-led motion, providing a strong onboarding experience to new users is a must. .

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Churn Retention Cancellation Analytics 62

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sales Training Article: The New Door Opener = Social Selling By Joel McCabe, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. Are sales reps being squeezed out of the equation? Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest.

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Social Selling Training Harvest Ideal Customer Profile 55

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While it is true that the only reason for a prospecting call is to set up the first formal interaction, there is so much more that can be accomplished. One thing that many fail to do in prospecting calls is set the momentum for the Discovery and beyond. This has become a lost craft in the day of sales disintegration, i.e., SaaS sales.

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Prospecting Harvest Call-back SME 210

HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 10, 2013

Over the past few months I’ve been working with some very interesting companies to help them improve the persuasiveness of their corporate sales presentations. Here’s one of my favorite articles that demonstrates the application of Sales Linguistics  to sales presentations. As a result, nothing unique is communicated.

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Hotels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Harvest 122

Allego

JULY 21, 2022

All of which severely impacts buyers and sellers alike. They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. That’s where sales enablement comes in.

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Sales Enablement Company Collateral Hiring 117

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

If you have one or more global accounts—large companies with a global footprint—it’s important to approach them globally – but this is a tall order for a busy sales department, especially among newer companies where any account-based approach has a learning curve. What is global account-based sales development?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2015

Before I go any further, I know there are some detractors out there who will claim, “Smart Marketers,” is an oxymoron–something like military intelligence or sales professional (I tossed that in out of a sense of fair play.). When Will Sales People Stop This Insanely Stupid Behavior?

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ACT Marketing Construction Harvest 48

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

JANUARY 5, 2009

Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Corporate Sales Training. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. Sales Management Training. → Sales Management Coaching. Sales Store. Distribution Sales Training. Hospitality Sales Training.

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Marketing Face-to-face Harvest Pharmaceuticals 53

Allego

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Modern technology is disrupting sales enablement —for the better. By the year 2020, customers will manage 85% of the buyer’s journey without interacting with a single human being. Even before the pandemic, B2B buyers were spending more time doing their own research before ever sitting down with a seller. But that’s changing.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Strategy Exercises 71

The Pipeline

AUGUST 9, 2020

Let’s explore how August will shape your fall harvest. Most salespeople are planted firmly in their lane, trying to snag unsuspecting buyers into their lane. Salespeople who have looked at August as a period of planting for the future harvest. Those are more an outcome of a business discussion, not a sales call.

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Harvest Call-back Face-to-face Trends 376

Salesmate

APRIL 7, 2020

This is where Customer relationship management (CRM) tools come into play and help your sales team members. This sales CRM tool will empower your sales team members in closing deals faster by making the most important deals and actions available to them with a few clicks. HubSpot is inbound marketing, sales, and CRM suite.

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Tools Marketo Harvest Ideal Customer Profile 130

Cience

OCTOBER 27, 2020

What really happens is referral traffic to the websites decreases , organic reach conversions get harder , and gated content turns up a majority of dead-end leads that sales don’t trust. Always the stalwart, outbound emailing has become more sophisticated, smarter, and prospect-focused in recent years. The Go-To Channel: Cold Emails.

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Outbound Campaigns Channels Ideal Customer Profile 63

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I help my clients learn how to scout, hunt and harvest whales– companies that can sign contracts 10x to 20x the size of my clients’ current average deal size. Buyers driven by fear. But they hadn’t given any real thought to underlying concerns of the buyers. My clients have similar stories. Whale Fears.

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Outsourcing Services Harvest Face-to-face Enterprise 75

Jeff Shore

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Andy Paul, of the Accelerator podcast, joins Jeff to talk about the simplicity of sales. If you're trying to be effective in sales, it's still about what happens in that moment when one person talks to another person. BuyersMind #Sales Tweet This. The Sales House.

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Top of Funnel Call-back Up-Sell Sales 65

Revegy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

CRM platforms are designed, installed and integrated by IT professionals, and in order to work properly, sales and account teams need to adapt to the software. As a result, most CRM systems lack intuitive processes, which means sales and account teams are required to fill out unnecessary forms and enter data that doesn’t drive sales value.

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CRM Account Harvest Analysis 40