Hubspot Sales

MAY 10, 2023

Getting multiple stakeholders to arrive at a consensus is hard enough on its own, and bringing an additional decision-maker into the fold means adding a potential detractor to the mix. As you’ve probably seen first-hand, there’s normally at least one blocker in every company — and they can do a lot to sabotage your sales efforts.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One day you might have to explain to your children that companies once had sales meetings in person, in a room with the lights dimmed and something called a PowerPoint presentation. (If The truth is that most sales meetings, online or in person, always were and often still are boring lectures. . The basics: What is sales enablement?

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DocSend

JUNE 3, 2020

The problem with chasing email opens is that so much of the internal decision-making process happens after that point. Your sales collateral may be forwarded and viewed by multiple stakeholders and decision-makers, and there may be discussions about your shared slide deck that you don’t have any insight into.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content. Two things.

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DocSend

JUNE 21, 2022

Identifying warm leads, building meaningful prospect relationships , and managing sales processes can be a lot more challenging in virtual environments than in-person settings. This type of inefficiency is an absolute no-go for fast-moving sales teams. Email outreach is an essential component of any sales process.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While likability can be a huge plus in sales, it’s not the only reason buyers buy. Today, with tighter budgets and multiple decision makers, there’s much more to it. Further, those with the weakest sales records were more likely to believe making friends is their greatest asset. Salespeople are no different.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 23, 2023

No one wants to miss a deal, and, in sales, time counts. For one thing, uncertain times mean tighter budgets and more decision makers. For every stalled sale, there are a multitude of excuses. For example, show the immediate effect of a Midwest supply chain issue on sales quota. Of course, B2B selling is different.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2020

And that last part is the hardest aspect of just about any sale. In B2B sales, getting multiple decision makers on board is a dream. We’ll look at each one, and identify how you can use it to successfully sell to multiple decision makers across departments. and ” why now ?” than ever before. The Problem.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

In sales, every day is a new opportunity to contact leads, close deals, and move closer to your target. However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. What is a sales audit? Sales Audit Checklist.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But what can you do to kick-off the New Year so that 2015 is your best sales year ever? How many new sales or accounts are required? Multiply that by the number of new sales or accounts required. Improve Your Sales Capability. Follow a Proven, Milestone-Centric Sales Process. You now have the activity required.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 8, 2024

Sales training is one of the most significant investments an organization can make in their sales team. In fact, research cited by taskdrive.com shows sales training has an average return on investment of 353 percent. When choosing a sales training partner, start small and work your way up. You can always upgrade later.

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Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Are you seeing 20/20 when it comes to aligning your sales and marketing teams in the new year? Whether you’re just beginning your sales enablement journey or looking for a new partner to help tackle your sizable goals, the first step is to identify and address the biggest sales and marketing challenges you and your company face today.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. It sets out everything your sales team needs to know about your sales process, including what they need to do at every stage of the B2B sales funnel to convert high-value leads.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this episode, Frank and Tim will talk about how a salesperson starts sales conversations with prospects and build relationships with customers. After all, there are no sales without customer connections, and there is no business without sales. Are salespeople prepared to call up high to get the decision-maker?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answer lies in lead generation driven by sales development reps. To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. What Is a Sales Development Playbook? Benefits of a Sales Development Playbook How Do You Create a Winning Sales Development Playbook?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2017

Your VP of sales looks at you out of desperation and asks if there is anything marketing can do to help accelerate the pipeline/improve the win rate? Product marketing can often create last-minute collateral to help close the gap on competitive pushback with specific deals. . Yet this is not enough. What About the Other 90 Percent?

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

CROs, and sales leaders alike, often walk into their new role blind. They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The key is identifying the sales metrics that matter most and getting ahead of pitfalls with actions like managing dashboards correctly. .

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Troops

AUGUST 2, 2018

Because for more than 2 years, Tom was the Sales Ops Manager at Slack’s Sales HQ in San Francisco. Tom Pae: former Sales Ops Manager for Slack. As part of his responsibilities, he worked to help Slack’s sales team get the most of out of their own product. Note: Does your sales team use Slack? See how it works.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Target your email list.

