DialSource

JULY 26, 2018

Does the thought of a weekly meeting send a shiver down your spine? A recent study by Atlassian forces managers to face the facts: 47% of meeting-goers complained that meetings are the number one time-waster in the office. 91% found themselves daydreaming, and 73% did other work during meetings.

Sales Meeting 28

Sales Meeting Meeting Exercises Face-to-face 28

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 24, 2020

The landscape of sales has shifted radically over the past decade or so. While phone calls, meetings, and other familiar sales staples still have a place in the field, digital sales tactics — techniques conducted through virtual channels — have emerged and started taking up some serious space. Leverage social media.

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Social Media Webinar Metrics Case Study How To 131

Showpad

MARCH 19, 2020

As economic uncertainty, remote workforces and other obstacles caused by COVID-19 transform day-to-day operations, organizations are learning they must pivot their sales strategies – and quickly – to confront the challenge. Companies around the world are forced to face a rapidly changing business landscape. Embracing Virtual Coaching.

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Company Strategy Face-to-face SalesForce 71

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

James Bawden is one of the hot talents in the sales development world right now. He’s got a killer podcast, a great personal brand and has an interesting story of how he found his true passion in an inside sales job, after working in retail sales. James: Routine is important for every sales professional.

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Wireless Inside Sales Retail Social Media 105

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Newer sales reps get more leverage to speak up after they have consistently engaged prospective clients, booked meetings and closed business. The worst news can be packaged in a way that it is constructive and helpful rather than scathing complaints and condemnation. Sales Pros Affect Change. It’s All About Timing.

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Ideal Customer Profile Construction Up-Sell Twitter 194

Hubspot Sales

MAY 4, 2020

Sales is people-oriented. If you're not meeting in person, you don't have the same flexibility to put people at ease with natural conversation. You'll be able to find several like-minded, curious sales and industry professionals interested in your perspective. It's a brutally honest analogy. Don't be imposing or impersonal.

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Networking Social Media How To Media 120

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Showpad

MAY 8, 2018

The world of sales and marketing technology is an exciting space to be in. The market has grown rapidly and over the past seven years we’ve helped our customers realize incredible benefits from aligning their sales and marketing efforts. Why the sales and marketing space matters. Consolidation in sales technology.

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Scale Marketing Construction Sales Technology 61

Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Sports Coaching Call-back Inside Sales 62

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 1, 2011

The Sales Manager is always looking for better performance from a team, and in order to get that, you've got to give a little. Here are four things you, as a Sales Manager, need to give your team if you want to get more production out of them: 1. That's what having impossible sales goals are like. Believe me, it works!

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Inside Sales Motivation Sales Management Construction 33

Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2020

From the field to inside sales, from enablement to management, sales has seen its share of change, and savvy pros are always ready to roll with it. Set Meeting Hygiene Standards Meeting hygiene is always important, but in a fully remote situation, it’s imperative. Opt for Regular, Short Meetings.

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Revenue Face-to-face Construction Video 73

InsideSales.com

JULY 7, 2020

Cohesive teams with good chemistry and constructive communication do not just come together organically — it is the team leader’s job to set them up for success. In This Article: Determine a Meeting Schedule. Determine a Meeting Schedule. Usually, a meeting or maybe two every week will be enough.

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Construction Policies Call-back Meeting 88

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. Persona insights and intelligence. and capture them.

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Conversion Ideal Customer Profile Customer Face-to-face 109

LevelEleven

AUGUST 7, 2018

You have been promoted to sales manager. Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? The traits that make all-star salespeople usually don’t directly translate to the skills needed to be an effective sales manager. Congratulations! Steve – Be curious.

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Hiring eBook Inside Sales Construction 48

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved. Marketing and sales are aligned. Mike Weinberg, The New Sales Coach , Principal. A bit of a twist from Dave Kurlan: “Traditional cold calling has changed but few new meetings get booked without a salesperson dialing the phone.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling B2B Ideal Customer Profile 100

Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They once simply executed pricing inside of an ERP pricing matrix, but now they are responsible for analyzing marketing trends, conducting competitive research and sifting through customer buying patterns to determine optimal pricing that drives profitability. And sales reps might like dropping in on important deals.

Distribution 97

Distribution Infor Face-to-face Hiring 97

ExecVision

MAY 23, 2018

All sales leaders know they should be coaching their reps, but when your day consists of running from meeting to meeting and call to call it’s easy to put coaching on the backburner. When coaching isn’t built into your sales culture, rep performance can stagnate leading to unhappy reps and little growth.

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Coaching ROI How To Retention 92

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2016

More Books: I completed or reread some great books by friends and colleagues I think they belong on every sales professionals bookshelves: Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sales , Paul Smith: We know how critical stories are in connecting and engaging our customers.

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Top of Funnel Conference Funnel Inside Sales 48

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 16, 2016

Or that meeting with your sales manager or boss? Affirmations are nothing more than carefully constructed words, phrases and stories that you design in advance that support the goals you’ve identified are important for you. Unable to concentrate much? How about if you also skipped lunch that day?

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Energy Motivation Positioning Construction 120

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Lead Rank Hiring Oracle SalesForce 52

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

In talking with a wide number of sales pros in the last week it hit me that our profession keeps us somewhat isolated. The idea of a “refresh” for his communication – what he was saying and how he was saying it – got him 3 new meetings the day he started with his refreshed messaging. Increase Opportunities.

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Inside Sales Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 215

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 7, 2012

Management, and particularly sales management, operates on and obtains its results from the staff that are managed. Information coming to Sales Managers is of all kinds – from verifiable facts to rumor. Having both the desire and the ability to ornate and develop constructive ideas. • Are great sales managers born or made?

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Policies Face-to-face Inside Sales B2C 35

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 108

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Inside sales. Low-touch sales.

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Top of Funnel Examples Lead Rank ActiveConversion 110

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. When sales are falling, take a look at your sales strategy.

Revenue 156

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 156

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 71

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. The folly of Sales 2.0 Get crystal clear about what actually can and will move the needle; read Mike Weinberg's book: New Sales.

Social Selling 66

Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Score More Sales

JUNE 28, 2012

Here are some resources for sales professionals who are on the front lines, generating conversations, listening to prospects and customers online, and engaging with them by email, phone, video, and in person. This post was a combined effort from the whole team at Score More Sales after a team meeting where we shared resource ideas.

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Resources B2B Social Media Twitter 170

A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2013

It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. This post is gonna lay the four areas CSO’s/Heads of Sales should be looking if their revenue is on the slide. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales. When sales are falling, take a look at your sales strategy.

Revenue 114

Revenue Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

At the beginning of March, we announced the winners of the 2nd annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards, presented by Bravado. We searched through all of the reasons for nominations we received and picked out the stories about people in sales who do the hard work of elevating the sales profession.

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Hiring Scale Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 97

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Over the past 12 months, I’ve talked with hundreds of sales reps, sales leaders, and ops people about sales process, and a few patterns emerged. In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about mutual action plans, from what they are to how you can use them in your sales process to save time and create more wins.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Forecasting How To 83

Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? Though there are influential salespeople who are at different points in their careers, they all have a love for sales and a deep sense of industry knowledge.

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Influencer Industry Hiring Social Media 87

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move? Where do many go wrong?

Scale 81

Scale Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 81

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What do complex sales and the radioactive decay rate of atoms have in common? I wanted to share some of my unique thoughts about this concept as it relates to the natural world and how I see the ramifications of decay rates and how they're impacting enterprise deals and influencing sales cycle stagnation, or acceleration.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Pivotal Face-to-face How To LinkedIn 73

Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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