Hubspot Sales

JUNE 12, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a new weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Time is a precious resource in sales — the efficacy of your sales process, whether a deal winds up closed-won, and virtually every KPI used to gauge your performance all hinge upon how effectively you spend yours. But efficiently and effectively allocating your time can be tricky in sales — and running into at least a few time-wasters here and there is par for the course

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 12, 2023

Yesterday, while watching our son play in a summer collegiate baseball game, I missed a step and tumbled all the way down the bleachers. Isn't that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process? More than half of all salespeople are missing and skipping important milestones in the sales process each and every day and their egos get more bruised from failing to close those opportunities than my body got bruised from my not so thrilling adventure to th

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 12, 2023

There are ways to close more sales that don’t involve a hard sell or deep discounting. The post Getting More Sales from Your Funnel appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 12, 2023

Yesterday, while watching our son play in a summer collegiate baseball game, I missed a step and tumbled all the way down the bleachers. Isn’t that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process? More than half of all salespeople are missing and skipping important milestones in the sales process each and every day and their egos get more bruised from failing to close those opportunities than my body got bruised from my not so thrilling adventu

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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2023

Last week, ZoomInfo co-hosted an event with Bain & Co. at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America. Our session included go-to-market efficiency insights from ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and CMO Bryan Law, as well as Bain Partner Mackenzie Bushy and Dell SVP of Global Sales Operations Prabha Ramakrishnan. Here are some of the most important takeaways from the discussion, including essential research on effective go-to-market tactics and the results of our “speed to lead” experiment. 1.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 12, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Are You Ready to Increase Your Results? As we progress throughout our careers, we experience the ups and downs of business and sometimes take it very personally. We begin to question whether we belong in any business and why we can only be successful as we believe others to be. Talent in a specific field is the core focus of our events.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2023

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. All our focus is on efficiency, eliminating any wasted effort–either through not doing it, or through automation of the tasks.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 12, 2023

Getting the most out of your CPQ investment is a high priority at all levels of an organization. The transition from project to program carries with it the opportunity to leverage the existing skill sets and resources within a company. Utilizing a center of excellence model allows an organization to stay nimble and focused on getting the results you need and expect from CPQ technology.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 12, 2023

Sales teams are the backbone of any successful business, and their performance can make or break a company's bottom line. But with so much competition in today's marketplace, it's becoming increasingly difficult for sales reps to stand out from the crowd and close deals. That's why it's important to revamp your sales strategy and implement unique prospecting methods and tools to give your team a competitive edge.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 12, 2023

Getting the most out of your CPQ investment is high priority at all levels of an organization. The transition from project to program carries with it the opportunity to leverage the existing skill sets and resources withing a company. Utilizing a center of excellence model allows an organization to stay nimble and focused on getting the results you need and expect from CPQ technology.

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Selling Energy

JUNE 12, 2023

Attitude and mindset are essential components to a sales professional’s success. It can get you ahead or become a hindrance depending on how you view the world, but the good news is a mindset can change. Of course, it’s entirely up to you!

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Sell Courses Online

JUNE 12, 2023

Coaching, mentoring, and training are similar in many ways. All three can further the development and skills of others. … Coaching vs Mentoring vs Training: Which One Is Fit for You?

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Close

JUNE 12, 2023

Ready to take your sales game on the go? Check out the new Close mobile app, built to help you crush your goals and be a more productive salesperson, even when you’re not at your desk.

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Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 12, 2023

The Top Mistakes B2B Sellers Make and How to Avoid Them Are you a B2B seller struggling to close deals and build strong relationships with your customers? You might be making some common mistakes that are hindering your success. In a recent podcast episode, sales expert Greg Nutter shared his insights on the top mistakes B2B sellers make and how to avoid them.

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Close

JUNE 12, 2023

Intent data fulfills one of the most critical needs of B2B sales teams. This article reviews the 14 best B2B intent data providers on the web today.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 12, 2023

In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Greg Nutter , a management consultant and author of P3 Selling, about the top five mistakes B2B sellers make. Greg discusses the importance of creating awareness, effective prospecting, and the role of a salesperson in the buying process. He identifies the top three mistakes as forgetting what selling is, poor prospecting, and thinking the role of a salesperson is either a relationship manager or a product expert.

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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s never been more important to make the most of your outbound leads. Hopefully you already have a clear ICP and you personalize your outreach, but how do you turn your hard work into measurable results? In this episode, your host Donald Kelly and guest Ari Brinson get into a great conversation about how Brinson’s team was able to boost meeting numbers through effective personalization.

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In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Pitcher

JUNE 12, 2023

Create effective sales onboarding for your teams with these tips.

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