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DocSend

JULY 31, 2020

Quarterly reviews with a client can be misleading as it’s easy for the decision-maker to not know the full story if they aren’t the end-user. There is an indicator that stays fairly constant throughout the lifespan of an engaged client – collateral engagement. Identifying at-risk accounts is no small task.

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Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

This underscores the influence of sales collateral, ranging from traditional brochures to dynamic digital content like blogs and videos, in steering potential customers through their buying journey. This guide shares the importance of sales collateral, who is responsible, and how to use it to seal the deal.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sale made, deal closed, customer acquired. Today’s average B2B buyer is typically more than halfway through the sales funnel before interacting with a rep, having done their own market research, competitive analysis and price comparisons online. The rules of engagement are evolving, and sales teams need to evolve right alongside them.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2018

Want to reduce your sales cycle by 400% ? Electronic signature technology is typically used in the very last stage of the sales process -- after the deal is closed, and you need the customer’s signature. Contract teams can also collaborate with sales internally to get the best outcome using a digital platform.

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SBI

DECEMBER 16, 2014

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Al: ClearSlide is an enterprise SaaS platform that enables sales and marketing teams to better engage with their customers.

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SalesHandy

MAY 1, 2020

While moving through the sales cycle, sales prospecting comes as its first step and is considered as an essential part. From the famous quote “ Sales prospecting is where the salesperson makes their money. ”, you can easily understand how essential it is for any salesperson to learn the best sales prospecting techniques.

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Allego

OCTOBER 16, 2020

One answer to the training challenges posed by a rapidly changing world is situational sales enablement. Situational sales enablement incorporates three elements: messaging, content, and skills. Sales managers must use this tech stack to support sellers with tools to coach, review calls and presentations, and give feedback.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

Here’s an important, and often overlooked, fact about B2B sales and marketing: Your customer data holds all the keys you need to grow your business. To succeed, you need to trust the data and step into predictive sales. Many sales and marketing leaders try to get cute and overthink their targeting, messaging, content creation, etc.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This week I interview Mark O’Connell, President and CEO of SAVO.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Now ask yourself this: “ When a sales rep closes a deal , but nobody knows how they did it, were they successful?” They made a sale. The rep achieved a victory, but unless their technique(s) are shared with the entire sales team, the success was not nearly as useful to the organization. Individual Wins Drive Group Sales Success.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

You’re probably here because you want to build a successful sales enablement strategy for your business. Read on to discover how to create effective sales strategies through the power of enablement and turn your team into an all-star performance machine. What is a sales enablement strategy? You’ve come to the right place!

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2020

While there are some common techniques that are used and adopted by successful salespeople, there is truly no one-size-fits-all approach to mastering sales. Take a moment to reflect on your sales process, and some of the recent deals you’ve closed. Has each deal followed the same steps? That’s highly unlikely. Missionary Selling.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A productive Sales rep is a prepared Sales rep. However, all the legwork that must be completed to facilitate that productivity and effectiveness is a challenge that Sales organizations struggle with. . Enter Sales enablement — a strategy for providing your Sales reps with everything they need to succeed. .

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 30, 2020

In too many cases, the issue is only revealed following the loss of the sale to a competitor. I recently came across a nice little 2016 article by Sarah Niedoba writing for Canadianbusiness.com about 5 deal breakers that kill your sales. Issues and Sales Behaviors that Can Result in Deal Breakers. Overreliance on Collateral.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Sales is the engine that powers your company. But what’s powering your sales? By now it’s universally known that sales and sales team practices have undergone a tectonic shift in recent years. And, even more alarmingly, buyer needs and behaviors seem to be moving way ahead of the sales learning curve.

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Pipeliner

MAY 4, 2018

It’s the meeting which took months to land, the one which could lead you to make your challenging sales goals this year. Longer than anticipated sales cycle time. While a decision maker may identify one set of problems, upon further questioning, the savvy seller will be able to uncover the real issue, the real need.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a recent Emissary survey of executive-level tech buyers, 85% of recent, major tech purchases included a non-technical buyer with major influence over the final decision. But as you take a more vertical approach, you may need to include business-oriented decision makers. Sales enablement is one key beneficiary.

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