Janek Performance Group

JULY 12, 2022

Have you ever wondered about the purpose of having a LinkedIn company page? For sales reps, it is a place to research prospects. In this article, we’ll explore how to transform your LinkedIn company page from a boring, static content platform into a revenue asset on par with your website. Think this sounds like hyperbole?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2024

Here it is: Prospects aren't always easy to deal with. So to help you get a sense of the kinds of buyers you need to look out for (and what to do when you‘re dealing with them), we asked some sales leaders for their takes on the most difficult types of prospects to work with and how to engage with them effectively. You're welcome.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 19, 2023

When I look at a lot of the “expert” advice in my social feeds, the emphasis is on how we reach and engage more and more customers. This is critical, at least in the thinking of these experts, because those customers we are trying to engage aren’t responding in the numbers we need.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

Choosing the right model for your business will tell you how many salespeople you need to hire, how you will contact and interact with customers, who your potential customers are, and how you can successfully close the deal. Customer Self-Service This is also known as the higher-volume, lower-price method. No pressure, right?

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a strong sales incentives program will help you attract and retain A-list sales talent, so it is worth putting in the legwork to create a strong plan. .

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 3, 2020

If the difference between a hobby and a business is making sales to customers, then how do you make the transition? It’s one thing to have a theory around who you’d like to sell to but how do you actually find those initial customers to sell to? You might be afraid that you’ll say something wrong and scare away a big prospect.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 7, 2023

As a salesperson, much of your success relies on prioritizing the right prospects. By focusing on the right prospects, you can streamline your efforts, speed up the sales cycle and ultimately close more deals. Going after the most promising leads first can have a huge impact on your conversion rates, engagement and revenue.

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Crunchbase

MAY 19, 2023

From identifying potential customers, to finding quality leads and maintaining a healthy pipeline, sales prospecting is vital to the success of your business. Successful prospecting requires time management skills, a proactive mindset and the ability to communicate effectively.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although SPM strategy varies by company and industry, the most effective sales performance management strategies typically involve a combination of the same core pillars. These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. It’s simple.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Incentives and bonuses are just the starting point. But AI-powered new lead gen tools, such as Salesforce’s Einstein, are replacing customer-mining tasks, leaving salespeople free to pursue prospects and other high-value tasks. In this environment, how do you engage and prevent your current sales force from leaving the company?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This post is for Small Company CSOs and VPs of Sales. Despite this luxury, the small company sales compensation plan is usually left on the backburner. To drive the right behavior and hit your targets, your sales compensation must evolve at the same pace as your company. They are also your ad-hoc customer service team.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment. This might give customers the impression of a low- or no-pressure sale. We all want to be paid fairly.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing AI requires a strong alignment of incentives across departments, coupled with high-quality data and experienced resources to get the job done. Identify and Prioritize the Most Promising Leads AI tools can use ZoomInfo data to identify the most promising leads from a cohort of potential prospects. The good news?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2013

He opens the article by saying that for most companies " the ability to find potential customers is the difference between growth and bankruptcy." The reality is that it could be the difference between growth and lack of growth because most companies that aren''t growing aren''t going bankrupt. Isn''t this a prospecting call?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

At its core, intent data helps marketing and sales teams identify the companies and individuals most likely to make a purchase, especially in the near future. ZoomInfo knows that even minutes can matter when you’re looking for prospects. But not all intent data is created equal. Get a Demo Which Intent Data is Most Likely to Convert?

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Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2023

