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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. The HubSpot Sales Platform gives sales professionals the tools they need to sell more deals faster in one integrated suite.

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Sales Tools Top-Performing Sellers Can’t Live Without

SalesLoft

How Sales Tools Increase Revenue. Sales tools are the technologies sales professionals use to carry out and streamline their activities so they can close more deals. Research shows that the average seller uses around six different tools. Avoid the Trap of Too Many Sales Tools. Sales Engagement Tools.

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Rainforests and Torn ACL’s Provide Insight into Effective Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

This is called having a Supportive Buy Cycle and while 64% of the top salespeople in the world have it, only 10% of the bottom half of all salespeople and 1% of the bottom 10% have it as a strength. Closed in ten minutes. They continue to demo, quote and close and they wonder why their win rates are so low.

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How to Overcome the 5 Challenges of Accurate Sales Forecasting

Openview

Sales leaders have the incredible challenge of keeping up with all of this change and are simultaneously held to forecasts usually set at the beginning of the year, the quarter, or the month. While CRMs present plenty of their own challenges, they are certainly a necessary tool to any successful sales organization.

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

The four factors of sales velocity are number of opportunities, average deal value, win rate, and sales cycle length. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity. Document workflow software like PandaDoc increases close rates and shortens sales cycle lengths. What is sales velocity?

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7 Ways to Unlock the Power of a Time-Aware CRM with Sugar Sell and Enhanced Forecasting

SugarCRM

Modern CRMs have made great strides at automating data collection to use for strategic initiatives like enhanced forecasting, but realistically, the vast majority of today’s CRMs require you to enter data manually. Time-Aware CRM systems can provide insights into the buying cycle of customers. Time is crucial in business.

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Our Customers Can’t Afford For Us To Wait Until They Are 70% Through Their Buying Cycle!

Partners in Excellence

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” As a result, the sales professional is key in helping customer initiate the buying cycle.