Close.io

APRIL 8, 2020

Even here at Close, we’ve gone through every department and asked what tools or services we can remove or negotiate a lower price for. Many sales reps are too anxious to be communicating effectively with customers during this time. What do their marketing channels and social media look like? Remove inactive seats.

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Cancellation Churn Customer Software 118

Allbound

JULY 25, 2018

I was speaking with a Chief Revenue Officer of a mid-market, mar-tech, SaaS company who was earning about $15 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and surprisingly enough, despite having the word “Revenue” in his title, he was shockingly disinterested in measuring the ROI from his channel team. Reduce churn potential.

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Channels ROI Marketo InsideSales 48

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, content marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses to connect with their target audience. The Importance of a Clear Content Strategy Martin emphasized that content marketing is not just about churning out content for the sake of it. Build brand awareness, and drive growth.

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Marketing Churn Social Media Promotion 64

Close.io

APRIL 10, 2020

New week, new Sales Brief! In this post, we've pulled together some of the best sales articles from around the web, featuring some superb content on resume building, churn prevention, onboarding, and much more. With that said, let's take a look at this week's sales content. CHURN BACK TIME ?. Don't miss it!

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Hiring Cancellation Churn Policies 95

Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

Imagine that only 28% of your sales reps expect to hit quota. As a sales leader, you’d probably scoff at this. But according to Salesforce, this is the reality for many businesses, and the pressure to hit revenue targets has companies looking to improve sales processes to boost performance. What is Revenue Enablement?

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Revenue Face-to-face Hiring Sales Enablement 93

Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

We’ve created this customer onboarding guide to kickstart your onboarding strategy and create a process that reduces churn and delights customers. Minimized churn rate: Research indicates that if clients fail to see the value in your product or service within the first 90 days, you may experience customer churn.

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Positioning Customer Churn Face-to-face 127

Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Purposes of a Sales Report.

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Report Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Lead Rank 162

Highspot

MAY 30, 2024

Ever feel like your sales team is working twice as hard but not seeing the results your business is aiming for? Whether it’s sales and marketing not syncing up, using outdated tools, or outdated processes, these problems can slow progress. This lets you customize your sales approach for each customer segment.

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Revenue Strategy Face-to-face Buyer Persona 52

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Customer engagement strategies, like loyalty programs, can help develop relationships as they’re deployed through various channels, such as social media or email marketing campaigns. Engagement metrics also give an actionable understanding for customer retention, churn, and satisfaction. Are they active on social media?

Scale 52

Scale Customer Loyalty Social Media 52

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In sales, it's no different. A good sales hook can prevent your prospect from hanging up the phone, or deleting your email entirely. And a great sales hook can start your entire conversation off on the right foot. Here, we asked six sales reps their tips for creating a convincing sales hook to turn prospects into customers.

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Hubspot Social Media Churn Sales 131

Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Whether it’s to access fast customer support, resolve a technical issue, or simply connect to a sales representative, more and more companies are adopting chatbots and conversational marketing platforms to their websites. It’s the very thing you need between your sales team and future prospects. Can Your Team Handle Yet Another Tool?

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Engineering Top of Funnel 130

Lead411

MARCH 27, 2024

The Lost Art of Empathy in B2B sales In B2B sales, where measurements, targets, and bottom lines frequently take precedence, empathy has unfortunately become a lost skill for many people. The persistent pursuit of results can sometimes overwhelm the human aspect of sales encounters.

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B2B Quota Motivation Churn 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

At ZoomInfo, we think of go-to-market as encompassing the entire revenue-generating lifecycle: a cohesive motion that targets ideal customers through aligned sales and marketing strategies, built with high-quality data, seamless outreach and engagement, and scalable automation and orchestration.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Market downturns are troubling times for any business — but the concerns can suddenly hit home if you find out that your company needs to cut your sales department’s budget. A budget cut doesn't need to completely disrupt your sales department, however. It will, however, take all your skill and experience as a sales manager.

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Scale Top of Funnel Churn Buyer Persona 114

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The last thing you want from a sales email is sleazy, spammy… or even sales-y copy. That might sound counterintuitive, but I interviewed Yuval Ackerman , email strategist, who shared her top tips for writing sales email marketing that don’t give you the ick! Gaudio’s sales emails receive: 36.3% click-through.

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Data Segment Email Marketing Webinar Metrics 94

SBI

AUGUST 29, 2019

Overcome Common Sales Onboarding Challenges. The sales development team has established itself as the cornerstone of successful sales organizations; a recent study found that 88% of companies consider their sales development team a key channel of their sales strategy. REGISTER NOW. REGISTER NOW.