Here are five email lead nurturing tips you can use to take your trade show leads from strangers to customers. Trade Show Email Lead Nurturing Tips: Tip 1: Get Strangers and Prospects to Self Identify In a recent post, we shared that only 3% of your prospects are ready to buy at any moment.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Customer Messaging One of the most obvious signs of misalignment between sales and marketing teams is during direct customer interactions. But relying on this alone misses the mark. The result?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If customers and prospects are also sitting in holiday-themed environments, will they really be in the mood to make a deal? Keep the standings and ranks visible through an office whiteboard, company social channels and announcements during company meetings and conference calls. Create a holiday incentive program. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It’s an ideal time for companies to recognize the multiple uses of short videos. By utilizing the personality aspect video has to offer, trust and connection can be built quicker and more effectively with customers, prospects and channel partners. Video has team-building applications. Video has team-building applications.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Managing customer relationships is one thing, but what about managing the customer lifecycle for each person you work with? Customer lifecycle management is an important strategy all businesses should be practicing because it helps foster long-lasting relationships with customers and inspires brand loyalty.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Salesforce research brief, Trends in Customer Trust, says fostering trust is the new business imperative. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. Forget about incentives. Trust should.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Selling to Fortune 500 companies is a different game than SMB. Yes, the thought of inviting all my prospects to an extravagant dinner and drinks event crossed my mind.). Let’s walk you through exactly how I sell to Fortune 500 companies with this 3-step process: STEP 1: Create Ads by Account (Time to Complete: ~1 Hr).

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The customer experience today is more relational and less transactional than ever before. This is a great thing for customers, and it’s a great thing for businesses that want to build long-term relationships with those customers. In contrast, customer service teams are measured by: Reducing the number of tickets.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

Has your company ever considered/used a product like this before? While the specific sales questions a rep asks will depend on the product or service they sell, here are 18 solid conversation starters that can help you recognize who's a successful customer in the making, and who's barking up the wrong tree.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Want more, higher quality customers with a lot less effort than it takes to do cold outbound sales or inbound marketing? One of the most valuable sources of quality sales leads is right in front of you: your existing customers. Referral selling is simply asking your current customers to refer your product to another company.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 7, 2013

Should you offer incentives to Referral Sources? For a 2010 report from the Wharton School of Business, researchers Christophe Van den Bulte, Bernd Skiera, and Philipp Schmitt studied data that an anonymous German bank gathered on nearly 10,000 of its customers over 33 months. Incent or not. The short answer is NO. Comment Here.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Next Wave: Customer-Facing Solutions With the new year, we are all looking towards the next wave in customer-facing solutions available for us. He’s been working for tech companies, working at Chilli Piper since 2016. This is where Nicolas’ company helps its clients thrive. for a good part of his career.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. Prospecting. What is prospecting? What is prospecting? Prospecting is the process of finding and reaching out to potential customers for your business. Ask your current customers for referrals.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. Because I was good at selling and great in the corporate world, there wasn't a lot of incentive until I found myself on the street trying to figure out what I was going to do.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Over the past three years, we’ve seen a 20% to 30% e-commerce annual growth rate, especially in 2020, as in-person prospecting proved difficult if not impossible during the pandemic. However, according to the Episerver report, 54% of B2B companies are letting one obstacle keep them from selling online?—?potential Best of Both Worlds.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

But have you ever stopped to think about where these companies get their data and what makes it better than the rest? As the name suggests, fit data helps find leads that are fit to be a customer for your company. Fit data helps marketers score and segment prospects into personas suitable to be in your customer base.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

The good news is that the right sales training company can design a training program that is actually effective, that returns substantially on your investment, and that your salespeople will enjoy engaging in. A great sales training company will be proud of their proven track record. Strong, Aligned Company Culture.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The discussions revolved around how close we should get to a customer’s business and whether there is value in knowing how the customer really thinks about us. So I thought it appropriate to cover a few ideas that you could use if you feel that it’s very difficult to know what customers actually think about you and your services.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

If you’re ready to establish a referral marketing program and win new business with the help of your customers, you’ve come to the right place. In the business world, a referral is the act of a customer recommending a product or service to a peer. It’s common for companies to have a system in place to encourage referrals.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. Customers have become highly accustomed to using email when communicating with a brand, and email performance is a critical factor in the success of digital marketing campaigns.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The primary goal of sales management is to maximize sales revenue while maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. Setting Sales Targets Sales managers are responsible for setting realistic and achievable sales targets based on market analysis, historical data, and company goals. Encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 2, 2021

That's why word-of-mouth and recommendations from prospects' networks are so valuable — and it serves companies to know how to tap into those. Your customers can be as effective a sales resource as virtually any other. Sales is, in large part, the process of cultivating and capitalizing on prospects' trust.

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