Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Data quality is important to every company. Businesses need a clean, complete, and actionable data asset to inform engagement and drive intelligent automated workflows that increase sales efficiencies and close more deals. ZoomInfo changed that by creating access to more data than most organizations could have ever imagined.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The pandemic highlighted a pattern for medium organizations that has been occurring for years but now takes on greater importance: Mid-market companies — those earning from $100 million to $1 billion — release far less new products than smaller or larger firms. Medium Companies May Struggle to Recover. Source: ZoomInfo.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today I will cover one of the ways we at Anthony Cole Training Group, LLC coach sales managers to help them coach their salespeople to have more and better initial sales calls: Your USA! USA is the terminology we use at Anthony Cole Training Group as part of our Effective Selling System (ESS).

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 1, 2024

Running a company is very different than managing a sales team, so you need someone skilled in the specific strengths of coaching and motivating your sales team. Companies have choices and often it makes sense to hunt, interview, hire and pay for a full-time sales manager, but this is a position very difficult to fill.

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Hiring Sales Management Motivation Objections 274

Sales 2.0

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s a really tough time for most companies to sell their products and services. Buyers are wondering what the future holds for their companies–and themselves–and are having a tough time committing to purchases. I define enterprise accounts as companies with over 1,000 employees, definitions vary). A time to plan.

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Enterprise Enterprise Penetration Gatekeeper 432

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 27, 2020

(You can also read our interview in Sonia’s blog post, Driving Sales Through Referrals with Joanne Black.) . In fact, she’s a certified instructor of my referral system. She works with small business owners who face the challenges of limited cash flow, declining sales, and minimal support. And Sonia and I can help you learn.

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Referrals Hiring Webinar Metrics How To 317

Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

Hiring Sales Stars . Whether you are starting a new sales force or hiring a new rep to fill a vacancy, the four principles of the STAR Process will help you select top sales performers. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results. R – Rigors.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2025

For todays sales teams, data and signals are the foundation for smarter strategies, better decisions, and consistent growth. From identifying high-performing reps to forecasting future revenue, this technology provides the clarity sales leaders need to drive results. What is Sales Analytics Software?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But for business, AI is having an early transformative effect on sales and marketing by helping people make better decisions and serve customers more effectively. Machine learning and an expert recommendation system allow it to act and learn. Why AI Is Poised to Transform Sales. It helps farmers safeguard crops from disease.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s uninspiring (and ineffective) for a sales person to email or call a prospect to “just touch base”. On the other hand, I’m all for sales people staying in touch. So if some outside company could give me some ideas on how to meet my revenue targets with my scant resources, would I be interested in talking more?

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In a recent episode of the Sales Pop Online Sellers Magazine, host John Golden sat down with Gail Kasper , a master sales trainer, author, television host, producer, and humanitarian. Introduction to the Cockatoo Selling System What is the Cockatoo Selling System? To stand out, sales presentations must be exceptional.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Even cold techniques turbocharged with boatloads of technology get harder-and-harder every day as everyone gets the technology and the arms race for a better sales stack escalates. If you like them enough, partner up.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #19 – Guest David Masover. David is the president David Masover Sales Consulting and shares how he leverages the sales process to drive success. If you only attend one webinar this month – This is The One: Pipeline = Ability X Execution X Leadership: The Complete Prospecting System.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. Sound familiar?

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I picture how a company in the high tech chip business could survive when only 1 in 100 of their chips was usable (or 1 in 1,000). Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. Then also consider “psychographic” elements of what makes a company a good client for you.

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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

ZoomInfo and Insent combine to deliver intelligent chat experiences enriched by deep company and professional insights. We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. Most of these systems also come with the promise of automating mundane, repetitive tasks that make go-to-market teams more productive.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Marketing 58

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Automated sales prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 12, 2024

Sales leaders complain that reps don’t get enough qualified leads, their pipelines are fluff, and it takes them way too long to reach their prospects. A disciplined referral system can help your company scale by increasing deal size, converting prospects to clients, and penetrating prime accounts. Big problem!

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Sales leaders often tell me that referral leads are their most qualified, most convertible leads. Scaling requires a reliable system and a plan to meet increasing customer demands without increasing costs. So, how can sales organizations scale their lead generation without adding more people? How do you ensure adoption?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I had no name for my company, but I knew my focus. I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. Would you be willing to be a referral to this company?” Decrease the cost of sales.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inbound Webinar Metrics 385

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Are you looking for your B2B sales leads in all the wrong places? Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? How do most companies ramp up their B2B lead generation strategies? They reply to every RFP and win few, if any.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

This is number 7 in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Traditional sales models vs. AI-enabled selling. The traditional sales model is robotic. Think about that.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Author: Scott Greenberg Quick quiz: John gets paid when he makes a sale. There are remarkable similarities between commissioned sales jobs and franchise ownership. Over the last two decades, I’ve helped both franchise systems and sales forces improve their performance. That’s why there’s so much turnover in sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

Author: Krishnan Venkata The rapid pace of digital innovation is forcing companies to undertake profound transformation of their entire business strategy and activities. This transformation is permeating all areas of the enterprise – from marketing to sales to product development and even finance and human resources.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 274

Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How are your sales to date? Every sales leader I have spoken with could easily answer this question. Experts estimate that 90 percent of companies fail to execute their marketing strategies. If you are like most of the VPs of sales and marketing that I work with, you love developing marketing strategies and tactics.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Getting it looking that good requires fertilizing, aerating, thatching, over seeding, and frequent mowing, all things better suited to the landscaping company than me. And even with an irrigation system, by the middle of the summer, areas of our lawn begin to look like crap. Of course, some sun and water help too. Not to worry though.

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Data Quota Forecasting Pipeline 272

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 27, 2018

So why is it that so many companies shop for new customers as if they are combing every inch of the grocery store – hoping things will magically jump off the shelf and into their carts? Where are those companies located? What size of companies buy our solutions? What industries are we likely to sell into? Bigger budgets?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2020

Until this change, there has been a healthy long-term battle between marketing and sales. Marketing has been saddled with delivering leads to sales. Sales has perennially complained that the leads were inferior, while marketing complained that the salespeople were inferior at closing leads. . Questions That Matter.

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Marketing Churn Lead Rank Lead Scoring 265

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 25, 2019

For example, suppose you’re demonstrating a new software solution to a manufacturing company. and the whole system reconfigures itself to the correct levels and you’re back on track less that five minutes later. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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Hoovers Campaigns InsideView Tools 264

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I’d been thinking about starting my own company, and many people had encouraged me. I got to stay in my office, work with this problem client (who turned out not to be a problem after all), and start my own company. I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. Was this company asking?

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 20, 2019

As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies.

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