Demand Generation 93

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Churn Pipeline 93

SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. With more than 50% of new B2B sales jobs being inside sales roles, it’s no longer a niche operating model. So what does Inside Sales mean and what’s the big deal about it?

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Inside Sales Ideal Customer Profile Benefit Top of Funnel 75

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Janek Performance Group

MAY 22, 2024

To stay competitive in today’s fast-paced digital landscape, sales organizations must continually adapt and evolve. The Sales Mastery Scorecard shows the emerging prevalence of AI. They note 75% of B2B sales professionals plan to evaluate, are evaluating, or are currently implementing AI solutions.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Qualification 62

Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2023

Source: Think with Google Clearly it’s important, but what makes personalization such an important part of the sales process? With an automated sales workflow, you can close leads at scale. If your sales reps aren’t prospecting, they should be closing deals. Now, how do you balance automation and personalization?

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Sales Process Scale Proposal Google 52

Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Let’s continue with our example from earlier.

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Report Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Lead Rank 100

Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

Whether it’s to access fast customer support, resolve that technical issue, or simply connect to a sales representative, more and more companies are adopting chatbots and conversational marketing platforms to their website. It’s the very thing you need between your sales team and future prospects.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Engineering Top of Funnel 100

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

Allego

MARCH 28, 2024

What separates the best sales teams from the rest in today’s unpredictable market? For David Ashe , director of sales development at Allego, it’s about ensuring your SDRs retain their human approach. We’re opening up different channels to say, ‘This is happening. Are you staying on top of new sales techniques?

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Strategy Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

SBI

MARCH 27, 2019

Transforming Sales: Why Sales Organizations Need to Embrace Technology That Allows Them to Capitalize on the Explosion of Data. In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can transform sales in a significant way. This week I interview Doug Erickson , VP of Sales, Americas at Zilliant.

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Data Case Study Churn Margin 76

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to your target market. You’ll even see sales rep positions advertised online under the title of “business development representative.” What is Sales? If so, careful market research will be necessary.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona Scale 130

Nutshell

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing professionals are constantly slinging around new buzzwords, complex terms, and confusing abbreviations. No blog, video, or sales pitch is complete until the phrase “boost ROI” or “improve your net promoter score” is used. It’s what we do. What Is a Marketing Flywheel?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Churn 119

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Believe it or not, the new year is right around the corner– and that means it’s time to plan your sales compensation strategy for 2024. But, in this era of constantly shifting market conditions, it can be difficult to know what changes will best set your sales organization on the path towards success. Don’t worry, we’re here to help!

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Commission 83

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market. Good sales analytics isn’t just a question of knowing what metrics to measure or which are more valuable in times like these. What Is Sales Analytics?

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Analytics Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing 114

The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales Training Programs Online. Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. Online sales training has both advantages, disadvantages, and parity with the more traditional approach to upskilling salespeople.

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Training Hiring Remedy Video 98

Pipeliner

JULY 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the sales landscape, offering businesses unprecedented opportunities to enhance their sales processes and achieve remarkable results. AI-Driven Lead Generation One of the most crucial aspects of sales success lies in identifying and nurturing high-quality leads.

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Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Forecasts 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to individuals in your predetermined target market segment. You’ll even see sales rep positions advertised online under the title of “business development representative.” What Is Sales?

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona Scale 130

Nutshell

MAY 5, 2023

Alternatively, you could try contacting them via another channel, like by phone. Then you can integrate your CRM with different data sources and tools to gather the data you need. With a variety of data categorization, sales automation, and reporting features, Nutshell is the perfect CRM for your business.

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CRM Software Software Customer 115

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Measurements of Success: Tracking success with agreed metrics (between sales and marketing) steers the course for current and future marketing strategies. GTM strategies also help with maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV).

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Building a new sales strategy in the face of a recovering economy is even more exciting when you’ve got a new or revamped product or a slew of new features to give to your customers. You have the product in hand, but without a high-quality sales strategy, it won’t attain the success it was made for. What is a sales strategy?

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Strategy Buyer Persona 113

Smooth Sale

MARCH 11, 2024

Using tools to block distracting websites during work hours. Lack of Proper Breaks image source The myth of the perpetual motion worker, who can churn out work without pause, is just that—a myth. Today’s insights are provided to help you achieve the Smooth Sale! Creating a physical environment that minimizes disruptions.

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